violent clashes persist in syria as the u.n. admits the peace plan is being broken by both sides on moscow's stepped up efforts to find a diplomatic solution. one hundred twenty and euros a bailout madrid finally admits it cannot save its believe it banks on its own become the largest economy so far to seek aid from the eurozone. also boosting trade and tackling the crisis in the middle east russia and china strengthen their partnership as president vladimir putin visits beijing.

to look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. u.n. observers in syria are continuing efforts to determine how many people were massacred in hama province on wednesday and who was behind the slaughter top u.n. officials admit the peace plan is being flouted by both sides of the conflict dozens of reportedly been killed across the country over the weekend while foreign calls for intervention being ramped up as reports. 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 worry in sense of deja vu just weeks before another 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 the assad 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 judgments saw a rush to take up arms but because of the war and. exactly what happened when i would have a massacre which was the villages. that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground the claims that it was a. massacre of innocent civilians by government troops serving it was when presented with ultimatum and. 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 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. . has never been made public interesting we know about we have been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are. with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army people who were basically the agents of new york. or. basically training i don't know they were saying they were training in the marsian human rights but the only training that could have ever given anybody is how do. you war

. what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia ruin the alliances these tribes in libya last year history isn't been prevented from repeating itself again and again with this seven images coming from syria and making world headlines everybody agreed those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so sweet and so called donated the result 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. for a financial i r t reporting from syria. meanwhile moscow is stepping up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria it wants an international contact group to persuade damascus and the rebels to halt violence and begin talks but russia says some external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting despite kofi annan peace plan. you know 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 confrontations 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 as its new leader abdel baset side has urged mass defections from the regime and pledged support for the free syrian army fighting against president assad which could allow the rebels to gain further ground antiwar activist don de bar says 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 turkey 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 struggling euro zone has been dealt a fresh blow spain has become the largest economy so far to ask for help as admitted 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 the money however this plan let spain avoid committing to additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the case of greece and in the portugal the spanish prime minister has praised the loan as a victory for the single currency is credibility but 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 the nile 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 and two years ago even spanish banks are boss and ultimately there needs to be a way in order to manage to rescue 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 as 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 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. and now the fact madrid is getting that huge turned out with no sturton strings attached has led to calls in dublin for it to renegotiate its bailout deal but one smaller is town isn't waiting for the government to sort things out as all smith reports people they're looking back to help move forwards. it's a blast from the past as this customer uses the irish punt to pay for some everyday purchases in the town of 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 point whatever you spend or fifty points whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone as tone voters which you can then go and spend crossroads super

value on the create note or go for a drink up the town 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 punts 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 phantom spend their functions on us as a complication months women can ask of him in their phone out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million puns tucked away in draws and under mattresses forgotten about ok to souvenirs when arlen joined the euro a decade ago they're no longer legal tender but would have a value of around two hundred forty million euros just a fraction of which would make a massive difference in crisis hit close the permit scheme has undoubtedly boosted

the local economy but the ravages of the economic crash are still all too evident the main street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of premises empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and bigger cities throughout our land austerity here means business people are being hit with a variety of taxes and levies making it harder and harder to stay afloat let alone . turn a profit it's not just told the stones the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common and shortly new household charge which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back to the point isn't a political statement it's a survival tactic and as the face of the euro hangs in the balance clueless may not

be alone in looking back for its future nora smith r.t. ireland. polls have closed in france's people of course their votes for the new parliament early figures suggest the outcome will favor recently elected socialist president francois hollande his party already controls the senate doesn't she's and so what what is voter turnout been like then. well terms of voter turnout is not in that but it was projected to be quite low about forty percent but the actual numbers we have for about five pm local time is forty eight point three percent but i think what's more interesting now that the numbers initial estimates of come out at eight pm local is the actual results you have the aggregate of the left now getting forty seven point one percent then you have the right thirty five point four. party was trying to get seats in parliament for the first time since the one nine hundred eighty s. will they have thirteen point four percent so that is a victory for her in this sense and you still have forty two point nine percent

that will go on to the second round those will be votes candidates that are guarded about zero point five percent of the votes are they going to go for the second round for france or law what he really wants is an absolute majority if not an absolute majority of all the socialist party getting more than fifty percent that would be a majority of the left at least he would support his policies the things that he wants to get through again the voter turnout this shows that the french people are still very much interested in what they want to see the change would be a go to but let's remember that during the presidential election the people would come and voted for socialist francois long they had voted for change in as much as they didn't want sarkozy anymore so symbolically this is a test of sarkozy's sort of along its ability to get the support from the french people because not all of them voted for him per se but. give us an idea what kind of problems the french socialist could run into. it certainly will if he

doesn't get the majority essentially you will have a president who is on the left and you will have a parliamentary that is on the right right now before this elections it was the conservatives that was had the majority in the lower house and this will certainly pose problems into passing new laws that he wants to get into place such as his proposal to add sixty thousand new jobs in education sector or tax the rich by as much as seventy five percent of the conservatives if they get the majority again will not want to pass that through and on a europe wide scale this was certainly present another problem you have for so long it was complaining on his anti austerity more growth measures and getting faster out of the crisis and then if he doesn't get if he doesn't get the support of the lower house he will not be able to go on this path certainly the conservatives are going to be more for this asserting measures now we see spain in trouble and use and it might trickle down into france and if the french people get even more sturdy passed on to them they're certainly not going to be happy about in france where

a lot just in the beginning of a storm does not want to see support lessening for the socialist party and if the socialist party does get the majority france will in fact be a left country a socialist country in the midst of the whole europe that is going through a very conservative right. lead out of the crisis thanks very much indeed for that live update in paris cecilia. you're with a weekly this is coming to you live from moscow with you twenty four hours a day still ahead this hour thousands of egyptians are furious hosni mubarak was sentenced to death the former president is now said to be in critical condition. that's still to come but first your asia's two biggest countries have cemented their partnership this week as russian president vladimir putin visited china for the business deals with him but apart from ensuring that trade is flourishing moscow and beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle next year fifty 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 two years ago china became russia's largest street 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. and 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 harpy in some difference as a patron russia china why some that are up in countries from thailand the russia prospect have the key solution lysine. the presentation and that's planned rather than lies and whether or not we see the poverty the existing government that

is now the committee so i think russian the chinese position on syria still is a small responsible and designed to have prominent on the final solution see where prices and putin splendid to boost their already strong military ties so to be pleased beijing in light of us need 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 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 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 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 u.s. is ition which i think is understandable coming from moscow and beijing and i think what the u.s. i think does and to some degree the u.s. with europe with western europe does you know does seem to be coming don't quite strongly in the middle east. as the. russians and the chinese you know have their interest too which are not necessary congruent 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 three day visit all but confirmed 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 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 dot com online at the moment disputable defense 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 london olympics. and somali islamists wanted in the u.s. for the thirty three million dollars party have come up with a counter proposal offering ten camels for president barack obama get the full story on that. the health of egypt's former

president hosni mubarak has reportedly worsened he's currently serving life in a current prison where he said to be in slipping in and out of consciousness thousands of people are being drawn to tell his square this week angry at the verdict in the barracks 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 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. as journalists will be there and ali says people are furious at the lack of positive change it seems that the anger which. led to people massing and massive beyond the square last year and the beginning of the uprising. very much seen again on the streets of not only cairo and to square in particular but across the country as a whole with other demonstrations who were organized and wondered. could al but

also war demonstrations across the country in the days leading to the second round of elections so the end 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 protect and a lot of nine hundred thousand demonstrators in last year's uprising and more crucially the world's the six top aides in the wiring regime which were acquitted and that is an indication as far as egyptians are concerned that although the head has been removed the body just structure of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. tens of thousands of people gathered in georgia's second largest city of cordy's sea in support of one of the country's major coalition groups the georgian dream party has been set up by

a local billionaire and is expected to provide the main challenge to the ruling party of president mikheil saakashvili ahead of elections later this year director of the eurasia democracy initiative peter these are my i spoke to a little earlier here in r.t. he says if history is only go by the government's response to the rallies may not be a peaceful one. no the opposition has criticized increasing. and unfortunately very sure has not gotten enough traction among voters actually this government has to do with opposition protesters quite harshly and one particularly brutal crackdown if you remember occurred in two thousand and seven ironically the fourth anniversary of the rose revolution the opposition sticks to peaceful methods and have so far so government will not have. to crack down and it will have to rely. on. the ministrations maybe deny media coverage to the opposition. and i also believe it is still quite

assured. the weekly here in r.t. 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. the first demonstrators breaking the protest regulations in russia will now 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 save a million man march scuffles broke out at the last large anti-government rally in may which activists state several citizens. take chew on other world news in brief and update the government of open 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 for worship is dead and over forty injured there is no immediate claim of responsibility but the radical sect boko haram has repeated. 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 in 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. from a kenyan vice president has been killed with five other people in a helicopter crash near nairobi georgian side thirty was serving as the country's internal security minister and plan to run for the presidency next year it burst into flames as it hit the ground police are investigating the cause of the accident . to gas and pepper spray being used against protesters in canada as hundreds

marched in montreal around a dozen demonstrators were arrested after the clashes with police people took to the streets as part of protests against the rising costs of a university education as well as the city's hosting of a grand prix race students have been protesting for months demanding the tuition fee freeze. 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 whistle blowing web site wiki leaks manning's lawrence fear the trial will be further as the government's with holding documents believed relevant to manning's defense campaign as president to witness the 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. in a few minutes we'll be asking the lebanese in terminus town why the syrian conflict is spilling over the country's borders that's in our special into before you will be after an update some of our top stories this hour it's the weekly live stay with us.

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