casualties mount in syria rebels reportedly shoot down an army helicopter while the government is accused of massacring over three hundred people as international pressure on assad continues to grow also. activists carrying school supplies are denied entry to the west bank by israel for the country soldiers also accused of using palestinian children as human shields. and over one hundred nations not aligned with the u.s. gather and to look at global solutions despite washington dismissing the event.

it is good to have you with us here on r.t. today. life in moscow and heavy clashes continue in the heart of the syrian capital as activists claim rebels have shot down an army helicopter over damascus where the footage allegedly shows a military helicopter engulfed in flames shortly before hitting the ground activists have accused syrian security forces meantime of killing more than three hundred people in the town of the riaa that's very close to the capital and the government says it did carry out an anti terror operation in that area a briton who responded to the alleged massacre arguing that it highlighted the urgent need for international action against assad this while the syrian president has vowed to stand firm in the face of what he describes to be a foreign plot against his nation let's get some more on this now and speak to a journalist neil clark thanks for coming on the program mr clarke. it's good to

see you today before i get to my questions i should warn our viewers that the footage we're going to show during our conversation. contains some graphic images so there does seem though to be little prospect of any independent investigation into sunday's killing and the departure of the un observers then no longer around of course the blame game has begun who is to blame as far as you're concerned well the blame game and the blame game begin straight away i think i woke up on saturday morning see the story massacres in syria again and it was a sort of case of deja vu. to see who said this it was opposition activists again and straight comes out and condemned syria before we actually know what's going on and so it's pretty clear that there's an agenda here is to blacken the syrian government's name and to use this as one of the pretext for intervention it's happened before and i'm going to get what you bring up the issue of off creating a pretext for intervention there have been other analysts in the world who have been saying exactly what you've just said certainly though some agreeing that

sunday's alleged massacre appears to be the largest single day death toll to date what do you make of the timing is just ahead of a u.n. security council meeting this friday especially as western calls for a no fly zone and the military action are getting louder these massacres were always seem to happen just one point you and me to go to ask miss holmes why it's all about the likes of william hague and hillary clinton trying to book pressure on russia and china to change their positions and so before we get any independent verification of what's going on we get these calls from these hawks to say look you know in his own people we've got to be and then when the dust settles and we can nation is clear cut is it going to be let's think back to who we were told that was the largest massacre you know thousands dead hundreds dead hundreds of thousands of people killed and then we because it was a cover responsible later on we find that actually the rebels were responsible for much of the killing then it wasn't clear cut so we got to be very very wary of the question of taking with a pinch of salt i think going to take

a lorry load of salt really what i think i think certainly one of the main questions now is how close are we to a western backed no fly zone over syria. or indeed military intervention in the country what do you think francis called fordo fly zone i mean very hawkish hillary clinton has put it on the table but i think that we're talking about bullies here school school school bullies and i think that the big factor in the equation is russia because if you go back to ninety nine when nato launched an illegal war against serbia then who was in the kremlin boris yeltsin he was alcoholic and he took the brunt of the lips of the west who is in power here in russia today so i think the bullying tool from the west i'm not quite sure they would actually go down that route at the moment i think they're very frightened of russia and john certainly russian trying to have been calling for a diplomatic solution to this for at least eighteen months now but let's i mean let's cut to the chase here diplomacy is slipping beyond reach the u.n. observers have been evacuated out of syria and some are saying we're just expected

to see the so-called democracy by bombs scenario like we saw in iraq like we saw in libya is the only way to the seeds of democracy bomb them and put democracy the end of a gun. control i mean the very last secret of the west wants in syria is democracy the very last they want forcible regime change and we already got a democratic solution on hand in syria the constitution is free democratic elections could be held there again opposition could change talks in the book why doesn't the west want to go down these democratic elections park in syria because they know that back proxies to popular they know that if there were elections in syria tomorrow the party started to present a center right we and that's the last thing they want so they've got to they've got actually to bomb their way to the government they want because they won't get to any other way. as we do i do ask your forgiveness i'm running out of time here we've got this u.n. security council meeting this friday right now in tehran we've got the. members you've got the western powers having the summit you've got the middle east and

regional powers having a summit many are saying it's only a matter of time before they go head to head do they know perhaps at this summit of nonaligned members that something's in the pipes. well possibly and of course american situation is very very dangerous the selection in america the israel lobby is very very powerful and both the candidates are trying to you know fall over themselves inside you to say which one hates syria most in iran most so it's a very dangerous time but i'm just hoping the fact that president putin is in power in russia and china staying strong will actually prevent it and we can actually get the west to back down there's a lot of pressure being put on the west. journalist and contributor to the guardian newspaper thank you so much for coming live on r.t. today thanks rory. i would like to hear one r.t.o. we talked to a german left wing politician that have a yard and find a can he says his government has revealed its two faced nature when it comes to the ongoing conflict in syria. officially they don't take sides something sure of the. human rights for. repression within the country sure enough but officially them up

taking the other side with the rebel to whatever informally and we see it from their involvement you know with this place upon the ground. and they invite three and petitions the time thereafter and train them here. and officially they seem to take sides but it's unclear to me who they are so somebody selected people on. the basis of which criteria look lou i mean we now have been invited for a final discussion i'm all for it i mean how can you train some people are smart i mean we left party linking in germany we have context left politicians some people in syria i would know what i would pick but obviously these are different people. you can i watch the full interview with german left wing politician by a can in about twenty minutes time right here on r.t.

. tony now israel has blocked around one hundred international pro palestinian activists from crossing into the west bank from jordan they were trying to bring school supplies to children in bethlehem's refugee camps but the incident is not the only one involving palestinian children israeli soldiers are being accused of a longstanding culture of abuse as artie's polis live reports. 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 reporters who 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 it treats palestinian children they say that very often these children are put into solitary confinement they are treated and abused 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 every week and the big salad which is a palestinian village villagers 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 their 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 all signaling 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 so good to have you with us for an hour to today still to come for you in this hour at one hundred four runaway rioters two members of the russian punk band pussy riot have reportedly fled the country to escape arrest and recruiting new followers. and protests against a radical islamic hit germany's streets with demonstrators saying they want to test

the muslim community's adherents to the country's civil laws. or as i love minutes past the hour moscow time iran says it's trying to help forge solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues at a summit in tehran over one hundred nations which don't consider themselves are lying to the u.s. are taking part the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon will also attend despite attempts by washington to play down the importance of the gathering asia times correspondent pepe escobar believes are such efforts will not succeed. this is the real international community trying to find solutions to pressing problems such as the runnion nuclear dossier and the war in syria which ended coverage i have to talk about journalism here as a journalist to cover it in american mainstream media ranges from the that's it to the upsurge of 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 the european pulls the allies and the g.c.c. but your mother is in the middle east so this is a real zayra important meeting egypt which by the way president morsi is the first egyptian leader to visit around in thirty two years he's there himself in person not an emissary just in itself is a major geopolitical breakthrough. now seventeen afghan civilians have been beheaded by insurgents for taking part in a music event an atomic bomb controlled area this amid two days of violence which left a total of twenty nine people dead in afghanistan two american troops were shot dead over the weekend by an afghan colleague in the country's east earlier on sunday ten local soldiers were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in the south let's get some on this now i'm joined us from kabul by political analyst and former afghan m.p.

doll telethons are very good to see today so it seems the country is still look to certainly in parts in chaos and violence you are in kabul what is the situation in afghanistan right now. these are things that are happening in different parts of the country of course there are pockets of unrest and pockets of stability but of course every. news of this kind rattles everybody and also reminds us of how fragile everything is and it is a double edged sword on one hand that polygon. trying to a portray their presence and they're trying to score on the other hand it's also all these kinds of trustees remind the population that if if people are beheaded because they were listening to music then what will happen if these guys come to power so this is a very very alarming trend and i think it's happening at

a very very critical time that's a let's draw attention to the issue of the so-called green green on blue attacks by afghan army soldiers they have increased sharply a total of forty two foreign troops killed by their afghan counterparts this year alone given this trend do you think that nato is a two thousand and fourteen withdrawal plans are still realistic. i think it's going to be very very difficult for nato to achieve many things if this trend continues first follow the more along the afghan military will be affected the morale of nato will be affected and their cooperation will be damaged and if nato and the afghan forces cannot cooperate how could they of conduct joint operations and if they cannot trust each other how could they conduct the training and and their missions and also. if you look at the long

run even the bases with these thirty. alliance with the united states and others if the bases are used jointly by both afghan and nato forces or u.s. forces are other forces what would be the nature of that cooperation how would that happen and this is a big big problem and a big cloud hanging over of this entire proposition of withdrawal and the schedule what i mean you raise a good point about the issue of trust between afghan soldiers the nato counterparts and certainly you raise the issue in a very good. on a diet of what is the role of nato when they do leave in two thousand and fourteen many are saying that when nato does leave afghanistan even though it will probably leave some military bases is there a chance that the taliban can retake control even you said moments ago the taliban is very active in some areas of the country. you know and

one of the things that we always look at is that talking about whether they will take control of the probably don't want to take control all they want to do is disrupt and disrupt and destruct and demoralize and and debilitate the government's capabilities to perform and to deliver and then they have reached their goal and then after that they probably don't even have a vision beyond that. point i do i do apologize are running low on time here but i must get one last question to you here understand that afghan government representatives have recently met with a top ranking taliban member suggesting a small step towards reopening stalled peace talks but haven't we seen this all before why why would this meeting be any different i know this kind of issue off reported many times. the afghan government is in a very confusing. situation performing very very erratically somewhat some are

trying to do this to portray. a trend that peace is coming and so they can create a longevity and guarantee their longevity and on the other hand the taliban are just using this for time and they're trying to score points of political and military so there is a disconnect between the afghan side and the taliban side and the taliban are are outperforming the afghan government all right political analyst and a former afghan m.p. self and so i thank you very much for coming on the program today. terrorism is among many subjects we're covering in detail on our website dot com. online a few there right now are two al qaeda members serving life plotting terror attacks in the u.k. but take the country's intelligence service to the european court of human rights they claim m i five was complicit in its torture. and prisoner with benefits norwegian authorities pledged to grant a undisclosed conveniences to mass murderer anders breivik as they fear for his

mental health those details also i want our website. i said it's nearly twenty minutes past the hour moscow time to pussy riot members who have been on the run for more thorough he said reportedly fled russia to find support abroad they wanted for questioning over their part in an anti putin performance in the country's main orthodox cathedral which has landed three of their fellow activists in jail with a report we turned. off. unconfirmed reports two members of the punk bands the 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 christ the savior cathedral 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 recruiting foreign it is for new options 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 pussy riot punk band were convicted on charges of hooliganism sentenced to two years for their controversial stunt the movie really divided opinion here within russia and also raised some serious criticism of the russian government broad this was a political list of the stunt it certainly worked as we've seen another group called famine in ukraine which had cut down an arm 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. into the day we go now we'll start with libya it's where of the interior minister has resigned in protest at criticism over the government's failure to stop sectarian violence this comes off

those religious sites were destroyed by the islamists sectarian clashes have risen since the end of the civil war that toppled colonel moammar gadhafi a country though currently ruled by an elected general national congress. a drive by shooting by unknown gunmen has claimed the life of at least one activist in yemen's second major city over one hundred protesters gathered in the city center demanding reforms off the last year's toppling of. meanwhile five suspected al-qaeda members were arrested in. country's terror plagued southern region of the crackdown comes as a backlash to the attack on yemen's intelligence headquarters that left twenty one dead last week. a powerful tropical storm has hit before the keys and threatens to devastate the gulf coast of the united states a hurricane warning was declared in three states and some fifty three thousand residents have been urged to evacuate hurricane isaac is predicted to bring winds

of over one hundred miles by the time it reaches the coastline in haiti meantime the storm already killed eight with some fourteen thousand fleeing the disaster side. in a moment as natasha with a business for now though germany's demonstrators have a take in the public debate on religious laws to the doorsteps of mosques in the country and they've been brandishing caricature of the prophet mohammed which sparked a violent backlash the first time there appeared in denmark. has been following the events. demonstrators in germany display cover to choose of the prophet mohammed outside a mosque german courts gave the green light to allow the cartoons of mohammed 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're going to. your office is non-proven on the contrary we are testing the propensity of extremist muslims who built a base here in berlin to respect their laws. a spokesperson for germany's islamic community has said they won't be baited into taking action dr spear the 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 four 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. this is not the islamic world we should be able to

decide what cartoons are shown 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. 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 the do not acquire our message is clear it's not the kebab solar but the politicians following false paralyse who are your enemy they're the ones living slummy 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 r.t. . for it as promised our time to join the lovely natasha the r.t. business desk good to see you today the patent trial of the century was a big name to who's the winner and it well apple is definitely the stock to watch when wall street opens in less than an hour and the rulings of fact on the samsung stock is a bit later in the program but first gold is off its record highs on monday but it's expected to double in price again that's according to a metals group. 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 and you talk about the four thousand five hundred dollar enough 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 they know where it is narratives then use a basically the churn over money goes down now once people sort of see there's lots

of printing money into the system to get money to move around in the build new businesses and everything else was 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 on the system and that's where you can get the gold price to book right but as i understand gold prices have been mostly driven all only by the belief that this 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 will believe it's ministry 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 the 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 stocks have been passed. let's not check out the markets and i'm going to moscow first as you can see it's a trading mix to the sour that my sex is managing to actually shed a value this afternoon and now it's despite higher food prices let's take a look at crude it's failing to benefit the russian equities this monday although it is getting pretty have to gain some concerns. but first of all about a tropical storm isaac in the gulf of mexico and also that explosion and of the next well in the finally moving onto the currency markets the euro the souers losing to both the ruble and the greenback as german politicians attempt we exit over in europe stocks a moderately supported no doubt by a u.s. stock futures trading want to positive bounce following some pretty hefty gains

last week as the fed reserve chairman ben bernanke indicated he has more tools to stimulate the economy the u.s. economy i should add should it require that extra stimuli apple is definitely the stock to watch one little street opens in less than an hour it can benefit from a poor ruling in its favor now a bit more on that court rulings of facts sound so sure is that suffered the biggest one jenna bout four years after a u.s. court ruled that the firm infringed six out patents for mobile devices the south korean giant will pay over one billion dollars in compensation and the fines could go even higher it has also another hearing upcoming that could lift a sales ban on some of its products in the states and mcdonald's is expanding into say beer it one of the last places on earth you can buy a big mouth they open their first restaurants and first they are late last year

before rolling out to the region twenty percent growth a year make russia one of the most profitable fast food markets but for the last decade poor logistics and the lack of suppliers have really not allowed to a mcdonald's to expand past the stay with life and not so latest from the business desk here more on our website called slash business mcdonald's and starbucks global domination goodness or natasha thanks so much we'll see you later are it just a moment. see we're getting the headlines and then we ask how was germany involved in the syrian conflict an in-depth interview in just a second. wealthy

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