fierce fighting across syria over the weekend reportedly leaves dozens dead this is moscow continues pushing for an international conference to resolve the crisis and the un admits neither side is sticking to the peace plan. one hundred billion euros of bailout madrid finally admits it can't save its beleaguered banks on its own becoming the largest economy so far to see aid from the euro zone. also boosting trade and tackling the crisis in the middle east russia and china strengthen their partnership is present president vladimir putin is it's beijing.

two am in moscow i mattress all the giving you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t dozens reportedly killed over the weekend in some of the most intense fighting of the syria conflict this is the u.n. observers continue their investigation of wednesday's massacre in the hama province they're still trying to figure out exactly how many are dead and who is behind the slaughter top u.n. officials admit for the first time that a peace plan is being floated by both sides meanwhile maria notion reports calls for foreign intervention are being stepped up. decaying bodies 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 or even launched they're all saying that their side regime is committing human rights abuses and they repeat this message obsessive li 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 saw a rush to take up arms because of a war and not exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of russia you have 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 program as a group innocent civilians by government troops certainly was when presented with ultimatum and games and bought 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. we've been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are. think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically the agents of mido in the course or. basically training on don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human

rights but the only training that caylee could have ever given anybody is how do. stage a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of you can slavia 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 thief and so called united the reason 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. refinishing r t reports in from syria meanwhile russia is stepping up efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria it wants an irrational contact group to persuade damascus and the rebels to halt violence and start talks moscow says some external

players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting that's a quote despite kofi annan peace plan. when we hear reports of another massacre in syria and currently we see such atrocities almost daily many international media outlets place the blame entirely on damascus the government of any country is of course responsible for what's happening within its borders but we're sure the regime alone is not to blame for everything we see massacres in houla terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the un security council all this is the result of confrontation that are getting more and more support from abroad first of all moral support for the so-called armed opposition which is being supplied with money weapons and bolstered by militants from neighboring countries. with international calls for military action in syria getting a louder its neighbor israel has for the first time spoken out in favor of intervention a senior israeli minister has accused president assad of committing genocide during

a fifteen month long uprising demanding a libya style campaign bear from the center for middle east studies in beirut thanks israel may have been given confidential promises that if assad were to fall a new government damascus would be pro israel. has always been constant about what's going on in syria but for. me it is not. so and the. part of many of these you know. they believe they said many times that and you know it's better than i don't know they were talking about but it did and i thought. that if they go for between israel and. but we don't forget that that is. between the two countries which has been a respect that and not violated. and that is there.

is a thread and awarded. to the by. some extremist groups for example me and the. mission and the and specially and no i believe. it's time to do this maybe a day and signs some some some get on these from united states which of course. a position or. national. group like muslim brotherhood that they will not against israel. the struggling euro zone has been dealt a fresh blow spain becoming the largest economy yet to ask for help as it admits it needs one hundred billion euros to prop up its beleaguered banks cash will be fed

directly into a special fund with madrid alternately responsible for the cash but the plan to let spain ovoid committing to additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in greece's case and ireland and portugal the spanish prime minister has been has praised the loan as a victory for the credibility of the single currency but investment advisor patrick young questions its effectiveness and even the euro's future as a currency. all of the politicians have basically left the people stranded the new government in spin 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 out six months ago two years ago even spanish banks are lost and ultimately there needs to be a way in order to manage to rescue 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 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 pulling a group of eight year old children no matter that they may say that they realize they have to eat sensibly they're going to demand ice cream and jelly for their next meal and for every meal there after as long as they have influence the problem with greece is ultimately it doesn't really matter what they vote for in the course of the middle of june because they haven't actually been taking their medicine greece ultimately is returning to the drachma i think whether it likes it or not because it's completely untenable as a conventional modern democracy it's simply sadly does not function as one. polls have closed in france as people cast their votes for the new parliament earlier figure suggested the outcome will favor recently elected socialist president

francois and his party already controls the country said it or his tests are so your has more from paris. 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. or 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 candidates that are guarded about zero point five percent of the votes are they going to go for the second round 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 but let's remember that during the presidential election the people would come and voted for socialist stuff and so long they had voted for change in a smart as they didn't want anymore so symbolically this is a test of

a long ability to get that support from the french people he doesn't get the majority essentially he will have a president who is on the left and you will have a parliament 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 this proposal to add sixty thousand new jobs in education sector or tax the rich by as much as seventy five percent you know first of all 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 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 power to them they're certainly not going to be happy voting for us all along just in the beginnings of a stern does not want to see supports lesson for the socialist party well as far as

long as foreign policy is concerned the part of a military and defense years also. posed to withdraw troops from afghanistan earlier a year earlier than planned and if he doesn't 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. camille grande from the foundation first trip to egypt research says that predicted social victory is part of a larger political trend across the continent the most likely scenario is that you will get a clear left majority the big issue is whether it would be dismissed or it would be built only around a socialist party all do we really need to support a socialist and eyes such as the come in useful kinda greens in parliament french politics are. interesting because they're not always go with the overall cycle in europe when we do see certainly is the rise of those nationalist he's all over the

board in europe and this is clearly the case in france as elsewhere in europe and this is this is a phenomenon that is happening across the ball when it comes to the rise of socialism what. clear in the recent actions in europe is that the. parties in power have about a tendency to lose elections that don't happen in greece in. spain in italy so this is a situation where incumbents are in trouble. stay with us here on r t still to come in the program while hosni mubarak is reported in critical condition gyptian has gathered to express anger that the former president wasn't sentenced to death for his violent suppression of demonstrations during the revolution that ousted him. but first year asia's two biggest countries have cemented their partnership this week as russian president vladimir putin visited china and full of business deals

were assigned but apart from ensuring that trade is flourishing moscow and beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle. the reports. century ago when china and russia glossed over disputed territories that in twenty twelve 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 st bernard you know outstripping other nations in the former soviet union as well as germany and other european nations you know the security cooperation in russia and china the parallels are. going to 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 into some difference as a patron russia china and the subways and that are up in countries from thailand

the russian perspective the key solution lysine. the presentation and that's planned rather than lice and whether or not we see the poverty. that exists in government that is now the committee so i think russia and china's position on the serious hill is a more responsible and design to have prominent on the final solution to the sea where crisis and putin spoke 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 any predicted rate the united states invaded the philippines in one thousand nine hundred in one thousand eight hundred and invaded the asian part of russia to stop the russian revolution 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 all over the domineering us is ition which i think is understandable coming from moscow and beijing and i think what the us i think does and to some degree the us with europe with western europe does you know does seem to become you don't quite strongly in the middle east and in so far as the. russians and the chinese you know have their interest which are not necessarily 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 concerned 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 dog good the elder brother by the time the soviet union collapsed these sentiments were long gone for 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. let's see reporting from beijing in china. the health of egypt's former president hosni mubarak is reportedly did teary aerated he's now in a cairo prison hospital where he said to be slipping into of consciousness thousands gathered in tahrir square this week angry at the verdict in mubarak's 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's candidate the ruling military council says it will transfer power to the elected president by july first arab affairs journalist an appeal or run down he says people are furious at the lack of positive change. it seems that the anger and reach. led to people missing and massive beyond the heaviest square last year beginning of the uprising and it's very much seen 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 planned across the country in the days leading to the second round of elections so the end anger at the mubarak and ministration in general is still very much there and it's directed at many things first of all different than mubarak himself avoided execution over he's like

a who believed to have protected the one nine hundred and some demonstrators in last year's uprising and more crucially the ones the six top aides in the mubarak regime which were acquitted and that is an indication as far as egyptians are concerned there's all the heads has been removed the body just structure of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. stay with us here on r.t. still ahead promoting patriotism on the silver screen with. hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows and military seem more heroic that it really is never wrong and always good but this creates a false image in the american people's mind when it comes to the u.s. military hollywood lends a hand with a little help from the pentagon. but first tens of thousands gathered in georgia the second largest city in support of one of the country's major coalition groups

the georgian dream party's 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 the elections later this year director of the eurasia democracy initiative peters says if history is anything to judge the government's response to the rallies may not be peaceful. it has criticized the shoes increasing. and unfortunately that issue has not gotten enough traction among voters presidents i guess what is government has to do with opposition protests this quite harshly one particularly brutal crackdown if you remember occurred in two thousand and seven ironically the fourth anniversary of the rose revolution yet the opposition sticks to its peaceful methods and it has still far so she is going to not have a good enough excuse to crackdown and it will have to rely. on the peaceful. demonstrations maybe deny media coverage to the opposition

and i also believe that it is still quite assured. the protesters are russian meanwhile who break a revised law on demonstrations watch to pay now up to seven thousand euros or face two hundred hours of community service president putin stressed the new rally law is in line with european standards in france for example protesters violating the law can be fined up to forty five thousand euros and face several years in jail the law will be tested tuesday when an opposition rally called the march of millions of said to happen previous anti-government demonstrations of this kind had ended with scuffles between police and protesters. the obama administration says it will crack down on government whistleblowers in the name of national security but that may not square with the hollywood filmmakers who've been granted special access to sensitive information while producing movies promoting military heroism critics say it's a double standard as artie's medina coaching over reports. from

a former cia officer who questioned waterboarding to suspected we can take small bradley manning the obama administration has waste an unprecedented war on whistleblowers prosecuting more of them under is found ash loss than old previous administrations combined but it seems one man's snitch is another man's spin doctor the problem with the current situation with the current white house is they have leaked classified information for the times when it suits them to do so one of those with what was written with a book obama's wars done by bob woodward or they played out two chapters of information about current operations and also with the catholic bagel bigelow project regarding seal team six takedown of ben law last year at this time the film in question which is titled as zero dark thirty covers last year's raid by u.s. commandos on the pakistani compound where some of bin laden was hiding the conservative watchdog judicial watch has obtained records revealing that hollywood

filmmakers were given access to 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 data facts so some flak fly the administration's way while the entire project has raised concerns over the way intelligence is being used it's best that this kind of information particularly as it revolves around what's surrounding this movie remains classified it absolutely has to it's very unfortunate that it's coming out to be used for political purposes for a congressional election however there is nothing unusual about the defense department collaborating with the makers of hollywood blockbusters. it's

a partnership that dates back to the middle of the twentieth century and it has proved effective the pentagon has what hollywood filmmakers won access to millions of dollars worth of military equipment to use in the movies and hollywood has what the pun again once the end slants to sugarcoat its actions and attract millions of potential recruits in recent months to other movies about the navy seals survivor and act of valor how for a 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 and 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 it really is and never wrong and always good that this creates a false image in the american people's mind so while. others

carry trying to project patrick and propaganda on to the silver screen my you know question artsy reporting from los angeles california. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe gunmen attacked a church in northeast nigeria killing at least six and wounding several others in a separate incident a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside another church along with the attack or the blast left at least four worshipers dead and more than forty injured radical islam a sect boko haram has claimed responsibility for the strike that targeted christians in the religiously divided nation. a plane carrying parachutists has crashed near ukraine's capital kiev killing five fifteen more suffered injuries some of them serious the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing after running into heavy rain storms and high winds and investigations been opened into the cause of the crash. 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 passing materials related to the war in iraq the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks manning's lawyers for the trial won't be fair as they say the government's withholding documents believe the relevant to the defense campaign or zach paisa vento 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. with the headlines in a few minutes followed by our interview with the lebanese interior minister stay with us.

there hasn't been anything yet on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact.

before source material is what helps keep journalism honest we thought. we wanted to present. something else. wealthy british style. sometimes the type of. market why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on r g.