syria enters the muslim holy month of ramadan violent government forces and rebel fighters battle on every corner of the war torn country. spain is gearing up for more angry protests just days after nationwide marches descended into clashes that left dozens injured. trigger happy tourism a new attraction for visitors to israel sparks fears of promoting a negative perception of the country. live from our new center here in the russian capital this is r.t. with the twenty four hours a day fierce fighting between the syrian military and rebels continues to rage for

the second day in syria's northern economic aleppo 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 clashes are continuing to break out in damascus after rebel forces have been mostly driven out of the syrian capital by assad's army on friday reports suggest the last few days of fighting have been the bloodiest since the conflict began on a voyage to report 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 at others like a sinister cry in a horror movie plumes 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 fear 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 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 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 an upscale 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 and actually there's absolutely no short burst here in the only people that we've met so far on the 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 exam 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 are freezing creek challenge from these terrorists is on our side it gives us strength for as long as it takes over yet he recognizes that with the advent of from a done 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 prey make it easier for the rebels to infiltrate new areas. the reason why it's so hard to capture all these

terrorists is because they can easily disguised themselves as civilians when we conduct our operations we have to let civilians and terrorists choose 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. 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 the any indirect means 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 assad probably won't do that and i think that he's seen what happened in other countries when the

president stepped down 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 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 in 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. well i spoke exclusively with russia's envoy to the un vitaly churkin who explained moscow's position on these syrian conflict and you can watch the full interview here on r.t.

later today or you can also find it on our website and here's a quick taste of what else is waiting for you dot com at the moment chilling personal accounts of the survivors of the denver cinema shooting which left twelve people dead and dozens injured. coach fabio capello is in moscow to sign the contract to become the new manager of the national football team more about the terms of the deal on our website. and the t.v. channel managed by women wearing full face veils has been launched in egypt explained it's called. dot com. spain is bracing itself for more protests demonstrations gain strength in the capital rallies have been taking place across the country for over

a week now after prime minister of oil announced an additional sixty five billion euros in cutbacks the cuts are being implemented in return for a massive bailout for the battered spanish banking system on thursday over a million outraged citizens marched across the country to protest later turned violent police firing tear gas and rubber bullets before more let's not talk live with gail she's a labor market specialist at business school in madrid people are once again on the streets there calling the recently approved cutbacks robbery but does a government really have any other options. really. you know if they did not have their commitments to europe and if they were not in the euro specially you probably see different policies here. stimulus trying to get this economy but they really have no choice this time the unemployment level in spain as possible twenty four percent in is the highest in europe you're a labor market specialist what can be done about about it considering this dreadful

current economic state there. well it's probably going to go nowhere man up right now has done a labor market reform and it was a very grave reform it was passed in the beginning of this year and it's something they put in after forty years so they've done it but it's going to take a little bit of time for it to take effect because what they've essentially what they've done is reduce the cost of firing workers so at the present time companies are laying off workers so until we get some economic growth here it's only going to go up and start to come by the end twenty five percent how do you get economic growth you talked earlier about fiscal stimulus and many are talking about growth rather austerity but how do you get growth when the country's in debt. well you know you can only get growth from your consumers growing your economy your government grow your economy your investors are three of those in spain have stepped up. all of those elements of the economy extremely so the only place you

can get any growth right now is. export. growth and you do see the economies working very very hard on growing the export surplus in certain sectors so you know there's there's some change going on but that's not going to be enough to give the economy growth here and thing of shrinking you talk about consumers can actually grow an economy why doesn't the government then give the people the money and not the banks therefore if they gave the people the money that will increase tax revenues wouldn't it increase employment that's right and why do we do this over and over you know of the bank bailout. i think we have two things go and you're in the middle of a crisis and you're terrified that you're going to have another lehman moment or something like that and at the same time sitting in special does it holds all of our liquidity so if it goes down it takes our money with it so that you're right we do this over a number don't we the banks rather than bail out people. and that is happening

and that's why people are so angry about it how long can all this last politically obviously require under a lot of pressure there we see other european countries now under a lot of political and civil pressure just how long can all this go on. well i think you know if you look at the spaniards they're very peaceful. people a year ago two years ago were saying how one can spin put up with this and i think the answer is. they understand. it is indeed too much basically private debt and they have to get out of it they understand it in the boom years were and sustainable and so they vote for why we had an absolute majority for a high and they were really to put up with the asiri but i think the frustration now is number one on some of the promises he made and broken and he had no choice but to break them but it's very frustrating and the second thing is they're becoming frustrated with europe spain has been

a very pro european country and now they're starting to feel that we're doing everything you ask of us in the markets continue to turn against us and you're not helping us and so i think things will quiet down in markets because everyone believes. you know it's interesting as you're saying that the spanish people are peaceful by nature things might quite done in organs but we look at greece we've seen a lot of violent protests there we're actually seeing what more desperation more violence now in the streets of spain do you think actually it could get worse off to organise and come the autumn come come the winter you know i think if the opposition party kind of eggs people on you could see that happening very fast and there's every sign that the socialists will make political hay out of this even though they left the country. so you think you know they're out there and i think yeah we could see a lot of activity in i don't know but i think it's probably likely and also a lot of people leaving spain to try and get jobs and opportunities elsewhere but

that can't be easy because the neighbors to spain are also in trouble too so what you've got people obviously people at the business school what is the feeling amongst them what's the morale like what do they feel about the immediate future the next generation now of the spanish for the immediate future you know they're very frustrated young people are you know there are more educated than any generation before that in spain actually put a lot more into higher education in the average o.e.c.d. country. and the they have these expectation. really the economy was growing strongly and they had planned to go you don't get the architect. so there you go and i think people are taking it relatively well you know it's somewhat discouraging but some of them are going to germany some are going to france but if you're a latin america i think you resigned to it probably they'll come back because. with their country and in some ways you look at that see it's not so bad because

he's really like to stay at home next door and their parents were in their parents' house are going to go abroad they will protect the language that it's an experience a time back in their own really rich country so hopefully you know three years from now or so spain will be a different place and place for these young people but right now. it's a difficult scenario well and a note of stoicism and a touch of optimism girl thank you very much and if your thoughts go out of labor market specialist and are you business school in the very heart of it all there in madrid thank you and you're. welcome of the program here in our in the line of fire. it is no coincidence but you are beginning to see more and more of these attacks inside israel as well as in the west bank find out why new tourist attraction has triggered controversy

in israel. that still to come but first 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 i have led to over fifty deaths and scores of arrests the government has been attempting to suppress the opposition with program food and protest band earlier this month one of those cover elder former lecturer at the university of bahrain believes it's in the u.s. interest to empower the oppressive regime. the people have been pushing for democracy for many years now a thorough sovereignty in the country and the khalifa or the drive on the progress . or product ruling family 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 rise up and protest 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 man who dragged only an enterprise under way in bahrain against the people of bahrain and that is what the world of foreign about primarily because of the u.s. fifth fleet there and the fleet is a pivot point allows the u.s.

maintain had similar 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. it's one of the most secretive nations on earth where many would say nothing's changed for decades and life is lived in a communist time will but while the winds of change and exactly blowing full strength in north korea a new era could be on the horizon this week the country's military chief was suddenly sacked and now reports are emerging that major economic and agricultural reforms are pending independent journalist believes that pyongyang should be encouraged but not pressured to open up to south korea. sixty years of sanctions on north korea has not worked and i think face like the chinese opening up special economic zones in the north of the country because to buy owns that are supposedly going to go into your for a phone call we have the rise 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 korean

phone and north korean space to produce products and there are so i think all these things are a step in the right direction but as long as the u.s. and the are ok are illegally firing doing these military drills into north korea's territory waters it's international law you're going to get the lizards from north korea if you can actually communicate this point really needs to emphasize in g. eight courage direct talks between north and the south and that is really what we did this happen and until at the end there is no prospect for a week peaceful reunification. complete weary israel remains a popular hot spot for tourists despite long running security risks but this is can now take a self-defense course firing rifles and a brand new attraction the marketing move is raising more concerns in the country as paula slim reports. meaningful 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 it's something they could only do in israel and it's very easy 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 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 of 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 of means that with increasing frequency are seeing a 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 i mean 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 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 that israeli government should educate the children. and educate children for peace and not. enable the children and teach them to fight one another whatever the outcome this side show in a land of unrest 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 the ever growing awareness of violence but also a slightly disturbing acceptance of the very often brutal way of dealing with that policy r.t. television. authorities in southern russia have opened a criminal investigation into an attack on a military convoy that killed two people and the three wounded the incident occurred in the republic of an earlier on saturday several gunman opened fire when

a vehicle carrying servicemen was passing through a wooded area in the district police are searching for the perpetrators in the shelter is working hard to reduce terror attacks in the region with the number of incidents having dropped by half since twenty ten just two days ago security services defused a bomb of about ten kilograms of t.n.t. . let's now have a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world in our world update at this stage at least nine people have been killed and sixteen injured in a suicide bomb attack in northwestern pakistan the blast went off against the entrance of a military compound used by local militia belongs to a militant commander who had split from the islamist taliban group no one has claimed responsibility for the attack yet. south sudan has pulled out of peace talks with sudan after a bombing that left two civilians injured on friday sudan denied having carried out the air strike the two countries have been in dispute over borderlines 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 the 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 at the stricken plant owned by the tokyo electric power company was caused by the devastating earthquake and a company tsunami in march last year. and staying with japan the consequences of last year's new clearly canal reaching california shores restaurant owners on the west coast are pondering taking tuna fish off their menu over fears of contamination but in a culture never has this report. 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 radioactive 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 you 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. is ok if you're in the ocean. going to have a. hard. day over 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 repeat their study of my

greedy fish but this time on a far away to scale than before and taking in a number of different species experts say 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 and. shortly i'll be asking russia's ambassador to the u.n. why moscow opposes western backed resolutions on syria that is off the headlines in just a moment this is all to live in moscow. if

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