other people. change international powers now see as the remedy to syria's bloody war. syrian rebel groups who go on the hunt for anyone with a view. to report children so. it's a. breakthrough after coerced. into accepting. scheme forcing her on the. police request in london to turn up and be extradited.

on his asylum request. it is good to have you with us here on our to as we highlight the stories of the week and today. show a transitional governing body is the latest solution put forward to end syria's bloody internal conflict the idea was agreed upon at an emergency international meeting in geneva the new plan either lays down a political process nor contains demands for regime change instead allowing syrians to decide their fate. was following the geneva talks and joined me just a bit earlier here in the studio. it's been a different article roller coaster from the start it's been going through ups and downs and even before this conference in geneva. russia's foreign minister said you are often met with hillary clinton in st petersburg after that meeting he said she

changed her position but then she wasn't really at the media conference following that meeting. meeting to confirm that so it wasn't really clear then the conference in geneva itself much longer than initially expected normal really nobody really knew what's going to what was going to come out of it worked in the end they did end up signing this document certainly some progress piers to be made here but we know that the conflict in syria approximately sixteen months in the making now the violence continues as we speak russia when it comes to the u.n. security council russia has been steadfast in its opposition to any type of military outside military intervention in syria now experts are saying this final document is essentially a victory for russian diplomacy what do you think exactly sixteen months a very long time and since the beginning russia has been saying this is an internal matter for syria and no outsiders could order a solution to the situation there and. it's

a mystery why it took so long for the international community to agree because now it's reflected in this final document it took all these vetoes and discussions it's just unclear really why it took these sixteen months and certainly on the heels of that we have a comment here from the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. we consider it of the utmost importance that this document does not seek to dictate to the syrian sides how the transitional process should happen politically how exactly this process will take place is up to the syrian people this document is very precise and. so the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov saying there that this document is very precise however there does seem to be some fine print as well the inside of this so what exactly does this new. and in tale well the idea of this plan is the syrian people and that's the most important part syria will establish this transition governmental body which will include all sides of the conflict with the

authorities and all groups within the opposition including the rebels then it is that they will have a new constitution and democratic elections everything will be monitored by the united nations and specifically by un special envoy kofi annan is also planning to visit syria and for talks with both sides now certainly for the past number of months so when it comes to the members of the u.n. addressing the ongoing issue in syria the united states has been quite eager indeed to have president assad step down now in the past twenty four hours and washington seems to have changed its mind saying that perhaps assad can stay but with the transitional government still though what do you think the fate of assad will be well it's an interesting question actually kofi annan himself was asked this question at the media conference following the meeting in geneva and let's listen to what he had to say.

yes. i guess you can't really put it better than this around him so but the bottom line right now is that the international community was able to reach this understanding it's vital for this unity to be sustained and even if some of the new interpretations do appear then it's all inked in this document that is you're going to spin off i spoke to him just a bit earlier in the program. some of syria's opposition groups have already rejected the roadmap describing it as a waste of time and impossible to implement his mirth was inside the country and is more on the reaction to the international diplomacy people we have been able to speak to the syrian capital have actually defined it on how to concede to document this meeting in geneva for them indeed call this a breakthrough and to get the tunnels and the seeds could indeed be

a solution to this sixteen month long crisis the crisis here in syria but obviously we have to call they see it takes two to tango and it's absolutely clear it's too far hope the dialogue is possible while one of the size at least doesn't want to talk with been here we have the full opposition from the syrian opposition both from internal opposition and. foreign based opposition but they will not accept any transitional government and they will not accept any peace plan even still in power almost every day we're hearing about dozens of people killed even more everywhere in the country but the obvious is that if one children are being involved in this crisis he's my report on that. place for these kids boys and girls is at the. playground and someone dressed them in a military uniform hung them with real guns told them what to say and put in front

of camera. this little girl for maybe five years old and she's almost crying as people behind the camera pushed her and other kids to chant and slogans out of nineteen q it's hard for me sam and. this footage is just one in a series of clips posted online showing the ugly face of war unfolding in the country recent u.n. report says both sides in the syrian conflict the rebels from the free syrian army and the government are using children in their fight. to look and see children among pro assad demonstrators. four year old ray young is praising his motherland and this is a microphone the kids carrying not a kalashnikov. very young his father couldn't imagine that his youngest son's participation in apache artic rally would put all his family in danger and lead to the murder of his other two children and

that if they threatened us many times once the road on the house as well that the time has come then they sent me a symbolic loop then they put the picture of reality on facebook promising five hundred thousand syrian pounds to those who bring him to them we couldn't imagine they'll come to our home and not let me and i'm in my ears and wanted to prepare for exams and went to sleep in the living room which is and this is where they smash first they were shootings and they cried a lot by the time i hid under the bed and you know that it also. i was crying because they killed yes and i miss him a lot i'm unsure me as eldest son was shot dead on the way to hospital as he was trying to get help to his injured brother little rayyan escaped death only because that night he stayed with his grandparents in the s.s. about me they wanted to kill or solve like houla and then see this is the government usually valinor if this is the freedom if you are not with them it. the

funerals of the two teenagers had an on a guard this is what they do here in syria the family says when someone dies as a martyr not mine is that through not losing a thing that you know we lost a lot not ready to lose any more how you mean suddenly. yemen has three more brothers left he has something to lose in this cemetery we found at least eight fresh graves small ones but in the rubble kids are becoming victims of grown up games in this conflict they've been used as human shields they've been forced to take up arms and they've been killed for a purpose they barely understand and no one can say for sure how many more will die until a ways found to stop the violence. r.t. reporting from syria. and syria looks for ways to end the violence a revolutionary fever is spreading well beyond the arab world later this hour here

on our t.v. we explore the negative affects that foreign and military engagement can have on the wider region as nato involvement in libya last year is blamed for sparking conflict in mali. also the cost of helping washington most pakistanis think of the u.s. as an enemy extremism is on the rise as people grow tired of the price of assisting with the fight in afghanistan. tempus the hour here in moscow this is the weekly german chancellor angela merkel dubbed europe's of prow nine was seen to taste defeat for the first time in years it was decided at an e.u. summit to give brussels the power to pump the e.u. taxpayer money into failing banks at will all of this without having to get the permission from governments and something that fiscally conservative germany had staunchly opposed but was forced to relent over the leaders of spain and italy were especially happy proclaiming a breakthrough this week also saw the ratification of europe's new bailout cash

pool and deficit laws but european parliament member nigel farrar doubts merkel gave in to anything she didn't already agree with you it is perfectly clear that the brussels machine does dance to the german team and smaller countries are very frightened of going against really in the end what angela merkel says the focus always is on germany you know will merkel blink or not and what germany is saying is that all the member states of the euro zone should abolish their democracies should have polish their independence surrender their birth rights and give it all to a super bureaucrat to push on to a full fiscal union to a full political union indeed to be a union that will be absolutely dominated by germany and by some magic formula giving away control of everything to one person will solve everything. regardless of merkel's ambitions for the european union in her homeland burgeoning opposition

to the country's bailout policies for those who believe germany's financial fortunes are down to good luck other people driving the economy have a very different message as artie's walks on a boy car reports it's a job interview with geopolitical implications and yes his family has been running these greek restaurant for almost three decades ever since they immigrated to germany hard work and self-reliance made it is success but now they are under increasing pressure to share the fruits of their labor. the problem is that in greece that think in germany that. they come here and like the money in the street but we are also working very hard. working from the morning till night every day they get a dozen of calls from their greek can patch or with requests for money jobs of both some like. takis just walk in a restaurant owner himself he lost his business last year and ever since has been

out of permanent work like about twenty two percent of greeks there is the second world war and destroy. our country from the troops so they'll be a million people is the german. not to help but to pay while references to the countries nats of past have appeared more than once in the great coverage of the bailout germans remain unswayed in their position to pay for somebody else's debts polls consistently show that the majority of germans are stronger against finance increases or spain's bailout is one customer of this restaurant put it before placing an order one should check not only the menu but also his wallet some say this bleed of opinions between the power and the public represents a test of germany's democratic system democracy begins at home begins in the last begins. really begins in italy and spain they have

a national parliament. and this is the surrogate and. this is a common currency is taking. decisions in terms of money. of budget it's a violation of democracy now and very assertive about now. is destroying democracy they see peace to be hardworking but in the case if europe's most productive country seems just never stopped coming next in the wake of artsy reporting from germany good to have you with us here on our three today still ahead for you in this program russians outlawed all across the atlantic but washington pushes for a blacklist of russian officials it suspects of human rights abuses possible says it will not tolerate such interference. wiki

leaks editor julian assange to remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london with a deadline passing this week for his extradition he ignored a police someones to turn up and be sent to sweden saying he will stay put until the latin american nation decides on his asylum plea ecuador's president says he's in no rush to consider the request and will review all possible consequences of sheltering the whistleblower saunters main fear is that if you go to sweden he will be handed over to america where he could face the death penalty under the espionage act for publishing leaked files meanwhile ecuadorian embassy is around the world to receive thousands of messages calling on the country to approve a saunters assignment plea simple adman's the founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition says that the u.s. is ready to pull any strings necessary to prevent a saunders or scrape. mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the ecuador did meet getting all

sorts of letters that petitions from activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting a list of also made them sent troops from the united states so the rest assured they right now as we speak the state department is. ecuador plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences they will be facing whether it's the economic or whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and beyond hoping that their decision will be yes they would grant asylum to giuliana science but considering their weight the united states carries but also considering that he's three or five nation in terms of the types of measures they take to put pressure on the other governments it will remain to be seen and i don't forget that our julian assange still has his own interview program here on our t.v. it's our latest edition is on this tuesday but if you've missed any of the previous

ones they're available for you twenty four seven. dot com. it is true of wiki leaks we've exposed the world secrets these documents the united states government being attacked by the united states strongly condemned. illegally. hundred days now being detained without charge. doesn't stop the. day. the revolutionary ideas can change the world tomorrow. live from moscow this is ati this week seventeen pakistani soldiers were ambushed and beheaded by taliban militants seven more died in a separate roadside bombing violent extremism at home is believed to be the price the nation is paying for assisting the u.s. in its fight against afghanistan a war that wouldn't have been possible without pakistan's support. reports. it's

not only u.s. bombs that fly in pakistan but also the stream of demands and accusations from washington there are several things that where asking the pakistanis to do more and better number one they've got to do more about the safe havens inside their own country even ridicule the u.s. defense secretary has laughed at pakistan for being in the dark on the bin laden raid. one. little in washington's rhetoric now suggest that during the decade of war in afghanistan pakistan had been there myself instrumental ally in the region the united states could not have had secured afghanistan in three weeks with minimum cost in terms of. money and in terms of in terms of the lives of its soldiers that would not have been possible without blocks any assistance and help

three sentiment towards the alliance with the us has fueled domestic insurgency in pakistan some has lost about somewhere between five thousand to six thousand soldiers and paramilitary soldiers but more than that we've lost more than thirty five thousand civilians and these people died because of these bait of bombings in a crude comparison the us has lost two thousand troops in afghanistan they want the pakistanis to do our dirty work for us and the pakistanis have simply said we've supported you forward eleven years we can't do it anymore you're killing our stability they have to stop the civil war in the country they have to stop the war that's going on on their own territory because of their help for the united states so they have a number of problems which i think amount to a mass and they're going to be left high and dry when we leave many washington see

a different picture of a country that does not fully do their bidding. changed with the billions they'd sent them were given taxpayer money to this country which is not treating us right but we made a mistake we were we have trusted pakistan way too long the pakistanis see another mistake there is one mistake that we've committed we put all our eggs in the american basket and part of the deterioration in our genes strategic position over the past decade since two thousand and one is because of this fact that we completely relied on the americans and it's not the first time they've dished up beef before as well but but so to speak we made this mistake and we're trying to know correct that mistake pakistan is now working hard on its regional alliances primarily with china but the u.s. still needs pakistan washington has been able to continue drone strikes in pakistan likely because of its military leaders tacit agreement the us also needs the short route through pakistan to supply the troops in afghanistan islam watch shutting

down last year in response to the killing of two dozen pakistani soldiers but with elections approaching their end with people furious at the us there is little chance pakistani policy makers will want to be seen as being more accommodating to the united states the mockery and condescending remarks from washington make those chances even slimmer during the last decade of war and have got is that pakistan is have dealt with an unprecedented insurgency in their own country terror which has killed an awful lot of people much more than the losses carried by the u.s. in afghanistan and that to a large extent was the price pakistan paid for its alliance with the us but these days in washington it seems hardly anyone keeps that in mind when handing out another portion of factorizations and humiliation to the nation they once convinced to become their ally i'm going to check out reporting from washington r.t. . always a minimal stories available for you at aussie dot com including for example of wimbledon some must go to being stolen refers to the whole patrols the skies for

pigeons during the competition. now police in london are on the hunt for him off that he was snatched two days ago. and usual beauty contest in israel as three hundred contestants vying to be crowned the first miss holocaust survivor. thank you for joining us here on ars he today by the government of mali has appealed to the united nations to take action after al-qaeda linked extremists destroyed holy sites in the city of tim buck to the west african nation has seen constant attacks since it was taken over by a military junta in much middle east expert by me as a kiwi blames the nato backed revolution in neighboring libya for the violence in

mali all of this of course is related to a war that was waged against libya last year during two thousand and eleven which brought about the displacement of many of the forces who have been. in libya for many many years they were well armed and of course with them entering the situation inside of northern mali is further destabilizing polarize the situation. the current through the course of the capital up. as well if the u.s. intervene in libya last year with the current situation that we have right now in mali. well they're not far from mali libya is now descending into greater chaos almost fifty people killed as a result of tribal warfare in just the last several days alone ethnic groups in the south of the country have been locked in a bitter conflict to wrest power and territory from rival groups both sides are using heavy weapons including vehicles from

a pentagon official michael maloof says he's not surprised. i think it was expected you've got so many tribes out there and so many elements that are looking for power for themselves and i think part of the problem is because of the lack of. support from folks from the united states and elsewhere who just basically bomb the place in the market they're not really trying to help to pull together any kind of coalition and i think given the fact that there's been no governance in that country for all these years i think it's going to be much more difficult to achieve and i think you're going to have more and more of that as you go along and weapons of course are continuing to flow to these various groups and i think you're going to. basically anarky outside the capital. a new way is being driven between moscow and washington this week as u.s. senators back sanctions against russian officials suspect super human rights abuses moscow says it's an interference in its internal affairs and has warned of

a symmetrical response the so-called magnitsky list primarily targets people allegedly linked to the death of russian lawyer sort of gave magnitsky he died while in custody facing tax evasion allegations three years ago the u.s. congress has yet to vote on the bill and political analyst of modern safe says the move was extremely ill timed in terms of u.s. russia relations. the united states and russia are the two great thermonuclear powers in the world russia remains the preeminent strategic partner in the eurasian landmass the united states and russia have an enormous amount of strategic interests and concerns in common they are equally threatened on the lawn by islamist fundamentalism they both face major drug epidemics crime epidemics within their own countries the need for security and law and order cooperation between the united states and russia is absolutely preeminent in the world but that is not

going to happen when relations between the two great super powers deteriorate over issues like this this is grandstanding and demagoguery in the senate of the worst carried and what's particularly striking to me on this is that this isn't coming from the house of representatives it's coming from the senate and the senate is supposed to take the long term and be the more thoughtful reflective legislative chamber in the u.s. constitutional system. well we have a plenty more details on the case of. including what led to his arrest on the investigation into his death you can find all the background on this controversial story. a russian built a soyuz spacecraft has brought three space explorers safely back to earth after a lengthy six month mission and the crew including one russian cosmonaut are now in custody start after undocking from the international space station to buy maté watch the landing from russia's mission control. the been out of the international

space station for about six months now they had a couple of assignments to to complete as well as some of the missions which they had to complete now this is actually the hundred and twelve mission for the russian space station i mean we're talking this is one nine hundred sixty seven here and this mission specifically expedition thirty is actually the third mission on that the more modernize us use and one of them that is very notorious is the arrival of dragon now dragon is a commercial so resupply ship that's being billed by the space x. company now a lot of these missions in expeditions are you know some of them a scientific some of them are research some of them are just going over to make sure that everything at the international space station is working perfectly particularly those subtle lies that feed out a few of information that you know that tell us a little bit more about what's going on out there in space. ok back in just a moment with a recap of the week's top stores. wealthy

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