summit european leaders are likely to push russia to exert more pressure on damascus moscow urges dialogue to resolve the conflict. also syria's president assad did cries the blue massacre and blasts the perpetrators as monsters off pressure attempts to blame his regime of being labeled as part of a plan to engineer foreign military intervention. blasts the court verdict on egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak on date nights this continuing protest both candidates competing in the presidential election seek to exploit the sentencing. right next door to talk to american economist on the nobel laureate eric mascon to find out what he thinks is on the horizon for the troubled world economy. mask in kabul our it in economics it's great to have you with us sir today it's a pleasure so let's start with greece and the latest news we know that chris's public finance is practically paralyzed pensions and salaries won't be paid in june and then you have people and companies transferring their assets out of the country how much worse can actually the cash crunch get will they even be able to. get to t

intervene in syria she also criticized russia's position in the kremlin to put pressure on damascus but moscow has vowed to block any moves for outside interference of the un and he walked us sara flounders says america has never been interested in a diplomatic solution to the crisis. it's important to know that it's the u.s. and nato who are creating a civil war in syria in terms of arming commando mercenaries thugs flooding the country with weapons doing everything that they can to destabilize syria and the latest massacre in houla is just one more example because it's this exact scenario that the u.s. has used to justify quote humanitarian intervention in the past and after they create total destabilization send in all sorts of mercenaries and armed groups and they claim that they're going in in order to save the situation it's absolute hypocrisy and fraud and they've done it with the u.n. security council support and they've done it without u.n. security council support and we've seen this in the past and it's clear that the u.s. is not interested in a diplomatic solution they are in every

summit with european leaders pushing russia to exert more pressure on damascus moscow urges dialogue to resolve the conflict. the last report egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak and his aides ignites various continuing protests as growth candidates competing in the presidential election seek to exploit the sentencing. for top down for a sports update. hello welcome along with to the world of sports here is what we've got coming up for you then there was one maria sharapova is russia's only remaining player in the french open after struggling on a course nets over was beaten in the last sixteen by it's a nice. steam ahead russia and the czech republic footballers depart for poland head of the opening euro two thousand and twelve clash on friday . and hardwood hopes russia's basketball team seeking a spot at this summer's olympic games a podium finish a qualifying tournament in venezuela next month will see them achieve their aim. but first let's start with tennis where maria sharapova is the sole russian left in the french open singles they sell to spread his nets over went down in st

summit with european leaders are likely to push russia to exert more pressure on damascus moscow has done a log to resolve the conflict. syria's president cries the massacre and blasts the perpetrators as monsters while fresh attempts to blame his regime are being labeled as part of a plan to engineer foreign military intervention. plus the court verdict on egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak and his aides ignites fierce continuing protests as both candidates competing in the presidential election seek to exploit the sentencing. coming up next latest in the world of sports with. thanks terry great to have you with us this is what's coming up on this edition of sports today. all alone maria sharapova becomes russia's sole remaining clear in the french open after said. sara errani. out of the rough tiger woods ends the worst run of his career with the stunning when the memorial. place hosted leave the stage of the world cup which was an important tournament for one hundred twelve hopeful. tennis where maria sharapova is the sole russian remaining at the french open after such a crush s

summit european leaders pushing russia to exert more pressure on damascus moscow urges donald to solve the conflict. thus the court verdict on egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak and his aides ignites fierce continuing protests as both candidates competing in the presidential election seek to exploit the sentencing. well next antti talks to american economist and nobel laureate eric mascon to find out what he thinks is on the horizon for the troubled world economy . mask in kabul are it in economics it's great to have you with us sir today it's a pleasure so let's start with greece and the latest news we know that chris his public finance is practically paralyzed pensions and salaries won't be paid in june and then you have people and companies transferring their assets out of the country how much worse can actually the cash crunch get will they even be able to. get to the seventeenth of june election we don't know the answer to that since since the election is in the near future i suspect that they they can and hobble through to the election but things could deteriorate and get even w

summit european leaders pushing russia to exert more pressure on damascus moscow which is dialogue to resolve the conflict. the us court verdict on egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak and his aides ignites fierce continuing protests both candidates competing in the presidential election seek to exploit the sentencing. news and much more twenty four hours a day this is out. syrian leader bashar al assad has flatly rejected any state involvement in the houla slaughter calling it a monstrous massacre the president went on to blame not the opposition but foreign backed fighters in syria he says are spreading chaos griffin says for an intervention may be the ultimate intention. ten days after the terrible massacre in the syrian city of who're the world is still watching to see how this tipping point will shape the crisis while there is still at least some hope of a peaceful solution many analysts believe those hopes are fading fast the american british and french push for military intervention in syria is absolutely enormous we've seen hague of course william hague the british foreign secr

resolutions on syria and while some nations of kicked out syrian diplomats cutting ties with damascus moscow and beijing relations with syria could ultimately help to resolve the crisis that's according to at least one chinese expert. the world sees russia as a very strong syrian ally where people perceive china as basically supporting russia in this initiative and a lot of reason is that china has been very soft spoken and very quiet about it support for syria the ultimate question in syria right now is that even if there is a military intervention what comes next and i think that there's a lot of calls for military intervention because there will be a lot less but even if people are dying right now the end result of a failed government will be bloodshed and thousands possibly tens of thousands so i think what russia and china are understanding is that they have a lot of sway over the syrian government perhaps that's one of the policy in this instance but far more effective than a u.n. sanction or u.n. condemnation of what's happening in syria right now and the conflict there is a currently

summit with european leaders likely to push russia to exert more pressure on damascus moscow says the dialogue is the best means to resolve the conflict more details just ahead. syria's president decries the houla massacre and blasts the perpetrators as monsters turns to blame his regime being labeled as part of a plan to engineer foreign military intervention. thus the court verdict on egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak and his aides ignites fierce continuing protest as both candidates competing in the presidential election a secret exploiting the sentencing. and russian markets take off the trade in. the red x. standing in international plunge all the consoles and business in twenty minutes. fly from moscow twenty four hours a day this is r.t. on kerry just. calls for outside military intervention in syria and laying blame only on the assad regime for the violence have been vigorously opposed by russia which has been pushing for dialogue instead this position is expected to be put to the test russia e.u. summit in st petersburg for more on this let's go live now i want to. read of

unbalanced resolutions in syria while some nations of kicked out syrian diplomats cutting ties with damascus moscow beijing's relations with syria could help resolve the crisis according to one chinese expert the world sees russia as a very strong ally where people perceive. basically supporting russia in this initiative and a lot of the recent china has been very soft spoken and very quiet about their support for syria he also freshened in syria right now if you give you various military intervention what comes next and i think that there's a lot of pause for military action because there's going to be even if people are dying right now the end result of your government will be bloodshed and thousands possibly tens of thousands so i think what russia and china are understanding is that they have a lot of sway over the syrian government perhaps you know. far more practical than a u.n. sanction or your kind of mention of what's happening in syria right now. the conflict in syria is spilling over into neighboring lebanon where deadly sectarian clashes a broken out in several cities there's also a gro

summit with european leaders pushing russia to exert more pressure on damascus and moscow dialogue to resolve the conflict. in a court verdict on egypt's ousted leader hosni mubarak and his aides ignites this continuing protest both candidates competing in the presidential election seek to exploit the sentencing. but up next our special reports with a different perspective on the american dream. and the immigration goes down in the senate that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. critics of arizona's newly signed immigration bill say it allows police to stop anyone on the street based purely on the person's appearance governor brewer's response when asked by a reporter what illegal immigrant looks like. i do not know i do not know what legal immigrant that's like but the sticking point is what to do with the millions of people who are in this country in this country illegally the u.s. government will have no idea who they are and where they are in this very dangerous time that is a very dangerous thing. around .

security council if necessary hillary clinton also criticized russia's position urging moscow to put pressure on damascus here's our report now with the latest from new york. these comments are clearly coming in the in light of last week's massacre in houla u.s. officials are making their words much stronger just on wednesday the u.s. ambassador to the u.n. susan rice said that if kofi annan six point peace plan fails and if the security council does not agree on international sanctions on syria then countries would have to consider taking independent action without the authority of the security council what that action would be is not clear because the u.s. and european countries have already imposed their own independent sanctions on syria so those words led many to speculate that the u.s. and its allies are possibly considering military action the commander of the free syrian army has called on joint special envoy kofi annan to publicly say that his six point peace plan that's about seven weeks old cars failed and out would allow rebels to resume their military attacks against president bashar al assa

these helicopters are newly sold or they were being refurbished under a contract signed between damascus and moscowe 1990s. the helicopters can be used to kill children whether they are new or old ones. on the other hand hillary clinton yesterday by inferring this was a new sale by moscow to syria intended to put pressure on the russian government. the russian government was very quickly able to bat that pressure away saying we haven't been selling new choppers, these are old ones. putin says the west is singling out russia with unfair criticism. megyn: russia seems to be our only entre into having some say over what's happening in syria. we can't go to iran. we do deal with russia. they have significant influence in syria. did we just blow it? >> it looks like u.s.-russian relations have gone from reset to regress. the administration talks about the u.s.-russian relations being a foreign policy success. about it doesn't look like it when you have the secretary of state pointing the finger at russia. vladimir putin will meet with them next week and the russians are hosting iranian nuclear talks nex

secretary of state, hillary clinton, urged moscow to cut military ties with damascus and join the international community in coming up with a solution to end the violence. >> russia says it wants peace and stability restored. it says it has no particular love lost or -- for assad and it also claims to have vital interests in the region and relationships that it wants to continue to keep. they put all of that at risk if they do not move more constructively right now. >> for more on all of this, i am joined by our washington correspondent. why do you think washington has chosen this moment to escalate in quite a dramatic way its relations with russia over syria? >> it is because they think this tactic is going to get russia to move where it matters in the security council on diplomacy. we have seen a two-pronged strategy from the administration. one is too forcefully link russian weaponry to what we're seeing on the ground, being committed by assad's trips to shame russia into action. the other is a pragmatic approach -- america is saying you think you have a vital interest in syria, if you want

damascus. >> syria will not and cannot be stable and democratic until assad goes. >> clinton is sending a representative to moscow. whereby the president' transfers power. russia would have to be brought on board. >> we have more from damascus where our freelance journalist is on the line. the assad regime is denying any involvement in this massacre. what is the explanation? to the syrian people believe it? >> the syrian people do not trust the regime. there is no information. that is why in situations like this, and no one knows what is really going on. 78 civilians are dead. the un observers verified the issues. it is really very, very complicated. no one knows what is going on. >> some reports are suggesting the regime is starting to lose control and the situation is becoming more of a chaotic civil war, unleashing pent-up sectarian tensions. is that what you are sensing? >> it is more than a civil war. kofi annan is on to something that the syrians were suffering a long time ago. these kinds of massacres happen in this area, and today and yesterday in qubair. these are the two main centers of conflict. the se

damascus syria. i work in r.t. live from moscow and keep in mind that we have more news and videos available for you on our website r.t. dot com let's take a look at what's waiting for you there at the moment while reports uncover a former she was styled disaster averted in the nick of time at a nuclear plant in california so you have a details on why. also read the story of two people arrested in moscow for using their own ambulance to be to this notorious traffic jams. be able to go to war horse was given oats we have a lot of illegal groups of the blue collars with hooves is also argues in the writing of my mouth it was like many other marriage it wasn't forced marriage it's just my view when i was fourteen years old you can liberate there when you certainly can't do it through the barrel of a gun only if they give social changes will be the afghans themselves afghan men and women we believe are going to start going to the cross paths without the part of the patient it's. but they said that it comes to action but it's the people

summit in st petersburg on monday european leaders are likely to urge moscow to exert more pressure on damascus by the u.n. security council but also exploring ways to further help international peace efforts in syria ati's or nuclear strikes planes. you have syria a country which is balancing on the brink of a civil war with the european leaders and still unable to come to any agreement on whether or not to do anything definite if in order to try and appease the situation there of course you have the peace plan produced by kofi anon which is unfortunately being impeded by the seemingly on seizing the fighting on the all sides in the syrian conflict and one of the main it things which will be in focus this time is the issue off the economic crisis in europe you have greece which just threatening to pull out from the eurozone that matter should be decided within weeks so europe is in a very precarious situation there's also the major issue of. europe's a dependency on russia's natural resources this is also an area where russia and the european union countries are playing along together in a sor

russian foreign minister sergei lavrov denied that moscow is supplying damascus with helicopter gunships, as secretary of state hillary clinton charged on tuesday. lavrov spoke in iran. >> ( translated ): all the contracts we have with syria are about anti-aircraft air defense and we are violating none of the international laws and providing no illegal weapons to syria. >> brown: hours later, in washington, clinton fired back, after meeting with the foreign minister of india. >> russia says it wants peace and stability restored, it says it has no particular love lost for assad and it also claims to have vital interests in the region. and relationship that it wants to continue to keep. they put all of that at risk if they do not move more constructively right now. and i would emphasize that the u.s. has provided no military >> brown: u.s. concerns were underscored by recent massacres in syria, and warnings of a potential new atrocity in haffa near assad's hometown of kardaha. state t.v. reported government troops captured haffa today. and new video showed u.n. observers being attacked yes

damascus syria. i wish you guys you live from moscow and keep in mind that we have more news and videos available for you on our website r t let's take a look out what's waiting for you there at the moment reports on coverage because she was style disaster averted in the nick of time at a nuclear plant in california ever details on line also. the green logo. made a baby robot created by scientists to further explore how exactly children learn to speak. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. the source material is what helps keep journalism we. we want to present. something we'll. be watching our team members of egypt's muslim brotherhood are expected to demonstrate against an interim constitution put in place by the country's ruling military council the constitution dissolved egypt's islam has dominated parliament by giving full legislative power to the ruling generals they've since promised to hand control to the new president by the end of the month but the amendments will strip the winner of almost all powers well official election results aren't expec

live from moscow our top stories nato condemns the shooting down of a turkish military jet by syria shall stand by ankara but damascus maintains it acted in self-defense by targeting the plane over its territorial waters on friday . president putin tours the middle east pushing for a dialogue between israelis and palestinians having already focused on the syrian conflict and nuclear you drawn during his visit. the eurozone crisis claims its fifth victim as cyprus asked for a multi-billion girl balance out to rescue its people banking sector and financing debts it follows in the footsteps of spain which saw twenty eight of its banks downgraded after madrid asked for financial aid. next hour to talk to syria's deputy foreign minister for the government's take on a solution to the ongoing crisis and his reaction to international efforts to mediate in in his view fuel the conflict. dr feisal general robert mood head of the united nations supervision mission in syria explains that the u.n. observer mission has been suspended due to an escalation of violence a lack of peaceful options for resolving the conflict and the war

damascus also a p.r. offensive as well more about that the headlines the next life from moscow. i'm sure all of our got a story are out about that crazy lady with a convertible that honk for the birth of every time he. was on death row for nineteen years right there. beside. that be mine. has condemned these people. it is necessary to. everything we do to punish them. but it needs to be done nobody wants to be linked to the. historical. of the american death penalty today in large part from the nazis. and they execute. the house. telling me they came here. i won't be there i will now. this is. stories from. dozens of being killed across the country of the. void. in the middle east. this last week. you're watching say from moscow. that it then miss the arab league council has asked satellite operators are upside . down the broke cast of sirius satellite channels what do you think about this decision. this decision is an attack on free media and freedom of expression it's an attack on syrian media with the purpose is to hide the truth about what is really going on in syria from pe

diplomatic solution at once and international contact group to persuade damascus and the rebels to cease firing and or talks moscow says it even a willing to accept president asif departure but only if the syrian people show him the door. in the studio when we hear reports of another massacre in syria and currently we see such atrocities almost daily many international media outlets place the blame entirely on damascus the government of any country is of course responsible for what's happening within its borders but we're sure the regime alone is not to blame for everything that we see massacres in houla terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the un security council all this is a result of confrontation that are getting more and more support from abroad but first of all moral support for the so-called armed opposition which is being supplied with money weapons and bolstered by militants from neighboring countries. the u.s. isn't backing russia's call for a theory conduct group with washington continuing to prop up the armed rebellion against us at the opposition's political leaders ha

solution in syria it wants an international contact group to persuade damascus and rebels to halt violence and start talks but moscow says some external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting that's a quote despite kofi of the peace plan. when we hear reports of another massacre in syria and currently we see such atrocities almost daily many international media outlets place the blame entirely on damascus the government of any country is of course responsible for what's happening within its borders but we're sure the regime alone is not to blame for everything that we see massacres in houla terrorist attacks in damascus and aleppo that have been condemned by the un security council all this is a result of confrontation so they are getting more and more support from abroad first of all moral support for the so-called armed opposition which is being supplied with money weapons and bolstered by militants from neighboring countries. with international calls for military action in syria growing its neighbor israel has spoken out in favor of intervention a senior israeli ministers accuse presiden