the stories that seem to dissuade muslim nations are inching closer to military intervention in the syrian conflict with plans to set up a no fly zone and brads towards the lightning strike on the country. the region masculine and was great big declared sane and gets twenty one years in jail while is and is damaged and stands as an inspiration for even more when. a scandal that unites muslims and jews in. germany rabbi was possible performance circumcision despite a recent controversial call the ban on the practice of. britain has withdrawn as right to go into the ecuadorian embassy and arrested in a song by the blogger solve the north american nation siding with peter in the

diplomatic row. it's seven am here in moscow you're watching r t with me to bomb would say foreign policy came a step closer this week to engaging in syria's intense conflict as the u.s. and its allies dished 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 area president obama for the first time said he could authorize military action on the syrian territory marine important 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 us 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 calms 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 marina r.t. . syrian opposition activists have accused. of slaughtering of three hundred civilians in a town near damascus the report is a difficult to verify but the government says it's carried out an end to terror operation in the area the rebels claim that these are the latest in a series of similar previous that is ations that all came just as international policy were both to decide the next move on syria that's a given barrett who's a specialist 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 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 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 that is 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 the rebels that 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 life the situation remains a fragile pulling a spike in syria's related sectarian violence at least fifteen people have been killed and more than one hundred injured in clashes between pro and anti acid gunmen troops were deployed to stop the trouble they were based political analyst dr franklin lamb says there's a growing that among lebanese as the violence continues. the concierge of my building who is syrian sometimes hides in my apartment there been round up of syrian national news here in beirut in south beirut even which a great deal of fear of people are saying not since the civil war how things been

so likely to ignite or the people are feeling so insecure as you know the very broods in tripoli the most certain for the the. alleyways and the babble to bomb instructions 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 marks one year since the fall of tripoli but the celebration is anything but joyous as continued tribal violence threatens to send the country further into chaos. plus the resentment on the rise in pakistan as the u.s. continues to blare legal lines when it comes to its deadly drone strikes. this week as the case of norwegian mass murderer anders breivik of reached 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 and also law and order your islands last year braving smirked when he heard the verdict which he says he will not appeal thing is final statement he apologized 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 e.u. countries were suffering a rise in the far right activities before the tragedy but as are senior reports brave this idea of 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 oh 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 would 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 up 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. you missed and everyone trying to find some excuse. but condition of

life and if we don't send a clear message to everyone for the right. muslim . it's become impossible to understand the police others brave extra you may have reached a clue. but europe still nowhere near to wending at all to whether that cycle of fear and hatred. tests are still the r t brussels. amid growing talk of a crisis of tolerance in europe another scandal flares up in germany after a read by was charged for performing a second citizen that's after original court in cologne banned willage a circumcisions under new law because outrage among jews and muslims that worldwide accusing the authorities of infringing on religious freedom human based rabbi just say is you could be exploited by radical movements there's no question that this

issue is another piece with the minarets read through them and sort through and with the book question in france with the ritual slaughter question in holland the feeling that is particularly striking about this issue is that from the perspective of those who do not actually want for our own comfortable with reasonable 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 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 standard that the diplomatic spat between london and theatre has

eased as britain has retracted his threat to stumble ecuadorian embassy and take julian assange by force there drawl comes just a day after the organization of american states announced its support of equities move in the saga involving the weekly expounder always more the reasons the details of the meeting there 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 our stance 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 doing this on 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 doing of course still in the ecuadorian embassy in london still very unclear how he will get out. all the twists and turns and judy in the song is long running saga as well as the exclusive interview with ecuadorian president rafael correa vailable on the website also now if you don't call find out the details of the free us operation as anonymous hacktivism once again take done british websites in support of the week this time tall getting into a ball and the nation's police force.

joy. is not required to watch on. any time. as iran faces growing pressure from the west regarding its nuclear program there's also significant

display of solidarity towards this state delegates from over one hundred nations which don't consider themselves allied to any poll block a current day convening in toronto a high profile summit research director of the national iranian american council in washington reason she says the gathering shows iran is not as isolated as the u.s. 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 the summit takes place a just a few days after the u.n. atomic watchdog declared that the recent talks with iran had failed israel claimed

that to run is speeding up its work on a nuclear bomb while those let me state insists it's only pursuing peaceful energy and some experts believe that the west's rejection all the runs of 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 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 made to stories called men's and videos on our website at www dot com here's a look at some stories they feel you like not clothes that don't make the demand all do they find out what are you tired to avoid away trying to board

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a new morning we will remember them we were there. you're watching our t.v. thanks for being with us on the threshold of the first anniversary of the fall of tripoli libya seems to be making the event with violence and chaos in the latest in a series of recent attacks on susi shrines as a lot of these lemons were thankful blowing up and bulldozing a fifteen century sanctuary sectarian tensions in libya have reached new levels often suzi religious sites were destroyed by armed salafi is and government security forces this against the background of severe ethnic clashes which have spiraled since colonel gadhafi was our start most recently at least twelve people were killed and dozens injured after the fighting parties using heavy weaponry including empty aircraft times political analysts and consultant peter things in

libya will only descend deeper into details. libya is following the same trend as all the other countries where there was a for sure jane we have the same scenario in iraq we have the same situation 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 perfect 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 that led to these eight people dead in the rug two policemen were killed and one injured in an early morning shooting in the country

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 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 of course by ghastly and nearby buildings were also damaged by the explosive impact the accident is the worst they have ever hit the south american nations oil industry. and a powerful typhoon has hit the japanese island of alton now are forcing thousands of people indoors typhoon ball of that has caused blackouts to bring in winds of nearly two hundred fifty kilometers per hour at these 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 used drone strike that reportedly killed what tradin. a leader of the haqqani terror group the taliban claims he's still alive u.s. led attacks have long been a source of contention among pakistanis and as they are g.m. explains it's these 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 the broad 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 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. 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 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 u.s. 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 u.n. 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 and also that we move to washington studio full stop actually it's here with host peter alex.

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