fierce fighting in syria's capital as special envoy kofi anna travels to moscow seeking president putin support to end the bloodshed. if you can you see that in building living which is what does that mean it means americans live in trees integration and so that's how immigrants in belgium feel about a new starter they say is nothing more than a guide for savages coming into the civilized world. to get away to rest 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. onscreen

and online twenty four hours a day seven days a week this is r t with me. well serious harm conflict has now closed in on one capital damascus and its suburbs the 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 boy list units across the country but as artie's my 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 homs in central syria and from in the country's north where the army has seen the success the you have position has been claiming the army has been using all tars 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. stopping the syrian crisis and

the deep divisions between foreign powers will be the focus of today's meeting between international peace envoy kofi annan and president putin in moscow russia is accusing western nations of not working toward peace in syria and blackmailing moscow to take out against the syrian government 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 a russia over its position on syria is beyond the scope of diplomacy and decency forcing regime change is something that that russia says is unrealistic in syria because bashar al assad has the support of the syrian you know 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 the opposition when representatives came to moscow to meet with law but they said they will not more and 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. constantly following developments and around syria. it's firsthand experience in the. twitter and don't forget to check our facebook page for more analysis and insight into the syrian crisis.

while syria dominates the headlines and another metal unrest remains off the radar in protest mode and is gaining momentum despite a government ban on all. authorities in the gulf country are doing their best to dampen down the opposition. prominent human rights activist. who was a guest on this program here on our t.v. was jailed for views he expressed on twitter just a week ago as was followed by the u.s. filmmaker one of the few western journalists left in the country who is making a documentary about the own rights are two spoke to john marlowe about just how desperate the situation really is. 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 in villages and towns all over about brain bures violent repression of attempts to demonstrate and attempts to protest i am even more alarming much more increase of house raids at night in middle of the night in villages all over riot police coming in and surrounding. houses brutally arresting people and imprisoning them taking people from restaurants swimming pools their private homes this 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 box raney 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 wants to keep them out and keep them silent as much as possible. here with our team still ahead for you in the program fixing everything. the fate of the wiki leaks and former bradley manning hangs in the balance with pretrial hearings underway and the new rats. and in the business bulletin moody's delivers a fresh blow to investor confidence as its law says the ratings of thirteen italian banks just days after a cut the italian government bond rating join me for all the details in about fifteen or. so resistant saluja rates of. the rates of leukemia for example the surgery that. breast cancer has more than ten times told cancers fourteen times i forget the exact details but the

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wealthy british style. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with my stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. thank you for joining our team. well pretrial hearings are underway for bradley manning he is the jailed u.s. soldier accused of releasing information to wiki 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 chase matter who wrote the book the passion of a bradley manning says washington stands somewhat hypocritical. they want to make a big example of him i think it's an artificial crisis. all each new wave of leaks has been greeted with hysteria and sky is falling rhetoric of armageddon and none of these dire predictions have come to come to pass or anything remotely like it frankly we need to know what our government is doing there's nothing very radical about that said to me it's used to be a central part of the american political discourse that you should know what your government is doing the obama administration did promise to be the whistleblowers best friend and instead they have prosecuted more whistleblowers than all previous

administrations combined under the espionage act i don't think whistleblowers are ever going to stop this long as there is injustice and wrongdoing in government there will always be people who had great personal risk going to great personal sacrifice will tell the truth and get the word out and that's a very good thing. for you we've got every story covered on our website r t dot com here's what's there right now. michel a newspaper come up with a way into circulation and showing pictures of dead world figures moving triggering outrage in the process you can find the full story at r.t. dot com. from a date with justin bieber for their daughter renting the london eye for a kid's birthday we report on the most ridiculous marketing oligarchs abroad.

thirty minutes past the hour and 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 planters telling moroccans how to behave is causing outrage immigrants say they're being portrayed as savages moving into the civilized world an approach which is being called racist parties tests are selling that 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. in a modern society based on the principles of. where freedoms and rights for everybody also we've obligations with separation. equality of men and women 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 mean americans live in trees when a belgian neighbor makes noise 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 kid 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 simply 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 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 teaching dutch law not 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 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 without 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 sell your arty brussels. and as the economic crisis bites hard and belgium on the whole of europe later this hour mike's cars are on stacey harbor

a look at some of the more controversial ideas put forward to tackle the debts. german economists make the rich by 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 an economic theory it's about a war world war three is on. right seventeen minutes past the hour now and in the u.s. occupy protesters have descended on

a quiet california right would retreat where some of the world's elite gather every year demonstrators say the two weeks officially portrayed as a time rest and relaxation as really a chance to discuss plans for the world's future so r.t. sent out the 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 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 coral and you your typical republican establishment and ciders. hundreds heeded the call to protest. the people in the growth are about to be conquered. activists phillipe in

the scene are 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. 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 are 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 it is going to be c m s n b c c n n box they are 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. r.t. month they do yo california all right it is time now for some world updates. gyptian president hosni mubarak has been ordered back to prison after doctors said his health has improved mobarak was admitted to a military hospital in the 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 and me killing of protesters during last year's revolution which toppled him. heading 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 a nother shooter may have been involved in the incident which followed what is being described as an altercation around midnight the two fatalities were eighteen h. girl and a twenty year old man and much already have injuries were caused by a crush as around one hundred people fled from the gunfire. russian so use spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station just two days after blasting off from the baikonur cosmodrome russian u.-t. million go nasa astronaut sunita williams and japan's akihito. will enter the eye assess once the module is safely sealed will spend around four months in orbit. cross over to the business dusk which is actively discussing the latest accusations of h.s.b.c.

natasha tell us more about that well indeed the london traded bank is accused of helping criminals terrorists and even mexican drug dealers launder their money u.s. financial watchdog issued a three hundred plus page report on monday detailing the lack of control at europe's largest bank now the bulk of the allegations are related to the banks the u.s. subsidiary based in new york has bases management has acknowledged the lapses and compliance a promise to fix them now more trouble for europe's banks moody's has slashed the credit ratings of thirteen italian banks just days after it 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 six banks by two notches now let's see how the european equity markets are reacting to all these negative news and actually what we're seeing there is

pretty bright picture and again banking stocks are pushing the footsie and the dax higher the sour investors are pretty much positioning themselves for the day's main event which is the much anticipated speech of the fed reserve chairman ben bernanke he's addressing the congress traders really hope that he'll hand more stimulus funding to the world's largest economy the united states here in russia the markets are also gaining the lunch hour and that's despite the latest stats that show the country's industrial production remained unchanged in the month of june compared to the previous month now a bigger picture looks actually not as gloomy for the first half of the year industrial production grew three point one percent now on to the biggest movers and they include as you can see the financials including spare. thank you and the normals bank is actually also gaining after a some reports said it may actually marge with

a three tier bank deal between the two would create the country's second largest private bank behind alpha and energy stocks are also gaining ground despite weaker crude more manages the second asian stocks ended the day in the watch tokyo was all round a quarter percent and hang sang gave more than one in the house percent on to the currency markets the euro is gaining against the greenback the sour and the russian ruble is trading stronger to both the euro and the dollar now more on to prove pretty choppy trade for the oil today and what we're seeing in it is a it has rebounded over the past hour and if it manages to keep up this momentum it would be the fifth trading session oh gains are for for the for the past ten days now that's all wages from the business that ask i'll be back

in the less than an hour also you than but meanwhile check out our site that's r t dot com slash business current us so we look forward to those updates coming up. i'll be back with a reminder of our main stories in just a few minutes stay with our team.

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