syrian government forces it down from rebel controlled areas in major cities while washington wants opposition games and promises to increase support. criticized for killing civilians in drone strikes targeting pakistani militants u.s. president barack obama might now see these are lawful deaths go on notice with a debatable definition op target. and the man who once font to put a chilling dictator behind bars could soon join the legal team with keeping julian of sons out of prison. but from our headquarters in central moscow you're watching r t with me and he said now it's good to have you with us two pm here in the opposition capital one pm in

damascus and syrian government troops seem to have regain the upper hand in fighting rebel forces in and around the country's two major cities fierce clashes are now taking place close to the capital as the army advances on a small city earlier captured by rebels at the same time or government troops are moving towards the country's largest city aleppo we're finding ran into its fifth day since reports contradict hillary clinton who earlier held the gains made by opposition also announcing that washington stepping up its support for the rabbits meanwhile thousands are fleeing from violence in syria many of them former refugees themselves our correspondent in damascus on a boy has met some of the people who shared their feelings about leaving home once again. it's led their home countries in search of peace only to be ambushed by war in a place they thought was safe syria has long been counted among the most welcoming

countries in the region for refugees with almost one hundred thousand of them registered here permanently given before their weiland broke out in syria the residents of the nap neighborhood were all well familiar with the ugly realities of war for the past decade this area has become a home for thousands of war refugees from somalia afghanistan pakistan but the largest community here iraqis who sought to escape the us waged war in that country and now have to flee yet 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 few weeks many a scrambling to leave i don't know how much we're right here because the family in two thousand and three is also packing. i feel so sad about what's happening in syria when terrorists struck iraq 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 the free syrian army. how kind it wouldn't be here without the united states i want to tell all the good 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 but. they say it is this 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 that is now closed some believe the attacks against iraqis in

syria may also be driven by sick terror and division most iraqis most traveled a sunni a u.s. base shia group has just published a statement calling on the united nations to intervene according to our sources in c. . 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. and 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 and nonbelievers everybody's free to choose for themselves and it's just like that but

iraqis know better than anyone else how relentless and how damaging the foreign quest for freedom would be some avoid r.t. reporting from damascus in syria. now the situation in syria and whether it's now at a tipping point is the focus of today's cross talk coming up next hour on our two year darty here's a quick look at what's ahead. syria threatens no one syria is a nonbeliever and 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 lie to. is if the your lie change international law 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 alarming there are allies 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 mother the picture. that our news crews in the syrian capital at the moment keeping you updated on the situation there via twitter you can follow our correspondent ask some of the boys to see how people in the capital are trying to go about their lives and what they say about the seventeen month conflict. in other news a 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 poll 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 or washington correspondent i need to can explain. 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 humourously 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 at the allow the drone strikes on. the other hand they condemn them the public 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 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. you're watching our live from moscow coming up a rough road ahead for european automakers as the currency crisis throws a wrench into production plummeting sales across the continent are expected to thousands out of a job. and the situation might get even worse as moody's investor service has a lower this economic outlook for not only some to regions but to the euro zone rescue fund as well all the details and seven minutes of business.

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it's twelve minutes past the hour here in moscow you're with r t 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 waiting for a decision on his asylum plea well the famous weekly leaks whistleblower has bolstered his legal team by hiring celebrated spanish jurist and human rights investigator ball to star guard zone renowned for inciting indicting i should say the late to lay him leader augusta pinochet smit has details 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 says all costs on has been hired to take on jude in essence 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 stupid ass arms 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 that is an incredibly interesting character in fact he's the 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 all go stay. pinochet and since then he's really spearheaded this strong doing 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 in february this year he was found guilty of ordering illegal

recordings of suspects talking to their lawyers he's also been not convicted but 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 franco was in charge in spain in relation to julian assange says that there seems to be a worrying lack of safeguards and transparency as far as his case is concerned so what it really means globally for julian assad is that he's got another big hitter in the world if human rights protection on his side. more on all our stories that are t. dot com also their agreements turning scientists cold that's after the worrying discovery that almost all of the island's ice shield melted away on the surface this month read all about it on the line. to find out why it sounds like was has already been coming to a place near copenhagen but this father christmas feast is no work and play all the

details in our t.v. dot com. the debt crisis is driving car makers right off the road when it comes to sales across europe and it's resulting in major job cuts that now the continent's second biggest manufacturer and symbol of french industry joe is planning to close a huge plant in a suburb of paris and also force thousands more out of work or just as our sylvia reports on the continuing pain being inflicted on europeans. anger among workers eight thousand jobs across france will be slashed by their employer p.s.a. fusion situ and 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 trigger has been working for the company for eighteen years at the end of last month he lost his job at another persian 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 it can intervene at the social level to band 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 there's a so-called lost generation of young people many of whom are without problems and they're all seeing a change and want to be good for a clearly getting them are on their own it's out of that was a capitalist system of riches limits to my generation we've been studying for years. myself i am. a master 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 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 jess or sylvia r.t. paris. french president francois hollande attack strategy is unacceptable as he struggles to fill his election promise of growth or to put this in his other pledges to the task as we spoke to an advertising guru and former advisor to france . and alas the last socialist president of france before the full interview is coming up later this hour. if you know communication is a weapon slogan is a dumb dumb bullet that should be like that in france well known promises growth if

someone made the same mistake nicolas sarkozy did but on does not control growth only the european economy can affect the way it's a promise that risks disappointing the french people who would have a state of grace for six months of the budget but that's enough there's no revival of economic growth which no one really sees coming he will lose his credibility i like that's why i've always preferred the psychological slogans over political slogans of a president purchasing power of the president of a promise is the ideal ending on external rather than oneself. protests are continuing to rage in the american city of anaheim with reports of vandalism and several people being arrested in falls the sitting by police and two suspects in the city without any charges having been brought against them. or lindo explores why those that were supposed to protect the people are also carrying. 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 latino manhole a severe though 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 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. 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. but later today our special report explores the fine line between self defense and brutal violence among us gun owners.

it was shot four times in total and i want to use it with. three of the bullets are still in my body. and people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are gone from the our bodies people are not a national rifle association we're. basically a retired military we love to shoot holes and i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes you go back and watch it here it's going to. that's all the training really really raise your hand there's something. to learn what i want to philadelphia when these are the street. jail little out of the bully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be

preparing the whole class including the teacher i think there's. seventeen students and six and want to share them or still alive. but look now here in order to add some headlines from around the world al qaeda has claimed responsibility for a series of bomb blasts in iraq that have killed at least one hundred and sixteen people the explosions on monday are the country's deadliest single day of attacks in the years the blast mostly targeted security forces and supporters outcry this declaration to seek revenge on the u.s. for invading its territory. there's been widespread outrage in beijing over news the city's mayor under fire for his handling of a deadly rainstorm is now expected to be promoted to the top position of the communist party secretary at least thirty seven people were killed in the recent downpour with that number. in coming days period locals say the government has

spent billions modernizing the city but neglected to install a proper drainage system. or cross over to marina the business that's the latest you have for us. well basically we're seeing a recovery on the markets that's continuing but i'll get to the first one and talk about the fact that it's the first to switch to a fully traded currency and that's of course to shield its economy from external shocks we know that the central bank here in the country has now minimized this level of cash intervention in the currency market and it has also why then the ruble band against the euro and the year is down and let's take a look at how the trading is going right now for all of that when it comes to the euro a little change from the previous hour still gaining against the u.s. dollar and nationally the ruble is weakening make danceable major currencies that it would take a look at cross markets us that it is the hour in their post instead we gaze at the

r.t.s. and the my sex game in the one percent ranking gains overseas and that's despite the fact that we know that the european bank for reconstruction and development has now said that the european debt crisis is moving. and what i mean by that is the bank says the latest news from europe has forced the russians a growth outlook for a four point two percent to three point one percent or for this year and now you're already looking there it's an optimistic picture of. what we saw this morning see and the dax are gaining just a notch there and that's also the spine the fact that g.d.p. in the u.k. has declined by zero point seven percent in the second quarter and that's a lot more than water and the list that we're expecting now staying with the euro but cyprus this time around the country may need more money than previously estimated not supporting 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 visiting the island

and that's to calculate the financial means all fishel is already say it will move at least thirteen billion euros and the cypriot government is also in the goshi nations 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 the lighter notes what you see on the screen right now has helped europe discover a new generation of an environmentally friendly meyer's company a pall of bread this has presented. made with natural rubber from russia. and the next step would be to test them on the streets before they get to the production phase and the whole point of this is to create an alternative to asia when the police. and fire let's take a look at crude prices there were heading south but now they are recovering as well is that this reading close to eighty nine dollars a barrel and the brant blood approaching one hundred four dollars per barrel that's despite the fact that we know that u.s. fault was on the rise in the u.s.

for the first time in four weeks and also when the time is import slips while percent for the month of june compared to may of course and that signals a week from an economy that's starting to investors as you can see the numbers once that points this out that's it for me but see you on the some marina thanks for that update. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories just after this. mission

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