russian airlines. explosions and fighting in the syrian capital as rebels announce a full scale offensive against a mask. another diplomatic attempt to end the ongoing crisis. patronize ing and insulting muslim immigrants in belgium describe a new kid they say is nothing more than a guide for savages arriving in the civilized world. plus the summer camp for the world's elite and it's where protesters say the so-called one percent gathers to strike deals and make international policy decisions all the while saying they're on holiday.

it is a pleasure to have you with us here on out today. and life in moscow the u.n. the arab league peace envoy to syria continues on his diplomatic road to kofi annan he's due to meet president putin here in moscow deep international divisions on how to curb the crisis in syria thomas now joins us live with a preview here sean good to see you today it is a kofi annan second visit to moscow since he became a mediator in the syrian crisis i talked to us about the timing if you would. rory it certainly is a very tricky agenda for kofi annan right now is the situation in syria is it degrading as time of progress is forward in fact let's just take the situation just at the beginning of this month where syrian rebels met with sergey lavrov here in moscow and at that time they said they were not willing to deal with president

bashar al assad since then they have launched what they are calling operation the damascus of volcano and earthquakes of syria the stated goal of that operation is to bring. syria and i'm quoting here bring that syria into a state of complete and total civil disobedience now of course this puts kofi annan in a very difficult situation he is charged with finding a peaceful solution to the conflict there on the ground in syria now in doing this he must meet with all sides that means the west china russia and of course the opposition and of president bashar al assad so far this situation has been an international disappointment because no side in the conflict is using their leverage to resolve the conflict peacefully showing you know what you think at all we're likely to see a diplomatic agreement on how to cope the crisis any time soon there are many in the world who say that kofi annan is nothing but a marionette and any potential here. well it's very interesting roy because if

you look at all of the sides involved specifically the west is criticizing russia and china russia and china are criticizing the west let's go a little bit into what's being said here they're focusing on their differences rather than on common solutions to resolving the problem russia says that the west is not living up to the geneva agreement that was agreed on just a short time ago and in fact they're using this as an opportunity to impose sanctions and possibly even military intervention of a foreign kind this is something that russia does not absolutely does not want in fact they are pointing to libya as a source that's why this is something that should not happen in syria saying that in libya things are still just as messy they are now as they were before the revolution and now level of said the west is trying to blackmail russia to swing over to their side also lavrov says that hillary clinton's threats to russia on their position on syria are overstepping the mark and are beyond the scope of decency and just plain bad diplomacy now if you look at the west and their

push for regime change in syria russia says that this is really unrealistic for a couple reasons because the bush are all assad. enjoys the support of a significant portion of the people however russia does say that bashar al assad is not in power because of russia's support of the regime rather because of that support of people and in fact russia has stated repeatedly that they do not support the assad regime rather they are not taking sides they support more of an open dialogue of all parties involved russia also would like for kofi annan to engage more with the opposition and to try and change their mind so that there can be more open talks between the assad government who's already appointed a representative for talks so basically we're what we're looking for today russia here those talks underway right now as we speak and we're looking to see if there's any movement from any of the sides in this conflict resolution all right he's live

in central moscow thank you. well meantime a syrian opposition fighters have taken their battle right to the neighborhoods of damascus with reports that the city has witnessed explosions and intense daylight shootouts. she's in the capital she says the real picture though despite all the media reports may not be quite as dramatic as you are being told. clashes between the army and rebels never stop 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 live in the country's north where the army has seen the success late the opposition has been claiming the army has been using more towers and shelling these areas and also that they've been using armored 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. she is keeping all of us up to date on the latest developments in the conflict zone during soviet twitter you can always get the latest updates their comments and images and one of the latest tweets she says the headquarters of the governing party has apparently been targeted gunfire is also being reported in the area. well i won't be the syrian crisis that does continue to

feel the headlines are there is a massive effort to keep unrest in another country off the radar range of thora he said doing their best to silence the popular protests searching hospitals folks wounded activists cracking down on foreign journalists trying to cover the uprising . this is our belgian region has issued a controversial starter kit for moroccan immigrants it's a move that some claim is yet another nail in europe's multicultural coffin and those arriving from north africa feel insulted saying the document triggers islamophobia and social stereotypes this investigation. 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 were 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 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 common courtesy around the world the starter's kid is meant to provide basic information but it may be too basic for the proponents of the initiative 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 a 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 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 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 are cilia r.t. brussels and while the euro kratz and neighboring brussels are desperate to fight

the debt crisis one leading german think tank suggests people should sacrifice their savings max keiser and stacy herbert are here at fifteen thirty g.m.t. to expose all the darkest secrets of the financial world. condiment make the rich by bonds 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 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.

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live from moscow this is art in bahrain antigovernment protests again in momentum defying an official ban on all opposition rallies demonstrators. brutally suppressing tempting to obscure the scale of the uprising local doctors police monitoring hospital admissions and arresting those who come to have rubber bullet wounds treated crackdown even spreads to foreign journalists attempting to cover the protests u.s. filmmaker john malo was recently expelled for shooting a documentary about the unrest she told us how ruthless the suppression 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. all over bob brain 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 practice of targeting activists and demonstrators unfortunately 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 proper a new 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. while there's a lot more of that story and many others as well available to dot com also one h.s.b.c. europe's biggest bank is suspected of money laundering for terrorist groups in syria and saudi arabia all those details in the latest scandal about see. from a date with justin bieber for his daughter to renting the london kid's birthday reporter the most ridiculous of the bunch of russian oligarchs living abroad.

live from moscow this is r.t. now a 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 who wrote the book the passion of bradley manning says washington stance 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 as 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. i straight to turkey now to kick off the r.t. world update for you are dramatic pictures that have a look at these right now it's after a fire broke out in a skyscraper in turkey hundreds of people had to be evacuated from the forty two story tower in istanbul which is a mostly made up of apartments and offices crews managed to extinguish the blaze but they think that a technical fault could be behind the blaze. a russian soyuz spacecraft has successfully doctor the international space station with three crew on board it launched from the baikonur cosmodrome in southern kazakhstan that was two days ago a veteran russian cosmonaut yuri malenchenko is joined by an astronaut from japan and one from nasa another team will be an orbiter in november.

but occupy protesters have gathered in rural california outside a holiday camp where they say the world's wealthiest lead hold high powered talks although it's a vacation spot and the activists claim this is where influential figures make important policy decisions all away from the eyes of the public. martin delves into the secret world of the one percent of millionaires 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 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 grove 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 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 there's there's a propaganda arm for the one percent the corporate media is the one percent. i mean if you look at it that way. 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. r.t. montevideo california. we go there's a study by the author of business just go looks like b.b.c. news finance years of being caught red handed rather intriguing created to tell us all you know persons now super cost of course now it's admitted using schemes to minimize taxation now almost a third of the companies present is why employ three personal service companies that are allow smaller contributions others do help the b.b.c. to sidestep millions of pounds enough since it's really falling about one more if you so now it's really another flood of racing agencies moody's how slashed the

credit rating of thirteen banks just days after cutting the italian government bond rating agency says that all the problems in greece and spain have boosted the default risk for moody's housetops seven banks by one notch and another six by two not just now talking about your largest bank h.s.b.c. is accused of helping criminals terrorists and even mexican drug dealers to move into them money and the u.s. fund to watch dog three hundred page report on monday these have been the lack of control at the bank the bulk of the allegations of late is the bank's u.s. subsidiary based in new york hey just b.c.'s management has acknowledged lapses in . compliance promises to fix all right moving i would check out those european markets and investors there awaiting the much anticipated testimony from the us federal reserve chairman ben i q later on in the day today they will host the bill

heads of economics to mr right now with little mix if we check out the common currency then as we can see the markets are resisting themselves to further action by these ten to brings us to the very work remains strong against the balls of currencies and staying with russia the gains continue to alter of course or believe that the ends are still production going three point one percent for the first half of the year the salt is which i was still getting i would see two point eight percent down by default and go spread by gun even though that's the biggest financial hey i have a one percent and gas from the sun imposed to have territory whereas i would gather mixed mixed color spectrum for us oil is getting us you can see that trading near the highest level in several weeks in new york i must have made speculation that u.s. stockpiles will decline and tensions with overall well i still like now got more on oil banks than all the traders could have manipulated oil prices in the same way

they rigged interest rates on the u.k.'s officials what the cabinet took stabs their inquiry into the live affixes council to see if oil prices have also been pushed. price agencies like platts that's annoying the allegations saying there is no similarity between lie and boy oh boy i'll be back fifty minutes of more. ok other headlines here in just a moment and then a rather interesting up close interview with a controversial british ultimately exposes the hidden side of u.k.'s domestic and foreign policy.

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