the bloodiest day in syria so far sunday reportedly claiming more than three hundred twenty lives in fierce battles between the country's government and wearables just outside damascus. activist outraged israel's military refuses a delivery of aid to palestinian schoolchildren in the west bank the incident follows recent revelations on the mass abuse of palestinian youngsters by israeli soldiers. and iran's foreign minister rings the opening bell of the world. summit in tehran to see a third of un members taking part despite the west undermining the event.

a very warm welcome to you on this monday from all of us here at r.t. moscow i'm rory sushi in syria activists have accused the country's security forces of killing over three hundred people just outside the capital damascus the death toll in the southwest town of the riaa cannot be independently verified however the government says it carried out an anti terror operation in that area and the british foreign office has responded that sunday's massacre highlights urgent need for international intervention against the assad regime moscow meantime insists that any unilateral action will only worsen the conflict that's already claimed more than eighteen thousand lives president assad has also vowed to stand firm in the face of what he calls a western plot against his nation and this comes amid reports by activists that rebels of the free syrian army have now shot down an army helicopter over damascus

middle east specialist kevin barrett believes that what we're seeing now in syria could be a setup for outside military intervention. but once again as with the houla massacre we have a very interesting set of circumstances where right before this 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 intervening in syria and i'm very suspicious i was asked about this shortly after the school massacre 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 this 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 the very will 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 and later this hour here on r.t. we talked to a german left wing politician a young the about the ongoing bloodshed in syria he believes the government him is two faced when it comes to the ongoing crisis. officially they don't take sides something sure of the. human rights violator repression within the come for us sure enough but am officially them up taking any other sides with a rebel to whatever but informally and we see it from their involvement you know with this crisis on the ground there you know this stuff and they invite syrian petitions the time thereafter and train them here so officially they seem to take sides but it's unclear to me who they are so somebody selected people and i don't know on the basis of which criteria i have no clue i mean we now have been invited

for final discussion. i mean how can you train some people and others not to mean we as the. let's party linking him to a mini we have contacts to politicians some people in syria are would know who i would pick but obviously would be for different people. this is r.t. around one hundred of pro polished union 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 activists move as a failed a publicist is stunned by this latest incident follows another scandal involving palestinian children a number of israeli veterans have spoken out but describing a degrading culture of abuse and harassment of youngsters in the west bank and gaza

activists have released a report containing dozens of testimonies that detail numerous cases of violence committed by former soldiers now this story to r.t. is fall asleep. 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 go on 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 shackles 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 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 a 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 whom were children and there are pictures of me daughters of one woman trying to save their mother as she was manhandled by the soldiers who were stun grenades so certainly not a good time for the i.d.f. it's finding itself being criticised on a number of fronts r t tel aviv and r.t. is coming to you live from the heart of moscow or worse still to come in this program that have a tolerance test. with one of these in this is not the islamic world 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 germany reminds us muslim community whose laws come first this while allowing the protesters to display cartoons of the prophet mohammad and also you know just

a few minutes find out how are doing the basic things all journalists should like for example gathering the facts so could ultimately lead reporters on a blacklist of some governments. are not far off from ten minutes past the hour moscow time iran's foreign minister has rung the opening bell of a conference for countries which don't consider themselves connected to any of the world's power blocs including nato and the summit of aligned states is the largest international event to have ever been hosted by the islamic republic with one hundred twenty nations taking part equaling two thirds of all u.n. members the u.s. and israel have openly disapproved of the conference and even the united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon to ignore it however he still decided to attend despite the pressure and media campaign aimed at playing down the importance of the summit asia times correspondent pepe escobar believes no western attempts to undermine the gathering of that any point six. just look at the map it's very

simple who is into round at the moment 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 to cover it in american mainstream media ranges from the hectic to the upsurge in 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 the obama administration and the european goals the allies and the g.c.c. but your mother is in the middle east so this is a real zari important meeting this is how to implement diplomacy works at the highest levels you have to find a solution involving the main partners in the region and a solution that will save face for everybody the problem is there may be people who are interfering which are basically there just to see better monarchist even if

they are in an washington be don't want a rational solution they want regime change and so you know this goes way beyond 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're calling for a humanitarian bombing or regime change based on a bunch of guerrillas in a sovereign nation. watching on t.v. i forget if you missed any of our stories you can always find them on our web site c.n.n. dot com it's where you can pick up all the in-depth news and analysis available twenty four seventh's for example how to best a group anonymous announces war on the u.k. special surface in support of the wiki leaks and its julian a songe launching online attacks on a number of key web sites plus. president with benefits no we cannot or he's pledged to grant a undisclosed conveniences to mass murderer anders breivik as they fear for his

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find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. it's a pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today to push the right members who have been on the run reportedly fled russia they wanted for questioning over their participation in an instant in the country's main orthodox cathedral which of course landed three other members in jail let's get some more details on this now cross live to want to use a study by lucy good to see you the authorities may have been hoping at some point that soon the end to the whole story seems the men have quite the opposite view. that's right does seem like the story about the pussy riot controversy isn't going away any time soon according to unconfirmed reports two members of the punk band punk band have reportedly fled the country. to in order to avoid prosecution and

potential questioning over their participation in a very controversial stunt at the price of the speech which you can see behind me that really. really stirred international attention now according to a post by the pussy riot group twitter feed it looks like the two women are planning on supposedly close to recruiting foreign ministers for new actions of those remains to be seen what that actually means and entails now we have to remember back on august seventeenth three members of the has the right punk band were arrested and convicted on charges of hooliganism sentenced to two years for their controversial stunt the move really divided opinion here within russia and also raised some serious criticism of the russian government broad this was a political stunt it certainly worked as we've seen another group called famine in ukraine which had cut down and are orthodox cross they're following that action more crosses were actually cut down so regardless of how the pussy riot story plays

out it does seem like it is sparking similar actions across the country and story is certainly not dying down any time today. thank you. this is all it's who you know germany's struggling to see eye to eye with a muslim community over whose beliefs should prevail from extremism protests to openly displaying portraits of the prophet mohammed demonstrations have been taking place in a number of cities all across the country. reports the demonstrators in germany display cover to choose of the prophet muhammad 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 protests say that they're doing this to gauge the willingness of the islamic community to out here to. give you and me. all this is not proof on the contrary we are testing the propensity of extremist muslims who have built a base here in berlin to respect our laws. 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 and we will not organize a concert demonstration that is the right position to take and it is one little hold there was a reaction elsewhere though in egypt a man 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 obviously. one of his and this is not the islamic 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 and right wing groups say that muslims aren't the enemy their problem is with government policy which they claim allows islamic extremism safe haven within german borders and if there are quiet our message is clear it's not the kebabs over but the politicians following false parlous these who are your enemy they're the ones wearing islamic extremists thrive here the incident with the cartoons isn't the first time german courts of past 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 party. you know just a moment we'll get to the r.t. world update for now though at least three people have been injured in a blast at a local market in the city of nothing around that's in russia's republic of english all three were taken the hospital one is said to currently be in a state of critical condition while forty's do say that the explosive device that went off in one of the markets pavilions police are investigating the site right now a spirit of sporadic violence has been erupting in the volatile republic for years now the last attack taking place a little over a week ago that was when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral for a police officer. why the straight to afghanistan to kick off the r.t. world update now it's been a bloody twenty four hours there where an ambush of time by taliban insurgents at a military outpost in the south has claimed the lives of at least ten soldiers four others injured six more troops are said to be missing in a separate incident a suspected members of the taliban beheaded seventeen villagers in the neighboring

district meanwhile a man in afghan uniform a shot dead two nato troops in the country's east violence by alleged afghan soldiers against coalition forces has recently escalated in the country the taliban says it's part of its anti nato tactics. at least one person killed in a drive by shooting in yemen when gunmen opened fire on a peaceful protest hundreds of people had 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 south of the raid came over over a week after a deadly attack on the country's intelligence headquarters which left twenty one. the libyan interim interior minister has resigned amid fears of renewed sectarian clashes in the country this after sufi religious sites were destroyed by salah fits

and government security forces libya remains volatile ever since the popular uprising resulted in the ousting and death of its longtime leader moammar gadhafi last year the country currently ruled over by the elected general national congress . tropical storm isaac heads towards the u.s. gulf coast at least three states have already declared emergencies the storm had to start florida with heavy rain on sunday and is expected to slam into other parts of the country as a category two hurricane on wednesday all of this as restoration work has begun in haiti after ten died and fourteen thousand were forced to evacuate to escape 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 as artie's guy nature can reports it's the people tasked with

uncovering the real facts that are left to face the music. 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 tall kind of 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 a news organization

a pure investigative journalism or and who are sympathetic towards al qaida or its goals it is disgraceful i do think those kind of serious. mistakes involved the cia remembers claiming that it killed the civilians in pakistan for more than a year our reporting the reporting of many of the credible newspapers and academics now 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 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 as 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 admitted 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. part off of the hourly percent of that we go off to daniel bushell daniel gold is really glittering these days but then again i just thought you were wearing some funny i shut it off for us is already its all time highs are expected to double again mirthless traded to mccutcheon explains what. 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 seeking about any talk about the four thousand five hundred dollar no 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 he's a basically be 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 they start to kick in and the velocity of money kicks up but they 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 really going to get the gold price to go through but as i understand gold prices have been mostly driven up 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 who's 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. moscow's song self off the mining mammoth rousselin else second quarter losses addictive like a drug germany central bank or a you buying spanish horns i think it doesn't solve your debt crisis london is closed for a bank holiday euros just swung into a loss on both the ruble and greenback as german politicians a temporary greek exit and see. shares suffer the biggest dive in four years after you rick's court ruled the firm infringed six peyton's for mobile devices a south korean colossus will pay over a billion dollars compensation but it has another hearing upcoming that could lift a sales ban on some of its products in the states. and mcdonald's is expanding into

siberia one of the last places on earth you can buy a quarter pounder open the first restaurant in crustily else late next year before rolling out through the region twenty percent growth a year makes russia one of its most profitable force food markets for the last decade paula just six and a lack of suppliers of thought of mcdonald's efforts to open here but look at it you've been called your mcdonald's recently i have been misbehaving as usual. so you say all right in just a moment it's going to be us talking to a leading left wing politician from germany about his stance on syria libya and iran quite a mixed bag we'll see hopefully in just a moment. and

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