syria is the most holy month of ramadan and violence as government forces and rebel fighters for every corner of the country. spain is gearing up for yet more angry. protests just days after a nationwide marches descended into clashes that left dozens injured. trigger happy tourism a new attraction for visitors to israel as fears of promoting a negative perception of the country. seven o'clock on saturday evening here in moscow this is the life with me rule received fierce fighting between the syrian military and the rebels continues to

rage for the second day now it's happening in syria's northern economic hub of aleppo and the violence shows no sign of declining a day after the u.n. security council unanimously voted to extend its observer mission to the country for a final thirty day period. break out in damascus meantime after rebel forces had been mostly driven out of the capital by assad's army on friday reports suggest the last few days of fighting have been the bloodiest since the conflict began. to reports the holy spirit of ramadan will in no way reconcile the enemy's. it's a call for prayer that at times sounds like a mother's wail and it all there's like a sinister cry in a horror movie. of smoke now competing with men there it's 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 film which is that the

rebels that seem to disagree on just about everything also differ on 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 to the weather so in syria as well as in iran or amman it fell on saturday 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 the seventeen month long struggle. we have something like. if we have to fry we don't care about. die because when we die we will go through a law to heaven. and that comforts the sash 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 faith. and. become part against them even in ramadan you know. we. are with god and god with. healing in the name of god is nothing new of course and in syrian folks calls there are indeed very 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 a response. to violence the holy month of ramadan is it time for frantic shopping in time for sunset when muslims break their fast but here in what used to be and not for caylee residential area close to central damascus you can barely find i think shop open most of them have been ravaged or destroyed like this one those

that stayed intact a close them 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 well 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 heart and we're freezing and preach challenge from these terrorists. on our side it gives us strength for as long as it takes to get here recognizes that with the advent of their efforts to stand what they call this threat of terrorism is likely to phase 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 that is the reason why it's so hard to capture all these

terrorists is because they can easily disguise some sounds as civilians when we conduct our operations we have to let civilians terrorists used to move around while ramadan calls for charity and compassion syrian man 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. and for the meantime washington says it's seeking to put even more pressure on damascus while providing additional support to the rebels political analyst ivan eland thinks the u.s. is trying to bring down our side by any indirect means all the while the syrian president is prepared to go down fighting. the united states would like russia to put pressure on assad to leave peacefully but i think it's very obvious that side probably won't do that and i think that he's seen what happened in other

countries when the president stepped down like mubarak you know that sort of thing and so i think he has no incentive to give up and to try to leave the country his back is to the wall and he's probably going to fight it out we don't know exactly what the united states is doing and often times when the united states says it's giving non-lethal i these items are combat multipliers communications etc so they don't kill people directly but the indirect effect is to make their opposition more effective there are other arabic countries in turkey i think are helping out this side opponents and therefore the u.s. hands are clean but i think definitely there's probably some covert stuff going on the united states says no the government says no but most assuredly if we go by past history there probably is something going on there. that we did speak exclusively with the russians and voice of the u.n. that vitaly churkin so explain moscow's position on the syrian conflict and you can

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live from moscow this is r.t. and spain is bracing itself for more protests as anti austerity demonstrations continue to gain strength in the capital rallies have been taking place all over spain for much more than a week now after prime minister hoyer announced a sixty five billion euros in harsh financial measures on top of earlier cut backs of the cuts are being implemented in return for a massive bailout for the battered spanish banking system on thursday over one million outraged citizens marched all across the country and the protests turned violent with police firing tear gas and rubber bullets and carlos tech loss a sociologist at the fabric university believes the situation in spain is only going to get worse. what we're seeing is a massive transfer of public private debt into public debt and that's that's where it really begins to harm the actual citizens of spain it's this sort of this these

plans. are not even being done on a large enough scale to really have any effect any positive effect for people in spain when you take their food you take all that they have homes and they respond quite this really what we saw in madrid for instance wasn't you know violent in our kissin a group that decided to burn a bunch of dumpsters what we saw were police charging against other police protesting police we saw them charging against firemen and women we saw them charging against public sector workers and chasing them through the streets of madrid and you know neighborhood neighborhoods in madrid the actual people that lived there were actually throwing flower pots from the balconies at the police now that's a qualitative change from what we've seen over the last year and spain certainly you see people living in a.t.m. and a.t.m. buildings right in little a.t.m. services and you see them living out in the streets looking in the in the trash you know for food i mean these are people that two years ago were working ok and they

were working and maintaining families and now they're very livelihoods are threatened and of course tensions are going to boil over. well still to come in the program here on oxy in the line of fire. it is no coincidence that you are beginning to see more and more of these attacks inside of these route as well as in the west bank find out why and you tourist attraction has triggered controversy in israel. about ten minutes past the hour in moscow thousands of anti regime protesters clashed with riot police in the capital of bahrain on friday the demonstrations against the ruling royal family began last february and have led to over fifty deaths scores of arrests as well the government has been attempting to suppress the opposition. program from protesting band the assessment colin campbell former lecturer at the university of akron believes it's in america's interest to empower the oppressive regime. the people have been pushing for democracy

many years now so rule sovereignty in the country and the khalifa or the drive on the progress these are credit ruling families ruling family now for two hundred twenty nine years lives in luxury they live lives that are so totally devoid from any type of reality from any type of connection with the average citizen whenever the people riled up and protests that they have in the past year and a half they go after them they kill them they torture them they beat them because they broke no allowance for freedom of speech freedom of association freedom of belief the people who are determined they will continue to protest because the regime is so embattled and so in feeble and we can scared they have decided to ban all protests and the bill regime is in prison jake mahfood head of the amal little

society is in prison so the regime has been trying to shut down the pro-democracy protests there is a mass dragged only an enterprise under way in bahrain against the people of bahrain and that is what the world is filing about primarily because of the u.s. that there and the fleet is a pivot point allows the u.s. maintain had amount of control not only over the persian go but over the entire middle east so the united states does not want to lose that basing rights. this is artillery it's now one of the most secretive nations on earth where many would say nothing has changed for decades and life is lived in a communist time warp but while the when. as of change on exactly blowing full strength in north korea a new era could be on the horizon this week the country's military chief was suddenly sucked and now reports are emerging that major economic and cultural

reforms are pending independent journalist niall bowie believes pyongyang should be encouraged but not pressured to open up to south korea. six years of sanctions on north korea as my world and i think things like the chinese opening up special economic zones in the north of that country because to buy loans that are supposedly going to go into the free phone call we have the rose on the special economic zone in the northern part of the country and we have a case on special industrial complex the industrial complex which is south korea home and the north korean space to produce the products and there are also i think all these things are a step in the right direction but it's almost a us and we are ok. illegally firing doing these military drills into north korea certainly waters it's against international law you're going to get the loser is from north korea the convention community at this point really needs to emphasize in g. eight courage direct talks between the north and the south and that is really what we did this happen and until that happens there is no prospect for peace peaceful

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to the floor 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. it is good to have you with us here on artsy today conflict weary israel remains a popular hot spot for tourists despite long running security risks but it was it is can now take a self defense course firing rifles but a brand new attraction now the marketing move is raising moral concerns in the country and. explains.

explaining the way 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 the experience and it's something they could only do in israel and it's very easy this shooting school's 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 today. to learn a little bit about the anti terrorist. tactics that they learned the 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. a state 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 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 of norms from the 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 this gun toting operation a causing a stir in israel it's possible. but from the other side people here 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 that israeli government should educate the children he and educate children for peace and not. enable the children and teach them to fight one another whatever the outcome this side show in the land of unrest appears to be drawing fingers to the trigger hundreds of tourists arrive in israel every day many of them deciding to give the statements the shot this could be a fear 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. right now turning twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow authorities in southern russia have now opened

a criminal investigation into an attack on a military convoy that killed two and wounded at least three the incident occurred in the republic of earlier on saturday several gunmen opened fire when a vehicle carrying servicemen was passing through a wooded area in the district police are searching for the perpetrators though we're working hard to reduce terror attacks in the region and the number of incidents having dropped by half since two thousand and ten just two days ago security services defeat used a bomb of about ten kilograms of t.n.t. . suicide bombing in northwest pakistan start of the r t was at least nine people killed sixteen injured the blaster went off at a guest entrance of a military compound used by a local militia it does belong to a militant commander who had split from the islamist taliban group at this point nobody has claimed responsibility for this attack. south sudan has pulled out of

peace talks with sudan after a bombing that left two civilians injured on friday has denied carrying out any type of strike the two countries have been in dispute over border lines since south sudan declared independence last july taking roughly seventy five percent of sudan's oil production. japan's government has urged an investigation into radiation safety neglected at the crippled fukushima nuclear plant workers were allegedly forced to cover their radioactivity meters with lead plates blocking the reading of radiation levels allowing employees to continue working in unsafe conditions the nuclear meltdown of the stricken plant owned by the tokyo electric power company was caused by the devastating earthquake and accompanying tsunami that happened in march of last year. all right are staying with out of japan or the consequences of last year's nuclear leak are now reaching california shores

restaurant owners on the west coast pondering taking off their menu over fears of contamination this report who artie's medina caution of. this summer california and fisherman are ready to inspect or catch closer than average before the word 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 as have ever admit it last year's 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 in the ocean. currents yeah baby. boy.

oh ok. radiation x. prudes believe the real scale of the nuclear disaster will not. it's been known for many decades as the radiation released during the meltdown is accumulating in the global environment. later this summer scientists will be easier to study and might reduce it but this time on a farm we need to seal them before even taking in a number of different species x. pretty this would provide a real test of just how much radiation has been flowing across from japanese waters to american shores i do not wish to archie reporting from los angeles california. well if you have a younger sibling it can possibly feel awkward if they suddenly start to outperform you that's exactly what's happening with the united states as canada has overtaken it in terms of wealth and personal prosperity so we turn to more half and as to the new york resident to find out on the streets of the big apple what went wrong.

for the first time in a long time canadians are wealthier than americans this week let's talk about why because most of. you know we keep wrapping it up here don't worry. though that the group canadians are watching their wallets a little bit better choice. well the scottish because they don't want them in the moon i love rain across the lake from canada because i we have lake erie there and we deny your falls last week and things look like they're 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 exactly what happened to us the usa has been the richest country in the world for years and suddenly it has changes i don't know why

but. maybe lots of things may have been the cause of the leg what do you think the biggest. security does it concern you it also doesn't concern me no i think that they're 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 pacific 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 the secret was i know we were at her do we study oh now we have more family. who will love life and 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 same you know it's part of the american dream is having your own house right but there's that theory isn't there in canada so here you rent your own house it doesn't really matter so you're stuck with the it with a push for the it could be american dream there's this much push 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 they. are back in just a couple of minutes with a recap of our top stories. one

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