l.-r. image. the latest news in the week so top stories here now are fierce fighting improves a serious political and commercial capital with reports that street battles and made strides of forcing residents to see their homes. meanwhile at the u.n. security council russia and china again veto a western backed syria resolution both moscow and beijing say it was unbalanced because it has sanctions only on damascus and not targeting the opposition. the demonstrations that turned violent in spain with a million people taking to the streets last week to vent their anger at the latest batch of rain so sorry two measures. and israel runs on iran over the border areas suicide bombing which killed seven hundred by destroying tourism and some analysts accuse television of music it's to gain international support.

we're watching our tease of the weekly with me tom would say serious to largest cities have become the focal point of intense street clashes between army forces and the rebels the country's largest city aleppo is now into its fourth day of fighting but the main battle reports of the centered around the intelligence headquarters rebels have engulfed 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 ease off that lead troops under the control of the president's brother cleared opposition fighters from key districts g.'s a maria for notion that is in the syrian cap. 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 nightlife clashes between government troops and drug wars 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 roles 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 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 homs and eleven 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 the country and golf with 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 rebels who are fighting government troops in the city of aleppo have described the assault as an operation to liberate the city the editor in chief of the independent syria tribunals spain to r.t. what he thinks this really means to liberate the city from its all people that's what i mean i actually saw far for the past fifteen months and it has shown nothing but great support to the syrian government to the president. this was manifested by huge rallies several times. the issue the idea of the opposition field repeatedly to demonstrate in the city to show their their size in peaceful demonstrations or. battles they reverted to recruiting others from other areas and have them circulate the area in the countryside but not inside the city so far . international concern about the situation in syria is mountain with arab league

nations now calling on president assad to step down to help and the bloodshed this comes as 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 to which still russia and china veto a resolution threatening sanctions against assad's regime moscow described the western led plan which could potentially have resulted in 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 just of violence in syria it also has to put pressure on those sponsoring the rebels aimed at bringing an end to the bloodshed in syria 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 not 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 to back the syrian opposition a series of online training videos seem to show what desired to influence the conflict from afar many of these videos were aimed at the syrian opposition actually made in serious of it so 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 was the first occasion join our discussion of the west and the impact on syria online at our dot com. and in bahrain in the early morning he has intensified its crackdown on anti-government activists in an attempt to stabilize the country shaken by nationwide protests. and protests have swept spain this week with the public taking a stand against recently introduced additional spending cuts on thursday over a million people are thought to have really throughout the country as public outrage reached its peak. ski report from madrid now this is yet another one in a string of anti or ferrety anti-government protests in spying which have been hitting the country over the course of across 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 interests of the people of the measure so 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 war wounded the police had to use 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 unemployment benefits to rescue the country's financial banking sector a 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. believes that the situation in spain is bound to get worse as people are pushed to the watch this is a very small patch over a massive massive gaping hole and that gaping hole this private sector does the people when you take their food you take all that they have you take their you know homes they respond quite viscerally what we saw in madrid for instance wasn't violent in our kissin a group that decided to burn a bunch of dumpsters you 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. and a.t.m. buildings right in the late am 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 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 over twenty one trillion dollars into havens around the world to avoid paying taxes that astounding figure equals the combined size of america and japan's annual i'll put and comes from a report commissioned by the texas at justice and network its author james henry says 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 bail up in the top ten banks include five u.s. banks that received billions and billions of dollars meanwhile there are now being the richest people on the planet their assets abroad intervene in taxes so you know there is a there's a real policy problem here we have to cut the county gristle it is sort of banking industry once and for all you know this example of tax evasion so powerful example where you have a relatively tiny group having its way with democracy basically having too much influence or the pass laws and the new court is that result from that so that you know this is a real challenge to our system as well as to work because of just a lot of rhetoric about. cracking down on secrecy jurisdictions but i think this is

been disappointing two thousand and nine we have the g. twenty talking basically about trying to crack down on so-called secrecy jurisdictions where a lot of this money flows are nothing's been done really nothing substantial. coming up a grim anniversary for norway radical nationalists and abbreviated deadly terror attacks we look at the extremist ideologies which are blooming in the supposedly multicultural europe. plus american viewers are disappointed by network news shows turning to independent journalism say with us to find out why. this week in bahrain police clashed with thousands of anti-government demonstrators are using tear gas and rubber bullets crossed to the streets against a decree that bans all kinds of public protests the montagues response was swifter

with hundreds of raids on the homes of suspected protesters and dozens of arrests the media has also been targeted with police apparently ordered to prevent coverage of the impressed we spoke to someone who witnessed the brutality on the streets filmmaker and veteran human rights activist jan moller before being kicked out of bahrain she was one of the few western journalists left the she says 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 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 in middle of the night in villages all over riot police coming in surrounding

houses brutally arresting people and imprisoning.

states. and the far left to. live out of a drought is probably going to continue to go up 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. with the influx of foreigners because recant. you don't have to be an extremist. 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 islamist 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 to try to stop us from filming and in the end call the police we were told that for our own safety we should just leave it doesn't boil down to we can all make solution is a fundamental clash of cultures of religion are these extremists or just some minority of the attacks last 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

eat 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. there's more news for you at dot com including rising poverty levels in the u.s. as for cars to spread record speed over the next year hitting its highest level since one thousand nine hundred sixty eight 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 one american to reach or the last sixteen of a pageant at that celebrated african wife at that id dot com. israel's

prime minister is blaming the deadly suicide bombing in bulk area this week on hezbollah the shiite group supported by iran seven people including five israelis were killed in the attacks on a bus carrying tourists but independent research as soraya paul rick of things iran 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 few 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 night they're told by mr netanyahu to me it doesn't make sense and iran would want to carry out this operation it's very hard to accept that iran would willingly how the world can damage and cater to the wishes of these

really is by providing them with an excuse to attack. but will change using army veteran and social justice protester has set himself on fire in israel it's the second such incident and a fifth attempt in a week with the previous coinciding with a railing against government policies but the i.a.l. have aussie who's a public housing activist and i have regular demonstrations says these latest acts of desperation unfortunately nothing new. i think or 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 eyes 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 him 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 viewers are expressing their disappointment with the m a news network shows they say they've had enough of biased reporting errors and too much time given to showbiz gossip the result of this is a loss of faith as artie's a marina explains as 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 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 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 heard of the 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 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. 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 good baby doing or even reporting about her in a porno party new york. i'll be back with the headlines in a few minutes and then the bridge and spoken the m.p. expenses at the secret side of british politics stay with us. you're.

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