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 commission human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive late 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 i rushed to take up arms at the course of the war in one thousand nine hundred ninety six after what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of rochester you have a u.n. creed 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 murder on programs occur of innocent civilians by government troops serving

with blame presented with ultimatum and random games and bombed back than the you just love in government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the benon separatists from the 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 fighters two out of three forensic inquiries proved most of the casualties died in combat the third report by an e.u. team has never been made public interesting we know for over the past of we've 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 trading on i don't know they were saying they were. democracy and

human rights but the only training that caylee could have ever even anybody is how to. stage a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato you could slavia ruin the alliances and the strikes 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 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 . russia stepping up attacks first to mediate a diplomatic solution and once an international content group to persuade damascus and the rebels to cease fire and enter talks moscow says it even a willing to accept president departure but only if the syrian people show him the

door. when we hear reports of another massacre in syria and currently we see such atrocities almost daily 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 we see massacres in houla the 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 opposition which is being supplied with money weapons and bolstered by militants from neighboring countries. i gather it's a serious information minister later this hour who tells us that mainstream reporting of what's happening in his country often counters where the reality. though not so it is very people are sponsible that's filmed their crimes and sent

the footage to the media blaming the government for the atrocities and a recent study shows that ninety percent of satellite coverage on syria has nothing to do with the actual situation in the country it's all lies and fabrications it's again that there's a real information more waged against syria with real facts big substituted with fabrications these lies and the only way for them to achieve their objectives in their war against syria out of houla massacre is a good example of that as soon as the first pictures of the massacre were released everybody started accusing the syrian army and security forces but we all know who was really behind this crime today the people of syria targeted by terrorists who are armed and sponsored by regional powers like qatar saudi arabia and turkey as well as by western nations such as the u.s. has that. cooperation

between moscow and beijing is in full force with president putin taking a russia stop business leaders to china this week a handful of agreements on bassman allergy and banking were signed and 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 territory 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 the security cooperation russia and china parallels. the can other forms of cooperation yes china needs an ally like russia and 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 up in countries and from china and the russians perspective the key solution lysine. the implementation and that's planned rather than lies and whether or not we see the poverty. the existing government that is now the treaty so i think the chinese position on this series is a small responsible and designed to 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 need to 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. 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 over 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 and. the. russians and the chinese you know have their interest which and honestly congruent with those or the 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 over concern 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. by the time the soviet union collapsed the sentiments were long gone two decades 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. well still to come this hour here in our team sorry for the slaughter a nato chief in afghanistan personally apologized for the airstrike that killed eighteen civilians more than half of which were women and children. plus the court

appearances began for america's most famous army whistleblower but it's the u.s. government that's got something to hide as we are with for it shortly. spain's become the fourth largest country to ask your of 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 a buffer against any severe financial shocks earlier the fitch ratings agency slashed spain's credit score by three notches warning that a further a downgrade could take place in the coming months that's many analysts pattering doubts the bailout will help spain just as it's failed or creates. all of the politicians have basically left the people stranded the new government in spain and went into the now i'll move from the they came into office and six months later they've suddenly realized what anybody who was remotely financially literate could

work out six months ago two years ago even 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 the 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 realize 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 simply softly does not function as one and l. is in line for some rough patch as banks in europe's fourth largest economy are locked into land forcing some struggling businesses to borrow from the mafia economists elbereth says the government's partly to blame beginning of march. on the economy is particularly strong now because my 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 market because they worked for years to buy protection from up here they made to the mafia as an investor with capital and they may go into the black sector for getting money they could not get out of banking sector due to this is very

troublesome and it's a very important point that should care our government really need. to fix some of the problems that are troubling to tell the economy and particularly we need to reduce taxation is to make more money available to tell the businesses more legitimate money coming out of cash to greece and not coming out mafia and criminal going to say sions. now r.t.l. com has the world wrapped up online so let's look at once their british politicians are to be quizzed over why a security firm. of human rights abuses 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.

those wanting to vand their anger during public protest 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 and is aligned with european standards the measure came into force after a lengthy parliamentary debate and revises the rules on public gatherings with increased fines of over seven thousand euros for public order violations along faces its first test next tuesday when 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 unsanctioned and sought scuffles break out. coming up in just a few minutes here on our t.v. the obama blog buster taking out osama bin ladin is getting the hollywood treatment and producers been getting on president it's

a curiosus to make sure the election time movie is just right. thousands of 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 angering them as a fix close ties to the fallen regime and the military they believe his candidacy could be a threat to the revolution demonstrators in cairo. we are square held mock trials for hosni mubarak acting out sanity him to death it's formally or is serving life over the murder of hundreds of protesters during last year's revolution as former prime minister is up against muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed morsi in next week's presidential runoff arab affairs carolus now beyond doubt he says people are you are the last positive change. it seems that the and going to reach. lead to people massing and massive beyond the habeas square last yemen beginning of the uprising and it's very 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 are organized and when they're ready could alec but also more demonstrations planned across the country in the days leading to the second round of elections so the end anger at the mubarak and ministration in general is still very much there and it's directed at many things first of all the fact that mubarak himself avoided execution over his lack of ability to protect the one hundred nine hundred or some demonstrators in last year's uprising most 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 that although the head has been removed the body destruction of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. i'm guessing as president has condemned the united states for

a failing to consult afghan forces over launching the airstrike that killed eighteen civilians how he 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 no injuries say the victims were celebrating a wedding when they were bombed something nato initially denied ross baker the editor of who want wind up on says the alliance is tactics in the region to result in more violence not less it's entirely disproportionate when you receive a small amount of arms fire to send it 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 war suicide bombing killing civilians particularly in the border regions

and it's just difficult to see how this benefits anybody out this dance piece 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. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world france has to 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 francois hollande took over the presidency last month from nicolas sarkozy 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 who have been detained by the libyan authorities after the mad khadafi son saif al islam reports claimed one of the lawyers was held after trying to deliver documents libyan authorities said were a danger to national security say about islam is accused of

a row and killing of protesters during the revolt that toppled his father. ivory coast government is vowing to hunt down those behind it ambush and which at least eight civilians were killed near the border with liberia seven un peacekeepers who were patrolling in a remote village also died it's not clear who was behind the attack but it's believed to have targeted u.n. monitors peace observing mission there since two thousand and four to help and the country's civil war. the pretrial hearings have begun for the soldier accused of america's biggest leak of classified data and 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 governments were holding more than two hundred thousand documents believed relevant to manning's defense lawyers plan to call several u.s. state department workers to assess the damage done to american foreign relations by

the disclosures. witnessed 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 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 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

when it comes to handling classified data it seems u.s. leaders have a very selective approach was made a caution to explain as hollywood's got a backstage pass to the pentagon from a former cia officer who questioned waterboarding to suspected small bradley manning the obama administration has an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span ash loss than old previous administrations combined. but it sems 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 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 osama bin laden was hiding the conservative watchdog judicial watch has obtained records revealing that hollywood filmmakers were given access to precisely undisclosed information about the operation oscar winning director kathryn bigelow and screenwriter mark boal were even granted at tour around the volt 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 bad 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 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 one access to millions of dollars worth of military equipment to use in the movies and hollywood has what the pentagon wants the enslin stuber caught its actions. and attract millions of potential recruits in recent months two other movies about the navy seals long 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 and 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 will get true walked out there are others who are trying to project patrick johnson and propaganda on to the silver screen but my you know question archie reporting for a las angeles california. all russian tennis star reassure avised back as the world's number one she's triumphed at the french open completing a career grand slam humans got more on this in our sports but within an hour's time stay with us for that of the campaign. as plenty more coming your way here in our team still ahead as he travels to russia's beautiful euros region for another episode of discover russia before that i'll be back where they have lived.

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back you are with r t here is a reminder of the top stories the un says that syria peace plan is in the firing line after another gruesome massacre this week as foreign powers poised to intervene moscow's pushing for an international qana group to mediate a cease fire in talks but washington is shining the idea. of a deal in beijing russia and china sign up for more trade and pledge to top last year's record breaking eighty billion dollars worth of business leaders of two nations signed more than a dozen agreements and launched a joint investment fund to boost projects in russia. spain is to seek up to one hundred billion euros to help salvage its tumbling banks making it the fourth and largest country to ask for

a bailout it follows that i am asked announcement that spain's debt laden banks need a bigger 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 has made it to the runoff poll next week egyptians as its first president since last year's revolution. next an r.t. will take you to where you are going to travel to russia region where you can see a mix of everything from the pretty story to the very modern that's next on our team stay with us. the tribe in sweden 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 and for the nature lovers some of russia's most stunning.