the story is that shades of this week western nations are inching closer to military interference in the syrian conflict with plans to set up a no fly zone in france to authorize a strike on the country. break because declared sane and gets twenty one years in jail. as an inspiration for even more radical groups. unites muslims and jews in anger after a german rabbi was charged for performing a circumcision despite a recent controversial court ban on the practice. and britain withdraws its threat to go into the ecuadorian embassy and the rest of juvenile songs by force after a block of south and north american nations side with quito in the diplomatic route

. with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly. 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 a little earlier president obama for the first time said he could authorize military action on the syrian territory but important reports now 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 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 this up tape uptick in talk and threats over military intervention into syria comes as the un 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. . believes it's toward the interest of the u.s. in the region droids 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 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 and the united states and behinds 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 or in another along religious and ethnic and tribal lines that are 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. over twelve thousand christians are trapped in a syrian village near the lebanese border besieged by rebels the two week blockade has called 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 in lebanon the situation remains fragile following a spike in syria related sectarian violence at least fifteen people being killed and more than one hundred injured in clashes between pro and anti assad government troops were deployed to stop the trouble beirut based political analyst dr franklin

lamb says there is growing dread among lebanese as the violence spread over continues. 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 with a great deal of fear. people are saying not since the civil war how things. are likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure as you know the two bedroom hoods in tripoli the most for the be. allover you say and be able to bomb is section right down the middle ironically is the name of the big st paul 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. still ahead this hour here

in the weekly on r.t. libya marks one year since the fall of tripoli the celebration is anything but joyous this continued tribal violence threatens to send the country further into chaos. plus resentment on the rise in pakistan as the u.s. continues to legal lines when it comes to its deadly drone strikes. this week the case of norwegian mass murder anders breivik reached its conclusion brave a coup admitted killing seventy seven people was declared said. by judges he's been jailed for a maximum of twenty one years for his bombing and gun rampage in oslo. and last year robert smirked when he heard the verdict which he says he will not appeal during his final statement he apologized for not killing even more people that he's always insisted on his sanity and that weakening is a part of his fight against the islamification of no way that you countries were suffering a rise in far right activities before the tragedy but as reports breivik side is

fueling even more hatred towards immigrants and is no. 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 of immigrants and islam or 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 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 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 gave 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 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 across europe 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. you missed everyone try 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 and others brave extra you may have reached a clue. look europe still nowhere near to ending at all to whether that cycle of fear and hatred. does are still here r t brussels. and the growing talk of a crisis of tolerance in europe another scandal flares up in germany after a rabbi was charged for performing a circumcision that's after original court in cologne banned religious

circumcisions under a new law it caused outrage among jews and muslims worldwide accusing the authorities of infringing on religious freedom german base rabbi just spin and says the issue could be exploited by radical movements. there's no question that this issue is of the piece with the minarets right through and i'm sort of learned with the burger 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 visible 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 in us and so this is a noble position which is a much harder position to seek out when one speaks about workers or minarets 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 and a very pretty standard that. the diplomatic spat between britain and ecuador over jenin the songes asylum has eased as london retracted its threat to storm the south american countries embassy in order to arrest the whistleblower the withdrawal comes as the day after a thirty four member brahmins american nation sided with ecuador in the royal stressing the sanctity of diplomatic premises means that journalists are holed up in they have been on embassy in london for more than two months is safe at least until he steps out of the building the president record or says the two countries are ready to return to dialogue over the we can because 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 bresson for what he called an adequate and i felt. and eventually what happened was that these thirty four countries signed this resolution which we're ject any attempts to. put at risk the inviolability of diplomatic premises anywhere in the world and and expressed solidarity and support for ecuador in their offering of asylum to julian assange arms but also 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 was missing from the very beginning and they also then 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 as

adults 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 should be arrested essentially at all costs whatever it takes even if he emerges in some way in a diplomatic car even if as some have posited here merges in some kind of diplomatic crate or bag that is not going to put the british police off arresting him that they're really very intent on arresting him and fulfilling this court order so that it's a position that hasn't changed in the last few days and i see no reason that it will change as a as a direct result of this but as i say the international pressure is growing meanwhile due to messages of course still in the ecuadorian embassy in london still

very unclear how he will get out. commenting on the increase support for ecuador attorney and artie's spanish host eva got injured says only continued international pressure could force the u.k. to let go the pressure is very important to continue trying to sort out whittle away its position and its stubbornness and england in this specific case and as it does show each time that these types of meetings take place and the resolutions happen and we see the u.s. position in particular it is showing that you know it's got the reason behind all of this and it's behind. 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 we see. all the twists and turns and you know in a songes long running saga as well as expert opinion and analysis always available on our website and if you've missed our exclusive interview with the ecuadorian

president it's also there at r.t. dot com. as iran faces growing pressure from the west regarding its nuclear program there's also a significant display of solidarity towards the islamic state to the goods 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 research director of the national iranian american council in washington reason why she says 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 degree of i think maybe don't agree entirely with what the united states led sanctions are doing and what they're seeing to accomplish. the summit 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 while the islamic state insists it's only pursuing peaceful energy some experts believe the west rejection of iran's right to atomic energy. 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 the powers which is that they have a right to enrich uranium very very western powers are essentially taking trying to

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marking the event with violence and chaos and the latest in a series of recent attacks on sufficient ryans some of the islamists blamed for blowing up an bulldozing a fifteenth century sentry sectarian tensions in the b. have reached new levels after severe religious sites were destroyed by fits and government security forces this against a background of severe ethnic clashes which have spiraled since colonel gadhafi was ousted most recently at least twelve people were killed and dozens injured part of the fighting parties used heavy weaponry including anti aircraft guns political analyst and consultant peter thinks libya will only descend deeper into chaos. libya is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was of course regime we have the same scenario in iraq we have the same situation in afghanistan 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 brought back from the doj it was into great prosperity and the wrong government got in and so the military is still trying to pull that the strain and of course that's failing very fast and i think we will see a natural rebellion perfect like it's ongoing in iraq like is ongoing in syria and egypt. more world news for you this. world update at least thirty six people have died after a fuel tanker and a passenger bus collided in northern china before catching fire 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. as president hugo chavez has declared three days of mourning after at least thirty nine people were killed following an explosion of the country's biggest oil refinery a government run plant was rocked by a blast caused by gas leak nearby buildings were also damaged by the explosive

impact the accident is the worst to ever hit the south american nations on industry . the first man to walk on the moon and one of america's greatest heroes nearly armstrong has passed away at the age of eighteen his condition deteriorated after complications caused by recent heart surgery that half a billion people had their eyes fixed on the t.v. as the former apollo eleven mission commander stepped onto the lunar surface back in july and sixty nine. pakistan is investigating a u.s. drone strike that reportedly killed but driven to kearney the leader of the county terror group the taliban claims he's still alive u.s. led attacks have long been a source of contention among pakistanis and it's got to explains its 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 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 was 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 of some of the. 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 not 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. not me but with the summer of i'm a new story very shortly after that

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