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it is a pleasure to have you with us today. live in moscow syria's. capital damascus suburbs with battles between regime troops forces now taking place in broad daylight the opposition says it's some of the worst fighting since the crisis began a full scale assault on loyalists all across the country but as of now reports the real picture may not be quite 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 as 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 late the position has been claiming that army has been using all tars and shelling these areas and also that they've been using vehicles many roads within the 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 not all the time and when daylight we've been able to see smoke over the city. financial

reporting there were issues also updating the latest all the latest developments in the syrian capital do so via twitter the latest messages from say that there is occasional shooting ongoing in damascus with armed military men present on the streets but she doesn't feel like this is a major battle for the country's main city. one are solving 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 right here in moscow russia is accusing western nations of not working towards peace in syria and ultimately blackmailing moscow to take action against the syrian government these details now towards he's short on. 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 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 and on

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 with bashar al 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. reporting right now we do expect those talks between kofi annan to start very soon here in moscow we will be bringing you the latest life as well. now while syria dominates the headlines in

another middle east country unrest remains off the radio the protest movement reign is getting momentum despite a government down on all opposition rallies authorities in the gulf country are doing their best to dampen down opposition and one of the most prominent human rights activists out of a job he was a guest starring julia saunders program here at r c m i was jailed for views that he expressed on twitter a week ago that was followed by the expulsion of a us filmmaker one of the very few western journalists left in the country who was making a documentary about the rest we did manage to speak to. about just how desperate the situation in bahrain really. 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

bahrain there is violent repression of attempts to demonstrate and attempts to protest even more alarming much more increase of house raids at night 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 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. genda of trying to show what's happening and trying to really expose the reality on the

ground there is deemed wants to keep them out and keep them silent as much as possible and so good to have you with us here on our to today still ahead for you in this program about about fixing the leak of the fate of alleged wiki leaks in form of bradley manning hangs in the balance with pretrial hearings currently getting underway in the us. and in the business bulletin a fresh blow to the european banking sector as europe's a largest bank h.s.b.c. is accused of money laundering on behalf of criminals drug dealers and even terrorists join me for all the details about that. so resistance saluja the rights of. the roots of leukemia for example surgery to. breast cancers more than ten times told cancers fourteen times i will forget the exact details but the shoe numbers there's not nothing that you have ever found in

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one industry in the soviet union. not display. for the. us to work. one. pressure. will be. now at ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is r.t. pretrial 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 a terrorist and during nearly two years of solitary confinement he faces twenty two charges including that of aiding the enemy that does happen to carry the death sentence chris major who wrote the book called the passion of bradley manning says washington stands at the end of the day it's hypocritical. they want to make a big example of him i think it's an artificial crisis. 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 sentiment it's used to be a central part of the american political discourse 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 in a great personal sacrifice will tell the truth and get the word out and that's a very good thing. now don't forget we've got every story covered on our website dot com the top of someone standing by you there right now for example a chilean newspaper has come with a way to boost circulation pictures of dead world figures burying the living it's triggered rather amount of outrage in the process of the full story at r.t. dot com. and from a date with justin bieber for the daughter of the london kid's birthday we report on the most ridiculous demands of. living apart.

by we're not far off from the world update here for now though 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 is telling me how to behave and it's causing outrage immigrants say they're being portrayed as savages moving to the civilized world an approach which is being called racist but more on this auntie's test. 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. 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. 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 wouldn't it make news in belgium after ten pm this is around the world the starter skit is meant to provide basic information but it may be too basic for

the proponents of initiatives 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. 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 the 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 because i have no problem with that this is 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 boat a 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 in 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 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 or cilia r.t. brussels. and that's not economic crisis by its heart of belgium on the whole of europe next hour here on r.t. it's going to be max kaiser and states to her but both are looking at are some of

the more controversial ideas being put forward to tackle but that's. germany. make the rich by the german institute 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 haven't we seen this movie before yes called scapegoating we are now at war without any. equivocation whatsoever this is just one of the side about a policy issue it's not about an economic theory it's about world war three is on. the kaiser reporting about an hour and fifteen minutes from now in the u.s.

occupy protesters have descended on a quiet california redwood retreat that's where some of the world's elite almost 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 so we sent abby martin to play he me and grove to see what triggers those rumors and of course the inevitable growing protests for millionaires and billionaires the people that control the world control the central banks the 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 they're there they're talking policy for 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 ciders. 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 eight and then afterwards we had the reagan revolution we know you're very well known and 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 are 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 the n.b.c. m s n b c. fox 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 that the occupiers are asking about the bohemian grove which they say belongs to everyone and not just the one percent. at the gates the bohemian grove line of right police made sure that everyone didn't gain access to the layer of the one percent. r.t. what they do you know california. are in just about will be joining in a tussle with the business for now the state of pakistan the start of the arts the world updated so where two thousand people are marching in the northwest protesting against the reopening of nato supply routes into afghanistan demonstrations began on monday with hundreds of pakistanis rallying in the city of peshawar as i'm about to close the supply routes for seven months after twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by american helicopter gunships. in turkey a huge gulf to the forty two story skyscraper paula made up of residential

apartments and offices hundreds of people were evacuated nobody was hurt and now it is believed the blaze is painted the cause of the fire yet to be determined but a technical fault is suspected. a russian soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station now just two days after blasting off from the baikonur cosmodrome russian. nasa astronaut sunita williams and japan's aki. i will enter the i assess once the module is safely single of the crew they'll spend about four months in orbit. but you know. why there we go as promised a dozen times or something by the business just good to see you today to understand the latest accusations at h.s.b.c. i'm not knowing too much about this can you can you bring me up to date please sure well basically the story is that the london trade bank is accused of helping

criminals terrorists and even mexican drug dealers to launder their money the u.s. financial watchdog issued a three hundred plus page report on monday detailing the lack of control at europe's largest bank the bulk of the allegations are related to the bank's u.s. subsidiary based in new york has bases management has acknowledged the lops is in compliance and promise to fix that and more trouble for your bank's movies you watch the credit rating of thirteen italian banks just days after cut the italian government bond rating the ratings agency says the financial problems in greece and spain have loose of the default risk for italy moody's has dropped seven banks by one notch and six banks by two notches and now moving on to the equity markets let's see how the european equities are reacting to all the negative news

coming out from europe and hope we're seeing the footsie has actually slipped in to read over the past hour after spending the first time for the trading session in the black mainly thanks to anna g. and banking stocks the dax is still managing to hold onto its gains and of course it's worth mentioning that h. as d.c. shares are losing value in london but they weren't gaining earlier in the day and dusters are positioning themselves for the day's name event of the much anticipated speech by the fed reserve chairman ben bernanke use addressing congress later in the day traders hope they'll tend to that more stimuli are coming to the. the world's biggest economy the united states here in russia the markets a remain on the days by all that judge alito trade over and europe as you can see the r.t.s. at the moment is gaining more than one of the four percent of the mindsets it is not far behind 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 and joe the overall picture though looks quite white if you look at the first half of the year industrial production grew three point one percent so that's not bad and moving on to the biggest movers on the my six they include the financials namely spare back to gaming this hour in the energy sector gazprom is also putting on more than one percent and no morals at the bank has slipped in through red over the past hour and some reports say so the merger talks with a greek c. and bank the deal between the two would create the country's second largest private lender are now moving on to the currency markets let's see those and as you can see the euro is gaining ever so slightly against the u.s. dollar and the russian bull is trading higher to go the euro and the dollar and

last but not least crude it's been pretty choppy for crude as well it's trading higher at this hour house recovered over the past couple of hours but have been dipping down below one hundred four dollars a barrel for brands but if it keeps the positive momentum i could mark the ratings track of gains more in crude banks and other traders could have manipulated oil prices in the same way that they rigged interest rates at g twenty report found that banks and other trade in the trade as i said have rigged the interest rates the u.k. social to. the cabinet to expand their inquiry into the library fixing scandal to see if while prices have also been pushed up meanwhile oil prices agencies like placer denying the allegations they're saying there's absolutely no similarities between a live war and oil so we'll bring you all the latest as soon as we have any more

information on how the story develops and of course the update is coming your way in about fifteen minutes time see about an hour natasha many thanks we will see you that. power in just a moment here and also your be back with the headlines and then it's getting ugly we're diving headfirst into british politics so i have to see you shortly.

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