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 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 too far to see where hasty joe clearly saw a rush to take up arms at the cost of war and nine see exactly what happened in our division of a massacre which was the village of archer 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 brutal murder on programs occur of innocent civilians by government troops serving it was lame presented with ultimatum and rambling aimed and bumped back than the you just love in 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. team has never been made public interesting we know. we have been reports that syrian rebels whoever they are liaising with the. over think of being in kosovo liberation army the people who were basically agents of mido in the causal war basically treading on i don't know they were saying they were training in democracy and human rights but definitely the only training the k.l.a. could have ever given anybody is how to figure massacre in order to stage a war and i believe that sticks out. it's happening now. but even with hindsight

after the nato slavia will ruin the alliances these tribes in libya last year history isn't being prevented from repeating itself again and again here 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. and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. refinishing our t. reports in from syria. meanwhile russia stepping up efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria it wants an international contact group to persuade damascus and the rebels to halt violence and begin talks moscow says quote some external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting despite 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. the syrian opposition group in exile has elected a kurdish activist its new leader. has urged mass defections from the regime and pledged support for the free syrian army as fight against president assad asia times correspondent pepe escobar i think saida may already be mistrusted and may not understand the reality on the ground. see who comes after but yan

is a very shady character he has very good kurdish connections of course so many connections as well but he is also trying to play to the christian answer the other whites say look if there is a government or rejean or we're not going to touch it nobody believes him incites you know in fact did jim braless the opposition the reality is it's a disgruntled matter in fact you know they don't get along with each other in the air if you treat 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 couldn't 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 ing do really hardcore arm of the syrian opposition and i'm not sure mr sieda the new ahead of the syrians or is it still council knows what's really going on the ground. the struggling eurozone 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 the cash will be fed directly to a special fine with madrid ultimately responsible for the money but this plan led spain ovoid committing to additional cuts imposed from outside as happened in the case of greece ireland and portugal spain the prime minister praised the loan as a victory for the single currency's credibility 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 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 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 be like mechanisms are not going to work and that's why ultimately it's very difficult to see tragically whether or not there really is a future to the euro was a currency the greeks when you talk to the one side they don't want austerity and they don't really think they should have to pay their bills for the debts that have been grown by the government over the years at the same time they think they should be in the euro it's automatically a little bit like going i don't 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 sadly does not function as one irish opposition politicians already criticizing their government for failing to get a deal as favorable as spain's one town though and has people tired of the euro uncertainty they have already found a solution for the future by looking into the past. it's a blast from the past this custom a uses the irish put to pay for some everyday purchases in the town of closeness islands joined the fray from the get go in two thousand and two but crisis hit business owners here have revived their old currency to try and desperately claussen cash back into the community if you bring in pointed to us twenty point one. spend our fifty points of view spend we would

give you the change of tone as time voters which you can then go and spend cross the road unsupervised you are in the create or go for drink up the town it's a great scheme for the time that means all the money remains in the town as for the euro here it's been reduced to a novelty item printed on tissues and toilet paper and customers come from miles around to spend that puts off and stopping by for a haircut while they're here oh yeah definitely a lot of people coming from cross border from faceted are on from people from the phantoms from the onus of complication monson going to have him in the hood it. out there's an estimated two hundred eighty five million 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 punt scheme has undoubtedly boosted the local economy but the ravages of the economic crash are still all to evidence the main street is lined with boarded up shops with around fifty percent of premises empty it's a scene that's repeated in small towns and biggest cities throughout our land austerity here means business people are being hit with a variety of taxes and levies making it harder and harder to stay afloat let alone turn a profit it's not just the whole country has suffered with starting measures with the. new water charges which are common in shortly you household charge which came in this year and will increase every year. there was a two percent hike up to twenty three percent on the point of sale tax which we have to do something something to improve the situation shopkeepers say going back to the point isn't a political statement it's

a survival tactic and as the face of the euro hangs in the balance clearness may not be alone in looking back for its future nor a smith arty island. left wing and green party candidates have gained a total of forty six percent of the vote after sunday's parliamentary elections in france according to official figures the center right un p party claim thirty four percent analysts say the outcome will favor the recently elected socialist president francois hollande whose party already controls the senate or he steps are sillier 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 from. a 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 have

garnered about zero point five percent of the votes are they going to go for the second run the for what he really wants is an absolute majority if not an absolute majority of all the socialist party getting more than fifty percent that would be a majority of the left at least he would support his policies but let's remember that during the presidential 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 in a simple symbolically this is a test of ability to get support from the french people if he doesn't get the majority essentially he will have a president who is on the left and you will have a parliamentary 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 his proposal to add sixty thousand new jobs in education sector or tax the rich by as much as seventy five percent up front so a lot of it was campaigning on. 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 this path certainly the conservatives are going to be more for this asserting measures now we see spain in trouble and you see my trickle down into france and if the french people get even more steady 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 a military and defense years old supreme. posed to withdraw troops from afghanistan earlier a year earlier than planned and if he does intend to follow through with the promises he made during his election campaign he will need the support of the lower house he already has the majority in the senate and it's crucial that he does get the support of the parliament in france camille grant from the center of the foundation for strategic research says the predicted socialist victory is part of a larger political trend in europe the most likely scenario is that he 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 what do we need to support of 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 when we do see certainly is the rise of those nationalist policies 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 it 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 happen in greece in no man's ing spain and in need to be so this is

a situation where incumbents are are in trouble. stay with us here on r t still to come to barak is reported in critical condition gibson's gather to express their anger at the former president wasn't sentenced to death for his violent suppression of demonstrations during the revolution that ousted him from power. but first series is two biggest countries have cemented their partnership this week as russia's president vladimir putin visited china and full of business deals were signed but apart from ensuring that trade is flowing moscow and beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle alexei or chefs he reports. who could have thought half a century ago when china and russia clashed over disputed territory that in twenty twelfth russia's president would be greeted by a red carpet in beijing during a lavish state visit. where we know that there were 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 the security cooperation in russia and china the parallels are. going to other forms of cooperation china needs and i like russia 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 again countries from china and the russians prospect have the key solution lysine. the presentation and that's planned rather than lies and whether or not we see the poverty. the existing government that is now the committee so i think russia and the chinese position are serious so it's more responsible and design to have prominent on the final solution to see where prices and putin splendid to boost their already strong military ties so to be pleased beijing in light of us need to wargames in the region and the

recent tour of the u.s. 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 our 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 overly domineering us and 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 confirmed that the countries have kickstarted a new era and 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 dog good the elder brother by the time the soviet union collapsed the 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 let's see

reporting from beijing in china. you can always find more news and analysis on our web site r.t. dot com online and right now and on godly scandal file see the police raid on the former head of the vatican bank allegedly exposed misdeeds inside one of the world's most secretive organizations plus. a somali is all of us militants wanted in the u.s. with a thirty three million dollars bounty come up with a counterproposal offering ten camels for president barack obama all the details he dug up. 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 mubarak's recent trial they're calling for the death sentence for his role in killing hundreds of protesters during last year's uprising there also angry his former prime minister

made it into the presidential election runoff next week or he's facing the mother muslim brotherhoods candidate the ruling military council says it will transfer power to the elected president by july first arab affairs journalist nabila ramdani says people are furious at the lack of positive change. seems to be going to reach . people missing and massive beyond me and square last year beginning. and then much seen again on the streets and not an economy and three square in particular who cross then to see the country as a home we own the demonstrations organized and wondered. 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.

nine hundred some demonstrators and in last years that frightening 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 although the head has been removed the body destruction of the mubarak regime is still very much in place stay with us here at r t still to come out in trial and error as the u.s. is most famous army whistleblower bradley manning appears in court and his supporters say prosecutors have something to hide. but first tens of thousands of gathered in georgia's second largest city kutaisi in support of one of the country's major coalition troops the georgian dream party was set up by a local billionaire and expected to provide a main challenge to the ruling party of president mikheil saakashvili ahead of elections later this year the director of the eurasian democracy initiative peters

all my of says if history is the judge the government's response to the rallies may not be peaceful. you know the opposition has criticised that issue is increasing authoritarian tactics and unfortunately that issue has not gotten enough traction among voters presidents i guess it is government has been known to deal with opposition protesters quite harshly in the past one particularly brutal crackdown if you remember occurred in two thousand and seven ironically the fourth anniversary of the rose revolution yet if the opposition sticks to its peaceful methods and it has so far so good she was government will not have a good enough excuse to crackdown and it will have to rely. on the peaceful methods in dealing with these demonstrations maybe deny media coverage to the opposition and i also believe that it is still quite assured. in october. protesters in russia meanwhile who break or revise law in demonstrations

now have to pay up to seven thousand euros fine or face two hundred hours of community service president vladimir putin stressed the new rally law is in line with european standards in france for instance protesters violating the law can be fined up to forty five thousand euros and even face several years in jail and all be tested tuesday when an opposition rally called the march of millions is set to take place previous anti-government rallies of this kind ended with scuffles between police and protesters. let's take a look at some other news stories making headlines across the globe gunmen have 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 another church along with the attack or the blast left at least four worshipers dead and injured more than forty radical islam a sect boko haram claimed responsibility for the attack targeting 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 rains and high winds and investigation has been opened into the cause of the crash. polish police arrested fourteen football fans after officers tried to break up fighting between irish polish increase in supporters the incident happened just before the current ireland game at 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 the behavior of their supporters. in chile police used 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 figures more than three thousand people were killed. during his rule. pretrial hearings have started for the soldier accused of america's the

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 two whistle blowing web site wiki leaks manning's lawyers fear the trial won't be fair they say the government's withholding documents believe are relevant to the defense manning supporter and campaigners acapella vento 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 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 well stay with us here on r t still to come here to debate with pirro and the crosstalk that's after the headlines.

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headlines fighting across syria over the weekend dozens dead. pushing for an international conference to resolve the crisis and the un admits neither side is sticking to the peace play. for one hundred billion euros to shore up struggling banks and becomes the biggest economy so far. spain avoid additional cuts imposed from the outside as happened in the case of greece ireland and portugal. also boosting. the middle east crisis. their partnership this week as russian president vladimir putin is that in beijing cross talk next stay with us here on our.

sigrid laboratory. was able to build a most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. if. following welcome to cross talk i'm peter lavelle deep aching of the dollar is the era of the greenback finally coming to an end with china and japan now trading with each other in their own courage.