these between where we were a week ago following the conference in geneva of international partners looking to find a peaceful solution to syria and what we're hearing this weekend now last weekend in geneva the u.s. seemed to be onside with the kofi annan but police plan would see it would keep plan which would see both sides both the opposition and the government forces lay down their weapons and trying to come to the table to find a solution out there and what we've heard from russia with regards to the statements we've heard from hillary clinton today is the foreign ministry slamming in the secretary of state saying that under no circumstances one hundred russia ever supported or continue to support the assad government during the ongoing crisis in syria now with regard to those helicopters as well we've also heard from the foreign ministry saying that they're just simply wasn't the case that yes there were a there is i beg your pardon a shipment of dismantled helicopters currently on its way from russia to syria

however dates once they arrived in syria that would take at least a month for them to be put together to be assembled so they clearly would be used right now for the purposes which mrs clinton is suggested so yes it seems they very inconsistent approach a very different approach from the u.s. secretary of state delivering as they say a vitriolic statement more of a rant at times than a considered political argument that she delivered in paris. russia expert martin mccauley from the university of london says american threats will turn into serious action. i think that you've become very very frustrated with russia and china and the shrewd nature of a commons in fact underlines that. the united states is in fact in quite a weak position all it can do is to try and put pressure on the. russia and china and if you like try to shame them into doing something coming over to the other side and supporting the people but. state has failed to do this she's failed to do

that and she makes these accusations russia one should remember has been arming syria for the last fifty years it's nothing new russia and china if you like superpowers they are the leading member there are in the security council have got a veto in the security council their nuclear powers are sitting at the top table what can the united states do. you use military force it can't use sanctions it's very difficult to see what the consequences will be the consequences may be minor things that some russian general can go to war chinese general convert the united states the present and something like that but they're all minor things here not to course was interested to hear what you think were the big stories of the day your point of view we're asking tonight what you think about every clinton slamming russia and china over syria that this is what telling us thanks for if you voted so far sixty five percent here so far this hour at least say that clinton's remarks are a sign of frustration with the two countries obstruction of the west's military drive

seventy percent you can see there think the u.s. is undermining the geneva peace deal nice standing in the way of enjoying progress twelve percent believe it's just a move to secure a bomb of more votes in the upcoming presidential election just six percent agree with hillary clinton that moscow and beijing are stalling the global peace effort for syria or so you think r.t. don't cope. with the syrian city of homs often called the cradle of violent uprisings reportedly suffered more deaths than any other part of the country once home to more than one hundred thousand people it's no ghost town littered with corpses as it is many financial reports next evidence of the ferocity of the fighting remains you may find some of the images coming up in a report upsetting. this part of hundred maybe back on the syrian army control but their patrols never stop soldiers are searching house to house they're looking for terrorists or snipers but that's not what they usually find. some people in their homes became their grades too and this

room look human bones or at least one person. who seems to have been burnt to death. in the next house we find three more charts call's. activists claim up to eight hundred thousand people have been killed since the uprising began sixteen months ago the u.n. estimates around ten thousand we have no way of telling if these remains or others like them were even counted at all. baba amr used to be home to one hundred thousand people now we're driving through ghost area people have left military almost the only human beings left in this area this is he can see behind me this is a cemetery almost untouched actually while the rest of the city looks completely like the cemetery buildings schools mosques all in ruins and no sign of life while

many signs of this is one of the tallest buildings in the area and we can see from this balcony two completely different pictures two completely different realities look there beautiful pictures peaceful city while over there well we can see war homes the opposition hotbed has always been at the heart of the uprising against president assad there's a badge of bomb right that is to be a percent of the clashes between the rebels and the army since it's been shelled heavily now so you can see it's quiet here but just steps away just meters away another basic starts. and this is where the things are happening right now it's standing behind these rays strange rays quite safe but from time to time missiles reach this area to this is why we've got a hurry up. but with a bar another home state district as you can see also almost completely destroyed everything shops buildings schools even mosques we were told that this district was

cleaned from turkey months ago but as you can hear not far from here questions still continue so we were actually told not to go any further i would simply dangerous soldiers come to our location eight. it was the rebels woke up so when the. recent national r.t. homs syria. well as the war in syria intensifies one of the country's top military officers and a long time ally of president assad reportedly fled the country france's foreign minister says brigadier general manaf tlass is now on his way to paris and his defection is a serious blow to the regime the generals the highest ranking official to abandon the assad regime so far we've checked out more stories of course dot com our website. we got leaked footage of an american helicopter pilot apparently singing merrily there is incinerates a group of farmers with a hellfire missile but video starting

a fresh wave of uproar over u.s. troops in afghanistan also online to tonight the family of russian businessman victor boot petition for him to be returned home from the united states where he's currently jailed for attempting to sell arms to colombian armed forces. also making every penny count of massachusetts man pays his mortgage to boxes of point but please in the bank find out more about that party dog kong. international criminal court officials jailed in libya for most of months say there's no chance gadhafi son saif al islam will get a fair trial there the representatives for free just days ago ahead of the country's parliamentary elections tomorrow but the leadership seen bloody sectarian clashes with hundreds dead as one former rebel commander vows to prevent people

from voting political scientists and journalists a bit rundown he told me the state legal institutions in post gadhafi libya won't allow for a fair trial of the son of the deposed leader. it's a real concern that safe gadhafi will not be able to face a fair trial in libya and that's a very obvious to any observer of course libya has long been a stable country since the removal of movement of gadhafi for all obvious reasons it's very obvious to anybody following the situation in libya that it is not a country that is able to offer you know a fair trial to save for the very reasons that it doesn't have to structures to do so and the latest developments involving an i.c.c. lawyer being detained in the jail in libya proves that. however the program is make over the internet the form of entrepreneurs flocking to south america to find

their fortunes for a land of poverty the amount of plenty days we don't line the brazilian dream. the first the russian built branding all foreign funded nonprofit organizations and gauged in political activities as foreign agents has passed his first stage in parliament the idea is to make such groups finances more transparent but critics say it could be used to attack the opposition movement reports for r.t. . the opponents of this law first and foremost have a problem with the word agent itself they say that it has a very negative connotation and makes it sound as if the n.c.o. was operating in russia are actually spies us for and date celebrating illegally they're also saying that they are already being tightly controlled when it comes to finances as it is and it would be further control over their monetary sources will be installed or they will simply have no room to operate the masterminds behind it say that they have taken it almost word for word from the existing american law

this so-called era foreign agents registration act which has been existence from the one nine hundred thirty s. and nobody seems to be bothered by it now the proponents of the law say that this law is absolutely vital for russia i guess they say we are admitting the fact that it's still very raw and it still needs to be worked on but that's exactly what we are doing here in the state duma but they say the law is absolutely necessary and they believe that the n c o's which do which do get financing from abroad may be meddling in russia's internal politics and that is something that's unacceptable not just for russia but for any country they're also saying that their main aim of course is to make the operation of these n.c.o. is more transparent and they're really not putting any any more pressure on they're going to say sions basically it's up to an organization itself to register or not to register itself as a foreign agent of course the law will be undergoing more amendments and discussions but it is hopes of by the deputies in the state duma that it will it be

effective at the end of july. venezuela's withdrawal is to promote extra from paraguayan response to the latin american nation bus driver caracas paragliders in deepening international isolation right now ever since the parliament impeached former president fernando lugo for cracking down on farm is set to go on state land spoke to political analyst. he thinks recent developments in the the barrick are similar to the arab spring. i think a latin american spring alluding to the arab spring is just the right phrase for it because i think that a lot of the lessons that have been learned there by the americans of the british and the europeans are coming this way there was a lot of meddling on the part of colombia through part of brazil but a pair of wise police and we know that colombia has a very pro u.s. president so much so that one man one some dos the present president of colombia is an american society member which is an n.g.o.s co-chaired by david rockefeller and john negroponte who was george bush's former national security adviser so there are

many overtones to this that he to be followed very closely paraguayans suffered a coup d'etat literally on the first twenty first of june when it's critical that the president for number was ousted in a twenty four hour impeachment trial must be the fastest peach mint in modern history he was. he was maneuvered out of office by the color of our party which had been in power for sixty years is very pro-u.s. and was the whole more the political home of former dictator for legal status no so he was ousted mainly because one of his loyal ministers did not approve a genetically modified seed ball large bt it is called imposed by monsanto which has already been rejected in the u.s. and canada and in india well stay with southern hemisphere next to entrepreneurs flock to where the money is normally and that now includes a country that until relatively recently was struggling with

a reputation for crime and poverty are physical person off next reports that more europeans and americans are heading for the brazilian dream. violence and poverty just some of the images that come to more enjoying thinking about brazil but in reality the stereotypes are much more l. d. to it than you might expect. french and lives in rio only four years ago he and his partner were sewing wholemeal bread on a bicycle. two popular cafes in rio and thirty six employees these two former school teachers but old are we to success to be boring about the teacher. who tried to do something else towards if you. read. the good. stories like this are becoming common in resume especially in rio and san paulo in the last decade small private businesses have mushroomed all around since

two thousand and three brazil's middle class grew by over thirty five million people starting from the also earn over eleven hundred u.s. dollars per month in rio the poor districts or favelas are now called community since every year more of their residents become middle class people are earning borrowing and are definitely spending more catch things are certainly on the up but of course there is still a long way to go when it comes to things like closing the gap between rich and poor and bureaucracy if you are entering into a market in brazil your chances of success are huge go for it be prepared to fight . every stage of setting up and running your business. there is an expression that it's called the brazilian cost but maybe it's not as bad as it sounds the bureaucracy here to be we know it's a shit bag but that the any. court resumes economy is now the sixth largest in the

world bypassing the u.k. and still growing more people are coming here from broad to make their living not only from other south american countries but from europe also any even now from north america to try their chances of fulfilling was increasingly the brazilian dream school of forty rio de janeiro. elsewhere around the world this morning portugal's constitutional court struck down the government's latest austerity package. lawful said cuts to pensioner and public worker bonuses and vacations couldn't go ahead because they promoted inequality that's a harsh blow to the government's austerity program and is likely to mean deeper cuts elsewhere portugal was given a seventy eight billion euro bailout from the evil last year to save it from bankruptcy. hundreds of people have taken to the streets in northern pakistan there protesting over the reopening of nato supply routes the first convoy crossed into afghanistan early friday with plans for all containers passing through to be

scanned for weapons the route was shut last november after a u.s. airstrike that killed twenty four pakistani troops. it's one eighteen moscow time next the dark secrets of america's most infamous prison camp as we talk to a british lawyer who's investigated some of the worst cases of abuse in guantanamo . on.

today i'm joined by philip sands professor international or even averse to college london and author of torture team an investigation into what's going on behind the closed doors of mowbray. thanks for speaking to r.t. so walk torture techniques or interrogation techniques have actually been used at guantanamo well it's pretty well established now. what emerged. they adopted in the autumn of two thousand and two in the u.s. department of defense a series of eighteen techniques of interrogation arranged in three groups and the first group was. shouting and screaming. the second group upped the ante so to speak and included sleep deprivation the use of dogs to induce fear. and then category three the worst of all included waterboarding and the use

of water to induce misperceptions of suffocation i began. roots of two thousand and five to begin to look more closely through a series of interviews of course united states on what had happened and what had been done by the biggest ration was to spin a story which effectively said it started down at guantanamo what had happened was that it had started the top and had then worked its way down with significant pressure from the pentagon how easy was it to uncover that truth i began by knowing that i had to speak to people who had not previously spoken down at guantanamo and i focused on the lawyers and i began to approach a number of lawyers and once i had found one lawyer who was willing to speak with me i could then go to the next person and say well publicly it says this but i've now been told by this person who worked underneath you that this isn't that what

happened would you care to comment on it and the door could then begin to open which individual moment and the investigation would you say shocking most one of the influence that was in the autumn of two thousand and two was a television program called twenty four which is a t.v. program about the use of torture which promotes the idea really that torture worked and one of the people that i do believe a confirmed to me actually unexpectedly because i hadn't really asked the question . she just said that twenty four was a big influence and it created an environment and so you began to see that. the connection between. cultural t.v. programs and what people do that was shocking what about former president bush is there a chance he could actually be charged with war crimes i mean president bush has brazenly given the series of interviews in which you know he says waterboarding is right so these things take time to know when these things are going to produce

results what's going to happen and hangs a question of responsibility hangs in the moving on to other matters now saif gadhafi trial libya's recently announced that the trial will go ahead in libya under their laws but given what happened to his father surely there are concerns over libya's ability to actually hold a fair trial i mean i think there are concerns about. liberation of a country which over the past four decades has come to be associated with the highest standards of criminal justice so i think it's reasonable to conclude that there are problems. he has been indicted internationally i think there are good arguments on trying him in libya or trying him at the international criminal court but if he's tried in libya the proceedings have to meet minimum international standards that can be done in a variety of ways but you can't have summary justice but since the arrest warrant was actually issued by the international criminal court then surely there isn't any

actual legal framework for libya to hold the trial the international criminal court works on a basis of a principle called complementarity crew the i.c.c. the international court in the hague steps it. if justice is not done locally so if justice is not done locally go beyond the has to be an actual trial that libyans can demonstrate to the international criminal court that they can meet minimum international for the trial and domestically but i think they're going to have to show. to the international criminal court judges that they meet those international standards and i suspect saif gadhafi himself would be rather happy of being tried in the hague where he knows he's going to get in a right and of course he's not going to get death penalty you've also written extensively about the iraq war the legal issues surrounding that now do you see any similarities between the run up to what happened then and what's happening now in the standoff between iran and the west iraq went very wrong i think we know it went very wrong and there are very few people in this country in the united kingdom who

are now really want to stand up for iraq on policy grounds and even fewer on legal grounds i focused on that as a legal matter it was not in my view authorized by the security council it did not meet international legal requirements and it was therefore an illegal war but i think lessons have been learnt from that experience we saw some of that in relation to libya we saw that the security council did adopt a resolution russia china did not veto a resolution permitting some use of force question as to whether they exceeded the mandate it was a debate about but there was a security council resolution iran is working its way through the security council . who knows which way it will but i suspect the lesson of iraq is such that it will be very difficult to imagine the kind of coordinated

military response with a large number of countries involved iraq in the case of iran in the absence of proper security council authorization for that sounds thank you thank you very much . mr is that so much to play do you think you should be sitting on the mark when the arab spring finally coming down as the protest to gross to reach. in the fall but she appears to have limited options with the control. nearly a billion people in the world for knowing countries every day. in the united states even our trash cans are filled with food you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just threw them all the way rotten cheese from the german alps you clearly like. a profile. in the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the

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over the. crosstalk. is the arab spring finally as the protest movement grows the regime of al bashir appears to have. regime change.