piers fighting across syria over the weekend reportedly leaves dozens dead this is moscow continues to push for an international conference to resolve the crisis in the u.n. 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 yet to seek aid from the euro zone. boosting trade tackling the crisis in the middle east russia and china strengthen their partnership as president vladimir putin visits beijing.

bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t i'm at treasure thanks very much for joining us 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 still trying to determine exactly how many died and who was behind the slaughter top u.n. officials admit for the first time that this plan is being flouted by both sides meanwhile maria an ocean reports foreign intervention is being. duquesne body is lain side by side we mean to do it 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 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 jokingly saw a rush to take up arms because of the 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. innocent civilians by government troops certainly 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 interesting we know. 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 course or. basically treading 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 to 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 you can slavia ruin the alliances of 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 world headlines everybody agrees those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so sweet 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 reporting from syria . russia meanwhile stepping up efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution to the crisis in syria it's calling for an international contact group to persuade damascus and rebels to halt violence and start talks but

moscow says quote some external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting 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 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 the syrian opposition group in exile selected a kurdish activist as its new leader abdelbaset saida has urged mass defections from the regime and pledged support for the free syrian army fighting against the

assad regime asia times correspondent pepe escobar says say it is already mistrusted and doesn't understand what's going on on the ground. see the who comes after but. is a very shady character he has very good kurdish comics as of course so many connections as well but he is also trying to play to that christian answer that although i say look if there is a post outside the government or rejean or we're not going to touch it nobody believes him insights in fact did jim braddock the opposition is disgruntled matter of fact you know 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 mercenaries imported from libya but i believe qatar though where i am at the moment and this is a blue subject to be discussed here in qatar i can find anybody here it would

discuss would be trained cli 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 weaponize in the really hardcore arm of the syrian opposition and i'm not sure mr sieda the new ahead of the syrians or council knows what's really going on the ground. struggling euro zone has been dealt a fresh blow spain becoming the largest economy yet to ask for help is in admitted needs one hundred billion euros to prop up its beleaguered banks the cash will be fed directly to a special fun with madrid ultimately responsible for the money but this plan led spain ovoid committing to additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the cases of greece ireland and portugal the spanish prime minister praised the loan as a victory for the single currency is credibility vestment advisor patrick young though questions as effectiveness and even the euro as future as currency. all of

the politicians have basically left the people stranded the new government in spin went into the nile 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 the 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 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 out and pulling a group of eight year old children no matter they may say that they realize they have to eat sensibly they're going to demand ice cream and jelly for their next

meal and for every meal there after as long as they have influence the problem with greece is ultimately it doesn't really matter what they vote for in the course of the middle of june because they haven't actually been taking their medicine greece ultimately is returning to the drachma i think whether it likes it or not because it's completely untenable as a conventional modern democracy it's simply sadly does not function as one. opposition politicians already criticizing their government for failing to get a deal as favorable as spain's one town though the people are tired of the euro uncertainty and they've already found a solution for the future by looking into their past. 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 island joined the euro from the get go in two thousand and two but crisis hit business owners here have revived their old currency to try and desperately clore some cash back into the community if you

bring in pointed to was twenty point whatever you spend or fifty points whatever you spend we will give you a change of tone the tone voters which you can spend cross the road in super value or in the crib or golf or drink up the town it's it's a great scheme for the child it means all the money remains within 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 come from across the border from about us as fast as our own from people from the phantoms down the functions on us have a complication month women can have shot him in the front to spit out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million puns tucked away in draws and under mattresses 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 bigger cities throughout our land austerity here means business people are being hit with a variety of taxes and levies making it harder and harder to stay afloat let alone turn a. yes it's not just told the sun as the whole country has suffered with the stars he measures with the. new water charges which are common in shortly you household charge which which came in this year when increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent in the point of sale tax which we

have to do something something to improve the situation so keep it 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 cleanest may not be alone in you looking back for its future nor a smith r.t. ireland polls have closed inferences people have cast their votes for the new parliament exit poll suggesting the outcome will favor recently elected socialist president francois aligned his party already controls the senate or the stairs or sawyer 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. 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 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 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 ability to get the support from the french people if 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 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 for so long it was going to be aiming on his

anti austerity more growth measures and getting faster out of the crisis and then if he doesn't get if he doesn't get the support of the lower house he will not be able to go on the dispatcher and the conservatives are going to be more for this asserting measures now we see spain in trouble and use it and it might trickle down into france and if the french people get even more sturdy passed on to them they're certainly not going to be happy about it in front of a lot just in the beginning of his term 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 grant 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 the big issue is whether it would be dismissed or it would be built only around a socialist party all would do we need to support a socialist and eyes such as the come in useful kinda greens in parliament french politics are. interesting because they are 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 it was clear in the recent actions in europe is that the. parties in power have about a tendency to lose election that happened in greece in the netherlands in spain and

in need to the so this is a situation where incumbents are are in trouble. stay with us here on our t.v. still to come mubarak is reportedly critical condition addictions gaffa to express their anger at the former president wasn't sentenced to death for his violent suppression of demonstrations during the revolt that ousted him from power. but first your asia's two biggest countries cemented a partnership this week as russian president vladimir putin visited china and full of business deals were assigned but apart from ensuring that trade is flowing moscow and beijing also discussed a number of pressing international issues are reports. who could have thought half a century ago when china and russia clashed 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 the security cooperation in russia and china parallels are only going to other forms of cooperation yes 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 harpy into some difference as a patron russia china why some that are up in countries from china and the russia prospect have the key solution lysine. the implementation and that's plan rather than lies and whether or not we see the poverty the existing government that is now the committee so i think russia and china's position on syria so it's more responsible and design to have prominent on the final solution to the process 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 an unpredicted rate the united states invaded the philippines in one thousand nine hundred in one thousand eight hundred it invaded the asian part of russia to stop the russian revolution it fought most of the war in asia then it went to korea vietnam the united states has fought many many battles in asia so a pivot towards asia should be considered something of great alarm for the people of the continent russia and china were also joined in beijing by iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad who supported their stance on syria the leaders also agreed that only diplomatic and political. approaches should be considered when dealing with the issue of tehran's nuclear intentions condemning any international talk of aggression towards the republic the chinese and the russians probably you know don't want to see an overly domineering u.s. is ition 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 quite strongly in the middle east and in so far as the. russians and the chinese you know have their interest which and honestly congress 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 putin 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 the elder brother by the time the soviet union collapsed these sentiments were long gone two decades on a state visit to beijing suggested that the two countries may not feel like a family just yet but have definitely moved much closer to each other.

see reporting from beijing in china. always more news and analysis a click away at r.t. dot com here's what's online right now at ungodly scandal files seized in a police raid on the former head of the vatican bank allegedly exposed misdeeds inside one of the world's most secretive organizations plus. there's a lot of the somali extremists wanted in the u.s. with a thirty three million dollars bounty to come up with a counter proposal offering ten camels the president barack obama all the details at r.t. dot com. the health of egypt's former president hosni mubarak is reportedly deteriorating 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 the guards recent trial demanding the death sentence for his role in killing hundreds of protesters during

last year's uprising also angry his former prime minister has made it into the presidential election runoff next week or he's facing the muslim brotherhood's candidate who really military council says he will transfer power to be elected president by july first arab affairs journalist will be lower and danny makes people are furious at 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 cairo and square in particular but across then to see the country as a whole with all the demonstrations organized and wondered where could alec but also more demonstrations planned across and 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 than and mubarak himself. execution he's not. the who built the two

protected the one hundred nine hundred and some dim strengthens and in last year's it fries even more crucially the ones the six top aides in the mubarak regime which were acquitted and that is an indication as far as the egyptians are concerned there's all their heads has been removed the body destruction of the mubarak regime is still very much in place. stay with us here on our key still ahead trial and error as the u.s. most famous army whistleblower bradley manning appears in court his supporters say prosecutors have something to hide. but first tens of thousands gathered in georgia's second largest city kutaisi to support one of the country's major coalition groups the georgian dream party was set up by a local billionaire and expected to provide the main challenge to the ruling party of president mikheil saakashvili head of elections later this year director of the

eurasian 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 very sure has not gotten enough traction among voters presidents i guess because government has been known to do with opposition focus 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 have still are so she was 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 do it is still quite assured. meanwhile protesters are in russia who break a revised law and demonstrations will now have to pay up to seven thousand euros or

face up to two hundred hours of community service president putin stressed the new rally law is in line with european standards in france for example protesters 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 of said to happen previous anti-government demonstrations of this sort ended in a scuffle between police and protesters. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe gunman attack 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 of the blast left at least four worshipers dead and more than forty injured radical islamists local herat claims responsibility for the strike that targeted christians in the religiously divided nation. a plane carrying her shootist has crashed near the ukrainian 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 rains and high. wins and investigations been opened into the cause of the crash. polish police have arrested fourteen football fans after officers tried to break up fighting between irish polish encourage and supporters the incident happened just before the curry shivers ireland game at the euro two thousand and twelve football championships it's the latest in a string of clashes that have already seen a number of teams warned over their supporters behavior. in chile police had to use tear gas and water cannons to disperse anti pinochet demonstrators in the capital santiago thousands took to the streets to protest against the screening of a documentary praising the former dictator who ruled the country for seventeen years the government estimates more than three thousand people were killed during his. pretrial hearings have started for the soldier accused of america's biggest leak of classified data in history twenty four year old bradley manning is charged

with aiding the enemy by passing materials related to the iraq war to the whistle blowing web site wiki leaks manning's lawyers fear the trial won't be fair they say the government's withholding documents believed irrelevant to the defense campaigners act president was at 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. coming up a look at the legacy of nuclear testing that's after the headlines stay with us.

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