the dramas of war beetle out are in syria as rebel friendly power is spearheaded by the us step up they are a military threat or against scare tactics against damascus. mass murder anders breivik is sentenced to twenty one years behind bars as a judge declares he was mentally sound when executing dozens of people in cold blood. britain abandons its threat to storm victoria mission and take joy in the sands by force a day after both america's rose up in support of quito. torching r.t. coming to you live from moscow a marina joshie another chunk of intimidation coupled with aggressive statements were piled on the syrian government this week the u.s.

and its allies are once again talking about the possibility of oz's regime using its chemical arsenal while at the same time dishing out threats to engage in its internal conflict rate of forty nine has more on what damascus had to say on the. as the violence in syria continues increasing western countries may be inching closer and closer towards military intervention this past week the us britain and france all separately signaled when or why they would take direct action u.s. president barack obama said that washington would intervene if the syrian government deployed chemical or biological weapons against civilians britain echoed america's sentiments while france called for the consideration of a partial no fly zone to be imposed over syria's airspace and that is a suggestion that u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton previously made now the syrian deputy prime

minister who was visiting moscow this week for talks has accused western countries are reaching for any reason that would lead to direct intervention he also said that president obama's threats are linked directly to the u.s. elections damascus also drew parallels between western focus on syria's chemical weapons and the invasion of iraq where the existence of suspected chemical weapons were never confirmed now this uptick uptick in talk and threats over military intervention into syria columns as the u.n. security council is scheduled to have a ministerial meeting on syria on aug thirtieth that meeting was called for and will be chaired by threats reporting from new york. r.t. war correspondent and columnist eric margolis believes washington is being pushed into an action by election politics in the us. united states is the most

journalists syria. iran the u.s. . election year. pressure on the obama administration to do something you go. screaming do something in so let's hope that these threats of verbal i'm still hoping that there will be a diplomatic solution but chances are receding as political pressure grows and the united states and behind is let's remember that this really is a person pushing very hard to do something to. overthrow a government and even supports its syria may be breaking up into little cantons fighting one another along religious ethnic and tribal lines or just as a lebanon was in the one nine hundred seventy s. this is a very frightening prospect and we have to work hard to make sure it does not happen. opposition activists claim saturday was the deadliest day since the start

of the unrest with more than three hundred people killed in the fighting between pro and anti regime supporters across syria the lion's share of deaths were reported in the suburbs of damascus which have been witness to fierce battles of late but the war hasn't yet swelled up the whole country as a boy going to report. a phrase syrians use for someone who loves life and a good description of this nation's character even during a time of war some syrians to preserve their home or joviality. the telos way there is one of the few communities in syria still loved and affected by violence don't want to play the big man with imus life is usually here people come to the park with their families every night nothing has changed. it's a striking contrast to the rest of the country just fifty kilometers west lies down

to the city where the syrian uprising began and we're going out to buy bread is sometimes a major risk but for the residents of suede that is no coincidence populated primarily by the jews a religious group that incorporates elements of all major faiths this way that has so far proved syria's most successful peace laboratory the locals say it's because their culture breeds tolerance. in the list to tell you different is a basic right guaranteed by humanity in psuedo we have people of different political opinions we all respect and accept each other as human beings that's why sweden hasn't witnessed any confrontation we can differ politically we still want to preserve our homeland and we have people war against the government yet there also gets the violence there no army checkpoint on the streets and nor fear of rebel snipers on the rooftops business is slower than usual but the outlook is a big these hotel opened its doors just two weeks. go is general manager is

convinced that tolerance both political and religious always pays off. to continue. people have to. have to. accept. this which you have to accept. about. those. so. i think it's good to open up this while the rest of syria gathers to funerals in psuedo weddings are still the most common public event when we've. about a dozen couples timed the knot on that particular day. the system that we are in hotels where used to seem very different people and we'll learn how to accept everybody that's what syria needs both sides need to stop killing and start talking to some in the west it may come across as ignorance and disregard for those who are

suffering but it's actually the opposite the syrians always valued the beauty of the simple life and they won't give it up easily even at gunpoint. but here's. the economy where the killing that is right now but the banks that. maybe never. want to wait out. favoring turkey has also seen an upsurge in violence recently nine people almost half of them children were killed in a car bombing close this year in border on monday no group has claimed responsibility for the a tab but turkish politicians were quick to point fingers at the syrian uprising ankara however says the breast across the border has nothing to do with the blast playing the blame on a kurdish rebel group instead international relations professor mark almond believes the turkish government has created via. the ability inside its own state.

of the reasons why i had been so supportive of bashar assad was that he was very close to the border when the infiltration of his interest her trip was a very long border and what we're now seeing of course is that the border between turkey and syria is open to incorporation into syria rebels and also. because i'm surprised the west and some of it is of course it's been it's been down through the old smuggling routes a billboard america problem is. all the time a blind eye to the border are going into syria there's always the risk that they of course for the right price. so i have for this hour the road to ruin we peek into the future of post revolution libya as recent islamised attacks and religious shrines trigger fears the country is about to plunge had first into tribal chaos and bloodshed. and now time out for athens european leaders remain on

swayed by a greek p.r. blitz asking for more time to implement cuts and the problem of its crumbling economy. an average of three months for every person he killed a court this week handed a twenty one year prison term to mass murder anders breivik for the massacre of seventy seven people last july it's the maximum sentence possible in norway but it can be prolonged if the killer is still deemed a mannus to society once the terms complete the prosecution has demanded brevik should have been placed in a secure psychiatric unit saying he was insane but the judge ruled he was mentally sound the killer who never showed any remorse for his actions during the whole trial said he was satisfied with such a decision to sell breivik will be locked up and has sparked a wave of condemnation as many believe it's more like a hotel and authorities alec's here chefs get reports is example has encouraged others to take up arms. and off weaponry and explosives to kill dozens of people

that was the discovery of the czech police when they raided at twenty nine year old man's apartment in the city of. the man was reported by his neighbors to have some mental problems that's why the police decided to take action and later they arrested this man he was tearing a remote detonates of an explosive device on him when he was did say that it's also been revealed by the czech police that an explosive device made of an aircraft bomb was found in his apartment and they did it could have killed dozens of people it was believed to be a very powerful explosive device of several kilograms of explosives in it the police. for now it does not reveal does not know what this man's intentions were but it's already has all the reasons to believe that the man was a sympathizer of the killer from norway and it is brady sources within the interior ministry of the czech republic report that this man used a brave as he is on the internet in different forums and different social networks

for now the police is trying to determine whether there have been eighty connection between the detained man and become self now with know little about this man for now a few pictures had been released by the czech media this man detained cuffs on him being put in a police car but for now the police are trying to keep all the information secret regarding this man so that he won't have any more followers and they're trying to determine whether he actually had any more followers or he was planning to act alone. reporting their load of a note to an international consultant and former deputy speaker for the belgian parliament believes the idea of integrating in assimilating migrants into europe was doomed from the start. there is more and more radical opinion giving voice to far right views. i think hardly of caused there if we can all deny there are problems with him and they are already be forced to do great and it's the

problem that this person degrees in those functions that it is a basic problem but the thing is first of all multiculturalism first of all has always been. i mean something that was used in a political context and secondly i do not believe that this was a key policy of the european union european union is an economic projects and that is that was the key policy what is the big what is the real problem in society i do believe that there is a problem with immigration in europe i also believe that there is a much bigger problem with the economic reconstruction of europe and this room which is causing all this social frustration in r.t. life from moscow on a good deal more still in store for us our including how the deadly trend of afghan forces turning their weapons a cancer nato troops helping to train them is adding yet more challenges to the country's dreams of peace. britain has backed off its

threat to raid a quid or an embassy in london according to a statement from kiddo's foreign ministry the rest are all comes just a day after the organization of american states sided with ecuador in a blow to britain the thirty five nations that make up the new world declared amnesty is a viable territory it also means joy to sarge the man at the center of the storm is safe for the moment inside ecuador in mission laura smith now with more on the decision by the americans. it was a meeting that lasted five hours but eventually got what it wanted out of the me saying essentially they the foreign minister made a speech in which he condemned person for what he called an assault on all silver. and eventually what happened was that these thirty four countries signed this resolution which rejects any attempts to put at risk the inviolability of diplomatic premises anywhere in the world and and expressed solidarity and support

for ecuador in their offering of asylum to julian assange arms but also continue talks between ecuador and britain to try and sort out their diplomatic problems the usa and canada are members of this organization and they were very much against this meeting from the very beginning and they all say their expressed reservations about the resolution that was passed in the end but it goes to show that particularly in its own region ecuador is not acting alone and it's now got huge international backing across the americas but we've seen no movement in britain and stance so far they still remain committed to arresting julian assange which adds to fulfilling this court order which says that he must be extradited to sweden whatever happens and in fact we've seen further proof in recent days that person is not going to abandon its plans to arrest him we had a policeman photographed outside the ecuadorian embassy one of the many policemen who is guarding the embassy twenty four seven holding this piece of paper

a piece of restricted information that says that should be arrested essentially at all costs whatever it takes even if he emerges in some way in a diplomatic car even if as some have posited here merges in some kind of diplomatic crate or bag that is not going to put the british police off arresting him that they're really very intent on arresting him and fulfilling this court order so that it's a position that hasn't changed in the last few days and i see no reason that it will change as a as a direct result of this but as i say the international pressure is growing meanwhile due to messages of course still in the ecuadorian embassy in london still very unclear how he will get out. fauresmith reporting there and commenting on the united condemnation from the americas attorney and or to spanish host even beyond your says only continued pressure can force you to go. the pressure is very important to continue to try to sort of whittle away a. position. in the big eight and i wanted to show

each time that these types of meetings take place and the resolutions happen and we see the u.s. position in particular in showing that you know it's going to reason behind all of this it is behind the signs and so it's really important their arms out and people understand that governments understand that and eventually hopefully the british government will back down we'll have to wait and see what is going to have to feel weeks in the saga of julian assange but we've got the timeline of his predicament and for analysis in our website there you can also find it with dorian president rafael korea's interview with r.t. and his thoughts on how the story will unfold at r.t. dot com. how the german catholic church has pressed charges against a group of forty riot copycats who disrupted a service in cologne cathedral to manage and a woman who were shouting and carrying a banner demanding freedom for the members of the russian female punk band were thrown out of the building in the at least they could now face up to three years in

jail a potential punishment even greater than their inspiring received a court of moscow sentence the pussy riot trio to two years in jail for their mock prayer in russia's main or of the theatre royal and germany faces a dilemma now being among the states which rush to condemn the verdict. greece's week long pitch for leniency on bailout conditions has fallen on deaf ears but it's touring. told to show his achievements first the prime minister met this week with various european leaders who funded the second greek bailout he's trying to win concessions from them to stand deadlines and shore up the crime one greek economy but both the leaders of france and germany were look warm of best saying any leniency will depend on the grading of athens a sturdy everts next month founder of the. lavin marshall from the center of research and globalization says more time won't save greece. if you actually look

at the situation what some heiress is complaining about is that he needs more time to implement reforms but what are the reforms there's three words that you use most commonly use austerity adjustment and croaks if you simply take the rhetoric follow the policies and look at the effects and you can actually translate the language into what it actually means so austerity means impoverishment adjustment means exploitation and growth means private profits they undermine labor they cut pensions cut social security cut health care spending cut all social spending in general hire more people from the public sector privatized the economy privatized the infrastructure privatized the water the electricity so that foreign corporations can come in and buy everything up for cheap and this is also that they can get a bailout which the money simply goes to pay the banks just the interest on the loans to the banks so it's this massive scam and it's illegitimate for him to be

saying that we simply need more time to impoverish our population problem or you can find all the latest stories comments and videos on our website or t dot com here is some of what you may like while you're there a real life thriller as a mother and her four year old son are in the rock ilsley saved from the rails of a subway line just in the nick of time. and his big bulging eyes and chubby little face have captured the hearts of locals where this baby seal has taken up home on a russian beach head aligned for more pictures of the cup. the watching are tino it's the latest manifestation of afghan anger with the occupation

and is proving one of the deadliest for coalition troops to date at least a dozen u.s. soldiers have died in so-called green on blue attacks in the last few weeks alone as afghan security forces increasingly turn their guns on their american mentors are jesus that he now with more on the sinister trend. the u.s. war in afghanistan is known as the longest military conflict in american history and as u.s. officials hope for a successful exit strategy by the year twenty fourteen an alarming new trend is spiking on the ground indicating that this may not happen so easily u.s. troops have been dying at record rates in so-called insider attacks at the hands of their afghan allies at least ten u.s. troops have been killed in these attacks in the last two weeks alone this makes up for over thirty percent of u.s. military deaths in august of last year there have been at least forty such deaths in so-called green on blue attacks where members of afghan forces turning against western troops sixty nine people were wounded and one of many attempts to tackle

the increasing problem a top u.s. general flew to afghanistan this week to address the issue only to have his plane become the target of a rocket attack experts say it's yet another sign of growing discontent in the war torn country as u.s. president barack obama says more needs to be done to protect u.s. troops from attacks by afghans thought of as partners the question of how exactly this should be done remains unanswered afghan officials have been attempting to spy on their own recruits to prevent these incidents but reports are growing that members of the afghan security forces are increasingly switching sides defecting to support the taliban in one recent incident for afghan army officials were charged with supplying arms to the militants some experts explain the increased insider killings trend as a result of frustration with the length of the war others point to the fact that this comes after several scandals involving the conduct of u.s. troops on the ground from koran burnings to desecrating afghan bodies by you were

needing on them and shocking videos that made headlines around the world the afghan wars and its eleventh year and the fact that this year has seen more deaths from insider attacks than ever before seen as a worrying trend for several reasons the attacks have highlighted the disconnect between the u.s. to exit strategy. to transfer most of the fighting power to afghan forces by twenty fourteen but the fact that the situation on the ground continues to be a lot more complicated that some u.s. officials try to downplay with chaos on the ground the question of whether the u.s. involvement deadline is feasible looms large and. mosque. galère own a marine corps veteran turn anti-war activists believe and side or attack show just how angry afghans have grown against the long and aimless occupation you expect from afghans after ten years of enduring bombings and rape and mass murder in the hands of under us occupation the violence is not going to stop after ten years of

american rule the afghan civil society has been destroyed i mean the infrastructure we have a puppet government in kabul increasingly becoming authoritarian and it's not going to stall and it's a sad thing the fact of the matter is the united states does not have a goal or purpose in mind and continue occupying afghanistan and we're there just so we we are sending american troops there to pacify a country that doesn't want to be pacified under u.s. rule and they are responding to that by writing resisting american imperialism so the fact that i guess it's very site it's a vicious cycle that's not going to end just because the u.s. wants it to em. well it's now take a look at some other stories from around the world riot troops in germany had to

use tear gas water cannon to disperse a violent crowd of youth at an annual street festival several hundred people started a bonfire and threw stones and bottles of police when they arrived the festival has earned a bad reputation having been marred by violence in previous years. thirty six people have been killed in northern china as a fuel tanker collided with a packed bus and golfing both in flames police say most of the passengers were sleeping at the time of the crash and only three of them managed to survive it's not get clear of what caused the accident state media suggest over sixty thousand people died of the country's roads last year alone as. follows forty people have been killed and more than eighty injured after an explosion rocked venezuela's biggest oil refinery blast that was caused by a gas leak comes after repeated outages on installations run by state oil company the country's president of china this has already the clarity of three day long mourning period this is the worst accident to have over to have ever hits the path

of nations industry. neil armstrong the man who once made one giant leap for mankind stepping for the first time in human history on the moon as passed away at the age of eighty two his condition deteriorated after recent heart surgery to clear a blocked artery so estimated half a billion people watched armstrong on t.v. he stepped into the lunar surface on july the twentieth nine hundred sixty nine. on the threshold of the first anniversary of the fall of tripoli libya seems to be marking events with violence and chaos and the latest in a series of recent attacks on its salafi islamist are blamed for blowing up and bulldozing a fifteenth century sanctuary from existence meanwhile assn a clash is not far from the capital left at least twelve people killed and dozens

injured after the warring sides reportedly used anti-aircraft guns against each other this follows last week's violence one of gyptian diplomats a car was blown up in the city of benghazi and after a deadly twin bomb attacks in the capital political analyst and consultant peter ere saying sleep here will all lead to stand further into a pit of chaos. libya is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was of course regime we have the same scenario in iraq we have the same situation in afghanistan with the situation in libya which was again a force regime and as you would expect there will be breakaway groups because at the end of the day although gadhafi was a fraudster in many ways he brought that country from the germans into great prosperity and the wrong government got in and so the military is still trying to pull the strings and of course us failing very fast and i think we will see a natural rebellion. like it's ongoing in iraq like is ongoing in syria and

egypt. well coming up soon we delve into remote parts of russia to examine its ancient wooden architecture and that's right after we kept our top stories in just a few moments.

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