cisco. fighting in syria's capital special envoy kofi annan travels right here to moscow seeking support from president putin to end the bloodshed. we. live in which is what does that mean it means broken sleep in trees integration insult immigrants in belgium feel about a new star kid they say is nothing more than a guide for coming to live in the civilized world. a getaway 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. a

very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the moscow. syria's conflict is now closed in on the capital damascus suburbs with battles between regime troops and rebel forces now taking place in broad daylight the opposition says that some of the worst fighting since the crisis began and threatened a full scale assault on loyalist units all across the country but as financial reports now from damascus 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 this 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 success late the u.s. position has been claiming the army has been using all tars and shelling these areas and also that they 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 the shooting 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.

from national reporting but what i see is also we're posting the latest updates about developments in syria. for you to have a look at some of these messages you can see right here she says that there is a haitian or shooting in damascus with the military men present on the streets but she does say she doesn't feel like this is a major battle yet for the country's main. solving the syrian crisis of a deep divisions between foreign powers will be the focus of today's meeting between international peace envoy kofi annan and president putin that's happening right here in moscow russia accusing western nations of not working towards peace in syria and ultimately trying to blackmail moscow to take action against the syrian government we do toes on the. top. 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 and forcing regime change is something that that russia says is unrealistic in syria because bashar assad has the support of the syrian you know russia supports kofi anon set up 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. reporting that we do expect those talks between kofi annan putting. start very soon indeed here in the russian capital we are standing by to give you the latest updates. and i while syria continues to dominate the headlines in yet another middle east country and the rest remains off

the radar the protest moved in gaining momentum despite a government. opposition rallies authorities in the gulf country are doing their best to dampen down opposition but one of the most prominent human rights activists bill is a job he was a guest on julian program here on our t.v. he was jailed you see expressed on twitter a week ago this was followed by the expulsion of a u.s. filmmaker one of the very few western journalists left in the country who was making a documentary about the rest but we did manage to speak to you 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 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 is 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

wants to keep them out and keep them silent as much as possible. you're watching on t.v. it's a good to have you with us today still for you in this program fixing a leak the fate of alleged wiki leaks informer bradley manning it hangs in the balance pretrial hearings currently getting under way in the future. and in the business bulletin a fresh blow to the european banking sector is 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 in about fifteen minutes. soon which brightened a few. songs from songs to transition. from

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the official. video. of your. three in the afternoon here in moscow this is artsy 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 during nearly two years of solitary confinement he faces twenty two

charges including aiding the enemy that carries a death sentence case maida who wrote the book the passion of bradley manning says washington stands side best is 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 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 in a great personal sacrifice will tell the truth and get the word out and that's a very good thing. and i don't forget and we've got to every story covered on our web site on. stunning wife there right now a chilean paper has come up with a way to boost circulation have a look right here they do so by showing pictures of dead world figures bearing the living triggering a bit of an outrage in the process of our full story at r.t. dot com. and from a date with justin bieber for their daughter so the london eye for a kid's birthday we report on the most ridiculous demands of russian.

we are not for off from the world update here on r.t. for now though for decades a belgium has offered a safe haven to immigrants mainly from muslim countries but now a new so-called starter kit in the northern region of flanders is telling moroccans how to behave it's a what's causing a bit of an outrage immigrants say they're being portrayed as savages moving to the civilized world an approach which is being called racist. 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. and 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 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 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 organized 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 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 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 the 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 heart 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 r.t. brussels. and i asked the economic crisis by its heart in belgium on the whole of europe later this hour here on r t is going to max keiser stacy herbert taking a look at are certainly some of the more controversial ideas being put forward to tackle the debts. german economy make the rich by 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 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 war world war three is on. this is all in the u.s. occupy protesters have descended on a quiet california redwood retreat where some of the world's elite gather just about every single year demonstrators say the two weeks officially portrayed as

a time of rest and relaxation it's really a chance to discuss plans for the world's future so we sent i'll be maad into opinion grove to see what triggers those rumors and 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 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 coral 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 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 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 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 right. 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 a.t.o. california. tara just a moment on the tasher with the business first out of pakistan to start off the r.t. world cup made its way up to eight thousand people are marching in the northwest of the country protesting against the reopening of nato supply routes in afghanistan demonstrations began on monday hundreds of pakistanis rallying in the city of peshawar islamabad close the supply routes for seven months after twenty four pakistani soldiers were killed by american helicopter gunships. in turkey a huge fire engulfed the forty two story skyscraper pull out tower that's made up of presidential apartments and offices hundreds of people were evacuated no one was hurt another blaze is believed to have been contained the cause of the fire is yet

to be determined but a technical fault is suspected. a russian soyuz spacecraft has successfully docked with the international space station just two days after blasting off from the baikonur cosmodrome russian. nasa's astronauts sunita williams and japan's shiva i will enter the i assess once the more jewel is safe to see or they'll be spending about four months in orbit. as promised the loving it good to see you again though a fresh blow to investors confidence in europe or what's what's the score on that wall that this time it's italy a country that we suspected was of trouble but it might now join the ranks of spain and greece ratings agency moody's has slashed the credit ratings of thirteen italian banks just days after the cut to the italian government board reading the agency says all the problems in greece and spain have boosted the default risk for

italy moody's has dropped seven banks by one notch and six other banks by two notches and more trouble for the euro zone banks europe's largest lender h.s.b.c. 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 the bank the bulk of the allegations are related to the banks a us subsidiary based in new york h.s.b.c. as management has acknowledged lapses of compliance and a promise to fix them and let's now check out the equity markets to see how european equities are reacting to all those in negative news and actually what we're seeing there is that the book see in london has slipped into the negative territory over the past couple of hours but the dax is managing to stay above the line and that's who mainly thanks to energy and banking stocks that are doing

quite well it's worth mentioning that h.s.b.c. these shares are losing value in london but they were and the positive territory for most of the morning trade investors are positioning themselves for the day's main event the much anticipated speech of the fed reserve chairman ben bernanke he'll be addressing congress later in the day traders hope he'll hint that more stimuli are on the way for the world's largest economy now moving on to what's going on here in russia the markets remain on phase to buy older trouble and europe has to gains for the r.t.s. this hour as you can see that's despite the latest stats that show that the country's industrial production remains unchanged in june compared to the previous month but a bigger picture looks much brighter for the first half of the year industrial production group report one percent now some of the biggest movers on the my six they include the financials is very bank as you can see is gaining now also gazprom

is doing quite well and actually forbes named gazprom the second a largest oil producer worldwide and in the almost bank is actually shedding value some reports say it's emerged. talks with three tier bank if a deal between the two actually happens it would create the country's second largest private land trust now moving on to the currency markets what we're seeing there is that euro at the moment is gaining against the greenback and the russian ruble is trading stronger to both the euro and the dollar now onto crude that it was a pretty choppy day for crude but at the moment it's managing to stay above the line it's rebounding brant is topping one hundred four dollars a barrel if it keeps this positive momentum toward the end of the trading session it could mark a session of gains and more crude banks and reserves but have manipulated oil

prices in the same way they interest rates that's according to a g. twenty report the u.k. officials want the cabinet to expand their inquiry into the war fixing scandal to see if oil prices have also been pushed up meanwhile all price agencies including plots are denying the allegations they're saying there's no similarity between a lie bore and well and that's all latest from the business desk this hour will be back with an update in about fifteen minutes but you can always catch us on our to dot com slash business a lot more stories there for you are very many thanks indeed see for not. just a moment of the headlines we're going to stay with us for the gist of the headlines it's the kaiser report.

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