the latest news on the week's top stories here on our team the fierce fighting groups are serious political and commercial capital with reports that street battles in a trice are forcing residents to leave their homes. meanwhile at the u.n. security council russia and china again veto western backed syria's resolution both moscow and beijing say it was unbalanced article saying that sanctions are solely on damascus and not targeting the opposition. demonstrations that turned violent to spain with over a million people taking to the streets last week to vent their anger at the latest batch of e.u. impose austerity measures. and israel rounds on iran over the ball carrier suicide bombing which killed seven reading my views radio four is some

analysts like you tell a bit of using it to gain international support. live from moscow this is r.t. i'm to bomb would say first in our roundup of the top stories of the last seven days series c largest cities have become the focal points of intense street clashes between army forces and the rebels the country's largest city aleppo is now into its fourth day of pointing out the main battle report has been centered around the intelligence pick which is rebels having golf the city from rural areas and engaged in clashes with government troops forcing residents to flee to safety reports of sporadic fighting also continue to pour in from damascus but tensions they ease off a lead to troops under the control of the president's brother cleared open.

fighters from three districts are to use a maria 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 capitals in the world a city which used to present a reputation for its loveliness and vibrant night life clashes between government troops and rebels 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 but 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 were 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 there 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 staff foreigners no longer feel safe here in the syrian capital.

and they have fled 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 city's troubled areas where the clashes between the rebels and the army still continue and the names of these neighborhoods are very well known for everybody here might have began. no i won't take you to my dam 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 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're tired they are exhausted but they also say that life must go on my fortune r t from damascus in syria rebels who are fighting government troops in the city of aleppo have described the as sold as an operation to liberate the city and there is in chief of the independent syria tribe unix plain to r t what he things this really means. to liberate the city from its own people that's what they need and i actually saw fire for the past fifteen months and will 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 aren't 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 saw russia and china veto a resolution threatening sanctions against assad's regime moscow described the western led plan of which it could potentially have resulted in foreign military action in syria as a 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 off this 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 all they have to do is put pressure on the saudis and qataris and others to stop running into this area and tell you how rebel. now as the u.s. continues to back the syrian opposition a series of online training videos a seem to show a desire to influence a conflict from a far many of these videos well aimed at the syrian opposition actually made is fear 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 what's the footage and join our

discussion on the western impact on. serial online at our dot com. and in bahrain the routing more nicky has intensified its crackdown on anti-government activists in an attempt to stabilize the country chaykin by nationwide protests. and you protests have swept spain this week with the public taking a stand against recently introduce additional spending cuts on thursday over a million people are thought to have rallies throughout the country as public outrage reached its peak. a report from madrid. now this is yet another one in a string of anti all three g. anti-government 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 in the 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. the government is not representing the interest of the people all the measures aimed at helping a few not the holy shit this comes just days after thousands 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 i understand is 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. so she always has carlos del close believes that the situation in spain is bound to get worse as people are pushed. this is very small patch over massive massive gaping and it sector to the people when you take. all that they have to take their 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 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 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 the late 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. the world may have funneled twenty one trillion dollars into off show havens around the world to avoid paying taxes that are sounding fake calls the combined size of america and japan's annual i'll put it comes from a report commissioned by the texas justice network its author james henry says that tackling this problem presents a great challenge to governments around the world. but i think one of the ironies is that some of the biggest players in this accident in the street are major banks

that received a lot of government assistance in the bailout of the top ten banks include five u.s. banks that received billions and billions of dollars meanwhile there are you helping the richest people on the planet they're now assets abroad and invade taxes so you know there is a there's a real policy problem here we have to cut county gristly this sort of. thing industry once and for all you know of this example of tax evasion so powerful example where you have relatively tiny group having its way with democracy basically having too much influence or the pass laws and the loophole is that it was all from that so that you know this is a real challenge to our system as well as to our economy is that a lot of rhetoric of. cracking down on secrecy jurisdictions but this has been disappointing two thousand and nine we have the g. twenty talking basically about to try to crack down on so-called secrecy

jurisdictions where a lot of this money flows nothing's been done really nothing substantial. coming up a grim anniversary for norway yeah after radical nationalist sundance brave it's a deadly terror attack that we look at the extremist ideologies which are living in the supposedly multicultural europe. plus american view as a disappointed by that user shows are turning to independent journalism stay with us to find out why. this week in bahrain police clashed with thousands of anti-government demonstrators using tear gas and rubber bullets crowds are true to the streets against a decree that bans all kinds of public protests the morning his response was twitter with hundreds of raids on the homes of suspected protestors and dozens of arrests the media has also been targeted with police apparently ordered to prevent

coverage of the unrest we spoke to someone who witnessed the brutality on the streets of seoul make the and veteran feeling like activists. before being kicked out of bahrain she was one of the few western journalists and left the she says of the situation is more desperate than 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 and 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 russia on swimming pools their private homes this practice of targeting activists and demonstrators fortunately seems to be on the rise and very wide. and right now 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 and 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 it's been a year since anders brave big massacre of seventy seven people in twin attacks in no way he's still under trial claiming that the killings were necessary part of his fight with multiculturalism and tesler reports 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 know. in our streets

raped molested and insult. the bat. outer. is. of hatred religion of violence. 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 hamad mira 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 he stayed the far right one to two build the racist. it's

a primitive state and not his style and the far left to do to build communities and deliver of his problem than it was 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. and. we also met with the leader of the islamic group sharia for belgium there is judgement day if you're 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 what he cannot make solution is there a fundamental clash of cultures and religion are these extremists or just some minority of the attacks was 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 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.

just are still your r.t. brussels. there's more news for you at our dot com including the rising poverty levels in the west and its forecast is bred at record speed over the next yeah hitting its highest level since the one nine hundred sixty s. we report on why there's little to stop it. plus a married mother and a model made the russian woman to be the only not american to me to the last sixteen of a passion that celebrates perfect wives is that our t.v. dot com. you're watching our israel's prime minister is blaming the deadly suicide bombing in area this week on hezbollah the shiite group supported by iran seven people

including five israelis were killed in the attack on a bus carrying torrents but independent researchers soraya. things iran 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 two months two years israel has lost a lot of support 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 now if they're told by mr netanyahu to me it doesn't make sense to 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

a wheelchair using army veteran and social justice protester has set himself on fire in the israel it's a second such incident and the first attempt in a week away with the previous can coincide in with mass rallies against government policies but a yale have ossie who's a public housing activist in a regular at demonstrations says these latest acts of desperation are unfortunately nothing need. 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 and more american view was expressing the disappointed with the main news network shows they say they've had enough of biased reporting errors and too much time given the two showbiz gossip the result of this loss of faith as artie's marina explains is a rise in citizen journalism that's trying to satisfy the public's hunger for real and reliable information. 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. 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 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 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 a state of democracy is in how to mediate the hate and i think if you kind of 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 facts the supreme court justices have struck down the individual mandate in order 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. stopped

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 debating doing or even reporting about hurry up or not artsy new york. i'll be back with a recap of the main stories in a few minutes and then britain's most outspoken the m.p. exposes the secret side of british politics stay with us. you're.

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