inviting the friends of syria the so-called friends of syria group to amman and it's not clear whether the syrian government is going to play so i think this is a good moment to try and find a solution i'm very nervous about it makes three missed sunni. you know. by this are you surprised by any of this giving these people arms some support and money i mean come on i mean you have realized exactly about this for a year and now it's finally happened wow big surprise well for first of all first of all i think giving arms to people who are of the same pursue ation the forces that killed american ambassador in libya is the forces that the west supported in libya and without having to deal with i think we are you know really. there's interventions don't work there for bitter what i said in the beginning it's a tragic situation because from my point of view there are no good people there are no good forces to support and if there were good people and good forces that moderate forces in syria women is that trained the obama administration did not go in forcefully and supported the anti-acid f

in syria and hezbollah but the g.c.c. petro markets especially the emirates qatar and the house of sound not to mention the logistical support of syria and yes i agree with our other guest it is already . already a regional conflict is going to get much worse especially because the west via u.s. britain and france they see their input into conduct anything on the ground and now we have jihad these let loose inside syria we're going to have hezbollah are playing against al-qaeda which is a miracle in wet dream of course and we have the back and forth of jihad this between iraq and syria chris you want to jump in there well i just wanted to agree i think with it was jeff who said that you know that this is there's no easy solution to this that this is going to take time and i think that's a raw reality that everyone is confronting and i think that's clearly one of the reasons why you see the u.s. administration taking it slow it's obviously you know a situation where people want to act with a certain degree of caution in un

gone quiet on syria and quiet on mali although the french have not withdrawn from. i think that. you know the traditional thing if things are not going well at home you cause a bit of a stir up road and distracts attention and you look good you know presidential but the as the french are beginning to say to each other in the media and so on and it's the colonies stupid the french hair what's happening in mali or syria or care what's happening in front of the problem and crosses record unemployment and those no sign it's going to get better. and we've got a more on the challenges facing europe this hour here on out to. the workers in northern greece are dismantling a failed factory all those though of taking control of their plants to try and keep them going join me tom watson on r.t. for a look inside the crisis in greece in just a few minutes. we're seeing tom very shortly here on the program but for now our six people have been injured by a drive by shooting near a mcdonald's in the californian city of palo alto the incident came just as america's national rifle a

investigator and so there are strong suspicions rebels in syria have used chemical weapons but says there's nothing to suggest government forces have done this. meanwhile israel is condemned for a series of as strikes inside syria but takes a look at whether the ultimate target of that tonks could lie elsewhere. and record unemployment painful austerity and the lowest ratings in recent french history francois hollande month at the end of a tough first here as president. international news live from moscow this is a must see with me you thanks for joining us. a leading u.n. investigator says there are strong suspicions of rebels in syria have used the deadly nerve gas sarin during the civil war but call adel point a also insists she has seen no evidence the government has resorted to the use of chemical weapons those claims are in contrast to an earnest statement by the u.s. has accused president assad's forces of using them and threatens to take action to check out reports now from washington. you want human rights investigators say based on the evidence that they have the rebels in syria h

syria. of course, we do not wish to see a military intervention there, but it might be necessary if certain forces lay their hands on chemical weapons. so it would be interesting to hear your assessment of the situation. now, head of the eu summit on security, i would love to hear from you on behalf of nato -- would you call on your to develop european defense policy? military resources and budgets are dwindling. the uk and france estimate serious disastrous choices if we continue to operate under national flights only. wet ha crediblero. the time has come to pool our resources, particularly in light of the dwindling budget. but this is not the discourse we here in national parliament when discussing the economic crisis. the fact is that this is a vital move. will nato, therefore, clearly adopt such a position? that would be a first. nato has supported countries doing more within nato. will nato call for integration of the military resources of the new member states? >> thank you. >> good af

i am from syria and i did the war in syria. a war ends just like i'm going to see my friends on my c.v. . my name is to show them i came here because i want for my children to live in peace and to be killed russian citizens. why name me if. it were him ones or some and i'm coming to russia to. leave here because this is my all and. i my name is it or not i risk to come back to the lovely country window would we in. my name is osama. i'm planning to stay in russia too bad your life. until just a year ago would never have thought of leaving damascus and building a new house in a small village in the tiny republican russia and the land of his ancestors when war broke out in the caucuses one hundred fifty years ago his grandfather and hundreds of thousands of a dig is. sent to turkey jordan syria and other countries in the middle east now war has brought a twist of fate. to return to his ancestral home i have many alternative. i have lived. i have some. but i prefer to come here because i believe that there is a big prospectus in t

russia says it will go ahead and deliver air to fan systems to syria calling it a counterbalance to foreign arms supplies to the rebels there are expected to surge when the e.u. arms embargo expires on friday. britain's home secretary seeks more surveillance powers for m i five after it's confirmed the intelligence agency had enough information to prevent the daylight slaughter of a british soldier. brutal vigilante executions are spreading in an age of security worsens citizens are being encouraged to turn over alleged criminals but mobs are dishing out their own deadly justice. as four pm a mosque in watching r t with me marina josh welcome to the program now the doors to european weapons sales to the syrian rebels will open on friday when the e.u. arms embargo on the country expires a push led by britain and france man the union failed to agree on extending the sanctions some european countries are now sounding the alarm over the prospect of weapons falling into the hands of islamic extremists as a ridiculous canard ports. you can say that it was the win for france and the u.k. have been

inviting the friends of syria the so-called friends of syria group to amman and it's not clear whether the syrian government is going to play so i think this is a good moment to try and find a solution i'm very nervous about it makes three missed sunni. you know. by this are you surprised by any of this giving these people arms some support and money i mean come on i mean you have realized exactly about this for a year and now it's finally happened wow big surprise well for first of all first of all i think giving arms to people who are of the same pursue ation of the forces that killed american ambassador in libya is the forces that the west supported in libya and without having to deal with any of them are you know really . there's interventions don't work there for bitter what i said in the beginning it's a tragic situation because from my point of view there are no good people there are no good forces to support and if there were good people and good forces that moderate forces in syria women is that trained the obama administration did not go in for us fully and supported the forc

said the alleged israeli attack on syria is addictive ration of war now make that has said that syria will retaliate against israel in its own time and in its own way meanwhile iran which has a defense agreement with syria says it will respond to alleged israeli airstrikes on sunday morning and it's also urging neighboring countries to stand up to israeli aggression we haven't heard anything so far from the israeli government the israeli military also continues to refuse to either confirm or deny the reports that are detect syria in the early hours of sunday morning israel however has declared the north of this country a no fly zone to civilian flights this is a precaution that's also a way of defusing the situation and for allowing it to be allowing for the defense missile system to be put into place the iron dome is being deployed in the north of israel it's aimed at protecting northern israeli cities from short range missiles that could be fired from either levanon all syria or both the mayor of haifa which is israel's largest city in the north is also taking steps to potentially i

quiet on syria and quiet on mali although the french have not withdrawn from. i think that. so you know the traditional thing if things are not going well at home you cause a bit of a stir up road that distracts attention and you look good you don't presidential but the as for the french are beginning to say to each other in the media and so on and. see how many stupid the french hare what's happening in mali or syria care what's happening france the problem and proxies record unemployment goes no sign it's going to get better. we can find more on this story and others that are dot com for example online right now have been a great oh it's nice to get it's about footage it's a vintage astro madrid ending in tragedy that short right there showing an antique jet ultimately crashing to the ground in front of thousands of spectators right there more footage and comments as well on the web site r.t. dot com. and some two thousand homes now threatened by massive wildfires in california are burning pesticides of poison the smoke even further releasing toxic fumes. mor

on the issue that circuit just talked about with respect to syria. it was clearly one of the important thing reasons for my coming to moscow today apart from the need to discuss the other issues and i thank all of you for your patience i know it's been a long day. but foreign minister lavrov and i have conducted a broad discussion with president putin and together. about our increasing cooperation particularly with respect to the issues surrounding syria. i want to express my thanks to president putin for the significant amount of time that he gave to a very productive very warm and friendly discussion that we had today. and i think it has contributed significantly to our ability to map our road ahead because president putin specifically turned to foreign minister lavrov and designated him to work directly with me on this effort and we have decided on the following to follow up on what circuit said we believe that. the geneva communique is the important track to end the bloodshed in syria and it should not be a piece of paper it should not be a forgo

syria says israel has effectively declared war after its planes bombed targets in damascus the second airstrikes in as many days syria's states media says radio rockets targeted a military research center on the outskirts of the capital video footage and eyewitness accounts such as the attack and hit weapons dumps triggering large explosions syria says a number of people were killed and wounded amid widespread destruction of the arab league us condemned this trikes and demanded the u.n. security council to stop any more. t.v. station run by lebanon's hezbollah militant group showed images of what it claimed was the right of the israeli air strike in syria the and verified footage was reportedly taken at the site of a military research facility in german riot after their time but the center itself appears not to have been hate the strike apparently left a major road filled with debris and shell casings and while there's still been no official reaction from israel paul is here the details the syrian deputy foreign minister files that i would make dad has called this morning's attack on

syria or syria in arabic. the war beginning far from. the syrian woman you are. trying. to find a girl. i'm planning to stay here russia. to build a new life. thank you for joining us here on our. show you live in the russian capital let's turn to some of the news now that's been shaping the past week around the world of the u.k. independence party has made a major breakthrough in local elections claiming one in every four votes cast for the conservatives which are of course part of the ruling coalition now admitting that all mainstream parties have quote major lessons to learn from the group seeking the country's withdrawal from the e.u. let's take a closer look at the party's gains and losses here on our t.v. come the figures for you right now. the conservatives are down three hundred thirty five seats while their coalition partners the liberal democrats well they've lost one hundred and twenty four opposition labor party up by two hundred and ninety one and ukip it has gained one hundred and thirty nine new local councillors as an achievement the head of the party nig

foreign ministers are to decide over the lifting of the weapons and bongos syria with the u.k. and france pushing to allow the lethal aid to the rebels. also tear gas over three hundred arrests and street clashes in paris police crackdown on a months of riley against a low allowing gay marriages. and trade to blue and peace german chancellor angela merkel pose the chinese pm as the e.u. threatens beijing with tyrants unfairly selling products below their real value. international news live from moscow this is us he was me you know thanks for joining us fears of an all out sectarian spillover are increasing in lebanon the country's military says a rocket was fired towards israel from its territory after two shells blasted hezbollah strongholds in beirut all sunday and point to slee a's monitoring the situation and let's not talk to her live paula nice to see you from your point of view why are we seeing this escalation in lebanon right now. well the has been a beater that has killed he stated that he and his below are involved in the war in syria he was addressing thousands of h

in syria and hezbollah but the g.c.c. petrol markets especially the emirates qatar and the house of sound not to mention the logistical support of syria and yes i agree with our other guest it is already already a regional conflict it's going to get much worse especially because the west us britain and france they see their totally impotent to conduct any saying on the ground and now we have jihad these let loose inside syria we're going to have hezbollah playing against al-qaeda which is a new cold wet dream of course and we have the back and forth of jihad this between iraq and syria chris you want to jump in there. well i just wanted to agree i think with it was jeff who said that you know that this is there's no easy solution to this that this is going to take time and i think that's a raw reality that everyone is confronting and i think that's clearly one of the reasons why you see the u.s. administration taking it slow it's obviously you know a situation where people want to act with a certain degree of caution and

and other nations failed to accomplish their missions in syria. if anybody believes that any saying israel does in the middle east it does not go so the americans later you know group back to play in the garden go back to kindergarten it doesn't work like this in the real world they did it because they were concerted with the obama administration which is in a bind at the moment they cannot intervene directly in syria they know that the support for the so-called rebels all the different strands of the rebs is going nowhere because their elected retreating instead of advent sing so israel with this provocation they're willing for a response either from syria either from hezbollah all or better yet from the point of view of the obama administration and israel from iran so if iran and syria don't do anything for them and they just wait you don't this will be seen as it is just a provocation but if there is you know the slightest bit of a response from either syria or iran that's the perfect prick text for what you need shock and awe against syria jus

that syria has not yet received the s. three hundred missile system but they do view this as a potential threat to their sovereignty and says that if syria does gain possession of the s. three hundred system that they know how to act in that case so lots of developments coming out of the syrian conflict right now mainly involving russia will go through with old contracts on the s. three hundred missile defense system. john thanks very much indeed for bringing us this update from thomas there. u.k. and france have now opened the door for arms to flow into the hands of the syrian rebels however some states oppose the move saying it would only fuel a conflict this has russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov and u.s. secretary of state john kerry that in paris to organize syrian peace talks are these are in a has the details to hey go right he said that it's the only way that the u.k. sees the lifting of the arms embargo is the only way to end the crisis which has been ripping syria apart for more than two years at this point

and regrettably so a massacre going on in syria. has gone on for the last two years with many thousands of people being killed others perhaps in the hundreds of thousands being uprooted and now being refugees across the border and what israel is trying to prevent is another lebanon war this is perhaps a minor price to pay. in order not to pay the bigger price of the killing and the havoc which will be wreaked by another lebanon war. let's give you an. breaking news story here today u.s. military official has confirmed a second israeli strike on syria in less than forty eight hours backed reports on syrian state t.v. but no official confirmation from the officials and. the site of the strike which is said to have targeted a military. a syrian television claim twelve missiles were fired by israel reports coming in of many killed and injured although there's been no official announcement by western intelligence sources reportedly say that it was a stockpile of syrian missiles intended for hezbollah. by the latest asteroid comes less th

on in syria. has gone on for the last two years with many thousands of people being killed are those perhaps in the hundreds of thousands being uprooted and now being reduced across the border and what israel is trying to prevent is another lebanon war this is perhaps a minor price to pay. in order not to pay the bigger price of the killing and we have a which will be read by another lebanon war a senior u.s. official confirms that israeli jets carried out the bombings washington has been considering arming the syrian rebels and the british foreign secretary joined those calls by saying anonymous embargo should be lifted as the conflict appears to be spreading so while there are renewed calls for more support for the syrian rebels that by israel received no condemnation from the west despite violating international law article two of the united nations charter perhaps the use of force against the territorial integrity of any state by all of its members then going syrian conflict should take could

next cross-talk panel square off over who's right and who's wrong in syria. i am very detail. every piece of metal. and every one of those who will step on red square on the ninth of may are ready. for the big green day parade. want the live coverage on our t.v. . hello and welcome to cross talk where all things are considered i'm peter all of l. is this the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning because israel's massive attack near damascus days ago widened syria's raging civil war what are the chances of iran and hezbollah could be directly drawn into this conflict then there's the issue of chemical weapons should western support of assad's enemies be withdrawn if it is proven the rebels are using them against their own people. to cross talk syrian joined by pepe escobar in london he is an investigative journalist and author in washington we have christopher chivas he's a senior political scientist at the rand corporation and an adjunct professor at john hopkins university and in new york we crossed geoffrey ingersoll he is a defense reporter with business insider

send weapons to syria. well the u.k. says it has no immediate plans to arm the rebels so why has it been pushing for an answer the arms embargo so hard. to believe that. it would be the best of the wrong people get the weapons i think it would be better if needs are subject veterans nor. close to our. being open system people get better and i think we get more perhaps with competition between russia. and the brits for us and i think it would be better every one of us in the european union a lot of member states but also russia would stop weapon exports to syria well russia has been a strong supporter of a diplomatic solution of this problem and in fact as we know the decision comes at a time a mosque in washington are planning a peace conference now how will today's news a fact that will that in any way hinder the efforts to stop the violence in a peaceful way. the things that sets of peace from friends would be there are those polled sort of thing the international community has to meet its appreciations by united natio

inviting the friends of syria the so-called friends of syria group to amman and it's not clear whether the syrian government is going to play so i think this is a good moment to try and find a solution i'm very nervous about it makes three missed sunni. you know. by this are you surprised by any of this giving these people arms some support and money i mean come on i mean i have realized exactly about this for a year and now it's finally happened wow big surprise well for first of all first of all i think giving arms to people who are of the same pursue ation of the forces that killed american ambassador in libya is the forces that the west supported in libya and without having to deal with any of them are you know really . there's interventions don't work there for bitter what i said in the beginning it's a tragic situation because from my point of view there are no good people there are no good forces to support and if there were good people and good forces that moderate forces in syria women is that trained the obama administration did not go in forcefully and supported the forces w

in syria and hezbollah but the g.c.c. petro markets especially the emirates qatar and the house of sound not to mention the logistical support of syria and yes i agree with our other guest it is already . already a regional conflict is going to get much worse especially because the west via u.s. britain and france they see their input into combat if anything on the ground and now we have jihad these let loose inside syria we're going to have hezbollah are playing against al-qaeda which is a milk cold wet dream of course and we have the back and forth of jihad this between iraq and syria chris you want to jump in there well i just wanted to agree i think with it was jeff who said that you know that this is there's no easy solution to this that this is going to take time and i think that's a raw reality that everyone is confronting and i think that's clearly one of the reasons why you see the u.s. administration taking it slow it's obviously you know a situation where people want to act with a certain degree of caution and

those highlighted in syria were killed and the line of journalistic pursuit in syria. we will go to the newseum now. todaycome to the newseum for the rededication of the memorial. since is open in 2008, 3 million visitors have seen this memorial that paid tribute to 2444 journalists who have died covering the news. world, a journalist placed himself in danger every day. some are deliberately targeted. others get too close to danger. while some may be in the wrong place at the wrong time, most are professionals taking calculated risk. they pay with their lives for doing their jobs. the memorial bears the names of reporters, photographers, editors, and others who have died in the line of duty. each year this dedication renews the newseum's commitment to make sure these brave journalists are remembered. this year we have the regrettable task of adding 88 new names to the memorial. 82 were killed in 2012. an additional 6 died in previous years and they are also being added to the memorial this morning. friends andamilies, colleagues to have traveled thousands of miles to j

diplomats discuss final preparations for next month's international conference on syria syria has more. we have the u.k. and france who are aggressively pushing for lifting partial lifting of that embargo on syria in order to send arms to the rebels the u.k. a foreign secretary william hague is trying to get the other e.u. members to agree with him that arming of the a moderate arm of the so-called moderate rebels in syria also france's leaders have been particularly aggressive in trying to lobby the other leaders to be on board. also publish a report that syria's forces loyal to bashar al assad had used chemical weapons because one of the reporters had experience of critics would certainly point out that the timing of the publication france of the u.k. on one side on the other side you have several countries that lifting any of borgo would mean that arms could eventually end up in the wrong hands in violent hands in syria they're also pointing out to the fact that human human rights abuses have been committed by both sides which means it includes rebels in syria so again differences a

we pulled this in syria must leave us to be a green facility in syria like we do to this to go clubs so we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not selfish. in syria none so you had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking golden in a damascus suburb she looked after her three children and her husband had a lucrative business but when bombs began to explode in front of their house the couple had to throw it all to the wind and seek refuge where there were no gunshots to frighten the children. this fourth or it's my car. and this is my lever one door. or sound didn't explosion miss my kitchen door broke windows broke very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me me me can be stamped by scan. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to protect their families. her house her. career her syria and everything and she had to under control about everything and we don't have that possibility to do that much we are fighting to save everything every time we are talking about. we also crying all the time when i crying so if it's no

we called this in syria must leave us to be a green facility in syria like me to just to go lots. we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not selfish. in syria nancy had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking gotten in a damascus suburb she looked after her three children and her husband had a lucrative business but when bombs began to explode in front of their house the couple had to throw it all to the wind and seek refuge where there were no gunshots to frighten the children. this fourth or it's my car. and i'm. just my lever one. or sound bomb didn't explosion miss my kitchen broke windows broke very sad because this is the only channel where dreams me me me me me and banks came. to. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to protect her closely. her house there. they are there syria and yemen and syria too under control about everything and we don't have that possibility to do that much we are fighting to save everything every time we are talking about. we also crying all the time when i crying for. not easy for you to f

wish to see a peaceful prosperous syria the question is does involvement from anyone outside of syria solve that was involvement lead us towards peace does iranian involvement lead us towards peace does russia's continuing. military supply support of iran sorry of syria lead to peace with saudi arabia and involvement lead to peace i am not sure that any one of those and so perhaps it might need to be a true combination and as franklin suggests maybe bring in the iranians the russians the americans and yes the saudis along with the turks the jordanians and other regional actors into the room but that's going to be some serious diplomatic muscle that needs to be flex in order to make that happen but i have a hard time seeing any other way will be resolved save for closing the borders and allowing the syrians to sort it out for themselves but that's a kind of blood sport that i think no one wishes to see well this is a very very difficult problem gentlemen we've run out of time many thanks today to my guests in washington and in beirut and thanks to our viewers for watching us here at r.

i am from syria and i did the war in syria i love the war ends just i don't go to see my friends of my family. my name is to show them i came here because i want for my children to live in peace and to be killed russian citizens. and brought home ones or similar i'm coming to russia to. leave here because my all and. my name is or not i risk to come back to the lovely country when would we see. my name is osama. i'm planning to stay in russia. to build new life here. until just a year ago would never have thought of leaving damascus and building a new house in a small village in the tiny republican russia and the land of his ancestors when war broke out in the caucasus one hundred fifty years ago his grandfather and hundreds of thousands of a dog is. sent to turkey jordan syria and other countries in the middle east now war has brought a twist of fate. to return to his ancestral home i have. my brother. but i prefer to kim here because i believe the big. you may be in the coming tween teens not now. many syrians came to this village in search of peace and other local people helping reb

but the revelations they do come amid an international storm over israeli strikes inside syria israel is beefing up its borders reportedly fearing retaliation after its planes bombed targets in the war torn state including a research facility very close to the capital damascus syrian officials say a missile batteries have been pointed at israel and according to unconfirmed reports they will be launched in case of a new israeli strike video footage an eyewitness right here the all suggesting the attacks hit weapons dumps triggering massive explosions syria says a number of people were killed and wounded amid widespread destruction both the u.n. and arab league have condemned the attacks white house spokesman meanwhile said president obama feels that israel's actions were justified they apparently targeted a weapons cache for lebanon's hezbollah movement but. a middle east expert from the philadelphia university in amman he believes the real motives are very different i think that there is a some kind of. some kind of correlation between the. fundamentalist . and the western eto against

let's start bombing syria and see if they respond. live in london times correspondent thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on this great to get your perspective thanks for joining us live on r.t. well earlier my colleague researcher spoke to me at all and he's a correspondent for israel's had its newspaper he even easier strike is justified as a preemptive attack to ensure the nation's security. this is part of the israeli policy which you can describe as pownce but do not announce don't let the syrian regime transfer surface to surface missiles and surface to be so stupid paula but don't brag about it so while the reason no official confirmation you can take it almost as face value when you hear the us side confirm it officially what about the legality of israel bombing syria like this without even a un mandate i mean how do you expect the international community to react to this well be israeli and syrian governments have been paying a fragile cease fire for the last forty years however next door in lebanon on the lebanese g

on syria and iran it's very noticeable that he's got quads on syria and quartal mali although the french are not withdrawing from it i think that. you know the traditional thing if things are not going well at home you cause a bit of a stir abroad distracts attention and you look good you look presidential but the. as the french are beginning to say to each other in the media and so on and. see how many stupid. hair was happening in mali or syria or what's happening france the problem in proxy record unemployment goes no sign it's going to get better. well meantime in greece the finance minister has said that he thinks the worst is now behind the troubled country with that view might not be shared by workers left to fend for themselves r.t. correspondent tom barton reports now from a factory abandoned by its owner but whether laborers after almost two years of no paychecks have not taken control it looks just like another day at the vo me factory in northern greece making building and cleaning products but these workers shouldn't even be here this fragment of the old workforce has taken

in syria are one in the same and all the fighting groups in syria is from us and they're all working tactically with up in austria so al-qaeda is in syria we know that that's not confirmed the smallest been suspect of them stops and so what we're seeing now is kind of charge and countercharge. as people try to put the blame for this on to someone else my kind of my my feeling about this is all just kind of guess would be that the party responsible is one of the groups because of anyone has a reason for trying to heat up the situation and dragon outside countries it would be them the fact is that the third one is going to washington this week and syria will be on top of the agenda and my feeling is that the take you won't do anything but so that if obama won't bite if he won't commit america to take a more involved over syria i don't think that turkey will do anything and the issue here is what kind of evidence are they going to come up with will they come up with any evidence that's going to convince us that this in fact was an action carried out by the syrian intelligence service so

comes less than two days off in the previous israeli bombing of syria. shipment of syria. to hezbollah in lebanon a similar attack is said to have been carried out by israel earlier this year in january damascus has denied it's been trying to balance the weapons of the hezbollah. for the latest on this developing breaking news story. headlines from around the world coming up for you to the brink. here you can feel it. is. used to work. just. the come on number of an organisation and get inside the growing trade. you buy something will never forget. that. google. did it but i paid for what i've done i would never stop. this is the lie from moscow on rule research now the unemployment level in the european union hit record highs this week at the rate going up across most of the member states let's show you the numbers here are not see the ever rising figures alarming and rising year by year greece and spain the most affected in greece now twenty seven percent of the workforce is out of a job and in spain one in every four is unemployed or the increasing joblessness of many a

for foreign intervention in syria damascus for. the greek economy. just after one pm on a stunning often in here. with me welcome to the program at least nine hundred people including children have been wounded during a shooting at a mother's day parade in new orleans it's thought that up to three gunmen may have opened fire among the crowd details from washington correspondent. new orleans was celebrating mother's day with over three hundred people participating in a parade police say three individuals are believed to be responsible for starting a shootout two four of the wounded though are believed to be in critical condition another public event another tragedy there is a manhunt underway for the three suspects who police believe have managed to escape one of them is reportedly wounded in the same way as investigators of the boston marathon bombings appealed for crowd sourced photographs new orleans police have urged anyone with any photographs of the parade to step forward so just in boston the police are drawing the public into the manhunt certa

we pulled this in syria must leave us maybe it means us to be in syria we like to do to this to lots so we are trying to find this it's freezing here it's not selfish. in syria nancy had everything she could dream of a villa on two floors with a nice looking golden in a damascus suburb she looked after her three children and her husband had a lucrative business but when bombs began to explode in front of their house the couple had to throw it all to the wind and seek refuge where there were no gunshots to frighten the children. this fourth or it's my car. and this is my lever one door. or someone didn't explosion it was my kitchen door broke the windows were broken would be very sad because this is the only chair where dreams me i make everything and banks came. to. the syrian woman is a hero. she's trying to. trying to protect their families. their home. her house her. hair her syria and everything and she had to under control about everything and we don't have that possibility to do that much we are fighting to save everything every time we are talking about. we also crying all the

in the wake of israeli aggression against syria r.c. has been taking a wide a look at the region to find out whether it was aimed at undermining the remaining supporters of the assad regime. these strikes at a dangerous new dynamic to a region already in crisis with so many sides involved the situation is complicated well let's now have a closer look there have been three israeli strikes on syrian soil since january two of those just in the last three days much of the speculation suggests that the real target was actually has a law in lebanon all of israel's recent attacks were allegedly targeting what happened bound for has a problem militants israel has long warrant it once to prove vantage van storms getting into their hands and is prepared to use force housefull on members are how being bashar al assad fight the uprising against his rule and will stand by him that was confirmed by their leader hassan natural i just this april so it's likely that syria would be responding inclined well existence some way but there is a third player h

there's nothing something you would want to see in syria and add syria to the libya, egypt conundrum. >> a hearing on the house this week of the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. is it a political show by republicans or is there actually something that can still be learned about what happened there? we're going to put that question to the brain trust. we'll have that and talk about a little bit more as well. you're watching msnbc, the place for politics. e announcer ] citi is over 200 years old. in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history. so why should our history matter to you? because for more than two centuries, we've been helping ideas move from ambition to achievement. ♪ and the next great idea could be yours. ♪ a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't t

on syria ends on friday with the u.k. and france pushing to stop arming the rebels this comes as the russian and u.s. diplomats meet to pave the way for next month's international conference on syria. questions mount over the brutal methods used by french police against protesters following an anti gay marriage rally over the weekend with the authorities accused of playing just how big the dissent was. as the powerhouse of asia in europe struggle to avoid a trade war as the e.u. for.

and other nations failed to accomplish their mission in syria. if anybody believes that any saying israel does in the middle east it does not go so the americans later you know group back to play in the garden go back to kindergarten it doesn't work like this in the real world they did it because they were concerted with the obama administration which is in a bind at the moment they cannot intervene directly in syria they know that the support for the so-called rebels all the different strands of the rebs is going nowhere because their elected retreating instead of adventuring so israel with this provocation they're willing for a response either from syria either from hezbollah all or better yet from the point of view of the obama administration and israel from iran so if iran and syria don't do anything for them and they just wait you do this will be seen as it is just a provocation but if there is you know the slightest bit of a response from either syria or iran. fred what do you need shock and awe against syria just how dangerous is the situa

inviting the friends of syria the so-called friends of syria group to amman and it's not clear whether the syrian government is going to play so i think this is a good moment to try and find a solution i'm very nervous about it makes three missed sunni. you know. by this are you surprised by any of this giving these people arms some support and money i mean come on i mean every time a fairly about this for a year and now it's finally happened wow big surprise well for first of all first of all i think giving arms to people who are of the same pursue ation the forces that killed american ambassador in libya is the forces that the west supported in libya and without having to deal with people who are you know really. there's interventions don't work there for bitter what i said in the beginning it's a tragic situation because from my point of view there are no good people there are no good forces to support and if there were good people and good forces that moderate forces in syria women is that trained the obama administration did not go in forcefully and supported the forces which you

and other nations failed to accomplish their mission in syria. if anybody believes that any saying israel does in the middle east it does not go so the americans later you know group back to play in the garden go back to kindergarten it doesn't work like this in the real world they did it because they were concerted with the obama administration which is in a bind at the moment they cannot intervene directly in syria they know that the support for the so-called rebels all the different strands of the rebs is going nowhere because their elected retreating instead of advent sing so israel with this provocation they're willing for a response either from syria either from hezbollah all or better yet from the point of view of the obama administration and israel from iran so if iran and syria don't do anything for them and they just wait you do this will be seen as it is just a provocation but if there is you know this slightest bit of a response from either syria or iran that's the perfect prick text for what any shock and awe against syria just how d

investigator he says there are strong suspicions rebels in syria have used chemical weapons but says there's nothing to suggest the government forces have done the same. meanwhile israel has condemned for a series of our strikes inside syria but also takes a look at whether the ultimate target of that talks could rely could lie elsewhere . and record unemployment painful sterett he and the loveliest ratings in recent french history fronts all around marks the end of a tough first year as president. international news and comment live from moscow this is our c. with me you know hello and welcome to the program. a leading u.n. investigator says there are strong suspicions rebels in syria have used the deadly nerve gas sarin during this civil war but carla del ponte a also says she has seen no evidence the government has resorted to the use of chemical weapons those claims are in contrast to an earlier statement by the u. arts who has accused president assad's forces of using them and threatened to take action and she's going there to check on reports now from washington. you want human

international approaches to peace in syria clash with russia and the u.s. is stressing diplomacy while britain and france want to the rebels directly. islamophobia hate crime surge across the u.k. following the murder of a british soldier by muslim extremists in london. questions over the brutal methods used by french police against protesters following an anti gay ranee over the weekend the authorities accuse of downplaying just how big the. international news and comment live from our studio center here in moscow this is. britain france are pushing to be allowed to supply weapons to the syrian rebels and what the embargo on the conflict torn country lifted the sanctions expire on friday and for now most european union members are strongly against the al-qaeda linked opposition this comes as top russian and u.s. diplomats prepared to discuss final preparations for next month's international conference on syria. has the latest. we have the u.k. and france were aggressively pushing for a lifting partial lifting of that embargo on syria in order to said to th

is syria we have to think about the country of syria twenty five percent and they're displaced or refugees the humanitarian problem is really really catastrophic it has strategic implications for the region iran's help syria is a different thing the u.s. certainly didn't start this didn't support the rebels in order to get rid of assad it all happened by itself and in the end outside powers can meddle but they can't really do very much internally which is why the u.s. but one russia forty. society that continues to support. how do you know that it assad retains the support of about half of syrian society what about them. judith go ahead that's what you think that's what you think but it's not what you what we know we don't know a lot of people work for the bureaucracy a lot of people are in the intelligence the army is totally practically of the verge of collapse the brothers fourth division of course they have to be loyal to the regime because their paychecks their lives and the future of their families depend on it i don't think there's any way now to manage here who is real lay in suppo

response inside syria. they know over the past few fromes the weapons come iran, syria, as a tool against israelis. critics of the obama administration will say here is the closest ally in syria. and why aren't we doing much more to take out assad and break this flow of weapons from syria into levitan to use against the israelis? that is and continues to be a major point that people make. the problem is, what will replace it? it is so unclear. you could have a worse government, and that is not in line with iran per say. they could be justice as a threat to israel or you could have, which i think is a big fear now, the splitting of the country. you have to ask arab analysts what they thought. barring some of huge and provide -- intervention, it will be the splintering of the state with the current regime and ethnically and and with support of controlling the coastal regions and them ability to attack. and areas of the north controlling areas. on the one hand, yes, you can break that alliance that would be a

how might syria respond? >> reporter: well, despite all the threats and the sort of chest thumping, so far syria has stopped short of declaring all-out war. still, there are fears that the president of syria, bashar al-assad, may need to demonstrate his strength and may launch some type of retall yea toir attack to show he's still in charge and that will open him to israeli air strikes, possibly even targeting himself. few actually think assad will launch any type of attack, but that doesn't mean people here in israel or in the entire region aren't concerned for what could happen next, harris. >> you know, i was reading, conner, earlier where people inside damascus were relieved because it meant they suddenly were not the focus of this regime. i thought that was an interesting comment. >> reporter: yeah. it sure is. there's still a lot of internal dynamic in syria right now. the syrian government has tried to blame these air strikes on israel by suggests they're trying to help the rebels. obviously that's pro

inviting the friends of syria the so-called friends of syria group to amman and it's not clear where the syrian government is going to play so i think this is a good moment to try and find a solution i'm very nervous about it makes three missed sunni. you know. by this are you surprised by any of this giving these people arms some support and money i mean come on i mean you have realized exactly about this for a year and now it's finally happened wow big surprise well for first of all first of all i think giving arms to people who are of the same pursue ation of the forces that killed american ambassador in libya is the forces that the west supported in libya and without having to listen to any of them are you know really . there's interventions don't work there for bitter what i said in the beginning it's a tragic situation because from my point of view there are no good people there are no good forces to support and if there were good people and good forces the moderate forces in syria with miss that train the obama administration did not go in forcefully and supported the anti-aci

and other nations failed to accomplish their mission in syria. if anybody believes that any saying israel does in the middle east it does not go so the americans later you know group back to play in the garden go back to kindergarten it doesn't work like this in the real world they did it because they were concerted with the obama administration which is in a bind at the moment they cannot intervene directly in syria they know that the support for the so-called rebels all the different strands of the rebs is going nowhere because their elected retreating instead of advent sing so israel with this provocation they're willing for a response either from syria either from hezbollah all or better yet from the point of view of the obama administration and israel from iran so if iran and syria don't do anything for the moment they just wait this will be seen as it is just a provocation but if there is you know the slightest bit of a response from either syria or iran that's the perfect brick text for what you need shock and awe against syria just how da

after the united states and other nations of failed to accomplish their mission in syria. if anybody believes that any saying israel does in the middle east it does not go so the americans later you know group back to play in the garden go back to kindergarten it doesn't work like this in the real world they did it because they were concerted with the obama administration which is in a bind at the moment they cannot intervene directly in syria they know that the support for the so-called rebels all the different strands of the rebs is going nowhere because they're likely retreating instead of van sing so israel with this provocation they're willing for a response either from syria either from hezbollah at all or better yet from the point of view of the obama administration and israel from iran so if iran and syria don't do anything for the moment they just wait this will be seen as it is just a provocation but if there is you know the slightest bit of a response from either syria or iran that's the perfect brick text for a lot of what you need shock and awe against syria j