the american british and french push for military intervention in syria is absolutely enormous we've seen hague of course william hague the british foreign secretary calling for intervention we've seen the new french president saying the same thing the americans obviously taking the lead the specter of a military solution returned before an investigation into who was responsible was even launched they're all saying that the assad regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive 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 too far to see where hasty joke to me so a rush to take up arms but the cost of war and eight hundred nine it's exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia you have a u.n. inquiry that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a brutal massacre or as a group of innocent civilians by government troops serving it was lame presented

with ultimatum and randomly aimed and bombed back then the yugoslav in government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the ban in separatists from the kosovo 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 fighting is too 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 interesting we know about the we have been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are liaising with the. i think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically agents of mido in the coastal war basically treading on i don't know they were saying they were going. democracy and

human rights but the only treaty that caylee could have ever given anybody is how to feed a massacre in order to stage a war and i believe let's see exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of you could slavia ruin the alliance is a stripes in libya last year history isn't being prevented from repeating itself again and again through this seven images coming from syria and making world headlines everybody agrees those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so sweet and so called donated the reason is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are exposed and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. refinishing r t reports in from syria . now russia stepping up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution it wants an international contact group to persuade damascus and the rebels to cease firing and or talks moscow says it's even a willing to accept president asked his departure but only if the syrian people

show him the door. when we hear reports of another message in syria and currently we see such atrocities almost daily many international media outlets want to put the blame entirely on the syrian government the government of many countries of course responsible for what is happening in the country but we're sure the regime alone is not responsible for this we see massacres in houla terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the un security council and all of these is a result of confrontations that are getting more and more outside support i mean first of all moral support for the so-called armed opposition supplying it with money weapons bringing militants from neighboring countries into syria. the u.s. isn't backing russia's call for syria contact group with washington continuing to prop up the armed rebellion against asad the opposition's political leaders have chosen a new chairman and say they want to unite against damascus some observers say the

syrian government is up against much more than a group of dissidents. it's absolutely essential that some sort of peace you know 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 the u.s. has been intervening since this uprising quote unquote began 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 quote unquote began. syria struggles are already impacting across the border in lebanon as we'll hear later this hour the country's interior minister believes the violence could be contagious for the whole region. that we have some global and arab interests trashing 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 certainty if the syrian conflict is resolved one way or another this will affect the situation in lebanon lebanon security doesn't depend on lebanon politically and in terms of security theater lebanon depends on external factors as well that the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states.

cooperation between moscow and beijing is in full force with president wouldn't bring russia's top business leaders to china this week handful of grievance on investment banking were signed am both nations say they hope to top last year's record trade of eighty billion dollars reports from beijing. who could have thought half a century ago when china and russia clashed over disputed territories that in twenty twelfth russia's president would be greeted by a red carpet in beijing during a lavish state visit. where we know that you years ago china became russia's largest trade part you know outstripping other nations in the former soviet union as well as germany and other european nations you know the security cooperation in russia and china the parallels are there but you know economic and other forms of cooperation china needs and i like russia or putin and hu jintao is alliance was reconfirmed by their unified stance on middle east issues in particular the syrian

conflict that are being the something different as a patron russia china why some that are against countries from taiwan the russia's prospect a of the he said was a lie seeing. presentation plan rather than lies and what about the party. existing government that is now the police so i think some of china's position on syria is a more responsible deciding prominent on the. sea of requests and putin spoke to boost their already strong military ties so to be pleased beijing in light of u.s. made a war games in the region and the recent tour of the us defense secretary to the asian pacific china is strengthening its armed forces at an unpredicted rate the united states invaded the philippines in one thousand nine hundred in one thousand eight hundred it invaded the asian part of russia to stop the russian revolution

during world war two it fought most of the war in asia then it went to korea vietnam the united states has fought many many battles in asia so a pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the people of the continent russia and china were also joined in beijing by iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad who supported their stance on syria the leaders also agreed that only diplomatic and political approaches should be considered when dealing with the issue of tehran's nuclear intentions condemning any international talk of aggression towards the republic the chinese and the russians probably you know don't want to see an overly domineering us which i think is understandable coming from moscow and beijing and i think what the u.s. i think does and to some degree the u.s. with europe with europe does you know does seem to be coming down quite strongly in the middle east in so far as the. russians and the chinese you know have their

interest which are not necessarily congruent with those of us they would probably want to protect those interests important talks in difficult times and dozens of multi-billion dollar business agreements signed three day visit all but concerned that the countries have to kick started a new era in their relations. and the fact that putin chose beijing as one of his early priority since returning to power indicated that's in the far east as one of its most important partners more than half a century ago the chinese describe the u.s.s.r. as dog the elder brother by the time the soviet union collapsed the sentiments were long gone two decades on first ever state visit to beijing suggested that the two countries may not feel like a family just yet but have definitely moved much closer to each other. reporting from beijing in china. still to come in the program this hour sorry for the slaughter even if you personally apologize for the air strike that killed eight

hundred civilians more than half of which were women and children. plus the fourth appearances begin for america's most famous army whistleblower by its the u.s. government that's got something to hide as we reboarded shortly. spain's become the fourth largest country to ask you or to rescue its teetering banking system it will request a bailout of up to one hundred billion euros and follows an urgent meeting with euro zone ministers the international monetary fund carried out stress tests on spain's debt laden banks and concluded that at least forty billion euros in new capital is needed to buffer against any severe financial shocks earlier the fitch ratings agency slashed spain's credit score by three notches warning that a further down where it could take place in the coming months that's now is patrick young doubts the bailout will help spain just as its failed greets. all of

the politicians hope basically left the people stranded the new government in spanish went into the no i'll move from the moment they came into office and six months later they suddenly realized what anybody who was remotely financially literate could work six months ago it was two years ago even the spanish banks are lost and ultimately there needs to be a way in order to manage to rescue the conventional belike mechanisms are not going to work and that's why ultimately it's very difficult to see tragically whether or not there really is a future to the euro was a currency the greeks when you talk to them on one side they don't want austerity and they don't really super should have to pay their bills for the debts to be grown by the government over the years at the same time they think they should be in the euro it's automatically a little bit like going to polling groovier two year old children no matter they may say that they really. lies they have to eat sensibly they're going to demand ice cream and jelly for their next meal and for every meal they're after as long as

they have influence the problem with greece is ultimately it doesn't really matter what they vote for in the course of the middle of june because they haven't actually been taking their medicine and greece ultimately is returning to the drachma i think whether it likes it or not because it's completely untenable ours a conventional modern democracy it's simply sadly does not function as one all spain at least gets are having to impose stricter sterile conditions unlike countries such as ireland which have been forced into cuts to get its rescue money but one of beleaguered towns taking a punt on both saying its own economy is laura smith now reports. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish punt to pay for some everyday purchases in the town of clueless arlen's joined the euro from the get go in two thousand and two but crisis hit business owners here have revived their old currency to try and desperately claw some cash back into the community if you bring

in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty points whatever you spend we will give you the change of tone is turn voters which you can spend cross the road and super value on the career or go for a drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money remains within the town as for the euro here it's been reduced to a novelty item printed on tissues and toilet paper and customers come from miles around to spend their puts often stopping by for a haircut while they're here oh yeah a lot of people come from from belfast especially around from people from the phantoms from the functions on us have an obligation mountain. out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under a mattress is forgotten about or kept to souvenirs when joined the euro a decade ago they're no longer legal tender but would have

a value of around two hundred forty million euros just a fraction of which would make a massive difference in crisis hit close the current scheme has undoubtedly boosted the local economy but the ravages of the economic crash are still all too evident the main street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of premises empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and bigger cities throughout our land austerity here means business people are being hit with a variety of taxes and levies making it harder and harder to stay afloat let alone . a profit it's not just told us times the whole country has suffered with the start of the measures with the. new water charges were coming in shortly you household charge which which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the point of sale tax which we

have to do something something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back to the point isn't a political statement it's a survival tactic and as the face of the euro hangs in the balance clueless may not be alone in looking back for its future euro smith closest island all those wanting to vand their anger during public protests in russia could now face have to find president putin who signed the bill into law on friday says it's aimed at protecting citizens from radicalism at is in line with the european standards well measure the force after a lengthy parliamentary debate and revises the rules on public gatherings will increase fines of over seven thousand euros for public order violations the law faces its first test next tuesday when an anti-government rally called the march of millions due to be staged russia's opposition has been staging mass for this since last attempt december unsanctioned and which saw scuffles break out.

aarti dot com has the world wrapped up online let's look at what's there right now british politicians are to be quizzed over a wide security firm link to allegations of human rights abuses might have been hired for the london olympics. this am bound for obama somalis on a sofa offer ten camels for the president it responds to the state department putting in a reward of thirty three million dollars to capture their leaders. thousands of egyptians pretty egyptian protesters are keeping up the pressure ahead of next week's presidential runoff demanding that hosni mubarak's former prime minister be banned from the election what's alarming. close ties to the fallen regime and the

military they believe it's candidacy could be a threat to the revolution that was traitors in cairo's tahrir square held mock trials for hosking a bar acting out sentencing him to death it tips former leader serving life over the murder of hundreds of protesters during last year's revolution his former prime minister is up against a muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi in next week's presidential runoff arab affairs journalist that we were on danny says people are angry at the lack of positive change he seems to be. led to people missing a message beyond the square in the beginning of the uprising and then much seen again on the streets of not only color and square in particular but across to see the country as a calm we all the demonstrations were organized and wondered where do you sit where i could and i would but also more demonstrations ran across the country in the days leading to the second round of elections to the end. in the bar and

a nutrition in general is still very much there and it's directed at many kids first of all different than mubarak himself going to execution over his like of ability to protect him to one hundred nine hundred and some demonstrators in last year's uprising most crucially the six top aides in the mubarak regime which were acquitted and that he's an indication as far as egyptians are concerned there's all the hairs has been removed the body destruction of the regime is still very much in place coming up in just a few minutes here in the obama blockbuster taking out a sounding line is getting the movie treatment and hollywood's been allowed i'm president and security access to make sure the pre-election movie is just right. the u.s. commander of nato forces in afghanistan has apologized for the deaths of civilians

including women and children in an airstrike this week general john allen visited the side of the tragedy to deliver his condolences villagers say the victims were celebrating a wedding when they were bombed first nato denied it claiming instead they took out eight military commanders in the strike without mentioning civilian casualties ross baker the editor of who what why dot com says the alliance has tactics in the region result in more violence not less. it's entirely just proportionate when you receive a small amount of arms fire to send did airstrikes and i think there's going to have to be much more of a discussion about how a proper this is and also the consequences of alienating afghans even more and provoking more suicide bombing killing civilians particularly in the border regions . and it's just difficult to see how this benefits anybody how this advances world

peace how this really significantly sets back the taliban i think an entirely different solution is going to have to be conceived of in it it does not involve. let's take a look at some other stories from around the world france and skew the polls for parliamentary elections that will determine whether the new president will have enough manpower to push through his reforms socialist already control the french senate front salon took over the presidency last month because he was talking as he who was widely criticized for agreeing to harsh cuts and for his aggressive foreign policies. the war crimes court is demanding the release of staff members have been detained by the leading authorities after the mad market off the son saif al islam reports claim one of the lawyers was held after trying to deliver documents that lead to an authority said were a danger to national security saif al islam is accused of a role in killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father.

ivory coast government is valet to hunt down those behind an ambush in which at least eight civilians were killed near the border with liberia seven un peacekeepers who were patrolling in both village also died in something and clear who was behind the a tad but it's believed to have targeted u.n. monitors have had a peace observing mission there since two thousand and four to help end the country's civil war. the pretrial hearings out began for the soldier accused of america's biggest leak of classified data in its history twenty four year old bradley manning is charged with aiding the enemy by giving hundreds of u.s. cables to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks but the fairness of his upcoming trial is in question because the government's withholding more than two hundred thousand documents believed relevance to manning's defense his lawyers plan to call several u.s. state department workers to assess the damage done to american foreign relations by

the by the disclosures blogger calving star witness the first hearing what was really clear today is that the government has been misrepresenting intentionally the sort of evidence that it has in its possession that it knows agencies possess which they do not want to turn over to the defense they cite legal reasons and the main military justice rules they talk about the fact that the defense hasn't been specific and they make up how they haven't used certain terms that you would normally use so they're just you know going above and beyond to stall and make sure that they can keep going where they don't provide the information that the defense wants that's just not the role the judge is actually the person who makes the decision on whether evidence is supposed to be turned over to the defense is not the government or the prosecutions decision well when it comes to handling classified data it seems u.s.

leaders have a very selective approach as many to caution explains hollywood's got a backstage pass to the pentagon. from a former cia officer who question waterboarding to suspected we keep small bradley manning the obama administration has wasted an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span ash laws than old previous administrations combined but it seems one man snitch is another man's spin doctor the problem with the current situation with the current white house is they have leaked classified information for both times what it serves to diffuse one of those with what was with the book obama's wars done by bob woodward or they played out two chapters of information about current operations and also with the catholic bigelow project regarding seal team six taken out of the water last year at this time the film in question which is titled as zero dark thirty covers last year's raid by u.s.

commandos on the pakistani compound where some of bin laden was hiding the conservative watchdog judicial watch has obtained records revealing that hollywood filmmakers were given access to proof the undisclosed information about the operation oscar winning director kathryn bigelow and screenwriter mark boal were even granted at tour around the fold as cia building where tactical planning for the raid took place the film is out in december but was initially due to be released just weeks before november's presidential elections sad facts so some flak fly the administration's way while the entire project has raised concerns over the way intelligence is being used it's best that this kind of information particularly as it revolves around what's surrounding this movie remains classified it absolutely has to it's very unfortunate that it's coming out to be used for

political purposes for a congressional election however there is nothing unusual about the defense department collaborating with the makers of hollywood blockbusters. it's a partnership that dates back to the middle of the twentieth century and it has proved effective the pentagon has what hollywood filmmakers won access to millions of dollars worth of military equipment to use in the movies and hollywood has what the pentagon wants the enslin sugarcoat its actions and attract millions of potential recruits in recent months to other movies about the navy seals long survivor and act of valor how for a shift official assistance veteran hollywood reporter david robb says the pentagon has for a long time had access to the scripts of hollywood filmmakers to show the military in a better light and the american people. are seeing hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows that have been sanitized by the military and to make the military

seem more heroic than a really is and never wrong and always good that this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while for some x. will get true walked out others carry try to project patrick take some and propaganda on to the silver screen my you know question archie reporting from las angeles california. of russian town of samarra is back as a world's number one. data french open completing our career grand slam god more on this anarchy sports just about twenty minutes time stay with us for that if you can. and i'll be back with the headlines after a short break don't go away.

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welcome back here where there is a look at the top stories of the week the u.n. says it syria peace plan is in the firing line after another gruesome massacre this week as foreign powers poised to intervene russia is pushing for an international content group to enforce a cease fire and talks to washington shined the idea. of a deal in beijing russia and china signed off on more trade and pledged to top last year's record breaking eighty billion dollars worth of business leaders of two nations signed more than a dozen agreements and the launch to join investment funds to boost projects in russia. and spain is to seek up to one hundred billion euros to help salvage and stumbling banks making the fourth and largest in the country to ask. if. that

spain's debt laden banks need at least forty billion euros to buffer against any severe financial shocks. and thousands of egyptians protest that their former leader wasn't sentenced to death and that his last prime minister's made it to the runoff poll next week egypt chooses its first president since last year's revolution. syria's drawn out conflict is leaving neighboring lebanon suffering some of the fallout next the lebanese interior minister tells us why the violence won't stop with their borders. my. well again a swell of the ultra left lebanon is affected by internal tensions and we do not conflict or decisions related to security issues are made outside an open air by other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon when. a. little bit of lebanon secure.