syrian rebels are thought to have obtained heavy weapons from abroad for the first time or despite american officials fears they might be used to target civilian airliners. concern that sweden seeking more over julian assange case and just solving the sex crimes complaint as it refuses an invitation to question him in london. and the arab israelis are no longer exam for military service are risking a call up to fight against their own people or volunteer and be labeled a traitor. twenty

four hours a day seven days a week this is our team 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 ankara 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 appearing they could easily be used against civilian airliners the u.n. also confirmed that assad's opponents 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 facts are not all what they see. escapes journalists speaks out says the headline in the b.b.c. on the guardian syrian regime t.v. reporter defects that talking about hats hands who claims he was a reporter to 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 on the syrian news channel have nothing to do with reality. the channel didn't find a job so says from near the other t.v. stations labor claims to work for also confirms 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. i saw his

preferred 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 to each journalist accumulate some materials in the process especially think the syrian news channel the british media has used labor to tell a story of a propaganda 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 that line that equals rebels equal freedom fighters labor himself now says he wants to work for an opposition 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

got. the main media outlets are often quick to pick up stories denouncing us as a regime although if we can take no videos like the one you're seeing right now that this adventure clip proposed to reveal the execution of captured assad supporters by rebels from the free syrian army the pictures posted online appeared to show bloodied men surrounded by an excited crowd of gunmen who like to open fire in the pan and journalist james covered believes that the black and white picture being painted of the syrian conflict in the media is far from clear. what the 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 the rebels and that shows the political bias of many of these outlets but what's happening in syria even if we want to talk simply about the internal conflict in syria we have to look at the deep sectarian divisions in syria and to talk about the the sunni majority the shia

minority the alawite minority within that shia minority the 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 verses 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 bigger picture of the international forces at play there. and just to remind you and our t.v. crew is in syria updating you via twitter there's analysis comments and reaction is in our correspondents streets and we'll bring you the latest pictures of from the conflict torn country as well. so we didn't has rejected ecuador's invitation to question julian assange engineers london embassy despite two years of trying to get his statement over sex crime allegations the update comes from wiki leaks a twitter feed although neither side has confirmed the refusal the whistleblower

has been holed up in the air good as the diplomatic mission for over six weeks now seeking asylum denies a sex crime claims and believes they're just a pretext to head over to the u.s. there he fears prosecution for espionage after a massive leak of secret diplomatic and military files for more on the case so i'm joined by julian assange just lawyer jennifer robinson thank you so much for joining us miss robinson now we've been leagues a twitter feeds says sweden refuses to question our son in london are you aware of any confirmation from either signed and what do you think sweden the would not want to talk to. those embassy why. i have received confirmation from from mr sanchez self that the request that was put to sweden to question him in the ecuadorian embassy has been denied but we don't have any explanation for that and we have never had an adequate explanation from sweden as to why they haven't used it to a legal assistance to question joined in relation to these allegations he has been

offering this testimony since well before the european arrest warrant was issued and there have been other ways of obtaining his testimony he's offered it here in the swedish embassy at scotland yard by telephone by various means that legal means available under this swedish treaty with great britain and as i said we haven't had any clear explanation from sweetness of why they have not use that today now ecuador will announce its decision on julian assange just asylum application off to the olympics what if it refuses do you and his legal team have a plan b. as was announced just last week both with our girls on the very well respected international jurists has been appointed as the head of the legal team managing this matter we are now just waiting for the outcome of the asylum application with ecuador and it's it's impossible to speculate about what might happen depending upon the outcome. that you met the australian attorney general over julian as lunges case australia refuses to protect this citizen or make requests on his

behalf of why is ecuador protecting him and not his own home countries. that is a very good question and i think one that the australian public is now asking of our government we have been putting these questions to the australian government for more than almost two years now eighteen months since the arrest warrant first came through julian's main concern has is and has always been the risk of on what extradition to the united states to be prosecuted for his publishing activities in his work with wiki leaks we have requested the a straight in government to ask the very same assurances that we're now seeing ecuador ask in accordance with their obligations in investigating the political asylum application but it is a great shame this is to my knowledge the first time in history than a straight in citizen has sought refuge with a foreign government because our government refused to take the action which was legally possible for our government to take the u.s. ambassador to australia said washington is not interested in what's happening with julian as if that's the case why they're not giving any official assurances on that

. again that's a very good question and one that we've been asking it is what many suspect that there is in existing sealed indictment for joy and that that that the indictment there simply waiting for the appropriate time to exercise to implement that indictment as a matter of u.s. law is a criminal offense to reveal the existence of a sealed indictment but what the u.s. government has not done and which is available to them that if they are not interested as the u.s. ambassador states then it would be a simple matter for the u.s. attorney general to state explicitly to confirm that the criminal investigation is over and that no charges will be laid and no extradition request would be made but they have so far failed to do so unless and until they do that we are very alert to the possibility that this is an ongoing criminal investigation all of the evidence that's coming out of what we know about the grand jury at wearing out of the bradley manning proceedings confirm that there is as the australian government has been reported by our own and in washington a criminal investigation of unprecedented size and scale so unless and until the

u.s. government confirms that that criminal investigation is over and no charges will be laid we have to be alert to that very real possibility well thank you very much there jennifer robinson julia sundress lawyer for shedding some light on this ongoing story. now while under earlier house arrest today in as large produce his own t.v. series shown here on our t.v. interviewing the political firebrands who the other networks ignored all top programs are online a watch them at our son's dot r t dot com. arab israelis could now find themselves called up for the military until now they've been exempt from having to serve in these really defense forces now of those who sign up or is being labeled as traitors casting a shadow over them and their families as archie'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. 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 where we've used current military draft laws that allow orthodox jews and arabs to avoid national service. the israeli military wants to make a serve not because they need us because we want to control the arab states of mind and divide us. in time for the army generals who call it our teenagers and against whom 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 were there supers two

brothers also serve in the 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 no provision 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 is colonel ram is made from the druze minority. when 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 culture. 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 asking me variously i mean doesn't go like this vast majority of our community sees it as a bad thing to do. with the towel nor say to expire 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 paula slater r t tel of of. iran's being warned it must negotiate limits on its nuclear program all face a threat of u.s. military action defense secretary leon panetta ultimatum follows a fresh round of sanctions imposed by washington the police or rector of the policy

director rather of the national iranian american council believes there is a restriction is a do nothing but hurt 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're 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 that 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 their 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 it including painful point about ally needles as a passenger on a canadian jet bites into a shop sandwich which contained get this a needle. la bella ruse is that it's a military top brass ball flaming to prevent an invasion of parachuting. details. dot com. spain's regional leaders are scoring up to madrid and boycotting the latest top a deficit targets the euro zone's fourth largest economy is desperately trying to fill its budget gap and recently impose the deepest cuts in decades but as he reports people are refusing to accept measures which 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 thousand 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 strongly 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. 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 for. 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 you 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 forecast for next year suggests things will be getting even worse if the government sticks to its austerity policy seen or you know 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. 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 today on r t one of the architects of the

european union tells us why they integrate a blog should not mean spain as an greeks to face their problems alone. in the same boat you are being used a team about. living together while you're 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 rainy has died from self-immolation and local hospital after protesting against jessica wealthy cuts it follows the death of a disable fifty seventy year old man who set himself on fire during a demonstration earlier in july the so-called occupy israel with mentor over social injustice is gaining momentum as the government struggles to beas the economy through increasing taxes and cutting spending. the typhoon that swept through the

philippines has now claimed at least twelve lives police and coast guards are searching for people who went missing after strong winds and intense rains swept across the country more than one hundred thousand people are displaced flooding and torrential downpours in the capital also forced the u.s. embassy compound to be closed. america's chief diplomats in africa to urge leaders to reconsider their growing ties with china washington's increasingly concerned over beijing's rapidly spreading influence in the region as if you were a editor of the pan-african news wire believes hillary clinton's visit will do more harm than good. hillary clinton went to africa last year she expressed some trepidation about the growing relationship between africa and the people's republic of china but it appears as if most of the states in africa 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 dependent upon all that comes from various parts of africa there has been huge discoveries just recently both and natural gas in east africa off the coast of east africa and these of course are providing you 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's relationship with china. business is next the way that dimitri

investors turn optimistic as the latest u.s. jobs data comes in how is it looking well we have to make a distinction here that it's a.d.p. data automated data processing so it's preliminary data but it's showing a hundred sixty three thousand jobs were added in the month of july and that's a good sign because this is this means we're picking up the pace compared to the previous months now let's take a look at in more detail the the private sector is is indeed adding one hundred sixty three thousand. mark analysts which have been polled say that one hundred thousand altogether will be added jobs in july in the. in the private sector that's compared to eight hundred thousand in the month of june and that means the unemployment rate will remain at eight point two percent and that indeed is a good science take a look at the market reaction over on the european markets the dax was in the red

it's now over in positive territory the footsie up a one point one percent that's despite the fact that manufacturing this morning in china came in at just one inch into expansion which indicates a higher chance of a hard landing and manufacturing in europe then it's a three year low but in the end as you can see out of this job states everything is looking still quite positive over on the other markets we're seeing in russia pretty much unchanged picture with my six adding just point six percent manufacturing actually in a russia show would grow for one of the few countries which are which there is a show for positive dynamics now leading the gains on the my six is the financial sector with a one point seven percent measure was the still the best performing stock the steel miner has reported a thirteen percent increase in steel production the first half of the year and gas problem is worse than the market's down point two percent as its. fights

nationalisation of a life in the way in a stock or more the trade. now also on the commodities market and we are seeing positive movement but not that much different in terms of pace compared to the previous sessions yesterday we saw pretty much the same kind of movement to downwards but this is providing some support to the a russian tyrants see which however is weaker let's take a look at currencies weaker than the basket of currencies the declining around half a percent against both the euro and the dollar at this hour but this decline is is it is become. small compared to the previous hour for example the euro is quite stable compared to the greenback. and a top up banker has admitted that his profession is to blame for the financial crisis and the whole day at the bank of england set theories became a theological doc tree quote we started believing assumptions and saying things

that made no intellectual sense this is 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. well the blame game continues the things that images for that update i'll see a little bit later you will and coming up is a special report on the dangers of reporting from combat zones that's after the headlines in a few minutes. if

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