not far from the c.t.o. hamas and that allegedly prove. went and they tied people the sharks that they stabbed and buried in an orgy of violence and to support that the opposition posted a number of videos allegedly from the village show when dead bodies but how well these videos contain bodies that by all appearances to. have died yesterday raising many questions on the to the military and to 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 how the militants took over the feel of the army has been stationed in the area they've been reporting beforehand that they are preparing for an end to terrorist operations so after that call they immediately launched this operation and we are receiving right now crucial. reports from

official sources in hama that after the on the went in they discovered nine bodies of civilians and following the clashes that occurred after that two offices have been killed and five others have been as you can see. the thing there is a child there while witnesses reports just contradict each other about who was responsible and credible investigation right now is to go to just simply impossible to establish who was behind this massacre. the syrian crisis dominated talks in the latest u.n. security council meeting its chief ban ki-moon stressed that members unanimously agree it's vital to comply with kofi it on six point peace plan on syria for more on this we will live dark and very important following the proceedings in new york at the u.n. so marina we heard some harsh rhetoric at the general assembly meeting as the world body of the security council session brought a new do. relevance to the matter. well after hours of closed door

consultation and members of the security council and the secretary-general ban ki moon have come out first mr obama ki-moon saying that kofi annan six point peace plan to stop the violence in syria remains at the center of the international community's efforts it is not a plan that anyone says has failed the most important thing right now according to the secretary general is to keep syria from going from a tipping point to a breaking point the un chief says that the danger of a civil war in syria is very imminent and it is very important for the international community to flee to prevent any escalation of violence now the un joint joint special envoy for the u.n. and arab league mr kofi annan also has said to the media that what needs to be done

now is for the security council to under stand and to come up with a plan in the best way to implement his six point peace plan and that is up to the security council to to work out and decide but at this point this peace plan is still what the international community is surrounding and supporting what mr annan also said is that the situation in syria is not similar in any way to libya because he says if the syria conflict gets any worse there will be an explosion not an implosion like what we've seen in libya and if the violence in syria gets any worse and escalates beyond what is already being seen it will have disastrous effects for the region that was comments coming from mr kofi anon so at this point many members of the security council are still discussing how to more effectively implement the six point police peace plan to make sure that this. syrian government the

opposition groups comply and that the violence goes down but clearly nobody is calling this plan a failure and at this point nobody is into or saying any type of military intervention into syria. porton i live for us in new york thanks very much for that update. why after addressing the u.n. general assembly kofi annan is now briefing the security council on the situation in syria we're following the session we bring you updates political analyst christopher hoare still who's covering the events in the arab region says there are strong indications from his perspective that the hamas hamas massacre may have been carried out by terrorists. when 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 this from abroad openly saudi arabia qatar. turkey is involved people you know fighters coming over the border from

jordan from lebanon from iraq from turkey and that in fact heats 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 the there were just fifty and that it was twenty four this was the german radio and in fact the government says it was nine but the killing was done by the terrorists and i think that is believable and the other things the usual lies we hear since the year. what is more on the situation in syria on our website including the theory that the timing of the latest report of a massacre and hamas isn't a coincidence we take a look at how similar tactics have already been used in the past to justify military intervention in foreign countries bypassing the un according to. the dot com for more on that. but first the kremlin is backing iran's drive for

a peaceful atomic program the assurance came during central asia as regional security summit in beijing spearheaded by russia and china at the event president putin met with the leaders of afghanistan and iran two nations that often divide opinion in the west or he selects airships he has more from beijing. i'm walking with my. 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 have 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 also seen as very crucial because russia is now playing a very important role in afghanistan providing one of its military bases in accountable for the nato troops to deliver its nonmilitary cargo to afghanistan to help the withdrawal 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 and still there so russia certainly want to play a very important role in bringing this country to peace well stay with us here on r.t. still to come and offer you should refuse italian banks restrict loans to struggling

businesses and forcing them into the clutches of criminal money lenders to survive . it was the birthplace of egypt's revolution but tahrir square is reputation is now stained by a sinister trend activists say female protesters are increasingly being subjected to violence and sexual abuse alarming incident some say reflects a larger social and cultural problem for a report on the plight of egypt and women who fear that instead of the freedom promised by mubarak's fall they may be facing a darker future than before. 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 and with some men and the streets that there 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 and the life of women actually is what water i'd like my do to live. i do less in the same way i live my i do this with no harassment sexual harassment 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 is that your harassment that a lot of women complain about in cairo that racist has some areas for women only many of the women say that's to avoid some of the nuns wondering.

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 condoned the practice of female circumcision which was banned under the former regime. who agreed the rules of the constitution first. broke the rules for women and for various and we were. do what is right. these clues to revoke hard won women's rights kids risk egypt's new modern democracy becoming a terrifying three back to the past age is a female oppression known as the them from. zero point which is that if this treaty because usually off to the rich you feel

that you're going to gain the political revolution in egypt maybe in full but the cultural one it seems could be just getting started. on the timing of. the debt crisis is meant big business for italy's mafia which has been described as the country's number one lender by an italian anti corruption group struggling businesses are borrowing cash from criminal organizations to stay afloat as banks restrict lending during the e.u. crisis economics expert alberto ming gardy says the government's policies are partly to blame for the mafia boom. beginning with mafia on economies particularly strong now because mafia has cash and you go plenty of small businesses particularly in the south and in the center of the country to that running short of cash and have some kind of the labor market because they work for years to buy protection from a few they made to the mafia as an investor so it was

a capital 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 farin that should can our government really need. to fix some of the problems that are troubling to tell an economy in particular do we need to use to say she has to make more money available to tell you base this is more legitimate money coming out with customers and not coming out mafia and can not i'm going to say. as their opinion and continues to bring down economies and governments some smaller political parties are getting their moment to shine the pirate party in germany seen a surge in popularity as people are abandoning more traditional outfits as our hero piskun reports he's assessing their political ambitions. it may seem like a hollowing convention but don't let these outfits for you this is the annual

conference of the pirate party of germany only three years ago it had just about one thousand members now there are almost thirty thousand and with deputies in three local parliaments including in berlin the pirates are hijacking their way into mainstream politics paris have become more digital landscape in germany that a lot of parties have to take account of and you already see that are people reacting to the party success story started in doing local elections last september when they surprisingly won newly nine percent of the 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 today and the pirates are a newcomer within the party system they produce a policy making people didn't expect from a traditional party they offer a new style and political communication and they are kind of

a platform for the transport of put it to protest. the buyers are all about participation and transparency allowing all members to take part in discussions online and it doesn't seem to matter that so far leave any submitted to me to political motions and school spyware until conservations or that their favorite meeting spot is a bar in berlin they don't have a stance on foreign affairs or the financial crisis and have already made a few mistakes along the way 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 just come first as other politicians are we we know that we're human and we we make mistakes and he accept that make mistakes and therefore we have no promises. ok sorry i was wrong germany's national parliamentary election is planned for next year and the pirates are ready for

battle just like more organizations the pirate party of germany's going through its own growing pains but its popularity and flies are on the rise and it could be time for mainstream politicians to watch out for the new kids on the block you've got this kind of r.t. germany and our website always has even more to occupy your mind here's what's waiting for you would click away at our t.v. dot com is the e.u. tired of migrants new schengen rules could pose a significant threat to free movement within europe. and i want to see if the us gets a curious delivery from japan and the donor doesn't want it back r t dot com is where you'll find all the details.

government planning to build a thirty billion dollars coast to coast route that challenge the panama canal or he's business correspondent daniel bushell has the latest. united states is the law and share of trade between we have plenty of pacific oceans ever since it opened the panama canal but no plans to build a deeper void to rival through. that's threatens the hugely profitable existing routes as traders increasingly go for joint ships that are too big for the existing canal but may not get the contract the project director says china japan and venezuela also hope to phone the thirty billion dollar plan. turn now to some other stories making headlines across the globe a pakistani graduation ceremony turn into a nightmare as a blast outside the building killed at least eight people and injured twenty others . the bomb was attached to a bicycle that was left by the school gates in the city of quetta investigators

think the device was detonated by remote control according to hospital sources three children are among the victims. at least fourteen people fear the last after their helicopter disappeared hi lads the pleasure flight was carrying nationals from south korea and austria as well as locals along with the crew so far no automatic distress signal that would indicate a crash had been registered in the search and rescue operation is underway. saddam hussein's cousin and personal secretary has been executed in iraq it be the hamid mahmud was rated number four on the u.s. most wanted list before being captured that he taters right hand man was charged with brutally crushing a shiite uprising after the ninety ninety one gulf war it's the first execution in the country since two thousand and ten and saddam's former foreign minister is still being held on death row. now you're up to date i'll be back with a summary of our main news stories in about ten minutes from now what next an exclusive interview with a lebanese interior minister giving his view why how the bloodshed in syria could

play out for the region stay with us. well that. lebanon is affected by internal tensions and we do not conflict or decisions related to security issues are made. by other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon. little bit of lebanon security doesn't depend on

lebanon alone politically and in terms of security and 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. the corner and that has to be an alternative even smaller countries than lebanon resist external influence. also what do you think about the conflict between the shia and sunni. in nine hundred seventy four and seventy five we had a conflict between christians and muslims in lebanon and this conflict was result well if we adopted a new constitution and the chief tommy 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. u.s. 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 have the current

situation persist if syria is divided this will directly affect lebanon. do you think the concierge in regime can protect lebanon. the question is not whether this regime stays in syria or is replaced by another one 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 is the recent events in lebanon the murder of two shakes the situation in africa 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 but one who is trying to divide lebanon. i can ask you the same question external forces seek to control lebanon they seek to divide and we can all the countries surrounding israel in order to ensure israel's security when he 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. i can put it this way we've all heard this expression of 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. 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 but 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 in the other 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 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 a lebanese republic cooperate with in syria we cooperate with the syrian government at the un recognizes the syrian ambassador to represent syria in the united nations what i'm saying is that we cooperate with the government of a country that if there is regime change in syria we will cooperate with the new government lebanon recognizes syria as a nation as does the u.s. the syrian ambassador to the u.n. bashar just far he has appealed to international organizations among other things offering evidence that the white terry on lebanese territory the lebanese president the prime min. just south or deny these allegations he said that while the ideas of maybe present do not been and there are no grounds for terrorism or terrorists yet

your defense minister says the terrorists including al qaeda cells may be present not benign could you please explain these differences on such an important issue. and i have personally met with the defense minister and we've cleared up this situation that there was some misunderstanding regarding terminology for you but 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 qaida cells in lebanon. mr minister part of the repercussions of the syrian crisis may be avoided by demarcating the border between lebanon and syria i'm sure you heard that a bit of the demarcation of the border will not stop terrorists from crossing over into another country but the situation will be more transparent that that's true the situation will be more transparent we should have had a proper border a long time ago.

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the headlines a new massacre reported in syria but estimates of casualties vary dramatically as the timing of the slaughter on the eve of. the u.n. raises some suspicions. the u.n. security council members in. six point peace plan on syria saying it must be adhered to while action is needed to stop the bloodshed. global political focus shifts eastward delicate iranian and afghan issues being just. beijing is applied with countries' leaders. increasing cases of assaults on women in egypt's tahrir square revealed the plight of female protesters whose hopes for democratic change are fading as to take a grip on power. james brown and his latest offbeat russian adventurer as he tours

. stay with us. the reason is one of those places that offers something for everyone sitting just east of the urals the country's 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 that 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 we're on top of one of russia's most significant treasures.