supposedly peaceful protest against the syrian. opposition. seen in the crowds. as the un peace envoy meets the president to try to broker a truce in the conflict torn country. as the. stronghold of. another pro-government militia to the western backed libyan rebel.

social cuts being imposed. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. mass protests in the lebanese capital have descended into riots with the army far into gas to control hundreds of angry demonstrators they tried to storm the government headquarters in beirut after the funerals of those killed in friday's. is in the region. where watching events unfold in beirut after tense couple of days how did it end. it started off as a potentially a peaceful and rather more inform our chat during the funeral of the police official who was killed and that friday it's last but then several hundred people

decided to go and storm the prime minister's office once they got there they started throwing rocks and an end to syrian slogans and that's where they were met with a very heavy police presence and as you mentioned that your gas was fired into the crowd also some of the morning shots were also fired into. your air it is believed that there are people who are heard but not by the gunshots just as skirmishes that followed and now all of the old these events the riots or rather the protests to protest which are going on for essentially a third day now are rather into their third night began after the fall. in the christian quarter of damascus on friday afternoon killing eight people among them police intelligence chief. who is known for his sick act to sirius dance and a lot of his supporters are saying that in fact it's the syriac that was behind the

terror act in the route on friday i they were the ones who began the protests which started on friday evening which continues to saturday that called for a day of rage on sunday. calling on people actually to participate in what they call the lebanese eleven lebanese spring of alluding of course to the arab spring of last year. at this point we know that. there is still they give the non-playing some protection which is continuing in between that is the. country it has been kind of on the back for but now with the death penalty and all that all the attention is back. we do know that there. this region has subsided but there are you know where. there was heavy gunfire. and clashes with police and when you then the top of tripoli as well

is on the outskirts of the roots or earlier today of course through what situation in lebanon and we'll bring you the latest. to the bombing though triggered a weekend of headstrong sentiment can you explain exactly what the people are wanting to wonder of course they're asking for the government if they're saying basically everyone has to step down why it should because in their opinion and the government supports a syrian government they are saying that there is the you have to understand there's a very strict she has to divide in lebanon and the sunnis are the ones who will majority of the students are the ones for saying that the government must go because they are considering the shia and they're also supporting the government of president assad in syria and they are the ones leaning syrian support. for the right and hence the to see hence the tension in. the caribbean or thanks very much indeed for that live update from tel aviv now let's discuss the situation further

with mark owen and he's a historian and visiting professor of international relations for bill kent university in turkey this initially peaceful rally of mourning turned somewhat violent now what is fueling people's anger we've heard reaction there in response from our correspondent could you tell us more is it just the blast or is there really more to it. i think there's more to the blast focus of the tension i think in some ways what is making the supporters of the opposition in lebanon very angry is in fact the failure of her huge demonstrations to go back seven years to the murder of her if you career is funeral turned into a major demonstration i mean people setting process whereby the syrian peace people were forced to lebanon. the supporters of the opposition called for a similar sized demonstration it was just a few small anderson heard there were a number of groups and we salafist islamic extremist groups sort of groups will be

involved actively fighting inside syria and i think many lebanese are very worried that after their own history of civil war there any sign conflict they are being drawn by the opposition into a war in syria which will be more bloody and nastier in lebanon because of the intertwining of so many small groups of these and shiites christian groups and so on small turkey with its history so much violence in recent so been a lot of anger against prime minister for be reacting to this latest incident but what should he be doing then well part of the problem is of course the prime minister's disliked by the sunni and the syrian forces because he seems a traitor he's a sunni and so but he's the prime minister the head of a coalition government which is dominated by shiite supporters of hezbollah or by christians who don't want to get dragged into the war in syria so to some extent he's hated as a traitor if you like concerned community and that's sectarian bitterness and i

think we should say on the other hand of course he does need a parliamentary majority maybe in the elections to come and the results will change that but for the moment you're getting the impression some are of the government is not democratic or not representative but so far it does actually represent something of the order of well over sixty percent of the where she wrote in the last election that may change but. what about those opposition politicians blaming the wreck leave syria on the assassination of the top security official how exactly would a son actually benefit doing that. well i have to so if we think about the legacy of the murder of her career in two thousand and five that played very heavily against syria whoever did it to. be moved. to me it seems unlikely that assad's government directly would want to be involved in this because it's all too easy to point the finger at them they are so you. guys did west maybe outside. of the other hand perhaps.

very good way of getting outside forces on their side and maybe deciding. on the security chief was expendable that could have happened we don't know that could be an entirely internal lebanese reason warren sorts of political money just isn't a straight national road to and so i think to leap to conclusions the moment although it's very tempting the huge pressure to do it is. you say perhaps they could be the intention to trick international involvement from outside but also what about the idea that could be a demonstration or an example of what could happen if assad does fall and that would spark great a regional instability yes i think we've seen already that happening president assad said about eighteen months ago but if there was a civil war in syria it would be contained inside the borders of syria he may be. pushing down agenda which of course is not entirely wrong many of the fault lines

are found in lebanon even between different religious groups between different interest groups and they're of course not just intelligence services of the local arab countries and so on but there are international intelligence of plane came here too they have their interests and it's a very very murky world of i think this is one of the problems. tragedies for the love of them why i think there's been much less of a turn for those who we might expect it's a lot of lebanese are just very weary and where are you being dragged into other people's fighting just briefly what about the people of lebanon of beirut in particular. enjoyed four years of relative stability should now be alarmed the very fearful that everything could be undone now in the lebanon really a descent into chaos and of course as i say this is a kind of herald of the beginning of an election campaign that might have been a normal action campaign where people go to different parties now it could well be . that there's a kind of civil war where we'll be watching renge attacks perhaps people trying to

pick off arrivals it's a very very dangerous precedent and so i think this is a big tragedy for the. constitutional since tomorrow to become to work. with violent home run mark almond oxford historian international relations professor at turkey's bill cohen university great to hear your thoughts on this your perspective thank you for joining us live here in r.t. thank you. well in syria itself a similar car explosion has hit damascus killing at least thirteen people and wounding dozens of others a taxi rigged with explosives blew up outside a police station in the busy district no one has admitted the blast which is the latest in a series of deadly bombings in syria's biggest cities in the past few months previously rebels an al qaeda linked group said they were behind such attacks the latest blast came as the international peace envoy met the syrian president to try to broker a temporary ceasefire in the civil conflict the editor in chief of the syria tribune media channel and blog police today's blast is aimed at derailing any peace efforts in syria. they are trying to destroy what they were bringing me is trying

to do obviously there are countries that are not happy about. any success that they brought in you may have it all depends on the will of the countries backing it up big rebel groups are all controlled from the outside if somebody gives money weapons and means of communication that means they can control your country is can have fire in forty eight hours or even less if they are if they have there will be the rebels have absolutely no prospect of shooting what they want or what's what's going to happen at them. longing to struggle to weaken syria more and more and this is what we se as hope will not happen. libyan militiamen aligned to the defense ministry of shelled the besieged former bastion of x. libyan leader moammar gadhafi you might find some of the video we're about to show you setting earlier on saturday clashes around the town of bani walid left twenty six people dead and two hundred wounded the libyan army in the more or less government of blockaded the town for more than two weeks now accusing gadhafi

supporters of kidnapping those inside bani walid said they are suffering severe shortages of food water and medicine political activist see who left libya around a year ago says the state is heading towards further disarray a year after the nato backed with. its model division now in libya. even before. the militias know they're going very well you know which is you know highly populated area. also. used chemical weapons. most of the. people inside the city these militias are. now going to. be considered in libya. or possibly means. positions. is not really covering. education in libya because of the

long war at this example for syria to say we succeeded in libya so we succeeded in syria. my point of view. u.s. intelligence says last month's attack on the american consulate in libya was most likely not premeditated or linked to al qaida some washington politicians previously suggested the assault in the city of benghazi left four americans dead. more part america's troubles piling up three revolution it's strongly back here again. more world news from r.t. in moscow coming your way after the break.

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volunteer video for your media project free video darty dot com. continues here on our table the one hundred thousand people turned out in london to protest against the austerity been widely imposed scuffles are up to the region not so much as hundreds of protesters broke away in try to storm shops saturday's run in the british capital was organized by trade unions and attracted people from across the country prime minister david cameron recently warned of more tough decisions for the struggling economy first was among the crowds. many people that turned out that less than is against the cuts they say have flatlined the economy now there are people from all walks of life there are nurses worried about the n.h.s. there are police officers all feeding on worried about cut the frontline services and among the people he seemed many many families all across the age range feel

that they've been affected in some way by the continued cuts my parents rely on the n.h.s. who can say can't get worse my son to stephen is paying nine grand a year in fees i work in the voluntary set turn legal aid is being count so we were very humble people and i won't be able to get the same help from the next year they just protect their rights they protect the interests of the rich neighborhood out fear in the people who are it now because it's not just britain that's been affected the whole start because it had a europe wide effect of the euro crisis rumbles on we see disparity i get taking great the specially in the last month in spain in greece all across the year you say that people are simply saying that they've had. enough here in london i think that possibly into the hundreds of thousands maybe even more that come out here so much against the austerity crowd. the rally in britain echoed feelings elsewhere in europe with angry crowds gathering in spain and greece tens of thousands of feet descended on athens a nationwide strike but on the way clashing with police in the tree parents

teachers and students marched to condemn imminent government cuts to education and caps three days of industrial action but the hands of the purse strings are moving further away from national capitals with either leaders agreeing to give even more powers to brussels deal that would bring centralized banking supervision the research says no summit will help solve the crisis until it tackles the root cause . there's one thing we've learned over the past couple of years is that with european leaders say something about this crisis is they usually mean the exact opposite and on one front so obviously the end of the phrase is in sight probably means that spain increases the going into depression greece by next to one of the contracts in the economy contract it was explained that it wasn't one percent to forty five percent of the regions in speed which are too many to say we have actually seen your fascist forces on the rise really so it would be

a move that we haven't seen since the one nine hundred thirty foot i think really what's happening is that the stress these actions getting out of the things are getting a lot worse and the stomach completely fails to address any of the structural problems which include was the important thing to be embraced between the financial sector which is completely insolvent and a series of states which are completely. america's main presidential hopefuls get one last chance to get on the t.v. to win over voters on the monday tomorrow the race could be tighter this report later this hour it's leaving all the parties and independent candidates out of the picture. big big biggest rushes across if there's a line to be the world's largest listed all. britain's b.p. plans to get rid of its trouble in the joint russian venture. the cia wants to expand its fleet of drones and try to top the white house to green light the move earlier this week it was at the pentagon potentially increase its lethal operations abroad including regular strikes in pakistan the cia's request

came shortly after new troubling statistics emerged on attacks that officially talk at militants stands interior minister said that of more than two thousand people killed by american drones eighty percent of the news. from pakistan's first political lobbying group says washington is only creating more minutes and with its tactics. this is a major blow. to diplomacy and position in parks done and this is the first time that a senior official actually come out to say this make this kind of a statement there's no evidence that the drones have actually helped buckstone control the militants on the contrary pakistan has been very much very successful lives in the military in flushing out a terrorist from the northern region of so wide back in two thousand and nine and clearing and cleaning up that entire area and if now we see a resurgence of some of the activity of the terrorists it is because of these safe havens on the what i would call the american side of the border which is the afghan

side of the border ninety six incursions from the of gun territory into parks done resulting in killing of bucks and you soldiers and box and civilians. there's all to play for monday's final and crucial debate between the main u.s. presidential candidates as polls put the record balmer mitt romney neck and neck and while the. nation like t.v. again other contenders are being shoved to the margins green party presidential nominee jule styne and her running mates were arrested this week after trying to make their way to the venue for last tuesday's debate stein blames the system for locking up nearly a third of the country's population at the upcoming election green party campaign manager ben meant he believes the two party domination is down to outdated laws and corporate control. the reality is that there's nothing in our constitution which prevents a multi-party system from emerging here in the u.s. but we do have laws on the books all across the country and we also have the actions of private corporations that have grown up over the last sixty years to

prevent independent parties from challenging the two establishment parties here in the united states the laws that we have in the books prevent or make it very difficult for independent parties to get on the ballot to kill voters that choice those laws date from the cold war they date from the mccarthy era in which there was a fear of communism and socialism and they tried to make it very difficult for a progressive party some particular to emerge here at the green party we have overcome many of those challenges joel stein is on eighty five percent of the ballots yet they're still preventing her from taking part in the debate if you look at the success of the green party despite all the obstacles we face it says that there is a great demand for the greens people vote for the greens here in the u.s. would help keep the voters' choice open the other candidates get to cut through the mainstream media blackout in a televised debate put you by america keeping a close eye on the upcoming election on a website. will there be more on the run. or

is missing the offensive. stop us election. to the thirty second one. that emerged this week that a new company could take the title of being the world's biggest listed on oil producer and it could be russian giant stuff to britain's b.p. moved toward selling its fifty percent stake of its joint venture in russia. in return b.p. gets fifteen percent of rosneft and around seventeen billion dollars in cash the state owned all major actually wants to get its hands on all of tearing cape b.p. and is apparently holding talks with its other shareholders if signed the overall daily said to become the second biggest oil agreement ever. and a new top dog in global oil is bound to have some ramifications in the global industry and r.t.e. dotcoms business section outlines what they could be. pro palestinian activists and european employees aboard the gaza bound humanitarian

ship had been detained upon arrival at an israeli port so it was commandeered by israeli troops during the latest attempt to break the blockade of the palestinian coastal territory two years ago a similar enterprise ended tragically where nine activists were killed as their freedom flotilla was raided by israeli troops a victorious trend from the company that owns the latest vessel insists their missions will be held back from international attention to gaza's plight. what we can achieve is that we can make the international community to focus on the fact that the blockade still is going on that it is a siege going on and to get it is getting worse year by year and what we are doing is actually walk to w.h.o. nearly seth save the children and fifty other n.g.o.s are saying that. the blockade has to end it is now its sixth year and they also say that there are.

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