sky. lines. fierce fighting in syria's capital as special envoy kofi anon travels to moscow seeking president putin's support to end the bloodshed. although if you do more good news you didn't build your living it is that you need to be right because even trees integration insult that's how immigrants in belgium feel about a new starter they say it's nothing more than a guide for south asians coming into the civilized world. to get away to rust or a place to decide the world's fake occupy protesters demand transparency and media coverage as the wealthy and powerful gather at a california retreat. thank

you for joining our team this tuesday it's eleven o'clock here in moscow and i'm karen. well serious armed conflict has now closed in on the capital damascus and its suburbs with fierce battles between regime troops and rebel forces now taking place in broad daylight the opposition says it's some of the worst fighting since the crisis began and threatened a full scale assault on loyalist units across the country but as artie's marie financial reports from damascus the real picture may not be as dramatic. clashes between the army and rebels never stopped here in syria now the fighting is going on here in damascus 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 but 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 government told troops are fighting gunmen governmental sources are saying that most of these gunmen are not from damascus but they've come here from homes in central syria and from in the country's north where the army has seen success the position has been claiming that army has been using all tars and shelling these areas and also that they've been using armored vehicles many roads within the city are blocked especially in troubled areas in troubled parts of the city obviously what we can confirm is that we hear shootings but i have to say not quite heavy and not all the time and when we've been able to see smoke over the city. solving the syrian crisis amid deep

divisions between foreign powers will be the focus of today's meeting between international peace envoy kofi annan and president vladimir putin and moscow russia is accusing western nations of not working toward peace in syria and blackmailing moscow to take action against the syrian government parties john thomas has the details. those key sticking points are what is expected to be discussed between kofi annan and president vladimir putin today in fact russia saying that the west is not living up to the promises that were agreed upon in geneva just a short time ago which were to promote a dialogue between all parties involved in the conflict and for all sides to lay down arms in fact russia saying the west is using this as an opportunity for the u.n. resolution to try and impose sanctions on syria and possibly also to promote a foreign military intervention something that russia is really trying to avoid pointing to libya as an example as a way that western military intervention just didn't work out saying that the

situation in libya right now is just as messy as it was before the uprising in libya russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov said that the west is trying to blackmail russia into swing to their side lavrov also said that threatening russia over its position on syria is beyond the scope of diplomacy and decencies of russia supports kofi anon so peace talks in fact what they say is they support talks of all parties involved in fact they have said multiple times that they are not taking sides in this conflict they're not supporting the assad regime rather they want dialogue of all parties involved one thing that they do want is for a non to work more actively with the opposition something that the syrian government has decided that they are going to do they have appointed a representative of the syrian government to work with the opposition however the opposition when representatives came to moscow to meet with law but they said they will not work with which are all assad and it is believed that these refusals stem from confusing messages from the west so right now what we're waiting on is what

will actually come between the talks of kofi annan and president vladimir putin course russia saying that they fully support the kofi annan peace process brian becker was a national coordinator for the answer anti-war coalition believes 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 is akin 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 what is the form and 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 their 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 parties constantly following developments around syria our crew in damascus is sharing its firsthand experience i'm struck here on twitter and don't forget to check our facebook page for more analysis and insight into the syria crisis. if. it's.

seven minutes past the hour now and while syria dominates the headlines and another middle east country remains off the radar the protest mood in bahrain is gaining momentum. by the government all opposition rallies authorities in the gulf country are doing their best to depp and own opposition. most prominent human rights activist. who was a guest on julie in a song just program on r t was jailed for views he expressed on twitter just a week ago this was followed by the expulsion of a us filmmaker one of the few western journalists left in the country who was making a documentary about the artist spoke to john mara lo about how desperate the situation buffering. 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 at night a 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 bahrain 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 jeem wants to keep them out and keep them silent as much as possible all right well . here with r t and still ahead in the program fixing the leak. the fate of a legit wakey league seven former prattling manning hangs in the balance with pretrial hearings underway at the u.s. . and in the business bulletin moody's delivers a fresh blow to investor confidence as it sloshes the ratings of their team italian banks just days after a cut b. italian government bond rating join me for all the details but. so for assistance for new job rates of. rates of leukemia for example the surgery

that. breast cancer has more than ten times told cancers fourteen times i forget the exact details bullish huge numbers there's not nothing that you have ever found in any epidemiological study anywhere 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 skulls without ne and sometimes with their legs totally twisted blood means death to those who it's pointed out. to those who use this window. and they're celebrating and they don't realize stand looking at their own future cancer and. this is just. so

science. i have. leakage and i show you to the extent how much i have leakers. one industry in the soviet union. did not display our leverage. for the job it would. be ok. this is good for the soul be.

there with our tea at twelve minutes past the hour and for decades belgium has offered a safe haven to emigrants 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 say they're being portrayed as savages moving into the civilized world and approach which is being called racist artist s. r. so it 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 starter 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. in a modern society based on the principles of. where freedoms and rights for everybody also we've obligations with separation. equality of. with no 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 in belgium 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 around the world the starter's kit 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 education levels but critics say

that what's written in it and some of what's come with it are simply patronized and insulting raising questions on the stereotypes locals may have on the foreigners coming to their country. and i think there's a very large share of 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 organize. by the flemish government which primarily focuses on it each in dutch law. sure it's important to point out that in order to integrate you need to speak dutch i have no problem with that but 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 in an 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 or that 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 part of the outside but softer on the inside and one more thing it rains a lot of belgium but it doesn't rain money does are still your arty brussels. and as they're going on the crisis bites hard in belgium the whole of europe later this hour much closer and stacy her look at some of the more controversial ideas put forward to tackle the debts. germany on a miss make the rich buy bonds the german it's

a two for economic research you 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 yes 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 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 twenty leaks his lawyer claims manning was tortured and treated worse than a terrorist 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 discussed the case with iraq war veteran michael prysner. 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 visiting him i'm 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 it a failure a fair trial and what bradley manning experience in this trial is very much focusing all the attention on manning itself but isn't there a danger that this neglect to the bigger picture of course the very crimes that is leaks 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 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 heat and 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 killed scene 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 don't forget we've got every story covered on our website r.t. dot com here's what's there right now. until a newspaper has come up with a new way to boost circulation by showing pictures of dead world figures boring thing triggering outrage in the process full story is that part dot com. from a date with justin bieber for their daughter to renting the line for

a kid's birthday we 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 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. martin to bohemian grove to see what triggers those rumors and growing protests for millionaires and 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 monday to you

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 from 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 who 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 cider. for hundreds heeded the call to protest. the people in the growth are about to be conquered. activists felipe in the siena 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 we know you're very aware we had. an event with so little transparency has bred theories some of them pretty wild about what goes on on the inside especially at the creation 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 that you know they're 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 n.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 that 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 lair 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 has been ordered back to prison after a doctor said his health has improved barak was admitted to a military hospital in mid june following reports he had suffered heart failure

eighty four year old former leader was sentenced to life in prison last month for his complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's revolution which toppled. to canada now where police have arrested a man in connection with the shooting at a barbecue that left two people dead and up to nineteen injured in toronto it's thought another shooter may have been involved in the incident which followed what is described as an altercation around midnight and two fatalities were a teenage girl and a twenty year old man the majority of the injuries were caused by a crush as around one hundred people fled from gunfire. business time no natasha and there is a fresh blow to investors confidence in europe well absolutely not only in europe but really worldwide and this time it's italy a country we suspected was in trouble but now it looks like it might join the ranks

of spain and cyprus moody's has slashed the credit rating 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 dropped seven banks by one notch and in additional six by two notches. there's a potential handle gaining momentum banks and other traders could have manipulated or oil prices in the same way they've reportedly interest rates the report for the g twenty queen's traders have an incentive to report false prices the u.k. officials want the cabinet to expand its inquiry into the rate fixing. handle to see if oil prices have also been fixed meanwhile oil price agencies like platts are denying the allegations saying there's no similarities between a low bore and. now moving on to the equity markets let's start with europe and see

how european bourses are reacting to all these news the pussy and the dax are in the positive territory in the first twenty minutes of trade let's see those numbers their investors are positioning themselves for the day's main event the much anticipated speech of the fed reserve chairman ben bernanke who could be addressing parliament ok conversation say later in the day traders really hope that he'll hand them more stimuli are on the way to the world's largest economy now moving on to russia the markets here also gaining in the second hour of trade and that's despite of the latest stats that works so obvious they show the country's industrial production remains unchanged in june compared to the month of may but a bigger picture it looks not as gloomy for the first half of the year industrial production actually grew three point one percent over in asia stocks are finally in the block toward the end of the trading session let's see the numbers there and in

tokyo hong in tokyo the nikkei is gaining the hang sang in hong kong is also all one and house sound now onto the currency markets at the moment the european currency the euro is gaining to the your u.s. dollar and the russian ruble in the second hour of trade is stronger to both the euro and the dollar now moving onto crude it has slipped into dread over the past two hours after gaining earlier in the trading session if it had managed to keep up this positive momentum it would be a session over again but unfortunately we're not seeing that and so far so good for the russian equity markets as you know is really dependent on oil prices. thanks for that update we look forward to many more. more financial news but from quite a different perspective and the cause report that's coming up after

a recap of our headlines in just a few minutes. to the. mayor and more mouths to feed but where will the food come from can science

provide the answers to the future of food under the microscope. we've got the future covered. good news a secret laboratory to mccurdy was able to build a new its most sophisticated robot which all unfortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care watch only on the algae dot com wealthy british science. is not on the title. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max cause or for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on

our. resistance is not a politics but a culture. is couldn't test. on its own. odd. cultures of resistance on marketing.