before an investigation into who was responsible was even launched they're all saying that the assad regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive lee 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 cloud to see where hasty genitally saw a rush to take up arms over the course of the war in one thousand nine hundred ninety six and what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia you had a u.n. in korea that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a brutal murder on programs occur of innocent civilians by government troops serving it with blame presented with ultimatum and random games and bombed back then the yugoslav and 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 an e.u. team has never been made public interestingly enough about the we've 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 causal war. basically trading on by i don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but definitely the only training that caylee could have ever even anybody is how do you figure massacring or stage a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruling the alliances these tribes in libya last year history. 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 coordinated the result is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible. and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. refinishing r t reports in from syria . to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria the 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 kofi annan peace plan. 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 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 of this is the result of confrontation that are getting more and more support from 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 and aside from this the syrian opposition group annex a kurdish activist as its new leader said side is thought to be trying to help in lismore kurds to their ranks which had previously been accused of being dominated by islamists middle east expert says with western states strongly backing the opposition they are largely responsible for the country's situation. when the americans grassroots group some talk about transition what effectively mean is regime change that is what they did in libya with dire

consequences as we can see in their country today in syria the plan to bring both sides to the table and have a negotiated settlement is obviously the best way to move forward but the united states and britain and their other allies have absolutely no pressure on the other side to come to them negotiate a negotiating table and start a process of talks so it would appear to me that what we now have is an end game situation where the united states as decided to remove this regime and use everything in a spot to do so. the struggling eurozone to be dealt a fresh blow spain's become the largest economy so far than to ask for help president mitt it needs one hundred billion euros to prop up its beleaguered banks the cash will be fed directly to a special fund with madrid ultimately responsible for my further this plan lead

spain avoid committing to additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the case of greece and portugal the spanish prime ministers praised the loan as a victory for the single currency is credibility but investment visor patrick young's question is effective misson even the euro's future as a currency. all of the politicians have basically left the people stranded the new government in stay and went into denial mode from the law when 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 the spanish banks are lost and ultimately there needs to be a way in order to manage to rescue them but the conventional being like mecca. isms 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 calling a group of each 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 dolls not function as one thought and will now five or dreads going that huge hand with no sturdy 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 or no laura smith reports now the

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 arlen's 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 cash back into the community if you bring in. fifty. years which you can spend. on the. drink it. means all the more. 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 it often stopping by for a haircut while they're here. a lot of people come from from. there on from people

. there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in drawers and under mattresses forgotten about ok to souvenirs when i 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 to evidence 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 profit a. yes it's not just told us towns the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges 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 in the pike to sales tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation still keep this state 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 your king back for it's teacher nora smith r.t. closest island. the french accounting their votes for a new parliament with polls suggesting the outcome will favor recently elected president francois hollande it would be a socialist first parliamentary majority then in a decade they already hold control of the senate all and who defeated nicolas sarkozy last month has promised reforms to cut joblessness and revive

a stagnant economy so cozy and face criticism is aggressive foreign policies which is success is voted change too when she first journalist robert wholey as says the main election intrigue goes whether all land will be able to break free of the hold of nato the us. if you look at fast well known so campaign says very little about on policy because the french elector are interested but right at the end the very last words are i mean if i am the elected i will work to make sure that nature returns to its original row as a defensive alliance. that mean that could mean two things it first of all he's trailing us he is making a signal to the communists and on the. if he's elected he will be a pussycat for the americans and nato century could mean he really needs that and 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 wast america has its huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to get a very far in the american arms. you're watching r t from moscow still ahead this hour thousands of egyptians a furious hosni mubarak wasn't sentenced to death as the former president's now said to be a critical condition the latest on that story and another deadly nato bombing of civilians in rages the afghan president with an ultimatum delivered to the military alliance his forces got the story on that too. the first year asia's two biggest countries have cemented the partnership for the last seven days as russian president vladimir putin visited china a 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 as well. reports from the chinese capital. who could have thought half

a century ago when china and russia glossed 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 you years ago trying to be immersed as large a street part 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 economic and other forms of cooperation yes china needs and i like russia 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 a somewhat by some that are again countries from thailand the russia prospect have the key solution lysine. the implementation and that's plan rather than lies and whether or not we see the poverty. the existing government that is now the

committee so i think the chinese position on this all serious there is a more responsible and design to have prominent on the final solution to the prices and putin splendid to boost their already strong. so to be pleased beijing in light of us made to war games in the region and the recent tour of the u.s. 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 most of the war in asia then it went to 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. 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. seem to be coming down 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 but concerned that the countries have 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 as one of its most important partners more than half

a century ago the chinese describe the u.s.s.r. as the algebra by the time the soviet union collapsed these sentiments were gone for decades. visit to beijing suggested that the two countries. i may not feel like a family just yet but have definitely moved much closer to each other let's see reporting from beijing in china just checking out a few stories ago lined up on line r.t. dot com. disputable defends the british government's facing questions over why a security firm accused of human rights abuses in the west bank's been hired now for the london olympics it's interesting story it's online from us and this is strange and smiley islamists wanted in the u.s. for the thirty three million dollars bounty of combat with a counterproposal is revealed online offering ten camels for president barack obama or no more it's called. the health of egypt's former president hosni

mubarak's reportedly worsened today is 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 the barracks recent trial that a man with 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 ways facing the muslim brotherhood's candidate the ruling military council says it will transfer power to the elected president by the first of july the first journalist have been a run down he told his people a few reus lack of positive change. it seems that the and going to reach. led to people missing and lasted beyond the last year and beginning are. very much seen again on the streets of not only kind of square in particular but across the country as a home of the demonstrations who are organized and when they're ready 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 lawn and nine hundred some demonstrators in last years that frightening more crucially the ones the six top aides in the mubarak regime which were acquitted and that is an indication as far as the egyptians are concerned there's although the head has been removed the body destruction of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. just ahead here on the program promoting patrick his of on the silver screen. hundreds and hundreds of homes and told his those military seem more heroic than it really is never wrong and always good at this creates a false image in the american people when it comes to the u.s.

army's damaged reputation hollywood comes to the rescue with a little help from the pentagon to. demonstrators breaking the protest regulations here and russia will now have to pay seven thousand euros to do up to two hundred hours of community service and future president putin stressed this new rally law is 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 that it will all be put to the test next tuesday to 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 city. there's world news in brief gunman opened fire on a church in northeast nigeria it's killed a woman and left several wounded 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 but the radicals say boko haram has repeatedly targeted churches in the past. the second

day of fighting between libyan soldiers and tribesmen is no sin thirteen killed violence erupted on saturday in the volatile region in libya's borders with chad and sudan i'm standing right. the smuggling of weapons in libya has intensified after last year's uprising and the death of former leader moammar gadhafi to gas some pepper spray used against protesters in canada hundreds marched in montreal and other dozen demonstrators were arrested after the clashes with police people in taking to the streets there was part of protests against the rising costs of a university education as well as the city's hosting a grand prix race students were protesting for months now demanding a. full mechanic kenyan vice president's been killed with six other people in the helicopter crash and in nairobi george saitoti was serving as the country's internal security minister and planned to run for the presidency next year the aircraft was traveling in burst into flames as it hit the ground police are

investigating the cause of the accident. afghan president hamid karzai has condemned a nato air strike in which eighteen civilians were killed most of them women and children he warned that if it happens again it'll be considered a violation of his country's pact with washington the u.s. commander of nato forces in the country is apologized for the civilian deaths but. says the military alliance has no one to blame but itself for his still if he is getting from the afghans. vast majority of the of gone 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 every think you 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 us army has been hugely damaging lately by overseas campaigns and revelations of the way these wars were waged but helping to repair that reputation now hollywood blockbusters which often promote patric ism and show the military and heroic light that kind of coverage means that the pentagon is even ready to leak classified information as we did a culture never found out. from a former cia officer who question waterboarding to suspected we keep small bradley manning the obama administration has wastes an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span ash loss than all 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 was what was wrong 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 project regarding seal team six have been lauded 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 precisely 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 sad 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 the what's surrounding this movie remains classified absolutely cost 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 pond again once the excellence to sugarcoat 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 a 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 sensitized 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 so you will get walked out others very trying to project patrick to some and propaganda on to the silver screen my you know question artsy reporting from los angeles california more comment on the news the day coming up in a few minutes the lebanese interior minister tells us about see that syria's violence could be contagious for the whole region more than offer of a day to the headlines next here in moscow.

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had lunch one news review of the week hero doughty. deadly clashes in syria as u.n. officials admit their envoys peace plans being broken on both sides dozens of reportedly been killed across the country over the weekend while foreign calls for intervention are being ramped up. madrid asks for viewers over for one hundred billion euros to shore up its struggling banks and becomes therefore the largest economy to seek aid so far this plan led spain avoid additional cuts imposed from the outside ever the cases of greece ireland and portugal. also boosting trade and tackling the crisis in the middle east eurasia two biggest countries have cemented their partnership over the last seven days as russian president vladimir putin visited china. syria's drawn out conflict leaving neighboring lebanon

suffering some of the fallout next than the lebanese interior minister talks to us and tells us why the violence won't stop at their borders. well again a swell of the lebanon is affected by internal tensions and we do not conflict or decisions related to security issues are made outside and i've been in my other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon and. lebanon security doesn't depend on lebanon alone politically and in terms of security lebanon depends on external factors as well the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states. hello dana is there an alternative to external influence the corner on the has to be an alternative even small.