same thing the americans obviously taking the lead the specter of a military solution has returned after the syrian regime was condemned internationally for the death of one hundred eight people half of whom were children before an investigation into who was responsible was even launched they're all saying that their side regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive li i am confident to predict that indeed it will remain fixed in people's minds and could well be used as a pretext and you don't have to look back to cloud to see where hasty jokingly saw a rush to take up arms at the cost of war and nine it's exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of our truck you had if you were in korea that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground yet claims that it was a google map programs occur of innocent civilians by government troops serving with blame presented with ultimatum and random games and bombed back then the you just

love in government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the benon separatists from the cost of a liberation army an investigation was launched to find out whether the victims were innocent civilians as the international community claimed or whether the country's army had been battling professional fighters two out of three forensic inquiries proved most of the casualties died in combat the third report by an e.u. team has never been made public interestingly enough. we have been reports of syrian rebels who are they are liaising with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically agents of mido in the causal war basically treading on i don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but definitely the only training that the caylee could have ever given anybody is how do. state of war we look at what's happening now.

but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruling the alliance is the strikes in libya last year history isn't been prevented from repeating itself again and again. when these disturbing images from the syrian village of whole are made world headlines everybody agreed those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so swift and so called donated the risk is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are supposed and that could mean not just so also of justice but also huge loss of life reef nationality mosco the rebels' decision to quit the un backed trees was largely motivated by the behavior of the u.s. and its allies that's the view of the antiwar activist don de bar md who's extensively covered civil conflicts in arab countries. the united states is trying

to kill it but it's absolutely essential that some sort of peace oriented mission take place or there will be bloodshed horrible bloodshed in syria little make libya look like a picnic united states has been very clear from the outset really of the activity in syria that they want to see assad go on they have geopolitical reasons for that particularly the relationship with iran but i mean let's be realistic here there's the u.s. has been intervening since this uprising quote unquote began the report earlier mentions the fact that these are clearly professional soldiers that are conducting these operations these are not protesters that decided to grab some rocks or maybe a pistol because of the response of the state to their protests this is an army that was placed there either emigres from syria or just foreign nationals gente generally that's being supplied from the outside from turkey the nato country from jordan and from lebanon and so the intervention is already

a fact whether or not it becomes an overt intervention outside of the u.n. which by the way is illegal or you know take some other form the intervention has been underway since this you know since the arms struggle what unquote began. that e-mail putin has set off on a two day visit to china which is expected to focus on the record think growing economic times between the two neighbors also believed to be on the agenda international issues where the policy a common positions as such as syria. c.s.s. he is the beijing following the visit i like to see thank you for joining us so you're up first and now putin is visiting china but what does that tell us about where russia's foreign policy is actually heading. well it's not only just a visit and he just official visit it's a state visit the first one since like the reporting became the president certainly can have some certain details about its protocol because as we know any president of any country can perform on the. state visit to any country during his captaincy

certainly this outlines how important this visit is and for some experts this has already been a declaration of intent and the declaration of a live event which is to show that the foreign policy of russia with his new term will not change and i first went to europe now if you go to china basically the relations between moscow and beijing have been very strong over the past several decades the trade turnover has been reaching one hundred billion dollars in its turn over every year so definitely this is russia's closest ally not only in terms of economic ties but also on very many international issues as well just in particular the syrian issue within the u.n. security council russia and china seem to have a unified position now certainly this in this visit will be interesting with a lot of although it's agenda it's a two day visit and to talk about what this visit could mean for the ties we're joined live here in beijing by mr young see you from the chinese central international studies many thanks for joining us here now what can we expect from

this visit what's what could be signed in the wake of this visit well for them chinese put pen to paper on. the visit. of their one is the. economic say how to further strengthen the economic ties between the great to choose countries because of both countries very important to players in the global economy and as well the for the cooperation between the two countries in economy will benefit both of the peoples of both nations and then number two that pool probably either we'll with people to discuss the holiday useless international affairs with that it's just the stringent operations but the the choose the many international hobbes's so that is basically the type patients recently we see the visit of the u.s. secretary of defense mr panetta to the asian pacific region did this create some

sort of. feeling of unease in china and will this be discussed during the summit while. the background of the penates visit. reporting of the work u.s. strategy to asia pacific which you as you put a lot of for counterproductive will factors in this region for stringent there all along strengthen our presence in asia pacific part of the purpose of the republican is designed to containing all circling china and maintaining the balance of power favoring the united states and i think the current situation asia pacific. is a piece of that a lot of a bunch and some of the actions by us is a quite a negative so permit us a visit to asia said the signal to china part that makes that one. they.

can eat they are continuing to contributor stability and peace but are not hand they are stranded in the blogs that by the united states that is a negative for the security situation in this region as always we're talking about the four nations we know that china and russia have a unified position on syria can we expect some kind of statement produced in that during the visit of course i think that would either solve the. great country this address this is a very hard he said. that hard penis some differences between russia china and the subways and that are again countries from china and the russians perspective the key solution lysine. the implementation and that's planned rather than lies in whether or not we should the probably. the existing government that that is not the key so i think russia and the chinese position on the series still a small responsible and designed to a permanent on the final solution to the sea where crisis thank you so much this was mr young see you from the. chinese central for the national studies that are

certain it will be following this visit or is it here and we'll be bringing all the latest details the artist you are every time we get the new information. well thank you so much i like the us to be following the developments in beijing. now cyber threats hack attacks and laws are first should be aiming to tackle internet piracy but in fact infringing people's rights to online privacy it's an increasingly topical subject and the world's most famous whistleblower is aiming to get to the heart of it in the latest edition of his interview program here on our. gets together with the activist from the science punk movement here's a taste of what's to come one day. technology enables also variants of every communication then there is due to the other side of that coin is what we do with it we could admit that there are some indeed some legitimate use investigators investigating the bad guys and. bad guys and so on but the question is where to

draw this judicial supervision where to go to the control that the citizens can have over the use of this technology this is a police and when we get to this police issues and we were looking at the earlier we of politicians are asked to sign something and don't understand the underlying technology which is why we see so much hype about cyber war is that some people that seem to be in the authority about war start talking about technology but they're always talking about war because that's their business and so they're trying to route technology into that and so we have no control over technology of these people that wish to use it for further for war specifically that's a recipe for some pretty scary stuff. and we hear that one of the side of activists interviewed by julian assange jeremy zimmerman was hell for questioning on his return to france apparently the purpose was to fish out information about the weak links found up it's not the first time the program has

provoked arrest with the top human rights activists from bahrain detained after talking to the press and talking to us sunshine a month ago. now to round the clock approaches carry on for the third night in a row in egypt over whose name or barak sentence the country's also that leader and his former interior minister are serving life for complicity in the killing of eight hundred fifty protesters during last year's uprising however mubarak's two sons and six security officials have been acquitted tom barton reports from the egyptian capital. protesters are occupying terrorist square in central cairo they're calling for a second revolution to change the situation in egypt initial happiness but former president hosni mubarak was given a life sentence turn to anger as other senior security officials were acquitted of involvement in the deaths of hundreds of protesters last year mohamed morsi the

muslim brotherhood's candidate in the upcoming presidential elections second round in the country towards the camp he said that the revolution should continue and that if he was chosen as president he would try and get mubarak back on trial and how him execute it and the chief prosecutor of egypt has also said that he's going to try and appeal the acquittals of some of those senior security officials after made shafique is the other presidential candidates in this race seen by many as not really being sufficient not up to what they hoped for for this revolution and they see the court's verdict at this very crucial time in egypt as a sign that not much has changed and that the only military regime is still in power and mr shafique said that he would not reinstate that old regime and that a choice for the muslim brotherhood would take egypt back to the dark ages as he

put it although he's going to have a lot of convincing to do to make people believe that he's not part of that old regime in the meantime as this election divides the egyptian people more protests are being held here in the capital and elsewhere over the country and more are being planned including a million man march through the capital. there's always plenty more to occupy your mind on our website at r.t. dot com they you'll find silent if we'll meet again in a courtroom graybeards child gets important camera find out more online. and of britain's been celebrating a six two years of korean elizabeth his reign the third day of diamond jubilee festivities so expect a concert at buckingham palace and a breathtaking fireworks display see for yourself.

the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is on an official visit to the south caucasus as tensions in the troubled region escalate she has expressed concerns over mania and as a bridge on relations after many and soldiers were killed in a border incident but daniel wagner you see country resubmission says america's real interest is gaining more influence in russia's back yet. secretary of state clinton is looking to achieve in the caucasus what america is trying to achieve more overall around the world and that is to continue to enhance its image and its ability to influence what's going on in the region the caucuses have been largely ignored by america for a great deal of time and now that there's a resurgence of russian influence in the region it's only natural that america

would want to do something in return there are pockets of conflict in the region that concern the united states and it concerns of course other regional powers but let's not forget where the caucasus is located it's in russia's backyard it's only natural that russia's historical relationship with the region and the various countries would be superior to that of america certainly at the present time mrs clinton's biggest influence is likely to occur in georgia let's not forget that georgia has had a historically close relationship with united states for a number of years now and that it was particularly close during the bush era georgia certainly seems to want to be heading in the direction of nato and i think that she is likely to see the most success and the most influence there. over thirty people have been arrested by libyan authorities after an armed militia group overran tripoli international airport on monday the group surrounded planes and grounded all flights demanding the release of one of their commanders who had

allegedly been detained after several hours government forces regained complete control of the facility security checkpoints were set up around the city with tension over the brief stand of remain time dr omar from the institute of arab and islamic studies at exeter university says libya still struggles to maintain post revolution security. the conservation process is not complete the demobilization this armament the integration of ex combatants is not complete. now we have a situation of the independent brigades that existed in the bia who did not join the military did not join the security forces. and a lot of pause a drop a surly oppose the government but are still armed still have a clear command and control structure what brought us into this crisis was the

kidnapping of. the one of the affordable condom in that indian army front of the world is a stronghold of defeat after that immovable of political defeat we find some of the probably the supporters of of the student and he disappeared. he was kidnapped according to his followers they said he was kidnapped. to pressure the national transitional council to initiate investigations serious investigation they went on and took over the tripoli airport. now let's take a look at some other world stories making headlines a suicide bomber has attacked iraq's main images surface for shiite muslims in baghdad killing twenty three and wounding more than seventy later a mortar shell struck close to a sunni muslim center because no damage or injuries attacks on government offices are still common in the country and to undermine the shiite led ruling coalition. rebels in mali have formed

a new console to declare independence for the country's north they say it will lead to a government of national unity two opposing rebel groups are struggling for the upper hand but come to agree on lurching because of religious differences turmoil in money began three months ago when the group of soldiers seized the presidential palace in a military coup saying the government has lost control of the country. a suicide bomb attack in southern yemen has killed four tribal militia men i lied to government forces the blast was in response to army attempts to retake the city of shock which is held by al-qaeda militants military officials say another terrorism blew himself up near checkpoint in the same city but there were no injuries. nato has signed deals with three central asian nations to pull military hardware out of afghanistan through their territories that as a nato troops prepare for a complete withdrawal from afghanistan by the end of twenty four team the agreement

allows of the alliance to bypass pakistan which blocked its and later supply routes after a disagreement over drone strikes. next hour to talk american economist and nobel laureate eric mascon to find out what he things on the horizon for the world's troubled economy coming up after a quick recap of the headlines. mosque

in our poll our it in economics it's great to have you with us sir today it's a pleasure so let's start with greece and the latest news we know that chris his public finance is practically paralyzed third cows that pensions and salaries won't be paid in june and then you have people and companies transferring their assets out of the country how much worse can actually the cash crunch get will they even be able to get to the seventeenth of june election we don't know the answer to that since. the election has. in the near future i suspect that they they can and hobble through to the election but things could deteriorate

and get even worse and in the meantime i see be the greek situation as a tragedy because so much of what has happened could have been prevented if europe were truly an integrated unity if the same steps had been taken on the fiscal side that is the public spending and tax side as were taken ten years ago on the monetary side so that there were there were it would be true. fiscal integration true centralization of fiscal policy. the. public debt problems that we see in greece but we also see spain italy and number of other countries would have automatically have been solved by by virtue of having a centralized europe spanish banks bankia has requested that because spain allowed

in spanish banking history and have the spanish banks all soak up the already sure spain has had. some real problems too. while they have a well they're not nearly. as serious trouble. as greece. it's bad and the austerity program there has has only made things worse but just how much financial power. to national and the e.u. authorities have to support spain in countries that are in similar situation like italy for example if they wanted. exercise more power at the level of the of the union they could do it there are lots of things

that could be done to ease the fiscal problem and spain and portugal one good idea which has been proposed which i hope will be adopted at some point as the idea of a euro bonds to translates private debts and so ordinary tional debts and so. european debt some fund managers are openly right now dumping the hero assets and it's no surprise that it's running really logans dollar. but is dollar a safe bet at this point i mean america itself has a huge gap and its government up six its g.d.p. the dollar has always been a safe haven at times of economic uncertainty and i think it will continue to be a safe haven for for many years to come yes there is a. a debt problem in the u.s.

in the sense that the debt to g.d.p. ratio is higher than it normally is and that it's. if you extract a way it's going for the current situation going forward. it looks as though the jet g.d.p. the debt to g.d.p. ratio will actually. continue to increase but in fact. the seriousness of this problem has been exaggerated so you don't look at it as a crisis i look at it as as a problem but as a fixable problem and not a problem that has to be solved immediately by any means like i think a much more important problem in the united states is to get three accounted a back to normal uninformed of the still running at something like eight percent which is too high the first priority should be getting the economy back to normal

and then to worry about. about solving the long term debt problem if that's a two three mm and four years ago someone would have sat that you were already facing at crisis of this scale probably people would laugh in your face like no of course not do you think do you think scholars missed something or is it just that the world economy the model of the world economy is running low and it's out of battery and just unable to deliver growth now i actually i don't think this crisis was missed i mean. the financial crisis of a way of nine was was something of a surprise to many economists but the problem with europe would not at all miss that there were many economists many prominent economists who pointed out at the founding of the monetary union beginning at the last decade that there was

a serious asymmetry between the way monetary policy and fiscal policy would be handled that monetary policy was centralized in the european central bank that fiscal policy was not centralized that in the long run this asymmetry was not sustainable my skin thank you very much for this interview my pleasure. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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on a state visit hoping to pick up economic tips from russia's successful neighbor. the syrian rebels say they. take over from the monitoring mission. with arab and western nations demanding and response. and. control of tripoli international. groups dozens of militia men have been arrested on the story of the facility and demanding the release of one of the. stay with us.

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