don't tontine don't come. the latest news in the week so top stories here on our t.v. here's pointing groups a serious political and commercial capital with reports that street battles and aids strikes are forcing residents to flee their homes. meanwhile at the u.n. security council of russia and china again veto western bags syria resolution but moscow and beijing say it was unbalanced focusing the sanctions so early on damascus and are targeting the opposition. demonstrations that train violence in spain with a million people taking to the streets last week to vent their anger at the latest batch of e.u. impose austerity measures. and to israel runs on one neighbor the ball gears suicide bombing which led to seven killed including by israeli tourists

but some analysts if you tell of the will be using it to gain international support . you're watching our t.v. here's a look at the main stories syria's two 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 fighting at the main battle reports of these centers around the intelligence headquarters rebels have engulfed the city from grewal areas and engaging in clashes with government troops forcing residents to flee to safety reports of sporadic fighting also continued to pour in from damascus but tensions are they ease off the lead to troops under the control of the president's brother here the opposition fighters from the. districts tease

a maria for not 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 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 two hundred 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 caused the 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 lad put on. noori series 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 neighborhoods are very well known for everybody here might have began. well 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 a 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 floor shot 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 fein to our what he thinks this really means. to liberate the city from its own people that's what i mean i actually saw far for the past fifteen months and has shown nothing but great support to the syrian government up 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 mounting with arab league nations now calling on president assad to step down to help end the bloodshed this comes as the mandate of three hundred strong international observer forces in syria was extended for another month on friday the unanimous u.n. security council decision followed another vote to which song russia and china veto a resolution threatening sanctions against assad's regime moscow described the western led plan which it could potentially have resulted in far in that 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. in syria and to 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 over a fantasy i think from the american standpoint why intervene openly when it's possible that the regime my fall just through. 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 those already tarries another's to stop running into this area and tell you how the rebel as a us continues to back the syrian opposition a series of online training videos seem to show a desire to influence the conflict from a far many of these videos was 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. as involvement in this type of cyber warfare was the put susan join our discussion on the west and the impact of syria online at our dot com. and in bahrain of the ruling want to be has intensified its crackdown on anti-government activists in an attempt to save lives the country shaken by nationwide protests. twenty or thirty protests have swept spain this week with the public taking a stand against recency introduce additional spending cuts on thursday over a million people are thought to have ready to out the country as public outrage is reached its peak season alessio show us the reports from the trade. now this is yet another one in a string and i also got

a mental protest in spying which i've 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 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 and to tell me if you know 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 and 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 she alleges katanas that a clause that believes that the situation in spain is bound to get worse as people are pushed to the. 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 an artists and a group that decided to burn

a bunch of dumpsters what 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 certainly you see people living in one thousand. in 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 wall the ultra rich may have funneled say the twenty one trillion dollars into havens around the world to avoid paying taxes that are standing figure he calls that they combine size of america and japan to end well i'll put and comes from a report commissioned by the texas essence 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 actually even in the street are major banks that received a lot of government assistance in the bailout in the top ten banks include five u.s. banks that received billions and billions of dollars meanwhile we are now being the richest people on the planet there are now 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 this 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 cash was of course that was all from that so that you know this is

a real challenge to our system as well as to work economy there's been a lot of rhetoric about. secrecy jurisdictions but i think this is been disappointing two thousand and nine we have the g. twenty talking basically about. secrecy jurisdictions where a lot of this money flows are nothing has been done nothing substantial. coming up pay green men or verse three for no way to read it on national and there is a great big the deadly terror attacks look at the extremist ideologies which are blooming in the supposedly multicultural europe. american views of disappointed by network news 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 to to the

streets against a decree that bans all kinds of public protests the monarchy is responsible with that with hundreds of raids on the homes of suspect of protesters and dozens of the wrist the media has also been targeted with police apparently ordered to prevent coverage of the inquest we spoke to someone who witnessed the brutality on the streets filmmaker and veteran human rights activist jan mother before being kicked out of bahrain as she was one of those few western journalists left in the she says the situation is more desperate than you would be. 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 russia on swimming pools their private homes this practice of targeting activists and demonstrators fortunately seems to be on the rise and very. it's spread 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 there's been a year since mass murder and there's a brave good seventy people seventy seven people pardon me in twin attacks in norway crowds gathered in central also and in into on of the victims brave is still

on trial claiming that the killings were a necessary part of his fight against multiculturalism despite europe's consistent efforts to promote tolerance towards all people regardless of their cultural roots hatred among its citizens continues to grow archies test reports. i swear to god we will not let it pass peacefully therefore we say stay in your house you not see. just 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 hammad mera 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 benefit to me states the far right to build the racist. so primitive state and ny style and the far left to build companies and deliver of his property 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. again. 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're 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 who 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 of religion are these extremists or just some minority of the attacks lost by this isolated cases but the answer is 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 the still 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 i including rising poverty in the u.s. it's called hawsers saw over the next yeah hitting its highest level since one thousand nine hundred sixty is we report on why there's a little to stop it. plus a married mother and a model need the russian woman to be the only thing that an american to reach the

last sixteen of the pageant that celebrates perfect lives. 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 attack on a bus carrying tourists but independent researcher soraya who are all regular things iran would 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 now if they're told by mr netanyahu to me it doesn't make sense if iran would want to carry out this operation it's very hard to accept that iran would willingly cut the world 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 israel as the second such incident and fifth attempt in a week with the previous coinciding with mess around is against government policies but. he's a public housing activist in a regular at demonstrations or 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. 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 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 their disappointment

with the i'm a news network shows they say they've had enough of biased reporting errors and too much time given to the to show biz gossip the result of this loss of faith as marina explains is a rise in citizen journalism that's trying to set as why the public's hunger for real and reliable information. good is 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 they are. writing the revolution going our approach. and going to. katie who are going to 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 i am also 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 it's needed. and i think if you have a situation where the citizens of the country are actually bypassing the mainstream media i think that's. 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 ited states 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 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 good baby doing or even reporting about her in a porno party we are. i'll be back with a recap of the headlines in just a few minutes.

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