thanks. syrian rebels are thought to have obtained heavy weapons from abroad for the first time or despite american officials fears there might be used to target civilian airliners. julian assange his lawyer confirms that sweden refuses to question the weekly the supreme law in london i'm a concern for a country once more than just solving the sex crimes complaint against a. class the arab israelis are no longer exam for military service a riskier corporate white against their own people a volunteer be labeled a traitor. and i'll be having a look at why two top dollar russian officials have lost their jobs thanks to an invasion of teddy bears.

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

on the guardian syrian regime t.v. reported defects that talking about how to hand slaves who claims he was a reporter to syrian states. 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 the times leader's claims that he used to work as a correspondent on the syrian news channel have nothing to do with reality. he applied a year and a half ago didn't find and identify for the job so says from outdoor 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 it's labor really was a public figure it wouldn't have been hard to verify his credentials for 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 to each journalist accumulate some materials in the process especially if they were the syrian news channel. the british media has used labor to tell a story of a proper ganda machine in syria that pumps out of pro-government message with godless of the truth meanwhile the b.b.c. and the guardian appear to be sticking like glue to their own line 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 out just syria who called him a government spy with a psychological problem perhaps that is closer to the truth than the british media go to. the main media outlets are often quick to pick up stories denouncing us regime now though they frequently ignore videos like the one you seeing right now the sandwich a clear proposal to reveal the execution of captured are some supporters by rebels from the free syrian army the pictures posted online appear to show bloodied men surrounded by an excited crowd of gunmen who later opened fire independent journalist james combat believes the black and white picture being painted of the syrian conflict in the media is far from play. 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 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 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 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 bigger picture of the international forces at play there and just sort of mind you in our t.v. crew is in syria updating your via twitter there's analysis comment and reactions of our correspondents tweets and we're bringing you the latest pictures from the conflict torn country as well. joining us on just lawyer has confirmed to r.t.

that sweden has rejected ecuador as an invitation to question the weeklies found in its london embassy that's despite of two years of trying to get his statement over sex crime allegations the whistleblower has been holed up in ecuador's a diplomatic mission for the six weeks now seeking asylum asunta denies of a sex crime claims and believes they just a pretext to hand over to the u.s. they he fears prosecution for espionage after a massive secret diplomatic and military files that's not his lawyer jennifer robinson says america's given no assurances that they're not interested in prosecuting him even though it could be done easily. i have received confirmation from from mr self that that 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 legal assistance to question joy in relation to these allegations he has been offering this testimony since well before the european arrest warrant was issued we

have requested the a straight in government to ask the very same assurances that we're now seeing a quote or 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 a government to take many suspect that there is an existing sealed indictment for joy and that that that the indictment there simply waiting for the appropriate time to exercise it was implement that indictment as a matter of us law as 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 us 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. and do all activities are don de bar says obama

the administration is maintaining a tight grip on those reading state secrets and as a sanchez correctly weighed up washington's plans. 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's so he can be forwarded to the united states the process that's being used to bring him to 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 on was a blowers earlier so the outlook is not good for 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 any house arrest innocence produce

his own t.v. series a shown here on our t.v. interviewing the political firebrands who the other networks ignored all tough programs online a what's the matter. arab israelis could now find themselves called up for the military until now they've been exempt from having to serve in the israeli defense forces now those who sign up or is being labeled as traitors causing a shadow over them and their families as our to his policy explains. a monument to israel's foreign and look more closely and you will see many of the names are of arab soldiers fighters who joined an army that many of the brave when here call the enemy and groom and but in meetings like this across the country the mood is changing and most arab israelis are saying no to being drafted into these weighty defense forces the issue is up for debate as israel reviews current military draft laws that are now off the docks jews and arabs to avoid national service then why

ask these really military ones to make a serve not because they need us and because we want to can. all the arab states of mind and divide us. in time for the army generals will call upon 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 homeland i don't have another land and i live here and so i feel it's my responsibility to contribute to the country so that they will write about them let their supers two brothers also serve 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 no deprivation 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 better than why you ask me variously i mean doesn't go like this a vast majority of our community sees it as a bad thing to do war and the press here with the towel nor set 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 paul asli r t tel of of your arms being warned it must negotiate limits on its nuclear program of face the threat of u.s. military action defense secretary leon panetta ultimatum policy a fresh round of sanctions imposed by washington the policy director of the national iranian american council believes those restrictions do nothing but herd 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 iran 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 you are on 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 the world news when you want to including a painful point about and mind reels as a passenger on a canadian dead bison to a shutdown which are which contain get this a needle. in the coca-cola apocalypse the duma predicting mayan calendar will see the american dream as giant of beauty doubt of

late at this yeah we tell you why at our dot com. bellary has fired two of its military top brass a with a failure to stop an invasion of swedish parachuting teddy beds to explain why the fur is flying in minsk and let's talk to our g.'s people all about right now. it sounds common but it's proving to be no nothing magical they secretive country isn't it. that's right what we're looking at is a story that is to come out on the first of april we'll be dismissing it as an april fool's guide boats that didn't and it is true. what happened was on the fourth of july a large number of teddy bears were power shoot into valerie's to

a town near to minsk by a small light aircraft now these teddy bears for slogans on them in favor of free speech and an egg against human rights abuses now it's believed that the culprits behind this stunt with the swedish public relations company studio to tell it's believed they rented a light aircraft flew it from lithuania into batteries before dropping these fares now it's taken from the fourth of july until quite recently for belarus to actually admit that this happened and it's provoked a very angry reaction from the bellary says the leader. has said last week why was this plane allowed to get into belorussian airspace undetected he's now taking action on not nice dismissed two of the most senior generals in the belorussian military we're talking about the guy who's in charge of border control also the head of a defense on the air force it's

a real senior piece a personal members have been dismissed over this there's also two people on the ground in belarus have been arrested accused of aiding and abetting the swedish stunt and they those two people could face up to seven years in prison if they're found guilty of those accusations but it is something of a quite comical story really teddy bears parachuting from the skies it would seem that well you don't have to go to the woods in bellary city looking for a big surprise the teddy bears falling from the skies and they're not there for a picnic they're there to put forward shoes of free speech and human rights well i guess comical and a little bit embarrassing for the batteries that government they had it appeared all of us thank you very much. now spain's regional leaders are 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 recently impose the deepest cuts in decades but as the 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 not in their bodies and their 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 and 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 crowd some of which shockingly enough where they're calling. 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 all stereotype all a-c. seen are you know if there are no radical changes in political economic and social spheres then spin will gradually turning to greet us the level of street tension will reach a quiet. gilded age that 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 r.t.

one of the architects of the european union tells us why the integrated bloc should not leave spaniards and greeks had to face their problems alone. in the same boat you are in east timor. climb a mountain link together. you're in the same boat rowing if one is craving the argos will probably. now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world a second really has died from self-immolation in a local hospital after protesting against drastic wealthy cuts it follows the death of a disabled fifty seven year old man 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 busy economy through

increasing taxes and cutting spending. the typhoon that swept through the philippines has now claimed that these twelve lives police and coast guards are searching for people who when missing after strong winds and intense rains as 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 shiva diplomats in africa to urge leaders to reconsider their growing ties with china washington is increasingly concerned over beijing's repartee spreading influence in the region. as e.q. a editor of the pan african newswire 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 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 dependent 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 partnerships 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. dimitris next to with business and dimitri all eyes on the upcoming fed meeting in the us tonight what do you know while investors are really drooling in anticipation of further stimulus measures at least they want to hear the fed say you know such words to use such a vocabulary as to at least leave the door open to further stimulus measures and that's coming up in a few hours meanwhile this is what the fed has to deal with the latest data coming out on the jobs market and in manufacturing and the kates a slight improvement compared to the previous month a.d.p. all to make today it's a process a provides preliminary job states and it says that the private sector added a hundred sixty three thousand jobs last month so. acting on friday to see a july report indicating an improvement from the labor department and also manufacturing has come in just a tad better than the previous month from forty nine point seven percent it went up by just a notch although everyone of course wants to see expansion which is valued more

than fifty percent but that's not happening yet so maybe stimulus measures will need to see but this data has been taken in the world slightly positively with the dow jones and nasdaq adding just a bit in the first hour of trading or so now over in europe where we've seen the dax move back into negative territory down point three percent this is as manufacturing in europe has come in out of three year low although the footsie is quite quite jolly this hour over in russia and other fifteen minutes left on the clock with the r.t.s. now moving into negative territory the my six bit a bet on a weaker ruble we'll look at currencies a bit later moving the mice a financial shares were looking better than the others with the still added one point three percent of the close the best performing stock and it's continuing gaining momentum increasing its. positive movement pace six point two percent now

the metals miners reported steel output to go up thirteen percent in the first half of the year and gas probably is looking worse than the market is down point six percent as it continues to fight the nationalization of a pipeline in lithuania in a stock or arbitration. now over on the commodities market which is not really providing that much of a support to the russian ruble is. gaining sixty and ninety cents per barrel respectively and really the russian ruble continues to decline a second look at currencies it's losing half a percent against the dollar and more than half a percent against the. whereas the euro moved into negative territory not much of a change there. and now a top bankers admitted his profession is to blame for the financial crisis and the whole day at the bank of england said theories became

a quote theological doctrine we started believing assumptions and saying things that made no intellectual sense this is the latest salvo in the crisis blame game with both of these states and european union blasting each other for the world's economic problems so that update dimitri will see you again after russia's closing bell that's it from the business too. now i'll recap the main stories for you shortly and then there's more often seen coming your way on our t.v. stay tuned.

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