piers fighting across syria over the weekend reportedly leaves dozens dead this is bosco continues pushing for an international conference to resolve the crisis and the u.n. admits neither side is sticking to the peace plan. one hundred billion euros of bailout madrid finally admits it can save its beleaguered banks on its own becoming the largest economy yet to seek aid from the euro zone. boosting trade tackling the crisis in the middle east russia and china strengthen their partnership is russian president vladimir putin visits beijing.

it's four am in moscow i matras are bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news on our t.v. reports have reportedly or dozens have reportedly been 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 determine exactly how many died and who was behind the slaughter top u.n. officials admit for the first time that the peace plan is being flouted by both sides meanwhile authorities marie if an ocean reports calls for foreign intervention are being ramped up. duquesne body is lain side by side we mean children among them death was indiscriminate and bloody the pictures from syria this week have brought shock around the globe and also a worry in sense of deja vu just weeks before another massacre came to light this time in the village of houla and the world was quick to pass judgment the american

british and french push for military intervention in syria is absolutely enormous we've seen hague of course william hague the british foreign secretary calling for intervention we've seen the new french president saying the same thing the americans are basically 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 like i am confident to predict that indeed it will remain fixed in people's minds and could well be used as a pretext and you don't have to look back to far to see where hasty judgments saw a rush to take up arms but the cost of 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 programs of her innocent civilians by government troops serving it was when presented

with ultimatum and game 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 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 any you team has never been made public interestingly enough. we have been reports of syrian rebels whoever they are. with the. think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically the agents of mido in the coastal war. basically treading on 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 to figure massacre and or 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 those 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 swift 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. or if not in our t. report and from syria. russia meanwhile stepping up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria it wants an international contact group to persuade damascus and rebels to halt violence and start talks but moscow says some external

players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting that's a quote despite kofi annan peace plan. you know 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 and 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 growing its neighbor israel has spoken out in favor of intervention a senior israeli ministers accuse president assad of committing genocide during the fifteen month long uprising and demanding

a libya style campaign his bear 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 in damascus would be pro israeli. israel has always been constant about what's going on in syria but for more than one year israel did not. and the. opposition in syria to support the opposition in syria for many reasons. they believe that 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 is a tool for between israel and the syrian regime but we don't forget that that is used by between the two countries which has been respected and not violated but almost forty years and israel has. a thread and awarded

about. it to the boat in syria some extremist groups for example may present and the harm to israel. and there's specially and no i believe. it's time to decide maybe a day and steve time signs some some some get on these from united states which of course support the opposition in syria or directly from syria and national. group like muslim brotherhood that they will not against israel a struggling euro zone has been dealt a fresh blow spain becoming the largest economy yet to ask for help as it made it needs a hundred billion euros to prop up its beleaguered banks cashel be fed directly to a special fun with madrid ultimately responsible for the money but the plan slipped

spain avoid committing to additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the cases of greece ireland and portugal spain as prime minister 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 future of the euro 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 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 belike mechanisms are not going to work and that's why ultimately it's very difficult to see tragically whether or not there really is a future to the euro as a currency the greeks when you talk to 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 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 and 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's people have cast their votes for the new parliament exit polls suggest the outcome will favor recently elected socialist president francois hollande his party already controls the senate or his tests are so your reports

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 percent that's in the. 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 would be votes candidates that are guarded about zero point five percent of the votes are they going to go for the second run for france all along 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 who would come and voted for socialist affronts who along they had voted for change in a smart as they didn't want any more so simply symbolically this is a test of a long 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 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 if 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 of 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 sturdy proselyting 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. 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 for a strategic research says the predicted socialist victory is part of a larger political trend across europe 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 all do we need to support a socialist 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 ball 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 and in italy so this is a situation where incumbents are in trouble. well stay with us here on r.t. still to come was the mubarak is reported in predictable edition egyptians gathered to express anger that the former president was not sentenced to death for his violent suppression of demonstrators during the revolution that ousted him from power. but first year asia's two biggest countries 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 continuing moscow and beijing

have a number of pressing international issues to tackle or he selects airshow ski reports . who could have thought half a 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 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. 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 are being the some difference as a patron russia china why some that are up in countries from thailand the russia perspective the key solution lysine. the implementation and that's

plan rather than lies and whether or not we see the poverty. that exists in government that is now the committee so i think russia and the chinese position on the series of a small responsible and design prominent of the final solution see references and putin splendid to boost their already strong military ties so to be pleased beijing in light of us need to war games in the region and the recent tour of the us defense secretary to the asia pacific china is strengthening its armed forces at 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 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 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 put in story 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. see reporting from beijing in china there is always plenty more on our website r t dot com here's what's online right now and ungodly scandal files season the police raid that the former head of the vatican bank allegedly exposed misdeeds inside one of the world's most secretive organizations plus. some ali islam is militants wanted in the u.s. with a thirty three million dollar bounty on their heads come up with

a counterproposal offering ten camels for president barack obama before story at r.t. dot com. dealt with egypt's former president hosni mubarak is reportedly teary orating he's now in a cairo prison hospital said to be slipping in and out of consciousness thousands gathered in tahrir square this week angry at the verdict in mubarak's recent trial they're calling for the death sentence for his role in the killing of hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising there also angry as former prime minister made it to the presidential election a runoff next week where he's facing off against the muslim brotherhood candidate the ruling military council says it will transfer power to the elected president by july first arab affairs journalism that people around danny says people are furious of the lack of positive change. it seems to be and going to reach. people missing and massive beyond the media square not yet beginning to be. seen again on the streets of not only connor and square in particular but across the and to see

the country as a whole we all the demonstrations who 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 and anger at the mubarak administration in general is still very much there and it's directed at many things and first of all different and mubarak himself avoided execution or he's like a billion. who protected their life in nine hundred and some of them strengthens in last years that fries even more crucially the ones to six top aides in the mubarak regime which were acquitted and that is an indication as far as the egyptians are concerned there's although their heads has been removed the body destruction 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

homes and televisions shows military see more heroic that really is never wrong and always good this creates a false image in the american people's mind when it comes to the u.s. military hollywood leds ahead with a little help from the pentagon. but first tens of thousands gathered in georgia's second largest city kutaisi in support of the country's major one of the country's major coalition rips the georgian dream party was set up by a local billionaire and expected to provide the main challenge to the ruling party of mikhail saakashvili ahead of elections later this year director of the eurasia democrat democracy initiative peters says if history is to judge the government's response to the rallies may not be a peaceful one. no the opposition has criticised cyclists use increasing tactics and unfortunately that issue has not gotten enough traction among voters presidents i guess it is government has been known to do with opposition protests this quite

harshly and yes 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 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. protesters in russia meanwhile who break a revised law in demonstrations will now have to pay up to seven thousand euros or face two hundred hours of community service president putin stress the new rally laws in line with european standards in france for example protesters of violating the law can be fined up to forty five thousand euros and face several years behind bars the law will be tested tuesday when an opposition rally called the march of

millions is said to take place previous anti-government demonstrations of the sort . 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 granted special access to sensitive data while producing movies promoting military heroism critics say it's a double standard as artie's media coach you know for 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'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 several times when it suits them to do so one of those with what was with the 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 gun laws 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 volt 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 need is to require an 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 on 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 it will get you. to project patrick taste and propaganda on to the silver screen now you know question artsy reporting from los angeles california. take a look at some other stories making headlines across the globe gunmen attacked a church in northeastern nigeria killing at least six and wounding several others in a separate incident a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside a different church along with the attacker that blast left four worshipers dead and injured more than forty radical islamist sect boko haram claimed responsibility for

the strike that targeted christians in the religiously divided country. a plane carrying parachutists crashed near the ukrainian capital kiev killing five fifteen more suffered injuries some serious the aircraft was forced to make an emergency landing after encountering heavy rains and high winds and investigations been opened into the cause of the crash. polish police arrested fourteen football fans after officers tried to break up fighting between irish polish and croatian supporters the incident happened just before the current show ireland game if euro two thousand and twelve football championships it's the latest in a string of clashes that's already seen a number of teams warned over their supporters behavior. be back with headlines in a few minutes followed by our interview with syria's minister of information stay with us.

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