criticised for killing civilians in drone strikes targeting pakistani militants the us president barack obama might now see these unlawful doubts go unnoticed with a debatable definition of targets. will stop fighting in syria as government forces advance on gravel controlled areas near the capital and in the country's largest city of aleppo while washington applause the opposition's gains and promises to increase support. and european car makers have a difficult road ahead as sales plummeted across the continent leading to thousands of painful layoffs. hello and welcome to. news live from moscow i am you know ship of our time main

story now u.s. led drone strikes have killed more than one hundred fifty suppose militants in pakistan so far this year. that's from a recent new america foundation poll however critics say the obama administration is blurring the line between civilian and thrash where there's different version of militant washington correspondent again education explains. if you believe this chart as seen on c.n.n. american drone strikes in pakistan have been so precise that they haven't killed a single innocent person this year the chart shows last year the strikes targeted four hundred thirty one militants and killed only twenty six quote unquote others meaning civilians the data was compiled by the new america foundation now how did this foundation come up with the numbers which look pretty much like advertising for drones they link press reports when you actually look at the reports reports almost half of them are attributed to some unnamed intelligence officials who give the number of who they refer to as militants and

a few more details for example the a.f.p. agency report about a strike in north waziristan earlier this month says quote it was difficult to identify the bodies immediately as some of them were charred end of quote but this survey which was broadcast on c.n.n. doesn't have to go deep into details as to who was identified as who nor does it have to clarify the definition of the word militant in this context as seen by the obama administration and according to the obama administration all military age males in a strike zone count as combatants unless there is explicit intelligence possed humorously proving them innocent so someone has to prove their innocence after they're dead president obama lawyer by background personally approves the kill list now how does the administration get away with this take no prisoners policy double speak is one of the ways illegally executing people is fine as long as you call them militants as pointed out by the london based investigative journalism it's

very hard to reveal exact numbers they put the total of civilian civilians killed in drone strikes in pakistan at around eight hundred whereas if you believe the new america foundation chart it's half effect analysts say the reports by pakistani officials are not always reliable because of their dubious position on the one hand they test with glee allow the drone strikes on the other. and condemn them the public publicly condemn them arguably to resonate more with the sentiments of the population in practice then that is furious with us actions population that sees a different chart not the success graphics bought cast on c.n.n. and the question they ask is how much killing will be enough in washington i'm going to check on. here will change your life still ahead you asked police by an angry mob protesters take to the streets of several cities demanding offices to be held accountable after three men are shot and killed by heavy handed authorities in

a matter of day. posture which is held by many outsiders as one of the world's best young democracies but we hear from those on the inside tell a very different story. the syrian government troops seem to have regained the upper hand in fighting rebel forces in and around the country's two major cities fierce clashes are taking place now close to damascus as the army advances on a city captured by the rebels during their offensive on the capital last week at the same time your government troops are moving towards the country's largest city of aleppo where fighting has been intensifying for several days now claiming dozens of lives authorities say they are so they defying their control of the commercial hub such reports contradict hillary clinton who earlier held to the gains made by the opposition in a statement where the u.s. secretary of state also said washington stepping up its support for the rebels all this comes as international pressure on the assad regime ounce of its chemical

weapons despite the government's assurances they will never be used in the internal conflict and william f. and the also the missed lies and always says all allegations the weapons have already been used or will be in the future so the single purpose of paving the way for intervention. likely that this. happen because it would be madness to use chemical weapons inside closed urban areas you get your supporters as well as these. mercenaries and the same these are not precise weapons these are for huge battlefield conditions if it said that this is deja vu all over again i smell a rerun of the old pentagon scenario that dick cheney and friends ran to justify the war in iraq with the niger yellowcake and now they're trying to do that with the weapon of mass destruction chemical warfare weapons of war with syria to create this climate that this is the most pressing thing on the face of the earth and this

is simply not the case. news crees is in syria keeping you updated on the situation the tweet says so responded attacks on a voyage to see how the people in the capital damascus are trying to live and all they say about this seventeen month. the situation in syria and whether it's now at a tipping point is the focus of today's call still coming up later on and here's a quick look at a loss head for. syria threatens no one syria is a nonbeliever in country what's going on is not an uprising it's not a revolution it's not a civil war the i.c.r.c. was paid eight million dollars by washington to lie to lie is if their lie change international law and i disagree completely with stephen

they didn't unleash this power in fact there's lots of debate in washington now and lots of reluctance to supply weapons because they know it might end up in the hands of al qaida but at the same time this level of persistent meddling and allowing their lies to mad to. consistently and kind of fueling the fire in syria is very very destructive and i think. this component of the chemical weapons is only going to smother the picture. and if you. still. want. my. eyes were shot four times in total in the air war as it were in. syria the bullets are still in my body.

and people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are gone from the hands of law abiding decent people are not our problem national rifle association was a group of basically retired military and we love to shoot holes and i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and what's in front of here is going to die and that's all the training you really really need raise your hand if you know something's been shot ok but to live without one of the philadelphia horns over streets. of jello without a gun hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared for the full class including the teacher i think there's. seventeen students and city and one of seven or so.

if they shoot something inappropriate for public they can easily be shot by. casualties of war ok. i wish they would have never happened but it has happened. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary what destroys their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors. should leave the meat and the spear what happens with such witnesses we got a body like. your person shooting on our t.v. . the huge debt crisis is driving comic is right on the road when it comes to sales

across europe and it's resulting in major job cuts now they continent second biggest manufacturer and a symbol of french industry is planning to close a huge plant in a suburb of paris and also for thousands more hours of work oh she's tests are seeing their reports now on the continuing pain being inflicted on europeans. anger among workers eight thousand jobs across france will be slashed by their employer p.s. if usual situation more than three thousand in this plant alone a blow to the new president's pledge of creating new jobs and to france is once a thriving industry. that she has been working for the company for eighteen years at the end of last month he lost his job at another peugeot site that was closed down and was transferred to this factory as luck would have it he's about to get fired a second time and he showed us what exactly this would mean for him. after the close the other five g.

i had no choice but to move to get closer to the only site where they had moved me otherwise it would have been unemployed but just as i arrived here i hadn't even finished painting the flood just as my wife came here and you truly don't know if i just don't know what to do next but workers say it's not just the economic crisis that's hurt them it's also politics specifically sanctions against iran. the iranian market is huge it's the second market after france four hundred fifty thousand cars sold in two thousand and eleven so it's fifteen percent of the sales so it's a lot of money lost so if the government can intervene on a commercial level intervene at the social level to be inspiring the workers of this plant say that they have no other choice but to keep on fighting but they're not oblivious to the fact that a whole generation of older workers who had seen a france's industrial boom are now starting to see a change in their economy and that the so-called lost generation of young people many of whom are without clothes they're all seeing a change and want to they can be more clearly getting up more on their own that's

out of the closet a capitalist system of riches the myth to my generation we've been studying for years. myself i am. a master degree and i cannot find any job before so i cannot buy a house or buy a new car or if i want to do it i have to go to the bank and get a credit so that means there will be presumed with reason alone this car dealer says the number of young first time car buyers has indeed gone down staggering youth unemployment adding injury to an already. bleak future for europe's car makers and be it generations of workers or their generation a similar vision unites them. we will start a new battle with p.s.e. group because what's happening is a normal i think a. transmitter in your evolution we're working on it just are still here r t paris

the french president francois hollande a tux pleasures a layoff strategy as unacceptable as his struggles to fulfill his election promise of growth and put a face and his other pleasures to the test as i spoke to an advertising under former advisor to france saw me to rome last socialist president of france before long and the volunteer who is coming up next how. you know communication is a weapon is a dumb dumb bullet that she was like that when france was promises growth by someone made the same mistake nicolas sarkozy did. not control growth only the european economy can affect me it's a promise that risks disappointing the french people who would have a state of grace for six months or so but it's been a good scene if there's no revival of economic growth no one really sees coming he will lose his credibility i like not always prefer the psychological slogans over political slogans of president purchasing power you know the president of

a promise is the only external rather than oneself. is yet another case of police brutality now in southern dollars has seen one model gunned down causing angry crowds to take to the streets its days after policeman in the city of anaheim work criticized for killing two man. brings us the latest on the violence. city of at home to the happiest place on earth but today activists are calling this city a powder keg which is ready to explode following those two deadly officer involved shootings over the weekend now this all started on saturday when. an armed latino man was shot and killed by police officers but there was a spontaneous protest of this police shooting and police responded by shooting ever

balls indiscriminately into that crowd which included women and children then on sunday another officer involved shooting which proved to be deadly another lucky no manhole though now has two shootings marked eight officer involved shooting in twelve months here in the city of anaheim many in this community say that this just points to a larger pattern of excessive force by the police and these videos that are surfacing are really. eighteen to mobilize the community to speak out their frustrations with their relationship with the police in many instances where police use force they have made the claim that it was the protesters which started throwing projectiles at them but clearly as we have seen in the videos these crowds of protesters have been filled with families have been filled with young children with women and the video which has been shown even on mainstream media outlets clearly shows that the police were shooting indiscriminately with those pepper

balls now we are also getting reports that there will be increased patrols not just here in city hall but in those neighborhoods where the shootings have been so a lot of people in this community believe that the increased police presence is only going to heighten tensions between police officers and the community and one or the stories at home and also that report on them on who wants to gas at chantix behind boz could now they walk into a cave journey. also. a week in league seeks help from a top judge while he remains holed up inside to ecuador an embassy in london. and also find out why santa claus has already been coming to a place near copenhagen but this father christmas feast is no walk and play all the details for you online.

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you're watching are seen now praised for preaching freedom and reform in the georgian leadership is cost as a fledgling democracy a success story by those by the western media and by the state channels at home some journalists working in the countries see a very different picture as if he's a rino going to found out. that's exactly what we're seeing in my culture the world in my part of the world you know you are leverage that you know energy by giving people more freedom freedom is the key word find words from the georgian president some western officials like hillary clinton continuously praised me truly for his supposed program of reform but journalists in the country are less impressed and say talk of freedom doesn't extend to the media made it through that were being a journalist is now a dangerous profession in georgia there's always a risk of being accused of being a spy journalist get beaten up frequently all of this is happening in front of the

entire country and. the chances are that most people in georgia won't find out about these cases from their evening news according to the latest polls more than eighty percent of georgians depends on t.v. as their main source of information yet georgians only have free access to three channels all of them controlled by the state one way or the other. one channel is owned by saakashvili eight another his friends relatives so all people get really is just state controlled propaganda and we think so what if the georgians don't get the full scope of their country's events from the t.v. sets after all there is always the internet but still they have to understand a lot of people here still live in rural areas and for a lot of them the world wide web is simply not available readily at their fingertips independent channels like of cossey or channel nine are available only to those who have satellite dishes and other luxury for most georgians. sometimes

i have friends or relatives visiting from other parts of georgia and they watch these channels and say what is this really happening in this country we knew nothing about it your group was operating an independent media outlet isn't easy here journalists say their cash flow has run dry since advertisers were told by authorities to stay. from channels which may be affiliated with the opposition on top of that their every move is being closely watched by authorities here. i constantly find myself facing over the top control from local officials i'm always being followed by some strange people who say they're from some unknown news agencies and ask me questions why do we film stories about political prisoners for example. state officials don't feel comfortable coming to us because we ask questions they don't want to answer but state controlled media never ask those questions. president saakashvili is a frequent guest on various american t.v.

channels but he's never made an appearance on any of the opposition channels at home perhaps it's not so much the questions that he minds is the effect his their answers may have in tbilisi georgia. arenas here next to the business news which seem to be all negative lately and now you probably have some more pessimism for us from what i understand. because we also know that cyprus may have to ask for more money than previously expected but i'll tell you about that in a second for us let's take a look at the sea of red that is the markets the only one trader right now was that the nikkei shedding over one percent this hour the hang seng setting a third of a percent another government form the old strong record low that's a cooling growth in china of course that disaster that we see in your apartment saw is that greece might have to and it might miss that reduction targets now stay with

asia talk about japan the summer out now that its exports nosedived in june for the first time in four months the world's third largest economy exports of two point three percent less goods and services than the previous year shipments declined by almost a quarter mile those to china by seven percent and this is the fuel panic across the pan. as the country relies heavily on exports for growth. and a second look at how the trade in session winds in the u.s. on choose the because of course has a major effect on the all the markets that kick off the trading session later and we see that the dow lost over a half a percent similar with nasdaq that one almost one the per side to the right and interestingly there apple lost almost a five percent and that's after reports showed that its profit and sales fell below analysts expectations and the reason for that is because sales for i phone were quite low and that is because people don't want to buy the i phone because a new one is expected to come out and. move in oh let's take

a look at the current season so what's happening there when it comes to the russian ruble these are the thinkers from tuesday it was mixed the ruble gained against the euro lost to the greenback and we know that russia central bank has now said that it will minimize its level of intervention into the currency market at the same time and it has a wide and it will straight up bad again so both major currencies and now of course when it comes to the euro it's still gaining against the u.s. dollar and now is staying with the year. that i mentioned earlier and that's because it may now need more money than previously estimated according to the wall street journal a delegation from the european commission the international monetary fund and the european central bank known now as the troika is currently visiting the islands to calculate its financial needs with officials saying it will be at least thirteen billion euros the cypriot government is also in negotiations with russia for a five billion euro loan and they hope that once that goes through it will convince

the troika to help them out as well. now let's take a look at how the russian markets performed on tuesday they will of course open in about half an hour from now so we saw it was a sea of red here as well yes and my successor over half a percent extending the severe losses we saw monday over a four percent and the right there not as bad though yesterday we'll see what happens when they opened. a second look at how well prices are doing there of course the climb in for a third day as well as most markets are so light sweet this friday eighty eight dollars per gallon the prime blend is at around one hundred and three dollars a barrel we know that u.s. stockpiles increased last week that's in the west not for the first time every four weeks and also china's imports slid twelve percent in june form of may so that's for that month and of course that shows signals of economy is slowing down there. to russia and construction in an arctic ports in the mall peninsula and of course

we know that and plus the amount of money will be invested there i'm talking about twenty billion dollars worth of investment from a state producer nava gas producer that is and we've sent our very own thoughts on the arctic to find out what is making the northern see route so attractive and appealing. i am now walking along the shortest sea passage connecting the east and the west part of our planet the northern sea route the water here like ten degrees now but most of the year if i've found and that's the main reason why it cannot compete with the main cargo transit route through. the main advantage of the northern syria it is that it is two times shorter than the suez canal nordic both carriers which will become the biggest user of the routes this yes is nonexistent through the northern sea instead of the canal shortens the trip to just twenty three days compared to forty three through the canal it also saves one thousand tonnes of fuel or more than six hundred thousand dollars vessels going through the

northern sea route will avoid long queues and possible pirate attacks however one obstacle remains icebreaker and sports. broker escorts because not much more or less than the. how expensive it will be for the company will depend on whether the ice breaker accompanies just one ship or a convoy. there are new fixed rates on offer in this sector yet last year just thirty four ships use the passage nothing compared to the eighteen thousand vessels passing through the suez canal annually this area still to hold a third of our planet's oil and gas reserves which makes the northern sea route the most efficient way to supply western europe and china with the fuel team for an metals so the arctic ice that melts on them all gas from ross now a lot of tech luke will be all the drill here this one of the cargo shipments can take advantage of this once frozen sea passage and become

a real alternative to this. but you have a quota business are to the arctic and of course there are some markets go up and then i predict they will be in the red so we'll see what happens there thank you very much for that update marina see you next hour and i'll be back with the recount top stories in just a few minutes. is

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