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 i am confident to predict that indeed it will remain fixed in people's minds and could well be used as a pretext and you don't have to look back to far to see where hasty jokingly so i rushed to take up arms at the cost of war and at ninety nine and what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of our truck you had a you were in korea that was severely bullied by the u.s. ambassador it was leaving your observation mission on the ground your claims that it was a progress occur of innocent civilians by government troops serving it with blame presented with ultimatum and ramble again and bombed back then the yugoslavian government just like the syrian one now condemned militants for the killings in this case blaming the benon separatists from the cost of

a liberation army an investigation was launched to find out whether the victims were innocent civilians as the international community claimed or whether the country's army had been battling professional fighters two out of three forensic inquiries proved most of the casualties died in combat the third report by an e.u. team has never been made public interestingly enough. 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 causal war basically treading on by i don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but definitely the only training that the k.l.a. could have ever given anybody is how do you figure massacre in order to stage a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia. 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 the world headlines everybody agreed those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so swift and so called donated the result 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. our t. reported from syria. while the syrian opposition group in exile has elected a kurdish activist as his new leader abdel basset has urged mass defections from the regime and pledge support for the free syrian army fighting against president assad which could allow the rebels to gain further ground let's get more on syria from asia times correspondent pesca joins me now from doha well syrian rebels appear to have stepped up their attacks and now with the newly elected leader of the syrian national council saying the group will be the political brains behind

the opposition we see in the movement becoming more organized. well this is what they hope but not necessarily this is what's going to happen see the who comes after. is a very shady character he has very good kurdish corrections of course so many connections as well good he is also trying to play to the christian answer the other white saying look if there is a government or rejean or we're not going to touch you nobody believes i mean sightseer in fact did jim brail at your position. it's a disgruntled matter in fact and they don't get along with each other in the air if you read it on the ground by people who are actually doing a lot of these killings in fact and these people they are worse than there is imported from libya but i believe qatar though where i am at the moment and this

is a good subject to be discussed here in qatar i can find anybody here who would discuss with me tranquilly what the qatari intelligence services are actually doing on the ground in syria but this is part of the qatari foreign policy they are financing and weaponized in the really hardcore arm of the syrian opposition and i'm not sure mr sieda the new ahead of the syrians or incisional council knows what's really going on the ground apart from those covert operations you're referring to what about the official calls for intervention and they seem to be getting allowed to donate and interesting to see that israel has now joined the chorus for some foreign foreign intervention saying let's do something along the lines of what we saw in libya but why would israel now start to change its opinion or at least get involved locally now sorry israel that's a very good question because i'm not sure even a lot of people in israel actually know them all tubes of deliver good mics because

until virtually yesterday they were saying out loud to the international community . maybe if the best thing in syria is the current status quo because we know how to deal with the devil that we know which is yesod family of course nobody knows what's going to be next if it's a syrian muslim brotherhood hardcore so we need to cassy islam is the government this is not a good thing for israel turkey the same thing turkey they have been playing a double game for months if anybody norms they had to meet them they have a command and control center now province and sudden turkey and these people are also weaponize ing the incursions of the syrian the defectors and militants across the turkish syrian border this has been going on for eight least eight to nine months now and now it's you know much more. i would say now we're reaching the point of a total conflagration this civil war until

a few months ago would be theoretically restricted to nourse in syria now it's threading it all in half now are you going to have more suicide bomber attacks in the mosque was itself which is the lebanese nation scenario the vietnamization scenario told all civil war he wants this it's impossible that the obama administration and so i'm alone in a in a france david cameron england and the turks in ankara want a civil war in syria because nobody knows what's going to happen next so therefore moscow's attempts to get a large grouping of international countries together. to come up with some sort of plan didn't do you think that really is scuppered it at the first sign of any interest in doing that what with this is the only possible rational adult solution for this problem but when you when you see people nowadays talking about.

people from the syrian adds resister council talking about an interim a foreign intervention outside of the e.u. when. so this means what this means on underneath all war all obviously it's going to be vetoed if it goes to the security council will be vetoed by russia and china and even all other of bric countries but if they come up with some sort of legal ease instruments which considering what's been happening in the city since the iraq war for instance is very easy to find we're going to have sooner or later any legal foreign intervention from some g.c.c. countries qatar where i am at the moment included durkee off course the u.s. leading from behind and probably france and britain that's well as you'd. imagine asia times correspondent basketball thanks very much indeed for your perspective on the developments there in syria talking to us live there from doha.

the struggling euro zone has been dealt a fresh blow spain has become the largest economy so far to ask for help as it 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 portugal the spanish prime minister has praised the loan as a victory for the single currency is credibility but investment advisor patrick young is question 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 denial mode from the wall and they came into office and six months later they suddenly realized what anybody who was remotely financially literate could work six months ago and two years ago even spanish banks are lost and ultimately there needs to be a way in order to manage to rescue them 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 the 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 i don't calling a group of your two year old children no matter that they may say that they realize they have to eat sensibly they're going to demand ice cream and jelly for their next meal and for every meal thereafter 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 sturdy 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 laura 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 point whatever you spend or fifty pounds whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone his tone voters which you can go and spend cross the road in super value on the korea or go for a drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the means all the money remains in 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 puts often stopping by for a haircut while they're here. a lot of people coming from cross border from fast especially our own from people from the phantoms and so on us have a complication mountain men can have shot him in the. 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 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 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 letting. turn a profit it's not just told us turns the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common and shortly you household charge which which came in this year will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent of the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back to the point isn't a political statement it's a survival tactic and as the face of the euro hangs in the balance clueless may not be alone in your king back for its future norris myth r.t. cloners island polls close in france as people cast their votes for the new parliament and if you can suggest in the outcome or favor

a recently elected socialist president for all and his party already controls the senate. is in paris. initial estimates have 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 from the. party who was trying to get seats in parliament for the first time since the one nine hundred eighty s. well 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 would be votes that candidates that have garnered about zero point five percent of the votes are going to go for the second run the for 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 but let's remember that during the presidential elections people would come and voted for socialist stuff on so long they had voted for change in a small because they didn't want any more so in a simple symbolically this is

a test of ability to get the support from the french people if you doesn't get the majority essentially you will have a president who is on the left and you will have a parliament that is on the right right now before this election so 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 up front so a lot it was campaigning on. the 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 the dispatcher and the conservatives are going to be more for this asserting measures now we see spain in trouble and you see my trickle down into france and if the french people get even more steady power to them they're certainly not going to be happy about it in front of a lot just in the beginnings of a stern does not want to see supports less and for the socialist party well as far

as foreign policy is concerned the part of the military and defense. withdraw troops from afghanistan earlier here earlier than planned and if he does intend to follow through with the promises he made during his election campaign he will need the support of the lower house he already has the majority in the senate and it's crucial that he does get the support of the parliament in france. silly talking a little earlier from paris this is r.t. live in moscow still ahead for you this hour tens of thousands of poured on to the streets of georgia's second city in support of the great opposition to presence like israel is ruling party the details just ahead for. the first 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 tahrir square this week angry at the verdict in the barents recent trial the demanding the death sentence for his role in killing

hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising they're also angry this former prime minister has made it to the presidential election runoff next week but 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 arab affairs journalist danny says people are furious at the lack of positive change that. seems to have the anger which. led to people massing and massive beyond the square last year and the beginning of the uprising and it's very much seen again on the streets of not only cairo and square in particular but across the country as a whole with other demonstrations who were organized and wondered. could al but also more demonstrations planned 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 the life in nine hundred some demonstrators in last year's uprising more crucially the six top aides in the mubarak regime which were acquitted and that is an indication as far as egyptians are concerned that although the hair has been removed the body just structure of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. eurasians two because countries have cemented their partnership this week as russian president vladimir putin visited china and 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 a chef who reports from the chinese capital. who could have thought half a century ago when china and russia clashed over disputed territories that in twenty twelfth russia's president would be greeted by a red carpet in beijing during

a lavish state visit. where we know that two years ago china became russia's largest straight 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 the parallels are. on the other forms of cooperation china needs an ally like russia or putin and hu jintao is alliance was reconfirmed by their unified stance on middle east issues in particular the syrian conflict that are being some difference as a patron russia china and some why some that are again countries from thailand the russia prospect have the key solution lysine. the implementation 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 so it's more responsible and they signed a prominent on the final solution. where prices and putin splendid to boost their

already strong military ties so to be pleased beijing in light of us major war games in the region and the recent tour of the us defense secretary to the asia pacific china is strengthening its armed forces at an 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 don't want to

see an 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 are not necessarily 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 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 the sentiments were

long gone two decades on a 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. tens of thousands of people have gathered in georgia second largest city of support of one of the country's major coalition groups the georgian green 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. i spoke to a little earlier he says if history is anything to go by the government's response to the run is may not be a peaceful one. no the opposition has criticized increasing. and unfortunately very sure has not gotten enough traction among voters because government has to do with opposition focus quite harshly and one particularly brutal crackdown if you remember occurred in two thousand and seven ironically the

fourth anniversary of the rose revolution yet the opposition. has so far government will not have a good enough excuse to crackdown and it will have to rely. on the peaceful. demonstrations maybe you know i media coverage to be opposition. and i also believe it is still quite assured. demonstrations breaking the protests regulations in russia one have to pay seven thousand euros or do up to two hundred hours of community service president putin stressed the new rally lower is in line with european standards in france for example protesters breaking the law could be fined up to forty five thousand euros and even if a several years in jail you don't will be put to the test next tuesday night position plans to stage a million man march scuffles broke out at the last large anti-government rally in maine after which activists stage several unsanctioned since. 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 policy materials related to the war in iraq to the whistle blowing web site we can expect manning is known as fear the trial won't be fair as the government is withholding documents believed relevant to manning's defense campaign is that the president witnessed 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 are intentionally 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 the ability of the american people to know what their elected officials are doing. you've been watching the weekly. recap of our top stories in just

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could have you with this is this is a top stories of the weekly deadly clashes in syria as u.n. officials admit that envoys peace plan is being broken on both sides dozens have reportedly been killed across the country over the weekend while foreign calls for intervention of being ramped up. madrid also eurozone for hundred billion euros to shore up its struggling banks and becomes the largest economy to seek aid so far as a 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 and raises two biggest countries have cemented their partnership this week russian president vladimir putin visited china. that's it for me and the

news team for the moment the news continues and less than half an hour from now in the meantime he goes to the border of europe in asia in the mountainous chelyabinsk region in another episode of discover russia. which region is one of those places that offers something for everyone sitting just east of the urals countries 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 and 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.