un findings in the syrian promise of hall blog contradict the opposition's reports of a civilian massacre something the west had taken and good faith when it condemned the regime. a southern russian resort region is still struggling to recover from a deadly flooding as hundreds of volunteers rushed to help those without homes and supplies. and anti a steady clashes in spain that 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 morning five am here in the russian capital you're watching artie's the weekly with me lucy catherine off well if you want to service probing a mass killing in syria's hamas province have confirmed the regime's claims that its military was targeting rebel fighters in the area because of course contradicts the opposition's reports of a civilian a massacre something that the u.s. and its allies had rushed to report for notion has more from the capital of damascus but i should warn you some of the images in her report might be a bit 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 after the news of much about the alleged massacre there and they've confirmed 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 common to faxes and opposition activists and this conclusion actually contradicts initial reports that we've been hearing from syrian opposition here that they've been very close in this if 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 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 off to the rebels refused to surrender that's going to intensify to this village when they see a soul 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 the syrian t.v. here in damascus and this confessed they were enfold in this incident in what happened in the village of tremseh and they've even sad that they were given weapons that buys horses from abroad and especially from turkey while all 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 want to give in 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 which he helped the syrian regime and was killing the rebels they say god i met. 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. with a terrorist group or those 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. i found in this video of the boys behind the camera says the fight must go on it warns this will happen to anyone who cough or 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 to actually see one that can

take care of its people many how were fear that should such people force assad to leave scenes 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. my flush out sea from damascus in syria well civil war in syria that is how the international red cross described the conflict there if true it could mean that both the army and rebel forces could potentially be up for prosecution for war crimes are courting international laws and continue as we ask

is washington hoping to take advantage of the situation that is the us and spent a defense analyst. here's a look at some of that interview. the western powers are going to try to. label this government. try to seek. security for workers' rights. perhaps if the. military. sort of made. these conflicts before it has been declared by the one with the gross. i would say that they will still be prosecuted. so for the right so well why should. they want three what they can change their for if they want to raise any pressure. for overseeing. against it to try to raise the

pressure before russia and china that's that they want supports it with. perhaps. they just want to change it that's why. we need to present real or true they are going to accuse. well following the worst natural disaster in its history southern across our region is picking up the pieces massive flooding had killed over one hundred seventy people the strength thousands of homes. in the region on the ground and filed this report. it was annoyed for the people of green in almost an instant the small town was virtually swept away by a torrent of rain and mud deluged by a giant wave of up to seven meters most of the buildings there but lucky to survive in a sudden turning to walk up his wife and son before rushing to help an elderly disabled neighbor. what's

a rose immediately tried 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 message was answered. of emergency workers people from all walks of life rushed to chremes. medical student assisted doctor selection aiding survivors fashion model and philanthropist but earlier with john over two gifts for children after an appeal in baseball 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 i kind of just got to do whatever we could in one day and we gathered 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 the social media triggering a second wave of panic the 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 the i.c.c. they were in tears 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 shots car i escaped an earthquake there and when i came here i got hit by a flood 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 discounted 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 entire region of course for a very closely following the aftermath of the disaster in crammed on our website. that's r t dot com there you can find aerial video shot just hours after the flooding all that as well as the timeline of the natural disaster that has devastated towns and communities across the region. well how can the streets of spain this week as pent up public rage over the government's drive spilled over into clashes with the police mass protests originally sparked by the miners began this wednesday the police reaction saw more than seventy people

injured in the ensuing clashes riot clad police officers fired rubber bullets at the demonstrators with many activists even beaten as well as to taint the government in madrid this friday approved a new round of cut precondition to a euro zone rescue to spanish banks now sociologist carlos del close believes that after all of 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 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 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 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 what's happening today. well on the other side of the mediterranean in a green driven rioting and protests have actually warped into something much more sinister over their attacks on the immigrants are surging as extreme right wing factions are rubble in their newfound public support they've pledged to rid the country of all outsiders are even urging volunteers to donate blood to greeks only parties jacob graves as has more now from the streets of athens. all round the country crumbles some parts of greece acing 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 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 jake suffer from by those going to foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land was despite spouting racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians. 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 part that's by organized groups led by. a very see me that these attacks are happening at night. whatever doesn't look great by people who are often for dead and. came to greece two years ago. fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens. 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 is 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 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 of turkey 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 here are the eventual groups militant it 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 while you're going in the ground he's been caught. in there in another place in europe he's going back to the country that he ended in europe and absent that means they end up in greece

while athens pleads for more e.u. support the refugees just keep on coming but danger for them is not the trouble they're fleeing from the fire of extremism they're entering j.q. griese r.t. happens. well a lot more still to come for you in this 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 post mubarak egypt for the very first time when i take a look at what really is 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 groups nonprofit groups working in russia and funded from abroad it may soon come under tough new scrutiny

a bill that forces these kinds of organizations to register as foreign agents has passed its very first stage of approval in russia a lower house of parliament now the groups are going to have to undergo financial audits and submit reports of their activities otherwise they could potentially face having fines as well as even jail terms now critics immediately labeled the little move as an attack on civil liberties but supporters say that it will help boost transparency and now the u.s. has slammed the builders by having an almost identical piece of legislation on the books itself but we'll have more on that let's take a look at our washington correspondents report from. the west hurried to dump the proposed legislation is a kremlin crackdown on n.g.o.s for sure the money flow where is the money coming. toward you or your organization so you get transparency you get regulation. these are all things that you need 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 him. eric and bill called the foreign agents registration act if you were. if you work for another country you have to register as in a country. that's that's not. represent. our 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 two meters 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 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 fore 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 organizations but many see another difference i need that 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 organizations work precisely on that for example when some calls for people to join a protest they have the right to know who's behind that and whose payroll they are

members of some non-governmental organizations met with hillary clinton behind closed doors in st petersburg afterwards one of the media the roski said the secretary of state is aware of the proposed law and quote is searching for ways to modify this. support of russia's angels without subjecting them to a crack down end of quote when we say non governmental organizations many of these organizations are government funded right so that they get some of their funding from from the government of the united states anyway so and if she's saying that then that 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 and the sponsors of this question 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 or to. well more stories for you on our website r t dot com unrest in israel

thousands of protesters rallied to mark a year since the start of a mouse social demonstrations in the country with one man in tel aviv even setting himself on fire. last talk about a taxi ride from hell one russian passenger found himself in the trash literally over the fare you can watch the bizarre footage of the rescue operation on our team dot com. so u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton had met with egypt's armed forces chief in an attempt to push the military to hand over power in the country that was one day after her first official meeting with the newly elected as lama's leader mohamed morsy now according to don de bar and war activist and journalist hillary clinton is simply there to keep america's nose firmly in their reach and. 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 for good gain 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 the irritant. regardless of what one thinks of the muslim brotherhood and there are segments of that along with the us there are opposition 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 let's get a look now on some of today's main world news headlines at least thirty nine pilgrims died after their overcrowded busts get off the road in your nepal's border with india local media groups claim the accident may have been caused by drunk driving most of those on board were believed to be indian at nationals who were visiting the country on an annual pilgrimage to hindu temples. meanwhile

a freak wave of tornadoes has swept through northern poland killing at least one person and leaving ten injured more than one hundred homes were destroyed while power lines were brought down causing large scale blackouts train services were also interrupted now this was just the latest incident of extreme weather that has battered poland since the start of the month but hail storms gales and even flash floods. now ideal to help save guard children adopted by families in the united states has been ratified by the russian parliament the changes come a hot on the heels of some chilly examples of abuse against russian children by their adoptive american parents. has more. just some eight kilometers from the canadian border towns a remote train chidden 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. 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 isto health 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 children adopted by u.s. parents we have no idea what's really going on 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 kind of a god of who was beaten to death by his american foster parents. and this is a harrowing example from twenty ten when an american mother filmed herself punishing her adopted as little russian. whining like to me. if you did. what.

you. jessica beagley was charged with child abuse and there is. 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 are 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 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 with the latest headlines stay with us in our team. nearly

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