you went to service confirmed violent clashes between syrian forces and rebels in the village of trend say but the findings put opposition claims of a civilian massacre in question. and other stories that shaped this week will russia south is hit by its deadliest ever floods but thousands of people from across the country join efforts to help those who have lost everything. and days of anti-war sturdy protests in spain lead to dozens of injuries amid warnings that the e.u. strategy of bailing out banks at the people's expense will only fuel public anger. thank you for joining r t this sunday where we go now to our top story new details

have emerged about the bloodshed near the syrian city of hama all which reportedly resulted in two hundred the u.n. findings suggest there had been fierce clashes between the have only armed syrian army and rebel fighters on thursday challenging opposition claims of a civilian massacre let's get all the details now from parties more of the motion in damascus so you want to observe there are still investigating tell us more about what they have already found. the u.n. observer true mission here in syria has visited the village of tromso in the syrian central province of hama hours off to the news of much to fault the alleged massacre there and they've confirmed that indeed fierce clashes between the rebels and the governmental forces took place on the ground but this concludes is that an attack apparently by the governmental forces appeared targeted at specific houses and specific groups especially amita faxes and. opposition activists and this

conclusion actually contradicts initial reports that we've been hearing from syrian opposition here in damascus especially from syrian observatory for human rights based in london they've been saying they've been very fortunate they're real massacre even potent eyewitnesses that apparently sole purpose of beenz dying to refire in this village the opposition has also claims that at least two hundred people most of whom are civilians have been killed in this incident and again you and observers haven't been able to confirm that un observers are actually haven't been able to say exactly how many people at the old became victims in this incident what they did confirm is that a wide range of weapons have been used during this incident including up till or e. . and small arms. actually what the international observers have discovered is in line with what we've been hearing from official sources here in

damascus that the army launched an assault against rebel hope but in this village in the province of hama we've been hearing accounts from official sources that the army even allowed some time for local residents of this village to evacuate and that was only after the rebels refused to surrender the fighting intensified in this village that well so we again reception conflicting reports from different sides involved in this story and again it's very hard to confirm exactly what happened in very hot very far the information coming from different sides following this assault official sources here in syria again have come to me to say that they've seized their permission at their permission has been successful and they've seized many weapons from what they call were terrorists and they've killed many of them and even captured some of them and we've seen apparently some of this. people

on syrian t.v. here in damascus and this can fast they were involved in this incident and what happened in the village of tremseh and they even confess that it is sad that they were given weapons of buys horses from abroad and especially from turkey well while fall pollens continues to rage everywhere call syria it still remains unclear exactly who or what the syrian government the syrian regime is fighting against his more important that. since the uprising in syria escalated the west has been consistently calling on assad and his government to step down you know defectively 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 its lips explain why this man was hanged and which really helped the syrian regime and was killing the rebels they say going to medical. on behalf of all friends let me express my admiration by their bravery over the norm but this kind of justice only adds more anger to what has already been called a civil war. the terrorist group of those murderers i believe is necessary for any citizen to leave. 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. marched in this video of the boys behind the cameras says the fight must go on it warns this will happen to anyone who cooperates with the assad government and. their 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 here however fear that should such people force assad to leave since like these will become a familiar occurrence and have little faith in a western force democracy. where they talking about democracy in the gulf or another country's 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 it's the people that will pay the ultimate price. r.t. from damascus in syria the u.s. and its allies are pushing for a u.n. security council resolution demanding that president assad but not the rebels comply with the peace plan or face action russia and china say they won't allow

military interference in syria middle east expert tariq ali believes it's no coincidence that the opposition's claims of the army's atrocities in hamas come at a crucial point in foreign diplomacy over syria. i have seen evidence now from journalists in the field i cross. who insist there are cross the t.'s carried out by the syrian national council on bail when i say and so on earth of reaching mayhem in some areas and they are deliberately carrying out these are crossties so they can be blamed on to. the regime the regime does its own planes we know that but these people are by no means on the side of the angels as soon as they've protected if we're going to have sanctions why not impose on sanctions on these armed groups that are creating made him in that country it is

not only our service that has become very clear over the last few weeks and one can't simply say that this is justified because of who they are fighting against you know the syrian national council that is the favored group of the west i'm going to leave the only way of forward is negotiation discussion constitution constituent assembly and that it is now obvious that the west is not going to lead because they are affectively backing the people who are opposed to any negotiate social and elsewhere in the region anti-government protests in bahrain aren't dying down despite the authorities as 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 a sonar monarchy and the majority shi'a population american academic column cover l who spent a lot of time in the region says a crackdown on dissent in bihari and makes the country's criticism toward syria

illegitimate. the al khalifa are continuing to be very scary. as pro-democracy opposition supporters while we're three quarters of the population are firing tear gas canisters. injuring many of the protesters and killing some of the older people in the protests because this is deadly to. and of course the georgians continue to jail and continue. and how areas to many observers of international politics that the so-called friends of syria are being backed by. autocratic monarchs in the world saudi arabia. bahrain regimes that have no history of democracy and all. this free syrian army bunch of mercenaries have no legitimacy. along with

bahrain saudi arabia has been stepping up its crackdown on anti-government rallies activists say two men were killed in the oil rich eastern province after police opened fire on protest triggered by the arrest of a prominent shiite cleric last sunday the saudi authorities have deployed extra troops to the area amid worries of russian arrest among their shia population who have long complained of discrimination by the sunni ruling family. so i have for you this hour we're flying high with some intrepid strain on. the latest space station crew are on their way into orbit we see them all and tell you what they'll be doing. plus restricting civil liberties or boosting transparency we look at the much criticized russian bill that labels campaign groups funded from abroad as foreign agents. precious southern resort region of

course now that is recovering after the worst floods in its history more than one hundred seventy people were killed in the deluge calls by a tyrannical reign thousands of houses were also destroyed parties does boltz kaye reports. it was annoyed or cure for the people of greensburg in almost an instant the small town was good to be swept away by a torrent of rain and mud there which by a joint we pulled up to seven metres. of the buildings there willing to was lucky to survive the sun burning to walk up his wife and son before rushing to help an elderly disabled me with a bruise that many dreams please what's a rose immediately with dread to do something to save our belongings but the water was everywhere it was high time was saved ourselves climbed up onto the roof but 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 there as. message was answered with russian president vladimir putin arriving to see the rescue and cleanup operation for himself besides thousands of emergency workers people from all walks of life rushed to crimps medical students assisted doctors vaccinating survivors fashion model and philanthropist but earlier with john over two gifts were children after an appeal on facebook i 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 this was a very necessary provision many locals refused to believe the official account of the flood was caused by torrential rains rumors that the deluge followed a discharge of water from a reservoir continued 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 but false alarm however did not stop people from once again returning to their homes and continuing the massive operation these people just arrived from their volunteers 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 put their belongings greetings to come shots car i escaped an earthquake there when i came here i got hit by a floods the russian government and regions authorities are victims with cash and help to rebuild their homes or new ones for those left with nothing and even though it may take weeks and months to get things back to normal this current southern russia is just refusing to give up even though the town 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 in the region. and timeline of the tragedy that swept throughout the southern russian region as a panel of all on our website and there's plenty more on the story at our t.v. dot com there you can see photos and footage from the scenes of the disaster that's devastated towns and communities and south russia. well it certainly has been a turbulent week for spain where more than seventy people have been injured in days of and tile starting protests that began on wednesday when miners supported my fouls of demonstrators converged on the trip security forces fired rubber bullets to disperse the crowds the workers as protest 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 struggling banks crisis strategic gonzalo

says he expects more on arrests to come from. the people in power or the political leadership in the e.u. as well as the united states don't quite seem to understand what is going on and they don't quite seem to understand that they are whole new to be dangers the best profits are obscene the fact that these governments are bailing them out continuously is just simply unconscionable now of course the people realize these have they are upset about it but of course the politicians do absolutely nothing to rein in the part of the banks to release and instead what i thought you could lose to start could be bipolar by fracking and not solving the problems that we have we have on the one hand an out of control financial sector which is basically raping the public. and on the other hand you have necessarily to be very very generous social safety net that had been promised but simply cannot be is it simply too

expensive this is just a form of war and more social discontent that we're going to see throughout the e.u. . across the mediterranean angry is the economic woes there have healed the rise and rise of racial intolerance mylan attacks on immigrants has surged as extreme right wing views get a bigger force him parliament following last month's elections party pledges include reading the country of all immigrants and urging volunteers to donate blood to greeks jacob greeks reports. the round the country crumbles some parts of greece seeing firm foundations take root. in that we want a nationalistic state all of them should go back to where they came from the word of an elected official as unemployment grows hand in hand with extremist sentiments looking for people to blame for their current plight the golden dawn party has proven to be the prime outlet the public anger get that if you ask me about

violence i would have to say yes we do have violence increase but not the violence you're suggesting it is the violence that thousands of geeks suffer from but those goings of foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land are now there was this spell to end racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians live on air the party still secured around seventy percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections. campaigning with a promise to throw all sick immigrants out of the hospital beds and incendiary pledge as having dark consequences as greece and in particular athens have seen a spike in the number of hate crimes that have seen. almost they are that's the bad times by organized groups and by turns very see me and these attacks are happening at night. wherever doesn't integrate by people who are often for dead and armed

with clubs. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia. but he's found no peace in athens a lot which if i had known what it was going to be like here i would never have left somalia from what happened to you when you're attacked. they beat me to the ground and ran over my leg with a bike. his case is by no means unique the mother of these children was also assaulted while pregnant the perpetrators remain at large as in neighborhoods like this in central athens where an increasing number of attacks are taking place the so-called vigilance he proves in describing targeting ethnic minorities. victims say there's little point turn to police they're just not interested. greece's immigrant influx is worse than any other e.u. country is poorest border with turkey that's where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in

a country that circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics anything that the. that the here are the groups minutes hardest insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice we've heard that when two agreement what happens is once one illegal immigrant is been caught. you know in another place in europe he's going back to that country that he entered europe with and ups. that means they end up in greece. pleads for. the refugees just keep on coming the danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the extremism the entering j.q. greece. but of course you can have all mine for all the stories we're covering here here's what else you can discover a gas station that a truck and

a crash one very lucky escape for this motorist who filling up his tearing took a near fatal twist also. a migration mystery hundreds of penguins wash up dirt on the brazilian shoreline leaving scientists baffled as to why the animals died. so you spacecraft carrying the next crew for the international space station and how successfully blasted off from the baikonur cosmodrome the international team will spend about four months and orbit hear the details from artie's to bang say in kazakhstan. well now contant down the. hall sheedy of the age of pan as

well as yuri malenchenko of russia as well as our sunita williams all the united states and it's almost a list of all right now. what an amazing sight to just as the row over just the 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 home will be looking out to see what experiments they come back with and what research they come back with. let's bring you an update of some of today's main world news there have been clashes in seven on sanctioned

rally in southeastern turkey in support of the imprisoned leader of the kurdistan workers party protesters want him put under house arrest instead of prison officers fire tear gas and water cannon add an angry mob of rocks the party which wants a separate kurdish state in turkey is considered a terrorist group by the country. thousands have gathered in northwest pakistan an anger of the reopening of nato supply lines through the country into afghanistan demonstrators carried banners and waved flags denouncing the decision of islam a bad close the route last november after a u.s. drone strike killed twenty four pakistani soldiers it only reopened them earlier this month after washington eventually apologized. campaign groups operating in russia that are funded from abroad and 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 audit sound issue regular reports on their activities vallier to do so could mean have the fines or even two years in jail that caused a still normal within russia society which criticized with criticism of the it were strict so what liberties that 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 with more here's our washington correspondent and she can. the west hurry to dump the proposed legislation is the kremlin crackdown on n.g.o.s for sure the money flow where the money coming. toward you or your organization so you get transparency you get regulation you get some monitoring of the. 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 united states if you work for another country you have to register as an agent of that country. now that again that's that's not a negative but it means they are representing a country and. if you can pay them the employment of any foreign nation veronica questioning it covers 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. to them i was a representative from st petersburg who promoted economy corporation to reason cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic teenagers of foreign agents insisted that representatives of cities also registered disappointing agents version of the

law doesn't even include known political actors like that used 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 u.s. argues the difference is that their law doesn't address nonprofit organisations but many see another difference i need a new suit in the u.s. doesn't have thousands of whoring organizations which work to change its constitution to change its leadership but in russia do you have a situation when scores of going to say sions work pre-science and that for example when some. for people to join a protest they have the right to know who's behind that and you know 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 secretary of state 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 it over only and maybe she's hinting it 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 subject to the same principles of transparency i'm going to check on in washington our team here with our team and i'll be back to remind you this week's top stories

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