we don't come. here when observers confirm violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels in the village of trend say but the findings put opposition claims of a civilian that's occurring into question. and other stories that shaped this week of russia's south is hit by its deadliest ever floods the thousands of people from across the country joint efforts to help those who have lost everything. ten days of and how sturdy protests in spain lead to dozens of injuries amid warnings that the use strategy of bailing out banks at the people's expense will only fuel public anger. and thank you for joining our team for the week's top stories with me karen tara

well new details have emerged about the bloodshed near the syrian city of hamas which reportedly resulted in two hundred deaths u.n. observers on the ground confirmed there had been fierce clashes between the heavily armed syrian army and rebel fighters on two on thursday the findings appear to contradict opposition claims of civilian massacre by government troops the un team says it found evidence of a wide range of weapons used in the attack including our chiller e and small arms syria's military insists the army targeted and killed terrorists in the village of tribes say but not civilians and as maria financial reports from syria although the opposition enjoys widespread western support the rebels are calm about methods are driving fear among many syrians. since the uprising in syria escalated the west has been consistently calling on assad and his government to step down you know this. actively want to give in to the demands of the armed

opposition but it seems so far there is no clear understanding of who exactly they are. these fighters of the syrian opposition they're brave determined full of pride they took the fate in their hands. but for some taken control of their destiny meant taken up arms in this amateur video posted on you tube which cannot be independently verified gunmen calling themselves members of the opposition militia from explain why this man was hanged and which he helped the syrian regime and it was killing the rebels they say can i mean. on behalf of all friends let me express my admiration by their bravery over the north but this kind of justice only adds more anger to what has already been called a civil war. the terrorists are criminals murderers and i

believe is necessary for any citizen to leave these. we cannot ask the opposition to unilaterally give up their struggle for justice dignity and self-determination in other media whose origin is hard to establish these men say they captured the syrian air force officer then they dispense even more rough justice. the united states will continue providing non-lethal assistance to help those inside syria who are carrying the fight to organize and better communicate. mark in this video are the boys behind the cameras says the fight must go on it warns this will happen to anyone who carburetors with the assad government. they are top criminals these people type

of criminality how do they have the rape feel sad when you find your country destroyed our country we've been building more lives the whole world wants to see a political transition from this illegitimate regime team to actually see one that can take care of its people many however fear that should such people force assad to leave since like these could become a familiar occurrence and have little faith in a western force democracy. where they talking about democracy in the gulf or in other countries we are syrian people we should decide these things ourselves. this mantra that the syrian people alone should determine their country's future has been repeated by many nations and has finally been recognized by major world powers but it was some states continue to call on assad to leave and support in his opponents fears mountie in syria that is the people that will pay the ultimate

price. r.t. from damascus in syria and elsewhere in the region anti-government protests in bahrain are dying down despite the authorities a ban on opposition rallies there were fresh clashes between demonstrators and riot police on saturday and it's forecast that confrontations will escalate between the ruling soon i am ana he and the majority shia population american economic all uncovered who spent a lot of time in the region says a crackdown on dissent in bahrain makes the country's criticism towards syria illegitimate. elisa's. continuing to be very skinny is pro-democracy opposition and supported well with three quarters of the barbie lation firing tear gas canisters. many of the protesters and killing some of the all of us but in the broad just because of.

the tortures continue doing only and continue. to many observers and i don't know of all of the. rooms of syria being. our approach a minority in the world saudi arabia. regime going to have no all history of democracy and all. the way to this free syrian army. bunch of mercenaries that have no legitimate. along with our brain saudi arabia has been stepping up its crackdown on anti-government rally activists say two men were killed in the oil rich eastern province after police opened fire on protesters by the arrest of a prominent shiite cleric last sunday the saudi authorities have deployed extra troops to the area amid worries of fresh unrest among their share population who

have long complained of discrimination by the soon i will bring family. russia's southern a resort region of course is recovering after the worst floods in its history more than one hundred seventy people were killed in the daily news caused by torrential rain thousands of houses were also destroyed artie's denise reports. it was annoyed of care for the people of greensburg in almost an instant the small town was virtually swept away by a torrent of rain and mud deluge by a giant wave of up to seven meters most of the buildings there. was lucky to survive the sudden burning queue woke up his wife and son before rushing to help an elderly disabled neighbor presume injuring spirit is what arose immediately we tried to do something to save our belongings but the water was everywhere it was high time was saved ourselves climbed up onto the roof of my son's presence others were not so lucky with many elderly people in particular found amongst the dead in

the morning survivors desperately needed help fresh water dry clothes and food their s.o.'s message was answered with russian president vladimir putin driving to see the rescue and clean up operation for himself thousands of emergency workers people from all walks of life rushed to crimps medical students assisted doctors vaccinating survivors fashion model and to learn trip especially over john over two gifts were children after an appeal and basically just left everything and came here just to just to clarify because i felt i had to and to see how how i myself can be helpful but also before doing that we kind of just gathered whatever we could in one day and we get. tons of half of it is still. very necessary provision many locals who refused to believe the official account but the flood was caused by torrential rains rumors that the deluge followed

a discharge of water from a reservoir continue some spread by. social media triggering a second wave of panic hundreds of people will gather here fearing that the new wave of floods is coming into town nobody says where they got this information basically people rely on rumors the false alarm however did not stop people from once again returning to their homes and continuing the massive operation these people just arrived from overseas they were in tears they brought shovels rubber gloves everything that is needed to clean up the debris many flood victims took matters into their own hands literally diving for their belongings but reaching is to come shots car i mean it's an earthquake there are many when i came here i go to buy a floods the russian government and regions of georgie's are just gump and see victims with cash and help to rebuild their homes or new ones but those left with nothing and even though it may take weeks and months to get things back to normal the cyclone was sold and russia is just refusing to give up even though good has been

badly hit it looks like the people of greensburg have not lost hope and against all odds they're staying and helping each other to rebuild their homes and their lives . across entire region. the timeline of the tragedy that swept through out the southern russia region is a bailable on our website and of course there's plenty more on the story at our team dot com there you can see photos and footage from the scene of the disaster that devastated towns and communities in southern russia. it's been a turbulent week for spain where more than seventy people have been injured and days of and house charity protests that began on wednesday when miners supported by thousands of demonstrators converged in madrid security forces fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowds the workers as protests turned violent on friday when the spanish government approved a new round of cuts in exchange for

a euro zone bailout to save the country struck by a bank's credit crisis. just. says he expects more unrest to come. you know the basically the banks as you're famously called but they are unwilling to do the forms that need to be done and so far as the banking system is concerned the debased profits are obscene the fact that these governments are the daily them out continuously is just simply i've conscionable now of course the people realize these have they are upset about it but of course the politicians do you have nothing to rein in the part of the banks and instead without the police to start to be very vocal about it cracking now as we continue to cut these benefits we're going to see more and more social unrest this is led politicians to assume that more force is needed to maintain the peace and this of course means more violence against people and moments against the people means more protests around the law as it is there they are squeezed economically socially and politically and so i would

expect to see more and more protests that turned violent and more and more. growth in the extreme political parties as these extremist parties begin to make political hay out of people's discontent we're going to see this in spain we see it in italy and we're going to see in france in the near term future of the next year or two and so i would this is just the beginning we're going to see a lot worse soon spanish banks could get the first thirty billion euro portion of their bailout later this month the money comes from the euro zone's temporary rescue facility there had been plans to create a permanent fund but that idea could be derailed by germany's top court which is deciding whether it's actually constitutional boyko reports on the wider discontent among germans over having to prop up those who can't keep their own houses in order . not taking from others and not giving your that's what made them their company

grow from a small soap shop a century ago into a multi-million euro business nowadays to him running a company is of course different from running a country or union of countries but all require fiscal discipline and i think it is before we do anything this should be unified school and economic policy it is not acceptable that spain subsidizes things that are not subsidized in germany and it does it explain the trading all across europe mr is in favor of keeping the euro what he doesn't agree with is that common currency should necessarily mean diluted responsibility in mind often forget the land i think countries like spain or greece use the euro in quite opportunist ways they used to pay eight or nine percent interest rates before joining the euro but after they came on board they got access to low rates that germany or france enjoyed encouraged exuberance spending and they have to deal with these seventeen to many experts this dichotomy

is a decor of the current europe crisis professor real him hankered one of the first and most prominent euro skeptics says europe's common currency takes away a crucial element of the free market system that is fair competition. the common market started as a very liberal project and now says liberal project is becoming a very socialistic. former soviet union common currency mean says the competition between currencies. common debts means. sponsibility for your own debts so in russia for instance. faded away but in europe it's coming. or spin. your crisis but i think. just in the. soviet union there's also a list

a concept cannot survive a year in germany and a euro in greece may look exactly the same but the underlying productivity is drastically different the introduction of the common currency may have promised greeks the same living standards as in germany but didn't make them work just as effectively you cannot compare the infrastructure and the productivity of a greece of a. guy with a german guy i mean we're working until we draw up germany the euro two of the central planning close to commoners the same system that we had before nine hundred eighty nine in the east it has nothing to do with the free market it has nothing to do with capitalists because. countries and banks cannot go bankrupt any more germany may have a generous social system but even here they deal of being a constant provider of subsidies for the rest of europe doesn't sit well with the

majority germany has a unique experience of dealing with both capitalist and socialist systems and while domestically this country is all for fair competition and self-reliance in a larger european context it's pushed to choose between being and nanny and daddy state that's not a boycott artsy reporting from germany. so this hour we're flying high with some intrepid astronaut the latest space station crew are on their way into orbit and see them all and tell you what they'll be doing. was after several instances of abuse and even moscow revises its adoption deal with the united states to hold american families accountable when taking russian children into their care. campaign. groups operating in russia that are funded from abroad and then involved in politics are likely to face tougher scrutiny the country's lower house of

parliament has given the green light to a bill forcing such organizations to register as foreign agents such groups will have to undergo financial all of it and issue regular reports on their activities failure to do so could mean a heavy fines or even two years in jail but it's caused a storm within russia society which criticism that it restricts civil liberties however those behind the law say the measures will help boost transparency the u.s. also weighed in against the bill despite having almost identical legislation itself here's our washington correspondent guy next can the west hurry to dump the proposed legislation as the kremlin crackdown on n.g.o.s shows the money flow where is the money coming. towards you or your organization so you get transparency you get regulation you get the monitoring of. these are all things that a nation a sovereign nation is allowed to do u.s.

officials were quick to express concern presenting it as an exclusively russian initiative but as the russian foreign minister said the concept and even the wording of the proposed law was almost entirely borrowed from the american bill called the foreign agents registration act if you work in the united states if you work for another country you have to register as an agent that country. now that again that's that's not a negative meeting but it means that you are representing that country and that is to be known if you're getting paid on the employment of any foreign nation veronica questioning nick of us says while in the u.s. she was forced to register as a foreign agent even though she was not involved in any political activities. i was a representative from st petersburg. we promoted economy corporation to reason cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic to meet is

a foreign agents insisted that representatives of c.d.'s also register a disappointing agent's version of the law doesn't even include nonpolitical actors like that the foreign agents registration act in the u.s. quote requires persons acting as agents of foreign principals in a political or quasi i political capacity to make periodic public disclosure of their relationship with the foreign principal as well as a pivotal receipts and disbursements in support of those activities end of quote the sponsors of the russian bill say their version is almost identical with the american law the us argues the difference is that their law doesn't address nonprofit organisations but many see another difference but he knew that in the us doesn't have thousands of whoring organizations which work to change its constitution to change its leadership but we in russia do have a situation when scores of organizations work precisely on that for example when some and joe calls for people to join a protest they have the right to know who's behind that and on whose payroll they

are members of some non-governmental organizations met with hillary clinton behind closed doors in st petersburg afterwards one of them media the russkie said the sectors that is aware of the proposed law and quote is searching for ways to modify the support of russia's n.g.o.s without subjecting them to a crackdown end of quote we say non governmental organizations many of these organizations are government funded right so they get some of their funding from from the government of the united states anyway so and if she is saying that then that they certainly do and they are certainly going to either get over it when maybe she's hinting at covertly i don't know many of the n.g.o.s in russia which get their financing from abroad to preach openness and transparency and the sponsors of this russian bill argue it only makes sense that they themselves are sub. but the same principles of transparency i'm going to check on in washington are to. face i use face craft caringly next crew for the international space

station has successfully blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome the international team will spend about four months and orbit all the details from artie's to bang not say in kazakhstan where now cons and down the. pan as well as yuri malenchenko of russia as well as all sunita williams all the united states and it's almost a list of all right now. left our. hearing what an amazing sight just of the role of a just size and power just pulsating through this area it's just amazing i mean my feet i shaking now everybody is clapping are around us it looks like are these

values that right expedition thirty two has gone up into orbit with no hitches oh hey cubs it's been an incredible journey out here at baikonur cosmodrome and i wish only wishing them all the best until they get to their next day we'll be looking out to see what experiments they come back with and what research they come back with. you can find online for all the stories we're covering there here's what else you can discover. a gas station a truck and a crash of one very lucky escape for this motorist who filling up his tank took a near fatal twist also. the migration mystery hundreds of penguins wash up dead on the brazilian shoreline leaving scientists baffled as to why the animals died.

time now for an update of some of today's main world news clashes going on saying rally in southeastern turkey in support of the imprisoned leader of the court of workers party protesters want him to put under house arrest instead of prison officers fired tear gas and water cannon that an angry mob world wrong the party which wants a separate kurdish state in turkey is considered a terrorist group by the country. thousands have gathered in northwest pakistan in the anger of the real putting of nato supply lines of through the country into afghanistan demonstrators carried banners and waved flags denouncing the decision islam about close the route last november after a u.s. drone strike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers it only reopen them earlier this month after washington eventually apologized. russia has changed its adoption

agreement with the united states following several cases of abuse and neglect it calls for more cooperation and transparency when vulnerable children are taken in by american families archies medina cochon of i explain it's. just some eight kilometers from the canadian border stands a room. trains hidden in the mountains and forests of this northwest part of the u.s. for many adopted children from russia who have found themselves abandoned once again this remote train in the state of montana has become their last resort after so much rejection but despite its noble goal care homes like this and there are several across the country are close to the outside world it's almost impossible to discover the fate of these neglected children last week russia's children's friends commissioner pavel is to help try to visit the range but it was denied access to the children living there. with their assume many lies about the real conditions of

tutoring adopted by u.s. appearance we have no idea what's really going on but i know there were twenty four russian children of different ages and as i understand it they were all removed just days before my visit this incident in montana happened only a week before a long awaited agreement concerning the well being of russian children adopted by u.s. families was to come into force russia has long been demanding information from u.s. authorities on the fate of children after they have been taken in by adoptive families but under u.s. law once a child is legally adopted the state has no specific responsibility to monitor or oversee how they are doing with their new families once an adoption is foreign allies in any state in the united states that child is considered as is born to those legal adoptive parents there is no further intervention at

all on part of the adoption agency in rison years it's an issue that has caused several difficulties in relations between the two countries since russia suspended adoption of its children by americans that was prompted by widespread outrage after a tennessee. a mother sent her adopted eight year old son back to moscow alone with a known saying she no longer wanted him and that was no isolated case nineteen russian children have been killed or badly injured since overseas adoptions began in nine hundred ninety one including seven year old you violence got about god was beaten to death by his american foster parents. at this hour and this harrowing example from twenty ten when an american mother held herself punishing her adoptive little russian little boy why do you want to be. getting.

worse if i mean what is what you think to me. was that is what you mean. jessica beagley was charged with child abuse and there's untold numbers of children who have been and are being abused but it isn't stable and so it doesn't make headlines we have no way of knowing though there has been some progress in the political arena there were thousands of russian children fostered an adopted across the u.s. and while some may well have phone loving families nobody knows just how many a suffering the fate of little evens could have i got the lead in a question are two reporting from los angeles california. what's a blower or a traitor soon we hear from an x. u.s. national security agency executive who chose to expose the truth about his career

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