mission to teach the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. the stories this week here on our western nations inching closer to military interference in syria with plans to set up a no fly zone and threats to authorize a strike. norwegian mass killer is declared. twenty years in prison by his anti islam agenda serves as inspiration for even more radical groups. a scandal that unites muslims and jews after a german rabbi was charged for performing the circumcision despite a recent controversial court ban on the practice. of withdraws its threat to go into the ecuadorian embassy and arrest julian assange by force this after a block of south and north american nations side with tito in the diplomatic world

. live from moscow this is the weekly with me rory welcome to the program foreign powers came a step closer this week to engaging in syria's internal conflict as the u.s. and its allies dished out fresh threats france suggested that western nations could consider setting up a no fly zone over the stricken 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 the story 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 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 r.t. . for the time being though a war correspondent eric margolis believes it's the wider interests of the u.s. in the region that to ultimately drive washington's war mongering on syria. 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 of verbal i'm still hoping that there will be

a diplomatic solution but the chances are receding as political pressure grows in the united states and behind us let's remember the fuse really is a person pushing very hard to do something about. overthrowing the government and there's even support from 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. and over twelve thousand christians are trapped in a syrian village very near the lebanese border besieged by rebels the two week blockade has caused a shortage of food medicine and other crucial supplies but the people can't leave the area due to the threat posed by rebel snipers meanwhile across the border in lebanon the situation remains fragile following a spike in syria related sectarian violence at least fifteen being killed and more

than one hundred injured in clashes between pro and anti assad gunman troops were deployed to stop the violence by road based political analyst dr franklin lamb says there's a growing dread among lebanese that the violence spillover into. the concierge in my building who is syrian sometimes hides in my apartment there's been round up of syrian nationals here in beirut in south beirut even though it's a great deal of fear people are saying not since the civil war how things been so likely to ignite or that people are feeling so insecure as you know there are two neighborhoods in tripoli the jump ball both for the the shia are al always and the battle to bani section right down the middle ironically is the name of a big street called syria 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 i still ahead for you here on our libya marking one year since the fall of tripoli but the celebration is anything joyous it's continued tribal violence threatens to send the country further into chaos plus the resentment on the rise in pakistan as the u.s. continues to blow the goal lines when it comes to its deadly drone strikes. you watching are two you know this week the case of norwegian mass murderer anders breivik reached its conclusion breivik who admitted killing seventy seven people was declared sane by the judges he's been jailed for a maximum of twenty one years for his bombing and gun rampage and oslo and island last year breivik smoked when he heard the verdict but you said he will not appeal to his final statement here paula tries for not killing even more time he's always insisted on his own sanity you know the killings were part of his fight against the

islamification of norway e.u. countries were suffering of riots and far right activities before the tragedy but his artie's tests are sillier reports ideas now fueling even more hatred towards immigrants and islam. there is no doubt about his guilt for right militant unders brave a massacre of seventy seven people in norway thirteen months ago to show his rejection of government policies and immigrants and islam all this case once again highlighted europe's deepening divide over immigration and 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 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 would my soldiers to give all due respect to our people our culture and our ethnicity and warn all advocates of multiculturalism they gave us 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 the racism groups and proponents of the left there are some resorting to very public displays of opposition. while there's an increasingly vocal quality and a rise in political extremes one step up the fringes countries are increasingly

criticized for failing to properly engage people on what's needed to sort the problem out and so my social tensions are testing the limits of tolerance. 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 a riot. we didn't. miss 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. muslim . it's become impossible to understand the police under is brave extra you may have reached a conclusion but europe still no where near to wending at all to whether the cycle of fear and hatred. desiree cilia r t brussels. and

amid growing talk of a crisis of tolerance in europe another scandal flares up though in germany after a rabbi was charged for performing a circumcision that's after original courting cologne ban of religious circumcisions under a new law well a court of rage among jews and muslims all around the world accusing 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 other piece with the minarets read through in the miss what's real and with the burka 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 infants and so this is a noble position which is a much harder position to say cow when one speaks about workers or minarets a ritual slaughter and so this really to a great extent i believe is the issue those 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 at that. watching the weekly on r.t. thank you for joining us today the diplomatic spats between britain and ecuador over julian assange has asylum has eased all of this as london retracted its threat to storm the south american countries embassy in order to arrest the whistleblower there were all comes just a day after a thirty four member block of american nations sided with ecuador in the row stressing the sanctity of diplomatic premises it means that julian assange still holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for more than two months is safe for

now that is the president of ecuador says that the two countries are ready to return to dialogue over the wiki leaks his future artie's laura smith now brings us the details of the meeting that prompted the 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 an assault on your 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 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 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 today in a sound advice to fulfilling this court order which says that he must be extradited to sweden was ever had. button's 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 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 that they're really very intent on arresting him and fulfilling this court order so that'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 ourselves is of course still in the ecuadorian embassy in london still very unclear how he will get out. and commenting on the increased support for ecuador attorney and artie's a spanish host eva go enjoy that are only continued international pressure could force the u.k. to let us on. the pressure is very important to continue to try it will aware. position and its stubbornness in england in this specific case and also to show each time that these types of meetings and 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 that and that eventually hopefully the british government will back down actually. what with all the twists and turns in julian assange just long running saga as well as expert opinion and analysis it's all always available on our website and if you've missed the exclusive interview with the ecuadorian president rafael correa it's also there at r.t. dot com. all right an hour quarter past the hour moscow time as iran faces growing pressure from the west regarding its ongoing nuclear program there's also a significant display of solidarity towards the islamic state delegates from over one hundred nations which don't consider themselves ally to any power block

convened in tehran for a high profile summit this sunday regional research director of the national iranian american council a resident of our shoes says the gathering shows iran is not as isolated as america and the rest of the world wants to believe it is 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 degree of countries maybe don't agree entirely with what the united states led sanctions are doing and what they're seeking to accomplish. what are the some of that he was referring to takes place just a few days after the u.n. atomic watchdog declared that recent talks with iran had failed israel claim that iran is speeding up its work on a nuclear bomb or the islamic state insists it's only pursuing peaceful energy now

some experts believe the west's rejection of iran's right to atomic energy could ultimately backfire. well there's no doubt that iran has quite a bit of support among the nonaligned movement you know among those countries that are the the nuclear have nots if you will they they do in fact have a lot of support for the point of view which they spouse which is that they have a right to enrich uranium and that the western powers are essentially taking trying to take that away from them for political purposes essentially using a double standard or even worse. do i remember though you can find all the stories are videos. some of the stories you might fancy there as well for example clothes don't make the perhaps they do. to avoid when trying to board a plane in the united states. by the feel thinking what a spend

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reports. seven twenty pm here in moscow you're watching r t just a moment on the world updater for now on the threshold of the first anniversary of the fall of tripoli libya seems to be marking the event with violence and chaos and just the latest in a series of recent attacks on sufi shrines salafi islamists were blamed for blowing up and bulldozing a fifteenth century shanked sanctuary sectarian tensions in libya have reached new levels after religious sites were destroyed by. government security forces and this against the background of severe ethnic clashes which have spiral since colonel qaddafi was ousted but most recently at least twelve were killed and dozens injured after the fighting parties used heavy weaponry including the aircraft guns political analyst and consultant peter things libya will only descend deeper into

chaos. libya is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was a war through gene 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 it will be breakaway groups because at the end of the day although gadhafi was a fraudster in many ways brought that home cheap from the dull dreams into great prosperity and the wrong government got in and so the military is still trying to call that the stream and of course that's failing very fast and i think we will see a natural rebellion that occurs like it's ongoing in iraq like is ongoing in syria and egypt for it as promised let's go ahead first of the r.t. world will start with northern china where at least thirty six people have died after a fuel tanker and possibly a passenger bus collided and then catch caught on fire three survivors were taken

to hospital with severe injuries the latest threat follows a series of road accidents in the country with 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 of the country's biggest oil refinery and the government run plan was rocked by a blast caused by a gas leak a nearby buildings also damaged by the explosive impact the accident is the worst to have ever hit the south american nations oil industry. the first man to walk on the moon and one of america's greatest heroes neil armstrong has passed away at the age of eighty two his condition deteriorated after complications caused by recent heart surgery nearly half a billion people had their eyes fixed to the t.v. as the former apollo eleven mission commander stepped onto the lunar surface in july nineteen sixty nine.

now pakistan is investigating a u.s. drone strike that reportedly killed it but wouldn't have county a leader of the hakani terror group and the taliban though claims he's still very much alive the u.s. led attacks of long been a source of contention among pakistanis as artie's guy nature can now explains its episodes just like this one the continue to 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 test 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 the 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 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 it raises some 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 with some of the laws 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 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. 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 not police is there well there isn't any police of course there are international laws and there have been a number of reports on the 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 this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. live from moscow this is our team now few people in the world fully understand the true beauty of freshers north a special aussie documentary coming your way in just a couple of minutes with me war research.

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