the latest news of the week's top stories from r.t. the u.n. says in syria peace plans in the firing line after another groups of massacre as international peace and pressure efforts upholstered. a big deal in beijing china signed up for more trade and pledged 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 stumbling banks making it a full for you country to ask for a bailout. and thousands of egyptians protest at their former leader wasn't sentenced to death and that his last prime ministers made it to the run off in the presidential poll.

this is r.t. live from moscow you're watching the weekly roundup of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin no in the first year an observer is in syria 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 plans being floated by both sides in the conflict dozens of reportedly been killed across the country in the past twenty four hours alone while foreign calls for intervention of being ramped up in southeast briffa national report. duquesne body is lain side by side we mean children among 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 are basically 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 closer to see where hasty jokingly is so a rush to take up arms for the cause of war and see 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 yet claims that it

was a row as innocent civilians by government troops certainly was when presented with ultimatum and random games and bombed back then the yugoslavian 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. . team has never been made public interesting we know about them we have been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are liaising with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically agents of mido in the coastal

war. basically training on don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but definitely the only training that the killing could have ever given anybody is how to figure massacre in order to 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 these tribes in libya last year history isn't been 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 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. if not in our t. reporting from syria. russia is stepping up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution it wants an international contact group to persuade damascus

and the rebels to cease fire and enter talks moscow says it's even willing to accept president assad's 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 that 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 armed opposition which is being supplied with money weapons and bolstered by militants from neighboring countries. the u.s. isn't backing russia's calls for a syria contact group with washington continuing to prop up the armed rebellion the opposition's political leaders based in turkey have chosen

a new chairman now and say they wanted night against a mascot according to some observers the syrian government is up against smush more than a group of dissidents these are the western media who are saying there bashar assad is responsible for these killings and from the very beginning president assad said the waiter of the table book global cable networks because they are spreading blatant lies no doubt mr assad has less control over his country because this country is being invaded by foreign interests by foreign groups who are funded and armed by the united states and other groups the western powers are really playing with fire trying to generate killings and mass civil war inside syria in order to have an excuse for military intervention or diplomatic political and of its own intervention we can see that there are definitely criminal organizations operating inside syria as they have done in libya and they are still going into libya in all these organizations are financed trained and armed by the western powers.

cooperation between moscow and beijing is in full force with president putin taking russia's top business leaders to china this last week several agreements on investment energy and banking role signed in both nations say they hope to top last year's record trade of eighty billion dollars the reports now 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 live a state visit. where we know that two years ago china became russia's largest st bernard 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 only going to other forms of cooperation yes 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 harpy into some difference as a patron russia china and the subways and that are up in countries and from china and the russians prospect have the key solution lies in. the implementation and that's plan rather than lies and whether or not we see the poverty the existing government that is now the current so i think russia and china's position on syria so it's a more responsible and design to have prominent on the final solution to the presence and putin splurged 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 any predicted 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. korea vietnam the united states has fought many many battles in asia 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 western europe does you know does seem to be coming down quite strongly in the middle east. 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 three 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 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 this with me kevin though in the court appearances begin for america's most famous army whistle blower but it's the

u.s. government has got something to hide as we report shortly. spain's become the fourth largest country to ask europe now to rescue its teetering banking system it's set to request a bellowed of up to one hundred billion euros and follows an urgent meeting with euro zone ministers the international monetary fund stress tests on spain's debt laden banks and concluded they needed a bigger buffer against any severe financial shocks earlier fitch ratings agency slashed spades credit score by three notches warning that a further downgrade could take place in the coming months investment analyst patrick young doubts the bailout is going to help space just as it failed for greece all of the politicians basically left the people stranded the new government and went into denial mode from the law and they came into office and six months later they suddenly realized what anybody who was remotely financially literate could work right six months ago and 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 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 automatically a little bit like going out and pulling a group of your two 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 there 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 greece ultimately is returning to the drachma i think whether. likes it or not because it's completely untenable as a conventional modern democracy it simply silently does not function as one well

spoken at least gets off having to impose stricter sturdy conditions unlike countries such as ireland which have been forced into cuts to get this rescue money but it one beleaguered town those taking a punt boosting his own economy is laura smith found out in the week. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish punt to pay for some everyday purchases in the town of closeness islands 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 this if you bring in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty point whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone his tone voters which you can then go and spend cross the road and super value on the quick note or go for a drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the time 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 points often stopping by for a haircut while they're here. lot of people coming from across the border from law about fast especially around from people from no phantoms found their aunts and so on us of a complication month women can now scott pm me and that i want to get out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million persons tucked away in draws and under mattresses forgotten about or kept to souvenirs when arlen joined the euro a decade ago they're no longer legal tender but would have a value of around two hundred forty million euro's just a fraction of which would make a massive difference in crisis hit close. the punt 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 premise

is empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and biggest 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 profit it's not just one of the 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 will 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 r.t. closest island. to the world of online few the now british politicians are to be

quizzed over why a security firm linked to allegations of human rights abuses might have been hired for the london olympics interesting story we've got there and also. if you get a minute jump of the scientists getting a step closer to cracking the secret of everlasting life get the details on our website before it's too late. people wanting to vent their anger during public protests in russia could now face a hefty fine president putin signed the bill into law on friday says it's aimed at protecting citizens from radicalism is in line with you. rippin standards the measure came into force after a lengthy parliamentary debate and revises the rules on public gatherings we increased fines of over seven thousand euro for public order violations the law

faces its first test next tuesday when an anti-government rally called the march of millions is due to be staged russia's opposition's been holding mass protests since last december some of which one sanction whistle scuffles. can have a few minutes on this channel the obama blockbuster taking out osama bin laden is getting the hollywood treatment now and producers have been getting unprecedented security access to make sure the election time movie is just right. france's parliamentary elections underway with polls suggesting the new president might just secure enough backing to push through his reforms francois hollande socialist party is hoping for his first parliamentary majority in a decade it's already controlled the senate alone took over the presidency last month from nicolas sarkozy who was widely criticized for agreeing darshan cuts and for his aggressive foreign policies french affairs journalist robert honey or thinks the the biggest election intrigue will be whether the results are low or learn to stand out from the western crowd. if you look at the past while on so

campaign says very little about on policy because the french elector are more interested but right at the end the very last words are an inspiring alexy i will work to make sure that nature returns to its original role as a defensive alliance. that me that could mean two things it first of all is he's trailing his coat he's making a signal to the communists and one of the goal should be that if he's elected he wrote. for the americans and nato he could mean that he really means that that's what he wants to do because very very difficult to say at the moment but he's going to be less ostensibly. the reality though america has its huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to go very far in the american alliance. health of egypt's former egyptian president has reportedly worsened those number barak has been ailing since his

trial and conviction of the killing of protesters in last year's uprising thousands of demonstrators continue to rally because mubarak wasn't sentenced to death because his former prime minister has made it in next week's presidential runoff demonstrators in cairo's tahrir square held mock trials for hours in a virus acting out sentencing him to death egypt's former leader serving life of the murder of hundreds of protesters during last year's revolution the former prime minister's up against muslim brotherhood candidate mohamed mercy in next week's presidential runoff the first journalist of a room darley says people are furious at the lack of positive change it seems that the anger and reach. led to people massing and massive beyond the here square last year and the beginning of the uprising and it's very much seen again on the streets of not only cairo and three square in particular but across the country as a whole with other demonstrations who were organized and when their verdicts could

al 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 administration 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 life in nine hundred are some demonstrators in last year's uprising and 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 that although the head has been removed the body just structure of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. a former kenyan vice presidents been killed with six other people in a helicopter crash near nairobi american educated george so totally was serving as the country's internal security minister and plan to run for the presidency next year and in a separate incident in nairobi police are searching for people trapped under the

rubble of a new four story building that collapsed during construction it's not yet clear if there are any fatalities there other headlines around the world this hour the war crimes courts demanding the release of staff members have been detained by the libyan authorities after they met one gadhafi son saif al islam reports claim one of the lawyers was held after trying to deliver documents that libyan authorities said were a danger to national security saif al islam is accused of a role in the killing of protesters during the revolt the top of his father. ivory coast government is vying to hunt those behind an ambush in which it least eight civilians were killed near the border of liberia seven u.n. peacekeepers who patrolling a remote village also died it's not yet clear who is behind the attack but it's believed to have targeted u.n. monitors who found a piece observing mission isn't two thousand and four to help end 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 upcoming trial is in question because the government's withholding more than two hundred thousand documents believed relevant manning's defense his lawyers plan to call several u.s. state department workers to assess the damage done to america's foreign relations by the disclosure is national security whistleblowers coalition chief sibel edmonds says the case will set a worry in president. it is going on i'm just telling an example by a congressman this is also sad precedence and this is what the american public and actually people around the world need to understand what you are seeing as elation and with each case where there is bradley manning or julian assange or the recent whistleblowers who have faced indictments and 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 that has caved and if yes public they are not support this is that they are in supporting and getting outraged and supporting these whistleblowers we are going to see a form or situation not only with government lor's but also with journalists bloggers and activists when it comes to having classified data it seems u.s. leaders have a very selective approach as we do the question of a reports negs hollywood's 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 waged 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 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 bagel bigelow project regarding seal team six takedown of ben law 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 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 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'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 again once the insulin caught 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 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 lot on the american people. 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 small gadgetry. others to project patrick and propaganda on to the silver screen you know question r.t. reporting from los angeles california. in a few moments lebanon's interior minister speaks to us about the conflict raging raging in neighboring syria and how his country's feeling the pain right now is one of the problems just ahead here on live here on r.t.

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