non-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. criticized for killing civilians and drone strikes targeting pakistani militants the u.s. president barack obama might now see these and north all deaths go unnoticed with a debatable definition of targets. and the man who once fought to put at chilean dictator behind bars could soon be working to keep julian assange out of them they says the weekly exegesis still holed up inside the ecuadorian embassy.

russia and around the world this is with me thanks for joining us syrian government troops seem to have regained the upper hand in fighting rebel forces in and around the country still 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 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 authorities say there are solidifying their control of the commercial hub such reports contradict hillary clinton her earlier hail to the gains made by the opposition and its statement what 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 mounts always chemical weapons despite the government's assurances they will never be used in the internal conflict and it will in their van daal the author of myths lies and oil who says a geisha as they weapons have already been used. will be in the future so the

single purpose of paving the way going to mention. 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 and the same these are not precise weapons these are for huge battlefield conditions if. 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. based collation of violence in syria has made thousands of people many of them are those who had originally come to the country to escape

bloodshed at home and in the last few days alone more than ten thousand iraqis have loved syria according to un estimates correspondent in damascus on a boy who has met some of the people who showed their failings about having to flee once again. fled their home countries in search of peace only to be ambushed by war in the place they thought was a syria has long been counted among the most welcoming countries in the region for refugees it's almost one hundred thousand of them registered here permanently it was before the while and broke out in syria the residents of the neighborhoods were all well familiar with the ugly realities of war for the past decade beast area has become home thousands of war refugees from somalia afghanistan pakistan but the largest community here iraqis who sought to escape the u.s. wage war in that country and now have to flee again at this bus station iraqi destinations have never been in such high demand. as now after several dozen

residents of this area were shot or beheaded in the past two weeks many a scrambling to leave i don't know how much we're right here because family in two thousand and three is also packing. i feel so sad about what's happening in syria when terrorists struck a rock this country accepted us with open arms it's become our second home and now they're turning it into a second iraq the residents accuse the rebels of terrorizing their community extorting money or kidnapping for ransom while their regions of the gangs are on known many here believe it's. fighting alongside to free syrian army somebody. how kind it wouldn't be here without the united states i want to tell people of america do not believe your leaders he's country that was subject to american intervention suffered a lot in iraq nine years after the war we still don't have electricity or running

water there are still killings we just need america to leave us alone and then we'll live in peace. to say it is enough is one of the most important share shrines as it is believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter just a year ago it was inundated with bill grams but after several worshippers lost their lives in a suicide bombing it is now closed some believe the attacks against iraqis in syria may also be driven by sick terror and division most iraqis most travel's a sunni a year's base shia group has just published a statement calling on the united nations to intervene according to our sources in say. thousands of shia muslims are in danger of massacred by the free syrian army and groups affiliated with them she rights watch has learned from many shia muslims living in the area that the free syrian army has threatened to massacre all the shia in the area unless they flee yet not everybody is scary the way. a sunni

syrian and an m a share iraqi have been neighbors and friends for seven years ever since the killing of animals has been forced here to leave iraq. it is never said who love each other like sisters and i will remain in syria no matter what in this country there are mosques in nightclubs there are sunni and shia there are christians in bombay leavers everybody is free to choose for themselves and it should stay like that but iraqis know better than anyone else how relentless and how damaging the foreign quest for freedom would be on the boycott r.t. reporting from damascus in syria. the situation in syria and whether it's now at a tipping point is the focus of today's cross talk coming up later today here on r.t. and here's a quick look at what's ahead. syria threatens no one syria. or in country which is 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 laurie is your lie change international law and i disagree completely with stephen they. are in fact there's lots of debate in washington and lots of reluctance to supply weapons because they know it might end up in the hands of a guy but at the same time this level of persistent meddling alarming there are. 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 as in the syrian capital at the moment keeping you updated on this iteration via twitter so for our correspondent accountable to see how people in the capital damascus are trying to go about their lives and what they

say about this seventeen month long conflict. going on now u.s. led drone strikes have killed more than one hundred fifty supposed 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 where there's a definition of militant is blurring the line between what's classed as a civilian and water threat washington correspondent 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 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 hand they condemned them the public to publicly condemn them arguably to resonate more with the sentiments of the population in pakistan. that is a furious with us sections 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 out. here watching us here live from moscow and coming out

a rough road ahead for european automakers as the currency crisis of throws a wrench into production plummeting sales across the continent are expected to put thousands out of a job. and the situation might get even worse as moody's investor services downgrades the economic outlook for not only summer german states but the euro zone's a rusty fund as well all the details of business and ten minutes. would be so much brighter if you move about song from france to pressure. start on t.v. dot com. good leverage sure to

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with. more. but where will the food come from can science provide the answers to the future of under the microscope. we've got the future covered. welcome back to join our songs seems to be never running out of surprises despite being holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for over a month now waiting for a decision on his asylum pay day famous we can makes whistleblower has bolstered his legal team by hiring celebrated spanish jurors to end human rights investigated by someone renowned for indicting the late cheatin need to stop pinochet lower smith hostages held. what his team is constantly trying to do is keep him in the

public eye and this is certainly a significant development that this a spanish judge. 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 these credible reports that we've been hearing about a sealed indictments against you 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 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 pinochet and since then he's really spearheaded this gainst wrongdoing in both

latin america and latterly in spain he has recently been involved in his own legal battles as well 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 he's also been convicted reprimanded for something that he was involved in which was 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 in relation to. that there 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 in the world of human rights protection on his side. and morning all of our stories are at our home for you and

also that greenland's turning scientists cold that's after the war in discovery that almost all of the island's ice shield melted away on the surface this month so read all about it online. and find out why it's 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 are. the you did prizes a driving comic is a ride of 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 peers show is planning to close a huge plant in

a suburb of paris and also for thousands more work. 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 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 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 but just as i arrived here i hadn't even finished painting the flood just as my wife came here the announced 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 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 that this is a lost generation of young people many of whom are with our colleagues there will see a change and want to begin to form a clearly getting up more on their own that's out of this was a capitalist system of riches the myth of my generation we've been studying for years. myself i have. a master degree and i cannot find

any job before so i cannot buy a house or buy 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 their generation or similar issues like stem the no we will start a new battle of p.c. groups 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 so french president francois hollande attacked persia was a layoff strategy as an acceptable struggles to fulfill his election promise of growth put this and his other pledges to the test as we spoke to an advertising

group and a former advisor to francois mitterrand the last socialist president of france before long and the volunteers coming up next hour. you know communication is a weapon slogan is a dumb dumb bullet that she was like that when france was promises growth by 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 or so but it's been a good scene if 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 president purchasing power is you know the president of growth or a promise is the only external rather than oneself. and

you us 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 the shooting by police of two suspects in the city of anaheim. explores why those who are supposed to protect the people are also killing them. city of anaheim hills 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. balls indiscriminately into that crowd which included women and children then on sunday another officer involved shooting which proved to be deadly another latino

manhole though now it was 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 in many instances where police used 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 later this hour our special report exposed the fine line between sound defiance and brutal violence among the u.s. got telling us. i shot four times. three of the bullets are still a lot of. people are not.

watching here is going to. the training. regime and. killing what i want to. the street. without a bully we will never know when. we should be here. and let's not try quite strange in the world of business and a marine is that for us marine and what's happening this hour well you know more bad news as if we needed to hear more pessimism but of course and that's what's happening we've had the mutated g.d.p. there the growth has now dropped but i'll talk more about that in a minute first i want to start with and basically the country has all stepped up

its efforts to basically create a full and free trade and currency and by that i mean the central bank has decided to minimize its level of cash and to buy engines into the currency basket and also it has widened the trade in bad for the ruble against both the u.s. dollar and there you are if we take a look at the kurds that see how they're trading not actually the ruble. weekend after this announcement ends both major currencies the euro is still gaining against the u.s. dollar now it would take a look at the russian markets it's the hour recovery in terms of markets right now and all of them are making a u. turn with the r.t.s. is out over half a percent to my six approach and one of the percent in the black and also important say there this comes on the back of the european bank for reconstruction and development now says they europe's debt crisis is spreading eastwards and because of the latest news that we have come out from europe the bank says it has forced the russians growth outlook for this year from four point two percent to three point one also all the bad news coming out from europe also that have to do with as

i said g.d.p. their decline by zero point seven percent in the second quarter in the u.k. and basters there react to that that well it has minimized gains a little bit but at least it's not a negative territory anymore which is what we saw in the previous hour the footsie now in the polls them and similarly would be vacs adding just a notch there now if we move on and take a look at saw in person other news which may now need more money than previously estimated about supporting to the wall street journal and the legation from the european commission venture national monetary fund and the european central bank also known as the troika now it's currently visits in the island to calculate its financial needs and officials say it will need at least thirteen billion euros for 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. and on

a lighter note what you see on your screen right now has helped you have discovered a new generation of environmentally friendly. dutch company apollo. has presented. made with natural rubber from a russian a dandelion the next step would be to test them on the street before they get to the production phase and the hope. it's of this is to create an alternative to a. really well for a monopoly let's take a look at what's happening on the markets asia is the only one that still has that sea of red that we saw in all markets previously so that the nikkei is a shot in over one and a half percent and the high sign just not all of this of course affected by news coming out from europe in particular now if we focus on japan because its exports nosedive to the gene for the first time in four months the world's third largest economy exploited two point three percent or less of goods and services than the previous year and shipments to europe declined by almost a quarter of those through china by seven percent and of course the statistics will

panic in japan as a relies heavily on exports for growth and now a quick look at crude prices which are declined for a third straight session this comes as u.s. stockpiles are all of the raw is there and this is what i have for you in this edition of business of course more news coming up next hour from about to your left or right thank you very much indeed marina and we'll see you later and i'll be back with a recount all top stories in just a few minutes stay tuned. he

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