loring's. criticized for killing civilians in drone strikes targeting pakistani militants that u.s. president barack obama might now see these and little deaths go unnoticed with a debatable definition of targets. will stop fighting in syria as government forces advance on rebel controlled areas near the capital and in the country's largest city of aleppo while washington applauds the opposition's gains and promises to increase support. and the man who once filled to put as she landed potato behind bars could soon be working to keep i'll tell them they stand there we can still holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy. international news and comment live from moscow this is. thanks for joining us u.s.

led drone strikes have killed more than one hundred and fifty suppose militants in pakistan so far this year and zero civilians that's from a recent new america foundation paul however critics say the obama administration with its definition of militant is blurring the line between what's classed as a civilian and what's a threat how washington correspondent get an edge chicken reports. 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 local pretty much like advertising for drones they link press reports when you actually look at the report it reports almost half of them are attributed to some unnamed. intelligence officials will

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 its 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 hand they condemned them the public to publicly condemn them arguably 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 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. you're watching on line from coming out rough roads ahead for a european. as the currency crisis throws a. wrench into production plummeting sales across the continent are expected to put

thousands out of a job. class u.s. police a method by angry nor those protesters in several cities demand of this is be held accountable after three men are shot and killed by heavy handed off overseas 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 the city captured by the rebels during their offensive on the campus home last week at the same time more 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 well sources say they are solidifying their control of the commercial hub airports contradict hillary clinton who earlier hail to the gains made by the opposition in a statement where the u.s.

secretary of state also said of 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 as an adult the author of myths lie is and always has all occasions the weapons have already been used or will be in the future said the single purpose of paving the way for intervention. this is virtually likely that this happened because it would be madness to use chemical weapons inside closed urban areas you get your supporters as well as these. mercenaries in the same these are not precise weapons these are for huge battlefield conditions if 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 of the war with syria

to create this climate that this is the most pristine thing on the face of the earth and this is simply not the case. and this is here in syria and whether it's now a topping point at a tipping point rather is the focus of today's crosstalk coming up later today on our city and here's a quick look at what's ahead for us. 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 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 alarming there are allies to meddle. 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 allowing news crews azan they syrian counter so at the moment keeping you updated on this situation that via twitter and you can follow our correspondent on a boy go to see how people in the capital damascus are trying to their lives and what they say about that seventeen month long conflict. which would be soon which brightened if you live. from france to question its.

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well into the future. or in more mouths to feed but where will the food come from. provide the answers the future of food under the microscope. we've got the future. close move on julian assange seems to be never running out of surprises despite being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for of a month now waiting for a decision on his asylum plea the famous we can leaks whistle blower has bolstered

his legal team by hiring celebrated spanish jurist and human rights investigator someone renowned for indicting the late chilean leader pinochet laura smith has to change. what his team is constantly trying to do is keep him in the public eye and this is certainly a significant development that this spanish judge and lawyer zog our son has been hired to take his case and it means a new legal strategy and also to show how what they're calling secret u.s. proceedings so these credible reports that we've been hearing about a sealed indictments against do that and also the subpoenaing of the grand jury over in the states have compromised these processes including the process to extradite to the innocence and balances are garson is a 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 shot shook the international justice system by issuing an international arrest warrant for august to pinochet and since then he's really spearheaded this five c. against wrongdoing in both latin america 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. this year he was found guilty of ordering illegal recordings of suspects talking to their lawyers he's also been not convicted from. it's for something that he was involved in which was an investigation into the disappearance of a 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 franco was in charge in spain in relation to judy last summer says that

there's seems to be a worrying lack of safeguards and transparency as far as his case is concerned so what it really means. is that he's got another big case in the world if human rights protection on his side. and more all of our stories at r.c. dot com and also there are greenland standing scientists called they were in discovery that almost all of the island's ice showed melted away on the surface this month so read all about it online. and find out why santa claus has already been coming to a place near copenhagen but this father christmas feast is no work and play all the details for you.

the u. debt crisis is driving can they cause a riot over the road when it comes to sales across europe and it's resulting in major job cuts now the continent's second biggest manufacturer and a symbol of french industry per show is planning to close a huge plant in a suburb of paris and also forced thousands more to work. reports now on the continuing pain they inflicted on the europeans. anger among workers eight thousand jobs across france will be slashed by their employer visual 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. but triggers 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 with good move 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. team 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 partial 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 with ourselves there will see a change and want to begin to be more clearly getting up more on their own it's out of the closet capitalist system of riches the myth of my generation we've been studying for years. myself. a must third 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 carmakers and be it generations of workers with their generation a similar vision unites them or no we will start a new battle with p.s.e. group because what's happening is a normal i think. france new there is

a new revolution we're working on it just are still here r t paris and french president francois long time specials layoffs started as unacceptable as his struggles to fulfill his election promise of. and put this and his other pledges to the test as we spoke to an advertising girl and a former advisor to francois mitterrand the last socialist president of france before long and the full interview is coming up later this hour. you know communication is a weapon each slogan is a bullet that should be like that. promises grow that someone made the same mistake nicholas sarkozy did alone does not control growth only the european economy can go if it's a promise that risks disappointing the french people who would have a state of grace for six months but i don't see no there's no revival of economic growth which no one really sees coming he will lose his credibility i like not

always prefer the psychological slogans over political slogans of the president purchasing power you know the president of growth or a promise is the only external rather than oneself. in the uars there's been a new case of police abusing their power this time in southern dallas that's after one man was gunned down causing angry crowds to take to the streets it follows the shooting by police of to suspects in the city of anaheim around one going to explore why those who are supposed to protect the people are also killing them. the city of anaheim is fall into 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 manhole a severe though now two shootings march eighth 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 the video which has been shown even on mainstream media outlets clearly shows 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 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 later today our special report explores the final line between a sound defense and a brutal violence and long view as gun. i was shot four times in. three of the bullets are still a lot of. people should be allowed to the. people are now.

i'm sorry if. this makes you go back and watching here is going to. that's all the training. regime and that's. what i want to. drink. it without a bully we will never use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared. for the future. and one of the. less how close to our business desk right now and marina is following the market

sound to much rule of course and i hear ya bow down the line story for us this out well to flowers have to do with business wearing yes no well it's a tires and in brazil as a russian diamond a line that will help create environmentally friendly ties but i have more of that a little bit later first i want to say about the fact that russia is stepping up its efforts to switch to a fully free trade at a currency and it's doing that but the central bank first of all has now minimize its level of cash interventions into the currency market and also has widened the trade imbalance all of the ruble against the u.s. dollar and the euro if we can take a look at how they're trading right now. euro is gaining against the us dollar and the ruble is naturally after this announcement we clearly against both major currencies if we take a look at the russian the markets will see that they have now done at complete user and you're about to see yourself both the r t s and m i six and i again and that's despite decline in oil prices which will take a look at in a second and also of course all the concerns over the debt crisis in the euro zone

if we take a look at what's happening we've seen one recovery there as well especially when it comes to the german doctors these add in just the knowledge the footsie is the losing over a quarter of a percent and that also comes after this investment service lowered its long term credit rating all of the european financial stability facility and of course this was a blow not only to investors but the fund itself which is supposed to help struggling with. staying with your opponents about cyprus because it may have to need more money than previously estimated and that's according to the wall street journal delegation from the european commission of the international monetary fund and the european central bank now 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 cypriot government is also in the goetia nations with russia for five billion euro loan and they hope that once that goes through it will commence the

troika to help them out as well. and now in the liner notes of what you see right now on your screen has solved europe discover a new generation of an environmentally friendly timers and of course talking about the russians and the alien company a pall over the sun has presented tire prototypes made with natural rubber and the next step would be to test them on the street before they go to the production phase and the whole point of the russian dandelion i should say is to create an alternative to asia rubber monopoly mentioned they just might as well take a look at the asian markets and they still remain firmly in maggots. territory we see that the nikkei is shedding almost one and a half percent when it comes to that it's just under a quarter of a percent and of course mainly we have greece and concerns that it will fail to meet its debt reduction targets plane up there now if we move on and take a look at japan and particularly because we know that it exports nosedived in june for the first time in four months the world's third largest economy exports two

point three percent or less goods and services than the previous year shipments do you have declined by almost a quarter while those to china by seven percent and of course these statistics will panic across japan as a country relies heavily on exports for growth. if we continue take a look at crude prices as i said they are declining now for a third straight session with the lights we decided at around eighty eight dollars per barrel the prime blend at around one hundred thirty dollars per barrel stockpiles increase for the first time in four weeks in the u.s. also demand in china imports for the sled twelve percent in june from the month of may and that's the biggest drop in two years showing that the economy there is weakening never a good sign when i let's go back to russia because we do have some positive news remaining and that's the fact that russia has a kick started its construction work on the major port in the arctic on the your mall peninsula and in fact investments into that are now at a staggering twenty billion dollars and that's coming from

a state gas producer novacek and a very on the down the balaklava travel to russia's arctic to take a look and explain to us what's so attractive about the northern sea routes. i am now walking along the shortest the passage connecting the east and the west part of our planet the northern theory route they want to hit like ten degrees now but most of the year i've found that the main reason why it cannot compete with the main cargo transit route through if you mean advantage of the north is that it is two times shorter than the suez canal nordic both carriers are. 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 ask or it's. the ice breaker as course 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 mouth on them all gas from rosner flow of tech new cool and the all those drill here the sooner the cargo ship can take advantage of this once frozen sea passage and become a real alternative to this wealth can all but help an equal business are to the

arctic and there you have a dandelions the arctic what more do you need for pictures today back to you know your limits to the very much marine and maybe my favorite magnolia is mental about the lego house something of our next hour. we'll see our isolator and on the back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes. if

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