the stories that shape this week on r.t. western nations inching closer to military interference in the syrian conflict now with plans to set up a no fly zone and threats to authorize a strike on the country. in the region a mass killer declared say twenty one years in jail all is anti islamic agenda serves as an inspiration for even more radical groups. a scandal that unites muslims and jews in anger after a german rabbi was charged for performing a circumcision despite a recent controversial court ban on the protests. and britain withdraws its threat to go into the ecuadorian embassy and the rest julian assange by force this coming after a block of south and north american nations side with quito in the diplomatic.

top stories of the week this is the weekly on our t.v. with me rule research live in moscow foreign powers that came a step closer this week to engaging in syria's internal conflict as the u.s. and its allies dished out further threats france suggested that western nations could consider setting up a no fly zone over the country without a u.n. security council mandate now just a little bit earlier president barack obama for the first time said he could authorize military action on the syrian territory. has this report from new york. 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 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 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. . in the meantime a war correspondent eric margolis believes the wider interests of the u.s. in the region that drives washington's warmongering on syria. united states has no strategic interests in syria what this is all about is you ron and the fact that the us 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 in the united states and behind us let's remember that these rare yoopers pushing very hard to do something about. overthrowing the government and there are even supports 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. now we're hearing here at r.t. that over twelve thousand christians are trapped in a syrian village near the lebanese border that is besieged by rebels a two week blockade has caused shortages of food medicine and other crucial supplies but people can't leave the area due to the threat posed by rebel snipers meanwhile across the border and levon on the situation there remains fragile following

a spike in syria related sectarian violence at least fifteen people have been killed and more than one hundred injured in clashes between pro and anti assad government troops were deployed to stop the violence beirut based political analyst and lawyer dr franklin lamb says there's an overwhelming dread among the lebanese over the violence. the concierge of my building who is syrian sometimes hides in my apartment there's been round up of syrian national news here in beirut in south beirut even going to great deal of fear people are saying not since the civil war how things is so likely to ignite or that people are feeling so insecure as you know the neighborhoods in tripoli the most so for the the. alleyways and the delta bani section right down the middle ironically is the name of a big street called syria street and that really tells the tale out there but we have

seen in beirut and other parts of the country a similar the region things are very much on the edge of. watching r t thank you for joining us today still ahead for you in this hour libya marking one year since the fall of tripoli the celebration is anything but joyous it's continued travel violence threatens to send the country further into chaos. plus resentment on the rise in pakistan as the u.s. continues to blow legal lines when it comes to its deadly drone strikes. this week the case of norwegian mass murderer anders breivik reached its conclusion brevik who admitted killing seventy seven people was declared sane by judges he's been jailed now for a maximum of twenty one years for his bombing and gun rampage and also low oil island of course that was last year smoked when he heard the verdict which he says he will not appeal during his final statement he apologized for not killing even

more grateful he's always insisted on his sanity and that the killings were part of his fight against the islamification of norway e.u. countries who are suffering a rise in far right activities before the tragedy but has. a reports ideas and are fueling even more hatred towards immigrants and islam. there's no doubt about his guilt for right militant unders brave massacre of seventy seven people in norway thirteen months ago to show his rejection of government policies and immigrants and is long over this case once again highlighted europe's deepening divide over immigration had integration and the subsequent radicalization of ideas . last week of twenty nine year old suspected great big sympathiser was charged in the czech republic officers found weapons and police uniforms in his flat and they believe he was planning a brave extol slaughter. while in norway police are investigating

a threatening e-mail sent to newspapers and politicians from a person who claims to be brave and in command i was 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 sort of very public displays of opposition. while there's an increasingly vocal wash of ideologies and

a rise in political extremes one step up 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 occasion of. everyone trying to find some excuse. but condition of life and if we don't send a clear message to everyone far right. muslim. it's become impossible to understand the police others brave extra you may

have reached a clue. zhen europe still nowhere near to ending at all to whether the cycle of fear and hatred. does are still the r.t.e. brussels. and amid growing talk of a crisis of tolerance in europe yet another scandal flares up in germany after a rabbi was charged for performing a circumcision after a regional court in cologne a band of religious circumcisions under a new law it did cause of rage among jews and muslims worldwide accusing the authorities of infringing on religious freedom german based rabbi josh spinner says the issue could be exploited by radical movements. there's no question that this issue is of a piece with the minarets read through in the miss what's real and with the question in france with the ritual slaughter question in holland the thing that is particularly striking about this issue is that from the perspective of those who do not actually ones who are uncomfortable with this of all minorities in their presence this is

a fabulous issue because one cloaks the criticisms and the undermining of religious freedoms in protecting the rights of the us and so this is a noble position which is a much harder position to seek out when one speaks about it we're going to zoom in a ritual slaughter and so this really to a great extent i believe is the issue goes people in western societies who are going to try and push back against genuine tolerance are going to use it's a very convenient issue for them it also unites almost all jews and almost all muslims so it's killing a number of birds with one stone in a very pretty stone and that's. thanks for joining us so the diplomatic spat between britain and ecuador over julian assange asylum has eased as london retracted its threat to storm the south american countries embassy in order to arrest the whistleblower the withdrawal comes just a day after allegedly four member bloc of american nations sided with ecuador in

the royal stressing the sanctity of diplomatic premises it means that julian assange just still holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for more than two months is safe at least until he steps outside of the building the president of ecuador says the two countries are ready to return to dialogue over the wiki leaks his future. brings us the details of the meeting that prompted a break in the standoff. it was a meeting that lasted five hours but eventually got what it wanted out of the meeting essentially they the foreign minister made a speech in which he condemned britain for what he called in and i felt. and eventually what happened was that these thirty four countries signed this resolution which rejects any attempt 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 but also urged to 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 that 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 julian assange and 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 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 julian assange 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 giving us answers of course still in the ecuadorian embassy in london still very unclear how he will get out. artie's or lower smith right there were commenting on the increased support for ecuador attorney artie's spanish host eva golinger says that her only continued international pressure could force the u.k. to let our science go. the pressure is very important to continue to try to whittle away. physicians is stubborn it is an england in this specific case and i want to show each time that these types of meetings take place in

a resolution is happening we see the u.s. position in particular is showing that you know its economy is behind all of this it is behind the persecution of the signs and since really important that and our people understand that governments understand that and that eventually hopefully the british government will back down have to wait and see. but all the twists and turns in julian assange has long running saga as well as expert opinion and analysis always available on our website if you've missed our exclusive interview though with the ecuador and president rafael correa it's also there at r.t. dot com. or at a quarter past the hour here in moscow this is the weekly as iran faces growing pressure from the west regarding its nuclear program there's also a significant display of solidarity towards the islamic state of delegates from

over one hundred nations which don't consider themselves allied to any power block convened in tehran for a high profile summit this sunday a research director of the national iranian american council in washington a resume she says and the gathering shows iran is not as isolated as the u.s. wants the rest of the world to believe. there are one hundred ninety three members of the united nations general assembly and about one hundred twenty of them are going to be in teheran with some kind of diplomatic representation. because that's how many members there are of the nonaligned movement so you know it's a great talking point to say that iran's international isolation will continue but if you look at the totality of the world a large body of countries maybe don't agree entirely with what the united states led sanctions are doing and what they're seeing to accomplish. by the summit it takes place just a few days after the u.n. atomic watchdog declared that recent talks with iran had failed its role claim that

iran is speeding up its work on a nuclear bomb while the islamic state insists it's only pursuing peaceful energy some experts believe the west's rejection of iran's right to a topic energy at the end of the day could ultimately backfire but there's no doubt that iran has quite a bit of support among the nonaligned movement you know among those countries that are the nuclear have nots if you will. they do in fact have a lot of support for the point of view which they follow which is that they have a right to enrich uranium the western powers are essentially taking trying to take that away from them for political purposes censure using a double standard or even worse. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on the program today do you remember the old related stories comments videos all to be found twenty four seven on our website. have a look and see what you might like there at the moment close to done to make the

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blowing up an bulldozing a fifteenth century sanctuary sectarian tensions in libya have reached new levels after two soofi religious sites were destroyed by. government security forces all of this against the background of severe ethnic clashes which have spiraled since colonel gadhafi was ousted most recently at least twelve people were killed dozens injured after the fighting parties used heavy weaponry including anti aircraft guns political analyst and consultant peter says libya will only descend deeper into chaos. libya is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was a force regime we have the same scenario in iraq we have the same situation in afghanistan we've got the situation in libya which was again of course 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 doldrums into great

prosperity and the wrong government got in and so the military is still trying to pull that the streams and of course that's failing very fast and i think we will see a natural rebellion if it occurs like it's ongoing in iraq like is ongoing you syria only. order into the world out there we go will start with northern china where at least thirty six people have died after a fuel tanker bus come lighted before catching a blaze three survivors were taken to hospital with severe injuries the latest wreck follows a series of road accidents in the country the death toll of more than seventy thousand last year alone. venezuela's president hugo chavez has declared three days of mourning after at least thirty nine were killed following an explosion at the country's biggest oil refinery a government run plant was rocked by a blast caused by a gas leak nearby buildings also damaged by the explosion and the accident is the

worst to ever have hit the south american nations oil industry. the first man to walk on the moon and one of america's the greatest heroes neil armstrong has passed away at the age of eighty two his condition deteriorated after complications caused by recent heart surgery there was a nearly half a billion people having their eyes fixed on the t.v.'s as the former apollo eleven mission commander stepped out on to the lunar surface in july one thousand nine hundred sixty nine. pakistan is investigating a u.s. drone strike that reportedly killed by the rules in the county a leader of the high county terror group the taliban those still claiming he's alive a u.s. led attacks that have long been a source of contention among pakistanis and as artie's guy nature can explains it's episodes like this that fuel the insurgency. 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 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 abroad 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 mystified for what's so wrong about being dexter i mean everyone loves dexter was a very popular t.v.

show here in the united states and all across the world but this is 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 there have been any 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 there's 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 on 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. watching the weekly on out so you know just a moment we'll bring you face to face with the devil it's

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