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 louder. spanish anguish madrid asked the eurozone for one hundred billion euros now to shore up its struggling banks and therefore 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 a round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin zero in this hour and first u.n. observers in syria continuing efforts to try to determine how many people were massacred in hama province on wednesday and indeed who was behind that 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 while foreign calls for intervention are being ramped up to. a report. duquesne body is lain side by side we mean children among them death was indiscriminate and bloody the pictures from syria this week have brought shock around the globe and also a worrying 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 obviously 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 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 yet claims that it was a program of her innocent civilians by government troops certainly with blame presented with ultimatum and game and bombed back then the yugoslavian government just like

the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming of benon 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 but what about. the reports of syrian rebels whoever they are liaising with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army people who were basically agents of mido in the course or. basically training on my own no they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but definitely the only training that caylee 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 board we know you can slavia will ruin the alliances are you stripes in libya last year history isn't been prevented from repeating itself again and again with this seven images coming from syria and make it 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 donated the reason is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible are exposed and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. or if not an r t reporting from syria . we want moscow stepping up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria was the international contact group to persuade damascus and the rebels to hold violence and begin talks but russia says some external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting despite

coffee announce a peace plan. in the studio 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 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 syrian opposition group in exile selected a kurdish activist as its new leader. it is thought to be trying to help in this more kurds to their ranks which have previously been accused of being dominated by islamists and they were activist on the told us the rebels will not sign up for a peaceful outcome as long as they have 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 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 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 big story today the struggling eurozone has been dealt a fresh blow spain has become the largest economy so far the ask for help president meet it needs one hundred billion euros to problem its beleaguered banks the cash will be fed directly to a special fund with madrid ultimately responsible for the money. this plan let spain avoid committing to additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened to the case of greece on imports equal the spanish prime ministers praised the loan as a victory for the single currency is credibility but investment advisor patrick questioned its effectiveness and given the euro's function as a currency. all of the politicians basically left the people stranded the new government and 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 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 the but the conventional belike 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 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 silently does not function as one thought of patrick young there are now the five hundred is getting a huge hand there with no austerity strings attached has led to calls in dublin for it to negotiate it's a bailout deal a different way but one small irish town is waiting for the government to sort things out as there are 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 island 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 the change of tone this time voters which you can then go

and spend cross the road and super value on the credit 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 belfast especially around from people from no phantom spend their aunts and so on us have a complication mountain men can hash. 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 is still all too evident the main street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of premise is empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and biggest cities throughout. 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 starting measures with the. new water charges which are common and shortly you household charge which which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent of the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back to the point isn't a political statement it's a survival tactic and as the face of the euro hangs in the balance clueless may not

be alone in looking back for its future nora smith r.t. closest island. the french a casting their votes for a new parliament with polls suggesting the outcome will favor recently elected president francois learned he could be the socialist first parliamentary majority in a decade there really control the senate well and who defeated nicolas sarkozy last month as promised reforms to cut joblessness and revive a stagnant economy sarkozy also faces in his day criticism for his aggressive foreign policies to which is success as about to change french first journalist says the main election intrigue goes well and will be able to break free of the hold of nato and the us. if you look at france won't so. says very little about on policy because the french elector are more interested but right at the end the very last words of an informal elected i will work to make sure the nature of the regional row and. say defensive alliance well that mean that

could mean two things the first of all is he's trailing his coat he's making a signal to the communists and on there goes that if he's elected he wrote be a pussycat for the americans and nato he could mean that he really means that that's what he wants to do because very very difficult to say at the moment but he's going to be less ostensibly prone to the reality whilst america house its huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to go very far in the american arms are you watching r t is good company still ahead this hour thousands of egyptians are furious holes in the barracks wasn't sentenced to death as the former president snow said to be in a critical condition. next year asia's two biggest countries have cemented their partnership this past week russian president vladimir putin visited china handful of business deals was signed but apart from ensuring the trade flourishing moscow

beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle as well not is a luxury jet 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 trade 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. 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 some difference as a patron russia china and some by some that are up in countries and from china and the russians prospect have the key solution lysine. the implementation

and that's plan rather than lies and what about the poverty. the existing government that is now the committee so i think russia and the chinese position on a serious or a small responsible and design shoot prominent on the final solution to the presence and to boost their already strong military ties so to be pleased beijing in light of u.s. 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 end predicted rate the united states invaded the philippines in one thousand nine hundred in one thousand eight hundred and 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 is for 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

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 and over overly domineering us is ition which i think is understandable coming from moscow and beijing and i think what the us i think does and to some degree the us with europe with western europe does you know does seem to become you don't quite strongly in the middle east and in so far as the. russians and the chinese you know have their interest which and honestly congress 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 putin story day visit over concerns 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 dog good the algebra by the time the soviet union collapsed these sentiments were long gone 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. let's see reporting from beijing in china just check out a few stories you got online should our t.v. or commissar afternoon disputable defense take of this one the british government facing questions of a wire security firm acute of human rights abuses in the west bank has been hired for the london olympics is an interesting story it's just we can throw herself there online and r.t. dot com and somali is less wanted in the u.s. with a thirty three million dollars bounty of come up with

a counter proposal offering ten candles for president barack obama won an award will find it at r.t. dot com. the health of egypt's former president hosni mubarak has 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 trolled to tahrir square this last week angry at the verdict to mubarak's recent trial they're demanding the death sentence for his role in killing hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising there 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 out of the first journalist a bill or i'm told is people a furious that the lack of positive change. seems to be and going to reach. lead to people missing and lasted beyond mere square last year and the beginning of the uprising and then much seen again on the streets of not only cairo and the square

in particular but across the country as a home of the demonstrations who were organized and when ready 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 administration in general is still very much there and it's directed at many things first of all the fact that mubarak himself avoided execution over his lack of ability to. protected the one hundred 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 it's all their heads has been removed the body destruction of the mubarak regime is still very much in place just ahead for you trial and error as america's most famous army whistleblower

bradley manning appears in court his supporters say the prosecutors have got something to hide we report on that and this to. hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows and military seem more heroic than a real years i'm never wrong and always good but the streets of boston region 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 from now on have to pay seven thousand euros all due up to two hundred hours of community service president putin stressed the new rally laws in line with european standards in france for example protestors breaking the law there can be fined up to forty five thousand euros and even face several years in jail and you'll all be put to the test next tuesday too when the opposition plans to stage a million man march scuffles broke out of the last large anti-government rally in may after which activists staged several sanctioned cities. to world news in brief

now gunmen have opened fire on a church in northeast nigeria it's killed a woman and wounded several others and in a separate instant a suicide bomber blew himself up outside another church in the central part of the country that blast left to worshipers dead and over forty injured there is no immediate claim of responsibility but the radicals say. repeatedly targeted churches in the past. the second day of fighting between libyan soldiers and tribesmen seen thirteen killed in violence erupted on saturday in the volatile region near libya's borders with chad and sit down longstanding rivalries and the smuggling of weapons in libya has intensified after last year's uprising and the death of former leader daffy. to gas and pepper sprays been used against protesters in canada as hundreds marched in montreal or other dozen demonstrators were arrested after clashes with police there people took to the streets as part of protests against the rising costs of a university education as well as the city's hosting with graham pre-race students

been protesting for months now demanding to issue and fee freezing nights. before a kenyan vice president has been killed with six other people in a helicopter crash near nairobi george side thought he was serving as the country's internal security minister and he planned to run for the presidency next year as aircraft burst into flames as it hit the ground police are investigating the cause of the accident. 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 whistleblower web site wiki leaks manning's lawyers fear the trial won't be fair though as the government's withholding documents believed relevant to manning's defense campaigner zach president witnessed of 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 on the ability of the american people to know what their elected officials are doing the actions of bradley manning is hugely damaging the image of the u.s. helping to repair the reputation hollywood blockbusters which often promote show the. kind of coverage means the pentagon's 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 waste an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under a span ash was 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 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 seals long wire

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 in 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 first will get. others to project patrick tyson and propaganda on to the silver screen you know question archie reporting from los angeles california. and if you many saw t. takes you on a trip to russia's urals so often a travels very shortly after updating the headlines next live from moscow just

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