he's in stockton on tees dot com. sunday's news of the week's top stories rebels converge in syria's two largest cities which were previously spared from clashes as heavy street battles forced people to flee their jobs report coming out while at the u.n. security council russia and china are again b. to a western backed syria resolution a bit further tightening the screws on the regime and low. another use of the weak wired's rallies and rage in spain as the public takes a stand against cuts with thursday's million strong demos hitting a new milestone in the fight against the state. and israel rounds in iran over the ball gary a suicide bombing which killed seven including five israeli tourists but some analysts accused television of using it to gain international support.

appearing in news around the clock from moscow you're watching r t welcome to you my name's kevin now in first in our roundup of the top stories of the last seven days syria's two largest cities have become the focal points now of intense street clashes between army forces and the rebels the regime hub of aleppo is no into its third day of fierce fighting with the main battle reportedly taking place near intelligence headquarters that rebels of in the gulf the city from rural areas engaged in clashes with government troops forcing residents to flee to safety reports of sporadic fighting also continue to pour in from damascus to the tensions there some water after security forces cleared rebels from key to start artie's breath for national is in the syrian capital. this week for the first time in seventeen months the syrian conflict has finally hit home in damascus billowing smoke clouds the skyline of one of the oldest inhabited kept. in the world

a city which used to present a reputation for its loveliness and vibrant nightlife clashes between government troops and rebels have broken out in at least five damascus neighborhoods in mid on where the fighting has been the fiercest tanks are rolling on the roads rather than cars with soldiers the only people left in the streets the reason why it's so hard to capture all these terrorists is because they can easily disguise themselves as civilians when we conduct our operations we have to let civilians and terrorists use that to move around the army has launched a major offensive following a deadly attack on the country's security leadership last wednesday national security building in the central damascus this is exactly where the suicide bombing happened here earlier on wednesday killing the country's defense minister and his deputy we were earlier we're hearing reports that it's been a very intense bombing but as you can see the building is not very much damage some

windows broken and actually this is all the damage as we can see from here also from what we can see from here we can understand that the explosion happened inside the building at a time when there has been a mitten between cabinet ministers and high ranking security officials free syrian army has already claimed responsibility for what happened and for the blast and for the killings many countries have caused the embassies here in syria had half withdrawn all personnel in this neighborhood alone turkish embassy over the saudi embassy this is the building of american embassy tallon embassy these embassies have also suspended their work overseas companies have also have a creator their stuff foreigners no longer feel safe here in the syrian capital and they have lad but ordinary syrians don't have the same choice the world has come to their door and they have nowhere to run and they're trying to organize their everyday life waiting for this nightmare to end one of the most important rule these days in the syrian capital is not to go to the cities troubled areas where the clashes between the. apples and the army still continues and the names of these

neighborhoods are very well known for everybody here might have began. low lives no i won't take you to my down it's too dangerous but damascus is a very big city with a population of around two million people maybe these days even more with all displaced families from homes and other at the center of the uprising from all across the country shelter now here in the capital and in some neighborhoods you can see pictures that you don't at all expect to see in the capital of the country and gulf war i like this family alone picnics really very peaceful pictures so one can flick has been raging for seventeen months already people say they are tired they are exhausted but they also say that life must go on may finish our tea from damascus in syria when there is among the few reporting direct from the conflict zone firsthand reports another says the pictures over on twitter for you want to

keep abreast of it all and one of the latest tweet she quotes rascasse resident who says it's a sign the clashes that wakes him up in the morning so there's a lot it sounds like a simple thing but it is a snapshot of what it's like to live in a war torn city the latest news on syria also lined up for you if you follow our teams main to defeat to. the rebels fighting government troops in the city of aleppo have described their assault operation to liberate the city the editor in chief of the independent syria tribune explain to us what he thinks that really means. to liberate the city from its own people better what they need and i actually saw fire for the past fifteen months and has shown nothing but great support to the syrian government of the president. this was ministered by huge rallies several times. the issue the idea of there the opposition failed repeatedly to demonstrate in the city to show their their size in peaceful demonstrations or on battles and they diverted to recruiting others from other

areas and have them circulate the area in the countryside but not inside the city so far. the mandate of the three hundred strong international observer force in syria was extended for another month on friday the unanimous un security council decision followed another vote which still russia and china veto a resolution threatening sanctions against assad's regime moscow described the western led plan which could potentially have led to foreign military action in syria as biased because it only put pressure on the government middle east academic professor lawrence davidson says if the world community really wants to stop violence in syria it also has to put pressure on those sponsoring the rebels. or un resolution was something of a red hering. because it wouldn't have made much difference on the ground the british ambassador to the u.n. made a statement that. the resolution would have helped save lives i think this is just utter fantasy i think from the american standpoint why into being openly when

it's possible that the regime might fall just through clandestine intervention in direct intervention and if the british and the americans and the french want to save lives have to do is put pressure on the saudis and qataris and others to stop running going into this area and how the rebel. as the u.s. continues and to back the syrian opposition a series of online training videos seem to show a desire to influence the conflict from afar. many of these videos well aimed at the syrian opposition actually made it a theory itself is that many of them originating from other countries including a lot of them coming from the u.s. and of course that again raises questions about the u.s. his involvement in this type of cyber warfare we invite you to watch the footage and join in the discussion as well please on the western part on syria online on

our web site r t v dot com also elsewhere in the restive middle east bahrain's crackdown on. lanty regime activists intensifies with the monarchy go in or out so when nationwide protests reporting on that later this hour. real marathoner protests in spain this last week has deep anger with the government's austerity drive grows the outrage reached fever pitch on thursday with over a million protesters thought of rallies across the country. reports from madrid on what's driving their disillusionment. now this is yet another one in a string and sigh austerity anti-government protests in spying which have been hitting the country for the course of the past several weeks now several thousand have gathered in the central square in madrid here to protest against the austerity measures by the government the situation is very bad it's terrible unemployment is growing the government's job reforms are aimed at increasing mass layoffs and cutting benefits every person who's come out to demonstrate is exercising their

right to take what he's entitled to by the norms of democracy one vote every four years doesn't mean anything the government is not representing the interest of the people all the measures and to tell can if you know the holy shit this comes just days after thousands of people across spain in madrid in particular closs with the police several dozen war wounded the police actually used tear gas and rubber bullets to pacify the crowd this is all because on the july the eleventh the spanish prime minister announced that additional sixty five billion euros will be cut from things like pensions on unemployment benefits to rescue the country's financial banking sector one hundred billion rescue plan was then first approved by the german parliament on thursday and by brussels on friday when the standard that the spanish government has been defending their policy just defending the cuts saying that this is basically the only way to rescue the country's ailing economy and the ailing banking sector will certainly have to wait and see whether more

protests will happen and whether the people who are getting more and more aggressive with every step in the austerity measures that the country's government is implementing will be willing to take more the anger to the streets once again social just carlos del close believes the worst is yet to come in spain as the people push beyond in june or ends. it's a very small patch over a massive massive gaping hole and that gaping hole is private sector the people when you take their food you take all that they have you take their you know homes and they respond quite viscerally what we saw in madrid for instance wasn't violent an artists and a group that decided to burn a bunch of dumpsters. were you know police charging against other police protesting police we saw them charging against firemen and women you saw them charging against public sector workers and chasing them through the streets of madrid and 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. 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 and they were working and maintaining families and now they're very livelihoods are threatened and of course tensions are going to boil over coming up here and i'll tell you from moscow a grim anniversary of the way it's been a year now since the radical nationalists and the deadly terror attacks and we look at the extremist ideologies which a blooming in the supposedly multicultural you're a pulse of why american viewers visiting the network news shows in droves and turning instead to d.i.y. journalism report coming up. but another week another major bank is in the firing line this time britain's h.s.b.c. has been implicated by the u.s. government for all range of offenses they include laundering drug cartel money cheating sanctions and even helping saudi arabian sponsors to finance terrorism

middle east affairs expert at the risk has seen the report and says it shows saudi arabia his true colors. i think it really stems down the fact that saudi arabia is the main export our of what could be called the radical islam it is the saudi a brand of islam actually which has tarnished the muslim image in the whole world for example the extremism those people who are now are for example of causing violence in syria are those who were sent to kashmir are the people at this time and even our car there as well we have to have to say here that some elements of the royal family also have their own facts and have contributed as well to our car so i think this proves what many people have said all along that it is saudi arabia which is the main export of radical of this religious extremism or be a radical elements but more importantly i think that this report. that sheds light

on the. alliance between the saudi family the saudi royal family and some western countries what this will do with it will put more pressure on the western governments to try and change their policy now of course saudi arabia is considered to be an ally for many people are speculating that maybe the western governments might reconsider might reconsider their alliance with saudi arabia and they risk renewed and humanity protests in bahrain this week with thousands of demonstrators up against police firing rubber bullets and tear gas the rallies were sparked by a government decree to ban all forms of public protest the market response to swift of hundreds of raids on the homes of suspected protesters and dozens of arrests made the media's also been targeted with police apparently ordered to prevent coverage of the rest we spoke to someone who witnessed the brutality on the streets filmmaker event for human rights activist gen marlow we've all been kicked out of

bahrain a cell she was one of the few western journalists left there she told us the situation is more desperate the many would believe. what i witnessed is an increasing increasing repression against the pro-democracy and human rights activists in the short time that i was praying i felt like the situation was actually deteriorating it is across the country it is extremely widespread in villages and towns all over rain 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 fortunately seems to be on the rise and very widespread right now and 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 with more of the people driving. those like the rest of the world to. explain the activists you streeta ought to stand up for their rights. resistance is not of politics but a culture of. this could get. on its own. cultures of resistance on our team. israel's prime minister is blaming the

deadly suicide bombing in boulder area this week on hezbollah groups supported by around seven people including five israelis were killed in the attack on a bus carrying two arrests but independent research a survivor seven paul who spoke to his thinks around wouldn't risk international condemnation by supporting terrorism next time yahoo and israel in fact need to play the victim card in order to be more aggressive and in the past few months she hears that israel has lost a lot of supporters even here in the united states it's very easy to put the blame i mean iran and iran is not a very attractive country to the world and the masses are very happy to accept whatever they're told night they're told by mr netanyahu to me it doesn't make sense that iran would want to carry out this operation it's very hard to accept that iran would willingly have the world condemn it and cater to the wishes of

these really is by providing them with an excuse to attack. the wheelchair using army veteran and social justice protests to set himself on fire in israel that's the second such incident and fifth attempt in a week with the previous coinciding with mass rallies against government policies but your liver so who is a public housing activist in a regular at demonstrations like that says these latest acts of desperation are unfortunately nothing new. i think what people are feeling is despair and this is what people are trying to say to our government. people are dying here every week people are committing suicide they do it in their homes they're doing it far away from our but this happens here all the time people are not dying here of hunger but they are dying of despair binyamin netanyahu. throughout his political career has always had a new liberal economic view which is pro privatization which is the whole

idea is that poor people have to handle themselves. and this is what we have seen in throughout his career so i am not surprised that binyamin netanyahu is not answering us very quickly i am surprised that our minister of housing does not understand that either he gives real solutions to people or he should resign from this government. norway's marking a year most is under his breath massacred seventy seven people in twin attacks still on trial he insists the killings he carried out were part of his war of multiculturalism and is up to reports next europe's clash of cultures is growing more radical. i swear to god we will not let it pass peacefully therefore we say stay in your house you know. just in our streets girl is

a rapist molested and insulted by gangs of women the battle cries of grown louder. is. hatred. of. extreme cases ideology turned to tragedy more than seventy people were killed by far right militant anders breivik in norway over his rejection of the government's policies towards muslim immigrants in france seven people including children were killed by islamist mohammed merah in a deliberate attack against jews he was then killed in a police raid both men adding fuel to flames of hatred and prejudice dismissed from . the caliphate the bare fact that misstates the far right to build the racist. supreme atic states. and

the far left. to build communities and deliver of it right is probably done it was done ten years ago we tried to talk to proponents of each extreme edia me is the leader of a group in belgium that's labeled the far right and he's been convicted on charges of racism which he denies up immediately with the influx of foreigners because really can't cope anymore you don't have to be an extremist you see that the same anti immigration argument put forward by the golden dawn party in greece dubbed neo nazi and fascist by critics it won a seven percent of votes in recent elections and attacks on foreigners in greece is reportedly on the rise. again. we also met with the leader of the islamist group sharia for belgium there is judgment if you if you're a muslim you will go to if you are this believer. that's what we believe he's now

in custody and is being investigated for terrorism suspected of sending young muslims to fight in holy wars in yemen and chechnya but such arrests have not stopped other groups from sprouting we tried to talk to another hardline salafi group in belgium reportedly with saudi links and are under surveillance by authorities several young men tried to stop us from filming and in the end called the police we were told that for our own safety we should just leave it doesn't boil down to what economic solution is there a fundamental clash of cultures and religion are these extremists or just some minority of the attacks by this isolated cases the answers you get depends on whom you ask and in the end all you get is a hodgepodge of opinions and no real solution on how to curb this growing to still what some experts call a cycle of feeding off of each other a gargantuan challenge for europe to address before hatred turns to more of this.

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given to showbiz as artie's reports are explains the responses a rise to citizen journalist who is satisfying the public with a real and reliable bulleted. venning goodness statics around the clock operations a product always being exported america's mainstream news industry generates power and profits but it seems partisan reporting and frequent gaffes may have made many americans turn away from the big broadcasters when they are. writing the revolution going our across. and going on cruise katie holmes or getting the work that program where are a recent gallup poll shows an all time low of only twenty percent of the public trusting the news many say this means citizen journalism is becoming a big game changer and the amazing thing about training citizens to be really good

pundits is that they they have a wealth of information that journalists just don't have when you help them connect what they know are exposed to their experience with a big picture political event it's very powerful what's that journalist and best selling author and i only wolf not only supports citizen journalism she and business partner lisa thomas have built a nonpartisan training ground for it it's called daily klout dot com we're not just teaching people to vent we're training people to write rigorous shapely opinion pieces which are eight hundred words long and also to source their assertions and we also teach them how to link what they're exposing are calling for with action steps. daily klout also features a legislative search engine that monitors and explains bills making their way to capitol hill a tool allowing everyday people to hold federal state and corporate leaders

accountable when america's fourth estate fails to i think the mainstream media has become about entertainment. and also can. crna who holds the purse strings if the mainstream media is controlled by large corporate interests they're going they're beholden to them but this website is independently financed giving tens of thousands of citizens the freedom to report on topics many news networks are accused of suppressing i think one of the best ways you can judge the state of democracy is in how they and i think if you have a situation where the citizens of the country are actually bypassing the mainstream media i think that says a lot about the stage of democracy critics however argue that only properly educated and experienced journalists should be intrusted with understanding the rigors and ethics involved in news reporting but even then. there is

no guarantee the public will receive the facts the supreme court justices have struck down the individual mandate for the unconstitutional the direct blow to the president i would say it's a direct blow to his democratic party the individual mandate has been struck down it has been struck down no it has not. suck i knew. there was mass media still maintain some stronger and wider reach that citizen journalism but it no longer holds the power to determine what the public is good baby doing or even reporting about very important artsy new york well this channel i can promise you all of the headlines for you a few minutes there more of those artists activists part two of a special report tonight of using paid for their protests and so i head for the next thirty minutes here on r t from moscow.

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