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

early morning to you watching the weekly here on our t.v. with me lucy catherine of well let's get straight to our top headline u.n. observers probing a mass killing in syria's hama province have confirmed the regimes claims that its military was targeting rebel fighters in that area now this contradicts the opposition's reports of a civilian massacre. brings us more from the capital in damascus but i should warn you some of the images in her report may be a bit disturbing. but you're an observer trim ition here syria has visited the village of tromso in the syrian central province of hama hours after the news 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 concludes is that an attack apparently by the governmental forces appeared targeted at specific houses and specific groups especially coming 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 been 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 up to the rebels refused to surrender that's going to intensify did this village holding these assaults 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 enfold in this incident and what happened in the village tremseh and they were sad that they weren't given what happened is that applies for system abroad and especially from turkey fall problems continues to rage everywhere cool 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 so far there is no clear understanding of who exactly they are. submitted to. 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 it was killing the rebels they say going to melt. 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 a terrorist group or 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 right now it is states will continue providing non-lethal assistance to help those inside syria who are carrying the fight to organize and better communicate. how. i found a march in this video of 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 our country we've been building all our lives the whole world wants to see a political transition from this illegitimate regime. 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 target 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 are continuing to call on assad to leave and support in his opponent's feet is mounting in syria but this is the people who pay the ultimate price. i feel should not see from damascus in syria well civil war in syria that is how the international red cross describe the conflict there it means that both the army and rebel forces could potentially be up for prosecution for war crimes under international law as the fighting continues as washington hoping to take advantage of the situation well that is the assessment of defense

analysts. take a look at some of his views here western powers are going to try to. label this government. try to seek. security for workers' rights perhaps of this. sort of. conflict before it has been declared by the gross as the civil war that was. could be prosecuted. so for the right so well why should. they want to read what they change there for they want to raise any pressure. for overseeing. again. to try to raise the pressure before russia and china that's that they want to support the government there with. perhaps. they just want to

change it that's why. they did that present real or true they are going to accuse. after the worst natural disaster in its history russia's southern cross and our region is now picking up the pieces of flash flooding killed over one hundred seventy people there destroying thousands of homes. on the ground and file the falling apart. it was annoying 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 to woke 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 creams medical students assisted doctors selection aiding survivors fashion model and philanthropist. to gifts what children after and basically just left everything and came here. to. to clarify because i felt i had to and to see how how i myself can be helpful but also they for doing that really 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 who 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 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 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. their will 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 shouts 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 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 entire region of course we here at our team are closely following the aftermath of the disaster and on our website that's at our t. dot com over there you can see aerial video shots just hours after the flooding all that as well as the timeline of the national disaster which has devastated towns and. communities across that region course it is available on line. well havoc on the streets of spain this week as pent up public rage over the government's austerity drive spilled 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 and with many activists beaten even detained by the government in madrid that this friday approved a new round of cuts it was a precondition to a euro zone rescue deal for ailing spanish banks sociologist carlos del places believes that after all of this 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 you know 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 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 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 thing people 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 get over to the other side of the mediterranean now in greece where austerity driven or writing and protests have morphed into something well much more sinister over there are violent attacks against immigrants are surging as extreme right. factions revel in their new found public support they've pledged to rid the country of all outsiders three even verging volunteers to donate blood it to greeks only jacob graves has more now from athens. while all around the country crumbles some parts of greece are seeing firm foundations take root. in that we want a nationalistic state all of them should go back to where they came from the word

of an elected official as unemployment grows hand in hand with extremist sentiments looking for people to blame for their current plight the golden dawn party has proven to be the prime outlet 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 geeks suffer from by those goings of foreigners that we have allowed to govern accumulate in our land was despite spouting racism from the podium and scandals including physically assaulting politicians live on air the party still secured 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 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

times by organized moves ahead by thirteen savary see me that these attacks are happening at night and they're whoever doesn't agree 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 not if i'd known what it was going to be like here i would never have left somalia tribal have to when you're. 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 vigilance the proofs and discover it's hard to make 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 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 them into agreement what happens is once one in the government has 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 well 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 on 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 to a bar of egypt for the first time we're going to take a closer look at what's really on her agenda. meanwhile hopes for a better future for children who simply 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 and funded from abroad to me come under tough scrutiny a bill that forces such organizations to register as foreign agents has passed its very first stage of approval in the country's lower house of parliament now those

groups are going to have to under grow financial audits and submit reports of their activities otherwise they could face having fines or even jail terms critics immediately labeled the move as an attack on civil liberties supporters meanwhile say that it will help boost transparency the u.s. has slammed the build of spite having an almost identical law on the books well for more on that contradiction let's turn to washington correspondent and head to check out the west hurry to dump the proposed legislation is a kremlin crackdown on n.g.o.s pretty sure the money flow where the money coming. toward you or your organization so you get transparency you get regular you can get from on through. these roll through there you need a sovereign nation who's 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 age. registration act if you were. if you work for another country you have to register as a country. again that's. 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. to them i was a representative from st petersburg who promoted economy corporation to reason cultural ties nevertheless the u.s. justice department which more new touristic 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 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 four in principle as well as a receipts and disbursements in support of those activities end of quote the sponsors of the russian bill say their version is almost identical with the american law the u.s. argues the difference is that their law doesn't address nonprofit organisations but many see another difference i need a new 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 openness ations 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 them media the russkie said the secretary of state is aware of the proposed law and quote is searching for ways to modify the support of russia's n.g.o.s without subjecting the. to a crackdown end of quote when 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 if she's 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 which get their financing from abroad to preach openness and transparency in 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 r t. well as always there's a lot more stories for you on our website that's at r.t.e. dot com we begin with israel thousands had rallied to mark

a year since the start of a massive social protest in the country with one man in tel aviv even setting himself on fire. plus talk about a taxi ride from hell over one russian passenger found himself in the trash literally over a fare we can watch the bizarre footage of the rescue operation at our t.v. dot com. well u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton met with egypt's armed forces chief in an attempt to push the military to hand over power in the country this came a day after her first official meeting with the newly elected leader as long as leader mohamed morsi according to don de bar and 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 gain some legitimacy for the military to try to make to be equal

partner because i think that that leaves the united states free to do all kinds of machinations going forward and that's the route that we go this is what one thinks of the muslim brotherhood and there are segments of that along with the u.s. 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 negate all right well let's bring you an update on some of today's world news headlines. at least thirty nine pilgrims diet after their overcrowded buses get off the road near nepal's the border with india local media claim the accident may have been caused by drunk driving most of those onboard were believed to be indian nationals they were visiting the country on an annual pilgrimage to hindu temples. meanwhile a freak wave of turn nato's has swept through northern poland killing one and leaving ten injured more than one hundred homes were destroyed while power lines

were brought down causing a large scale of blackouts train services were also it just struck dead it was the latest incident of extreme weather that has battered poland since the start of the month with hail storms gales and flash floods. well a deal to help save guard children adopted by families in the u.s. 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. 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. primo trains in the state of montana has become their last resort for 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's drawings 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 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 by god though 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 lied to me. what. you saw was what.

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 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 got to do a question are two reporting from los angeles california well i'll be back in just a few minutes with the latest headlines stay with us.

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