journalism on we. we want to represent. something of. the latest news in the week's top stories from our t.v. viewer and says that it's syria peace plan is in the firing line after another gruesome massacre has international peace and pressure efforts of balls to. safety in numbers spain says getting a bank rescue loan proves the euro currency bloc can survive the storm. a big 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. thousands of egyptians protest that left former leader wasn't sentenced to death and that his last prime minister has made it to the runoff in the presidential poll.

hello and welcome this is r.t. live from moscow you're watching the weekly a round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin now in here in 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 floated by all sides in the conflict dozens of reportedly been killed across the country in the past twenty four hours alone while foreign calls for intervention being ramped up the financial reports. duquesne body is lain side by side we mean to do and among them death was indiscriminate and bloody the pictures from syria this week have brought shock around the globe and also a war 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 far to see where hasty jokingly saw a rush to take up arms because of the war and not 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 programs that are innocent civilians by government troops certainly with when presented with ultimatum and random game and bought 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 we have been reports of syrian rebels who are they are liaising with the. think of being in the course of the liberation army the people who were basically agents of new york in the causal

war. basically treading 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 do you figure masculine or 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 alliance is a stripes 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 thief 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. or if not in our t. reported from syria. russia 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 even willing to accept president assad's departure but only if the syrian people show him the door. you know when we hear reports of another massacre in syria and currently we see such atrocities almost daily life 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 so that our 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 and say they want to unite against damascus according to some

observers the syrian government's 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 the 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 it'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 was the arms struggle quote unquote began spain's premier says the euro zone's agreement to cough up the cash for a bank rescue loan proves the currency bloc has a solid future the country seeking a two hundred million euro to help salvage the banking system there becoming the fourth and largest e.u. country now to ask for a bailout it's not so monetary fund carried out stress tests on spain's debt laden banks and concluded they needed a bigger buffer against any severe financial shocks to fetch ratings agency slash spades credit school the three notches warning that a further downgrade could take place in the coming months but investment analyst patrick young doubts the bailout will help space just as it's failed for greece. all of the politicians have basically left the people stranded the new government in spin went into denial mode from the wall 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 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 be 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 deaths 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 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 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 it likes it or not because it's completely untenable as a conventional modern democracy it's simply sadly does not function as one of a spade then at least to get softening to impose stricter standard think conditions are like countries such as ireland which have been forced into cuts to get its rescue money but one beleaguered town there is taking a punt on boosting its own economy or a 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 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 pounds 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 create 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 about fast especially around from people from no phantom spend their aunts and so on us have a complication month women can have gotten him in but if i want to get out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million puns tucked away in draws and under mattresses forgotten about ok 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 euros 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 premises empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and biggest cities throughout. 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 the whole country has suffered with the measures with the. new water charges which are common in shortly you household charge which which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike twenty three percent in the point of sale tax with. 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. and. coming up a bit later is visible a vote in france for the presidency and senate in the bag for us well our hopes for a hat trick by securing socialist seats in parliament we assess what he might do with all the black power and the court appearances begin for america's most famous army whistle blower but is the u.s. government discover something to hide as we report shortly. but next 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 were signed in both nations say they hope to top last year's record trade of eighty billion dollars. reports now from beijing. who could have thought half a century ago when china and russia clashed over disputed territories that in twenty twelve 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 trying to 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 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 again countries from china and the russians perspective the key solution lies seeing. the presentation and that's planned rather than lies and whether or not we see the property. existing government that is now the committee so i think russia and the chinese position on this are serious or it's more responsible and design to prominent on

the final solution. prices and putin splurged to boost their already strong military ties so it's in deep. least beijing in light of us nature war games in the region and the recent tour of the u.s. defense secretary through 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 our 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 don't bite 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 over concerns 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 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 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. could check of our web site r t the world's wrapped up for you on line there 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 were revealed online from us and japanese scientists get a step closer to cracking the secret of everlasting life they say get the details on our website then forwards to.

people wanting to vent their anger during public protests here in russia could now face a hefty fine president putin who signed the bill into law on friday says it's aimed at protecting citizens from radicalism was in line with european standards the measure came into force after a lengthy parliamentary debate about it and revises the rules on public gatherings with increased fines of over seven thousand euro for public order violations the law faces its first test next tuesday even with an anti-government rally called march of millions is due to be staged russia's opposition's been holding mass protests since last december some of which were sanctioned zal scuffles break. coming up in a few minutes the. blockbuster taking out osama bin laden is getting the ollywood treatment and producers have been getting on president of security access to make sure the presidential campaign movie is just right. france's parliamentary elections under way with polls suggesting the new president might just secure

enough backing to push through his reforms francois and socialist party is hoping for its first parliamentary majority in a decade it already controls the senate took over the presidency last month from nicolas sarkozy who was widely criticized for agreeing to harsh cuts and visit gress of foreign policies french affairs journalist robert ardler thinks the biggest election intrigue will be whether the result will allow a land. and that from the west and ran over to what is this of the noble if you look at fast walk on so campaign respect says very little about our policy because the french elector are not interested but we're right at the end the very last words are and if i am elected i will work to make sure that nato returns to its original row as a defensive alliance. that mean that could mean two things it first of all is he's trailing his coat here he's making a signal to the communists and. there goes that if he's elected he won't be a pussycat for the americans and nato saying so he could mean that he really means

that and that's what he wants to do but it's very very difficult to say at the moment but he's going to be less ostensibly. the reality though is whilst america has this huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to go very far in the american arms. heated former presidents reportedly in a critical condition osama beric said to be slipping in and out a consciousness in a prison hospital today where he's serving life over protest the deaths in last year's uprising thousands of demonstrators continued to rally because mubarak was not sentenced to death because his former prime ministers made into next week's presidential runoff demonstrators in colors tahrir square held mock trials for acting out sentencing him to death he just formulator serving life over the word of hundreds of protesters during last year's revolution is former prime minister's up against was live brotherhood candidate mohamed mercy in next week's presidential

runoff journalists have been told his people are furious the lack of positive change. it seems that the anger which. led to people massing and massive beyond the mere 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 wondered where 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 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 life in nine hundred thousand 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 that although the head has been removed the body just structure of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. and now it's some more of today's world news headlines and a former kenyan vice president's been killed and five other people in a helicopter crash in nairobi american educated george said told he was serving as the country's internal security minister and plan to run for the presidency next year he was a key supporter of kenya's decision to send troops to somalia it is not yet clear what caused the accident and in a separate incident in nairobi police are searching for police people trapped under the rubble of a new four story building that collapsed during construction it's not clear if there are any fatalities there. elsewhere the war crimes court is demanding the release of staff members who've been detained by the libyan authorities after they met one look at duffy's 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 revolver top of his father. government vying to hunt down those behind an ambush in which should be eight civilians were killed near the border with liberia seven un peacekeepers who patrolling a remote village also died it's not yet clear who is behind the attack but it's believed to targeted u.n. monitors who had a piece observing mission since two thousand and four to help end the country's civil. 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 been holding more than two hundred thousand documents believed relevant to manning's defense his lawyers plan to call several u.s. state department workers to try to assess the damage done to american foreign

relations by the disclosures kevin stoller witnessed. or 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 on name 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 are provide the information that the defense wants that's just not the wrong 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 would you know a coach never explains next 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 or they played out two chapters of information about current operations and also with the kathleen 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 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 data 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 end slants 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 first if the fish unless instance 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. 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 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 exploit get trapped that others very trying to project patrick take some and propaganda on to the silver screen my integration archie reporting from los angeles california. coming up the people putting their lives on the line in the battle for nuclear disarmament that story whole program and fight for thirty minutes after the headlines in just a few moments on our team from moscow. with the end of the border war and going the way of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might

be going off by mistake especially when the sounds of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. but most of the victims to use it as a threat or as an actual event that you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see if people don't wake up nuclear weapons are built you're. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and this second sound is the equivalent firepower of the world's nuclear arsenal today. a nation of free cretaceous free. transport charges free arrangements free risk free studio type free.

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