syrian rebels of georgia have obtained heavy weapons from a border for the first time despite american officials feared they might be used to target civilian airliners. julian assange says lawyer confirms that sweden refuses to question the weaken the supreme court in london and may concerns of the country once more than just solving the sex crimes complaint against him. saira because rabies are no longer exempt from military service a risking a call up to point against people volunteer and be made a traitor. and i'll be having a look at how to talk bellow russian officials who've lost their jobs thanks to an invasion of teddy bears.

they're watching artsy live from moscow with me tom would 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 ankara joined the u.s. in saying that president assad will be forced to leave see some american officials have been wary of arming the opposition with missiles appearing they could easily be used against civilian airliners of 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 their facts are not all what they seem. 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 right here says he's nothing but a fantasy but. claims that he used to work as a correspondent in the syrian news channel have nothing to do with reality. he applied to a half ago at the channel didn't find a job so says from outdoing near the other t.v. stations labor claims to work 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. 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 line that equals rebels equal freedom fighters slaver himself now says he wants to work for an opposition channel he told the guardian he met someone from out who calls 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 or denouncing us as regime although they frequently ignore videos like the one you're seeing now is a clip of proto to reveal the execution of captured assad supporters by rebels in 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 covered believes a 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 the 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 to remind you in our t.v. crew is in syria updating you via twitter there's analysis comment and reactions in 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 a ecuador's invitation to question the weekend it's found in its london embassy

that's despite two years of trying to get his statement of a sex crime allegations the whistleblower has been holed up in the aqueducts diplomatic mission over six weeks now seeking asylum sunday denies the sex crime claims and believes that they just a pretext to hand over to the u.s. they he fears prosecution for espionage after a massive leak of secret a diplomatic and military files a son 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 sonship herself 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 in 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 u.s. 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 two or activism don de bar says the obama administration is maintaining a tight grip on those revealing state secrets 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 whistleblowers earlier so the outlook is not good for a songe 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 julian assange produced his own t.v. show here in our t.v.

interview in the political firebrands here the other networks and no and i'll tell programs are online watch them at a sunset darty dot com. now bellary has fired two of its military top brass over their failure to stop an invasion of swedish parachuting teddy bears to explain why the fur is flying in humans let's talk to an artist put out of our freedom if comical but it's proving to be no nothing meant to be secretive country is it. well it would seem that if you don't have to go down to the woods in bellary see if you are looking for a big surprise the teddy bears are literally parachuting in from the sky now those bears aren't parachuting in for a picnic they were parachuting in bearing the messages of free speech and against human rights abuses now it's understood that the swedish p.r. group calling themselves studio towers were behind this stunt they believe

a rented a a light aircraft and if you amy a flute across the border into belarus where they dropped the band of beyond if you will they parachuted down bearing these messages into a village just outside of the capital minsk know as funny and his light hearted as this all seems it has resulted into a feller's a senior generals losing their positions we're talking about the heads of the belarusian air force and as offenses as well as the general who is in charge of border control belorussian president alexander lukashenko and no joking mood when it comes to these teddies he is furious that his country's airspace was able to be infiltrated in this way without it being spotted and on the ground of russian citizens who are being arrested and charged with aiding and abetting the swedish. could face seven years up to seven years in prison so as much as this is a overtly fun story and not so much of

a teddy bears picnic though for those who have lost their jobs or a facing trial. well comical indeed but no doubt embarrassing for the better is government well thank you very much they are peter oliver. 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 being labeled as traitors casting a shadow over them and their families as artie's policia expands. 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 the bridge one 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 israel reviews current military draft laws that allow orthodox jews and arabs to avoid national service. the israeli military wants to make

a serb 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 a party in ages 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 mean my gosh. i volunteered because this is my home where and i don't have another land and i live year and so i feel it's my responsibility to contribute to the country without the right of a camel of 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 liberation but chill 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 cool 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 i mean doesn't go like this a vast majority of our community sees a. bad thing to do. with the towel nor sick 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 r.t. tell of of iran's being warned it must negotiate limits on its nuclear program or face the threat of u.s. military action defense secretary leon panetta ultimatum paul is 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 a 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 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 has the world news when you want it including the apocalypse coming from coca-cola we explain why the addictive mind hallandale will be the american drinks giant you should out of police later this yeah we tell you why. and how to make an entrance and if you're the man why london's boris johnson has been hanging around the city.

spain's regional leaders squaring up to madrid and boycotting the latest tough deficit targets the euro zone's for the largest economy is desperately trying to fill its budget gap and recently in the deep as cuts in decades but as i 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 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 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 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 forecast for next year suggests things will be getting even worse if the government sticks to its austerity policy seen online or if there are no radical changes in political economic and social spheres then spin will gradually turning to greece the level of street tension will reach a climate. imagined interest 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. of c.r.t. reporting from madrid in spain. next hour on r t one of the architects of the european union tells us why the integrated blah should not leave spain and greece to face their problems alone. in the same boat you are.

a team of. mountain link together. you are in the same boat rowing if one is trading the others would probably. now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world a second brady 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 in july and the so-called occupy israel movement over social injustice is gaining momentum as the government struggles to peace economy increasing taxes and cutting spending. the typhoon that swept through the philippines has now claimed at least twelve lines police and postcards 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

interracial downpours in the capital also forced the u.s. embassy compound to be closed. america has achieved diplomats in africa to urge leaders to reconsider their growing ties with china and washington is increasingly concerned over beijing's record he's creating influence in the region by you and me as where editor of the pan african music why everything is hillary clinton's visit will do small harm than good when our 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 depended upon that comes from various parts of africa there has

been huge discoveries just recently both. in east africa off the coast of east africa and these of course are providing new new opportunities for other peoples repub. 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 its relationship with china. dimitris next with the business update and all eyes on the upcoming fed meeting in the us tonight tell us more absolutely right well in a couple of hours we will hear the central bank of the united states the federal reserve system reside will have minutes released from that meeting and investors

are very hopeful that least at least the fed will keep an open door to further stimulus which apparently according to the recent stats which have just come out is quite needed actually on the jobs market a.d.p. automated data processing as the released one hundred sixty three thousand new jobs being added in the private sector which is a slight improvement on the previous month a full report from the labor department expected on friday and manufacturing as improved by just p.m.i. from forty nine point seven to forty nine point eight and everyone is hopeful of course for a value over fifty percent which would indicate expansion. all right this is how the u.s. markets are faring right now they are flat as they were in the previous session really ahead of that meeting everyone is really cautiously dow jones is up just point two percent as i'm going to be over in europe is that yes it is c. is is quite optimistic one point three percent in the positive territory that's

despite the fact that p.m.i. for europe came in at a three year low and also in china we see just a fifty point one just one inch into expansion territory whereas the dax is looking to negative. over here in russia this is the closing picture with the obvious and my six mixed and that's after a session of of declines of one half percent we see in today's session but overall markets are still positive for the week before now moving to my sixth today was the financial sector with busy bee gaining as you can see there more than one percent the best performing stock of the day was metals mine a met show it closed to expect. in steel production by thirteen percent increase in the first six months of this year year on year and that's very sending a very good signal to the us as you can see the gas problems worse than the market as it continues to fight in court nationalization of a pipeline. now over on the commodities market we're seeing

somewhat support to the russian market because it's so much depends of course on the oil prices slight positive movement but when it comes to the russian ruble it's continuing to lose its value some experts say another fifteen percent of depreciation for the russian ruble is expected to cause because capital outflows continue of course from the country and therefore we see another decline of around top of the same against the current sees the euro is slightly lower to the greenback. he while a top banker has admitted there is profession was to blame for the financial crisis and the whole day that the bank of england said theories became a theological dog tree and he added quote we started believing assumptions and saying things that made no intellectual sense now 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 that's the way the markets look at this of course

as close as we get to the fed meeting and as soon as we get the minutes from there we will have some some kind of idea of what the u.s. policy will be well we'll be looking out for that thank you for that business update. now on the way the rest take is playing fast and loose with the global economy that's after the headlines.

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