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 abbas and assad steps down fears a growing here in damascus that the latest peace initiative forced into a new work will only remain a solution on paper. german chancellor angela merkel is forced into a re you turn as italy and spain win their fight for lower boring grades on bailout loans. and are the european union's a bhangra owner raney an oil cake send terror around says it's been stockpiling

money and goods as a buffer against sanctions from the. hello and welcome to r.t. twenty four hour news live from moscow and with the latest news and their review of the week's events for us a transitional governing body is the latest solution put forward to end syria's bloody internal conflicts the idea was agreed at an emergency international meeting held in geneva on saturday then this is 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. 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. nobody really knew what's going to what was going to come out of it in the end that 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 you know 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 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 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. 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 that 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 turning out a new rule a power sharing settlement involving president assad. has that all. 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 months long crisis here in syria we've been hearing from both syrian national council turkey placed opposition umbrella and free syrian army military when all of the opposition that can be no solution unless president bashar 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 opposition now claiming they will not accept they interrogate government if i saw it and his closest allies will also take part in that. this latest patient is the default in geneva with all they

remain as solution pay 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 these crisis here's my report on that this is the place for these kids boys and girls is at the playground and someone dressed them in the middle 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 just slogans out

of nineteen kids for me. 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. we can see children among through assad demonstrators. four year old or young is praising his motherland and this isn't microphone the kids caring not a kalashnikov. baryons father couldn't imagine that his youngest son is participation in apache after crowley 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 but that

time has come when 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 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 out here were shootings and they cried a lot barked at and i hid 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 us as they wanted to kill a song like a hula and then see this is the government usually well enough if this is their freedom if you are not with. the funerals of the two teenagers had been on the guard this is what they do here in syria the family says when someone dies as

a martyr not mine instead it's not losing a thing that's enough for a lost a lot not ready to lose anymore how you thing someone did of a. your man has three more brothers left he has something to lose in this cemetery we've found at least eight fresh graves small ones vulnerable 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 way is found to stop the violence. r.t. reported from syria. this week german chancellor angela merkel dubbed europe's for our nine or mr no will seem to taze 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 thieving banks without governments having

a say chancellor merkel strongly opposed this move but also forced to give in after terms from insistence from spain and italy that their leaders proclaimed a breakthrough this week also saw the ratification of europe's new fiscal pact which says even tougher budget rules and the u.k. independence party leader says that merkel had her own reasons for making that concession. 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 but what germany is saying is that all the member states of the euro zone should abolish their democracies should have 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 union that will be absolutely dominated by

germany and by some magic formula giving away control of everything to one person will solve everything. no could face a strong backlash in her homeland where some lawmakers filed suit saying that this compact intrudes on the powers of german deputies and that a grassroots level of the german people who drive the economy are unhappy about a given bailouts to other nations as well as he's accountable for. it's a job interview with geopolitical implications and just this 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 the 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 and patcher it's with requests for money jobs of both sound like morley tackiest 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 troops so they'll be a million people. not to help but to 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 strongly 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 russia begins. really begins in italy and spain with a national parliament and. it. and if there's a common currency is is taking. decisions in terms of money in terms of budget it's a violation of democracy now and very certain about now. is destroying democracy they see peace to be hardworking but in the case if europe's most productive country its aims just never stop coming in the way cards see reporting from germany. and later in the program to find and to faeces the whistleblower julian assange holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy in london but

almost two weeks now while the decision on his asylum request is held up amid fears the u.s. is blainey and again for the. last over looking behind him and finds that pakistan has paid for supporting operations in afghanistan the u.s. says demanding that the country even as he was. terrorized says it's made preparations as a buffer against sanctions from brussels as the european union embargo only reigning in oil comes into force the e.u. sanctions came into power on saturday on sunday rather right after the u.s. introduced its own measures but it's produced little effect so far irina officials are reported to have boasted that because of america's extensive way with sailing oil remains no problem afshin rattansi author and journalist says the e.u. is already suffering from its actions. iran will we need to replace all the

oil exports to europe with their customers with a baby in latin america or lose notably china because of course the u.s. has examined china and the chinese foreign minister is already on record as saying that these you have to all sanctions are outrageous and wrong johnnie's oil imports crude. oil imports from iran rose twenty five percent there back to 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 are 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. the deadline for drilling a sound as extradition to sweden has passed but the whistleblower remains holed up in ecuador's embassy in london has defied

a british police demands to turn himself then he waits for a decision on his asylum plea acquittals president says considering the request takes time as he has to weigh all possible outcomes asunder as the main fear is that sweden might hand him over to the u.s. where he could face the death penalty for publishing leaked american secrets meanwhile ecuador and embassies around the globe received scores of messages with calls to approve their appeal and civil evidence the founder of the national security whistleblowers coalition says the u.s. is ready to pull any strings to prevent the weekly his escape. mostly what's happening right now is the political side and you have to realize that they may be and this is the ecuador. letters that the titians activists around the world but on the other hand they are also getting a list of also made them sent tracts from the united states so the rest assured the 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 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 grant asylum to giuliana's launch but considering their weight the united states carries but also considering that he's three or four nation in terms of the types of measures they take to put pressure on other governments it remains to be seen and don't forget that julian assange has his own interview program right here on r.t. the latest edition goes on air on tuesday and you have missed any they're always available online at. www dot. julian assange. it is true of wiki leaks expose the world secrets these documents belong in the

united states can be an attack by the united states so we can down there. illegally shoot five hundred days now being detained without charge. hasn't stopped us. today we're on a quest for relief ideas that can change the world tomorrow. around three hundred protesters have reportedly storms the national election commission office in the libyan city of benghazi just trying to impeach is and burning versioning material outside they then it comes just days before the country's first a direct call for congress which will be tasked to oversee a new government was elected but activist and journalist a second chance down south has little sign of a democratic progress the elections are about to come about in libya in a few days but i don't think it's a sign of any democratic progress in libya because all indicators which should be there which would lead to. a healthy democracy would be taking place are absent so

what we have is a is the relative persecution of women's right relative to what happened in the gadhafi persecution of all dark skin libyans who are being persecuted on the basis that they are loyal by and by but by dint of the pigmentation of their skin to gadhafi we have intertribal warfare to go along we have four hundred militias all across libya there is no there's no law and order there's no security so this is this is far from any basis of a true people focus democracy but this is the nature of the empty seat nato democracy and this is the nature of the democracy that nato want to bring to all the peoples of the global south. the government of mali has appeals to the united nations to take action to al-qaeda linked to extremists destroyed its size in the city of timbuktu the west african nation has seen constant a tox since it was taken over by a military judge in march maybe steps that of a young me as a k. we had blames the nato box revolution in neighboring the libya but the violence in

mali all of this of course is the latest to the war that was waged against libya last year during two thousand and eleven which brought about the displacement of many of the to our forces who have been settled 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 inside the north of the current through it of course affected the capital up of moscow as well if the us is not going to be in libya last year we will not have the current situation that we have right now in mali. and as always much more available to us home including outrage engine upon what people are angry about a nuclear reactor being restarted after the government breaks its promise to use only conventional energy falling to figure she meant disaster find more detail called. plus an unusual beauty contest in

a zero three hundred contestants advice to be crowned the fast advent mysql holocaust survivor. this week seventeen pakistani soldiers were captured under beheaded by taliban militants seven more died in a separate roadside bombing there's believed the country's play at paying a high price for helping the u.s. in its fight against islam it's an afghanistan that is guy in nature can now reports it's a war that wouldn't have been possible without pakistan's support. 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 the. literal in washington's rhetoric now suggest that during the decade of war in afghanistan pakistan had been there milf 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 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 which many washington see a different picture of a country that does not fully do their. in exchange for the billions they'd sent them were given taxpayer money to this country which is not treating us right but we've 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 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 it be 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 u.s. also needs to fork route through pakistan to supply the troops in afghanistan is 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 and have got is that pakistanis have dealt with an unprecedented insurgency in their own country terror which has killed an awful lot of people much more than the losses tarried 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 affect his ations and humiliation to the nation they once convinced to become their ally i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . let's now take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world and northeast khania at seventeen were killed and forty wounded in a time some two churches feel to have been carried out. by a somali militant group police say the gunmen wore masks as they sprayed bullets and hurled grenades is 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 al shabaab is list militants. and sixty people have been killed and nearly hoffer million move to temporary shelters as monsoon rains caused floods and landslides in northeastern india the huge brother putra river burst its banks after a week of heavy downpours submerging several thousand villages floods often ok in the region but this is considered the worst disaster in decades. june was one of iraq's bloodiest months since there was draw of u.s. troops last year with over two hundred thirty people killed in the last few days alone there's been a spate of bombings and shootings across the country chain neighborhoods and security forces were the main targets for our times is in the midst of a political crisis with rivaling militants calling for the country's prime minister to resign or sidelining is a potent. and you were druze driven between moscow and washington this week as u.s.

senators boxer sanctions against russian officials it suspects of human rights abuses moscow says it's an interference in his internal affairs and has warned of a symmetrical response they so-called magnitsky this primarily targets people originally linked to the death of russian law it's your game of needs he died in custody three years ago while facing tax evasion charges after a prisoner for his failed to give him access to medical care the u.s. congress has yet to vote on the bill and it faces an uncertain future larking white house support political analyst and martin c. says the move is extremely ill timed in terms of u.s. russia relations to be united states and russia are the two great thermal nuclear powers in the world rusher remains the. the eminent 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 superpowers deteriorate over issues like this this is grandstanding and demagoguery in the senate of the worse current 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 longer term and be the more thought focus reflective legislative chamber in the us constitutional system. i know we have plenty more details on the case of sergei magnitsky including what led to his arrest and the investigation into his death order bhangra to his calm comes. a controversial stories online at home and i'll be back in a moment with

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