bloodiest day so far in syria they were boarded like claims more than three hundred twenty lives in fears battles between the country's government and rebels outside the capital damascus. activist outrage israel's military refuses the delivery of aid to palestinian schoolchildren in the west bank the incident follows recent revelations on the massive use of palestinian youngsters by israeli soldiers. that are run foreign minister rings the opening bell of the world's nonaligned summit and which will see a third of the un members take part despite the west undermining the event.

it is in the russian capital you're watching r t with me arena joshie clashes are raging across syria after activist accuse the country's security forces of killing over three hundred people outside the capital damascus the death toll in the south west town of the rock cannot be independently verified but the government says it carried out and and today terror operations in the area well syria has endured a year and a half of bloody conflict with the opposition forces are resorting mainly to helicopters and tanks and attempt to crush rebel resistance but they are stretched than it was continuing battles in the nation's largest city of aleppo as well as smaller operations in the east and south so i believe specialist kevin barrette says that what happens on sunday in the town of the raw a coup be a setup for military intervention. but once again as with the houla massacre we have a very interesting set of circumstances where right before this u.n.

meeting coming up on august thirtieth we had 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 whole mess here and i think 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 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. later this hour r.t. talks a german left wing politician down by came about the ongoing bloodshed in syria he

believes the government in berlin is to faced when it comes to the crisis. they don't take sides something sure of the. human rights. repression within the country sure enough but officially them taking the other side with a rebel to whatever informally and we see it from their involvement you know with this question from the ground and other stuff and they invite three and petitions for the time thereafter and train them here. and officially they seem to take sides here to me who they are somebody selected people and i don't know on the basis of which criteria i've no clue i mean we now have been invited for final discussion by margaret i mean how can you train some people and others not i mean we left part of the link in germany we have context left politicians some people in syria i would know what i would pick but obviously these are different people.

and i can watch the complete interview with you on that i can and just twenty minutes time here on our team. around one hundred pro palestinian activists have been stopped by israeli authorities on their way to the west bank from jordan the group aim to deliver aid to schoolchildren in bethlehem refugee camps but were reportedly turned away without any explanation israel's defense ministry later labeled the activist move as a failed publicity stunt this latest incident follows another scandal involving palestinian children a number of israeli veterans have spoken out describing the grating culture abuse and harassment of youngsters in the west bank and gaza activists have released a report containing thirty testimonies the numerous cases of violence committed by former soldiers are just poles the year has a story. the israeli defense forces has come under fire from its own rank and file

an organization known as breaking the silence has published the testimonies of some thirty israeli soldiers and commanders in which they deal specifically with how the idea of treats palestinian children palestinian minors they talk about the opera treat use of violence by soldiers when it comes to children and at the same time they say that very often the idea of deliberately targets children using them as human shields during its operations but these reports also going to say that even when children are not deliberately targeted they are not afforded any kind of protection when there is a shootout or any kind of military operation now these reports come out on the heels of another two damning conclusions that were reached by two separate groups one being an eminent group of british lawyers and another an international human rights group known as save the children foundation now both of these found that the idea is in violation of international law when it comes to how we treat palestinian children they say they very often these children are put into solitary confinement

they are treated and abused they suffered extensive damage at the same time the army is using things like shekels to extract confessions. from these children that those confessions are extracted under duress and also these children are not afforded any kind of legal representation now also this weekend there were demonstrations as indeed there are even weekend now big which is a palestinian village villages there are complaining about the gradual encroachments of a nearby settlement on the water supplies they say that those water supplies are being taken over by the citizen as a result they have no water with which to use on the fields all for drinking water but in footage that was captured on camera these soldiers can be seen going from house to house and physically taking people out of their homes one person was injured at least six people were arrested five of them were children and there are pictures of the daughters of one woman trying to save their mother as she was

manhandled by these soldiers who were also using stun grenades so certainly not a good time for the i.d.f. it's finding itself been criticized on a number of fronts policy r.t. television. coming up later in the program exercising tolerance germany reminds us muslim community has laws come first by allowing the testers to display cartoons of a probable homage to get the full story in a couple of minutes here on our team. and our team brings the report on the smear attack that the u.s. government is using against journalists banned on telling the truth to the public. iran has opened the doors to delegates of the sixteenth gathering of the self described nonaligned states the largest international summit to have ever been hosted by the islamic republic fifteen leaders from the countries which can don't consider themselves connected to any power block are expected to convene in to iran

within the week while nuclear weapons nonproliferation and conflict the conflict in syria will be among the issues topping the agenda u.n. secretary general ban ki moon has decided to attend despite pressure from washington and its allies which have been accused of trying to play down the importance of the summit well we can now discuss this what it means for international politics with asia times correspondent pepe escobar joins us live from hong kong mr escobar thanks very much for being with us here this morning now we know that almost two thirds of u.n. member states are to take part the organization's head of course will be there so what does that actually mean is this a failure for western diplomacy in your opinion and its attempts to isolate iran. look at the just look at the math it's very simple who is into run at the moment i would say it's the real international community who's over there central america

the whole of central america including cuba most of south america virtually the whole of africa the middle east iraq and afghanistan india and pakistan southeast asia the whole of southeast asia and we have as observers mexico brazil and argentina from marcos soon as also america and china what does that tell you that this is the real international community trying to find solutions to pressing problems such as the runnion nuclear dossier and the war in syria and the coverage i have to talk about journalism here as a journalist the coverage in american mainstream media ranges from the that sick to the upsurge the only talk about iran trying to use credentials and show that it's not isolated it was never isolated in the first place this is a figment of the imagination of your ballot administration and european pulls the allies and the g.c.c. but your monarch is in the middle east so this is

a real very important meeting hiking back to those great nam meetings wind chills if tito that was out there was still alive in her state a question here mr escobar forgive me for interrupting you as you said it's a very important meeting and a lot of countries from the region will be there participating but how effective can they really be on the decisions that they are going to take there specially in the fact that none of the major powers responsible for the matters is taking part in the conference so how much do you expect from this particular meeting well i expect to some see very important as a i wouldn't say a serious breakthrough but very importantly before that meeting the saudis the turks and the qataris they want a condemnation of the syrian government egypt. which by the way president morsi is the first egyptian leader to visit to iran in thirty two years he's there himself in person not an emissary this in itself is

a major geopolitical breakthrough it through step sunni egypt and shiites in iraq and now are talking at the highest levels so going back to the. preparation of the summit this saudis that they are to the qataris one in a confrontational approach egypt proposed no we have a contact group with us egypt or us saudis qataris and the erroneous and we're going to talk about a possible solution for syria this is what it's all of this is this is how to implement diplomacy works at the highest levels we have to find a solution involving the main partners in the region in a solution that will save face for everybody i absolutely think it is a little thing iran says it has a comprehensive peace plan for the conflict in syria which will be presented during the summit so how effective will that be and will the international community welcome this afferent in your opinion well the international community is the real one which is present the interactions they make the problem is that people who

think that they are the international community this means washington and london and paris and riyadh as well which by the way is represented by the saudi deputy foreign minister in tehran the problem is a dilute coal partners. they cannot arrive at a solution the problem is there may be people who are interfering which are basically they just to see better monarchist even if they are in an washington b. to want a rational solution they want regime change and so i know this goes way beyond that you know you can have two eighty five summits all over the world and you'll never find a solution for this contradiction how are you going to spread democracy in the middle east when you are calling for a human nature. arion bombing or regime change based on a bunch of guerrillas in a sovereign nation all right well mr scott finally before we let him go here's

a question about toronto's nuclear program so in your opinion how will the summit a fact the talks on it which while not much let's be rational here this is being discussed but it be five plus one the five permanent members of the security council plus germany and the problem is every time there is a breakthrough this is cut off in the by washington they don't want a breakthrough they do want an ego shaded solution washington's policy is to keep rolling over at this thing maybe to next year and the painting what do we have next year if we have an obama to maybe obama because he hasn't he doesn't have to run again for thirty nine he'll go for an excel union moment go to tehran or go to somewhere else and try to broker a deal if we have mitt romney as president we all know what's going to happen is going to support that bibi but i'm sure a war against iraq so this is beyond man's reach but we can have

a strong message from now to stairs of the u.n. basically saying look try to find a diplomatic solution for the iranian look at the op and this is are you all right mr escobar thanks very much andy for sharing your music with us and i was eighteen times correspondent pepe escobar. so watching our team and over again if you've missed some of your stories for some of our stories rather you can always find them on our website or to dot com and of news and analysis available for you twenty four seven. now have to his group anonymous and now war on u.k. special service in support of the weekly leaks editor julian assange launching online attacks on a number of key websites plus. prisoner with benefits norwegian authorities pledged to grant on this closed conveniences to mass murder and yes they fear of henri's mental health find out the details at r t dot com.

germany is struggling to see eye to eye with its muslim community over whose laws and beliefs should prevail from stream as a protest to openly displaying portraits of the prophet muhammad demonstrations have been taking place in a number of cities across the country artist peter all over reports. demonstrators in germany display courage to choose of the prophet mohammed outside a mosque german courts gave the green light to allow the cartoons of muhammad to be displayed saying they were protected by artistic freedom and did not qualify as a call to hatred the same cartoons which originated in denmark have resulted in violence around the world since their publication in two thousand and five. those behind the protest say that they're doing this to gauge the willingness of the islamic community to out here to german law you can put your image of all this is

not provoke ation on the contrary we are testing the propensity of extremist muslims who have built a base here in berlin to respect their laws. protesting the protesters are anti fascist in far left groups small scale scuffles between the two sides already frequent occurrence during these demonstrations and the police are out in force to stop any potential trouble a spokesperson for germany's islamic community has said they won't be baited into taking action. point out we're going to ignore these people kind of a little not organize a concert demonstration that is the right position to take and it is one that will hold there was a reaction elsewhere though in egypt among tossed for nail bombs into the grounds of the german embassy he said he was incensed by the court's decision to allow the cartoons to be shown during the protest right wing politicians say that while in

germany muslims should accept german law i would think he had sneaked in the islamic invest some of his and in this is not the islam make world we should be able to decide what cartoons are shown or they have to accept that in germany it is ok to criticize islam if they cannot accept that they shouldn't be allowed to live here in the right wing group say that muslims on the enemy there. them as with government policy which they claim allows islamic extremism safe haven within german borders. our message is clear it's not the kebab seller but the politicians following false parlous ease who are your enemy they're the ones letting islam extremists thrive here the incident with the cartoons isn't the first time german courts have passed controversial judgement regarding islamic beliefs already this year a ban on circumcision received outcry from the country's muslim community if lawmakers want to avoid future protests of this nature then it's up to them to come up with

a solution to tensions between non muslims and germany's islamic community peter all of a r.t. berlin. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world at least one person has been killed in a drive by shooting in yemen when gunmen opened fire in a peaceful protest hundreds of people have gathered for the sit in demanding reforms related to the uprising that toppled the country's longtime leader ali abdullah saleh last year meanwhile five suspected al qaeda members have been arrested in the country's volatile south the raid came over a week after a deadly attack on the country's intelligence headquarters which left twenty one dead. believe me an interim interior minister has resigned amid fears a renewed sectarian clashes in the country this after soofi religious science were destroyed by armed officer and the government security forces libya remains volatile ever since the popular uprising resulted in the ouster and death of its longtime leader moammar gadhafi last year the country's currently ruled by an

elected general national congress. as drop of the store of eyes a heads towards the u.s. gulf coast at least three states have already declared emergencies the storm hit south florida with heavy rain on sunday and is expected to slam into other parts of the country as a category two hurricane on wednesday this as restoration works begun in haiti after seven people died and fourteen thousand were forced to evacuate to escape the floodwaters as isaac battered the caribbean. now everyone should know both sides of the story or at least in principle yet that's not the premise the u.s. government seems to be sticking to when it comes to telling the truth about its operations overseas and as our reports washington has a little punch and for openness and debate. in the u.s. free speech is protected by law so what can the government do when they don't like

what some journalists reveal about them it turns out a smear campaign is one of the options chris woods is co-founder of the london based bureau of investigative journalism the organization to great efforts to report on the deaths of many civilians in cia drone strikes overseas the cia. elements of the u.s. intelligence community chose to attack their work. rather investigate some of the points that we were raising for the particular of the deaths of civilians in several articles including this one in the new york times an anonymous u.s. government official tacitly accused the journalists of being sympathetic to al qaida let's be under no illusions there are a number of elements who would like nothing more than to malign these efforts and help al qaeda succeed to suggest that in any way only or more any news organization of your investigative journalism or in any way sympathetic towards al qaida or its

goals it is disgraceful i do think those kind of serious indicate the stakes involved the cia remembers claiming that it killed ninety civilians in pakistan for more than a year our reporting the reporting of many other credible news. academics now shows that simply isn't the case that simply aren't true usa today journalist tom banda burke and ray locker became the subject of a sustained internet campaign to discredit their work just days after they began publishing the results of their investigation into a multi-million dollar pentagon funded propaganda mission in iraq and afghanistan fake websites twitter feeds and facebook accounts were set up under the journalist's names in which they were accused of being backed by the taliban we tried to contact mr locker but he wrote back saying his editors prefer that he does not do any interviews on the. subject but a smear campaign wasn't the punishment for the prominent yemeni journalist. shying

he was the first to report on the u.s. drone strike in yemen which killed fourteen women and twenty one children back in two thousand and nine he's now in jail in yemen upon the request of barack obama himself convicted of having ties with terrorists and what's what's most outrageous for me as a as an american journalist is the role of the u.s. ali abdullah saleh the president of yemen gets a phone call not from john brennan or whatever obama's advisers but from president obama himself and president obama said we're very concerned about the release of this guy we don't know the full extent of what happened in that phone call with the white house and state department in fact i interviewed the state department admit that obama in fact said the u.s. wants him to stay in jail here in the u.s. or in the u.k. for that matter journalists are protected by law and it's not easy to put them in jail but there is one way to get back at them try and discredit their work by suggesting they're helping terrorists or the taliban or whatever else one might

argue that the label carries out it's becoming an all too convenient for the government to brush off investigative journalism which exposes their flaws and kind of check our reporting from washington. and sign our business have dated with them bush l. and danielle the price of gold keeps hitting the headlines we hear yes good morning we're in of the world expects more money to be printed on a near future to stimulate the global economy and experts say that could push gold prices post the all time high of two thousand dollars an ounce and even in a whole two thousand to mccutcheon it's a gold explains one. you have massive amounts of printing right now that's been sort of very carefully and very well concealed to plug up deficits what people are sinking about and you talk about the four thousand five hundred dollar notes argument is when the velocity of money does kick up basically what happens everyone scared take the money of the banks take the money out of different things that

investment and keep the money cash i know where it is narratives that means the basically the churn over money goes down now once people sort of see there's lots and lots of printing money into the system to get money to move around in the build new businesses and everything else once that starts to kick in and the velocity of money kicks up but they've printed so much money in the past three years that when the velocity does kick in the effect it has is much bigger because that much more money out in the system and that's where you can get the gold price to go right but as i understand gold prices have been mostly driven all only by the belief that base is as safe as it is about the ultimate bubble to say that it's a bubble it's pretty hard because if you talk about the total amount of assets invested in gold globally it's minuscule very very few people actually have gold in their investment portfolios very people very few people have gold is there gold mining shares or gold related stocks in their overall investment portfolio and so that this doesn't smell like a bubble

a bubble is when people take out margin one hundred to one to buy an internet stock that they don't know anything about has no revenue no earning and who knows you know has been around for two months it's not a bubble if you're buying for cash gold not on margin and sticking it in your safe that's not a bubble and that's more that represents more of the gold market today than any sort of public stock has happened. gold light stand the headlines that mainland chinese shares are not showing up multi-year lows this morning well just punish showing modest gains all the more central bank stimulus we've been talking about the euro's retreating a bit to the dollar but the ruble finished mixed to main currencies on friday as you can see the figures there for you will have fresh figures for it when the russian markets reopen that will happen in this fits. i was time moskos main indices closed mixed on friday you've got the friday closing figures for you there on the screen and shares of some sort of soft but the biggest drop in four years after u.s. court decided the firm infringed six peyton's for mobile devices now the south

korean company will have to pay over one billion dollars in compensation and face another court hearing that could lift a sales ban on some of its products in the us today marina will have more stories for you next though indeed daniel thanks very much for this update al be back with a recap our top stories there shortly.

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