the latest news in the week's top stories here on our team here's finding groups serious political and commercial capital was reported as street battles in a strike some forcing residents to see their homes. read all at the u.n. security council russia and china again veto a western banks zero resolution both moscow and beijing say it was on balance to take a single sanction solely on damascus and not conduct any opposition. demonstrations that turned violent in 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 around iran and the bulgarian suicide bomber who killed seven leading by three in all is but some

analysts accused tel aviv will be using it to gain international so. you're watching archies of the weekly with me it's a serious issue 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 reportedly centered around the intelligence hate quarters rebels have in golf the city from rural areas and engaged in clashes with government troops forcing residents just see to safety reports of sporadic fighting also continue to pour in from damascus but tensions they believe troops under the control of president's brother cleared opposition fighters from key districts. artie's maria from lost and 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 pursue a reputation for its loveliness and vibrant nightlife 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 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 it created their staff foreigners no longer feel safe here in the syrian capital and they have fled but ordinary syrians don't. at 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 cities 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 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 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're tired they are

exhausted but they also say that life must go on my fortune our tea 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 of 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 has shown nothing but great support of the syrian government of the president. this was manifested by huge rallies several times. the issue the idea of there the opposition failed repeatedly to demonstrate in the city to show they are 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. international concern about the situation in syria is mountain with arab league nations now calling on president assad to step down to help end 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 veto which so 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 to democrats as well as davidson says if the world community really wants to stop violence in syria it also has to put pressure on those sponsoring the rebels to bring to the bloodshed in syria and this u.n. 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 my fall just through clandestine intervention in direct intervention there 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 how the rebel and as a u.s. continues to back the syrian opposition a series of online training videos seem to show a desire to influence the conflict from a far any of these videos well aimed at the syrian opposition i don't actually made is fear itself is so many of them originating from other country. including

a lot of them coming from the u.s. and of course that again raises questions about the u.s. as involvement in this type of cyber warfare was the first to join our discussion on the west and the impact on the syria online dot com. and in bahrain is a ruling more like he has intensified its crackdown on anti-government activists in an attempt to stabilize the country shaken by a nationwide protests. and he'll surging protests have swept spain this week with the public taking a stand against recently introduced additional spending cuts on thursday of a million people are thought to have rallied throughout the country as public outrage reached its peak. he reports from madrid. now this is yet another one in a string of anti or 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 interests of the people over measure sometimes it's helping a few not the holy see 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 unemployment benefits to rescue the country's financial banking sector the 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. that bill clawson believes that the situation in spain is bound to get worse as people. so it's 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 you know homes and 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 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 certainly you see people living in. a.t.m. buildings right in the late him 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 walls also over it may have funneled twenty one trillion dollars into show havens around the world to avoid paying taxes that a stunning figure he calls the combined size of america japan's annual output and comes from a report commissioned by the techs that just this network itself them james henry

says tackling this problem presents a great talents 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 fire u.s. banks that received billions and billions of dollars meanwhile there are now being the richest people on the planet there are now assets abroad intervene in taxes so you know there's a there's a real policy problem here we have to cut the county gristle this sort of banking industry once and for all you know of 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 course that was all from that so that you know this is a real challenge to our systems well as to work economy there's been

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 has been done nothing substantial. coming up green men of verse three for norway a year of radical listened gravely it's deadly terror attacks we look at the extremist ideologies which are in the supposedly multi-cultural europe. plus american viewers disappointed by network news shows on turning to independent journalism stay with us to find out why. this week in bahrain police clashed with thousands of anti-government demonstrators using teargas and rubber bullets crowds took to the streets against

a decree that bans all kinds of public protests the money use response was swift and 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 bridge ology on the streets for maker and veteran human rights activist jen malone 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 them taking people from russia france women pools their private homes this practice of targeting activists and demonstrators fortunately seems to be on the rise. very widespread 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 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 has been a year since mess murderer anders breivik massacred seventy seven people in twin attacks in norway crowds gathered in central all slow and. two on of the victims

is still on trial claiming that the killings were and this is a report of his fight against multiculturalism this one here is consistent efforts to promote tolerance towards all people regardless of the cultural roots hatred among its citizens continues to grow. reports. i swear to god we will not let it pass peacefully therefore we say stay in your homes you not see us. in our streets girls are raped molested and insulted by gangs of immigrants the battle cries have grown louder. is. hatred religion. 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 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 perfect state the far right to build the racist. it's a primitive state. not his style and the far left. 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 a 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. 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 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

that doesn't boil down to an economic solution is there a fundamental clash of cultures of religion are these extremists or just some minority of the attacks lost by this isolated cases are 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 distilling 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 r.t. don't come including rising property in the u.s. it's all costs just spread add record speed over the next year hitting its highest levels as the one nine hundred sixty s. we report on the why there's little to stop it. plus a married mother and model made the russian woman to be the only that american to reach the last of sixteen out of a pageant that celebrates perfect wives at our t dot com.

the. israel's prime minister is blaming the deadly suicide bombing in bulgaria this week on hezbollah the shiite group supported by iran seven people including five years rabies away killed in the attack on a bus carrying toys but independent research soraya paul regular things iran what are risk international condemnation by supporting terrorism. in their 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 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 to 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 wheelchair using army veteran and social justice protester has set himself on fire in israel as the second such incident and first attempts in a week with the previous coinciding with mess rallies against government policies but yeah you'll have r.c. who's a public housing activist and irregular demonstration 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 attorney our own 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. now more and more american viewers are expressing their disappointment with the main news network shows they say they have had

a bias reporting errors and too much time given over to show biz gossip the result of this loss of faith as our g.'s marina explains as a rise in citizen journalism that's trying to set is why 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 rivington revolution going are across. and have going to. be home to getting the work that program where are our 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 iommi will 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 to mediate the hate 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 facts the supreme court justices have struck down the individual mandate 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. stopped i knew. there was mass media still maintains us stronger and wider reach that citizen journalism but it no longer holds the power to determine what the public is to be doing or even reporting about hurry up or not party we are. i'll be back with the headlines in a few minutes off so that the britain's m o's outspoken the m.p. exposes the secret sidel british politics and stay with us.

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