villages in central syria not far from the city of hama and that allegedly proved as solid militants went in and they tied people on the sharks that they stabbed and brainstem in an orgy of violence and to support that the opposition posted a number of videos allegedly from this village show when dead bodies but however these videos contain bodies that by all appearances to. have died yesterday raising many questions on the credibility and the truth of their positions claims and just where these bodies came from on the other hand the syrian government has a completely different take on what happened. in syria they say they got a call from a local resident asking for help after militants took over the village the army has been stationed in the area they've been reporting beforehand that they are preparing for a name to terrorist operation so after that call they immediately launched this

operation and we are receiving right now official. reports from official sources in hama that after the army went in they discovered nine bodies of civilians and following the clashes that occurred after that two officers have been killed and five others have been injured so as you can see both sides think there is a child there while witnesses reports just contradict each other about who was responsible and without credible investigation right now is to go to just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre. despite the uncertainties surrounding the killings some western powers have drawn conclusions with some leaders immediately blaming president assad for the atrocity and once again calling for action against his regime all these marina portnoy has been following the u.n. general assembly on syria in new york. the united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon was the first of many to point his finger syrian president bashar al assad

saying that the leader has lost all legitimacy and credibility in addition to that we have heard of comments coming from u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton saying that syria will not be peaceful and toll . bridge counterpart david cameron also called for a concerted action from international powers against syria now western powers have been for months pushing for regime change in syria and as of late pushing and campaigning for security council sanctions on syria now those sanctions as something that china and russia are opposed to frustrate men is coming from russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who says there will be no mandate for military intervention into syria he says he can personally guarantee it the russian ambassador to the un vitaly churkin also addressed the general assembly saying that the international community needs to coordinate its efforts behind the six point peace plan that was put forth by international envoy kofi annan. we feel

indignation over the mass killings in houla. it's clear that these are crimes that should be fairly. but it's also those behind these atrocities i mean to drag syria into a bloody civil war. the efforts to settle the syrian crisis politically now mr anon when he addressed the general assembly said that the international community must find common ground and act as one he said that individual actions or any kind of interventions will not. solve the crisis that the international community must act together but must act very quickly because according to the joint special envoy of the violence is escalating there the country is growing even more polarized even more radicalized. after addressing the u.n. general assembly kofi annan is now briefing the un security council on the situation in syria following the session and we'll be bringing you updates

political analysts christophe forestall who's been covering events in the arab region say is there are strong indications the massacre was carried out by terrorists. in the terrorists you know called off the annan peace plan that was in fact a joke they had never kept they have never stuck to it there are terrorists at work very clearly and very clearly they're sponsored from abroad openly saudi arabia qatar. turkey is involved people you know fighters come over the border from jordan from lebanon from iraq from turkey and that in fact heat up the situation very much and there are all kinds of media lies the most recent where we hear that eighty people were killed in the massacre with the same resistance group you know publishing this said a little later that there were just fifty and that it was twenty four this was a german radio and in fact the government says it was nine but the killing was done

by the terrorists and i think there is believe it will and the other things the usual lies we hear since the year. well there's more on the situation in syria on our website at the moment including the theory that the timing of the latest reported massacre in hama is no coincidence we explore how similar tactics have already been used in the past to justify military intervention in foreign countries bypassing the un. russia's kremlin is backing for a peaceful atomic program the shorts came during central asia as regional security summit in beijing spearheaded by russia and china at the event president vladimir putin met with the leaders of afghanistan and iran two nations which often divide opinion in the west and reports. china for him it's just the place to be because it is probably one of the few places in

the world where he is not being threatened by sanctions where you can all feel relaxed and smiling we saw on the cameras as he was walking inside the building how children relaxed he was definitely putting on him has a lot to talk about because russia plays a very important role in mediating the conflict between iran and the west moreover the timing of this particular meeting in beijing is very important as well because in the middle of june we're expecting a five plus one group of negotiators to meet in moscow to discuss the iranian issue certainly this happens i mean the time when washington does not rule out military action against tehran and constantly keeps slapping iran with different sort of economic and trade sanctions both russia and china support to support the civil nuclear program in iran at the same time they would not support any military nuclear program in this country now as for the meeting with it's also seen as very crucial because russia is now playing a very important role in afghanistan providing one of its military bases in the

town it will be on up for the native troops to deliver its nonmilitary cargo to afghanistan to help with all of the u.s. troops from the country by the end of twenty fourteen it's evident to many that the war on terror in afghanistan is not working out as it was planned civilians are being killed by terrorists drug trafficking in the still there so russia certainly wants to play a very important role in bringing this country to peace. and we're always interested in your thoughts on the stories we're covering at r.t. dot com are asking what you think of the reasons behind russia stepping up its military chinese with china and so far the majority of respondents think it's to keep washington's asia pacific ambitions in check sixty percent say moscow wants to regional security nine percent of you think the military ties are meant to keep tabs on china's growing military might and we can see in there that just five percent say it's to gain leverage in the un security council let's hear what you have to say click on r.t.

dot com. it was the birthplace of the egyptian revolution but to hear squares reputation is now being tainted by a sinister trend activists say women protesters are increasingly being subjected to violence and sexual abuse alarming incidents that some say reflects a much bigger social and cultural problem of furthur ports on the plight of egyptian women who fear that instead of the freedom promised by mubarak's fall they may be facing a darker future than ever. when the suggestion woman was dragged into terrier to be exposed and abused by the military men it serves as a stark reminder that barrack mice are being toppled egypt's arab spring has many hurdles to overcome if it's to blossom into a democracy for a conservative culture watching a woman exposed in that way open the floodgates to shocking tales of female protesters subjected to violence and sexual harassment not just at the hands of those they opposed but their fellow revolutionaries as well still we're having

a small profit on with some men and the streets is that they are still a little bit again as to having women with them side to side in the political women played a vital role in egypt's revolution but what the future now holds for women and their rights is far from certain in the life of women actually water i'd like my do to leave home i do less in the same way i live my i do this with no harassment sexual harassment is rampant in egypt forcing women to wear conservative clothes and even avoid areas where they might come into close contact with men because of the problems a sexual harassment that a lot of women complain about in cairo. has some areas for women only many of the women say that's the voice of the men's wondering what.

egypt's now facing the prospect of an islamic government that's raising fears over what it could mean for women's rights i met with as a round just one of just eleven female m.p.'s and a member of the muslim brotherhood she's controversially condemned the practice of female circumcision which was banned under the former regime. who agreed the rules of the constitution first. the rules for women and where you have and who. do what is right. these clues to are they hard won women's rights kids risk egypt's new democracy becoming a terrifying three back to the past ages a female oppression known as the one from. zero point which is very frustrating because usually off to. you feel that you're going to gain the political revolution in egypt maybe in full play the

cultural one it seems could be just getting started. there's a timeline of the turmoil in egypt for you on our website and there's plenty more there for you as well including a blaze on a nuclear submarine. they make it into the record books as the most costly for. household appliance. plus scientists say that stone age artists may have been using animation take me to make cave drawings create an impression of moving animals to find the details online right now. the debt crisis has meant big business for italy's maffia which has been described as the country's number one leg up on italian anti corruption group struggling

businesses a boring money from criminal gangs to stay afloat as banks are restricting the e.u. crisis economics expert says the government's policy is a partly to blame for the. mafia on the economy is particularly strong now because mafia has cash and you've got plenty of small businesses particularly in the south and in the center of the country without running short of cash and have some kind of relationship with mafia because they worked for years to buy protection for mafia they made to the mafia as an investor that was capitalism and they may go into the black sector for getting money they could not get out of the show banking sector this is very troublesome and it's a very important point that should can our government really need. to fix some of

the problems that are troubling to tell an economy in particular we need to give you six ation there's still a bit more money available to tell the base this is more legitimate money coming out with customers and not coming out mafia and can not i'm going to say. and they said that they max kaiser will be looking at the u.k.'s efforts to ensnare economic fraudsters amid the financial crisis. police launch war on economic crime the metropolitan police in the u.k. are going to go after them in the last twelve months the police have seized over fifty million pounds. from the small time economic fraudsters well they got it backwards federal. a couple of centuries ago looting at the top to get a living at the bottom if you want to get rid of looting at the bottom there are looting at the top which means get rid of cameron get rid of bar and get rid of mervyn king until that happens expect more looting at the bottom and more on the zombie

apocalypse. that's next cause report coming your way to later here in r.t. as the european financial rollercoaster continues to bring down economies and governments some smaller political parties are getting their moment in the spotlight the power of party in germany has seen a surge in popularity as people abandon more traditional outfits. that political ambitions. it may seem like a home convention but don't let these outfits for you this is the annual conference of the point of germany i mean three years ago it had just about one thousand members and now there are almost thirty thousand and with deputies in three months including in berlin paris or very jagging there we mean stream politics parents have become more people let's keep in germany the other parties have to take it and

you already see the people reacting to the party success story started in actions last september when the surprisingly one newly named percentage of votes now according to opinion polls the party would capture up to thirteen percent of votes across germany if the election to the national parliament was held to be the. pirate's you come up with in the party system they produce a policy making people didn't expect from a traditional party and used in political communication and they are kind of a platform for the transport of political protests. look we're all about participation and transparency all members to take war in discussions online and it doesn't seem to matter that so thoroughly submitted to me. in school spyware until cancer be woods or that their favorite meeting spot is a bore in they don't have

a stance on foreign affairs or the financial crisis and have already made a few mistakes with one senior member comparing their success with the first years of hitler's nazis though he quickly apologized we don't take ourselves so seriously we're not as pumpers as other politicians are we we know that we're human and we make mistakes and he accept that we make mistakes and therefore we have no problems with saying ok sorry i was wrong germany's national parliamentary election is planned for next year and the pirates are ready for battle just like most young organisations the pirate party of germany is going through its own case of growing pains but its popularity and flyers are on the rise and it could be time for mainstream politicians to watch out for the new kids on the block. r.t. germany. exactly ninety minutes past the check out some other headlines making news

across the world this stage of the day prosecutors of all of the arrest of a far right member of parliament following his attack on two female leftwing deputies during a live t.v. debate in the artist's through a glass of water in the face of an m.p. after she brought up his alleged involvement in a mugging case five years ago a television debate came ahead of the country's parliamentary election in ten days time. for hundreds of workers of rotted at the chinese factory foxconn which produces apple devices with dozens of protesters detained employees clashed with security guards for the reports of an attempted theft and manufacture. previously came under fire for forcing staff to work excessively long hours for low salaries. the pretrial hearing for the bradley manning case is taking place at fort meade twenty four year old manning is accused of aiding the enemy by publishing hundreds of classified u.s.

cables on the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks the defense plans to call several u.s. state department workers to assess the damage done to american foreign relations by the disclosures. so that brings up to date for the moment i'll be back with a summary of our main news stories in about ten minutes from now in the meantime an exclusive interview with the lebanese interior minister he gives his outlook on how the bloodshed in syria could play out for the region.

well. lebanon is affected by internal tensions and we do not conflict or decisions related to security issues are made outside by other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon and. lebanon security doesn't depend on lebanon. politically and in terms of security lebanon depends on external factors as well that the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states. is that an alternative to. there has to be an alternative even smaller countries than lebanon present external influence a conflict us what do you think about the conflict between the shia and sunni as a lebanon. in one hundred seventy four and seventy five we had

a conflict between christians and muslims in lebanon and this conflict was resolved well if we adopted a new constitution and achieved harmony it is possible that at some point lebanon will face the threat of being broken up into pieces and of course it concerns me that look at iraq for example the us occupied the country then they withdrew their troops and what do we have now iraq is divided there is a danger that something like that will happen in syria to with the current situation persist if syria is divided this will directly affect lebanon. do you think the cancer in regime can protect lebanon. the question is not whether this regime stays in syria or is replaced by another the problem is that the insurgents in syria affects the situation in lebanon. who do you think is behind the syrian conflict. we have some global and arab interests clashing here and we all understand that what we don't understand is where this clash will take

us in the end but we can say one thing with certain about if the syrian conflict is resolved one way or another this will effect the situation in lebanon but this in the recent events in lebanon the murder of two shakes the situation and after the detention of saudi malawi who was later released in tripoli all these events indicate that seven forces are not only trying to flare up a conflict they want to start a wave of violence in the country who want to understand it but the big question is who stands to benefit from that. but. it's being done so that palestinians can become citizens of lebanon if lebanon is divided palestinians will eventually be able to become lebanese citizens. who is trying to divide lebanon. i can ask you the same question external forces seek to control lebanon they seek to divide and weaken all the countries surrounding israel in order to ensure israel's security. is based on the current situation in the region and the information we have cannot

point the finger at somebody and say that they are interested in this scenario more than anybody else and. i can put it this way we've all heard this expression the arab spring but who has seen the fruit of the spring no one has egypt elected its president or has the spring ended almost the same thing is happening in tunisia and in yemen there's no fruit there's just this expression of the arab spring and i really think that what we see today is an israeli spring who will pose a threat to israel now and palestinians dying every day and no one protests before even if one palestinian was killed there was an outrage today three palestinians get killed or ten or twenty and nobody says anything there's not even any talk about differences within the palestinian movement with. lebanon says that it will only realign itself in defining its policies and will not take into consideration

syria's internal conflict but some said that this is impossible as the geopolitical ties between the two countries are very strong what do you think about that but. let me ask you a question what will happen if lebanon pursues a policy that is based purely on its own interests where will such a policy get us in which we have a problem if it happened part of the people support the current regime in syria and another part support the opposition but we as a state are pursuing our own policy we recognize the syrian government so as the minister of internal affairs and you know who should i support if a million people in lebanon are against the regime the minister too should be against the regime whom do we as the lebanese republic cooperate with in syria. we cooperate with the syrian government and the un recognizes the syrian ambassador represents syria in the united nations what i'm saying is that we cooperate with the government of a country if there is regime change in syria we will cooperate with the new

government lebanon recognizes syria as a nation as does the us the syrian ambassador to the u.n. bashar just far he has appealed to international organizations among other things offering evidence to the white terry on lebanese territory the lebanese president the prime minister and just south of all deny these allegations he said that while the idea may be present in lebanon there are no grounds for terrorism or terrorists yet your defense minister says the terrorists including al qaeda cells may be present in lebanon could you please explain these differences in such an important issue. that i have personally met with the defense minister and we've cleared up this situation there was some misunderstanding regarding terminology for you what the president said on the issue is correct we meant that there are no al qaeda cells in lebanon but it is possible that individual members of this international organization are present in our country but we don't have al qaeda camps or al

qaeda cells in lebanon. mr minister part of the repercussions of the syrian crisis may be avoided by demarcating the border between lebanon and syria. the demarcation of the border will not stop terrorists from crossing over into another country but the situation will be more transparent that's true the situation will be more transparent we should have had a proper border a long time ago. please . move. it's

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here in the russian capital top stories now. reported in syria however estimates of casualties vary dramatically as the timing of the. briefing to the u.n. security council raises suspicions. and the u.n. general assembly is meeting right now in new york with some strong statements already being made with the u.n. chief syria's president assad. global political focus shifts. afghan issues are discussed in beijing. with the country's. democratic changes a fading as. well that's it for me in the news team for the

moment we'll be back with more for you. join james brown and his russian adventure as he tours the. region is one of those places that offers something for everyone sitting just east of the urals countries border between europe and asia this is an ethnically diverse area of more than three million people there's a bustling capital city to enjoy for the nature lovers some of russia's most stunning country something it is right on your doorstep. as well as being very beautiful this is also a very significant part of the screen because over there it marks the start of the european ural mountains and also.