deadly clashes in syria as u.n. officials admit their envoys peace plan is being broken on both sides while foreign calls for intervention sound loud. spanish anguish madrid asked the eurozone for one hundred billion euros to shore up its struggling banks and becomes the largest economy to seek aid so far. also boosting trade and tackling the crisis in the middle east russia and china strengthen their partnership as president vladimir putin visits beijing.

hello and welcome this is r.t. live from moscow you're watching the weekly round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin owen and first human observers in syria continuing efforts to determine how many people were massacred in hama province on wednesday and who was behind that slaughter top u.n. officials admit the peace plans being floated by both sides of the conflict dozens of reportedly been killed across the country over the weekend while foreign calls for intervention of being ramped up griffen national reports. 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 obviously taking the lead the specter of a military solution returned before an investigation into who was responsible or 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 a war and not exactly what happened then i would have a massacre which was the village of russia you have a un inquiry that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground yet the claims that it was a row as a group of innocent civilians by government troops serving it was when presented with. back then the yugoslavian government just like the syrian

one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the ban in separatists from the kosovo liberation army an investigation was launched to find out whether the victims were innocent civilians as the international community claimed or whether the country's army had been battling professional 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 whoever they are liaising with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically the 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 killer 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 alliance is a strikes 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 united 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. for if not in our t. reporting from syria. meanwhile moscow stepping up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria it wants an international contact group to persuade damascus and the rebels to end fighting and begin talks but russia says some external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting despite coffin and peace plan. you know 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 terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the un security council all this is a result of confrontation that are getting more and more support from abroad 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 syrian opposition group in exile selected the kurdish activist as its new leader abdel baset said it is thought to be trying to help in lismore kurds to their ranks which have previously been accused of being dominated by islamists who are activists don't have told us the rebels will not sign up for a peaceful outcome as long as they've got washington strong backing. it's absolutely essential that some sort of peace you know oriented mission take place

or there will be bloodshed horrible bloodshed in syria little make libya look like a picnic united states has been very clear from the outset really of the activity in syria that they want to see assad go on they have geopolitical reasons for that particularly the relationship with iran the u.s. has been intervening since this uprising quote unquote began these are clearly professional soldiers that are conducting these operations these are not protesters that decided to grab some rocks or maybe a pistol because of the response of the state to their protests this is an army that was placed there by their 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. the struggling eurozone has been dealt a fresh blow spain has become the largest economy so father in to ask for help now as it's had knitted it needs one hundred billion euros to problem its beleaguered banks that cash is said to be fed directly to a special fund with madrid and some of the responsible for the money however this plan let spain avoid committing to additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the case of greece on it in portugal the spanish prime minister has praised the loan as a victory for the single currency is credibility but investment advisor patrick young has questioned its effectiveness and even the euro's future is a currency. all of the politicians 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 being like mechanisms are not going to work and that's why ultimately it's very difficult to see tragically whether or not the 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 calling 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 it likes it or not because it's completely untenable as

a conventional modern democracy it's simply sadly does not function as one. and now the fact we're getting that huge hand there with no us territory strings attached has led to calls in dublin for it to negotiate its deal but one small irish town isn't waiting for the government to sort things out far from where there's laura smith reports people there are looking back to help move forwards. 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 ireland joined the euro from the get go in two thousand and two but crisis hit business owners here have revived their old currency to try and desperately claw some cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty 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 in 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 punts often stopping by for a haircut while they're here oh yeah a lot of people come from across the border from about us as fast as our own from people from the front and spend the functions on us as a complication month women 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 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 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 profit it's not just told this town as the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common and shortly new household charge which which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back to the point isn't a political statement it's a survival tactic and as the face of the euro hangs in the balance clearness may not be alone in looking back for its future nor a smith r.t.

cloners island. the french casting their votes for a new parliament with polls suggesting the outcome will favor recently elected president francois hollande it would be the socialist first parliamentary majority in a decade they already hold control of the senate allowed to defeated nicolas sarkozy last month as promised reforms to cut joblessness and revive a stagnant economy because it also faced criticism of his aggressive foreign policies which is success has vowed to change french first journalist robert hollyer says the main election in koreans though is whether or land will be able to break free of the hold of nato and the us. if you look at the past while on so campaign says very little about our own policy because the french elector are not interested but we're right at the end the very last words are and in fire melech here i will work to make sure that nato returns to its original role as a defensive alliance. that mean that could mean two things it first of all is he's

trailing his coat he's making a signal to the communists. on the girl she that if he's elected he won't be for the americans and nato he could mean that he really means that 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 zero nato the reality though is whilst america houses huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to go very far in the american arms. this is r.t. still ahead for you this thousands of egyptians are furious wholes leave of barrels and sent to death as the former president snow said to be in a critical condition of a later. eurasians two because countries have cemented their partnership this last week has russian president vladimir putin visited china and handful of business deals were signed but apart from ensuring the trade flourishing moscow and beijing

of a number of pressing international issues to tackle to elect serious asking for the reports from the chinese capital. 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 there were 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. going to other forms of cooperation china needs and how i like russia or putin and hu jintao is alliance was reconfirmed by their unified stance on middle east issues in particular the syrian conflict that are being to some difference as a patron russia china why some that are up in countries from thailand the russians perspective 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 china's position on syria 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 major war games in the region and the recent tour of the us defense secretary to the asia 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 it fought most of the war in asia then it went to korea vietnam the united states has fought many many battles in asia so a pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the people of the continent russia and china were also joined in beijing by iran's president

mahmoud ahmadinejad who supported their stance on syria the leaders also agreed that only diplomatic and political. approaches should be considered when dealing with the issue of tehran's nuclear intentions condemning any international talk of aggression towards the republic the chinese and the russians probably you know don't want to see an overly domineering us which i think is understandable coming from moscow and beijing and i think what the u.s. i think does and to some degree the u.s. with europe with western europe does you know does seem to be coming down quite strongly in the middle east and in so far as the. russians and the chinese you know have their interest which are not necessary congruent with those of europe 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 confirmed that the countries have kickstarted a new era in their relations and the fact that putin chose beijing as one of his

early priorities 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 a 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. always more news great pictures on our website r.t. dot com online at the moment for you disputable defends the british government's facing questions of why a security firm accused of human rights abuses in the west bank has been hired for the london olympics is on loan from us and somali is miss wanted in the u.s. with a thirty three million dollars bounty of come up with a counter proposal offering ten camels for president barack obama get the full

story about tito kong. the health of egypt's former president hosni mubarak's reportedly worsened he's currently serving life in a cairo prison where he said to be slipping in and out of consciousness thousands of people have been drawn to tahrir square this last week angry at the verdict in a barracks recent trial demanding the death sentence for his role in killing hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising but also angry that his former prime minister's made it to the presidential election runoff next week where he's facing the muslim brotherhood candidate the ruling military council says it will transfer power to the elected president by the first of july first journalist danny told us people are furious at the lack of positive. it seems that the anger which. led to people messing and massively on the highest square last year and the beginning of the uprising it's very much seen again on the streets of not only cairo and to square in particular but across the country as

a whole with other demonstrations who were organized and when the verdict could al but also war 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 and 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 to structure of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. just ahead for you trial and error because was famously the whistleblower bradley manning appears in court his supporters say the prosecutors

have got something to hide plus. hundreds of hundreds of storms and told his military seem more who are going to really years and never wrong and always good but this creates a false image in the american people's mind when it comes to the u.s. army's damage reputation hollywood comes to the rescue with a little help from the pentagon. demonstrators breaking the protest regulations here in russia will now have to pay seven thousand euros or do it to two hundred hours of community service in future president putin stressed the new rally laws in line with european standards in france for example protesters breaking the law could be fined up to forty five thousand euro and even face several years in jail a new law will be put to the test next tuesday when the opposition plans to stage a million man march scuffles broke out at the last large anti-government rally in may after which activists staged several unsanctioned citizens. to today's world news a brief government of open fire on

a church in northeast nigeria killed and wounded many people there they then went into the main building itself where they killed yet more people now in a separate incident as well a suicide bomber blew himself up outside another church in the central part of the country there's no immediate word on casualties there no claim of responsibility. the second day of fighting between libyan soldiers and tribesmen is saying thirteen people killed violence erupted on saturday in the volatile region near libya's borders with chad and sudan longstanding rivalries and the smuggling of weapons in libya have intensified following versus uprising and the death of former leader moammar gadhafi. to gas and sprays been used against protesters in canada as hundreds marched in montreal around a dozen demonstrators were arrested after the clashes with police there people took to the streets as part of protests against university tuition hikes as well as the city's hosting of a grumpy. the race students been protesting for months now demanding a jewish should feel free. to form

a union vice president's been killed with six other people in a helicopter crash near nairobi george saitoti was serving as the country's internal security minister and plan to run for the presidency next year burst into flames as they hit the ground police are investigating the cause of what went wrong with. the pretrial hearings have begun for the soldier accused of america's biggest leak of classified data in history twenty four year old bradley manning is charged with aiding the enemy by passing materials related to the war in iraq to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks now manning's lawyers fear the trial won't be fair though as the government's withholding documents believed relevant to manning's defense campaigners that press event to witness the hearings. it's like watching a poorly executed circus act here i think the prosecution's verbal acrobatics really reached new heights and i think it really came to the surface for the judge that the prosecution is simply using word games to try to stall and delay this

trial so there were a number of occasions where the judge basically caught the prosecution essentially misrepresenting the facts for example they may say that they were unaware of wiki leaks impact assessments for example and as it turns out in a memo that was revealed in court they actually were quite well aware of these things and so there were a number of instances where it became clear that they weren't telling the truth bradley's intentions were clearly to inform and alert the american people you know the prosecution is basically saying that his intentions don't matter they've even said in court it doesn't matter how pure is intentions were it doesn't matter that what the impacts were the government is arguing a very narrow point that simply by putting classified information on the internet if the enemy can also read the internet therefore you've helped the enemy and this would establish a very alarming precedent whereby essentially any soldier even if they unintentionally reveal something completely harmless they could face capital

punishment so this i mean this could have a really huge impact on journalism not only for sources but the ability of the american people to know what their elected officials are doing. the actions of whistle blows like bradley manning of hugely damaged the image of the u.s. saw me put helping to repair the reputation of hollywood. promote patriotism and show the bigotry in a heroic light kind of coverage that the pentagon is even ready to leak classified information. 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 spanish 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 the thing 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 kathleen bagel bigelow project regarding seal team six taken out of the water last year at this time the film in question which is titled as a 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 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 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 seal. wire and how to valor how for sift efficient less distance better in 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 military seem more heroic than a really is and never wrong and always good that this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while for. others to project patrick taste and propaganda on to the silver screen my integration archie reporting from los angeles california. i just let you know in a few minutes the syrian information minister tells me that apart from an anti-government uprising damascus also a p.r. offensive as well more about that the headlines the next live from moscow.

i'm sure all of our got a story are out about that crazy lady with a convertible that honk for the bridge that every time he. was on death row for nineteen years right there. beside him in that mine did. society has condemned these people as less than human it is necessary to punish crime everything we do to punish crime is unpleasant. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the nazis but the historical. of the american death penalty today in large part from the nazis and the sad part is state of texas gets their way and they execute him and i won't be allowed to touch him until after he's dead he's my only any time i leave the house. and he keeps telling me they can't hear me in there because it's all cinder block and concrete.