syrian rebels are thought to be getting heavy weapons through turkey team which is warning that president assad stays in power a number. also on t.v. discovers how major media outlets are turning to some suspicious sources for human interest stories to be sympathy for the syrian opposition. concerned that students are seeking more over the julian assange kayser than just solving the sex crimes complaint as a group uses an invitation to question him in london. and arab israelis are no longer exempt from military service risking a call up to fight against their own people all volunteer and be labeled a traitor. you

watching r t live from moscow with me to say syrian rebel forces are thought to have acquired their first surface to air missiles from foreign allies they believed to have been delivered by neighboring turkey the rebel free syrian army denies the claims which comes as one car joined the u.s. in saying that president assad will be forced to leave soon some american officials have been wary of arming the opposition with missiles hearing they could easily be used against to go in airliners the u.n. also confirmed that assad's opponents and now have heavy weapons including tanks as laura smith reports opposition forces are also busy courting some of the world's most respected media even though the effects are not all what they see. escaped journalists speaks out says the headline in the b.b.c.

on the guardian syrian regime t.v. reported defects that talking about hats hands who claims he was a reporter. two syrian state t.v. channels but couldn't bear to be a part of the propaganda machine anymore and after spying for the rebels for months eventually defected to turkey but the syrian news channel. says he's nothing but a fantasy business with. claims that he used to work as a correspondent in the syrian news channel have nothing to do with reality. he applied a year and a half ago to channel didn't find and identify for the job so says from outdoing near the other t.v. stations labor claims to have worked for also confirmed he never had nevertheless the guardian and b.b.c. have jumped on the story as the first example of quote a high profile defector from damascus is powerful propaganda. but as an actual

anchor from pointed out when we spoke to him if labor really was a public figure it wouldn't have been hard to verify his credentials or thought i think i saw his profile on facebook and was shocked to discover it says he was right channel there are lots of ways to check this each of us has an idea of a journalist employed by the syrian news channel so we can use to confirm our identity and employment if it comes to that we have our stories and materials to prove that each journalist accumulates the materials and process especially think the syrian news channel. the british media has used labor to tell a story of a profit ganda machine in syria that pumps out of pro-government message we're godless of the truth meanwhile the b.b.c. and the guardian appear to be sticking like glue to their line that equals rebels equal freedom fighters labor himself now says he wants to work for an office ition

channel he told the guardian he met someone from al-jazeera who called him a government spy with a psychological problem perhaps that is closer to the truth than the british media go. reaction now from james carter to the editor of the independent news and information website of the combat report which is extensively covering the syrian conflict thank you so much for joining us here on r.t. mr james carpet now the mainstream media is often eager to pick up stories denouncing assad's regime ignoring videos like the ones that's recently emerged a person to show the execution of assad supporters by rebel forces why are they taking such an approach. well if it was simply one or two instances of this we can chalk it up to just lazy journalism but unfortunately what we've seen demonstrated throughout the entire syrian conflict is that this is a pattern that keeps repeating itself in the media coverage over and over and over and we can turn to all of the various examples that have come out even just one

that came out earlier this week from an austrian newspaper that photo shopped images of people from another part of syria as if they were fleeing aleppo when in fact they were doing nothing of the sort and all sorts of media tricks like that that we can go back to c.n.n. syria dannie coverage so what this shows is a coordinated series of efforts on the part of the media to really to to really undermine basic journalistic truth when it comes to the reporting in favor of skewing the story against the assad government and towards that the rebels and that shows the political bias of many of these outlets and it's unfortunately again not not really a difference from what the type of coverage that we were seeing in the libya conflict or various conflicts before that where the media seems to have already decided which side of the conflict they're on and which side they want to support now the syrian conflict is often portrayed in the media as black and white poet pro-democracy fighters battling a tyrant regime how fair is that picture. it's completely unfair and it's

understandable to a certain extent because it appeals to the sensibility of the audience of the western media that are obviously interested in framing it and those terms that they can understand from their own political context but what's happening in syria even if they want to talk simply about the internal conflict in syria we have to look at the deep sectarian divisions in syria and talk about the the sunni majority the shia minority the alawite minority within that shia minority christians and how all of those forces are at play in this conflict and it's something much much more difficult to understand than simply framing it in that pro-democracy versus tyranny type debate that that appeals to to the black and white narrative that they're trying to portray and i think that doesn't even take into account the be bigger picture of the international for david let me just interrupt let's just turn to the reports that there is the rebels have acquired these happy weapons from the techies

territory who might be behind these potential supplies. well i don't think there's a lot of mystery behind it's because saudi arabia and qatar cutter have been self evidently and quite in the open calling for the arming of the rebels for a period of weeks now quite openly in the international media and even b.b.c. news around reporter earlier this year demonstrating how smuggling of money weapons and even fighters into syria was taking place through established smuggling routes in iraq and they even laid the blame for that on saudi arabia specifically so i think we can assume that it's the same forces at play and it is now islamic militants in afghanistan the way one is provided with missiles by the u.s. with saudi backing to find soviet troops there yes on that later became a major headache for western antiterrorism agencies what's the likelihood of these weapons will fall into the wrong hands. well i suppose it depends how you define the wrong hands and there is the blowback theory of all of this of course that that

really came out of the afghan conflict in the which was being funded both directly and indirectly through the cia and thus the al qaeda terrorist network is of blowback on the cia but when this happens over and over and over again we either have to assume that the officials in charge of these and counter terrorist organizations are completely ridiculously stupid or that they are actually doing this as part of a strategy of terror akin to what happened for example with. previous the operations like operation gladio in europe in the eighty's where and seventy's and sixty's and seventy's and eighty's where they were deliberately funding terrorist groups to create the problem in order to justify the crackdown so unfortunately i think we have to place that in this context where it seems that the outside fighters and terrorists openly declaring their allegiance to al qaeda are being funded and trained and armed in this conflict by outside forces with the express intention of committing acts of terror which then people like susan rice and and

the even the white house state department have lauded it with the recent car bombings in damascus now david just briefly reports regulus of surface that there is fighting the syrian army in the flashpoint city of aleppo off foreign nationals how likely is that and who might be who might those people be. that's a good question but the that they are foreign to aleppo is certainly not not debatable even the western media has been reporting for months and months that aleppo is a stronghold of the assad government so by definition the unrest that's happening there is coming from the outside now whether that. be for and with in syria or for and internationally i think there's a there's a mixture in there but it would also include presumably british special forces and others even our team was reporting the other day of the british jihad as to were part of the insurgency on the ground there so i think there is quite a large mixed mixture of international forces on the ground right now and there that's definitely playing out in aleppo all right we'll leave it right there thank

you so much mr james called that editor of the independent news and information website the cop it reports thank you. now and just to remind you and our t.v. crews in syria dating you via twitter there's analysis comments and reaction in our correspondents tweets and we're bringing you the latest pictures from the conflict torn country as well. sweden has rejected invitation to question julian assange jeanette's london embassy despite two years of trying to get the statement of a sex crimes allegations the day comes from we could be a twitter feed although neither side has confirmed the refusal the whistleblower has been holed up in academic diplomatic mission for over six weeks now seeking asylum asuncion denies the sex crime claims and believes they just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. they he fears prosecution for espionage up

a mess of the secret diplomatic and military files and to war activists don de bar says that a song that is weighing up washington's plans correctly. well they're not interested in questioning him they're interested in you know obtaining control of his person and i think he correctly assesses that that. so he can be forwarded to the united states the process that's being used to bring into the united states is a ready fraudulent those who are whistleblowers have come under particular attack from this administration from the obama administration in fact much greater attack than even the bush administration was able to muster up was a blowers earlier so the outlook is not good for us on as one of the preeminent whistleblowers of our time this country in general is hostile to the idea of free speech and particularly disclosure of state secrets particularly when they reveal that the government has been doing illegal things so i don't think that the

prospects for a fair trial are very good at all. while under house arrest only had julian assange produced his own t.v. series shown here on our team interviewing the political fire brands who the other networks ignored all top programs online to watch them at a sunset dot com. arab israelis could now find themselves called up for the ministry until now they've been exempt from having to serve in these riley defense forces nowadays you sign a brisbane labeled as traitors costing a shadow over them and their families as artie's policy explains. a monument to israel's fallen look more closely and you will see many of the names are of arab soldiers fighters who joined an army that many of their breath when here call the enemy. here but in meetings like this across the country the mood is changing most arab israelis are saying no to being drafted into the israeli defense forces the

issue is up for debate as is what we've used current military draft laws that allow for docs jews and arabs to avoid national service. the israeli military wants to make a serve not because they need us to because we want to control the arab states of mind and divide us. any time for the army generals will call a party in ages and again will they fight against our arab and palestinian brothers . but remarkably some arabs actually choose to serve in the last two years those volunteering for the i.d.f. doubled to four hundred. i volunteered because this is my home away and i don't have another land and i live here and so i feel it's my responsibility to contribute to the country without the right of of them led super's two brothers or sister of an idea if it means their family has been branded traitors people who have sold out to the enemy for money. i'm not a traitor i am an israeli arab i think it's high time that the arabs of israel

shoulders some of the responsibility and volunteer for the army i'm not saying there's no races knowledge of prevention but still me a country that's perfect. the i.d.f. is working hard to recruit from the ranks of the country's one and a half million arabs one of the recruiters as colonel made from the druze minority . in the i.d.f. is composed of the full spectrum of israeli citizens becomes a more moral army but the issue of culture is very significant we are so-called disconnecting the soul just from their culture and immersing them in another call. which is israeli integration is difficult. but the voices of criticism from within the arab community are loud not in a shift says the i.d.f. is an occupying force and those arabs who choose to serve in it cross the line you cannot ask me to serve them well then why are you screaming at various me i mean and doesn't go like this vast majority of our community says the. thing to do.

with the towel nor citric spy on august the first arab israelis and ultra-orthodox jews who until now have been exempt from military service may find themselves forced to do so regardless of their beliefs each israeli prime minister has said to the arab community first serve in the army and then you will be treated as equals but arab israelis are asked what kind of equality is it when regardless of whether they serve in the army or not israeli jews will always be more equal than them or r t tell of of. iran's being warned it must negotiate limits on its nuclear program of face the threat of u.s. military action defense secretary leon panetta ultimatum follows a fresh round of sanctions imposed by washington the policy director of the national iranian american council believes there is a restriction is a do nothing but heard ordinary citizens. i think what we have in place is it

constitutes economic warfare and it dovetails nicely with the cyber warfare and the covert warfare that we are now engaged in with iran but what they wanted this bill did do was to actually sanction every single financial energy inside of you broad to make it legally impossible to send any goods to iran or for iran to send anything out to the majority of what the bill does is actually impose these restrictions that are blocking medicine from getting into iran that are blocking food and humanitarian products from getting into iran there isolating iranian students who want to study abroad and so when you actually add them all up the human rights measures fall pretty short and it's sort of a joke to say that this is advancing human rights when you're punishing people on a humanitarian level like this. online right now r.t. has world news when you want to including a painful point about and like meals as a passage on a canadian that bites into a shop and which which contained a needle. in

a better reduces the ex-military top out breath waiting to prevent any invasion of hair if you take ten events the details ahead. spain's regional leader squaring up to madrid and boycotting the latest tough deficit targets the euro zone's fourth largest economy is desperately trying to fill its budget gap and do something pose the deepest concent decades but as i ask you reports people are refusing to accept measures we are taking them to the brink . still probing us as we barely have anything left this has been the message over the past few weeks of hundreds of thousands spain yards who have hit the streets in anti-government demonstrations. stare into measures

unacceptable especially with so many already in the streets it's going to be on the ice and then strangling on country it's crucial that we react if we don't do because in any country of the world and it's here that the social divide in spain is seen clearly policemen and firemen are on both sides of the protest unlike the greeks the spaniards have been very peaceful in their anti-government protests but the deeper the country goes into austerity measures the hungry and the more aggressive people get taking their anger into the streets on july eleventh the spanish government announced more budget cuts will be introduced in order to find another sixty five billion euros for a bank bailout plan and called it a necessary last resort measure. in this moment that this is a hard moment it was difficult for us to accept these new measures we understand the feelings of the protesters in the only thing we can ask now is to be strongly

that these measures are necessary. hundreds of thousands were quick to react hitting the streets across spain in eighty cities in total and in the rather untypical scenario for the country ordinary citizens clashed with the police thirty nine people were injured in madrid alone while police had to use tear gas and rubber bullets against the regime crowds some of which shockingly enough were there callie. the people when you take their food and take all that they have you take their you know homes and they respond quite viscerally what we saw were you know police charging against other police protesting police we saw them charging against firemen and we saw them charging against public sector workers and chasing them through the streets of madrid and. you know neighborhood neighborhoods in madrid the actual people that lived there were actually throwing flower pots from the balconies at the police now that's a qualitative change what is adding more fuel to the already explosive situation is

that financial forecasts for next year suggest things will be getting even worse if the government sticks to its austerity policy. if there are no radical changes in political economic and social spheres then spin will gradually turning to green the level of street tension will reach a claim that. they are stuck in spain already possesses europe's highest unemployment rate of twenty four percent or six million people imagine what a crowd of this size could do in a moment of street rage should madrid take another risky attempt to deprive them of their means of survival. r.t. reporting from madrid in spain. later this hour on the one of the architects of the european union tells us why the integrated bloc should not leave spain and saying greeks to face their problems. you are in the same boat you are being used and. living together. you are in

the same boat rowing if one is trading the argos will probably. now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world a second design has died from self-immolation in a local hospital after protesting against drastic wealthy cuts it follows of the death of a disabled fifty seven year old who set himself on fire during a demonstration earlier in july the so-called occupy israel movement over social injustice is gaining momentum as the government struggles to be the calming me through increasing taxes and cutting spending. the die food that swept through the philippines has now claimed at least twelve lives police and coast guards are searching for those who are now missing after strong winds and intense rains that swept across the country more than one hundred thousand people are

displaced flooding interracial downpours in the capital also falls the u.s. embassy compound to be closed. america's shiva diplomats in africa to urge leaders to reconsider their growing ties with china washington is increasingly concerned over beijing's rapidly growing influence in the region about you and me as if you were editor of the pan-african news wire believes hillary clinton's visit will do more harm than good. africa last year she expressed some trepidation about the growing relationship between africa and the people's republic of china but it appears as of most of the states in africa i have a very positive view of the burgeoning relationships between the african states and china and i think this is something that's very very frustrating for the united states the u.s. has been heavily depended upon all that comes from various parts of africa there

has been huge discoveries just recently. and natural gas in east africa off the coast of east africa and these of course are providing new opportunities for the people's republic of china to enter into economic partnership with africa and because of the economic crisis in the united states it's going to pose a challenge to the u.s. state department i don't believe that hillary clinton is going to be successful and discouraging this growing relationship between africa and china in fact she may bring about some resentment for involving herself in the internal affairs of africa and africa as a relationship with china. business is next with dimitri some studies showing women raise company performance what's that all about tell a small oh you know as much as i think these kind of studies sexist and they don't make that much sense but credit suisse says having a woman on the board of directors increases the company's profit by twenty six

percent now boards of directors with at least one women also give more honest audit's than all male groups now that's an interesting aspect of the study i agree female representation varies widely across the globe from one hundred percent in sweden's blue chips to none in hungary. and when i said i don't think these kind of studies make sense it's the same as the say studying the number of people blue eyed people on the board of directors. the size of the board of directors because companies are so different is just so difficult to calculate we're not talking about one company which did not have any women on board and then got one so i would just doesn't make any sense to me. now when it comes to currencies we're seeing a yo yo ing of the year against the not that much of it's much of a change here but when it comes to the ruble now that's weakening wildly against the basket of currencies now lists have been saying that fifteen percent

devaluation for the ruble deeply she is expected because of capital outflows and changing commodities markets let's move on we've got the russian mob kids are growing now off to a declining one percent which was a minor correction compared to four days of growth right now what's driving the markets is manufacturing which makes russia one of the few countries with increased manufacturing last month and also take a look at the stocks the financial sector is driving the gains we see is one of the biggest losers which is growing metals myna metro is the best performing still it's up as you can see more than four percent as it has boasted steel production increase thirteen percent first off of the year and gazprom is a bit weaker than the market as it fights in court pipeline nationalization in the three way. let's move on the euro zone manufacturing has hit

a three year low meanwhile commodities seeing a bit of a jump with light sweet adding sixty one cents of this out but on the european markets take a look at what's going on there despite the fact that as i mentioned manufacturing instead of three year low we've seen chinese manufacturing just on the brink of expansion just fifty point one was the index anything lower than fifty means of contraction which could indicate a hardly. and for the chinese economy is still seeing the market's growing for the up for almost one percent of x. is a bit down this hour. and a top banker has admitted that his profession is to blame for the financial crisis and the holiday inn at the bank of england said the theories became a theological doctrine adding we started believing assumptions and saying things that made no intellectual sense i was quoting him it's the latest salvo in the crisis blame game with both the states and the european union blasting each other

for the world's economic problems and that's what i have for you this oh well obviously increasing our manufacturing means more jobs so it's good for russia thanks for that update. now i'll recap the main stories after this there's more to watch here an artist.

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