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 ford 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 way trying to move toward military intervention which means massive destruction of the entire country but they're already responsible for great destruction. what are the strife in syria drags on the rebels are being sustained by a constant flow of alms reportedly coming through neighboring lebanon but this deadly tra

." >> nato's council has met in special session. nato ambassadors pledged to stand by turkey. the country's prime minister issued a warning to syria. >> the syrian regime is in posing threats on our borders and we are not going to tolerate this -- is imposing threats on our borders and we are not going to tolerate this. >> hello and welcome to gmt. i am george alagiah, with a world of news and opinion. also in the program -- >> [speaking foreign language] >> at least 18 killed as landslides in you gone but buried several villages in the east of the country -- in uganda. the queen will meet a former ira commander turned politician. it is midday in london, 7:00 a.m. in washington, and 1:00 p.m. in brussels, where there has been a special session of nato ambassadors but it was called by turkey to address the shooting down of one of its fighter jets by syria last friday. the outcome appears to be no more than a general commitment by all nato countries to stand by turkey. the turkish government itself appears to have ruled out any military action. speaking today, its prime minister

but even with hindsight after the nato bombing of yugoslavia will ruin the alliance is a stripes in libya last year history isn't been prevented. repeated itself again taking one of the seven images coming from syria and making world headlines everybody agreed those who are guilty must be punished but the reaction from the international community has been so sweet and so called united the reason is that punishment will come before even those who are truly responsible rex and that could mean not just a loss of justice but also huge loss of life. refinishing r t reports in from syria . meanwhile moscow stepping up its efforts to mediate a diplomatic solution in syria it wants an international group to persuade damascus and the rebels to end fighting and begin talks but russia says some external players are provoking the syrian opposition to continue fighting despite kofi nans 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

have pain to help the rebels have to any risks to the nato pilots one of the reasons why nato intervention kosovo to libya has been acceptable over the last four years is the casualties have been on enemy side not on the nato start not of claims of what i was in however that was to change the course perhaps the two thousand for intervention and the belief that it's something which only the other side take special to most would begin to diminish equally it may be course you cannot build a crisis out of the situation you could say that the syrians had acted aggressively there to take the turkish very long national waters depending on where it actually came down and where it was hit allowing that it was a little resort and exactly what. thank you very much mark ellman day visiting professor of international relations from bill kins university in turkey live from ankara. julian a son chaz breaking his silence there for the first time since taking refuge in the ecuadorian embassy in london where he still always a decision on his request for political asylum in his interview the release editor s

and nato forces particularly u.s. military forces are active in a particular area the more civilians are going to be caught up in the fighting so the exact opposite is really the reality of the claim but the united states could ever protect the civilian population. well still to come for you in the program the pirates are riding a wave to success there's mutiny on the political ship in germany as a pirate party is the economic crisis a friendly face taken first step on the ladder to power. the health of ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak has worsened dramatically it comes just days after the eighty four year old was jailed for life for complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising but a former leader is currently in intensive care suffering from shock pressure and severe depression so you can see the runoff on june sixteenth hundreds of thousands in tahrir square calling from the barracks prime minister and shafique to be disqualified from the presidential race gyptian is the commission hasn

has been adamant in its demands that nato and its allies present guarantees that this missile shield will not be used against russia would be shelling. in the past we've often been promised who wouldn't explain and then we were promised that need to wouldn't put military hardware in the russian but we've seen it expand and its bases spread you know we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've already employed all partners to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russia e.u. summit which kicks off in st petersburg today and although we probably cannot expect a major breakthrough to be done it is clear that a lot of people lot of observers as well as all of the european leaders involved are hoping that some sort of movement forward will finally be made at least in some of these topics. syrian president bashar al assad says his country is facing a real war and once again blamed forces from outside for instigating the conflict he said his government had nothing to do with the houla massacre

and nato led peacekeepers using live rounds on serb protesters as kosovo's volatile north slips into violence again. the wiki leaks chief julian sands lost his appeal against extradition from the u.k. to sweden where he's wanted on sexual assault charges but the supreme court ruled on wednesday that his arrest warrant was lawful and songes team was given fourteen days than to appeal the decision which the world's top whistleblower says is politically motivated sara first reports for r.t. from london. the truth shall set you free all know the supporters were out in full six weeks for julian assange tearing his appeal was rejected in a split five t. decision by the judges after all the five hundred days of house arrest in person he's now on the brink of deportation to sweden to answer questions about sexual assault accusations he say a trumped up basic point you're a member of a jury and hasn't been charged with any crime in any country and it really is extraordinary so much pain actually joy just for the purpose of questioning. it all began when we started revealing uncomfortable trut

joining me now, the former ambassador to nato. you know this well, kurt. >> i think you need to understand the questions that are being asked and the questions being answered. the question being asked is if nato is prepared to stand by the territory and integrity of turkey and there you are getting an unequivocal yes. that is the essence of article v of the nato treaty. the second question is, which is not being asked of nato, is what should the international community be doing about syria? i think it is the same as the conversations we have been having. without the legal framework, without will on the part of many governments -- the united states, even in the region -- there's not going to be international intervention. i think it is long past time for this. we have seen assad brutally murdering his people for some time now. it will at least call into mind the question of world leaders -- isn't it time now to do something about the assad regime? >> i was struck by a cautious turkey has been in response to the downing of that jet.

the plans for creation of a missile defense shield in eastern europe a plan much hailed by nato and the united states as being very much needed by countries to counteract the suppose it possible strikes from the likes of iran and north korea now these plans worry moscow very much and moscow has been adamant in its demands that nato and its allies present written guarantees that this missile shield will not be used against russia. in the past we've often been promised that newser wouldn't expand then we were promised that nato wouldn't put military hardware near russia but we've seen it expand and its bases spread no we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've already invited our partners to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russia e.u. summit which kicks off in st petersburg today and although we probably cannot expect a major breakthrough to be done it is clear that a lot of people lot of observers as well as all of the european leaders involved are hoping that some sort of movement f

so these reports have haven't been confirmed yet but if confirmed if the proof turkey's unfoldment nato member country will be in its neighbors conflict but so far we haven't been we haven't been receiving any confirmation. number of these reports are coming up or claims the cia has been covertly steering arms to the syrian opposition in turkey can you tell us more about that. well indeed the use of all of this allegedly turkish plane allegedly show down here in syria has come just days after we've been hearing from arab and american intelligence officials that cia is in turkey right now in the southern part of the country not far from the syrian border to called in a weapons smuggling into the country the reports are saying that the officers have been crossing into syria themselves but they. saw it which call it which groups inside syria to get persons paid for by khattala turkey and saudi arabia the same time we've been hearing from turkey that the north has been involved in any weapons smuggling from their territory to syria we've also been hearing that here the shows have been in co

and at this week's summit in nato -- excuse me, in chicago, nato strengthened its defense capabilities for the years ahead, including adding equipment it had not had, only we had, by acquiring a fleet of unmanned aircraft for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. rebalancing our foreign policy also means refocusing on the most dynamic region of the world's economy, the global economy, asia. the united states has long been and will remain a pacific power and a critical provider of peace, prosperity and security of this vital region. the most critical relationship to get right is that between the united states and china. every day, the affairs of our nations and the livelihoods of our citizens grow more connected. how we manage this relationship between the world's two largest economy, although we're still almost three times as large as theirs, how we do this will help shape the 21st century. this obviously doesn't mean we'll always see eye-to-eye, including on issues like human rights. nor does it mean we will not compete with each other economically. as i said when i was in ch

some of our lands our territorial water i don't think the nato or to have any legal. situation for putting any more pressure on syria it's something else that the jet was doing you know perhaps the recording or trying to spy on the syrian army's movement in that area because there you go out there you will be this close to the syrian border there is actually no sense of attack or some kind of detonations one. inside syria clashes between government troops and a rebel forces has reportedly broken out just outside damascus our news team in the city says heavy gunfire and explosions could be heard in the distance this is the assad government has seen a rise in terror in the series of attacks in recent weeks violence is escalating across the country with the un's observer mission failing to make a difference a special talks hosted by un envoy kofi annan will be held saturday in geneva and russia's foreign minister said to attend meanwhile in an interview to r t a top syrian diplomats says continuing on arrest leaves his government with no choice but to buy arms. as a nati

and nato forces particularly u.s. military forces are active in a particular area the more civilians are going to be caught up in the fighting so the exact opposite is really the reality. that the united states could ever protect the civilian population. well still to come for you in a program the pirates riding a wave to success mutiny on the political ship in germany as the pirate party uses the economic crisis have a friendly face take a first step onto the ladder to power. as fall america's most famous army whistleblower gets going in court turns out it's the u.s. government that's hiding skeletons in the closet. now the house of ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak has worsened dramatically comes just days after the eighty four year old was jailed for life for complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising the former leader is currently in intensive care suffering from shock high blood pressure and the severe depression where the runoff looming on a june the sixteenth hundreds of thousands

for for the nato and supporting governments this is a very good opportunity to to get rid of this. organisation or a debt that has a strong ties to to its public face one often go back to you in washington again the law of unintended consequences how is things playing out with syria the unintended consequence for lebanon here because when i look at all of these interventions in the past they never work out the way you plan. never i quite so my quite agree with robert the lebanese are truly exhausted from their long civil war and have really very very little appetite for a civil war and therefore you have the dissociation policy of mr and as you call to the prime minister but i think that what is happening in the region is far stronger than this again as robert mentioned earlier there are families that straddle the border there are economic interests and most of lebanon's economy really is to a large extent or to some extent at least dependent upon syria so there are many links that tie syria to lebanon and again and you think that's happened to syria or that happens in syria is bou

met some of europe's main players this week on a trip taking in germany and france he talked tough on nato expansion u.s. missile defense shield plans moscow's stance on the ongoing violence in syria. has the details. was it puts in his first stop was in minsk which many saw as an indication that that russia's foreign policy now will focus more on its closest neighbors and the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this visit as the beginning of the suppose at the land of economic and eastern bloc now off you went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only half the day was going to put an end german chancellor angela merkel with seemed to see eye to eye on the matters concerning syria now earlier in the week u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said that russia is aiding to the troubles in syria by continuing to support the regime of president bashar al assad to which of course the russian president prepared a response so we can see it but russia is unilaterally supporting the assad regime room we have longstanding good relations with syria but we soon to the conf

the secretary-general of nato, mr. rasmussen, seems to feel it's his duty to assure everybody that it's no possibility that nato will be involved. my friends, that's a far cry from the 1990s when we went to bosnia on behalf of muslims who were being ethnically cleansed. it is a far cry from kosovo when without security council approval we went to help muslims who were being slaughtered by milosevic. so all i can say is mr. rasmussen in particular, but our nato allies have been a great disappointment to me. i'm sure they're absorbed with their economic crises that they lurched from one day to the next, but i have very little optimism about nato, but all of these things could change to some degree if the united states would lead. it used to be the united states leads from behind. now the united states does not lead at all. >> my in-laws were there. and my son's wife's parents -- sorry. i didn't mean -- >> you mentioned briefly, the kurdish situation in turkey which has been going on in its current form for over 30 years.

that the plans for creation of a missile defense shield in eastern europe a plan much hailed by nato and the united states as being very much needed by countries to counteract the supposedly possible strikes from the likes of iran in north korea now these plans worry moscow very much and moscow has been adamant in its demands that nato and its allies present written guarantees that this missile shield will not be used against russia could be shelling. in the past we've often been promised good news you wouldn't expect then we were promised that need to wouldn't put military hardware in the russian but we've seen it expand and its bases spread you know we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've been ready and willing to go partners to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russia e.u. summit which kicks off in st petersburg today and although we probably cannot expect a major breakthrough to be done it is clear that a lot of people lot of observers as well as all of the european leaders

the plans for creation of the missile defense shield in eastern europe a plan much hailed by nato and the united states as being very much needed by countries to counteract the suppose it possible strikes from the likes of iran in north korea now these plans worry moscow very much and moscow has been adamant in its demands that nato and its allies present written guarantees that this missile shield will not be used against russia. in the past we've often been promised a new user wouldn't explain and then we were promised that need to wouldn't put military hardware new russian but we've seen it expand and it's bases spread no we need guarantees but i'd like to say we're not going to escalate this discussion we've already invited our partners to engage in dialogue it is natural that all of these issues of course will crop up during the russia e.u. summit in st petersburg and although we probably cannot expect a major breakthrough to be done it is clear that a lot of people lot of observers as well as all of the european leaders involved are hoping that some sort of movement forward will

we nato, we the nato training mission in afghanistan. we've taught 200,000 afghan soldiers and policemen to read. now they're not going to go write a novel like marcel proous. but, they are functionally literate. they are hungry for this knowledge. when you are a man or a woman in afghanistan and you can read, you put a pen in your pocket. and when the graduates of the reading course again 200,000 so far about 70,000 in classes now, when they graduate we give them a pen to put in their pocket. that is an extraordinary moment to watch young afghan man or woman take that pen as a symbol of literatesy. we are also teaching them to fight. that's our job, but we have to take a broader more comprehensive approach to try and create security and this is an example of it. next, please. another way in which our security sector is trying to be helpful through diplomacy and development is the use of hospital ships. i can talk quite a long time about this. this was from my three years of the commander of southern command. i was stationed in miami and

to force regime change in damascus though the syrians may have deliberately been sending turkey and nato a message like back off. and. slow. to cross talk syria turkey relations i'm joined by ryan morrow in new york he is the national security analyst of the. radical islam dot org and a fellow with the clarion fund in london we have patrick case he's a journalist and political commentator at spike magazine and in beirut we cross to joseph key he is an author and columnist for gulf news all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want just if i go to you first in beirut we sing a game of chicken being played out here because this story of the shooting down of this turkish jet there's a lot of questions still to be answered here i mean are there elements on both sides looking for a showdown and if there is a showdown how do you think it will play out. well we don't know exactly what happened as of now there are claims on both sides clearly what we do know is that turkey has sent one of its jets it's very questionable that a single jet like this woul

if he's elected he won't be for the americans and nato he could mean that he really means that that's what he wants to do but it's very very difficult to say at the moment but he's going to be less ostensibly pro nato the reality though is whilst america has its huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to go very far in the american arms. you're watching r t from moscow still ahead for you thousands of egyptians a furious hosni mubarak wasn't sent to death as the former president snow said to be in a critical condition today. and another deadly nato bombing of civilians and rages the afghan president with an ultimatum delivered to the military alliances forces the details about that in a few minutes as well. eurasians two biggest countries of cement to the partnership over the past seven days as russian president vladimir putin visited china a handful of business deals with side but apart from ensuring that trade is flourishing moscow and beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle to. jeff ski reports from the chinese capital.

to force regime change in damascus though the syrians may have deliberately been sending turkey and nato a message like back off. to cross-talk syria turkey relations i'm joined by ryan morrow in new york he is the national security analyst of radical islam dot org and a fellow with the clarion fund in london we have patrick case he's a journalist and political commentator at spike magazine and in beirut we cross to joseph key he is an author and columnist for gulf news all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want just if i go to you first in beirut we sing a game of chicken being played out here because this story of this the shoot the shooting down of this turkish jet there's a lot of questions still to be answered here i mean are there elements on both sides looking for a showdown and if there is a showdown how do you think it will play out. well we don't know exactly what happened as of now there are claims on both sides clearly what we do know is that turkey has sent one of its jets it's very questionable that a single jet like this will

nato allies will remain seized of developments on the southeastern border of nato. and let me make this clear. the security of the alliance is indivisible. we stand together with turkey in the spirit of strong solidarity. >> bret: nato secretary-general speaking today about standing up for turkey, after a turkish military jet was shot down by the syrians. the syrians are saying now publicly that it was an act of self-defense. turkey is not saying that. they are obviously increasing the tension between the two countries as violence continues in syria, at amazing rates. we're back with the panel. charles, the fighting rages on. it seems like this tension adds another development, another side to this. >> i'm impressed by the way the president of turkey is handling this very slowly and methodically. when his plane was shot down he could have retaliated in open way and he was smarter than that. what he has now done, he made a declaration today of any approach of the troops to the border of turkey will be seen as provocation and met presumably with a military response. a

for for the nato and supporting governments this is a very good opportunity to to get rid of this. organisation or a debt that has a strong ties to to its public base when i often go back to you in washington again the law of unintended consequences how is things playing out with syria the unintended consequence for lebanon here because when i look at all of these interventions in the past they never work out the way you plan. never quite so i quite agree with robert the lebanese are truly exhausted from their long civil war and have really very very little appetite for a civil war and therefore you have the dissociation policy of mr knows you've got to the prime minister but i think that what is happening in the region is far stronger than this again as robert mentioned earlier there are families that straddle the border there are economic interests and most of lebanon's economy really is to a large extent or to some extent at least dependent upon syria so there are many links that tie syria to lebanon and again and these things that's happened to syria or that happens in syria is

denies us by insisting its military jet shot down by syrian forces on friday was on a training flight as nato is said to investigate. and the world's top whistleblower julian assange is waiting for his fate to be decided by after them after he asked for asylum in the country's london embassy. we're watching our teaser of the weekly with me to bang with say egyptians are waiting to hear who their next president will be the result of the country's first post mubarak presidential election i expected to be announced shortly egypt's interior ministry has reportedly ordered the police are to shoot to kill if violence breaks out that's as crowds are gathering in cairo's tahrir square archies policia has the latest. if we look at the protests that happened in egypt for example eighteen months ago those protests were very much directed at ousting the former egyptian president hosni mubarak what we witnessing today is the same kind of anger on the streets of egypt but this time it is being directed against the ruling military the many egyptians feel it is trying to keep its grab power in this follows a

for for the nato and supporting governments this is a very good opportunity to to get rid of this. organisation or debt that has a strong ties to to its public face one often go back to you in washington again the law of unintended consequences how is things playing out with syria the unintended consequence for lebanon here because when i look at all of these interventions in the past they never work out the way you plan. never i quite so my quite agree with robert the lebanese are truly exhausted from their long civil war and have really very very little appetite for a civil war and therefore you have the dissociation policy of mr nashashibi call to the prime minister but i think that what is happening in the region is far stronger than this again as robert mentioned earlier there are families that straddle the border there are economic interests and most of lebanon's economy really is to a large extent or to some extent at least dependent upon syria so there are many links that tie syria to lebanon and again and you think that's happened to syria or that happens in syria is bound

taking place we should being used as a pretext for military intervention which is what we got in the nato bombardment of yugoslavia and twelve months ago we had exactly the same thing again with libya but we had across the stories coming out of libya america and britain with the forefront of saying look we've got to intervene which is what happened in the end of course i said it's deja vu it's like one thousand nine hundred twenty seven all over again. we were violence from syria spread across the border with at least thirteen killed and dozens injured in recent clashes between pro and anti assad supporters in lebanon that country's also said to be one of the major arms hubs for the rebels fighting against the regime in neighboring syria but this deadly weapons flows also a matter of faith not just money for national found. a seller shows off his goods. this is five thousand dollars thirteen hundred eighteen hundred and two thousand the seven machine guns between two and a half and three thousand u.s. parks shaadi not his real name also has a look at propelled and hand grenades which he s

met some of europe's main players this week on a trip taking in germany and france he talked tough on nato expansion u.s. missile defense shield plans and moscow stance on the ongoing violence in syria. has the details now. wasn't putting his first stop was in minsk which many saw as an indication that that russia's foreign policy now will focus more on its closest neighbors and the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this visit as the beginning of the supposedly planned of economic and eastern bloc now off you went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only hof the date was going to put an end german chancellor angela merkel seemed to see eye to eye on the matters concerning syria now earlier in the week u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said that russia is aiding to the troubles in syria by continuing to support the regime of president bashar al assad to which of course the russian president prepared a response so we can see it but russia is unilaterally supporting the assad regime . we have longstanding good relations with syria but. the conflict if the s

and nato forces particularly u.s. military forces are active in a particular area the more civilians are going to be caught up in mid-flight. the exact opposite is really the reality. is you know your partner. well some other news making headlines across the world this hour hundreds of workers have rioted of the chinese factory foxconn produces apple devices dozens of protesters detained employees clashed with security guards one report of an attempted theft. previously came under fire for forcing stuff to work excessively long hours for those salaries. the pretrial hearing for the bradley manning case is taking place and meet the fence plans to call several u.s. state department workers to assess the damage done to american foreign relations by making the exclusions for oil manning is accused of aiding the enemy by punishing hundreds of press if i had missed cables on the recent website. but our top story now the reported massacre in syria hama has both governments and the rebels apportion blame for the slaughter the

for for the nato and supporting governments this is a very good opportunity to to get rid of this. organisation or a debt that has a strong ties through to its public face one often go back to you in washington again the law of unintended consequences how is things playing out with syria the unintended consequence for lebanon here because when i look at all of these interventions in the past they never work out the way you plan. never i quite so i quite agree with robert the lebanese are truly exhausted from their long civil war and have really very very little appetite for a civil war and therefore you have the dissociation policy of mr know as you've been called to the prime minister but i think that what is happening in the region is far stronger than this again as robert mentioned earlier there are families that straddle the border there are economic interests and most of lebanon's economy really is to a large extent or to some extent at least dependent upon syria so there are many links that tie syria to lebanon and again and these things that happens to syria or that happens

that is true so the point is it is it is clear that these outside forces mainly nato has already been involved in feeling this civil war in syria from the get go i mean based on certain b.q. leaks documents i am originally from turkey turkey the role of the turkish government in fueling the violence in syria by funding providing arms and support to these so-called opposition groups that have been behind most of the violence in syria itself as has been documented in political and the turkish official. in fact when the turkish official was in that document. challenged by the fact that how will the civil war the be perpetrated when there is a lot of popular support for the assad government he said that is the turkish responsibility will be a lot of blood but that is our obligation to sunni sunni population so that's a very interesting and you say should one after i had in washington d.c. you want to react to that this is cross talk after all go ahead. one the conflict is not fuelled by the opposition it is a brutal regime that wants to hang on to power if we are going to talk about the i

spying insisting its military jet shot down by syrian forces on friday was on a training flight as nato is set to investigate. the world's top whistleblower julian a songe awaiting his fate to be decided by ecuador after he asked for asylum in the country's london embassy. ten pm in moscow i'm at present good to have you with us here on our t. and islamist mohammed mercy has been elected egypt's new president the muslim brotherhood candidate won nearly fifty two percent of the vote after the runoff last week his rival mubarak era prime minister ahmed schiff secured just over forty eight percent artie's paullus leader is entire here a square with the latest. the mood here is just simply electrifying when those results were announced that mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood is egypt's an ex-president the crowd filled with supreme mad and since then they've been cheering they've been shouting they've been waving flags i will cost a group of women who had linked arms and were crying they've been raining melt down in paris at the same time to see him behind me there's this constant explo

for for the nato and supporting governments this is a very good opportunity to to get rid of this. organisation or a debt that has a strong ties to to its public base when i often go back to you in washington again the law of unintended consequences how is things playing out with syria the unintended consequence for lebanon here because when i look at all of these interventions in the past they never work out the way you plan. never i quite so my quite agree with robert the lebanese are truly exhausted from their long civil war and have really very very little appetite for a civil war and therefore you have the dissociation policy of mr know as you call to the prime minister but i think that what is happening in the region is far stronger than this again as robert mentioned earlier there are families that straddle the border there are economic interests and most of lebanon's economy really is to a large extent or to some extent at least dependent upon syria so there are many links that tie syria to lebanon and again and you think that happens to syria or that happens in syria is bo

country so the west has been wanting to drag turkey into the civil war under the nato better. run point salute to by the russian foreign minister sometime last year that turkey would be really point for nato but as far as a no fly zone is something they desperately want to do in the west is to establish a no fly zone it will make it like a fish they're shooting fish in a bowl for the wesley didn't libya russia has faced a barrage of criticism this week for allegedly shipping arms to syria claims denied by moscow artie's laura smith looks into the hyped up reports being used to drive the headlines. syria may be on the brink of civil war but it's already the subject of a full blown media war ships on a ships that's been the question for the past week as reports are since it was on its way according to the reports the battleships were laden with oh i'm still in troops and headed to syria it later turned out they would know when it is syria they're in their home port of sevastopol empty but in the fog of war any reports however it accurate has some kind of influence as long as you

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and nato forces particularly u.s. military forces are active in a particular area the more civilians are going to be caught up in several of the exact opposite is really the reality of the united states could ever protect the civilians. time for business there is daniel business news and daniel spain's credit rating has just been slashed to near junk status just a few moments ago fitch cut madrid three notches to triple b. the agency warned also spain's banks need between fifty and one hundred billion euro to cover property loans has lost a quarter of its value this year already unlike germany's dax which is up for twenty twelve should the euro crisis calais ben bernanke said today the federal reserve stands ready to shore up america's financial system wall street is slightly higher on the news as had another green day after the state v.v. pledged to buy up shares on the r t s m i six overall moscow has been one of the world's worst performing indices this year ruble also again versus the euro and dollar after the cen

for for the nato and supporting governments this is a very good opportunity to to get rid of this. organisation or a debt that has a strong ties to to its public base what often go back to you in washington again the law of unintended consequences how is things playing out with syria the unintended consequence for lebanon here because when i look at all of these interventions in the past they never work out the way you plan. never i quite so likewise i agree with robert the lebanese are truly exhausted from their long civil war and have really very very little appetite for a civil war and therefore you have the dissociation policy of mr najib mikati the prime minister but i think that what is happening in the region is far stronger than this again as robert mentioned earlier there are families that straddle the border there are economic interests and most of lebanon's economy really is to a large extent or to some extent at least dependent upon syria so there are many links that tie syria to lebanon and again and you think that's happens to syria or that happens in syria is bound t

europe's main players this last week on a trip taking in belarus germany and france talk tough for nato expansion u.s. missile defense plans and moscow stance on the ongoing violence in syria is a ridiculous report. was it which in his first stop was in minsk which many saw as an indication that that russia's foreign policy now will focus more on the closest neighbors and the c.i.s. countries many observers also saw this visit as the beginning of the supposedly plan of economic and eastern bloc now off he went afterwards to berlin on a whirlwind visit which lasted for only hopwood day was going to put an end german chancellor angela merkel who seemed to see eye to eye on the matters concerning syria now earlier in the week u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton said that russia is aiding to the troubles in syria by continuing to support the regime of president bashar al assad to which of course the russian president prepared a response so we can see it but russia is unilaterally supporting the assad regime . we have longstanding good relations with syria but. the conflict which ensued

commander of nato forces in the country is apologized for the civilian deaths but. says the military alliance has no one to blame but itself for his still if he is getting from the afghans. vast majority of the of gone people have really rebelled against the foreign occupation of their country the only reason you're seeing increasing and more blunt and more courageous resistance attacks against the coalition forces in afghanistan is because the ordinary of guns are providing sanctuary are providing protection providing access to the resistance fighters to the to the al qaeda to the taliban whatever you want to call it whatever nato wants to call them so basically and every think you hear frankly about winning the hearts and minds is really ancient history that the americans have absolutely lost it as far as the of gun people's hearts and minds are concerned. the image of the us army has been hugely damaging lately by overseas campaigns and revelations of the way these wars were waged but helping to repair that reputation now hollywood blockbusters which often promot

denies spying insisting its military jets shot down by syrian forces friday was on a training flight as nato is set to investigate. and the world's top whistleblower julian a songe waiting for his fate to be decided by ecuador after he's asked for asylum in the country's london embassy. nine pm in moscow i matras or bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t and islam is mohamed morsi has been elected egypt's new president the muslim brotherhood's candidate cleared near the fifty percent of the vote after the runoff last week his rival the mubarak era prime minister ahmed shafik secured just forty nine to forty eight percent parties paula so here is in cairo's tahrir square with all the latest so paul are egyptians happy with the outcome of the vote. well the mood here is just simply electrifying when those results were announced that mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood is egypt's next president the crowd here would simply mad and since then they've been cheering they've been shouting they've been waving flags i won't cost a group of women who had linked

if he's elected he won't be for the americans and nato he could mean he really means that that's what he wants to do but it's very very difficult to say at the moment but he's going to be less ostensibly. the reality whilst america has its huge military dominance it's very difficult for any western european country to go very far in the american arms. you're with r.t. this is the weekly here in moscow still ahead for you this hour thousands of egyptians a furious hosni mubarak wasn't sentenced to death as the former president is now said to be in critical condition. and another deadly nato bombing of civilians in rages the afghan president's with an ultimatum delivered to the military alliances forces the details on those stories in a few minutes. but first your asia's two biggest countries have cemented their partnership this week as russian president vladimir putin visited china for the business deals was signed but apart from ensuring that trade is flourishing moscow and beijing have a number of pressing international issues to tackle and the reports from the chinese capital. who c

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and nato forces particularly u.s. military forces are active in a particular area the more civilians are going to be caught up in the fighting so the exact opposite is really the reality of the united states could ever protect the civilian population. also the coffee in the program the pirates riding a wave of success there is meeting me on the political separate agenda as the pirate party says that incoming crisis and a friendly face the set sail on the high seas of power. the health of ousted egyptian president hosni mubarak has worsened dramatically it comes just days after the eighty four year old was jailed for life for complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising the former leader is currently in intensive care. said to me suffering from shock high blood pressure. and the runoff looming on that june sixteenth hundreds of thousands in time square according from former prime minister. to be disqualified from the presidential race going to change their position hasn't brought the change they

to force regime change in damascus though the syrians may have deliberately been sending turkey and nato a message like back off. and. start. to cross talk syria turkey relations i'm joined by ryan morrow in new york he is the national security analyst of radical islam dot org and a fellow with the clarion fund in london we have patrick case he's a journalist and political commentator at spike magazine and in beirut we cross to joseph key he is an author and columnist for gulf news all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want just if i go to you first in beirut we sing a game of chicken being played out here because the story of this the shoot the shooting down of this the turkish jet there's a lot of questions still to be answered here i mean are there elements on both sides looking for a showdown and if there is a showdown how do you think it will play out. well we don't know exactly what happened as of now there are claims on both sides clearly what we do know is that turkey has sent one of its jets it's very questionable that a single jet

taking place which we don't use as a pretext for military intervention which is what we got in the nato bombardment of yugoslavia and twelve months ago we had exactly the same thing again with libya we had stories coming out of. america and britain with the forefront of saying look we've got to intervene which is what happened in the end of course so it's deja vu it's like ninety nine thousand nine hundred twenty one all over again so where from here of any lessons been learned of in syria's opposition military action washington is voicing its readiness to act it appears where do you see this calls for foreign intervention heading the next well i think we reach the crucial point of the whole affair now and i think that the onus must be on the western powers to sort of back down here because russia's may. quite clear that it won't but if you did mention date they were kind of libya and they want to beat you to gain and the only way we can have a peaceful solution to this is if the western powers and countries like qatar saudi arabia rein in the rebels and say to them look stop this and s

either nato candidates or inside nato and so the room for for maneuver for any serbian government is very small and the west realizes that and they're using that to gain the upper hand on the ground regardless of human cost. political analyst alexander joining us live from belgrade thank you for coming on today thank you. now internet freedom campaign is in europe breathed a cautious side of relief the controversial and see piracy agreement or act has been rejected by three influential committees in the e.u. parliament that's all ahead of the final vote next month triggered mass protests in europe with internet users saying online freedom is at risk. from the swedish pirate party believes the treaty at best is confused. if you're sending something over the internet. you're exercising freedom of speech but at the same time if you're sending anything that means that you can also use this freedom of speech to infringe on the cop romanov so basically the speech has become fundamentally incompatible with age old monopoly. predominately up until a couple of decades ago only used by corpora

good to have you with us here on r t our top story nato's condemn the downing of a turkish fighter jet by syria but it fell short of calling it an attack on the alliance that something on a member of the bloc wanted to push for an emergency meeting in brussels saying damascus committed an act of aggression or his tests are cilia reports. well it was a very short statement at the end of this closed door meeting essentially nato said that to syria's downing of the turkish jets is unacceptable and the need to condemn said in the strongest possible terms and also that it stands by turkey in a show of solidarity when asked to elaborate on what specific actions could follow after this most and simply did not want to give any details and he says that he hopes and things that it just will not happen again emergency meeting was called by turkey under article four of the a founding treaty of nato which states that should any of the members feel threatened it can call a consultation and it has to be said that any action under article four should be a consensus and therefore any one of the members