for 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 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 far to see where hasty judgments saw a rush to take up arms but the cause of the war and nine it's exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of archer you have a u.n. inquiry that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador was leading your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a brutal murder of her innocent civilians by government troops serving it was when presented with ultimatum and ramble again and bumped back than the yugoslavian government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the ban in separatists from the kosovo liberation army an

investigation was launched to find out whether the victims were innocent civilians as the international community claimed or whether the country's army had been battling professional fighters two out of three forensic inquiries proved most of the casualties died in combat the third report by an e.u. team has never been made public interesting we know about the we have been reports of syrian rebels who are 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 treading on i don't know they were saying they were training in the marsian human rights but definitely the only training that the caylee could have ever given anybody is how to figure massacre in or stage a war and i believe let's see exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia all ruin the alliances the strikes in libya last year history isn't. been prevented from repeating itself again and again with

this seven images coming from syria and making world headlines everybody agrees there is who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so sweet and so cardin ated the risk is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible wrecks and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. grace nor should our 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 halt violence and begin talks but russia says some external players of 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 with 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 a result of confrontation that are getting more and more support from abroad first of all moral support for the so-called armed opposition which is being supplied with money weapons and bolstered by militants from neighboring countries. the syrian opposition group in exile has elected a kurdish activist and its new leader abdel baset sighter has pledged support for the free syrian army fighting against president assad which could allow the rebels to gain further ground political analysts she says the eagerness of the opposition and its international back is to blame a sad for the killings shows their real aim 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 trail will go 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 has been dealt a fresh blows spain has become the largest economy so far to ask for help as it admitting it needs one hundred billion euros to prop up its beleaguered banks the cash will be fed directly to a special fund 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 minister has praised the vote was a victory for the single currency is credibility and investment advisor patrick young has questioned its effectiveness and even the euro's future as a currency. all of the politicians have basically left the people stranded the new government and went into that and i almost died 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 and 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 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 the one side they don't want austerity and

they don't really think they should have to pay their bills for the debts that have been grown by the government over the years the sea entirely saying they should be in the euro it's automatically a little bit like going out and calling a group of your two year old children no matter 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 another fact madrid is getting that huge turned out with no austerity strings attached has led to calls in dublin for it to renegotiate its bailout deal but one small irish town isn't waiting for the government to sort things out as grossmith 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 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 pounds whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone his tone voters which you can spend cross the road and super value on the create note or go for a drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the time it means all the money remains within the town as for the euro here it's been reduced to a novelty item printed on tissues and toilet paper and customers come from miles around to spend their points often stopping by for a haircut while they're here oh yeah

a lot of people come from from about fast especially around from people from no phantoms found their aunts and so on us have a complication mountain. that i want to clear out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million tucked away in draws and under mattresses forgotten about talk to souvenirs when ireland joined the euro a decade ago they're no longer legal tender but would have a value of around two hundred forty million euro's 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 there may. street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of primus 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 a profit it's not just told the sun as the whole country has suffered with the 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 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 nora smith. island. the french are casting their votes for a new parliament with polls suggesting the outcome will favor recently elected president francois hollande it would be the socialist first parliamentary majority in a decade they were already control of the senate on and defeated nicolas sarkozy last month has promised reforms to cut unemployment and revive

a stagnant economy sarkozy had also faced criticism for his aggressive foreign policies which is successor has vowed to change french affairs journalist robert honeys says the main election intrigue is when it will and will be able to break free of the hold of nato and the us. if you look at the past well known so campaign says very little about our coliseum because the french elector are not interested but 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 it first of all he's trailing his coat he's he's making a signal to the communists and all of the good if he's elected he won't be for the americans and nato he could mean he really needs 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 pro nato the reality though is that whilst america has its huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to go very far in the american arms. here with r.t. this is the weekly here in moscow still ahead for you this hour thousands of egyptians a furious hosni mubarak was sentenced to death as the former president is now said to be in critical condition. and another deadly nato bombing of civilians in rages the afghan president's with an ultimatum delivered to the military alliances forces the details on those stories in a few minutes. but first year asia's two biggest countries have cemented their partnership this week as russian president vladimir putin visited china for the business deals were signed but apart from ensuring that trade is flourishing moscow and beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle and the reports from the chinese capital. who could have thought half

a century ago when china and russia clashed over disputed territory that in twenty twelfth russia's president would be greeted by a red carpet in beijing during a lavish state visit. where we know that you 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. and other forms of cooperation china needs an hour like russia or putin and hu jintao as alliance was reconfirmed by their unified stance on middle east issues in particular the syrian conflict that hard penis. difference as a patron russia china and a subway some that are up in countries from thailand the russia prospect a of the key solution lies seeing. the presentation by and that's planned rather than lies and whether or not we see the poverty in. the existing government

that is now the committee so i think russia and china's position on syria so it's a more responsible and design to have prominent on the final solution to the references and putin splits to. boost their already strong military ties so to be pleased beijing in light of u.s. made to war games in the region and the recent tour of the us defense secretary through 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 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 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 enormously congruent with those of us 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 concerned that the countries have kickstarted. 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. reporting from beijing in china. by the way always more news analysis and pictures on our website r.t. dot com at the moment disputable the fence the british government is facing questions over why a security firm accused of human rights abuses in the west bank has been hard for the olympics. and somali islamists wanted in the u.s. with a thirty three million dollars have come up with a culture proposal offering ten camels for president barack obama get the full story and our team will call. the health of egypt's former president

hosni mubarak has reportedly worsened he's currently serving life in a car a prison where he said to be slipping in and out of consciousness thousands of people have been drawn to tell his square this 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 there also angry that his former prime minister has 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 or of a journalist in the future and ali says people are furious at the lack of positive change. it seems that the anger. led to people massing and lasted beyond mere square last year beginning of the. scene 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. could al but

also more demonstrations across the country in the days leading to the second round of elections so weak and anger at the mubarak administration in general is still very much there and it's. i reckon that many things first of all the fact that mubarak himself avoided execution or his lack of good brilliantly to protect him the one nine hundred also demonstrated in last year's uprising more crucially the six top aides in the wire regime which were acquitted and that is an indication as far as egyptians are concerned there's although the hairs has been removed the body destruction of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. this is the weekly here in moscow just ahead for you this hour promoting patriotism on the silver screen. hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows and military seem more

heroic than really years and never wrong and always good but this creates a false image in the american people's mind when it comes to the u.s. army's damage reputation hollywood comes to the rescue of a little help from the pentagon. demonstrators breaking the protest regulations here in russia would have to pay seven thousand euros or do up to two hundred hours of community service president putin stressed the new rally law is in line with european standards in france for example protestors breaking the law can be fined up to forty five thousand euros 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 scuffles broke out at the last large anti-government rally in may after which activists state several unsanctioned citizens. today's world news in brief the gunman opened fire in a church in northeast nigeria killing a woman and wounding several other people in a separate incident a suicide bomber blew himself up outside another church in the central part of the

country the blast left to worship is dead and over forty injured there is no immediate claim of responsibility but the radical sect because iran has repeatedly targeted churches in the past. the second day of fighting between libyan soldiers and tribesmen has seen thirteen people killed in violence erupted on saturday in the volatile region near libya's borders with chad and sudan longstanding rivalries and the smuggling of weapons in libya have intensified following last year's uprising and the death of former leader moammar gadhafi. a former 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 plan to run for the presidency next year aircraft burst into flames as it hit the ground the police are investigating the cause of the accident. and tens of thousands of people are gathered in georgia second largest city of could easy in support of one of the country's major coalition

groups the georgian dream party has been set up by a local billionaire and the main challenger to president mikhail saakashvili the party's previous gathering in the capital tbilisi two weeks ago attracted around one hundred thousand people 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 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 analyst says the military alliance has no one but itself to blame for the hostility it's getting from afghans. 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 or 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 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. army has been hugely damaged lately by overseas campaigns and revelations of the ways these rules a wage helping to repair that reputation a hollywood blockbuster which often promotes patriotism and show the military and a hero's life well that kind of coverage means the pentagon is even ready to leak classified information but in a question of reports. from a former cia officer who questioned waterboarding to suspected we can take small bradley manning the obama administration has waged an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under

a spanish laws than old previous administrations combined but it seems one man snitch is another man's spin doctor the problem with the current situation with the current white house is they have leaked classified information several times what its source if there is one of those with what was with the book obama's wars done by bob woodward or they played out two chapters of information about current operations and also with the catholic bigelow project regarding seal team six taken out of the water 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 pentagon wants the end plans to sugarcoat its actions and attract millions of potential recruits in recent months to other movies about the navy seabees long survivor and act of valor how for 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 military seem more heroic than a really is and never wrong and always good that this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while for some it's will get trapped others carry to project patrick to some and propaganda on to the silver screen my integration archie reporting from los angeles california well that's the way it is

for the moment in a few minutes from now the syrian information minister tells r.t. that apart from an anti government uprising damascus has to resist offensive as well more about that after i've updated the headlines for you next live from.

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these food stocks on t.v. dot com. this is the weekly here on top stories now deadly clashes in syria as u.n. officials admit their envoys peace plan has been broken on both sides dozens have reportedly been killed across the country over the weekend while foreign calls for intervention being ramped up. madrid also eurozone four hundred billion euros to shore up its struggling banks and becomes the largest economy to seagate so far this plan that spain avoid additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the case of police on an unfortunate. also boosting trade in tackling the crisis in the middle east here asia's two biggest countries have cemented their partnership this week as russian president vladimir putin visited china. as well as

violence on the ground in syria damascus has been fighting an information war with the country's unrest laid bare on t.v. well next here on r.t. syria's minister of information explains why there's often more to the coverage than meets the eye. now that it and that's the arab league council has asked satellite operators are upside. down the bro cast of sirius satellite channels what do you think about this decision. this decision is an attack on free media and freedom of expression it's an attack on syrian media with the purpose is to hide the truth about what is really going on in syria from people both inside and outside the country this is part of the smear campaign launched by certain satellite channels and supported by the gulf nations behind the decision contradicts fundamental.