the drums of war beetle out or in syria's rebel friendly power spearheaded by the us step of the are militarist rather weak and scare tactics against damascus. mass murder anders breivik is sentenced to twenty one years behind bars jar declared he was mentally sound when executing dozens of people in cold blood. britain abandons its threat to storm the dory mission and take joy in a songe by force the day after both america's rose up in support of quito. you're watching r.t. live from moscow one pm in the russian capital 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 us as regime using its chemical arsenal while at the same time dishing out threats student gage and its internal conflict bring a fortnight has more on what damascus have 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 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 up tape 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. r.t.

work responded in calmness 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 even support some fronts syria may be breaking up into little cantons fighting one another along religious ethnic and tribal lines or just as

a living on 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 end breast with 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 fierce battles of late but the war hasn't yet swallowed up the whole country or to the kind of boycott now reports. a phrase syrians use for someone who loves life and a good description of this nation's care of ten different during a time of war some syrians still preserve their home or joviality. they tell us way there is one of the few communities in syria still largely unaffected by violence don't let me get a big man with slices he show here people come to the park with their families

every night nothing has changed. it's just try king 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 with 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 be different is a basic right guaranteed by humanity in sweden we have people of different political opinions but we all respect and accept each other as human beings that's why sweden hasn't witnessed any confrontations we can differ politically but we still want to preserve our homeland we have people who are against the government but they're also against the violence they're 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 bit these hold open the 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 to. have to. accept each other. which you have to accept. other. people thought so i think it's good to open up this while the rest of syria gathers for funerals and psuedo weddings are still the most common public event money and more among about a dozen couples time the not on that particular day. at the just a minute or in hotels where used to seeing very different people and will learn how

to accept everybody that's what syria needs both sides need to stop killing and start talking to someone 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 we're not ready for the economy we're killing that right now but i think that. maybe you never hear me. in my company when it comes way down here. neighboring turkey has also seen an upsurge in violence recently nine people almost half of them children were killed in a car bombing close to the syrian border on monday no group has claimed responsibility for the attack but turkish politicians were quick to point fingers at the syrian uprising ankara however says the young rest across the board has nothing to do with

the blast and laying the blame on the kurdish rebels with international relations professor mark almond believes the turkish government has free of vulnerability in . side of town i think. one of the reasons why ankara had been so supportive about the loss of his regime had help close the border to any infiltration of the k.k. i to 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 with all rebels and also foreign fighters and supplies the weapons in some of these of course it's been admitted to being down through the old smuggling them to build border matthew the problem is if you cooperate all the time a blind eye from the border mathes funneling into syria there's always the risk that they of course for the right price was michael a poseur in his own. so i have for this hour here on our team the road to ruin we peek into the future of post revolution would be as recent as almost attacks on

religious shrines trigger fears the country is about to plunge have burst into tribal chaos and bloodshed. and no time out for as tense european leaders remain on swayed by a greek p.r. blitz asking for more time to implement cuts and probably 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 menace to society once the terms complete the prosecution had to man a break 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 way morris 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 that wave of

condemnation as many believe it's more like a hotel as r.t.f. so it's either ships get reports his 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 a strong 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 carrying a remote detonator for an explosive device on him when he was detained but 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 said 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 are now does not reveal and does not know what this man's intentions were

but already has all the reasons to believe that the man was a sympathizer of the killer from norway and that it's 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 himself now with know little about this man for now that a few pictures had been released by the czech media of 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. i say if you ask your porting their load of honest and international consultant and former deputy speaker for the belgian parliament believes the idea of integrating and assimilating migrants into europe was doomed from the start.

there is more and more radical opinion in giving a voice to far right of views. i think hardly of course is there if we can all deny there are problems with immigrants said they are already being forced to integrate and it's the problem that this process of integration in a functioning that it is a basic problem but the thing is first of all null to culture isn't the 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 a large a bigger problem with the economic reconstruction of europe as an issue on which is causing all this social frustration. good deal more still in store for you here on

our t.v. including how the deadly trend of afghan forces turning their weapons against the nato troops helping to train them is adding more challenges to the country's dreams of peace. now britain has backed off its threat to raids the acquit or an embassy in london according to a statement from ketones foreign ministry the withdrawal 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 embassies and vile of all territory it also means join the sound the man at the center of the storm and say for the moment inside the ecuadorian mission laura smith now with more on the decision by the america. 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 assault on all

sovereignty 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 but also to continue talks between ecuador and person 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 fulfilling this court order. it 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 policeman who was guarding the embassy twenty four seven holding this piece of paper a piece of restricted information says that june 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 he emerges in some kind of diplomatic crate or bag that is not going to put the british police off arresting him 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 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 authorities spanish told steve aganda 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. position and stubbornness and england in this specific case and also to show each time that these types of meetings and the resolutions happen and we see the u.s. position in particular is showing that the united states government is behind all of this and is behind the persecution of the signage and so it's really important that comes out and people understand that governments understand and eventually hopefully the british government will back down after we. it's been a hectic few weeks in the sun to join us but we've got the timeline of his predicament and for analysis on our website there you can also find a good dorian president rafael correa is interview with r.t. and his thoughts on how the story will unfold all that is available on our website . the german catholic church has pressed charges

against a group of pussy riot copycats who disrupted a service in cologne's cathedral to a man and a woman who were doing and carrying a banner and demanding freedom for the members of the russian female punk band were thrown 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 sentence the pussy riot to two years in jail for their mock prayer in russia's main orthodox cathedral and germany faces a dilemma now being among the states which rushed to condemn this verdict. it would be grace's week long pitch for leniency on bail conditions has fallen on deaf ears whether it's touring pm entente as some are is to told to deliver results first the prime minister mats this week with various european leaders who sponsored the second bailout he's trying to win concessions from then to stand a steady deadlines and use that time to shore up the crumbling greek economy both

the leaders of france and germany were a lukewarm at best saying he will depend on the grading of athens of stereo for its next month however and your gallon marshall from the center of research on 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 what are the reforms there's three words which are use most commonly used austerity adjustment and growth if you simply take the rhetoric follow the policies look at the effects you can actually translate the language to what it actually means so austerity 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 to fire more people from the public sector privatized the economy privatizing infrastructure privatized the water the electricity something foreign corporations can come in and

buy everything up 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 to impoverish our population. remember you can find all the latest stories comments and videos on our website or t dot com here's some of what you may lie while you're there. the fans on the go russia unveils a new missile system that's capable. all of breaking off the wings of almost any flying target creating a full scale shield within minutes. and these big bulging eyes and chubby little face have captured the hearts of locals were this baby seal a state cannot hold on a russian beach that had a line for more pictures of the cop. has

the latest manifestation of afghan anger with occupation as proving one of the deadliest for coalition troops to date at least a dozen u.s. soldiers have died in the so-called green on blue attacks in last few weeks alone as afghan security forces increasingly turn their guns on their american mentors are jesus is here 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 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 an answer 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 war is in its eleventh year and the fact that this year has seen more deaths from insider attacks never 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 party mosque. a marine corps veteran turned anti-war activist believes and cider attacks 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. and civil society has been destroyed i mean the infrastructure we have a puppet government in kabul that increasingly becoming authoritarian and it's not going to stop 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 occupying afghanistan and we're there just so we would we are sending american troops there to pacify a country that doesn't want to be pacified under us. 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. let's 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 at an annual street festival several hundred people started a bonfire and threw stones and bottles at police when they arrived at 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 path bus and golfing both in flames police say most of the passengers were sleeping at the time of the crash at only three of them managed to survive it's not yet clear at wot caused the accident state media suggest over sixty thousand people died on the country's roads last year alone. although forty people have been killed and more than eighty injured after an explosion robbed 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 obvious has already declared a three day long mourning 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 in 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 blog artery estimated half of the people watching on a stronger t.v. as he stepped onto the lunar surface of the twentieth of july nine hundred sixty nine or. or forward now the threshold of the first anniversary of the fall of tripoli libya seems to be marking events with violence and chaos the latest in a series of recent attacks and so if the shrine salafi islamists 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 spalls last week's violence one of the egyptian diplomats a car that was blown up in the singing of benghazi after a deadly twin bomb attacks in the capital political analyst and consultant peter error things libya only this and further into the pit of chaos. is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was a for sure we have the same scenario in iraq we have the same situation in afghanistan we've got 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 dog into great prosperity and the wrong government got in and so the military is still trying to pull the strings so and of course such failing very fast and i think we will see

a natural rebellion would occur like he is ongoing in iraq like he is ongoing in syria and egypt. coming out here in r t n r d's high tech team explores the comforts and gadgets of a new russian research vessel that sailing our country's rivers that's right after the top stories.

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