when the syrian people desperately need action. there continues to be finger pointing and name calling in the security council and quit says the international mediator for syria blaming deep divisions of the u.n. and potentially slowing peace efforts into a tailspin now russia calls the nans resignation regrettable. meanwhile it's emerged the president obama apparently authorized covert support for the syrian rebels in their violent uprising just as russia and america's closest ally britain tried to bridge divisions over the crisis and they were screaming at least in the most brutal way julian assange and his brother says the u.s. threatened her son an exclusive interview in ecuador where she met the country's

president as part of the whistleblowers asylum played. hello and welcome this is r.t. from moscow my name's kevin oh in our top story the eleven pm here tonight the u.n. arab league mediator in the syrian crisis kofi annan is standing down from his role blaming finger pointing and name calling at the u.n. security council and iran's been the key figure in the world hopes of negotiating a diplomatic solution which has been deadlocked over direct foreign action in the conflict live to our new york correspondent them for the latest reaction on this to see it is where the service is say hi again what is kofi annan said to explain why he's resigned this evening. well kevin the u.n. arab league special envoy to syria coffee is in fact resigning officially this will

take place on august thirty first when his mandate expires now the nobel peace prize laureate was initially summoned to be key met eight or in the syrian conflict half a year ago a very hard six months that many had dubbed the diplomatic mission impossible partially due to the seriousness and intricacy of the conflict unraveling on the ground for the last seventeen months but also because of the conflicting opinions of the united nations security council members take a listen to what and on said about that the increase in militarization on the ground and the clear like a few need to be in the security comes from fundamentally changed the circumstances for the effective. of my rule. and already a non-story marks are being reflected in reality while russia has said that his resignation is regrettable we have heard from the united states say that russia and

china are the ones whose failures are underlined by kofi annan resignation but in reality the gist of the problem of course is that the key players are separating words from deeds in this conflict because we have on paper world powers saying that they're all calling for parts of the sides of the conflict to sit down for peaceful talks but in reality not so much to close in to the comments of the russian ambassador to the one. unfortunately i think one of the reasons. mr nuss efforts have encountered so many difficulties is that his appeal for no further militarization of the conflict which he started out with as he came in first here to new york was not really heeded by a number of influential members of the international community so well rather strange situation when some countries who are like talking expressing their regret about the violence in syria out of the same time those countries were providing

weapons almost openly to the armed opposition groups. was sick so it was one month to go coffee and on what of course leave behind his six point peace plan that calls for a transitional government to be formed on the ground in syria that should make should comprise both sides of the conflict and of course so far this plan has proven to be unrealistic we know that the united nations security council and the un general assembly will be meeting on thursday and friday this week to discuss the syrian crisis and of course pontoon is already a negotiation with the arab league to figure out who kofi annan successor is going to be in a new york thank you. now before and he was quitting earlier on today to merge the u.s. president barack obama apparently authorized covert support for the syrian rebels to help the most president assad reports of a secret order allowing the cia and other agencies to give back and follow washington's warning that the current fighting in syria will be a nail in assad's coffin the syria issue came into focus at the meeting to between

president putin and the prime minister of washington's closest ally great britain laura smith followed the side of the developments today in their talks in london. it was quite important that this came to light about obama having signed this order to authorize secret kind of cia and agency support for the rebels who are trying to oust president assad in syria that came to light just before the meeting between peace and harmony a way to play that meeting any easier tool of course what obama's represents is foreign intervention in syria and it is taking sides in syria and those are two things that president putin as we know is very manly opposed to of course the u.k. and russia really represents the polar opposite in the two sides of this argument and of course this is not the only issue upon which russia and britain are poles

apart but it is certainly the most important issue at the moment and we understand in fact that as its two two other issues that british relations have had in the past this is now hampering economic relations with the two between the two countries which might go some way towards solving the problem because as we all know money talks in a way that politics potentially doesn't and of course with these opposing views it is a worry that diplomacy as a part of solving the syria conflict may be slowly dying as this process takes place or smith or you could correspondent there was no talk to political analysts in the story in general hall he's written extensively about of countries he's joining us from north carolina where the general following the meeting with president putin prime minister cameron also commented didley on what he thinks should be done after kofi annan resignation let's just listen to what i have to say circuit.

what we need to do is actually ramp things up we need to pass resolutions at the united nations to put further pressure on syria i want to see them on the so-called chapter seven so they have full legal backing of the u.n. sanctions travel bans asset freezes all the steps we can take to add to the pressure on the syrian. desert come a bit earlier on i just remind everyone the chapter seven of the u.n. charter allows the use of force in a country how likely is it that countries like the u.s. and its allies will use a man's departure to push for foreign intervention do you think. i'm afraid that it's very likely that this whole scenario it was a replay of what happened would be a recall that in libya the african union designated jacob zuma the president of south africa to go to libya to strike the mediate settlement between the rebels and gadhafi regime was to gadhafi was willing to engage in ripples did not mr zuma have to go back home empty handed and then you saw an increase in the fighting could be

on loans resignations seems to be ordering a replay of that and i would say particularly since kofi annan has been very noticeably close to the interstate over the years we're told that he was. in ghana his homeland in order to go be trained at allister college in minnesota in the united states and then after interest probably the former united nations secretary general got into hot water with washington it was washington that pushed for him to be assigned as secretary general of the united nations he has been receiving the image and both. in talks the united states because of his apparent inability to push mr assad out of power which of course is not part of his mandate and therefore his resignation it was both infallible and also dangerous what you're this man coming from the white house not of course he also said that and that resignation highlights the failure of russia and china to support action against syria's president. what do you say about that who do you think is to blame. well

it's clear that the north atlantic. is to blame particularly when it states of america it's clear as well that united states of america and its north atlantic allies or in a financial and economic crisis and they're trying to compensate for that but basically seizing seeking to seize control of valuable resources be they going to libya or the fact that they're saudi allies or talk about building an oil pipeline across syria from saudi arabia in order to ship. in order to have be less dependent and reliant on petroleum from russia why why is there is a natural gas in the mediterranean waters off the coast of syria which the north atlantic countries are also looking for as a way to help salvage their failing economy once again this is a very dangerous situation we now face ourselves for so many elements and players

who say no rusher of course its position is long said that some nations are backing of the rebels has been derailing and then space plan how justified are those accusations from the russian point of view you think. they're not really just a well known saudi goal arabs or basically shunned being an arming with so-called free syrian army but let me say once again this is an utterly dangerous situation that we're faced with because what's happening in northern syria in particular is that the syrian kurds are linking up with their kurdish brothers and sisters across the border in turkey this is seen as a provocation there is a threat now that will be intervening in northern syria in order to squash this kind of incipient kurdish insurgency this into a ship combustible it could bring in regional powers and we haven't even begun to talk about the role of israel in the golan heights which is a very poor i mean taking into account every. thing you are saying there of course

the u.s. is publicly at least on the face of it agreeing to help bring dialogue between the syrian government and the opposition but how does that tally and with washington's financial support for the rebels and the nearly emerge reports we're hearing today that the cia helping the opposition doesn't match does it. well it's well known that washington basically has perfected the idea of two trucks for hours. on the one hand you can smile on the other hand and mike in the back that's basically what's happening in syria all this blather of belt lugosi asians with the old regime was your goal with that either they would like to see regime change although as usual i don't think washington has thought the consequences there is to say that there is a real danger that i don't like forces will be coming to power rather than later in damascus and here in washington will be faced with a replay of what it popped into near you know get

a stand where it helps to engineer the coming to power of the taliban which for the door to gain influence there which led to the tragedy of september eleventh two thousand and one joe that's been really interesting getting your your thoughts of which there have been many thanks for putting across so clearly political analyst at a story and gerald horne there thank you thank you there right now at r.t. dot com our web site if you think the camera never lies we invite you to think again take a look at our web site if you get a minute to take a close look at this picture from an austrian newspaper and then see how it compares to the original report on the european media's digital deception in the syrian conflict it's online for most if you want to read up more about it. and in similar vein what so often ignored by leading foreign media when it comes to covering the syrian conflict or the brutal tactics employed by some armed rebel groups and a receipt video surfaced this week revealing the other side of the syrian conflict the footage on the screens now purports to show the cold blooded execution of assad

supporters by syrian rebels several men stripped of some of their clothes and bleeding is seen to be forced to kneel by a wall in front of gunmen who then opened fire journalist pepe escobar done his own research into those images and says with incidents like this there is no end in things in sight to the current syrian crisis. i received this video as well from a source in arabica then i asked for it since lation this it was a very clever this is a very important clearly norse and liberal and some of them they were executed in cold blood this is what this. minute video shows in fact this is an extended when they have like two eighty thousand brothers sisters the extended family clan tribe you know so this means that all these people each stand of being recruited to the opposition now they will be fighting the opposition because they are being executed in cold lot in this explains among other things why christians all over syria now

are taking up arms to defend themselves go because they know if there is a falls a subcultural by sunni hard core elements including soffit jihad just this is what's going to happen they're going to be protected minorities and at the moment they are protected minority to some of the assad government. correspondence is always as you'll know if you want to for last seventeen months bringing you the real story on the ground from within syria you can follow them as well on twitter that you can get the first time experiences of developments in the stricken nation as well as reaction analysis a sound sadly often disturbing images it's a party under school call. folks in some other news now today and julian assange his mother has met ecuador as leader as his son pleads for asylum there president correia said the decision will

be influenced by pressure from any other country cristina such talk to r.t. as well during a visit telling us that u.s. politicians are still gunning for revenge over wiki leaks some even calling for his son's execution the full interview on air next hour on this channel this is a little of what you can expect. from the beginning. from the us from politicians and from. news commentary. screaming at. him and racial lines they seem to be. all on how they would feel like. calling out to crucial for sydney inciting me against my son and still in the last few weeks. this infosys this intense because folks these who hate the palin who was screaming at killing six kids this is somebody who is not the right one and it's done nothing more than any good in this election to be an interesting one is

one doing. well whistleblowers been holed up in ecuador's embassy in london for over six weeks now the final decision on a sunday is asylum request is expected within the next ten days he's wanted in sweden over sex crime allegations but believes they're just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. to face trial over the massive leak of secret files i spoke to scott houghton he's from harper's magazine he told me even if assad gets asylum he won't be out of the woods then. to me it's hard to understand how the ecuadorians are going to play this but 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'd only 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 doing the song may be aghast in close quarters in the ecuadorian embassy for many years the question without straw is one that 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 town tomorrow 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 see to challenge the u.s. over any issue coming up in the program tonight the u.s. continues to twist iran's perfect timing maybe

a story about the republic as washington turns its focus from iraq to iran expecting it to pay up for nine eleven along with al qaeda and the taliban. but next spanish police have arrested three suspected al qaeda members who were planning an attack in europe two of the men lived in russia's chechen republic during a wave of terror attacks there while the other man's of turkish descent all of beliefs have been trained in pakistan. has got the story for you. the police in spain have arrested three suspected members carter who they say had amassed explosives and were plotting attacks in europe that's according to the spanish interior ministry of they also said they found enough explosives to quote destroy whole bus and they also said that these three men had received training in camps in places like afghanistan and pakistan now one of the men was arrested on his own they say that he is from turkey and that he's considered the facilitator in this group that the two other men were arrested together while they were planning to

make their way to france and these two men are said to have lived in chechnya and as we know is part of russia's volatile region of the north caucasus which over the years have seen the waves of violent attacks now we're quoting to officials these attacks and have had the links to al qaida and the men would masterminded them and also received training in places like afghanistan and pakistan now as far as europe is concerned and they've been on high alert for some time now ever since the attacks the nine eleven attacks in the united states spain in particular has arrested dozens of suspected al qaeda members over the years and even more so after the two thousand and four train bombing in madrid now they say that these three men be arrested today had been under monitoring a by the authorities for some time now and we can see that and we can expect that authorities here in europe will definitely be even higher alert after the arrests that were made today. in europe more of the world's top news stories brief egypt

sworn in its first government since hosni mubarak the new carbon is designed to allay fears of domination by the muslim brotherhood leader was elected president most rose to technocrats but the military does remain in some key roles something which led to months of violent public protests in egypt with many people still furious over the power grip. on the market in iraq's capital is killed at least six and injured fourteen others police say two. roadside bombs exploded in a shiite neighborhood during the afternoon rush hour been behind most of iraq's deadly violence which is greatly increased since u.s. troops left last december. update a much slower moving typhoon sweeping through asia cit taiwan and it's killed at least seven torrential rains flooded low lying areas paralyzing the main international airport of welwyn network and take a look at this shocking surveillance video showing one man tragically there it goes falling to his death when a road collapsed burying him in the rubble earlier this week the typhoon killed

twenty three in the philippines. the u.s. congress has approved new sanctions against iran targeting the country's energy sector it coincided with a federal judge ordering taran to pay part of a six billion dollars compensation package for supposedly aiding the nine eleven attacks along with al qaeda and the taliban and hezbollah now since insert no one's actually going to pay up the judgments raise questions than over how the country's links justice with politics is going to teach you can explains. the whole trial is considered a symbolic move nobody's actually hoping to collect those penalties you ran from lee denies any such accusations has blogged the same or was soon after nine eleven has been laws leader described 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 commission back in the day also stated that quote we have found no evidence that iran or hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the nine eleven

attack and of quote but the fact that now the u.s. justice system holds iran partly responsible for nine eleven is most interesting both in terms of timing and historical context back in two thousand and three has the u.s. waged war against iraq another u.s. federal judge ruled that iraq must pay for nine eleven attacks very similar rulings so have you have this clear flashback when you look at the headlines from may two thousand and three course the allegations that saddam hussein was doing business with al qaeda proved to be bogus but that didn't matter at the time having solid evidence didn't matter at the time tensions skyrocketed on false grounds 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 with the most recent ruling holding iran responsible partly responsible for nine eleven one can argue there may never be any easing of sanctions or sanctions even if iran makes

small things on its nuclear program. but you can right let's talk business coming up to this exactly twenty three minutes past eleven if you check your watches dimitris always very precise on. the market still the disappointing speech from supervisor it was we call him earlier on still. on the markets because early mario draghi has failed to provide backing to his words a couple of days ago when he said he would do anything with a. the mandate of the e.c. be to preserve the euro no measures have been revealed today at the monthly his monthly address and investors indeed very much disappointed but from london capital group says this is because the e.c.b. does not have that many tools or that many aces up its sleeve the most important thing about the e.c.b. and its current mandate is that it does not have the same sort of powers of other

central banks like the federal reserve or the bank of england it is very restricted in water it can do it hasn't specifically got the power to really do full blown quantitative easing. of germany the paymaster of europe who are really trying to drive home the e.c. b. must not step outside its mandate so without those super powers there is not much they can do beyond as i say what they've already done this is this isn't enough for the market. here's an illustration of what i was talking about there jones down more than one percent now this. lack of action coming from the e.c.b. is also a couple in the united states with the factory orders for half of the said this is the further a month of declines in four and therefore again

a sign that the us economy is faltering now here's a reaction in europe which is well of course directly connected with the. drug you had to say but since he had to say nothing out of the expected basically the taxes fall in more than two percent at the close of bad session there for europe same thing applies to the european currency he was gaining pretty have to leave before the speech from the e.c.b. chief but then as you can see the tables turned for the dollar and it started gaining against the european currency and against the russian currency everything in line with the global trend there. and on the russian market we we did see a actually a session which was pretty promising at the beginning because oil prices were pretty high but then everything again changed with super mario was entry on stage and second of all is moving the my six of interesting stories there was hydro there the hydro power plant giants in russia gaining two point four percent even though

it's a bad thirty seven percent it seems it was better than expected was mulling a deal with the sweden telling to go have to wait for details on that and ross never declining two and a half percent at the close because on wednesday nights they released the second quarter results and it turned out they had a loss now this loss was very much unexpected and it was dubbed very bad by traders two hundred forty seven million dollars as opposed to a profit of three billion in the first quarter and i was there blames a high tax bill as well as volatile well and ruble markets something strange for me personally to hear because the oil prices still remain pretty. also russia is to hurry up with the development of its resorts rich arctic shelf prime minister medvedev has said that by twenty thirty its gas output should be quadrupled well the oil production should increase five fault and that of also pointed out that the

shelf development is currently constrained by a lack of infrastructure and finance calling for boosting public private partnerships of there. from the business team for today of course on friday will be keeping you posted well every hour live of course good job as always if only our page you are giving a pay rise are in favor of fear the world's financial fallout with kaiser and stacey where they're on the air again on r.t. have to recap of our top story to make kevin zero in two and a half minutes time from now.

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