criticised for killing civilians in drone strikes targeting pakistani militants and us president barack obama might now see these and north holdouts go i've noticed what the debatable definition of targets. pointing in syria as government sources advance on the rebel controlled areas near the capital and in the country's largest city aleppo while washington applauds the opposition gains and promises to increase support. al you have been lakers have a difficult road ahead of sales plummet across the continent leading to thousands of painful layoffs. you saw in russia and around the world with me thanks for joining us first u.s.

drone strikes have killed more than a hundred and fifty supposed militants in pakistan so far this year and zero civilians that's from a recent new america foundation however critics say the obama administration with its definition of militant is blurring the line between what's classed as a civilian and a threat washington correspondent can now 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 explicitly 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 bureau for 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 the cast of glee allowed the drone strikes on the other. and condemn them the public publicly condemn them or you believe to resonate more with the sentiments of the population in pakistan that is furious with u.s. actions population that sees a different chart not the success of graphics 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. your wall. and still have the man who wants to get a tree then dictator behind bars could soon be working to keep

a songe out of them we talk live with our correspondent in london with a weekly except it's two holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy. so later u.s. police are met by an angry mob as protesters in several cities demand officers be held accountable after three men are shot and killed by have a hundred or four cities in a matter of days. 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 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 also defying their control of the commercial such reports contradict hillary clinton who earlier hailed 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 assurance they will never be used in the internal conflict and william and dar the author of myths lies and says allegations the weapons have already been used or will be in the future serve the single purpose of paving the. this is virtually unlikely that this happened because it would be madness to use chemical weapons inside closed urban areas you get to your supporters as well as as these al-qaeda mercenaries and in the same these are not precise weapons these are for huge battlefield conditions if it it that that this is deja vu all over again i smell a rerun of the old the 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 or whatnot 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. the situation in syria and whether it's now a tipping point is the focus of today's crosstalk coming up later this hour here in our city and here's a quick look at what's ahead for you. syria threatens no one syria is a nonbelligerent 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 there are allies to meddle with 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 mother the picture. and one of our news crews even the syrian capital at the moment keeping you updated on the situation that via twitter follow our correspondent talks on the border to see how people in the capital damascus are trying to guard their lives and what they say about this seventeen month long conflict. would be soon which brighten if you move about some from violence to question its.

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biggest money functionally under symbol of french industry is planning to close a huge plant in a suburb of paris and also force thousands more to work just seen the reports now on the continuing pain being inflicted on the europeans. anger among workers eight thousand jobs across france will be slashed by their employer usual situation more than three thousand this plant a womb 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 i would have been unemployed the just as i arrived here i hadn't even finished painting the flood just as my wife came here the names the new closure i just don't know what to do now 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 you can intervene at the social level to be firing 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 then the so-called lost generation of young people many of whom are without problems and they're all seeing a change and want to they can be more clearly getting up more on their own it's out

of that was a capitalist system of riches the myth in my generation we've been studying for years. myself. i must third degree and i cannot find a job of course 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 i get a credit so that means there will be prisoned 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 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

. french president francois hollande a time exposures lay off strategy as an acceptable as his struggles to fulfill his election promise of growth and base and his other pledges to the test as we speak to an advertising and former adviser to francois mitterrand they lost socialist president of france before long and the full interview is coming up next how. you know communication is a weapon a slogan is a dumb dumb bullet that should be like. promises growth someone made the same mistake nicolas sarkozy did alone does not control growth only the european economy can go if it's a promise that risks disappointing the french people he would have a state of grace for six months but good enough there's no revival of economic growth which no one really sees coming for he will lose his credibility i like not always prefer the psychological slogans over political slogans of president purchasing power of the president for

a promise is the only external rather than oneself. julian assange seems to be never running out of surprises despite being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for over a month now the famous and we can leave to some blubber has bolted is a legal team by hiring celebrated spanish jurist and human rights investigator bolters on guards on renowned for indicting the late chilean the pinochet and laura smith joins us now live from london with the details hello there laura so what does this development mean for the case will bring any change. well i guess it means a sort of renewal really as you mentioned he's been holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy for a month now and i think what his team is constantly trying to do is keep him in the public eye and this is certainly a significant development that. a spanish judge and lawyer zog our son has been

hired to take his case and it means a new legal strategy as well it means that instead of just defending julian assange is they'll be one legal team which takes on wiki leaks and personally in their own battles so exposing these what they're calling extra extra judicial acts by the financial system for example this embargo that we've seen by and master card on payments into wiki leaks which is recently been overturned by a judge and also to show how what they're calling secret u.s. proceedings these credible reports that we've been hearing about a sealed indictment against you there are signs and also the subpoenaing of the grand jury over in the states have compromised these processes including the process to extradite you then our sons and daughters are garson is an incredibly interesting character in fact he's a man that hollywood is preparing to make a movie about his life he's a spanish lawyer and

a judge who shot to fame just over twenty years ago when he shook the international justice system by issuing an international arrest warrant for pinochet of course that then became a very famous case the former chilean head of state who at the time in one nine hundred ninety eight was here in london to undergo medical proceedings. also an issue this international arrest warrants ordering his arrest for genocide and talk in relation to people who disappeared during pinochet's regime in chile he was then held under house arrest for five hundred days which point he was released to return to chile on health grounds and since then he's really spearheaded this voice against wrong doing in both. and latterly in spain he has recently been involved in his own legal battles as well earlier this year he was fighting three different cases at the same time one he was found guilty of and he was in fact disbarred from

being a judge or a magistrate in spain for eleven years as a result of that in february this year he was found guilty of ordering illegal recordings of suspects talking to their lawyers in connection with. cases that they were involved in but he's also been not convicted. for something that he was involved in which is an investigation into the disappearance of one hundred thousand people in spain under the regime of franco now that was found to be illegal by the spanish authorities and amnesty has been declared on the time that it was in charge in spain they say because of the past let bygones be bygones investigations into that time are not allowed and came had a lot of support from the families of those people who had been disappeared under frankly his regime and also from the wider public but nevertheless he was he was reprimanded for that created a big big stir in spain and around europe and spain has been accused in relation to

that of discouraging human rights investigations. in relation to. that there's seems to be a worrying lack of safeguards and transparency as far as his case is concerned and this terrorism and that he's been subject to really have an irreparable effect on his physical and mental health and he also says that the swedish and the u.k. governments are very much complicit in this so what it really means globally for julian i saw it is that he's got another big hit in the world of human rights protection on his side. and hopefully that will help ok laura smith live from london. and more on all of our stories at r.t. dot com also the green ones turning scientists. after the war in discover that almost all of the island's ice shareholder melted away on the surface this month all about it online and also find out why santa claus has already been coming to

a place near copenhagen but this father christmas feast is no work to be played all the details for you as r.t. dot com. in the u.s. there's been a new case of police abusing their power this time in southern dollars that's after one man was gunned down causing angry crowds to take to the streets it follows policemen in the city of anaheim who alleged suspects with no trial are no record. on going to explores why those who are supposed to protect the people kill them. the 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 pepper balls indiscriminately into that crowd which included women and children then on sunday another officer involved shooting which proved to be deadly another left you know manhole sevenzo now two shootings mark 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 and 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 a video which has been shown even on mainstream media outlets. that 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 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 can make this is a special report expose the final line between sound defiance and brutal violence among the u.s. gun. was shot four times in. the bullshit still in my body.

and people should be allowed to determine where we've gone from the law abiding people are now. i'm sorry if you don't come down here and this makes you go back and if what you hear is going to. that's all the training really really need raise your hand and be . drilling what i want to. drink. without a bully we will never use the weapons for self-defense but we should be prepared. for the future of. seventeen students. one of the.

time now for business objectives and rain is that it's been a very tough year into week for the not good so far is that anything positive to report the arena you know there's nothing positive calmer now right now and definitely when it comes to the european markets they are extending losses now for a third day and of course all of this us there with the added pressure coming from the fact that their size agrees the main message is that production targets and also of course look at take a look at the figures for europe as i'm saying all of this because we also know that moody's investor services has now lowered its a long term of the outlook on the long term credit rating of the financial stability facility and this is of course a blow not on its investors but the fund itself because it is the one that's. to help struggling members so we can see the footsies dropping about a quarter of a percent when it comes to german diets just the knowledge we have the r.t.s. and the mindset setting as well again a third day of straight losses for the russian markets with capital flight decline

in oil prices the fact that matters will all have more in that a little bit of course on the poles of note for once russia has now picked up work on the construction of a major void in the article maybe i'm all. in the prestons amount of money was invested into that i'm talking about twenty billion dollars and that was by state gas producer novacek and our very own stand up on a global travel to russia's arctic and she will tell us about what is making the russians northern sea route so popular and attractive. 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 is like ten degrees now but most of the year if i was bound and that's the main reason why it cannot compete with the main cargo transit route through. the main advantage of the northern ca route is that it is two times shorter than the suez canal nor is it both carriers which will become the biggest user of the routes this year says not

a geisha and 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 ca route will avoid long queues and possible pirate attacks however one obstacle remains icebreaker and chords. as course because not much more or less than the shipment itself how expensive it will be for the company will depend on whether the icebreaker companies just one ship or a convoy however there are no fixed rates on offer in the 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 fuel team for an metals

so the more the arctic ice that melts and the more gas from rosner flow of tech luke will and the all those drill here the soon of the cargo ship can take advantage of this once frozen sea passage and become a real alternative to this wealth can all but help a core business are to the arctic are not going to do with international markets asia is still trading right now and their sea of red as well government bond yields are dropping to record lows you have not helping matters but i want to talk about japan in particular because. we know that our exports nosedive in the month of june and that's for the first time in four months the world's third largest economy export two point three percent less goods and services than the previous year in fact europe declined by almost a quarter of all those to china by seven percent and of course the statistics fueled panic across japan as a country relies heavily on exports for growth now if we can continue with the currencies you see that the euro is again against the u.s. dollar the ruble is losing against both major currencies then we know that russia

central bank has now decided to minimize its level of intervention into the currency market at the same time it has expanded trade and bad for the ruble against a major currencies more on that next hour if we move on and on oil prices they are declining of once again. in the u.s. increase for the first time in four weeks also we know that in china imports twelve percent for the month of june of course showing that the economy is weakening is never a good sign and now if we can take a look at europe once again we have signs which may now need more money than previously estimated amounts according to the wall street journal a delegation from the european commission the international monetary fund and the european central bank also known as the troika is currently visit in the island to calculate its financial needs and officials say it will be at least thirteen billion euros now the cypriot government is also negotiations with russia for a five billion euro loan and they hope once that goes through it will convince the troika to help them out as well. right and that's how business looks out for you

more in that next hour of course thank you very much indeed for that marina. back with a recap our top stories in just a few. sky

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