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 commission human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive 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 genitally saw a rush to take up arms over the course of the war and see exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia you have a un in korea that was severely bullied by the us ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a google map programs occur of innocent civilians by government troops serving it was lame presented with ultimatum and rambling games and bombed 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 an e.u. team has never been made public interestingly enough about the 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 agents of mido in the course or basically training on i don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but definitely the only training the k.l.a. could have ever given 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 alliance is

a stripes in libya last year history isn't being prevented from repeating itself again and again where the seven images coming from syria in making the 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. and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. refinishing r t reports in from syria . meanwhile moscow stepping up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria once the international contact group to persuade damascus and the rebels to hold. 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 alone is not to blame for everything we see massacres in houla terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the un security council all this is the 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 today kurdish activist as its new leader. it is thought to be trying to help in lismore 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 the united states has been very clear from the outset really of the activity in syria that they want to see assad gone they have geopolitical reasons for that particularly the relationship with iran the u.s. has been intervening since this uprising quote unquote began these are clearly professional soldiers that are conducting these operations these are not protesters that decided to grab some rocks or maybe a pistol because of the response of the state to their protests this is an army that was placed there either emigres from syria or just foreign nationals gente generally 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 to ask for help president meet it 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 in 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 question is a fact of medicine given the euro's future as a currency. all of the politicians have basically left the people stranded they need government in spain and went into not almost from the law and they came into office and six months later they suddenly realized well if anybody who was remotely financially. it 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 being like mechanisms

are not going to work and that's why ultimately it's very difficult to see tragically whether or not there really is a future to the euro was a currency the greeks when you talk to them on one side they don't want austerity and they don't really think they should have to pay their bills for the deaths that have been grown by the government over the years at the same time they think they should be in the euro it's automatically a little bit like going out and 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 starkly 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 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 some cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to was twenty points or fifty point whatever you spend we would change it. but you can go and spend cross the road. or go for a drink at the town it. means all the money. 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 definitely a lot of people coming from from. that are on from people from the. us have a complication months women. that are. out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under a mattress is 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 is still all too evident the main street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of

premises empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and biggest cities throughout 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. yes it's not just told us towns the whole country is 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 pipe the sales tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation so keep it 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 you looking back for its future nora smith r.t. closeness and. the french accosting their votes for

a new parliament with polls suggesting the outcome will favor recently elected president francois hollande it could be the socialist first parliamentary majority in a decade there really control the senate alondra defeated nicolas sarkozy last month as promised reforms to cut joblessness and revive a stagnant economy suckers he also faced in his day criticism for his aggressive foreign policies to which is success as vowed to change french journalist robert hunter 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 far swallow on so campaign says very little about on policy because the french elect are all that interested but right at the end the very last words are i'm in farm elected i will work to make sure that nature to its original row as a defensive alliance that me that could mean two things it first of all is he's trailing his coat he's making a signal to the communists and on the go if he's elected he will be

for the americans and nato and so he could mean he really means that and that's what he wants to do but it's very very difficult to say at the moment but he's going to be less ostensibly. the reality. whilst america has its huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to go very far in the american arms watching r t is a good company still ahead this hour thousands of egyptians are furious holes in the barrier wasn't sentenced to death as the former president is now said to be in a critical condition. the next he raises to because countries have cemented their partnership this past week russian president vladimir putin visited china and hunt for the business deals was signed but apart from ensuring the trade flourishing moscow beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle as well as us ski 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 three 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 on we can know the points 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 summer by some that are again countries and from thailand the russians 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 time its position on the series or its more responsible and design to prominent on the final set was a. sea of red presents and put he's pledged to boost their already strong military ties certainly pleased beijing. in light of us made to 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 unpredicted rates 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 most of the war in korea vietnam the united states has fought many many battles and 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. 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 quite 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 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 decades 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 checking out a few stories you got online should our t.v. or commissar afternoon disputable defense take of this when the british government facing questions of a wise security firm acute of human rights abuses in the west bank has been hired for the london olympics is an interesting story is just reading through south or online at 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. dog. 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 drawn 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 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 out of the first journalist a bill or i'm told is people a furious that the lack of positive. seems that the and going to reach. led to people missing and massive beyond the square last year and beginning are. very much seen again on the streets of not only cairo and the square in particular but across the country as a home with all the demonstrations who are organizing and when they're ready could

and 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 appointed and. execution over his lack of ability to protect the law for nine hundred thousand demonstrators in last year's uprising and most crucially the world's a 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 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 homes

untold insoles military seem more heroic than really years and never wrong and always good at this present false image of 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 protesters breaking the law can be fined up to forty five thousand euros and even face several years in jail 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 citizens. some world news in brief now gunmen have opened fire on a church in northeast nigeria it killed a woman and wounded several others in a separate instance to

a suicide bomber blew himself up outside another church in the central part of the country that blast left to worship is dead and over forty injured there is no immediate claimed responsibility but the radicals say boko haram has 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 around the smuggling of weapons in libya has intensified after last year's uprising and the death of former leader daffy. tear gas and pepper sprays been used against protesters in canada as hundreds marched in montreal rather doesn't demonstrators were arrested after clashes with police there people took to the streets as part of protests against. rising costs of a university education as well as the city's hosting the grand prix race students been protesting for months now demanding to issue in fee free seats. 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 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 feel the trial won't be fair though as the government's withholding documents believed relevant to manning's defense campaigner zach president witnessed those 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 whistle blows lie broadly amount of hugely damaging the image of the u.s. helping to repair the reputation hollywood blockbusters which often promote them and show the. kind of coverage means the pentagon's even ready to leak classified information those who do the coaching of. 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 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 what it serves them to do so one of those with what was written 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 bigelow project regarding seal team six takedown of ben law last year at this time the film in question which is titled as zero dark thirty covers last year's raid by u.s. commandos on the pakistani compound where some of bin laden was hiding the conservative watchdog judicial watch has obtained records revealing that hollywood filmmakers were given access to 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 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 the ends lends to sugarcoat its actions and attract millions of potential recruits in recent months to other movies about the navy seals survivor and act of valor how for sift 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. are seeing hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows that have been sanitized by the military and to make the military seem more iraq than it really is and never wrong and always good that this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while. it will get. others to project patrick to some and propaganda on to the silver screen you know question r.t. reporting from las 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 under two minutes in fact.

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china. to a europe in asia travels to russia's urals region for a mix of. joy. the region is one of those places that offers something for everyone sitting just east of the urals the country's border between europe and asia this is an ethnically diverse area of more than three million people there's a bustling capital city to enjoy for the nature lovers some of russia's most stunning countryside is right on your doorstep. as well as being very beautiful this is also a very significant part of the screen because over there it marks the start of the european ural mountains and also we're on top of of one.