the u.n. findings in a syrian province of hama contradict the opposition's reports of a civilian massacre something the west had taken in good faith when it condemned the regime. a southern russian resort region is still struggling to recover from deadly flooding as hundreds of volunteers rushed to help those left without homes and supplies. and anti stary clashes in 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.

that early morning to you watching artie's the weekly with me lucy coughing up well our top story today turns to syria where u.n. observers promo probing a mass killing there in the hama province have confirmed the regime's claims that its military was targeting rebel fighters in the area now this contradicts the opposition's reports of a civilian massacre something that the u.s. and its allies had rushed to report and maria finish now has more from the capital of damascus but i should warn you you may find some of the images in her report disturbing. but your enemies are a true 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 alleged massacre there and they've confirmed fierce clashes between the rebels and the governmental forces took place on the ground but this concluded starts an attack apparently by the governmental for. this 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 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 to this village for when they say so 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 in holes in this incident and what happened in the village tremseh and they were sad that they weren't given what kinds of bodies 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 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 the terrorists or criminals murderers i believe is the nursery 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 video whose origin is hard to establish these men say they captured the syrian air force officer then they dispense even more rough justice but the out united states will continue providing non-lethal assistance to help those inside syria who are carrying the fight to organize and better communicate. how. the trend 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 caught arrays with the assad government. their 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 all our lives the whole world wants to see a political transition from this illegitimate regime seen to actually see. that can

take care of its people many however fear that should such people force us 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 goals 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 feet is mounting in syria but this is the people who pay the ultimate price. rifle shot out see from damascus in syria. well civil war in syria that is how the international red cross described the conflict there it means both the army and rebel forces could theoretically be up for prosecution for potential war crimes according to international laws as the fighting continues as

washington hoping to take advantage of the situation well that is the assessment of defense analyst elias. here's a look at some of his views. the western powers are going to try to highlight the actions blamed on this government. try to seek. prosecuted for workers' rights perhaps of this. sort of crimes that they may have because. these conflicts before it has been clear by the way with grows as a civil war i would say that they will still be prosecuted. at least term so for the right so well the answer was. that they went through what they call a regime change therefore they want to raise the pressure. for overseeing. the. to try to raise the pressure before russia and china that's that they want to

support it with more sanctions that perhaps. they just want to reduce change that's why. we're to keep it at present real or true they are going to accuse us. well following the worst natural disaster in its history russia's southern cross and our region is picking up the pieces massive flash flooding has killed over one hundred seventy people there destroying thousands of homes well r t has a large team of reporters on the ground including a dentist who filed a falling apart. 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 deluge by a giant wave of up to seven meters most of the buildings there wellington was lucky to survive in a sudden burning queue woke up his wife and son before rushing to help an elderly disabled neighbor. what's

a rose immediately we tried to do something to save our belongings but the water was everywhere it was high time was saved ourselves and we climbed up onto the roof . others were not so lucky with many elderly people in particular found amongst the dead in the morning to reuters 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 students assisted doctors selection aiding survivors fashion model and to learn trip especially over john over two gifts which children after an appeal and basically 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 had to do whatever we could in one day and we gathered. tons of. this sealed. 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 both social media triggering a second wave of panic for hundreds of people 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. 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 mean 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 gash and help to rebuild their homes or new ones but those left with nothing

and even though it may take weeks and months to get things back to normal the cyclone in 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. well of course we are very closely following the aftermath of the disaster in the crims on our website that's at our t v dot com over there you can see aerial video shot just hours after the flooding all that as well as the timeline of that natural disaster that has devastated towns and communities across the region available on our website. well havoc on the streets of spain this week as pent up public rage over the government's austerity drive spelled over into clashes with police mass protests sparked by miners began this. wednesday the police reaction saw over seventy people injured in

the ensuing clashes riot clad cops fired rubber bullets at the demonstrators with many activists beaten and attained the government in madrid this friday approved a new round of cuts a precondition to a euro zone rescue deal for airlink spanish banks sociologist carlos del close believes that after all of this spat spain's 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 images of an eleven year old child shot in the head with a rubber bullet ok you see 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 somebody i'm not wholly 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 and what's happening today well on the other side of the mediterranean in greece austerity driven rioting and protests have morphed into something much more sinister over there are violent attacks on immigrants are surging this as extreme right wing factions are reveling in their new public support they've pledged to rid the country of all outsiders and are even urging volunteers to donate blood to greeks only graves has more now from athens. greece seeing food. foundations take root. in that if 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 in greece but not the violence you're suggesting it is the violence that thousands of greeks suffer from by those gangs of foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land there was despite spouting 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 their 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 they are that's the bad things that they are going to i suppose head by turn savary seeming that these attacks are happening at night and therefore whatever doesn't integrate by people who are all fighting for their. clouds. came to greece two years ago fleeing war torn somalia but he's found no peace in athens. 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. it's hard to take place the

so-called vigilance he proves in describing to me minorities. victims say there's little point turn to the 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 here are the 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 one illegal immigrant is 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 more still to come for you in 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 post will barak egypt for the very first time we're going to take a closer 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 nonprofit groups working in russia funded from abroad it may soon come under tough scrutiny

a bill that forces such organizations to register as foreign agents has passed its first stage of approval in the country's lower house of parliament the groups will have to undergo financial audits and submit reports of their activities otherwise they could face heavy fines or even jail terms now critics immediately labeled the move as an attack on civil liberties but supporters say it's going to help boost transparency that the united states has slammed the bill despite having an almost identical law on its books with more here's our correspondent in washington can. the west hurry 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. 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 were going. 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. if you. have a foreign nation veronica a question in nick of us says while in the u.s. she was forced to register as a foreign agent even though she was not involved in any political activities. i was a representative from st petersburg who promoted economy corporation to reason cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic tutors and foreign agents insisted that representatives of c.d.'s also register disappointing agents version of the law

doesn't even include nonpolitical 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 foreign principle as well as a pivot is 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 a new at 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 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 who's 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 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 and of course when we say no. 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 i have she is saying that then the certainly do and they are certainly going to get it over early and maybe she's hinting it covertly i don't know many of the n.g.o.s in russia would get their financing from abroad to preach openness and transparency in the sponsors of this russian bill or you could only make sense that they themselves are subject to the same principles of transparency i'm going to check on in washington r t. well as always a lot more stories for you on our website r t v dot com over there you can read

about on the arrest in israel. thousands have rallied to mark a year since the start of the mass social protest in the country with one man in tel aviv even setting himself on fire. plus talk about a taxi ride from the hell one russian passenger found himself in the trash literally over the fare you can watch the bizarre footage of the rescue operation at r.t.e. dot com. well u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton met with egypt's armed forces chief in an attempt to push them for the military to hand over power in the country that after a day after her first official meeting with the newly elected as lama's leader mohamed morsi and according to don de bar an anti-war activist and journalist hillary clinton 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 regardless of what one thinks of the muslim brotherhood and there are segments of that aligned with the u.s. their position in power right now rests on the backs of the people in the streets and as 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 up to date on some of today's main world news headlines. at least thirty nine pilgrims died after their overcrowded busts get off the road near nepal's border with india local media claimed the accident may have been caused by drunk driving most of those on board were believed to be indian nationals visiting nepal on an annual pilgrimage to hindu temples. also a freak a wave of turn nato's has swept through northern poland killing one and injuring at

least ten more than one hundred homes were destroyed while power lines were brought down this caused a large scale blackout train services were also disrupted but this was just the latest incident of extreme weather that has battered poland since the start of the month but hail storms scales and flash floods. now 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 by their adoptive american parents. madonna pardon me but you know the has more. just some eight kilometers from the canadian border stands 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 train in the state of montana has become their last resort

through 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. with their assume many lies about the real conditions of two hundred directed 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 vons kind of a god of who was beaten to death by his american foster parents. and this harrowing example from twenty ten when an american mother held herself punishing her adoptive little russian boy. if you like to me. even if you. work sometimes i mean what is what you mean

but if you want someone. to mean. 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 shade 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 right back in a few minutes with the latest headlines play stick with us. resistance

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