i'm sorry welcome to the big picture. to the clashes in syria as you and officials admit their own voice peace plans being broken on both sides while foreign calls for intervention sound louder. spanish anguish madrid asked the eurozone for a hundred billion euros to shore up its struggling banks to become the largest economy to seagate so far. also posting trade and tackling the crisis in the middle east russia and china strengthen their partnership as president vladimir putin visits by jane. hello welcome this is r.t. live from moscow you're watching the weekly are rather by the top stories of the

last seven days with me kevin irwin and first u.n. observers in syria continuing efforts to determine how many people were massacred in hama province on wednesday and who was behind the slaughter top u.n. officials admit the peace plan is being floated by both sides of the conflict dozens of reportedly been killed across the country over the weekend well foreign calls for intervention of being ramped up to the financial reports. duquesne bodies laying 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 any other 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 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 the war and not exactly what happened when i would have a massacre which was the village of russia you have a u.n. inquiry that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground your 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 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 any you 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 the only training that could have ever given anybody is how to figure massacre and or stage a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight

after the nato bombing of yugoslavia will 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 three thousand 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. refinishing r t reporting from syria . meanwhile moscow is 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 coffee man's 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 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. this is the syrian opposition group in exiles led to the kurdish activist as its new leader abdel baset side is thought to be trying to help in lismore kurds to their ranks which have previously been accused of being dominated by islamists political analyst adrian sailboat she says the eagerness of the opposition and its international back is to blame a sad for the killings shows there really is regime change these are the western

media who are saying there bashar assad is responsible for these killings and from the very beginning president assad said beware of the able 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 for 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 military intervention we can see that there are definitely criminal organizations operating inside syria as they have done in libya and they are still doing in libya in all these organizations are financed trained and armed by the western powers. the struggling eurozone been dealt a fresh blow spain has become the largest economy than so far to ask for help as it

did meet it it needs one hundred billion euros to prop up its beleaguered banks the cash will be fed directly into a special fund now with madrid ultimately 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 ireland and portugal the spanish prime ministers praised the loan as a victory for the single currency is credibility but investment advisor patrick young's question is effectiveness of even the euro's future as a currency. 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 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 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 the 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 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. well now the fact the greens getting their huge hand there with no us territory strings attached has led to calls in dublin for it to renegotiate its deal but one small

irish town is waiting for the government to sort things out on zero or a smith reports now the people they're 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 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 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 spend crossroad in super value on the create note or go for a drink up the tone it's it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money remains in the tag as for the euro here it's been reduced to a novelty item printed on tissues and toilet paper and customers come from miles

around to spend their puts often stopping by for a haircut while they're here oh yeah a lot of people come from across the border from fast especially around from people from the phantoms down the functions on us as a complication months women can have. their phone 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 letter. turn a profit it's not just told this town it's the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common and shortly new household charge 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 clueless may not be alone in looking back for its future nor a smith r.t. closest island. the french accosting the votes for a new parliament with polls suggesting we will favor recently elected president francois learned it would be the socialist first parliamentary majority in

a decade that they already hold and tell of the senate well as defeated nicolas sarkozy last month promised reforms to cut joblessness and revive a stagnant economy so because he is also faced criticism for his aggressive foreign policies in the past which his successors voted change for the first journalist robert hernias says the main election intrigue there was whether alarmed will be able to break free of the hold of nato when the u.s. certainly goes yes you're if you look at fast while on so campaign 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 nature returns to its original role as a defensive alliance that me that could mean two things that first of all is he's trailing his coat he's making a signal to the communists and on the. 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 pro nato the reality though is whilst america has its huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to go very far in the american arms. you're watching r t from moscow still ahead for you thousands of egyptians a furious hosni mubarak wasn't sent to death as the former president snow said to be in a critical condition today. and another deadly nato bombing of civilians and rages the afghan president with an ultimatum delivered to the military alliances forces the details about that in a few minutes as well. eurasians two biggest countries of cement to the partnership over the past seven days as russian president vladimir putin visited china a handful of business deals with side but apart from ensuring that trade is flourishing moscow and beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle to. jeff ski reports from the

chinese capital. who could have thought half a century ago when china and russia clashed over disputed territories that in twenty twelfth russia's president would be greeted by a red carpet in beijing during a lavish state visit. where we know that two years ago china became russia's largest 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. we can know the points of cooperation yes 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 harpy into some difference as a patron russia china and the subways and that are again countries from thailand the russia perspective the key solution lysine. the implementation

and that's planned rather than lies in whether or not we see the poverty the existing government that is now the committee so i think russia and china's position on the series as a whole responsible and designed to have prominent of the final solution to see represents and putin splurged to boost their already. on the 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 asia pacific china is strengthening its armed forces at an unpredicted rate the united states invaded the philippines in one thousand nine hundred one thousand eight hundred it invaded the asian part of russia to stop the russian revolution 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 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. seem to be coming down strongly in the middle east. as the. russians and the chinese you know have their interest which are not necessary congruent with those of 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 confirmed that the countries have kick started 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 disputable defense the british government facing questions of why a security firm accused of human rights abuses in the west bank has been hired for the london olympics stories online from us and somali islam is wanted in the u.s. with a thirty three million dollars bounty you come up with a counterproposal are offering ten camels for president barack obama again the lowdown on that at r.t.

don't count. the health of egypt's former president hosni mubarak has reportedly worsened today 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 mubarak's recent trial that demanding the death sentence for his role in killing hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising and also angry that his former prime minister's made it to the presidential election runoff next week 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 arab affairs journalist and he told his people furious the lack of positive change. it seems that the anger which . led to people missing and lasted beyond the real square last year and the 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 other demonstrations who were organized and wondered where the center

could al but also more demonstrations planned across the country in the days leading to the second round of elections so the and 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 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. just ahead few promoting patra tism on the silver screen . hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows and military seem more heroic

than it really years and never wrong and always good but this pretty awesome is in the american people's mind when it comes to the u.s. army's damaged 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 euro or do up 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 protestors breaking the law could be fined up to forty five thousand euro and even face several years in jail the new law will be put to the test next tuesday when the opposition plans to stage a million man march again scuffles broke out at the last large anti-government rally in may after which activists staged several unsanctioned city. more world news in brief government of open fire on a church in northeast nigeria killed a woman and wounded several other people and in a separate incident a suicide bomber blew himself up outside another church in the central part of the country there's no media word about casualties no claim of responsibility there but

the radical sect boko haram has repeatedly targeted churches in the past. the second day of fighting between libyan soldiers and tribesmen to sing thirteen killed violence erupted on saturday in the volatile region in libya's borders with chad and sudan longstanding rivalries and the smuggling of weapons in libya has intensified after last year's uprising the death of former leader woman gadhafi. to gas and pepper spray and used against protesters in canada as hundreds marched in montreal about a dozen demonstrators were arrested after the clashes with police people took to the streets as part of protests against the rising cost of university education as well as the city's hosting of a grand prix race soon it's been protesting for months now demanding a cherished in fee free. form of kenyan vice president's been killed with six other people in a helicopter crash in nairobi george say totty was serving as the country's internal security minister and planned to run for the presidency next year the

aircraft burst into flames as it hit the ground police are investigating the cause of what it will. afghan president hamid karzai has condemned a nato air strike in which eighteen civilians were killed most of the women and children he 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 the country is apologize for the civilian deaths political analysts are caray she says the military alliance has no one to blame for the hostility from the afghans but itself. the vast majority of the of gun people have really rebelled against the foreign occupation of their country the only reason you're seeing increasing and more blunt and more courageous resistance attacks against the coalition forces in afghanistan is because the ordinary of guns are providing sanctuary are providing protection providing access to the resistance fighters to the to the al qaeda to the taliban whatever you want to call it whatever nato wants to call them so basically and everything you can hear frankly

about winning the hearts and minds is really ancient history that the americans have absolutely lost it as far as the of gun people's hearts and minds are concerned the image of the u.s. has been hugely damaged lately by overseas campaigns and revelations of the ways these wars were wage but helping to repair that reputation the hollywood blockbusters would show from promote patrick his image show the military in a heroic light that kind of coverage means the pentagon's even ready to leak classified information to as we did a coach of a found. from a former cia officer who questioned waterboarding to suspected weak smol bradley manning the obama administration has waged an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span asch 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 a book obama's wars done by bob woodward or 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 lauder 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 were 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 job facts saw 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 they enslin studio work out 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 assessed the pentagon has for a long time had access to the scripts of hollywood filmmakers to show the military in a better lot in the american people. are seeing hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows that have been sanitized by the military and to make military seem more heroic than a really is and never wrong and always good but this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while first acts will get true walked back others very trying to project patrick to some and propaganda on to the silver screen my you know question archie reporting from los angeles california in a few minutes fear on this channel the story of the people putting their lives on the line in the battle for nuclear disarmament that's on the program this sunday afternoon here on r.t.

live from moscow. with the end of the boer 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 the founders of the nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. the pacific begins to use it as

a threat all as an extra bit but you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of venture you're going to blow everybody up you've you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to nuclear weapons or build the. 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. there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before source material is what helps keep journalism honest we.

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