teach religion why you should care about human to. ditch is why you should care what you're only. the story that shaped it 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 also rising strike on the country. no asian muscular and brave they could get their plane and get twenty one years in jail boys and to islam again this as an inspiration for even more radical groups. a scandal that unites muslims and jews in the. german rabbi was chargeable performing a circumcision is by the recent controversial punk band on the back. and britain has withdrawn its threat to go into vehicle during the embassy and arrested in a song by. some global south and north american nations and fighting in the diplomatic

front. you're watching our tease of the weekly we're live from moscow with me tom would say first foreign port of powers came a step closer at this week to engaging in syria's internal conflict as the u.s. and its allies additional of a fresh threat france as a gesture 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 marina porter i 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 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 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 columns 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. of slaughtering up to three hundred civilians in a ton of damascus there are reports the difficult to vary by but the government says it's carried out an end to terror operation in the area the rebels cleans the later than a series of previous nations that all came just as international polls were about to decide been next move on syria the kevin barrett who's a specialist in the affected region told me earlier you believe the time e. 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 the world to the brink of a very dangerous confrontation. over twelve thousand christians are trapped in

a syrian village near the lebanese border beseeched by the rebels the two weeks blockade has caused shortages of food medicine and other crucial supplies the people can't leave the area jitter the threat posed by the rebel snipers meanwhile across the border in lebanon the situation remains a fragile following 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 gunmen troops were deployed to stop the trouble beirut base a political animal said dr franklin lamb says there is growing lad among lebanese as a violent to spill over continue. 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 into great deal of fear of people are saying not since the civil

war how things is so likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure but you know the very broods in tripoli the job all most of for the the shia are always and the gobble to bomb instructions right down the middle ironically is the name of the big street call syria stream 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. still ahead libya mugs one year since the fall of tripoli but the celebration is anything but joyous it's continued tribal violence that threatens to send the country for that took a. class the resentment on the rise in pakistan as the u.s. continues to blur in legal lines when it comes to its deadly drone strike.

this week of the case of no asian mass murder and brave eager ridge its conclusion the right wing fanatic who admitted killing seventy seven people was declared sane a by judges he's been jailed for maximum of twenty one years for his bombing and gun rampage an oss lawyer island last year. smirking when he heard the verdict in which he said he will not appeal during his final stage and here he has just been arguing even more people is always insisted on his sanity and that killings were part of his fight against the islamic cation of no way e.u. countries were suffering a rise in far right at activities rather before the tragedy of but as tense as they are important ravings ideas are fueling even more hatred towards immigrants and islam. there is 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 a twenty nine year old suspected brave exemplifies or was charged in the czech republic officers found weapons of police uniforms it is flat and they believe he was planning a brave extol slaughter. while in norway police are investigating a threatening email 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 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 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 cross europe 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 if anyone tried 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 unders brave extract a have reached a clue. but europe still nowhere near to wending at all to whether that cycle of fear and hatred. desser cilia r.t. brussels. amid growing talk of a crisis of tolerance in europe another scandal flares up in germany after read by those charged for performing a circumcision that after original court in cologne banned religious second decisions under a new norm because among jews and muslims the worldwide accusing the authorities of infringing on religious freedom karen bass a rabbi just been a says that the issue could be exploited by radical movements there's no question

that this issue is of the piece with the minarets read through them and sort through and with the book question in france with the ritual slaughter question hollands thing that is particularly striking about this issue is that from the perspective of those who do not actually want for 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 it and so this is a normal position which is a much harder position to seek out when one speaks about it we're going to minarets a ritual slaughter and so this really to a great extent i believe this 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 that that. the diplomatic spat between london and quito has eased as britain has retracted its threat to storm the it could bury an embassy and take it in a song by force there which will comes just a day after the organization of american states announced its support of aca does moved in the saga involving that we can expound last may that 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 expressed solidarity and support for ecuador in their offering of asylum to julian our sons 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 you do not sign 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 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. all the twists and turns in the julianna sun just long running saga as well as the exclusive interview with ecuadorian president rafael correa available on the website also on our cheadle kong find out they there's details of the free us launch operation as anonymous hacktivists once again take down british websites in support of the weekend this time targeting into paul and the nation's police force.

is not required to watch on. any time. because iran face is growing pressure from the west regarding its nuclear program

there is also significant display of solidarity towards islamic state delegates from over one hundred nations which don't consider themselves allied to any poll block a carnegie convening in toronto for high profile summit research a director all the national iranian american council in washington resign my ra she says the gathering show is iran is not as isolated as the us once the rest of the world to be. 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 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

to run is speeding up its work on a nuclear bomb while this let me state insists it's only pursuing peaceful energy some experts believe that the west rejection of the run right to atomic energy could 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. nuclear have nots if you will. they do in fact have a lot of support for the point of view which they supposed 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 essentially using a double standard or even worse. remember you can find all the latest stories comments and videos on our website at our team dot com here's a look at some stories before you lying down close and dawn to make the madness or do they find out what the had time to avoid when trying to board

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permission and so. please friends don't talk t.v. dot com. you're watching r t thanks for being with us 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 syfy shrines as a lofty slam as well blamed for blowing up and bulldozing a fifteenth century sanctuary sectarian tensions in libya have reached new levels off to see if the religious sites were destroyed by arms to lock this and government secure. forthwith this against a backdrop of severe acne clashes which have spiraled since colonel gadhafi was ousted most recently at least twelve people and killed and dozens injured after

a viking partings use heavy weapons mean condemning m.p.a. propaganda political analyst and consultant peter yet things libya will only descend deeper into chaos. libya is following the same trend or so 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 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 that country from the doldrums into great prosperity and the wrong government got in 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 occur like is ongoing in iraq like is ongoing in syria and egypt. and now a look at some other stories making headlines around the world

a series of insurgent attacks of left at least eight people dead in iraq two policemen were killed and one injured in an early morning shooting in the country south 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. the death toll of an explosion at venezuela's largest oil refinery has risen to at least forty one president hugo chavez has declared three days of mourning a government run plan was rocked by a blast caused by gas leak nearby buildings were also damaged by the explosive impact the accident is the worst you have ever hit the south american nations oil industry. now a powerful typhoon has hit the japanese island of okinawa forcing thousands of people indoors typhoon bolivarian has caused blackouts bringing 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 its course transport carriers with highways closed and flights canceled pakistan is investigating a u.s. drone strike that reportedly killed a bug ridden leader of the how come the terror group the taliban claims he's still alive the u.s. led attacks have long been a source of contention among pakistanis and as you can explains is x. 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 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 e.c.u. 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 it's 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 with some of the. 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 a question that pops up. 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 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. i'll be back with the headlines in just a few minutes then right after that do we join in this talk of this chip around russia to capture images of the countries we think press that would interest you.

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