let the people decide international powers meeting in geneva called for a move towards a political solution to syria's bloody civil war backing the idea of a transitional government but with syrian opposition claiming they can be no solution unless president bashar assad steps down fears are growing here in damascus that the latest peace initiative for instance you need will only remain a solution paid by. german chancellor angela merkel is forced into a rare u. turn is italy and spain when their fight for lower boring rates. and as the european union's embargo on iranian all kicks in tehran says it's been stockpiling money and goods as a buffer against sanctions from brussels. with

a look back at the past seven days top stories in the latest developments this is the weekly on r.t. transition governing body is the latest solution put forward to end the syria's bloody internal conflict the idea was agreed at an emergency international meeting held in geneva on saturday the emphasis of the new plan is for syrian people to decide the fate of the country for themselves with no demands for regime change. has been following events in geneva for us. it's been a diplomatic roller coaster from the start it's been going through ups and downs and even before this conference in geneva when russia's foreign minister said 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 with much longer than initially expected normal 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 so very long time and since the beginning russia has been saying this is an internal matter for syria and no outsiders could order no 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 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. 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 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 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. some of syria's opposition groups have already rejected the proposal the syrian national council described it as a waste of time ruling out any role or power sharing settlement involving president

assad reflection is in the country for us with more in this. syrian opposition has already criticised harshly and agreements reached by world powers we can't engineer as too big to be able to and the ongoing crisis the sixteen months long 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 kept this isn't is growing and fears are growing that with the opposition now claiming they will not accept they interrogate them and if i saw it and his closest allies will also take part in that that this latest peace should mr default in geneva with all they remain as

solution paid for we have been able to speak to all of the 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 don't oppose as part of this government if only this helps to stop the violence here in the country this is indeed a very ugly conflict in syria and the ugliest thing is that if when children are being involved now in this crisis here's my report on that this may be. the place for these kids boys and girls is at the playground and someone dressed them in a mill she uniform hung them with real guns to teach them what to say and in front of camera now this little girl. maybe five years old and she's almost crying as people behind the camera her and other kids to chant and slogans out of nineteen kids after me and. this is just a. and

a series of clips posted online showing the ugly face of war and fold 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 true assad demonstrators. four year old a 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 is participation in apache arctic rally would put all his family in danger and lead to the murder of his other two children and if they threatened us many times once the road on the house as well that that time has come then they sent me a symbolic loop then they put the picture of reality 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'm in mars and wanted to prepare for exams and went to sleep in the living room which i'm not 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 mention me as eldest son who 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 us all like houla and then see this is the government usually valinor if this is bad freedom if you are not with them. 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 mine is that not losing you thing that you know we lost

a lot not ready to lose anymore how you doing suddenly. your man 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 and 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. this week german chancellor angela merkel dubbed europe's from nine miss know 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 without governments having a say chancellor merkel strongly opposed this move but was forced to give in after

insistence from spain and italy their leaders proclaimed a breakthrough this week also saw the ratification of europe's new fiscal pact which sets even tougher budget rules another ferrars the u.k. independence party's leaders says that merkel had a only reasons for making these concessions. 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 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. faces strong backlash in the homeland where some lawmakers

filed some lawsuit saying that the fiscal pact intrudes on the powers of german deputies and a grassroots level of german people who drive the economy are unhappy about giving bailouts to other nations as well but his accent a boy who has this report. it's a job interview with geopolitical implications and jess is 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 that think in germany that. they come here and like the money in the street but we're also working very hard. working from the morning till night every day they get a dozen of calls from their greek can patch or it's 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 and destroy. our country from troops so they'll be a million people is the german. not to help but rest 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 financing greece's bailout as one customer of this restaurant put it before placing an order one should check. 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 russia

begins. begins in italy and spain they have a national parliament and. it. it's a common currency is is taking. decisions in terms of money in terms of budget it's a violation of democracy and now and very set 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 in the wake artsy reporting from germany. to iran says it's made preparations as a buffer against sanctions from brussels as the european union embargo on iranian oil comes into force the e.u. sanctions came into power on sunday right after the u.s. introduced his own measures but it's produced little effect so far iranian

officials are reported to have boasted that because of america's extensive waivers selling oil remains no problem and i should return see author and journalist i spoke to him a little earlier not he says the e.u. is already suffering from its own restrictions. iran or we more than happy to replace all the oil exports to europe with their customers whether they be in latin america or nurse notably china because the u.s. has examined china and the chinese foreign minister is already on record as saying that these unilateral sanctions are outrageous and and wrong johnnie's oil imports crude oil imports from iran rose five percent back in two thousand and eleven levels 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 the great economic crisis in europe is causing havoc increase oil prices certainly going to make not only the euro but european finances suffer so you know this isn't going to

help the world economy and it's certainly not having any impact on iran. 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 supporters going to church can 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 ridiculed the u.s. defense secretary has laughed at pakistan for being in the dark on the bin laden raid.

literally 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 fox and the assistance and help free sentiment towards the alliance with the us has 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 big. in exchange for 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's one mistake that we've committed we've put all our eggs in the american basket and part of the deterioration in our job is 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 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 us 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 u.s. there is little chance the pakistani policymakers 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 in afghanistan pakistan is a belt 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 u.s.

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 stick our reporting from washington r.t. . now a look at some of the stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day in northeast kenya seventeen were killed and forty wounded in attacks on two churches thought to be carried out by a somali minutes. group police say the government more masks as they sprayed bullets and held grenades it's the latest in a series of violent incidents in the country where the border region has been tense since troops were sent into somalia to pursue islamic militants. more than sixty people have been killed and nearly half a million moved to temper shelters as monsoon rains calls floods and landslides in northeastern india the huge brahmaputra river burst its banks after a week of heavy rains inundating several thousand villages floods often occur in the region but this is considered the worst disaster in a decade. japan has restarted its first nuclear reactor since the fukushima

disaster despite nationwide protests japan's prime minister insists that current living standards cannot be maintained without atomic energy the country shut down all its nuclear plants for safety checks after the deadly spill of radiation triggered by last year's tsunami and earthquake. the deadline for julian assange his extradition to sweden has passed but the whistleblower remains holed up in ecuador's embassy in london he's defied british police demands to turn himself in as he waits for decision on his asylum plea the good old president says considering the request takes time as he has to weigh all the possible outcomes just mean fears that sweep might hand him over the u.s. where he could face the death penalty for publishing leaked american secrets the more liquid or embassies around the globe receive scores of messages with calls to approve the appeal to bill evans the founder of the national security will close coalition says the u.s. is ready to pull any strings to prevent the wiki leak is

a scam. mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the ecuador getting all sorts of letters that petitions from activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting less the ultimatums and tracts from the united states so the rest assured they right now as we speak the state department is in the ecuador planty. by showing what kind of consequences they could be facing whether it's economical and whether it's political and so this is the reason they are taking this long and we are hoping that their decision would be yes they would grant asylum to giuliana science but considering their weight the united states carries but also considering the history of our nation in terms of the types of measures they take the put pressure on the other governments it will remain to be seen. if they get the

join in the song shows his own interview program right here on our t.v. loss' edition goes on on tuesday and if you missed any they're all available online at a hearty dot com. i'm julian assange. it is true for sure it will be expose the world secrets these talking as long united states government being attacked by the powerful united states strongly condemn this question what. illegally shoot for five hundred days now i've been detained without charge. that hasn't stopped us. today we're on a quest for relief ideas that can change the world tomorrow. high tech battleships and missiles are on standby to protect london during the coming of lympics spam a concern at all it's more like a walls and then a sporting event result is your smith explains heavy weaponry may not be enough to tackle the real threat but london two thousand and twelve is almost upon us and

with just one month to go it's not just the athletes who are warming up a massive security operation is also getting into gear we've got battleships on the river thames with missiles pilotless drones with bombs missile batteries dotted around the city person always an untold numbers of firearms you can go to question the probe proportionality of this london two thousand and twelve is actually starting to look more like a security event not a sporting event. a security event with a little bit of incidental sport on the soil b.l.m. cake is the u.k.'s biggest ever peace time security operation and the numbers of personnel. on the ground during the games they'll be twelve and a half thousand police officers supported the occasion by the need of the whole thousand soldiers but insiders are saying basic security here at the olympic park

is seriously lacking investigative journalist li hazeldean is on the cover with g four s. the security firm that won the four hundred fifty mil. dollar contract for the games he's posing as a trainee and says role recruits vetting and training a sub standard i was asked during the training exercises to be a would be terrorist i was given a knife a real gun and a fake i.e.d. the gun was in my bag the x. ray operator didn't see it i did a good several times he still didn't find it he got behind wand and it didn't go he hadn't turned on me says he's raised his concerns with g four s. but was told to mind his own business no one from the company was available to comment for this report meanwhile the organizing committee remains resolute about safety security is absolutely the top priority for us and we want the people you

know come to visit london in twenty twelve to be absolutely confident they're going to be safe and secure and you'll go through security and x. ray machine to look at anything you bring him with you and that way we can check that anybody coming into the park isn't bringing anything with them that could do anybody any damage that's not lose experience of the operation and he's pessimistic about the safety of visitors to the olympic park i took a huge knife in there you know if one round of ammunition gets through by one person and fifty people go through different pierces that's fifty rounds of ammunition in the olympics and that's a massacre right then and there if a terrorist or a terrorist organization is intent on getting into the olympics all they have to do at the moment is queue up with a month to go the head of m i five says his organization can't guarantee the security of the games what's that and people are asking is the point of the heavy artillery if the park itself is left wide open laura smith london.

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