washington why just more support for syrian rebels the russian foreign minister says that by justifying blasphemy demands that you as is all but in forcing terrorism. criticize for killing civilians in drone strikes targeting pakistani militants your president barack obama might now see these unlawful that go on notice in the debatable definition target. and the man who wants to put atlantic tator behind bars legal. to bring plea and i found out the president. has three pm here in moscow this is r t coming to you live i'm an isa now a with our top story this hour and washington is once again stepping up support for

syrian rebels hillary clinton made that clear in a statement where she also hailed the opposition's territorial gains that's as the russian foreign minister lashed out at the u.s. for its stance on syria saying the comments on last week's blast in damascus practically justify terrorism. and you can weigh what's cause we don't understand why our western partners refused to condemn the terrorist attack in damascus moreover susan rice used to this incident to prove that the u.n. security council could no longer hesitate over the resolution on chapter seven so basically she is saying he would support such terrorist attacks until the security council does force we won't it's a horrible approach i can't even find words to express how we feel about this this is simply the justification of terrorism. just to remind you russia and china vetoed the chapter seven un resolution on syria which could have on actions ranging

from diplomatic and. konami sanctions to possible military intervention. but meanwhile syrian government troops seem to have regained the upper hand in fighting rebel forces in and around the country's two major cities but the violence is still forcing thousands to flee and many of those leaving are former refugees themselves our correspondent in damascus oxana boyd has met some of the people who shared their feelings about leaving home once again. it's like 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 even 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 are scrambling to leave a bomb how much were right here with his 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 the free syrian army. how come it wouldn't be here without the united states so 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. they say it is it 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 worshipers lost their lives in a suicide bombing it is now close 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 u.s. based shia group has just published a statement calling on the united nations to intervene according to our sources in . 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 a share iraqi have been neighbors and friends for seven years ever since the killing of animals has been forced here to leave iraq. the seven percent 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 is free to choose for themselves and she stayed 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. well the situation in syria and whether it's now at a tipping point is the focus of today's cross talk coming up later this hour here on

r.t. here's a quick look at what's in store. threatens no one syria is a nonbeliever in country what's going on is not an uprising it's not a revolution it's not a civil war the i.c.r.c. was paid eight million dollars by washington to lie to lie is if they're 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 . 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 we of course have news crews in the syrian capital at the moment they're keeping you updated on the situation there twitter you can follow our correspondent some of boy to see how people in damascus are trying to go about their lives what they say about the seventeen month long conflict. u.s. led drone strikes have killed more than one hundred fifty supposed to. the tense in pakistan so far this year and zero civilians that's from a recent new america foundation poll over critics say the obama administration with its definition of militant is blurring the line between what's classed as a civilian and a threat or washington correspondent cap explains. if you believe this chart as seen on c.n.n. american drone strikes in pakistan have been so precise that they haven't killed a single innocent person this year the chart shows last year the strikes targeted four hundred thirty one militants and killed only twenty six quote unquote others

meaning civilians the data was compiled by the new america foundation now how did this foundation come up with the numbers which look pretty much like advertising for drones they link press reports when you actually look at the reports reports almost half of them are attributed to some unnamed intelligence officials who give the number of who they refer to as militants and a few more details for example the a.f.p. agency report about a strike in north waziristan earlier this month says quote it was difficult to identify the bodies immediately as some of them were charred end of quote but this survey which was broadcast on c.n.n. doesn't have to go deep into details as to who was identified as who nor does it have to clarify the definition of the word militant in this context as seen by the obama administration and according to the obama administration all military age males in a strike zone count as combatants unless there is explicit intelligence possed

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 with glee allow the drone strikes on the other. and 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 check on. you're watching r t y from moscow coming up rough roads ahead for european on makers of the currency crisis throws a wrench into production plummeting south across the continent our perspective but our out of a job. and a situation where i get even worse as moody's investor service a lower economic outlook for not only cerner of several german the regions but also the euro zone's a rescue fund as well all the details of business about ten minutes for. a good lover a tour. was to build the needs most sophisticated which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach me reason why you should care about humans and. this is why you should care only on the.

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his legal team by hiring celebrated spanish jurist and human rights investigator bulbs are guards on renowned for indicting the late two million leader augusta pinochet which is laura smith 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 they say they spanish judge and lawyer says all cost on 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 stupid ass owners and also the subpoenaing of the grand jury over in the states have compromised these processes including the process to extradite you to innocence and bult as our goal so on is it 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 a pinochet and since then he's really spearheaded this fight against 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 not 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 franco was in charge in spain in relation to julian

assange 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 globally is that he's got another big hit in the world if human rights protection on his side. for more on all of our stories that are dot com also in there right now greenland is tiny and scientists believe that's after the worrying discovery that almost all of the island's ice shield melted away for this month read all about it. and find out why santa claus has already been coming to a place near copenhagen this father christmas feast is no work and all play all the details are.

they your dad prices is driving car makers right off the road when it comes to sales across europe and it's resulting in major job cuts now the confidence second biggest manufacturer and a symbol of the french industry is planning to close a huge plant in a suburb of paris and also forced thousands more out of work as are soviet 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. if usual situation more than three thousand in this plant alone a blow to the new president's pledge of creating new jobs and to france is once a thriving industry. that she has been working for the company for eighteen years at the end of last month he lost his job at another peugeot site that was closed down and was transferred to this factory as luck would have it he's about to get fired a second time and he showed us what exactly this would mean for him. after the

close the other five g. i had no choice but to move to get closer to the only site where they had moved me otherwise it would have been unemployed that 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 they can intervene at the social level to ban 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 that the so-called lost generation of young people

many of whom are with ourselves there will see a change and want to be good for a clearly getting them are on their own the south was a capitalist system of riches the myth in 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 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 for their generation a similar vision unites them so now we will start a new battle with p.s.e. group because what's happening is a normal i think. france neither

a new revolution we're working on it just are still here r t paris. french president francois long to attack layoffs strategy is unacceptable as he struggles to fulfill his election promise of growth party but this and other his other pledges i should say to the test if we spoke to an advertising grew and former advisor to francois mitterrand the last socialist president of france before a want full interview is coming up next hour. if you know communication is a weapon each slogan is a dumb dumb bullet that she was like when france promises great if someone made the same mistake nicholas 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 that he would have a state of grace for six months of the budget but that's enough there's no revival of economic growth we can no one really sees coming he will lose his credibility

that's why i've always preferred the psychological slogan save the political slogans of president purchasing power you know the president of a promise is the ideal end and on external rather than oneself. the protests are continuing to rage in the california city of anaheim with reports of vandalism and several people being arrested it follows the shooting by police of two suspects in the city without any charges having been brought against them parties on a longer limbo explores my bones who are supposed to protect the people are also killing our. home to the happiest place on earth but today activists are calling this city a powder keg which is ready to explode following those two deadly officer involved shootings over the weekend now this all started on saturday when. an armed

latino man was shot and killed by police officers but there was a spontaneous protest of this police shooting and police responded by shooting ever balls indiscriminately into that crowd which included women and children then on sunday another officer involved shooting which proved to be deadly another lucky no manhole 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 the 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 today our special report explores the fine line between south to fans and brutal violence among us. was shot four times in total there is a. story of the bullets are still in the lobby.

people should be allowed to determine where they are gone from the bodies these people are not the actual rifle association. basically a military. issue. i'm sorry you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes you go back and if what you hear is going to. that's all the training really. raise your hand there's a. chilling what i want to philadelphia when these are the streets. tell me what are the hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared for class including the teacher i think was. seventeen students. and one of. the are still alive. but look now at what's making headlines around the world this hour now kind of has

claimed responsibility for a series of bomb blasts in iraq that killed at least one hundred sixteen people the explosions on monday were the country's deadliest single day of attacks in the clear glass mostly targeted security forces and supported al qaida as declaration to seek revenge on the u.s. for invading its territory. and investigations underway to determine just how an eleven year old boy with no passport or ticket was able to board a flight in manchester in the u.k. and travel all the way to italy for a child apparently ran away from his mother while she was in a shop close to the airport staff members. the airline involved jet to have since been suspended the issue has thrown up a major question over security in the country on the eve of the london olympics. there's been widespread outrage in beijing over news the mayor under fire for his handling of a deadly rainstorm is too fat to be promoted to the city's proposition of communist

party secretary at least thirty seven people were killed in the downpour but that number expected to rise furious residents say officials have spent billions on modernizing the city to install a proper drainage system. that's now cross over to the business that's maree not finally investors can breathe a sigh of relief it seems as markets. losses we've seen at the beginning of the week what's happening out there. all the weird thing is that we are getting a string of negative reports but at the same time that doesn't seem to be affecting investors as much today and basically what we might be seen is a correction because of the heavy losses that we saw in the beginning of the week i'll talk about the markets in just a second but first i want to talk about how russia is now stepping up efforts to basically switch to a fully free trade and a currency and that's of course to shield its economy from external shocks the central bank has now minimized cash intervention into the currency market and also

has a why the trade in bad for the russian ruble against the euro and the us all if we take a look at how they're trading right now that the picture is slightly changed when it comes to the ruble it's the mix it's loosened against the euro again the against the greenback when it comes to the euro it's still gaining the against the u.s. dollar as it has been since this morning when take a look at the russia markets most of them have now recovered since the morning so only a use of that state in the red at closing time here was the r.t.s. and the my six are getting over half a percent there and that's the spot reports we know that the european bank for reconstruction and development says that the european debt crisis now moving towards a bit by. it says that because of the latest news there was actually wars russia's growth outlook for this year from four point supersensitive three point one now you look at europe and again the recovery that both the footsie and the german dax add in just the knowledge and that's again this is why the latest report that's about g b b slowed down in the u.k.

in fact we know that it declined zero point seven percent in the second of the quarter which was much more than expected also this investor service has also lowered its economic outlook for the euro zone's a rescue fund which was a blow not only to investors but of course the fund itself which is supposed to help struggling members but staying away the eurozone one is about cyprus which may now need more money than previously estimated that's according to the wall street journal delegation from the european commission the international monetary fund and the european central bank known as the troika is currently visiting the island to calculate its financial needs with officials saying there will be at least thirteen billion euros basically a government is also in the goetia asians 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 is europe discover a new generation of environmentally friendly sawyer's dutch company a pall of frankenstein as presented made with natural rubber from russian the

dandelion the next step would be to test them on the streets before they get to the production phase and the whole point is to create an alternative to asia. and a quick look at prices headed back up and that's despite the fact that we know u.s. stocks on the rise not so happy for you this business my colleague. marina thank you very much for that update i'll be back with a recap of our top stories after birth. culture is that so much maybe you're going to make a lot of people here yeah but there is no end game like the assad regime with the us in a regional how i see piece of work diplomacy and the warning from damascus. sky

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