william hague the british foreign secretary calling for intervention we've seen the new french president saying the same thing the americans are basically 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 joe clearly saw a rush to take up arms over the course of a war and not see exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was a village of or a truck you have if you were in green 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 murder on programs occur of innocent civilians by government troops serving with blame presented with ultimatum and random games and bought 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 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 liaising with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically agents of mido in the coastal war basically treading on by i don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but technically the only training that caylee could have ever given anybody is how to figure masculine or. stage

a war and i believe that's exactly what's happening now. but even with hindsight after the nato bull we know you can slavia ruin the alliances these tribes in libya last year history isn't being 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 sweet and so called donated the reason 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. in our t. report 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 that 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 his shondra bayer from the center for middle east studies in beirut thinks israel may have been given confidential promises that if assad were

to fall a new government damascus would be pro israel proper. israel has always been cancer about what's going on in syria but for more than one year israel did not take it so far and me clear a position to. opposition in syria or to support the opposition in syria for many reasons first they believe their israeli like they said many times that and. you know it's better than anyone you don't know they were talking about president assad . despite that that is state of war between israel and the syrian regime but we don't have to forget that there is a ceasefire between the two countries which has been respected and not violated for almost forty years and israel has always fred and a lot about bringing to the power in syria some extra mystic groups for

example which may present annie harm to israel. and israel specially on the borders and now i believe that it's time to decide maybe a day received some signs some some terms some guarantees from united states which of course support the opposition in syria or directly from the syrian national council or some islamic 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 let spain avoid 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 of the effectiveness and even the euro's future as a currency. all of the politicians have basically left the people stranded the new government in spain 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 two years ago even the spanish banks are lost and ultimately there needs to be a way in order to manage to rescue them but the conventional 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 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 to the polling 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 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 solidly 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 hollande his party already controls the country's senate are these tests are syria 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. 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 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 small because they didn't want any more so symbolically this is a test of the ability to get support from the french people he 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 elections it was the conservatives about 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 a small just seventy five percent up front so a lot of it was campaigning on. the more growth measures and getting 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 austerity to them they're certainly not going to be happy about it in front of a lot just in the beginning of a storm 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. posed to withdraw troops from afghanistan earlier

a year earlier than planned and if he doesn't have 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. camille grande from the foundation first critique 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 big issue is whether it would be dismissed or it would be built only around a socialist party or would do we need to support of 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 where 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 board when it comes to the rise of socialism what it was 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 the incumbents are 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 is gathered to express the anger that the former president sends 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. a

century ago when china and russia glossed over disputed territories that in twenty twelve russia's president greeted by a red carpet in beijing during a lavish state visit. well we know that there were 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 parallels you know that can only come out of the bonds of cooperation china needs and how i like russia what 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 by some that are again countries from china and the russians prospect have the key solution lysine. the implementation but and

that's a plan rather than a license what about the poverty. the existing government that is now the committee so i think china's position on a serious or a small responsible design should have prominent on the final solution to the process and putin spoke 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 unpredicted 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 if not most of the war in asia then it went to korea vietnam 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 off aggression towards the republic the chinese and the russians probably you know don't want to see and over 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 be coming down quite strongly. in the middle east and in so far 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 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

most co has one of its most important partners. more than half a century ago the chinese described the u.s.s.r. as the elder brother by the time the soviet union collapsed these sentiments were long gone decades already been put in 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 has reportedly deteriorated he's now in a cairo prison hospital where he said to be slipping anywhere 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 and people are run down he says people are furious at the lack of positive change. seems to be and we're going to reach. two people missing and massive beyond the real square last year beginning of the rising and then 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 the fact that mubarak himself avoided execution over his lack of ability to protect the life in nine hundred and some demonstrators in last year's uprising

most 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 although the head 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. hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows and military seem more he wrote that 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 kutaisi 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 lections later this year

director of the eurasia democracy initiative peters all my of says if history is anything to judge the government's response to the rallies may not be peaceful. it has criticised the shoes increasing for kerry and tactics and unfortunately betty she has not gotten enough traction among voters president so i guess what is government has been known 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 all our government will not have a good enough excuse to crackdown and it will have to rely. on their peaceful methods in dealing with these 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 a span ash laws than old previous administrations combined but it seems one man snitch is another man spin doctor the problem with the current situation with the current white house is they have leaked classified information for the times what it serves 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 bigelow project regarding seal team six takedown of gun 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 where 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 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 shift official assistance veteran hollywood reporter david robb says the pentagon has for a long time had access to the scripts of hollywood filmmakers to show the military in a better lot in the american people. are seeing hundreds and hundreds of films and television shows that have been sanitized by the military and to make military seem more heroic than 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 informing 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.

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here are two you have why fierce fighting across syria over the weekend reportedly leaves dozens dead this is moscow keeps pushing for an international conference to resolve the crisis in the e.u. whether it's neither side is sticking to the peace plan. calls for the eurozone to give them one hundred billion euros to shore up their struggling banks and becomes the largest economy to seek aid so far spain avoid additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the cases of greece ireland and portugal. in tackling the crisis in the middle east two biggest countries cement their partnership this week as president vladimir putin visits china. sure is drawn out

conflict is leaving neighboring lebanon suffering some of the fallout up next the lebanese interior minister tells us why the violence won't be confined to its borders. let that. lebanon is affected by internal tensions and regional conflict all decisions related to security issues are made. by other countries so how can you talk about security in lebanon and. lebanon security doesn't depend on lebanon. politically and in terms of security lebanon depends on external factors as well the people of lebanon have close religious and family ties with neighboring states. is that an alternative to. going on has to be an alternative even smaller.