week's top stories u.n. finding is in syria's hama province rubbish rebel claims the regime massacred some two hundred civilians and accusations of world powers to good face value when they condemned the regime. a southern russian resort region struggles to recover after a deadly deluge as hundreds of volunteers rushed to help the people left behind without homes or supplies. and spain follows in greece's way. take a bloody turn and with police adopting a no tolerance approach in their dealings with them straight.

hello welcome this is r.t. from moscow you're watching the weekly round up of the top stories of the last seven days with me kevin zero in and first you and observers probing a mass killing in syria's hama province of confirm the regime's claims that its military was targeting rebel fighters in the area this contradicts oppositions reports of a civilian massacre something the u.s. and its allies rushed to support for national brings us more from the capital damascus you may find some of the images coming up in a report disturbing here an observer trim mission here in syria has visited the village of transair in the syrian central province of hama hours after they knew so much about their let's massacre there and they've confirmed fierce clashes between the rebels and the government of forces that took place on the ground but this concludes is that an attack apparently by the government to force this kid targeted at specific houses and specific groups especially army defectors and opposition activists and this conclusion actually contradicts initial reports that moving.

here in the syrian opposition here they've been very close and this is the this massacre the opposition has also claims that at least two hundred people most of whom civilians have been killed in this incident 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 hotbed 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 that's going to intensify did this village holding this assault officials have come to me to say that 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 these people on syrian t.v. here in damascus and this confessed they were involved in this incident in what

happened in the village of tremseh and they were sad that they were given weapons that buys forces from abroad and especially from turkey while all this continues to rage everywhere for syria it still remains unclear exactly who 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 defected leaders that want to give to the demands of the armed opposition but it seems too 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 what really helped the syrian regime and was killing the rebels they say going to america. on behalf of all friends let me express my admiration by their bravery over but this kind of justice only adds more anger to what has already been called a civil war. with the terrorists currently those murderers 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 but well united states will continue providing non-lethal assistance to help those inside syria who are carrying the fight to organize and better communicate. turn of march in this video are the voice behind the camera says the fight must go on it warns this will happen to anyone who cooperates with the assad government. they are top criminals these people are top of criminality how do they have the right feel sad when you find your country destroyed to move our country we've been building all our 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 committee 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 why some states still continuing to call on assad to leave and support in his opponents he is mounting in syria that this is the people who pay the ultimate price. for shot from damascus in syria but another development as well the international red cross has said that syria is now in a state of civil war that's got more implications than you may think on the face of it let's talk about it with a u.s. based international affairs and defense analyst hi there they are saying spain with us so that said the red cross has formally declared the situation in syria a civil war what does that mean then for the conflict and indeed the diplomatic

efforts to end it well. for me what many suspected for a while that the coke has reached such proportions orphaned by lives between the government forces syrian government forces and the rebel forces but it's not just. by some of us against targets. to be so full fledged fight. between the two forces although the rebels apparently has been able to control her by the. b.b.'s the being opposed to trying to buy the purpose of the international community certainly going to be more pressure on the part of for instance the west against those who are against russia and china. for what the stopping of course. he was i think it was security council to try to extend the world that we should have the observers to be proposed what the.

swap service but to try to beat the if we could it's. now because he says if you were there will be more open urgency in this regard the last of forgive me if if i've got this wrong correct me please if i had but my understanding all this utterance now from the red cross means that now the army and rebels can be prosecuted for war crimes is that true well that's what they say. in any case the arc shows that they were conducted before a. crimes that may have been through these conflicts before it has been there by the process of civil war i would say that they will still be prosecuted. at least in terms so for violations of the rights of. the so for in this conflict in the case it will be interesting to see a how far would that go through to be pursuing. the western powers are going to try

to. label this. a try to seek is that they chose to prosecute for work crimes members perhaps of this. really theory but again we have seen. the conflicts of iraq the fighting in secular areas like about those of fallujah a which are large parts of the cd especially the second but the fallujah put also for that that was destroyed so it is going to be interesting to see how could that be explained if it's a choice being raised understand and interesting to note as well laos the red cross declared libya a civil war as of last march no that was just before nato military action was launched they do you see syria following a similar scenario similar pattern now well it's said so keep up is certainly the

security council. members there with her powers would like it would like it for perhaps more sanctions that's for sure no doubt the body that mostly military. but then again the approval. of their permanent members who are opposed to any pressures of the syrian government like russia and the other proof is no legal action sanction of the security council is going to move forward to our letter of the. why there are conflicts because syria still polonium has power from france to the region there's just really briefly if you can i let's just talk about the u.n. observer mission now saying there were fierce clashes between the heavily armed syrian army and rebel fighters crucially outside the city of hama it was reported on earlier this week challenging of course as opposition claims of that civilian massacre why have so many states including the u.s.

rush to condemn the government ahead of the u.n. findings see it briefly if you can well yes because wash it took was a change of government that they want through what they call a routine change therefore they want to raise any pressure or blame for overseeing that could be set against the threat to raise the pressure before russia and show this that they won't support the government there with more sanctions that perhaps that. they just well just want to refute strange that that's why the opportunity that presents itself real or true they are going to accuse. the international affairs defense analyst thank you for your thoughts on the program appreciate it thank you. and a lot more as well of course ahead to this half hour of news an r.t. including a look at how immigrants are now paying the price of greece's financial woes racist attacks surging in athens right now as extreme right wing factions galvanized public anger in pay foreigners as the source of greece's troubles we got a report on that coming up also reporting too on the foreign funded. groups in

gauged in russian politics that may soon face a tough financial examination washington's cry of privacy infringement while exercising the same or at home interesting began we report on that. the result region of krasnodar in the south of russia is picking up the pieces of the worst natural disaster in its history massive flash flooding killed over one hundred seventy people destroyed thousands of parties did this polaski report. it was annoyed of jura for the people of green 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 willing to was lucky to survive in the sudden burning queue woke up his wife and son before rushing to help an elderly disabled neighbor presuming during this period the water rose immediately we tried to do something to save our belongings but the water was everywhere it was high time we saved ourselves and we climbed up onto the roof so

i'm surprised that 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 message was answered. 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 there were two gifts which 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 got to do whatever we could in one day and we gathered this is tons of half of it is still there is. very necessary provision many locals who refused to believe the official account but the flood was caused by torrential rains rumors that the dell. the discharge of

water from a reservoir continues 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. 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 put their belongings greetings to come shots car an earthquake there and when i came here to buy a floods the russian government and regions of georgie's are to compensate 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 this

current southern russia is just refusing to give up even though the town has been badly hit it looks like the people of chremes 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. have a suspect in this last week has pent up public rage over the government's austerity drive spilled over into clashes with police mass protests sparked by miners began on wednesday the police reaction so over seventy people injured it is showing clashes riot clad cops fired rubber bullets at the demonstrators because many activists say the government in madrid this friday approved a new round of cuts a precondition to eurozone rescue deal for ailing spanish banks has put a sociologist carlos del close in of we keep believe after all this the prime minister should resign. the tendency is to think maybe that. protesters have become desensitized to all of the police violence because we've been dealing with it for a year but today we saw pictures of you know images of an eleven year old child

shot in the head with a rubber bullet. ok we've seen we've seen policemen with no with no badges of course that's become you know standard operating procedure for them basically i don't know how much further they can really push it you know if you had any sense of decency or even a fragment of the dignity that the miners and the the protesters the indignados have then he would resign long with the rest of his government has broken every campaign promise that he's made some even comical levels you know his entire party was saying that raising the sales tax was you know one thinkable and all that and now we have a twenty one percent sales tax and i think people are are wising up to this you know they see a lot of similarities between what was happening in this country forty fifty years ago and and what's happening today on the other side of the mediterranean greece of rioting and protests have morphed into something much more sinister there are violent attacks on immigrants as extreme right wing factions revel in their

newfound public support they've pledged to rid the country of all immigrants and are even urging volunteers to donate blood to greeks only jacob graves reports now from athens. all round the country crumbles some parts of greece seeing firm foundations take root. we want a nationalistic state all of them should go back to where they came from the word of an elected official 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 for public anger that if you ask me about violence i would have to say yes we do have violence increase not the violence you're suggesting it is the violence that thousands of suffer from it by those goings of foreigners that we have allowed to go over and accumulate in our land that are now at this point spouting and racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians. the party still sick. around seven percent of the vote in

the parliamentary elections. campaigning with a promise to throw all sick immigrants out of their hospital beds and incendiary pledge is 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 the bad things that they are going to use moves ahead by turning savary see me that these attacks are happening at night and therefore whatever doesn't integrate by people who are often for debt and armed with clouds. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens i want to wish if i'd known what it was going to be like here i would never have left somalia tribal have to warn you. that 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 vigilante groups and discourage targeting minorities have 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's circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric is flooding into mainstream politics i think that. the here are the groups minute tartus that insists it's an e.u. wide problem which hardpressed greece ends up paying for twice with

a double into agreement. what happens is once one illegal immigrant is been caught . you know in another place in europe he's going back to the country but here to europe and. the means end up in greece well athens pleads for more support the refugees just keep on coming but danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the extremism the entering thank you greece for its. politically active nonprofit groups working here in russia and funded from abroad most in come under tough scrutiny a bill that forces such organizations to register as foreign agents has passed its first stage of approval of the country's lower house of parliament the groups who have to undergo financial or it's now and submit reports of their activities if it goes through otherwise they will face heavy fines or even jail terms or critics immediately labeled the move an attack on civil liberties while supporters say

it'll help boost transparency in the u.s. to slam the bill despite introduced an almost identical law as more of that is a washington correspondent. the west hurried to dub the proposed legislation as a kremlin crackdown on n.g.o.s show the money flow where is the money coming. toward you or your organization so you get transparency you get regulation you get some 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 of the country. now there

again that's that's not a negative but it means they are representing their country and the. if you. have a 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. to them 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 tutor's of foreign agents insisted that representatives of cities also registered as foreign agents version of the law doesn't even include known political actors like the foreign agents registration act in the us 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 four in principle 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 that in the us doesn't have thousands of whoring organizations which work to change its constitution to change its leadership but in russia do have a situation when scores of openness asians work pre-science and that for example when some 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 separate 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 and of course 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 she's saying that then that . they certainly do and they are certainly going to either get it over early and 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 in the sponsors of this washington bill or you it only makes sense that they themselves are subject to the same principles of transparency i'm going to check on in washington r.t. . the deal the children adopted by families in the united states has been ratified by the russian parliament the changes come hot on the heels of chilling examples of the big sagansky russian children by their adoptive american parents but in a cochon of a report. just some eight kilometers from the canadian border stands a remote 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 trains in the state of montana has become their last resort sure 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 and it's almost impossible to discover the fate of these neglected children last week russia's children strides commissioner pavel is to help try to visit the range but it was denied access to the children living there. with there are so many lies about the real conditions of children adopted by u.s. parents 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 russia has long been demanding information from us a story this on the fate of children after they have been taken in by adoptive all foster 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 in rison years it's an issue that has. lost 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 mother sent her adopted eight year old son back to moscow alone with a known saying she no longer wanted him and there 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 you know what we found and this is a harrowing example from twenty ten when an american mother held herself punishing her adoption as little russian. why do you like to me.

like to me what is what you think to me that. you want so was that 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 and 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 yvonne is going to bug out of mind in a question artsy reporting from los angeles california such a sad story that one. now sports coming up here in fifty minutes not work for me to one star lewis hamilton takes a drive through central moscow but overall might have more about that on the rest of the day sporting headlines plus our interview to this hour that so the next

thirty minutes shapes up here on r.t. for more scope. question is that so much given to you to visit israel and find the mark with a gym and its interrupted revolution intensifying stand up getting

a democratically elected president against entrenched military has polarized. the. line russia would be so much brighter if you knew.