tonight syrian rebels are sort of obtain heavy weapons from abroad for the first time despite american officials fears they might be used to target civilian airliners we report plus. julian assange just lawyer confirms that sweden refuses to question the wiki leaks of primo in london and it concerns the country wants more than just solving the sex crimes complaint against him. and i'll be having a look at how to top fellow russian officials who've lost a job thanks to an invasion of ted's.

hello thanks for being with us this is r.t. live from moscow is kevin owen here with you this with our top story the eleven pm syrian rebel forces are thought to have acquired their first surface to air missiles from foreign allies their beliefs have been delivered via neighboring turkey the rebel free syrian army denies those claims which comes as ankara joined the u.s. in saying president assad will be quote forced to leave soon some american officials have been wary of arming the opposition with missiles fearing that could easily be used against civilian airliners but 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 always or they sing. escape journalist 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 to syrian state t.v. each. anil's 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 but he says he's nothing but a fantasy minister. 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 but the channel didn't find 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. i saw his

preferred on facebook and was shocked to discover it says he was right channel there are lots of police check this each of us has an idea of a journalist employed by the syrian news channel that 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 to the syrian news channel. the british media has used labor to tell a story of a propaganda machine in syria that pumps out a pro-government message regardless of the truth meanwhile the b.b.c. and the guardian appear to be sticking like glue to that. equals rebels equal freezer fight says slave to himself now says he wants to work for an office they shouldn't channel he told the guardian he met someone from out just syria who called him a government spy with a psychological problem perhaps that's closer to the truth than the british media

got. laura smith or when it comes to covering the conflict the world's main media often picks up quickly on stories which strike out at the assad regime but they frequently ignore videos like this about seeing the screen telling the other side of the story seemingly this footage piers to show the execution of assad supporters but rebels from the free syrian army whose pictures were posted online they appear to show bloodied men surrounded by an excited crowd a gunman who later opened fire independent journalist james corbett believes the black and white picture being painted on the syrian conflict in the media is far from fair. but this shows as a coordinated series of efforts on the part of the media to really 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 the 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 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 that play there. just to remind you of course you'll know if you watch us for the last seventeen months but an r.t. crew is in syria updating you on twitter as well as analysis comment reactions in our correspondents tweets if you want to keep abreast of all the very latest minute by minute as it happens we'll bring you the latest pictures too from the conflict in country. julian assange lawyer has confirmed to us that r.t. that sweden has rejected ecuador's invitation to question the wiki leaks founder in its london embassy that's despite two years of trying to get

a statement over sex crime allegations there was applause been holed up in the ecuadorian diplomatic mission for six weeks now seeking asylum a science denies the sex crime claims and believes they're just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. he fears prosecution for espionage after a massive leak of secret diplomatic and military files sound his lawyer jennifer robinson told us america is given no assurances that they're not interested in prosecuting him even though it could be done relatively easily. 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 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 to 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 say it 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. with more thoughts on it scott horton from harper's magazine told me a bit earlier that even if julia gets asylum in ecuador he won't get there without the u.k. or sweden's cooperation first. to me it's hard to understand how the ecuadorians are going to play this about even if they decide to grant his request for asylum that doesn't mean he would be able to walk out of the embassy go to heathrow and fly to ecuador he would still be held there you don't need be able to transfer out with some sort of consent from the u.k. government and i don't think that will be forthcoming without some sort of agreement from the swedish government so it's diplomatically very very thorny and

setting up a scenario in which julian the songs may be aghast in close quarters in the ecuadorian embassy for many years the question with australia is one that's been in the background for many many years in fact if you look through the history of the war on terror you find a number of australian citizens who were seized by the united states who were mistreated some tortured some held in possible conditions in one time and the australian government was remarkably quiet about all of this not really not only not intervening but sometimes attacking their own citizens and i think what's going on there is frankly a rather surprising attitude on the part of the australian government towards the united states has been seek to challenge the us over any issue while under really house arrest in the sun's producers and t.v.

series shown here on this channel interviewing the political fund brands in the other networks ignored now all twelve programs are still online we'll be showing them for a while yet if you want to catch up with any of that if you've missed any you'll find the bit of. the dot com. there hasn't been a thing on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political act. the source material is one hopes he always. we. we want to present. something up. next a u.s. federal judge has ordered al qaeda the taliban and the rand to pay six billion dollars compensation to the nine eleven victims' relatives now that saf to an american court ruled the three were liable for aiding the terrorist attacks in two

thousand and one let's catch up on the reaction to this news that r.t. is going to is in washington d.c. our studios there and i guess this is clearly a largely symbolic ruling so was not just a waste of court time or is there more to it. well kevin the whole trial as you said is considered a symbolic move nobody's actually hoping to collect those penalties iran for only denies any such accusations has a lot of the same moreover soon after nine eleven his philosophy to describe as quote an entity trapped in medieval ages and bent on killing innocent muslims so they're not exactly best friends and the nine eleven back in the day the nine eleven commission report also stated that we have found no evidence that iran or hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the nine eleven attack end of quote but the fact that now the u.s. justice system holds iran's partly responsible for nine eleven is most interesting both in terms of timing and historical context back in two thousand and three as

the u.s. waged war against iraq another u.s. federal judge ruled that iraq must pay for nine eleven. four of the attacks there was a very similar ruling so you have this clear flashback when you look at the headlines for from may two thousand and three they go lawsuit ruling find the right partly responsible for nine eleven and iraq must pay for nine eleven attacks those were the headlines back in the day and of course the allegation is that saddam hussein was doing business with al qaida proved to be bogus but that didn't matter at the time having solid evidence that matter at that time tensions skyrocketed on false grounds well with regards to iran the timing is of importance as far as its nuclear program the obama administration says they want diplomacy and negotiations to work but the u.s. congress is about to approve another package of sanctions designed to cripple iran's economy and i listen to what the law makers say they tie those sanctions not

only to iran's nuclear program but to a host of other issues including human rights alleged ties with terrorists and another issues and combined with the most recent ruling holding you ran the. partly responsible for nine eleven and one can argue there may never be any easing of tension is or sanctions even if iran make makes all concessions on its nuclear program the larger question is can one expect productive negotiations on iran's nuclear program in a setting when the u.s. basically says whatever you do will find a reason to punish you. if you can't thanks very much for your thoughts no to the program the spanish government tells people to be strong as it keeps pushing for cuts but as we report the public's increasingly resisting austerity with demo's violence becoming commonplace on the streets also the painful dilemma of arab israelis who could find themselves called up for the army and risk for being labeled traitors by their protestant. better fired two of its

top military brass over their failure to stop an invasion of swedish parachuting teddy bears you hear me right over explains why the first flying right now in minsk . but would seem that if you don't have to go down to the woods and better research you are looking for a big surprise the teddy bears are literally parachuting in from the sky now those bez 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 town were behind this stunt they believe a rented a a light aircraft in lithuania flew it across the border into bellary swear they dropped the bonds of beyond if you will as funny and his life hard as this all seems it has

resulted in two of belarus's 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 the russian president alexander lukashenko and no joking mood when it comes to these teddies and on the ground to belorussian citizens who are being arrested and charged with aiding and abetting the swedish stunt could face seven years up to seven years in prison so as much as this is a very fun story and not so much of a teddy bears picnic though for those who have lost their jobs or a facing trial. all the story of the day people over there online right now r.t. has got stories from around the world when you wanted including the apocalypse coming for coca-cola maybe we explain why the doom predicting mayan calendar will see the american dream to tell the police here to this year or no more it's online from us. and how to make an entrance if you're the very comes why london's boris

johnson has been hanging around the city park waving his union jacks in fine style . spain's regional leaders are squaring up to madrid and boycotting the latest tough deficit targets the euro zone's fourth largest economies desperately trying to fill its budget gap and recently impose the deepest cuts in decades but as a lecturer jeff ski reports people are refusing to accept measures which are taking them literally 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 been

there by this strangling our own 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. 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 are you will if there are no radical changes in political economic and social spheres then spain will gradually enter into greece the level of street tension will reach a claim. 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. well next iran r.t. one of the architects of the european union tells us why the integrated bloc shouldn't leave spaniards and greeks to face their problems alone. you are in the same boat you are in east timor. mountain link together. you're in the same boat rowing if one is trading the others will

probably. arab israelis could sue find themselves called up for the military they'd previously been exempt from having to serve in the israeli defense forces but now they will face a difficult decision risk in order to fight against their own people or volunteer because that is a traitor as our middle east correspondent paula slater 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 birth 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 is where we've used current military draft laws that allow orthodox jews and arabs to avoid national service and ask the israeli military

wants to make a serve not because they need us because we want to control the arab state of mind and divide us. in a time of war the army generals will 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 volunteered because this is my home where and i don't have another land and i live here and so i feel it's my responsibility to contribute to the country that the right of them led super's two brothers also serve in the idea if it means their family has been branded a traitor is 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 soldiers 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 enough shift says the i.d.f. is an occupying force and those arabs who choose to serve in that cross the line. of the world then why are you going to screw me through me i mean doesn't go like this. is the. thing to do. with the tolerable 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 that 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 they. are t. tel aviv. iran is being bold it must negotiate limits on its nuclear program or face the threat of u.s. military action the fence is all tomato follows a fresh round of sanctions imposed by washington the policy director of the national running american council told a c believes this is traditions do nothing the ordinary citizen. i think what we have in place is 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 want to build a 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 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. more world news a brief twenty three minutes past eleven moscow time a second israeli man died from self-immolation in a local hospital protesting against israel's drastic welfare cuts it follows the death of a disabled fifty seven year old man who set himself a light during a demonstration in july the so-called occupy israel movement over social injustice is gaining momentum as the government struggles to push the economy through increasing taxes and cutting spending. the typhoon of search for the philippines is

now claimed at least twelve lives police and coast guards are searching for the people who are missing after a strong winds and intense rain swept the country more than one hundred thousand people have been displaced flooding interventional downpours in the capital also forced the u.s. embassy compound to be closed. so business now where we are waiting for dimitri what did the fed say well basically no good news for investors i have to say because the outlook remains the same it has not been lowered on the other hand you could say that's a good sign that still views the economy well the situation is not worsening but that means no not most that no more stimulus measures no more q e three at least for now but lower rates are still promised to last till two thousand and fourteen let's take a look at how the market is reacting and well as you can see actually reserve figures kind of speak for themselves now moved into the red basically investors

were all anticipating that more government money would be used to buy up stocks not only bonds but also stocks as you actually suggest over in europe the day ended on a mixed with london quite happy baby because there's just a general positive feel in the city which is now the host of the year a live picture of course where is the dax was reacting to the news that manufacturing in europe was at a three year low over in russia we've seen a mixed close in the my sense was getting in support. from weaker ruble because it's denominated in the group also returns he means higher value goes secular what was moving specifically this index the financials were feeling pretty good with bt beginning normally one percent met show of the metals miner was the stock of the day because they gained six percent as it reported a thirteen percent increase in steel production the first six months of the year

and gazprom was feeling under the weather here down a harmful percent at the close as it continues its illegal vats all against against the the nationalization of a pipeline in that lithuania. let's move over to commodities which were not providing much support to the russian market today but that might change might change on the first day as a lights we can brands are gaining almost a dollar on the back of the stockpiles in the united states falling by the most in seven months and quite unexpectedly. on the currencies market as you can see the ruble was not getting any support so it was down half a percent against about their currencies was one of the most boring trading sessions when it comes to the dollar euro where there is you see no change at all for the whole day and i remember that actually happening at the before. let's move over to another story a top banker as admitted his profession was to blame for the financial crisis and

the whole day at the bank of england said theories became a quote theological doc tree and we started believing assumptions and saying things that made no intellectual sense now it's the latest salvo in the crisis blame game with both the state's european union blasting each other for the world's economic problems from me and from the rest of the business team for today but do join now daniel bushell if you can eight twenty am on the first day moscow time lovely ok thanks for that dmitri on the way the risk takers play fast and loose with the global economy for the headlines and they're just two and a half minutes away. everyone

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