the drums of war beetle out or in syria's rebel friendly power theer out of by the us step up the are a military strategy against spirit tactics against damascus. mass murder renders 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 the it would doreen mission and take joy in a sound by force a day after both america's rose up in support of quito. what are the line from moscow i'm 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 up the possibility of asa's regime using its chemical arsenal while at the same time dishing out threats to engage in its internal conflict we're in a board now has more on what damascus had to say on that. as the violence in syria continues increasing western countries may be inching closer and closer towards military intervention this past week the u.s. 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 of 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 comes 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 france reporting from new york marina porter r.t. war correspondent coldness eric margolis believes washington is being pushed into action by election politics in the us. united states has no strategic interests in

syria what this is all about is you ron and the fact that the u.s. is in a very sensitive election year where there's pressure on the obama administration to do something the republicans are screaming do something and so let's hope that these threats and 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 us let's remember that these rare yoopers pushing very hard to do something to. overthrow a government and there are even support from fronts syria may be breaking up into little cantons fighting one another along religious ethnic and tribal lines that are 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 a young arrest was more than three hundred people killed in 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 fears battles of late but the war hasn't yet swallowed up the whole country or he's a kind of boykin our reports. 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 jobs way there is one of the few communities in syria still largely unaffected by violence but let's get the big man with a slice his usual 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 data

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. and the list is very different there's 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 we have people who are against the government but they're also going to violence then no army checkpoint on the streets and nor fear of rebel snipers on the rooftops business is smaller than usual but the outlook is a big these hotel opened its doors just two weeks ago its general manager is

convinced that tolerance both political and religious always pays off. have to continue. people who have. have to. accept each other. which you have to accept. about. those. thoughts so i think it's good to open up this while the rest of syria gathers funerals in psuedo weddings are still the most common public event money and more among about a dozen couples timed the knot on that particular day i had to spend it with her in hotels where used to seeing 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 human at gunpoint. but i never hear about. the economy where the killing right now but i think that. maybe you never know. because when it comes way down here. an estimated twelve thousand people have spent two weeks blockaded in the syrian town of probably close to the lebanese border they are experiencing shortages of vital supplies but can't leave the area due to the threat posed by rebel snipers that has a syrian conflict has already stepped over from lebanon at least thirteen people including a sunni shaikh were killed there in bloody syria related sectarian clashes this week troops were deployed to stop the trouble beirut based political analyst and lawyer dr franklin lamb says there is an overwhelming dread among the population in

lebanon. the concierge of my building who is syrian sometimes hides in my apartment they've been rounded up of serious. nationals here in beirut in south beirut even though it's a great deal of fear are people are saying not since the civil war how have things been is so likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure as you know there are two neighborhoods in tripoli the most certain for the the shia alleyways and the battle to bani section right down the middle ironically is the name of the big street cause serious street and that really tells the tale up there but we have seen in beirut and other parts of the country a similar division things are very much on the edge and it's not only the spillover of fact it's the fact that lebanon itself is so fragile and not quite

a state in terms of that having a real central government that can enforce the laws and having a compromise army. well so i have three this hour no time out for athens european leaders remain on swayed by a greek p.r. blitz asking for more time to implement cuts and prop up it's probably an 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 under the brevik 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 man of to society once the terms complete the prosecution had demanded bridget been placed in a secure psychiatric unit saying he was insane but the judge ruled he was mentally sound the terrorist 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 manny believing it's too comfortable europe saw a spike in far right activities after the tragedy at his or t.'s tesser cillian are reports the hearing has highlighted the fact you were multicultural policy is failing there's no doubt about his guilt for a right militant unders brave massacre of seventy seven people in norway thirteen months ago to show his rejection of government policies of immigrants and islam oh this case once again highlighted europe's deepening divide over immigration had integration and the subsequent radicalization of ideas. last week a twenty nine year old suspected brave exemplifies or was charged in the czech republic officers found weapons and police uniforms in his flat and they believe he was planning a brave slaughter. while in norway police are investigating

a threatening email sent to newspapers and politicians from a person who claims to be brave and in command i would my soldiers to give all due respect to our people our culture and our ethnicity and warn all advocates of multiculturalism they get is this war we are now so deeply in physical violence is . a line that we draw very clearly now multiculturalism in the sense that everybody could keep this culture well this idea which has been the official idea for over for the last twenty years this idea is over there is a leading culture of the european values and european culture such far right fire has gained traction in europe but it's also angered racism groups and proponents of the left there are some resorting to very public displays of opposition. while there's an increasingly vocal wash of ideologies and

a rise in political extremes one step at the fringes countries are increasingly criticised for failing to properly engage people on what's needed so what the problem out and so my social tensions are testing the limits of tolerance. not yet despite the obvious threat of a deepening standoff between europeans and immigrants others say europe's tendency to walk on eggshells in the name of political correctness makes any real and honest debate all but impossible when you have the riots. we think. you missed and everyone tried to find some excuse. but condition of life and if we don't send a clear message to everyone far right. ok. muslim. it's become impossible to understand the police others brave extra you may

have reached a clue. asian europe still nowhere near to ending at all to whether the cycle of fear and hatred. does or cilia r.t. brussels. lot of analysts and international consultant and former deputy speaker for the belgian parliament believes the idea of and degrading in assimilating migrants into europe was doomed from the start there is more and more radical opinion in giving voice to far right of use. i think partly of course there if we can all deny there are problems with immigrants they are already being forced to a degree and it's the problem that this process of integration is functioning that it is a basic problem but the thing is first of all multiculturalism first of all has always been in this 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 as if for a moment which is causing all this social frustration. well a good deal more is still in store for you here in r t this hour including further drama from the sky a bungled u.s. drone strike reportedly goes off target killing dozens of civilians while the officer is doing the remote piloting pick up a new trick from al qaida. britain has backed off its threat to regular doron embassy in london according to a statement from the us foreign ministry the withdrawal comes just a day after the organization of american states side sided with ecuador blow to britain thirty five nations that make up the new world declared embassies inviolable territory it also means join the sounds the man at the center of the

storm is safe for the moment inside the ecuadorian mission or smith now with more on the decision by the americas it was a meeting that lasted five hours but eventually got what it wanted out of the meeting essentially the foreign minister made a speech in which he condemned britain for what he called an an assault on. 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 expressed solidarity and support for ecuador in their offering of asylum to julian assange arms but also continued 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 that he 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 stance so far they still remain committed to arresting judy and to fool. filling 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 britain 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 doing that science 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 create or that is not going to put the british police off arresting him 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 doing messages of course still in the ecuadorian embassy in london still very unclear how he will get out. commenting on the united condemnation from the americas attorney. as only continued pressure can force the u.k. to let us go the pressure is very important to continue to try to sort of whittle away a. position and stubbornness in england in this specific case and also to show each time that these types of meetings take place and resolutions happen and we see the u.s. position in particular is showing that you know it's going to me is behind all of this and it's behind the persecution of the signs and so it's really important that comes out and people understand that governments understand that and that eventually hopefully the british government will back down after

a week. now it's been a hectic few weeks in the saga of joy and his son but we've got the timeline of his predicament and for analysis at our website there you know also find a quick dory and resident rafael correa is interview with r.t. and he's thoughts on how the story will unfold all that's available in our website article. now the german catholic church has pressed charges against a group of pussy riot copycats who disrupted a service in cologne cathedral to a man and a woman who were shouting and carrying a bat or demanding freedom for the members of the russian female punk band were throw out of the building immediately they could now face up to three years in jail a potential punishment even greater than their inspire is received a court of moscow sentenced the pussy riot trio to two years in jail for their ma prayer in russia's main orthodox cathedral and germany faces a dilemma now being among the states which rushed to condemn this verdict.

greece's week long pitch for. conditions has fallen on deaf ears with its touring pm on thomas the marist poll to show his achievements first and the prime minister met this week with various european leaders who funded the second degree of bailout is trying to win concessions from them to stand a steady deadlines and shore up the crumbling greek economy but both the leaders of france and germany were lukewarm at best saying any weensy will depend on the grading of math and staring experts next month and you get a marshall from the center of research in what was a she says more time won't say greeks. here but 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 which are use most commonly austerity adjustment and growth if you simply take the rhetoric follow the policies look at the facts you can actually translate the language into what it

actually means so i stared. 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 fired from the public sector privatized the economy privatized the structure privatized the water the electricity so the foreign corporations can come in and buy everything up for cheap and this is all so that they can get a bailout which the money simply goes to 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. remember you can find all the latest stories comments and videos on our website or t. dot com here's some of what you mean like while you're there. with the fans on the go rush on bale's a new missile system that capable of breaking off the. wings of almost any wind

hard to be a full scale shield within minutes. and his big bulky eyes and child the little face that captured the hearts of locals work this baby seal is staking out a home on a russian cattle line for war pigs or somebody. us claims that killed one of the leaders of pakistan's fear and how conny terror network in a drone strike this week are quickly being the bond it is now being reported the missile attack massacred most of his family instead including his thirteen year old son and former pakistani air force commander sultan hali says it's exactly the so it's like this the fuel the insurgency. the

information which is being given out is very sketchy because especially since two thousand and nine the united states seems to have changed the rules it has declared that any able bodied person. who can be considered a militant will be considered a militant in the spectrum of the facts whether the person is ahead of the start or not but it is a mockery of all kinds of human rights and especially coming from a country which calls itself the champion of human rights and. invite the united states is banking on the use of drones is because it considers it means by which its own troops its own people are not put at risk but the fact is that the relatives of the victims are approached by the terrorists and their sense. of their lives have been targeted and it is high time that you can pick a revenge and in fact the number of terrorists who are being groomed and recruited in this way is rising so it is not just a double edged sword it is counterproductive and it is increasing terrorism rather

than reducing it. it's an age old tactic one can damn garage history and a favorite among terrorists but follow up attacks or using the wind to set up ambushes for those arriving to help them are now seemingly a valid strategy for u.s. drones in pakistan more than a dozen people there have been killed in the last few days and such strikes during international condemnation that if she can has the story. the u.s. prides itself on the rule of law but on a number of issues the line between what's legal and what's not has kind of blurred in the last decade or so is wiretapping legal no but in the name of national security yes there are attempts right now in congress to legalize big brother on the web by making it legal for providers to funnel all private correspondence to national security agencies the law in the u.s. protects free speech but never before has there been such a hunt for whistleblowers that's in america but as far as u.s. actions the broad issue of what's legal and what's not even murkier washington has

expanded its target assassinations program in different countries essentially putting itself above the law now i'm joined by john feffer author and co-director of the institute for policy studies he has an interesting theory of u.s. foreign policy he compares it to dexter the t.v. show dexter is a fictional character who is a good citizen by day and a serial killer by night but he only kills bad guys for what's so wrong about being dexter i mean everyone loves dexter it's a very popular t.v. show here in the united states and all across the world but difficult moral questions because of course dexter is judge jury and executioner and sometimes he makes mistakes and the united states too is in a similar position united states often says it only kills the bad guys. in other figures that have been attacked by drones over the last few years but the united

states also makes mistakes that have been and the number of civilian casualties associated with these drone strikes so in some sense they're in a similar moral quandary dexter and the u.s. government as you said you know this administration has expanded its drone program dramatically and the strikes in pakistan yemen and other places they end up killing many civilians we're talking about extra judicial killings and. here's the question of pops out. you know when when someone does something outside the law they're usually afraid of getting caught but in the case of the us who is the police to catch them there is no police is there well there isn't any police of course there are international laws and there have been a number of reports. implications of international law on the drone attacks and the un for instance report tour has condemned drone attacks as being illegal but i think the chief concern here for the united states in terms of getting caught is

being caught by blowback in other words by the consequences of these drone attacks and those i think are significant because of course we've seen people here in the united states who have cited these drone attacks as the reasons for their terrorist activities for instance so i think it's blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. well it's now take a look at some other stories from around the world riot troops in germany had to use tear gas and water cannon to disperse a violent crowd of you and your street festival several hundred people started the 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 pack bus golfing both in flames but we say most of the passengers were sleeping

at the time of the crash and only three of them managed to survive it's not the cause the accident and state media suggest over sixty thousand people died on the country's roads last year alone. almost 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 which obviously has already declared a three day long warning period this is the worst accident to have ever hit the nation's industry. neil armstrong the man who once made one giant leap for mankind stepping for the first star 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 walked arteries to make it half a billion people watched armstrong on t.v. as he stepped into the lunar surface the twentieth of july nineteenth sixty nine.

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