to end the bloodshed. you see that in belgium believe in what does that mean could mean americans live in trees integration insults about how immigrants in belgium feel about a new starter kit explaining basic behavior even though nobody's child would know. a getaway true breast or a place to decide the world's fate occupy protesters demand transparency and media

coverage as the wealthy and powerful gather at a california retreat. hello and welcome to our t.v. this tuesday with me karen tara wall series armed conflict has now engulfed the capital damascus and its suburbs with fierce battles between regime troops and rebel forces now taking place in broad daylight the military is thought to have deployed armored vehicles near the city center after a threat of a full scale assault on a loyalist units across the country is in damascus. clashes between the army and rebels never stop here in syria now the fighting is going on here in damascus activists and residents have described it as they have us the most intense fighting in the capital since the beginning of the revolt here last march was in fact this

is the first time we see a battle in the very heart of the regime damascus has been considered the area totally under governmental control the fighting recently has moved as close has to its suburbs there have been several army assaults against opposition hotbeds in the eastern outskirts of damascus some fourteen kilometers from the city center now we're hearing about at least four neighborhoods in the southern part of damascus some twenty minute drive from the city center where governmental troops are fighting gunmen governmental sources are saying that most of these gunmen are not from damascus but they've come here from homs in central syria and from live in the country's north where the army had seen a success late the position has been claiming the army has been using mortars and shelling these areas and also that they've been using armored vehicles many roads within this city are blocked especially in troubled areas and troubled parts of the

city obviously what we can confirm is that we hear shootings but i have to say not quite heavy and all the time and when daylight we've been able to see smoke over the city all these areas i mentioned where the fighting is going on right now between the army forces and the rebels are densely populated but so far no reports on casualties from any side. solving the syrian crisis amid deep divisions between foreign powers will be the focus of today's meeting between international peace envoy kofi anon and president vladimir putin in moscow russia is accusing western nations of not working toward peace in syria and blackmailing moscow to take action against the syrian government thomas joins us live now while the talks do come at a crucial time for syria's violence does get bloodier every day and foreign powers are failing to find common ground on how to end it sean what can we expect from this latest high level meeting. well karen certainly there has been

a lot of international tension and exactly how to resolve this conflict again is syria of course the west having one side russia and china on the other side wanting to promote dialogue with of the current administration in syria and that is what kofi annan and president vladimir putin are expected to talk about today now russia says that the west is it not living up to their promises that were agreed on yet in geneva just earlier not too long ago and talk those promises were to promote all sides to lay down arms and to to start dialogue so that there can be conflict resolution in the country russia is also saying that the west is using this as an opportunity to possibly put sanctions against syria and also to promote some sort of a foreign intervention militarily which is something that russia really wants to avoid in fact using libya as an example of how things there did not turn out exactly the way the west said that they were going to turn out the things there are still

pretty much a mass and they don't want to syria to turn into the same type of a problem yesterday in a meeting with kofi annan said that the west is trying to blackmail russia into coming over to their side and that blaming russia for prolonging the conflict is and i quote overstepping the mark and it's just plain bad diplomacy now russia does it to support kofi annan peace plan they do not support however the forcing of regime change with bashar al assad is saying that bashar al assad the president actually supports enjoys the support of a majority of the people in his country so trying to force him out just would not be a legitimate move and that is something that russia says the west is trying to force through using the u.n. as a backdrop for that however russia does want kofi annan to work more closely with the opposition saying that syria has actually the government put forward a representative to work with the opposition it to promote dialogue with the

opposition but the opposition. even coming here to moscow has said that is something that they are not willing to do they only want bashar al assad out so today the president vladimir putin expected to try and work through these sticking points to come to some sort of resolution rochelle hoping to back that peace plan. all right while we certainly will be bringing updates to you live as the day progresses with what happens in the meeting thank you for that. brian becker who is a national coordinator for the answer antiwar coalition believes that the u.s. is unlikely to give up its tactics and pressuring russia. i think the russian foreign minister is in fact being very diplomatic when he says there's an element of blackmail or arm twisting the u.s. government the clinton foreign policy the clinton obama foreign policy is as it came to the way the mafioso works if you don't go our way if you don't do what we do we'll break your leg we'll make it impossible will threaten you blackmail and

hostage taking is it is sort of a softer way of putting it in fact in the end the united states hopes to be able to break russia and china down to have them intimidated on the international arena so it can do what it wants to do which is to forment civil war using all available elements of violence pushing aside the possibility of peace in order to accomplish its main objective which is to overthrow the assad government not because that government is undemocratic not because it's anti humanitarian but because it's not a proxy for the west and that's the real objective of the u.s. foreign policy in the middle east in syria and elsewhere and we are constantly following developments in and around syria our crew in damascus the sharing it's first hand experience and i struck and sitting on twitter at tell forget to check our facebook page for more analysis and insight into the syrian crisis.

it's. down to you for sure to have your own talk from the top story. which all she. video on demand. will come. in the registry in the palm of your. home here with our team at eight minutes past the hour and while syria tops the headlines and another middle east country on rust remains on the radar the protest

mood in bahrain is gaining momentum despite a government ban on all opposition rallies authorities in the gulf country are doing their best to dampen down opposition on a brand's most prominent human rights activists now bill gross job was jailed for views he expressed on twitter a week ago this was followed by the expulsion from the country of a u.s. filmmaker one of the few western journalists left in the country r.t. spoke to john meagher low about just how desperate the situation in bahrain really is it's. what i witnessed is an increasing increasing repression against the pro-democracy and human rights activists in the short time that i was in bahrain i felt like the situation was actually deteriorating it is across the country it is extremely widespread and in villages and towns all over bahrain there is violent repression of attempts to demonstrate and attempts to protest even more alarming

much more increase of house raids in middle of the night in villages all over riot police coming in surrounding houses brutally arresting people and imprisoning them taking people from restaurants swimming pools their private homes this practice of targeting activists and demonstrators fortunately seems to be on the rise and very widespread right now and only time will tell i guess how or how long they will be able to keep struggling but i did not see any signs of people giving up i saw signs of people reinvigorated the bahraini regime is very determined not to let what's happening be exposed and so anyone who's going to pop reign with the purpose of the agenda of trying to show what's happening and trying to really expose the reality on the ground there is wants to keep them out and keep them silent as much as

possible. here with our team and still ahead in the program stand or fall think faked out wiki leaks whistleblower bradley manning is being decided with pretrial hearings underway in the u.s. . and the former england football manager fabio capello becomes russia's new thoughts all the details in the sports bulletin in just over half an hour. or. so for assistance for new job rates of. the race of leukemia for example a thirty eight times. breast cancers more than ten times chose cancers fourteen times i would forget the exact details bullish huge numbers there's no nothing that you have ever found in any epidemiological study anywhere ever there is a way that brings victory. to its creator. he's not alone some are more severe than others we have something that is born without

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welcome. r t with me karen taraji now for decades belgium has offered a safe haven to immigrants mainly from muslim countries but now a new starter kit in the northern region of flanders telling moroccans how to behave is causing outrage immigrants feel insulted by being told to respect others and sort their domestic waste parties tests are silly and has more. did you know that in belgium the flemish eat healthy live inside their homes most of the time and don't make noise after ten pm or did you know that men and women are equal and it's forbidden to hurt someone mentally or physically including your partner or children and that if you want to get a job you must learn dutch well these are just some pointers about the country in the new starters kit given to the moroccan government for distribution to moroccans who have gotten the official go ahead to immigrate to flanders it also includes a short video featuring testimonies from recent immigrants about their experience with as always i mean russian and turkish versions will soon follow. in

a modern society based on the principles of the. will freedoms and rights for everybody also we've obligations with separation. the quality of. discrimination principles but some were left rather dumbfounded by the kind of information the packet contained. when you see that in belgian living who is what does that mean it means americans live in trees when a belgian neighbor makes news and two three am because he's drunk and it keeps me awake during the kids to explain that he must respect the hour because we do not make news in belgium after ten pm this is concord to see around the world the starter's get is meant to provide basic information but it may be too basic for some the proponents of the initiative say it was made to target immigrants with low skill or educational levels but critics say that what's written in it and some of

what's come with it are separate patronized and insulting raising questions on the stereotypes locals may have on the foreigners coming to their country. i think there's a very large racism in this excuse me but that's not how we educate about two thousand five hundred moroccans immigrate to flanders each year as part of family reunification or marriage migration as. soon as they arrive they can join a civic integration program organized by the flemish government which primarily focuses on teaching dutch. not sure it's important to point out that in order to integrate you need to speak dutch i have no problem with that what i have a problem with is this social cultural references they explain to you that in order to find your place you must culturally match a certain model those in favor of the starter kit insist that the initiative aims to manage possible false expectations about belgium and to address the fact that integration has been ineffective so far you are able perfectly able to get the

belgian nationality if you want belgian citizenship without even knowing one of the official languages of this country and this reflects i think the whole idea of what they call the in and integration policy which isn't really an integration policy because it's completely up to the people coming here to if they really want to adapt if they're really want to integrate but for those who do want to integrate something else they can expect to find out is that the flemish are like walnuts hard on the outside but softer on the inside and one more thing it rains a lot in belgium but it doesn't rain money does or cilia r.t. brussels and as the economic crisis by it's hard in belgium and the whole of europe later today max cancer and stacey harbor a look at some of the more controversial ideas put forward to tackle the debts. german economists make the rich by barnes the german institute for economic

research d i.w. suggested that those with a substantial private fortune be forced. to hand over ten percent of what they have over two hundred fifty thousand euros they're talking about confiscating wealth to pay for debts that were run up by corporatists and neo fascists and you know this is the haven't we seen this movie before it's called scapegoating we are now at war without any equivocation whatsoever this just one of the sort about a policy issue it's not about an economic theory it's about a war world war three is on. pre-trial hearings are underway for bradley manning the jailed u.s. soldier accused of releasing information to wiki leaks his lawyer claims manning was tortured and treated worse than the terrorists during nearly two years in solitary confinement he faces twenty two charges including aiding the enemy which

carries a death sentence my colleague kevin owen discuss the case with iraq war veteran michael christian our. the charges should be thrown out because bradley manning has been tortured and abused the u.n. repertoire and torture has come out and said that this was torture and abuse is being blocked from visiting him so the fair trial is absolutely not happening for bradley manning i think that you could say if you committed a terrorist attack you might get a fair trial and what bradley manning is experiencing right now in this trial is very much focusing all the attention on him self but isn't there a danger this neglect to the bigger picture of course the very crimes that his legs expose themselves. oh absolutely you know this whole idea of eating the enemy which is what they're going to try to put bradley manning into jail for for the rest of his life possibly you know the death penalty is something that you mentioned as well this idea of aiding the enemy the government is trying to make the case that someone could find these things on the internet and then use that for propaganda

purposes with anti-american sentiment which is ridiculous because it was the u.s. military that committed these atrocities in the first place it was them that committed you know the wanton killing of civilians on a regular basis both in iraq and afghanistan so it's the u.s. government's own actions that foster heated resentment for the u.s. military and its occupations of bride i think you could say the same you know for punishing rolling stone for publishing the afghanistan kill team photos these are things that the u.s. military is doing and exposing the facts isn't eating the enemy it's just telling the truth. and don't forget we've got every story covered on our website art dot com here's what's there for you right now actually a newspaper come up with a way to boost circulation by burying some of its news makers that's triggered outrage worldwide the full story is waiting for you at our dot com. from a date with justin bieber for their daughter to renting the london on you tube for

a kid's birthday a report on the most ridiculous demands of russian oligarchs abroad. in the u.s. occupy protesters have descended on a quiet california redwood retreat where some of the world's elite gather every year demonstrate the demonstrators say the two weeks officially portrayed as a time of rest and relaxation is really a chance to discuss plans for the world's future so r.t. sent abby martin to bohemian grove to see what triggers those rumors on growing protests millionaires billionaires the people that control the world control of central banks to build nuclear weapons i mean this was their summer playground straight from the san francisco airport headed to montevideo

a city with beautiful redwoods and picturesque coastlines. the perfect getaway for the world's rich and powerful and in fact every year ceos media moguls and high level politicians flock here to the bohemian grove secluded camp out there making business deals there they're talking policy with a lot of conversation a claim which members deny their motto here is that weaving spiders come not here which they claim means there's no business discussions it's just the vacation for the wealthy men author and activist mark dice has a rare grove yearbook issued every decade showing everything from men in drag to high profile politicians giving speeches the book shows george w. bush and his father giving lakeside talks along with presidents jimmy carter and richard nixon others have attended our david brooks of the new york times along with c.e.o.'s from c.n.n. and fox jimmy buffett david rockefeller and henry kissinger mark also has an

official two thousand and five membership list of grove attendees your typical warmongers george bush sr colin powell richard perle and your typical republican establishment and ciders. hundreds heeded the call to protest. the people in the growth are about to be conquered. activist philippe messina worries about dangerous policies that are drafted from within the redwoods the nuclear program was discussed here and then developed later the fact that reagan was here in eighty and then afterwards we had the reagan revolution you know you're. an event with so little transparency has bred theories some of them pretty wild about what goes on on the inside especially at the cremation of care ritual where grove members burn a coffin effigy to a forty foot. peace and justice activist cindy sheehan speculates on the lack of

media coverage as they're part of it me now they're saying they're the propaganda arm for the one percent the corporate media is the one percent. i mean if you look at it that way and b c m s n b c c n n fox they are of the corporate one percent they're not going to do negative stories about themselves about capitalism about global empire and war. how can someone own a two thousand year old redwood grove that's the question of the occupiers are asking about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent. here at the gates of the bohemian grove a line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the layer of the one percent abby martin r.t. month they do you know california. time now for some other stories making headlines around the world. president hosni mubarak house senate ordered back to prison after a doctor said his health had improved while barak was admitted to

a military hospital in mid june following reports he had suffered heart failure but eighty four year old former leader was sentenced to life in prison last month for his role in the killing of unarmed protesters during last year's uprising. hundreds of demonstrators around lead in the city of peshawar in pakistan protesting against the reopening of a nato supply route into afghanistan as follows the one thousand strong rally held on sunday in the southern pakistani city of herat chief islam about close the supply routes for seven months after twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by u.s. drone attacks. time now for business with the car owners may have been paying too much for their petrol well possibly and that's because banks and other traders a could have manipulated oil prices in the same way they've reportedly rigged interest rates have at least that's the view of the report from

the g twenty which claims traders have an incentive to report false prices the u.k. fish oils want the cabinet to expand its inquiry into the rate fixing scandal to see if oil prices have also been fixed meanwhile oil price agencies like platts are denying the allegations they're saying there's no similarity between live war and oil and then the news you moody's has slashed the credit ratings of thirteen italian banks just days after a cut the italian government bond rating the ratings agency says the financial problems in greece and spain have boosted the default risk for italy moody's has dropped seven banks by one notch and another a six by two notches. and now moving on to the equity market let's see what's going on what's going on there and first to asia where trade is in full swing this hour and it looks like pretty strong gains there the nikkei is putting

on around three quarters of a percent the hang saying is managing to put on one and three quarters of a percent and investors are positioning themselves for the days may the band the much anticipated speech of the federal. chairman ben bernanke a who is addressing the congress later in the day investors really hope that he'll hint that more stimuli are on the way for the world's largest economy and speaking in the united states wall street really hot and wasn't day on monday a major losses after a big surprise in june a retail sales declined just like in april and may while most analysts expected an increase very disappointing if it had not been for citigroup's beat earnings they actually exceeded estimates the losses would have been much deeper now moving onto moscow the equity markets closed at monday's session then the block using the closing figures they're. all roundhouses percent from both the mindsets and the

r.t.s. or at last i'm not one of my sex and the russian ruble finished at the session of a stronger to both the euro and the us dollar on monday will bring you all the latest as soon as the russian markets reopen in less than two hours time the us the moment is gaining against the greenback and now on to crude it's quite bullish this tuesday if it manages to keep this momentum throughout the day it would be a trading session in a row of gains a weaker dollar is of course supporting oil prices karen and as you know. a stronger oil is always supporting the russian market so we'll see what happens when they open in two hours time all right we look forward to that update. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes. resistance

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