the stories that shape the 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. a new age and mass killing and with great big is declared sane against twenty one years in jail while his empty islam agenda serves as an inspiration for even more radical groups. a scandal that unites muslims and jews in anger after a german rabbi was shot for me a second season despite a recent controversial court battle on the practice. and britain has withdrawn its threat to go into the ecuadorian embassy and arrested in the sun by the global south and north american nation sided with the church in

the diplomatic while. its four am here in moscow you're watching artie's the weekly foreign powers came a step closer this week to engaging in syria's internal conflict as the u.s. and its allies dish out fresh threats from 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 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 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 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 town near damascus the reports of a difficult a very fly by the government says it's carried out an anti terror operation in the area the rebels team that these are the latest in a series of similar previous accusations that all just came just as international policies were about to decide. means on syria doesn't have been bad to the specialists in the affected region told 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 is un 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 happened and 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 air space they may very well be shot out of the skies and i did 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 that see we blockade has caused shortages of food medicine and other crucial supplies people can leave the area due to the threat posed by rebel snipers meanwhile across the border in lebanon long the situation remains fragile following a spike in syria related sectarian violence it is 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 they rebase political analyst dr franklin lamb says there's growing drag among lebanese as a violent storm over 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 to a great deal of fear. people are saying not since the civil war how things being so likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure because you know the very

broods in tripoli the most for the the. alleyways and the gobble to bomb instruction right down the middle ironically is the name of a big street called serious street and that really tells the tale up there but we have seen in beirut and other parts of the country a similar the region things are very much on the. still ahead libya months one year since the fall of tripoli but the celebrations is anything but joyous as continued tribal violence threatens to send the conficker into chaos. plus the resentment on the rise in pakistan as the u.s. continues to blur legal lines when it comes to the deadly drone strikes. this week a case of no waging mass murder and was brave reach its conclusion the right wing

fanatic who admitted killing seventy seven people was declared sane by judges has been jailed for maximum of twenty one years for his bombing and gun rampage in all slain ordway island last year brave akes murray when he heard the verdict which he says he will not appeal during his final statement here apologize for not killing even more people has always insisted on his sanity and that the killings were part of his fight against the islamification of no way you can trees where suffering a rise in a far wider activities before the tragedy but as tessa cilia reports brave its ideas are fueling even more hatred towards immigrants and islam. there is no doubt about his guilt for right militant unders brave it massacred seventy seven people in norway thirteen months ago to show his rejection of government policies of immigrants and islam 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 brave exemplifies or was charged in the czech republic officers found weapons and police uniforms in this 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 was 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 the 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 so what 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. with integration of. everyone trying 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 clue. but europe still nowhere near to wending at all to whether the 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 a rabbi was charged for performing a circumcision that's after original court in cologne banned religious circumcision sunday new york it caused outrage among jews and muslims worldwide accusing the authorities of infringing on religious freedom german base whereby just spinet 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 them and sort through and

with the burqa question in france with the ritual slaughter question and hollered 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 presence this is a fabulous issue because one cloaks the criticisms and the undermining of religious freedoms to protecting the rights of infants 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 at that that if the medics spent between london and quito has

eased as britain has retracted its threat to storm the ecuadorian embassy and take it in a science by force they would draw comes in just a day after the organization of american states announced its support of aca just means in the saga involving that we could leaks founder laura smith 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 ecuador 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 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 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 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 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 of course still in the ecuadorian embassy in london still very unclear how he will get out. well the twists and turns in julian assange just long running saga as well as the exclusive interview with the ecuadorian president rafael correa vailable on our website also on our team dot com find out they the details of the operation as anonymous hacktivism once again take down british websites in support of the weekly this time targeting interpol and the nation's police force.

so. it's not required to watch on its own you need. any time. as iran faces a growing pressure from the west regarding its nuclear program there's also significant display of solidarity towards the state delegates from over one hundred

nations which don't consider themselves allied to any pol bloc are currently convening in toronto a high profile summit wheezes director of the national iranian american consul in washington reason says the gathering shows that iran is not as isolated as the us once 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 countries maybe don't agree entirely with what the united states led sanctions are doing and what they're seeing to accomplish. now the summer takes place just a few days after the un atomic watchdog declared that recent talks with iran had failed israel claim that iran is speeding up its work going to nuclear bomb while

the islamic state insists it's only pursuing peaceful energy some experts believe the western rejection of iran's why two 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 the nuclear have nots if you will. they do in fact have a lot of support for the point of view which the spouse 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 it. isn't that easy for you right now so don't make the man or do they find out what that tie is of to avoid when trying to board a plane in the u.s. . tongue protests aboard she wanted to ride members of the russia with the

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dot com. we'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 some sixty shrines as a lot of blame for blowing up and bulldozing a fifteen that centuries century sectarian tensions in libya have reached new levels off to supersede religious sites were destroyed by office and government security forces there's again. a backdrop of severe ethnic clashes which have spiraled a since colonel gadhafi was ousted most recently at least twelve people were killed and dozens injured after the fighting quality of these heavy weaponry including anti a crackdown that's political analysts and consultant peter things libya will only

to send 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 where 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 such failing very fast and i think we will see a natural rebellion occur like it's 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 have left at least eight people dead in iraq two policemen were killed and one injured in an early morning shooting in the country's

south hours later gunmen 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 as 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 the government's a run plant or was a rock by a blast caused by guess leak nearby buildings were also damaged by the explosive impact yes that and it is the worst i have ever did to 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 to bring in 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 caused

transport chaos with highways closed and flights canceled pakistan is investigating a u.s. drone strike that reportedly killed but drew ginn a leader of the haqqani terror group the taliban claims he is still alive u.s. led attacks have long been a source of contention among pakistanis and as she can rick's planes it sees actions that are fueling 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 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 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 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. 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 blowback which really represents the casualty or shall we say the consequences that are most direct the drone program. i'll be back with the headlines in a few minutes and right after that a leading middle east analyst describes how the solve the syrian conflict that's tonight in-depth into the.

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