if you put. the latest news in a week's top stories here on r.t. rebels converge in syria's two largest cities which were previously spared from clashes as heavy street battles that forced people to flee from their homes while at the u.n. security council russia and china again veto a western backed syria resolution aimed at further tightening the screws on the regime alone. and riots rallies and rage in spain has the public takes a stand against cuts with thursday's million strong demos hitting a new milestone in the fight against will staring. at israel rams on a rather over the boat gary a suicide bombing which killed seven including five israeli tourists but some analysts accuse tel aviv of using it to gain international support.

appearing in news around the clock from moscow this is r.t. warm welcome to you my name's kevin zero in first in a round up of the top stories of the last seven days syria's two largest cities have become the focal points of intense street clashes between army forces and the rebels the regime hub of aleppo is now into its third day of fierce fighting with the main battle reportedly taking place there intelligence headquarters that rebels have engulfed the city from rural areas and gaged in clashes with government troops forcing residents to flee to safety reports of sporadic fighting also continue to pour in from damascus too but tensions there eased after security forces cleared rebels from a key district. in the syrian capital. this week for the first time in seventeen months the syrian conflict has finally he home in damascus billowing smoke clouds the skyline of one of the oldest inhabited capitals in the war old city which used to possess a rare. for its loveliness and vibrant nightlife clashes between government troops

and rubbles have broken out in at least five damascus neighborhoods in medan 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 choose 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 been 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 closed their 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 of their staff 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 rebels and the army still continue and the names of these neighborhood. we are very well known for everybody here might have began.

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 epicenters 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 a country and gulf war or 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 my fortune r t from damascus in syria. the rebels fighting government troops in the city of aleppo describes their assault as an operation to liberate the city the editor in chief of the independent syria tribune explain to our t.

what he thinks that really means. to liberate the city from its all people that's what they need and i actually saw fire for the past fifteen months and it has nothing but great support to the syrian government that the president. this was manifested by huge rallies several times. the issue the idea of the opposition shield 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 u.n. security council decision followed another vote which saw russia and china veto a resolution threatening sanctions against assad's regime moscow described the western led plan which could potentially have resulted in for another tree action in syria as biased because it only put pressure on the government middle east

academic professor lawrence davidson spoke to she says if the world community really wants to stop while and syria it also has to put pressure on those sponsoring the rebels i think it was a u.n. resolution was something of a red herring. 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 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 all they have to do is put pressure on the saudis and qataris and others to stop running guns into this area and tell you how

a rebel. as the u.s. continues in 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 aren't actually made in 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. is involvement in this type of cyber warfare but we invite you to watch the footage and indeed join in the discussion as well please if you fancy on the west impact on syria you can do that online at r.t. dot com elsewhere in the rest of middle east bahrain has cracked down on two regime activists intensifies with the monarchy going all out to end nationwide protests we're reporting on that for you just a bit later this hour. next though real marra for the protests in spain this last week has deeper anger with the government's austerity drive grown the outrage which fever pitch on thursday with over a million protesters thought to valid across the country is

a lecturer reports from madrid on what's driving their disillusionment. now this is yet another one in a string of anti austerity anti governmental protests in spying which have been hitting the country over 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 protect what he's entitled to by the norms of democracy one vote every four years doesn't mean anything. gunman is not representing the interest of the people all the measures are aimed at helping a few not the holy shit this comes just days after spouses of people across spain in madrid in particular closs with the police several dozen were 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 and of 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 and into the streets once again sociologist color still close believes the worst is yet to come in spain as the people have pushed beyond its. it's a very small patch over a massive massive gaping hole and that gaping hole is private sector debt the

people when you take their food you take all that they have you take their homes and they respond quite viscerally what we saw in madrid for instance wasn't violent and artists and a group that decided to burn a bunch of dumpsters what we saw were you know 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 neighborhoods in madrid the actual people that live 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 the 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. still to come on r t a grim anniversary for norway it's pretty you know since rather nationalists and there's

relics deadly terror attacks we look at the extremist ideologies that are blooming in the supposedly multicultural you are these days also reporting i was very confused deserted that network news shows in droves and turning instead to d.i.y. journalism. when you down to molokai protests in bahrain this week with thousands of demonstrators up against police firing rubber bullets and tear gas the rallies were sparked by government to create a ban all forms of public protest the monica's response was swift and the hundreds of raids on the homes of suspected protesters and dozens of arrests the media's also been targeted with police apparently ordering the prevention of coverage of the unrest we spoke to someone who witnessed the brutality of the streets filled by corvet from human rights activist jan marlow before being kicked out of bahrain a self she was one of the few western journalists left she told us the situations were 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 in bahrain i felt like the situation was actually deteriorating it is across the country it is extremely widespread in villages and towns all over bahrain 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 the expose. 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 jeem wants to keep them out and keep them silent as much as possible. always marking a year since under massacred seventy seven people in twin attacks brevig still on trial he insists the killings and carried out were part of his war of multiculturalism and his artists are silly reports now europe's clash of cultures is growing ever more radical. i swear to god we will not let it pass peacefully therefore we say stay in your homes you not see. just in our streets girls are raped molested and insulted by gangs of immigrants the battle cries of grown louder. of hatred. in 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 bahamas 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 perfect state the far right to build the racist. so primitive state. not his style and the far left. to build communities and deliver of his problem then it was then 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

we can't cope anymore you don't have to be an extremist it's needed 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. we also met with the leader of the islamist group sharia for belgium there is judgement day if you if you're a muslim you will go to paradise if you are this believer you will go to hell 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 the does it boil down to an 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 or 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 be what some experts call a cycle of hatred feeding off of each other a gargantuan challenge for europe to address before hatred turns to more of this. tesser cilia r.t. brussels. much more news here online and out so you don't call including a look at rising poverty in the us tonight it's full coast to spread at record levels over the next year hitting its highest since the one hundred sixty two. there's little to stop it unfortunately also talking about a married mother and

a model of russian woman to be the only north american to reach the last sixteen of a project that sort of rights perfect why it's. called. israel's prime minister is blaming the dead. suicide bombing in bug area this week on hezbollah group supported by seven people including five israelis were killed in the attack on a bus that was carrying tourists but independent research. around wouldn't risk international condemnation by supporting terrorism. and israel in fact need to play the victim card in order to be more aggressive and in the past few months few years israel has lost a lot of supporters even here in the united states it's very easy to put the blame

i mean iran iran is not a very attractive country to the world and the masses are very happy to accept whatever they're told told by mr netanyahu to me it doesn't make sense that iran would want to carry out this operation and 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 a wheelchair using army veteran and social justice protesters set himself on fire in israel it's the second such incident of fifth attempt in just a week with the previous coinciding with mass rallies against government policies and i spoke to yale a versus a public housing activist in the regular at the demonstrations she told me 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 attorney now 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. more warmer because of lost face and the may network news shows is reporting in the week a survey says they voted most for reporting errors and too much time given job is

to put more explains next in the responses of foreign citizen journalists to satisfy the public for real and reliable news. venning goodness statics round 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 their big uprising the revolution going are across. and have going. home to 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

pundit 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 on what 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. so concerned 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 it's media hates 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 their rigors and ethics involved in news reporting but even then. there is

no guarantee the public will receive facts this is a problem for justices have struck down the individual mandate in order unconstitutional the direct blow to the president of united states a direct blow to his democratic party the individual mandate has been struck down it has been struck down no it has not i do suck i knew i was massmedia i still maintain side stronger and wider reach that citizen journalism but it no longer holds the power to determine what the public is going be doing or even reporting about very important artsy new york. a couple more of the stories making headlines right now for barack obama's to to meet bereaved families in colorado in the wake of friday's deadly shooting rampage at the screening of that new batman movie twelve people were killed and fifty eight others injured when a mouse government threw gas canisters into a crowded cinema and opened fire police later cleared explosives from the home of

the suspect twenty four year old james holmes who is under arrest it's thought the shootings had been planned for several months. the heaviest rainfall in sixty years has triggered flooding that's left at least thirty seven dead in the capital of china electrocution roof collapses and landslides caused many of the deaths the deluge hit on saturday and continued overnight forcing nearly fifteen thousand to evacuate safety mostly in district outside beijing. recover the news stories just a couple of minutes away just five minutes in fact then britain's most outspoken m.p. exposes the secret side of british politics to us it's going to be worth a watch and in sport russian daredevil claims his first win of this year's cliff diving world championships in portugal some spectacular pictures coming up for you as you'd expect from this channel. shapes up here on out in the.

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