don't comb. clashes rainfall in syria troops attempt to fight back and rebel held areas with a fresh battle now brewing over matters of religion as well. as the you want to observers have another thirty days to assess the situation on the ground after being given the blessing of the security council. and protesters demanding a right to rally and by firing are met with tear gas after the government bans political demonstrations. and welcome to our t.v. where we broadcast to you live from the heart of moscow twenty four hours

a day seven days a week while government forces in syria are launching all out counter attacks on the capital to reclaim districts held by rebels but the country is now facing a new religious front it's split over one just marking the islamic holy month of ramadan it's meant to be a time of peace and prayer in the muslim world but syrians have little hope one will help curtail violence as artie's acts on a boycott now reports from damascus. it's a call for prayer that at times sounds like a mother's wail and it all there is like a sinister cry in a horror movie themes of smoke are now competing with minarets on the damascus skyline and few expect things to get any better in the coming months. saturday is the first day of ramadan for many syrian muslims but not for all their thought which is that the rebels that seem to disagree on just about everything also differ on when the holy month is supposed to begin the start of ramadan is determined by

the side of the new moon which varies from country to country whether so in syria as well as in iran or amman. today the rebels do decided to start fasting a day earlier in line with political allies like saudi arabia and turkey mixing religion and politics is becoming increasingly common in this seventeen month long struggle. we have something like. if you have to fly we don't care about. die because when we die we will go through a law to heaven and the comforts of neighborhood of damascus the mosque still bears the scars of clashes between the rebels and the army local men tell us about atrocities committed by the troops and how their fate. and we hope become part against them even if.

we are with god and god. killing in the name of god is nothing new of course and in syrian foxholes there are indeed there are a few atheists and while the enemies are praying to the same god they also seem to agree on at least one other thing that the holy month is unlikely to bring any responded to violence the holy month of ramadan is a time for frantic shopping in time for sunset when muslims break their fast but here in what used to be an upscale residential area close to central damascus you can barely find a single shop open most of them have been ravaged or destroyed like this one those that stayed intact a closed and actually there's absolutely no short burst here in the only people that we've met so far i mean army troops twenty five year old is

a conscript who joined the army fresh out of university a year and a half ago while islam exams active duty soldiers from the dawn to dusk fasting he and the majority of other troops in his unit will do it anyway. it's summer it's hard but we're facing a great challenge as are these terrorists but god is on our side it gives us strength to go on for as long as it takes. yet he recognizes that with the advent of their efforts to stand what they call this threat of terrorism is likely to face more challenges not only mosques have been used by the militarized the position for recruitment large crowds heading to pray make it easier for the rebels to infiltrate new areas. the reason why it's so hard to capture all these terrorists is because we can easily disguise themselves and civilians. when we conduct our operations we have to let civilians our interests used to move around. while

ramadan calls for charity and compassion syrian men observing it routinely profess right in this to die for their cause but for the war to stop what they need is to be willing to live for it it's not a boycott artsy damascus syria meanwhile the un observers mission has been given another thirty days to monitor events in syria all members of the security council have voted in favor of extending their mandate which could be renewed if necessary artist has all the details from new york. brush ambassadors of the united nations vitaly churkin says he's a very pleased with the way the vote out friday with his security council unanimously approving a u.k. draft resolution that extends the u.n. supervision mission in syria for a final thirty days investor churkin said this is what russia was hoping for from the very beginning and the vote that took place on thursday of course put

a lot of consequences on the syrian government in association with extending the supervision mission which is why it was vetoed but investor churkin said he was pleased overall that this mission is going to be extended this vote happening just hours before the original mandate was set to expire however there is a bit of contradiction with the text of the resolution because it extends the mission for a final thirty days stressing the word final but then it also says that it can be extended if violence decreases in syria a russian ambassador vitaly churkin did address this issue when talking to the meeting out there were explaining to put some sort of pressure on the sides so if they do want to do is to continue then they used to go back to the level of violence well if they wanted to make that signal well i wouldn't want to wouldn't

want this particular thing to stand in the way of the option of this resolution even though i believe that it's really it's really going to dictate it and we do emphasize the continuation of course we also believe that as a resolution says that the level of oneness must be reduced on all sides and behold this is going to happen to russia and china both said that the u.k. drafted resolution that was vetoed on thursday and supported by other western countries was one sided it was only putting pressure on on the syrian government and not putting any pressure consequences on the armed opposition that are participating in the increasing violence. also what came out of the meeting was that u.s. ambassador to the united nations susan rice said that washington will continue and increase its work outside of the security council meaning that the u.s. will continue working with partners. what to do with syria because what they

want to do in terms of sanctions or any other approaches that would put more pressure on the syrian government is that was not allowed in the security council so it looks like there may be some unilateral moves and pressures that are going to be taken by washington and its western allies russian ambassador to the u.n. but the two again has given an interview to our team explaining why someone states were so eager to push for a resolution on syria you can see it here throughout the day or at our website r.t. dot com. but some news outlets speculating that the syrian president may be ready to step down the rebels are already making plans for a post assad future one of the opposition groups has announced it will launch an islamised faction maal the leader of the syrian muslim brotherhood has said his party is ready to step up to its role syrian activists meola hama says rebels will not bring peace through the conflict. even as not being a government supporter

a senate right now is representative of students some brandy so for us it to go right no need and basically theory no need an end to. a free country that is. only just going to be totally controlled by the us in just a hunch and it will need chaos inside the country for one thing and more depth and. delineation of serious way of life i think by now a majority of people have realized that these foreign backed insurgents you have not democracy. at heart they are extremely sick they're in extremely violent and of course they are not the syrian people these are so active as time blogger meola han talking to our team earlier. police in bahrain have used tear gas to disperse thousands of anti-government protesters at least fifty people

have died since the on raster began in february last year what the regime battling protest rallies are earlier this month my colleague bill dart spoke to side hardy all muscly a member of the opposition who believes the security forces are deliberately trying to kill protesters. who were trying to participate in and protestant can be and dangerous because the police forces they don't care of people on earth and they don't even care of holiday treat them they don't just prevent you or me do what they shoot on your butt the our soil why are you protesting what are you angry about what are the main issues. as you know the since fourth. of february two thousand and eleven the people in bahrain starts by the ules when they called for reforms and calling for

a real democracy in our country but after the fifteenth of march the government they started their crackdown and they killed people and they prevent people from taking their rights to protest or to have their freedom of expression lots of people being killed lots of people being injured and they jailed more than two thousand nine hundred twenty nine and we are calling for for example for elected government we are calling for an independent. judiciary so when i'm not calling for something understandable by the international global look we've seen the u.s. come out strongly against regimes in the arab world when they're paying large scale public demonstrations haven't heard much from washington over this and we haven't heard much from the international media about these protests in bahrain why is that in bahrain there is a very big issue you know serbia and he has so close to us and the relationship between us and saudi arabia is very strong and defends the fleet in our country as

well so the the complication here in our country can't be compared with the with the regime for example in syria which has no good relationship between the united states and the regime there coming up on our fun with guns or tasteless tourism. visitors to israel are being given the chance to take up arms and what's marketed as an anti terror attack but the venture has given plenty of ammunition to critics. and the aftermath of last year's fukushima disaster hits u.s. shores in the form of radioactive fetched. this story coming up in a few minutes here on our. strong minutes past the hour now and it looks like one of the world's most reclusive states north korea is taking a step in another direction its young leaders said to be set on

a path of reform to revive the country's economy and agriculture kim jong un has this week dismissed the north's long standing military chief for opposing change south korean media report that the son of general could have been injured or even killed when a gunfight broke out as a new commander attempted to detain him erickson wrote in from the national campaign to end the korean war says signs that the north is stepping away from military as them are encouraging but adds that the international community should change its attitude to. the military plays a huge economic role in north korea they they deal with harvesting of the crop state you know with working on roads they are a lot of the employment in north korea relates to militarism and military but it's a change of attitude that's necessary that's why we tried to take that message there when i was there about transcending hostility moving from a reaction to

a relationship this is a message we're going to washington this week it is we have to change our approach to this issue and perhaps what we're beginning to see is that the north koreans are beginning to understand that depth change is necessary in order to not only engage more with the rest of the world but to begin to move forward in europe all in the aspirations to be a strong independent country the one that has peace and peace in the region so we hope so that military shifting is contagious and there is always more for you to explore at our to call yourself ok what's there right now. legendary football coach fabio capello and animal scout after being confirmed as they no manager of brush up on him and how expectations from both fans and players. and russian punk rockers policy riot face a seven year jail term on charges of all again as i'm for their am probably the

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question on the t.v. dot com. thanks for joining our team here it is sixteen minutes past the hour and israel's holy sites such as the wailing wall the tomb of christ and the. have been a major draw for tourists for years now however a new attraction has come on the scene visitors can pay to try their hand at an israeli gun range but what's marketed as anti terror training has triggered concern around the country. or explains. a training ground where tourists visiting the land of the holy can learn to look after themselves on the world's increasingly mean streets where touring is their hour and this is part of a good experience and it's it's something they could only do in is their own and it's very. this shooting schools been around for years training security guards professionals soldiers and bodyguards now it's opened its doors with a two hour course for visitors we want to come today to the site to learn

a little bit about the anti terrorist. tactics that they were. villagers and shadowman inhabitants and learn so that they can protect themselves it's the brainchild of norman solomon a former real estate agent from los angeles his caliber three shooting school offers an alternative to the museums and beaches but listening and learning here could also save your life they say it was important for me to jewish people. the feeling that they have something safe in the. states they have and they have some of these deal with counterterrorism training the schools in a settlement just south of jerusalem a quarter of a million israelis live in the city and that with increasing frequency are seeing violent attacks between settlers and palestinians israelis over the last twenty or

thirty years have been discussing the seeping. from. occupied territories into the situation we have inside of israel when you look at israeli society these days and you look at the impact that such a long term occupation has had on our own society it is no coincidence that you have been beginning to see more and more of these attacks inside of israel as well as in the west bank the models of the gun toting operation are causing a stir in israel so it's possible. but from the other side people here and over in israel live in a place where everything is defense if we don't defend ourselves if we don't put up walls things happen bad things happen i disapprove i think the israeli government should educate the children. and educate children for peace and not to enable the children and teach

them to fight one another whatever the outcome this side show in a land of on rist appears to be drawing plenty of fingers to the trigger hundreds of tourists arrive in israel every day many of them deciding to give the settlements a shot this could be a fair ground if it wasn't surrounded by real life not only is there were growing awareness of violence but also a slightly disturbing acceptance of the very often brutal way of dealing with that policy r.t. television. coming up in the program time to learn from little brother. i don't know we work hard we study on the now we have more family that has the u.s. starts to lag behind economically and we ask people on the streets of new york why canadians are getting wealthier than americans. and brief look now at some other stories making headlines around the globe spain's civil servants have been keeping their week long series of protests. and changes to working conditions

public sector. well workers have been blocking roads in the capital earlier hundreds of thousands of people marched across spain to protest descended into clashes with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets madrid is trying to save the sixty five billion euros to secure a massive bailout for its banks which has now been given the green light by all euro zone states. a vigil has been held in the u.s. state of colorado as people mourn those killed at a screening of the new batman film twelve people died and eleven are in critical condition after a masked gunman threw gas canisters into a crowded cinema and opened fire the suspect has been identified as twenty four year old james holmes who had recently dropped out of a ph d. course study science police say he was armed with four firearms which he took wired legally flags across the u.s.

are being flown at half mast. three days after the suicide bombing of a bus carrying israeli tourists in bulgaria investigators are still struggling to identify the suspect security camera footage released after the attack showed a white man with long hair but i witnesses have now been quoted as saying that the suspect had dark skin and had short dark hair and looked like he was wearing a wig israel blames the attack that killed six on iran's ally hezbollah a claim reportedly backed by american intelligence fears are rising in the u.s. that the popular bluefin tuna call off the west coast contains radiation scientists say last year's nuclear disaster in japan is to blame but some claim these radioactive findings may only be the tip of the iceberg artie's muddy the question of our reports. this summer california and fisherman are ready to inspect or catch closer than average before the radiation creates fear and the reason for

such concern lies in the latest discovery by scientists that bluefin tuna caught off the california coast contain a ready to active isotopes brought over from the waters of japan it's led many to believe the scale of disaster was far greater than talking as authorities have ever admit it lost here is devastating earthquake and tsunami not only killed thousands but also knocked out the fukushima nuclear plant spilling uncontrolled amounts of freddie ation into the atmosphere so well and see the japanese government has been accused in the past of failing to provide full information about the incident and of downplaying the dangers the fact that the reactors were down which was known to go by the government literally within days of the incident taking place and was not actually reported in the media for months afterwards which is almost unthinkable the news that my greater the fish may now be bringing that radioactivity across the

pacific has sparked a media frenzy in the u.s. this is the first time such a large migrating fish has been shown to carry radioactivity so far this next item made a lot of u.s. consumers set up and take notice they've actually found low levels of radiation in seafood off the coast of california that raises a lot of alarm bells but there are fears that radiation in bluefin tuna is only the first sign of much worse disaster to come for the west coast radiation is ok if you're. going to have a. dark. day over radiation x. prudes believe the real scale of the nuclear disaster will not be known for. many decades as the radiation released during the meltdown is accumulating in the global environment. leaving the summary scientists will repeat their study and read the

fish but this time on a far way to seal then before and taking in a number of different species x. pretty this will provide a real test of just how much radiation has been flowing across from japanese waters to american shores i didn't wish to r.t. reporting from los angeles california. now if you have a younger brother i can feel awkward when they suddenly start doing better than you that's exactly what's happening now with america as canada has now overtaken it in terms of wealth and personal prosperity our resident in new york has been asking people there why. for the first time in a long time canadians are wealthier than americans this week let's talk about why because most. yet we keep racking it up here don't worry. so that the

secret canadians are watching and while it's a little bit better choice. to let the scottish rock show that it was from in the movie i love rain across the lake from canada because i we have lake erie there and we are falls last week and things look like they are thriving up there here not so much so what are they doing differently george w. bush. that's what happened we're still paying for eight years ago one hundred percent it was because of two thousand and eight when the market collapsed wouldn't bush took all the regulations out exacts what happened to us the usa has been the richest country in the world for years and says really it has changes i don't know why but. maybe lots of things may have been because of the you know like what what what do you think the biggest cause of. security does it concern you it also doesn't concern me no i think that there are good partners they're good neighbors but obviously we need to be doing something better what if the rest of the world

starts surpassing us like canada as i would like it that's what i'm saying we need to start learning what they're doing right and figure out why we aren't do you think we're going to bother doing math or do you think that the physic people in positions of power are just going to keep grabbing as much money as they can yeah it's not going to come from the people in power right what's the secret was i know we were at her do we study oh no no we have more family. and we love life than money comes after do you think money comes first for americans and that might be the problem maybe maybe that sounds reasonable you're not just giving houses to people that can't afford them no it. doesn't have the. you know it's part of the american dream of having your own house right but that there's that theory isn't there in canada so here that you're into your own house it doesn't really matter so i guess that without regard to push for the it could be american dream there's there's less pressure that compared with americans canadians have a higher average household income their houses are worth more and they have

a lower rate of unemployment so maybe it's time for americans to take notes on how canadians are running their democracy. charlie mack's cancer and stacey harbor discuss the latest market manipulation tactics after an update of the headlines stay with us.

oh. well with. more 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. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture.

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