school. run. un findings in the syrian province of hamas contradict the opposition's reports of a civilian massacre something the west has taken in good faith when it condemned the regime. a southern resort region is still struggling to recover from the deadly flooding as hundreds of volunteers are rushed to help those left without homes and supplies. and anti-authority clashes in that spain turned violent this week with police leaving dozens of demonstrators injured protesters say they don't want to be held accountable for the country's banking woes.

good early morning to you watching artie's the weekly with me lucy caffein of four am right now in the russian capital well u.n. observers probing a mass killing in of syria's hama province have confirmed the regime's claims that its military was targeting rebel fighters in the area it's finding contradicts oppositions reports of a civilian massacre something that the u.s. and its allies had to rush to support now as maria for notion of brings us more from the capital in damascus and i should warn you some of the images in her report you might find disturbing but you're an observer trim mission here in syria has visited the village of tromso in the syrian central province of hama hours off to the news of most of all of the massacre there and they've confirmed fierce clashes between the rebels and the governmental forces took place on the ground but this concludes instead of attack apparently by the governmental forces appeared targets . specific houses and specific groups especially common to faxes and opposition

activists and this conclusion actually contradicts initial reports that we've been hearing from the syrian opposition here that they've been very close and this is even a 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 word terrorists and they've killed many of them and even captured some of them and we've seen apparently some

of these people on the syrian t.v. here in damascus and this confessed they were enfolded 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 this continues to rage everywhere call 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 defectively the 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 and 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 was killing the rebels they say going to america. on behalf of all friends let me express my admiration by the bravery overt but this kind of justice only adds more anger to what has already been called a civil war. with the terrorists criminals murderers and i believe it 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 united states will continue providing non-lethal assistance to help those inside syria who are carrying the fight to organize and better communicate. in this video of the boys behind the camera says the fight must go on it warns this will happen to anyone who caught the race 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 our country we've been building 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 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 targeted 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 fear is mounting in syria but this is the people who pay the ultimate price. money for r.t. from damascus in syria. well civil war in syria that is how the international red cross described the conflict there if true it means both the army and rebel forces could be up for prosecution for potential war crimes under international laws but as the fighting continues we ask whether washington is helping to take advantage of

the situation of course that is the assessment of defense analyst. take a look at some of that interview. the western powers are going to try to highlight the actions blamed on this government. try to seek it. prosecuted for war crimes perhaps if this. story. made. these conflicts before it has been declared by the gross as a civil war i would say that there will still be prosecuted. so for the rights of well why should. they want to read what they change their for they want to raise any pressure. for ever seeing. again. to try to raise the pressure before russia and china so that they won't support the

government there with. perhaps. they just want to change it that's why. we're twenty percent real or true they are going to accuse. we're following the worst natural disaster in us history that southern region is struggling to pick up the pieces massive flash flooding have killed over one hundred seventy people destroying thousands of homes one of our many reporters on the ground as our team. filed this story. it was annoyed of cheer for the people of green in almost an instant a 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 wellington was lucky to survive in a sudden woke up his wife and son before rushing to help an elderly disabled neighbor. what's a rose immediately to do something to save our belongings but the water was

everywhere it was high time was saved and climbed up onto the roof. 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. of emergency workers people from all walks of life rushed to crimps medical students assisted doctors selection aiding survivors fashion model and philanthropist but earlier with john over two gifts were children after an appeal of 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 can myself can be helpful but also the for doing that kind of just get to do whatever we could in one day and we get it does. tons of half of it is still there is a very necessary provision many locals 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 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 the false alarm however did not stop people from once again returning to their homes and continuing the massive operation these people just arrived their volunteers they brought shovels rubber gloves everything that is needed to clean up the debris and many flood victims took matters into their own hands literally diving for their belongings greetings to come chats car i escaped an earthquake there and when i came here i got hit by a flood the russian government and regions of thord gees 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

discounted 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. and against all odds they're staying and helping each other to rebuild their homes and their lives. well of course we're very closely following the aftermath of the disaster in cramps on our website that's at our t. dot com there you can also see aerial video shots just hours after the flooding all that along with a timeline of the natural disaster that has absolutely devastated towns and communities across the region all of that is of course available online. while havoc on the streets of spain this week as pent up public rage over the government's austerity drive spilled over into clashes with the police mass protests originally sparked by miners began this past wednesday the police reaction

saw more than seventy people injured in the ensuing clashes riot clad cops fired rubber bullets at the demonstrators with many activists beaten not to mention detained the government in madrid this friday approved a new round of cuts that was a precondition to a eurozone deal for ailing spanish banks sociologist carlos del close believes that after all of this the country's prime minister should well 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 years 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 money is not a whole you have any sense of decency or even a fragment of the dignity that miners and the protesters the indignados have that

he would resign along with the rest of his government he's 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 let's head now to the other side of the mediterranean in queens where austerity driven rioting and protests have warped into something a bit more sinister over there violent attacks against immigrants are surging as extreme right wing factions revel in their newfound public support they've pledged to rid the country of all outsiders and are even urging volunteers to donate blood to greeks only jacob graves has more 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 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 for public anger. 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 jake's suffer from by those goings of foreigners that we have allowed to go over to accumulate in our land was this spouting racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians with. the party still secured around seventy percent of the vote in the parliamentary elections. campaigning with a promise to throw 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 i have seen. almost a that's done by organized groups ok bye. savary see me out that these attacks are happening at night and therefore whatever doesn't integrate by people who are often for dead and armed with clouds. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens hard wish if i'd known what it was going to be like here i would never have left somalia tribal have to 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 vigilante groups in discover it's hard to make 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 where ninety percent of all those seeking refuge and to europe and in a country that circling the drain and nationalist rhetoric flooding into mainstream politics i think that the. good here are the groups. 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 has been caught . you know in another place in europe he's going back to the ground through. the means. that refugees just

keep on coming but danger for the trouble good feeling for all the extremism. thank you greece athens well more for to come for you on the program including pushing for democracy or trying to get more influence in the region that is the question as the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton visits supposed to embark egypt for the very first time we're going to examine what's really on her agenda. and hopes for a better future for children who haven't been given the best of starts russia takes action to protect its youngsters adopted by american parents after high profile cases of neglect. well politically active nonprofit groups working here in russia and funded from abroad may soon come under tough new scrutiny a bill that forces these kinds of organizations to register as foreign agents has

passed its first stage of approval in russia's lowest a lower house of parliament the groups will have to undergo financial audits and submit reports of their activities otherwise they could face heavy fines even jail terms now critics immediately labeled the move as an attack on civil liberties but supporters say it will help boost transparency the u.s. has slammed to the legislation just by having an almost similar identical along the books with the more here's our washington correspondent going it can. the west hurry to dump the proposed legislation as the kremlin crackdown on angiosperms share of the money flow where is the money coming. toward you or your organization so we can get transparency you get regulation. these are all foreign. sovereign 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. again that's that's not. represent the country and wall to be. on the employment of 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 to come in cooperation to resume cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic teenagers of foreign agents insisted that representatives of c.d.'s 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 principle as well as a pivot 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 i need a new suit in the us doesn't have thousands of forming 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 precisely on that for example when some n.g.o.s. for people to join a protest they have the right to know who's behind it and who's 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 angels 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's saying that then the certainly do and they are certainly going to either get it over early 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 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. well lots more stories for you on our website at r.t. dot com and over there you could read about an arrest in israel thousands had

a rally to mark a year since the start of a massive social protest in the country one demonstrator in tel aviv even set himself on fire. plus talk about a taxi ride from hell one russian passenger found himself in the trash literally over the fair you can watch footage of the rescue operation at our dot com. well u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton met with met with egypt's armed forces chief any attempt to push the military to hand over power in the country this comes a day after her first official meeting with the newly elected as long as leader mohamed morsy and according to don de bar an anti-war activist and journalist the secretary of state is simply there to keep america's nose firmly in the region. i think the u.s. would like to see the appearance of the military backing down with the military actually continuing to wield power but i do believe that clinton would like to at least firm up and go against some legitimacy for the military to try to make them

equal partner because i think that that leaves the united states free to do all kinds of machinations going forward and that's their intent certainly we grow this of what one thinks of the muslim brotherhood and there are segments of that aligned with the us their position in power right now rests on the backs of the people in the streets and there's a long as that's true those people in the streets have power that i think the united states would like to the gate. well let's bring you an update on some of today's main world news headlines at least thirty nine pilgrims died after their over a crowded bus skidded off the road near nepal's border with india local media had claims the accident may have been caused by drunk driving most of those on board were believed to be indian nationals visiting the country on an annual pilgrimage to hindu temples. meanwhile a freak wave of terror nato's has swept through northern poland killing one person

and leaving at least ten injured more than one hundred homes were destroyed while power lines were brought down causing large scale large scale blackouts train services were also interrupted this is the latest incident of extreme weather that's battered poland since the start of the month with hail storms the gales and even flash floods. well a deal to help safeguard 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 abuse against russian children adopted by american parents. has more. just some eight kilometers from the canadian border towns in remote train children in the mountains and forests of this northwest part of the u.s. for many. down two children from russia who have found themselves abandoned once again this remote trains 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 strides commissioner pavel is to help try to visit the range but it was denied access to the children living there. there are so many lies about the real conditions of two hundred directed 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 there were already just days before my visit 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 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 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. at this hour and this harrowing example from twenty ten when an american mother filmed herself punishing her adoptive little russian. why he liked. so even if you did. this it works in life to me what it is what you think to me

is for you such as when you let me know 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 the 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 found loving families nobody knows just how many a suffering the fate of little yvonne's could have i got a final question archie reporting from los angeles california. well i'll be back in just a few minutes what's the latest headlines stay with us. one

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