because 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 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 cost of war and see exactly what happened in our vision of a massacre which was the village of russia you had a u.n. inquiry that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a brutal massacre or as a group innocent civilians by government troops serving with blame presented with ultimatum and ramble again and bumped 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. team 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 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 caylee could have ever given anybody is how do you figure massacre in your state of war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia . ruling the alliance has

a stripes in libya last year history isn't been prevented from repeating itself again and again clear 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 cardin ated the risk is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible rex pace and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. for a financial our t. reported from syria. meanwhile moscow stepping up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria it wants an 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 kofi annan peace plan. when we hear reports of another massacre in syria and currently we see such atrocities almost daily as many international media outlets

place the blame entirely under massacres 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 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's 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 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 how basically left the people stranded the need government in spain went into denial mode from the little they came into office and six months later they suddenly realized anybody who was remotely financially literate could work. to go two years ago even spanish banks are lost 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 was a currency the greeks when you talk to the one side they don't want austerity and they don't really say 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 handout 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 ireland 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 clore 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 has turned voters which you can then go and spend crossroad unsupervised you are in the clear or go for a drink up the tone it's it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money remains in the tug 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 a lot of people come from from fast especially around from people from the phantoms down the functions on us out of obligation mountain. pay me and that if i want to get 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. yes it's not just told the stones the whole country has suffered with stereotype 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 nor is smith r.t. cloners island polls have closed in france's people of course their votes for the

new parliament figures suggest the outcome will favor recently elected socialist president francois hollande his party already controls the senate doesn't she's in paris so what is voter turnout been like then. well terms of voter turnouts not been bad but it was projected to be quite low about forty percent but the actual numbers we had 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 who 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 for a lot of 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 changes they had voted but let's remember that during the presidential election that people would come and voted for socialist upfront so long they had voted for change in a smart as they didn't want anymore so symbolically this is a test of some sort of along the ability to get 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 on a europe wide scale this was certainly present another problem you have a lot of 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 study measures now we see spain in trouble and you see my trickle down into france and if the french people get even more steady passant of 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 lesson for the socialist party and if the socialist party does get a 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 texas ilya. 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 also 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 or so on but apart from ensuring that trade is flourishing moscow and beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle next year to shift the reports from the chinese capital. who could have thought half a century ago when china and russia cost 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 the security cooperation in russia and china the parallels. become other forms of cooperation china needs and how 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 why some that are again 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. existing government that is now the committee so i think russia and the chinese position are serious or a small responsible design to prominent on the final solution. see

references and putin splits to boost their already strong military ties so to be pleased beijing in light of us need to wargames 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 has fought 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 you know

don't want to see and over overly domineering us 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 down strongly in the middle east. as the. russians and the chinese you know have their interest which and honestly congruent with those of europe or the 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 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 about 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 at r.t. dot com. 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 slipping in and out of consciousness thousands

of people have been 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 but 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. journalist may be the run down he says people are furious at the lack of positive change. it seems that the anger which. led to people massing and massive beyond the here square last year beginning of the uprising and it's 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 when their verdicts could al but also war demonstrations planned across the country in the days leading to

the second round of elections so the am 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 the life and nine hundred or so demonstrators in last year's uprising more 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 regime is still very much in place. tens of thousands of people are gathered in georgia's second largest city of could easy in support of one of the country's major coalition groups the georgian green party has been set up by 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 democracy initiative peter i spoke to

a little earlier here in r.t. he says if history is that going to go by the government's response to the rallies may not be a peaceful one. no the opposition has criticized increasing tactics and unfortunately very sure has not gotten enough traction among voters actually the government has to do with opposition protests 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 its peaceful methods and has so far so good she was government will not have a good enough excuse to crackdown and it will have to rely. on the. demonstrations maybe deny media coverage to be opposition. i also believe it is still quite assured. in. 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 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 stage a million man march scuffles broke out at the last large anti-government rally in may which activists state several citizens. take you on the other world news in brief an 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 four wash it was dead in 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. the former 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 or 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 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 an hour special into before you will be off to an update some of our top stories this hour it's the weekly live stay with us.

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to have you with this is the second the russian capital top stories now deadly clashes in syria as u.n. officials admit the envoy's peace plan is being broken on both sides dozens have reportedly been killed across the country of the weekend while foreign calls for intervention being ramped up. at madrid also the eurozone for one hundred billion euros to shore up its struggling banks and becomes the largest economy to seek aid so far this plan that spain avoid additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the cases of greece and portugal and also boosting trade and tackling the crisis in the middle east eurasia as two biggest countries have cemented their

partnership this week russian president vladimir putin visited china. that's what is for the moment here now syria's drawn out conflict is leaving neighboring lebanon suffering some of the fallout and next the lebanese interior minister tells us why the violence won't be confined to its borders that's especially next week. well again. lebanon is affected by internal tensions and we do not conflict or decisions related to security issues are made outside by other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon when. lebanon security doesn't depend on lebanon alone politically and in terms of security lebanon depends on external factors as well that the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states.