six. stories that shape 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. to mascot and is greatly disappointed saying against twenty one years in jail on the country is not a gender 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 put ban on the press. and britain withdraws its right to go to the ecuadorian embassy and arrest julian assange forced to solve the north american nation side with quito in the diplomatic.

back of 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 a fresh threats front 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 during a port reports 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 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. . syrian opposition activists have accused troops of slaughtering two hundred civilians in the most because reports are difficult to verify but the government says it's carried out an operation in the area the rebels' claims of the latest in a series of previous similar accusations that all came just as international pows were about to decide the next move in syria talk to kevin who's a specialist in the affected region told me that he believes the timing is no coincidence. but once again as with the houla massacre we have a very interesting set of circumstances where right before this u.n. ministerial meeting coming up on august thirtieth we have a big orchestrated p.r. event designed to smear the government in damascus and the west into

intervening in syria and i'm very suspicious i was asked about this shortly after the houla massacre and i said we need to wait and see what really happens when there are some indications that much and perhaps most of the killing in the whole atmosphere was actually perpetrated by the rebel forces and the same thing might be true this time the so-called no fly zone of course what that really is is it's just a euphemism for an aerial attack on the country and again i'm told that if western countries do try to take over syrian airspace they may very well be shot out of the skies and so i certainly hope they don't try because this is bringing the world to the brink of a very dangerous confrontation. over twelve thousand christians are trapped in a syrian village near the lebanese border besieged by rebels the two week blockade is cause 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 have been killed and more than one hundred injured in clashes between pro and anti assad government troops were deployed to stop the trouble repaste political analyst dr frank 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 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 are so likely to ignite or that people are feeling so insecure as you know there are two neighborhoods in tripoli both for the the. alleyways and the bonnet 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. you're watching the weekly live here from our new center here in moscow still ahead the libya marks one year since the fall of tripoli but the celebration is a little bit joyce's continued tribal violence threatens to send the country into chaos. also still to come feel resentment on the rise in pakistan as the u.s. to use to blur the lines when it comes to its deadly train strikes. but first this week the case of norwegian mass murder under spray vick reached its conclusion the right wing fanatic who admitted killing seventy seven people were. declared sane by judges he's been jailed for a maximum of twenty one years for his bombing and gun rampage in oslo. last year brevik smirked when he heard the verdict which he says he will not appeal to in his

final statement. killing even more people always insisted on his honesty and the killings were part of his fight against the islamification way countries were suffering a rise in far right activities before the tragedy but as to reports breivik side is a fueling even more hatred towards immigrants and islam. there is no doubt about his guilt for right militant unders brave massacred 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 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 european values 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 resorting to very public displays of opposition. while there's an increasingly vocal wash of ideologies and

a rise in political extremes one step at the fringes countries are increasingly criticised 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. 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. we think occasion of. everyone trying to find some excuse. but condition 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 we may have reached a conclusion but europe still no where near to wending at all to whether the cycle

of fear and hatred. just are still here r t brussels. amid 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 a regional court in cologne banned religious circumcisions under a new law it caused outrage among jews and muslims worldwide accusing authorities of infringing on religious freedom german based rabbi just spent says the issue could be exploited by radical movements there's no question that this issue is other piece with the minarets right through and 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 for are uncomfortable with visible minorities in their press 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 of 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 stunning that. the diplomatic spat between london and quito has eased as britain has retracted its threat to stall next door an embassy and take gin in the sand by force he would draw comes just a day after the organization of american states announced its support of ecuador's moves in the saga involving the wiki leaks founder for 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 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 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 their 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 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 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

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enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time. as iran faces growing pressure from the west regarding its nuclear program there's also significant display of solidarity towards the islamic state delegates from over one hundred nations which don't consider themselves allied to any power block a current convening in tehran for a high profile summit director of the national iranian american council in washington 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 body of countries 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 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 nuclear have nots if you will. they do in fact have a lot of support for the point of view which the spot was which is that they have a right to enrich uranium the western powers are essentially taking trying to take

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against a background of severe ethnic clashes which have spiraled since colonel gadhafi was ousted most recently of these twelve people were killed and dozens injured after the fighting parties used heavy weaponry including anti-aircraft guns. and consultant peter thinks libya will own the center 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 he brought back from the gold 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 kirk like is ongoing in iraq like he is ongoing in syria and

egypt. and now a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world in our world updater series of insurgent attacks of that at least eight people dead in iraq two policemen were killed and one injured in an early morning shooting in the country self hours later a gunman opened fire and shot dead three private security guards in eastern baghdad meanwhile two roadside bombs claimed the lives of three more soldiers in western iraq over two hundred people have been killed in deadly attacks this month throughout the nation. toll from explosion at venezuela's largest oil refinery has risen to at least forty one present you could have as is declared declared three days of mourning the government run plant was rocked by a blast caused by a gas leak nearby buildings were also damaged by the expose it impact the accident is the worst to ever hit the south american nations on industry. a powerful typhoon is it the japanese island of okinawa forcing thousands of people indoors

typhoon beloved has caused blackouts bring winds of nearly two hundred fifty kilometers per hour at least four people have been injured with around three hundred others taking shelter in public buildings it's called transport chaos with highways closed and flights canceled. pakistan is investigating a u.s. drone strike that reportedly killed but didn't have carney the leader of the haqqani terror group the taliban claims he is still alive he was led attacks a long been a source of contention among pakistanis and it's going to cut explains it's episodes like this the 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 has 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 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 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 that have been and the 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 that 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 calls the police to catch them and there was 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 the implications of international law on the drone attacks

and the un for instance rup or 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 of the drone program. he'll be much in the weekly live here on the headlines in just a few minutes now after that we bring you face to face with the devil at our report about america's relentless pursuit of eco warriors stay with us for.

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