latest news and then we stop stories here on r t the un says a syria peace plan is in the firing line after another gruesome massacre as international peace and pressure and words are both are. a big deal in beijing russia and china sign up for more trade in pledge to top last year's record breaking eighty billion dollars worth of business. spain is to seek up to one hundred billion euros to help salvage its tumbling banks making it the fourth country to ask for a bailout. and thousands of egyptians protest that they are former leader wasn't sentenced to death and that his last prime minister has made it to the runoff in the presidential poll.

in the russian capital you are with r.t.r. marina joshie and observers in syria are still trying to determine just how many people were massacred there on wednesday and who's to blame top u.n. officials admit the peace plan is being flouted by both sides of the conflict doesn't have reportedly been killed across the country in the past twenty four hours alone while foreign calls for intervention are being ramped up as many phenomena now reports. duquesne bodies laying side by side we mean to do an m. on them death was indiscriminate and bloody the pictures from syria this week have brought shock around the globe and also a worry in sense of deja vu just weeks before another massacre came to light this time in the village of houla and the world was quick to pass judgment 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 their side regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive like 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 far to see where hasty jokingly a rush to take up arms but the cost of war and. exactly what happened when i would have 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 yet claims that it was a program of her innocent civilians by government troops certainly with blame presented with ultimatum and gamed and bombed back then the yugoslav in government just like

the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming a ban in 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. . has never been made public interesting we know. we've been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are liaising with the. think of being course of the liberation army the people who were basically agents of mido in the cause or. basically treading on don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but definitely the only training that caylee could have ever given anybody is how to figure stage

a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruin the alliances those tribes in libya last year history isn't being prevented from repeating itself again and again with this seven images coming from syria and making 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 result 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 reporting from syria . russia stepping out afterwards to mediate a diplomatic solution that once an international karna group to persuade damascus and the rebels to cease fire and enter talks moscow says it's even a willing to accept president asif departure but only if the syrian people show him the door. here in the studio when we hear reports of another massacre in syria and

currently we see such atrocities almost daily list many international media outlets place the blame entirely on damascus the government of any country is of course responsible for what's happening within its borders but we're sure the regime alone is not to blame for everything that we see massacres in houla or terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the un security council all of this is the result of confrontation that are getting more and more support from abroad but first of all moral support for the so-called armed opposition which is being supplied with money weapons and bolstered by militants from neighboring countries the u.s. isn't backing russia's call for theory condit group with washington continuing to prop up the armed rebellion the opposition's political leaders base in turkey have chosen a new chairman and say they want to unite against the mask according to some observers 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 gone 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 thirty 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. cooperation between moscow and beijing is in full force with president putin taking russia business leaders to china this week a handful of agreements on investment energy and banking were signed and both nations say they hope to top last year's record trade of eighty billion dollars. 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 two years ago china became russia's largest street party 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. going to other forms of cooperation yes china needs an ally 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 some difference as a patron russia china and some by some that are again countries and from china and the russians prospect have the key solution lysine. the presentation and that's planned rather than lies and whether or not we see the poverty. the existing government that is now the committee so i think russia and the chinese position on this serious or is a more responsible and design to have prominent on the final solution see references and putin splendid to boost their already strong military ties so to be pleased beijing in light of us nature 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. 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 islamic 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 western europe does you know does seem to become you don't 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 or the u.s. they would probably want to protect those interests important talks in difficult times and dozens of multi-billion dollar business agreements signed day visit all but concerned that the countries have kickstarted 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 where moscow has 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 these 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. see reporting from beijing in china. still to come this hour sorry for the slaughter made us chief in afghanistan personally apologized for the airstrike that killed

eight hundred civilians more than half of which were women and children. plus the court appearances begin for america's most famous army whistleblower but it's the u.s. government that's got something to hide as we report shortly. spain's become the fourth and largest country to ask you or up 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 they need a bigger buffer against any severe financial shocks earlier the fitch ratings agency slashed spain's credit score by three notches warning that a further downgrade could take place in the coming months investment now with patrick young doubts the bailout will help spain just as it's failed for greens. all of the politicians who basically left the people stranded the new government in

spain and went into the no i'll move from the moment they came into office and six months later they suddenly realised what anybody who was remotely financially literate could work out six months ago two years ago even the spanish banks are lost and ultimately there needs to be a way in order to manage to rescue them but the conventional being like 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 think they should have to pay their bills for the debts that have been grown by the government over the years at the same time they think they should be in the euro it's alternately a little bit like going i don't polling a group of eight year old children no matter that they may say that they really. if they have to eat sensibly they're going to demand ice cream and jelly for their next meal and for every meal thereafter 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 greece ultimately is returning to the drachma i think whether it likes it or not because it's completely untenable as a conventional modern democracy it's simply sadly does not function as well. spain at least cads our founding to impose strict hysterically conditions unlike countries such as island which have been forced into cuts to get its rescue money but one beleaguered town staking a punt on boosting its own economy as laura smith 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 clore some cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty point or fifty point whatever you spend we would

give you a change of tone is turn voters which you can spend cross the road in the crib or go for a drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the 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. a lot of people come from from us especially our own from people from the phantom zone us have a complication anthem and can hash. it out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million puns tucked away in draws and under mattresses forgotten about ok to souvenirs when i 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 permit 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 turn a. that it's not just told us times the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common and shortly you household charge which which came in this year with increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent of 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 nor a smith closeness and argue the calm has a world wrapped up online so let's look at what's there right now british politicians are to be quizzed over why has security firm went to allegations of human rights abuses and might have been hired for the london olympics. and japanese scientists get a step closer to cracking the secret of everlasting life get the details on our website before it's too late. for all those wanting to vand their anger during public protest in russia could now face a half to find president putin who signed

a bill into law on friday says it's aimed at protecting citizens from radicalism and is in line with european standards the measure came into force after a lengthy parliamentary debate and revise the rules of public gatherings with increased fines of over seven thousand euros for public order violations the last faces of its first house next tuesday when an anti-government rally called march of millions is due to be staged russia's opposition has been holding mass protests since last december some of which were sanctioned and start to break out. coming up in just a few minutes of the obama blog taking out osama bin ladin is getting the hollywood treatment and producers been getting an unprecedented security access to make sure the election time movie is just right. now as of egypt's former egyptian president has reportedly worsened hosni mubarak has been ailing since it's trial and conviction over the killing of protesters in last year's uprising thousands of

demonstrators continue to rally because mubarak was not sentenced to death and because his former prime minister has made it to the next week's presidential runoff demonstrators in cairo's tahrir square held mock trials for hosni mubarak and he's serving life over the murder of hundreds of protesters during last year's resolution the former prime minister off match a fake is up against a muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi in next week's presidential runoff arab affairs journalist not be alarmed di he says people are furious at alaska for positive change it seems that the and we're going to reach. two people missing a message beyond the media square last year beginning of the uprising and then much seen again on the streets of not only cairo and the square in particular but across the country as a whole with all the demonstrations who were organized and when the verdict could al but also more demonstrations planned across the country in the days leading to

the second round of elections so the end anger of the mubarak administration in general is still very much there and it's directed at many things first of all different than mubarak himself the boy days execution over his lack of ability to protect him to long for nine hundred and some demonstrators in last year's uprising more crucially the ones the six top aides in the mubarak regime which were acquitted and that is an indication as far as egyptians are concerned there's all the headers has been removed the body destruction of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. afghanistan's president has condemned the united states for failing to consult afghan forces over launching the airstrike that killed eight hundred civilians some of karzai warned that if it happens again it will be considered a violation of his country's pact with washington the u.s. commander of nato forces in afghanistan visited the scene of last week's tragedy

and apologized for civilian deaths which included women and children villagers say the victims were celebrating a wedding when they were bombed something nato initially denied a mad she from had nation attack nationalist forum and believes the military alliance has no one but itself to blame for the hit still it's getting probably have a. vast majority of the of gun people have really rebelled against the foreign occupation of their country the only reason you're seeing increasing and more blunt and more courageous resistance attacks against the coalition forces in afghanistan is because the ordinary of guns are providing sanctuary or providing protection or providing access to the resistance fighters to the to the to the taliban whatever you want to call it whatever nato wants to call them so basically and everything you hear frankly about winning the hearts and minds is really ancient history the

americans have absolutely lost it as far as the of gun people's hearts and minds are concerned now turning to some other top stories today france has to the polls for parliamentary elections that will determine whether the new president will have enough manpower to push through is a reform socialist already control the french senate fronts all on took over the presidency last month romney sarkozy who was widely criticized for agreeing to harsh cuts and forty's aggressive foreign policies. the war crimes court is demanding the release of staff members who've been detained by the libyan authorities after they met the son saif al islam reports claimed one of the lawyers was held after trying to deliver documents that libyan authorities said were a danger to national security safe on islam is accused of a role in killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father. every

coast government is vowing to hunt down those behind an ambush in which at least eight civilians were killed near the border with liberia seven u.n. peacekeepers who were patrolling a remote village also died and it's not yet clear who is behind the attack but it's believed to have targeted u.n. monitors have had a peace observing mission there since two thousand and four the health and the country's civil war. the pretrial hearings have begun 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 kind trial is in question because the government's withholding more than two hundred thousand documents believed relevant to manning's the fans his lawyers plan to call several u.s. state department workers to assess the damage done to american foreign relations by the disclosures national security with a low. moan says the case will set

a worrying precedent. it is going to. just telling an exam all biocon ish this is also precedence and this is what the american public and actually people around the world need to understand that you are seeing as elation and with each case where there is bradley manning or julian aside or the recent whistleblowers who have faced indictments you are seeing escalation u.s. government is waiting to see what kind of reaction they are going to get from the public this is just the test case and if the u.s. public feel that support this case so they are in supporting and getting outraged and supporting these whistleblowers we are going to see a foreign war situation not only with governments was laura's but also with journalists the bloggers and activists now when it comes to handling classified data it seems u.s. leaders have

a very selective approach as medina cardinal explains hollywood got a backstage pass to the pentagon. from a former cia officer who questioned waterboarding to suspected we can take small bradley manning the obama administration has waste an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span ash laws than all previous administrations combined but it seems one man's 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 the times when it suits them to do so one of those with what was written with the book obama's wars done by bob woodward where they played out two chapters of information about current operations and also with the catholic bigelow project regarding seal team six takedown of gun laws 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 all 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's 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 pun a gun once the insolence to sugarcoat its actions and attract millions of potential recruits in recent months to other movies about the navy seals survivor and act of valor how for sift 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 lot in the american people are seeing hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows that have been sanitized by the military and to make military seem more

heroic than it really is and never wrong and always good that this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while for some facts or gadgetry walked out others very trying to project patrick thompson and propaganda on to the silver screen my in the question artie reporting from los angeles california about . a russian tennis star maria shriver is back as the world's number one she's triumphed at the french open completing career and go on slam you know has got more on this american sport now it's time. to just a few minutes of people putting their lives on the line in a battle for nuclear disarmament after the headlines in just a few moments. with

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