to teach the creation of why you should care about humans. is why you should care only. the stories that shape to this week western nations are inching closer to military intervention in the syrian conflict with plans to set up a no fly zone and threats to authorize a strike on the country. so we can mass killer and as brave it is declared sane and gets twenty one years in jail while his anti islam agenda is an inspiration for even more radical groups. a scandal of unites muslims and jews in anger after a german rabbi was charged for performing a circumcision despite a recent controversial call on the practice. and britain withdraws its threat to go into the ecuadorian embassy and the rest by force after a block of self the north american nation side with quito in the diplomatic round.

the back of the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on. 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 where an important i 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 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 marina porter r.t. . and will correspondent more goodness believes it's the wider interests of the u.s. in the region that drives 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 in the united states and behind this let's remember that the u.s.

really approves pushing very hard to do something. overthrowing the government and even supports from syria maybe breaking up into little cantons fighting or another along religious ethnic and tribal lines or 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. over twelve thousand christians are trapped in a syrian village near the lebanese border besieged by rebels the 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 in lebanon the situation remains fragile following a spike in syria related sectarian violence these fifteen people are being killed or more than one hundred injured in clashes between pro and anti assad government troops were deployed to stop the trouble they replace political analyst dr franklin lamb says there is growing dread among lebanese as the violence spillover continues

. the concierge of my building who is syrian sometimes hides in my apartment they've been round up of syrian nationals here in beirut in south beirut even with a great deal of fear. people are saying not since the civil war how things. likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure as you know that to be a brew hoods in tripoli the most so for the be. allover you say and be about to bomb is section right down the middle ironically is the name of a big street pole sunni a 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. most of the head libya marks one year since the fall of tripoli but the celebration and of the

joy is continued tribal violence threatens to send the country further into chaos. clusters of it on the rise in pakistan as the u.s. continues to blow legal lines when it comes to its deadly drone strikes. and stories to come here in the weekly but first this week the case of norwegian mass murder and this brave it reached its conclusion who admitted killing seventy seven people was declared sane by judges. he's been jailed for a maximum of twenty one years for his bombing and gun rampage in oslo and last year he smirked when he heard the verdict which he says he will not appeal to in his final statement to apologize for not killing even more people he's always insisted on his sanity and that the killings were part of his fight against the islamification of norway countries were suffering a rise in far right activities before the tragedy barters reports brave excitedly as a fueling even more hatred towards immigrants and islam. there's no doubt about

his guilt far right militant unders brave massacre of seventy seven people in norway thirteen months ago to show his rejection of government policies of immigrants and is all 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. 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 in 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.

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 is over there is a leading culture of the european values culture such far right far has gained traction in europe but it's also angered racism groups and proponents of the left there are some and sorting 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 across europe yet despite the obvious threat of a deepening standoff between europeans and immigrants others say europe's terms. see to walk on eggshells in the name of political correctness makes any real and

honest debate all but impossible when you are. in. with implication of you missed and everyone tried to find some excuse. you but condition of life and if we don't send a clear message to everyone for a ride. ok two weeks muslim. it's become impossible to understand the police and his brakes trial may have reached a conclusion that europe still nowhere near to where doing at all to whether the 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 after a regional 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 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 referendum in switzerland 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 want or 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 infants and so this is a noble position which is a much harder position to say out when one speaks about workers or minarets of ritual slaughter and so this really to a great extent i believe is the issue of 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 stunning that. the diplomatic spat between britain and the could or over june the songes asylum aziz does london retracted its threat to storm the south american countries embassy in order to arrest the whistleblower they were drawl comes just a day after a thirty one hundred watts of american nations sided with ecuador in the role stressing the sanctity of diplomatic premises means that you know massage holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for more than two months is safe at least until he steps out of the building president of ecuador says the two countries are ready to return to dialogue over the leak is future smith 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 the foreign minister made a speech in which he condemned britain for what he called an assault on 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 our stance but also 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 equity. and embassy one of the many policeman who is guarding the embassy twenty four seven holding this piece of paper a piece of restricted information says that doing that so i 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 soon 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 increased support for ecuador attorney and

spanish host even gotten just as only continued international pressure could force the u.k. to let go the pressure is very important to continue to try to sort of whittle away . those issues 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 you know it's got the reason behind all of this it is behind the signs and so it's really important that comes out and people understand that governments understand that and eventually hopefully the british government will back down after. all the twists and turns and 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 rafael correa it's there for you right now 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 delegates from over one hundred nations which don't consider themselves allied to any power block currently convening in tehran for a high profile summit research director of the national iranian american council in washington reza but our she says the government 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 untapped run 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 maybe don't agree entirely with what the united states led

sanctions are doing and what they're seeking 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 while some experts believe the west rejection of iran's right to atomic energy could 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 big 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. just for a month you can find all the latest stories comments and videos on

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weekly continues here on our very nearly twenty minutes past the hour on the threshold of the first anniversary of the fall of tripoli libya seems to be marking the event with violence and chaos and the latest in a series of recent attacks on sufi shrines some of the islamists were blamed for

blowing up and bulldozing a fifteenth century sentry sectarian tensions in libya reached new levels after sophie religious sites were destroyed by the feds and government security forces this against a background of severe ethnic clashes which have spiraled since colonel gadhafi was alstad most recently at least twelve people were killed and dozens injured after the fighting parties used heavy weaponry in anti aircraft guns political analyst and consultant 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 of course regime and as you would expect there will be breakaway group because at the end of the day although gadhafi was a fraudster in many ways brought back from the dog or it was into great prosperity and it's the wrong government got it and so the military is still trying to pull

the strings there 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 you syria and egypt. more world news this hour in our world update at least thirty six people 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 threat follows a series of road accidents in the country with the death toll of more than seventy thousand last year alone. but as well as president hugo chavez has declared three days of mourning after at least thirty nine people 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 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 eighty this condition deteriorated after complications caused by a recent heart surgery in half a billion people had their eyes fixed to the t.v. as the former apollo eleven mission commander stepped onto the lunar surface back in july one thousand nine hundred. u.s. drone strike that reportedly killed by the county leader of the haqqani terror group the taliban claims he's still alive u.s. led attacks are wrong been a source of contention among pakistanis that is going to church can 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 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 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 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 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 this blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. the weekly live here on our team coming up for you all high tech team will be exploring the comforts and gadgets of a new russian research vessel went sailing on the country's rivers that will be off for some of our main news stories for you and about to five minutes from now stay

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