politics by the people and no forced regime change that's what international powers now see is the remedy to syria's bloody civil war. policy is that we have to go live to syria there but hopefully we'll get that connection back short here in r.t. in the meantime other news italy and spain shout a breakthrough after coercing germany's angela merkel into accepting a bank bailout scheme forcing her on the defensive at home. and it was defies a police request in london to turn himself in and be extradited saying he'll stay

safe in ecuador's embassy until a decision is made on his asylum request. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on. a transition governing body is the latest solution put forward to end syria's bloody internal conflict the idea was agreed at an emergency international meeting in geneva the new plan either lays down the political process new contains demands for regime change and syrians to decide their own fate even to spin off has been following the geneva meeting. it's very different out of control of course so 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. but

then she wasn't really at the media conference following that meeting. meeting to confirm that so it wasn't really clear that the conference in geneva itself much longer than initially expected nobody really nobody really knew what's going to what was going to come out of it but in the end they did end up signing this document sixteen months it's 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. we consider it the most important that this document does not seek to dictate to the syrians so it's 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. well the idea of this plan is that 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 the idea is that they will have a new constitution and democratic elections everything will be monitored by the united nations and specifically by u.n. special envoy kofi annan is awful planning to visit syria and hold talks with both sides 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 new interpretations do appear then it's all inked in this document. well some of syria's opposition groups have already rejected the road map describing it as a waste of time and impossible to implement. that is inside the country and has

more on the reaction to the international diplomacy effort so maria what is being said there about this new transition initiative. poland did bring up some of the rise syrian opposition has already criticised harshly and agreements reached by world powers we can't engineer to beg to be able to and the ongoing crisis the sixteen month loan crisis here in syria we've been hearing from both syrian national council turkey based opposition umbrella and free syrian army military when all of the opposition that can be no solution unless president bashar al assad steps aside we haven't heard any official reaction from damascus so far but of course skepticism is growing and fears are growing that with the opposition now claiming they will not accept a interrogate government if i saw it and his closest allies will also take part in

that that this latest peace initiative holds in geneva with all they remain as solution paid for we have been able to speak to all three people here on the streets of damascus and they've been saying that all they want is peace and security and safety to come back to the country they want changes and they want to fall and they don't pose opposition to be part of the interim government in the don't oppose or be part of this government if only this helps to stop the violence here in the country and that's very understandable people here in syria very very tired it's been sixteen months now the violence has been surprised all over the country and almost every day we are hearing about people dying dozens of people killed every day. hundreds more injured so people just want

peace back to the country they're tired this is indeed a very ugly conflict here in syria and the ugliest thing is that if children are being involved now in this crisis his mother reported that. this is. a 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 your son demonstrators. four year old a young is praising his motherland and this is a microphone the kids carrying not a kalashnikov. baryons father couldn't imagine that his youngest son's participation in apache otic 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 they wrote on the house as well that the time has come then they sent me a symbolic look then they put the picture of rwanda on facebook as 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 in i mean in my eyes 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 barked at on my heat under the bed. and i was crying because they killed years and i miss him a lot i managed to me is 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 and in places they wanted to kill a song like who didn't see this is the government officially valinor this is bill freedom if you're not with. the funerals of the two teenagers had an honor guard this is what they do in syria the family says when someone dies as a martyr not money started through not losing a thing that's enough we lost a lot not ready to lose any more thing 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 always found to stop the violence. r.t. reporting from syria. well later in the program we take a look at another country that went through an armed revolution one that refuses to die down tribal missing in libya turned into a pitched battles with heavily armored vehicles and thousands of competence fighting over territory and power. the european union embargo of iranian oil started today a few days after the u.s. introduces own sanctions but so far the measures are said to be having little effect iranian officials are reported to have boasted that selling oil remains no problem well for more on just how much these sanctions might achieve let's talk to

afshin rattansi he's author and journalist joining me now live from london well almost every iranian oil client outside of europe has now been granted an exemption to the sanctions by the u.s. it is washington wavering in its conviction perhaps. well you're right the united states itself exempting at the same time the norton kind of shooting themselves in the foot what would be huge catastrophic economic crisis currently in this continent it seems that the united states presumably again lobbied by israel which is to be running its foreign policy wants to do this at the same time as kind of being in a war in a war with syria very odd indeed bread futures up. ten dollars a barrel for may sorry for the following futures so you know this isn't going to help the world economy and it's certainly not having any impact on iran you say e.u. there shooting itself in the four i understand it's an increase will be particularly hard hit just how long then could the e.u.

support sanctions well in the center depends on norwegian oil workers who've been on strike i think the european central bank will be looking at this very carefully as well because iran has they say a hundred fifty billion dollars with a foreign reserves and they they can withstand any of this the threat i suppose and iran have mentioned this is that they may not in future sell oil to e.u. countries because there's more than enough demand from other countries in any case then it will be the choice for saudi arabia to desperately try and pump oil to keep your oil price down something that opec other opec members won't be liking but now i think what we have a desperate attempt presumably by saudi arabia to keep oil prices down because you will now be paying far more for oil when the whole point of these sanctions action is to force iran into a corner and to be more cooperative and be more open and reconsider its alleged

nuclear program that they say of course is for peaceful purposes but it being accused for pursuing a project that has other intentions will these sanctions have an effect on on terror. none of the sanctions have any impact on what's happening in iran i know the american corporate media likes to say that it does but they don't seem to realize that any problems economic problems within iran because different economic reform programs still have some time to act and in fact a lot of people in the iranian parliament doing about the economic way forward but it has to be sanctions have any impact chinese oil imports crude oil imports from iran rose five percent back to two thousand and eleven levels and other oil nations will be importing in any case as you mentioned the u.s. exemption career singapore and china so this doesn't have any impact but it does

have an impact in the sense that israel keeps helping this pressure on european union leaders iran has announced that it will be carrying out wargames of the surface missiles and i understand submarines also will be sent to even the caspian sea but missiles are now being put on some of the warships in the persian gulf capable of shooting at three hundred kilometer ranges but of course bearing in mind that saber rattling from israel and let's put it in historical context the u.s. did actually try all sanctions against japan back in one hundred forty the response from tokyo was attack and you've just been mentioning a similar scenario could these sanctions actually lead them to the same conclusion . you obviously have a longer memory than me. for. of course this is incredibly incredibly serious and if we have some sort of have more antics by the israelis i mean they've already been carrying out assassination programs in terror and the war how will

iran respond the some of the even the cia analysts to be looking at this and thinking you know if oil prices. if iran actually does suffer in any way it's in their interest for a conflagration so everything that president obama doing his support with al-qaeda for the people fighting the assad government in damascus of course him being an ally of the iranian government plus this continuous military using assassination of militants against iran and these are the sanctions all pointing way forward towards some sort of war obama may want to before his election with obviously would be completely crazy even the opposition groups in iran would actually return to good to hear thoughts thank you very much indeed for joining us live there author and journalist afshin rattansi in london. well this week german chancellor angela merkel dubbed europe's for nine miss no 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 e.u. taxpayer money into failing banks that will all without governments having a say something that fiscally conservative germany had staunchly opposed but was forced to relent over that it is a spain and italy were especially happy proclaiming eight breakthrough this week also saw the ratification of europe's new bailout cash fall and deficit laws but european parliament member nigel faraj doubts merkel gave in to anything she didn't agree with. it is perfectly clear that the brussels machine does dance to the german tune 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 what germany is saying is that all the member states of the euro zone should abolish their democracies should abolish 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 the 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 there's burgeoning opposition to the country's bailout policies for those who believe germany's financial fortunes are down to good luck the people driving the economy have a very different message artie's a son of boy has this report. it's a job interview with geopolitical implications and justice family has been running these greek restaurant for almost three decades ever since they immigrated to germany hard work and self-reliance made it a success but now they are under increasing pressure to share the fruits of their labor. the problem is that in greece the think in germany the milk and honey they come here and like the money in the street but we are also working very hard. working from the morning to the till 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 mall attack is just walking 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 in the destroyed of 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 greek 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 financing greece's or spain's bailout as 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 russia begins in germany begins in italy and spain they have a national parliament and. serve it and if there's a common currency is taking. decisions in terms of money in terms of budget it's a violation of democracy now and very assertive about now. is destroying democracy they said peace to be hardworking but in the case of europe's most productive country it seems just never stopped coming in the wake artsy reporting from germany. libya is descending into greater chaos with almost fifty people killed as a result of travel warfare in the last several days alone ethnic groups in the

south of the country have been locked in bitter conflict to wrest power and territory from rival tribes so let's talk more on that with london based activists and journalists chandan what it's being many months since the official victory of the libyan revolution but violence continues dozens are killed almost on a weekly basis why. i think the problem we have in libya currently is that there is no actual basis for national unity when before from nine hundred sixty nine gadhafi had his revolution and within a year the biggest military base of the united states fueled was got rid off by in one year on the british base you know there was actually a political leadership on the political momentum and organization and movement that sought to unite the tribes of libya on the basis of independence and a progressive internal economic policy and anti imperialist foreign policy what we have now currently is a libya essentially has been the whole nation has been lynched by nato and their so-called islam is the allies and this is happening across the region nato is

conducting regime change through it is a quote unquote islamist proxy and so now all those tensions all those divisions that the gadhafi had kind of united and kind of you know kind of managed to successfully has all come out in the open and everyone is fighting everyone with a bit of the crumbs which nato is throwing out but the transitional government is made up of libyans why is it that they cannot resurrect that sort of stability in the gadhafi era why are they failing to provide the security now. i mean i think all the political forces that could provide that security were actually involved in the gadhafi government they've all been persecuted they've been hunted you know mr dordogne who was the permanent representative to the united nation is currently going through a ridiculous show trial but we all respect to him he's perhaps one of the most outstanding and you know dignified humans of libya by just three days ago he was on t.v. saying he was proud to serve under gadhafi and of the new libya is absolutely

a country of death and destruction and just being ravaged that he and people should be recognized and i think that the bill that was right and then you have the former prime minister coming being sent from to newseum mr morris to keep the news in part minister assured assured the world that he was going to send them back to libya but that's been done over his head and there's rumors that there was a two hundred million dollars deal done to get him back and he's being tortured now as well so all those all those political forces that could bring libya together are being currently persecuted by the natives and to use the government but of course the revolution in libya attracts a lot of international attention in the time you are talking about this now this instability but why do we hear so little about the violence that followed particularly very little response from the nato allies that obviously supposedly brought this new era to that country. straight off i'd really like to thank russia today for being really the only international news channel that has anything close to

a semblance of balance coverage on libya every other channel pretty much has really fallen flat and has failed to provide just the professional level of balance reporting to directly answer your question they've achieved what they wanted to achieve that's nato and the n.c.c. forces they want to overthrow gadhafi and they want to scramble for for for the mineral wealth and for political power in libya in as much they want to do that they've been successful and that and that alone is the definition of democracy we widen out to the region to the regional context of africa before the looting of gadhafi himself and the regime change of libya no africa military exercises in africa the u.s. military command which had to be based in stuttgart in germany before the overthrow of libya after through the overthrow of gadhafi is libya already within fourteen planned africom military exercises on the african continent so absolutely libya was the veritable shield of africa and now that straw you know imperialism and the west is rolling on africa you can't thanks very much david thoughts you can chandan

author and journalist live in london well after a turbulent and divisive election islamist mohamed morsi has been sworn in as egypt's new president among the first to congratulate him was barack obama who expressed hope that america's alliance with egypt would continue but it's not his miniport now reports islamists in power a bound to cause headaches in washington. egypt's revolution began with tens of thousands into here square and it became a success shortly after washington sided with the anti-government opposition by stepping down responding to the egyptian people's hunger for change america's indorsement of change has paved the way for the muslim brotherhood to become egypt's strongest political force the international organization is considered to be one of the world's largest islamised movements and mohamed morsi has reportedly called for a constitution that is based on the koran. and cheerio law in the case of egypt we're taking a piece of the board that was one of our pieces this is why the internet was one of

the strongest american assets in the middle east and for many years we've removed that piece and brought in some people who i do not think will be friendly to us. in this video film last month and egyptian cleric rally support for the brotherhood's presidential candidate said there can no. similar you know we know you know that he's got a lot of. that . said. the muslim brotherhood has many different factions many different elements they are a political organization but they also have ties to terrorism they're also directly intertwined with what's going on in syria according to the new york times cia officers secretly stationed in turkey are currently working with syria's muslim brotherhood to smuggle automatic rifles grenades and ammunition into the country i

didn't work out you know. it was all me you know it would be. oh it's not going to work out in syria is like you know sort of have you been here. is the syrian opposition seen here waving al-qaeda flags has received public support from the terrorist network and created what some call a de facto alliance between america and its number one enemy. critics saying america's campaign for regime change comes with the consequence of empowering more radical and extreme leaders in the arab world let's not forget that assad and his government is a secular government just as gadhafi is government was a secular government if you get rid of that and you create the power vacuum al qaeda or another force that is as organized and as strong will take its place continued political instability in cairo has raised questions about the so-called success attributed to the arab spring governments in egypt and libya were toppled

with a u.s. stamp of approval but with new regimes leaning towards extreme islam many believe america could eventually find itself in a circumstance it hardly ever wanted very important i.r.t. new york we could be said to join in the son's remains holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london with the deadline passing this week for his extradition he can order police summons to turn up and. he sent to sweden saying he will stay put until the latin american nation decides on his son and plea president says he is in a rush to consider the request armor of you all possible consequences of shouldering the whistleblower songes main fear is that if he goes to sweden you'll be handed over to the u.s. where you could face the death penalty under the espionage act for publishing leaked american files meanwhile ecuador embassies around the world of received thousands of messages calling on the country to approve us on just the sort of suburbans is the founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition and she says the u.s. is ready to pull any strings necessary to prevent a sound is

a scary. mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the ecuador to me getting all sorts of letters that petitions from activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting a list the ultimatum sent tracts from the united states so the rest assured they right now as we speak the state department is in the ecuador plenty to think about by showing what kind of consequences they will be facing whether it's economical whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and we are hoping that their decision will be yes they would when the silent to giuliana's lines but considering their weight the united states carries but also considering that yes three or four nation in terms of the types of measures they take to put pressure on other governments it will remain to be seen they forget the

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