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

just just after five pm on monday moscow time. live on artsy and heavy clashes continue in the syrian capital as activists claim that the rebels of shot down an army helicopter over damascus but the footage allegedly shows a military helicopter engulfed in flames shortly before hitting the ground activists have blamed syrian security forces for killing more than three hundred people in the town of the riot that is very close to the capital where the government however says it carried out just a simple anti terror operation in the area a syrian president who has vowed to stand firm in the face of what he describes as a foreign plot against his nation journalist neil clark says it's no coincidence the word massacre is once again being used to warn you you may find some of the following images disturbing. opposition activists again and straight on

to william hague comes out and condemned syria before we actually know what's going on and so it's pretty clear that there is an agenda here is to blacken the syrian. governments name and to use this on the pretext for intervention it's happened before it happened again among these massacres always seem to happen just when one u.n. meeting we've got to ask ourselves why it's all about the likes of william hague and hillary clinton trying to book pressure on russia trying 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 as has murdered his own people we've got to intervene and then when the dust settles and we can't have it when it's not as clear cut as it appeared to be let's think back to who we were told that was the largest massacre we have told you know thousands dead hundreds dead hundreds of thousands of people killed and then we because it was a governor 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 it's not a question of taking we with a pinch of salt i think going to take a lorry load of salt the very last thing the west wants concern is democracy the

very last they want forcible regime change and we've already got a democratic solution on handing syria the constitution in syria we've got free democratic elections that could be held there again opposition could take part in the book why doesn't the west want to go down these democratic elections park in syria because they know the fact that he's too popular they know that if there were elections in syria tomorrow all the parties standing present sat right when and that's the last thing they want so they've got to they've got actually to bomb their way to the government that they want because they won't get any other way. we talked to a left wing politician out of a yard. which says his government has revealed its two faced nature when it comes to the ongoing conflict inside syria. officially there don't take sides something sure of the search for human rights for. repression within the country sure enough but officially them are taking the other side with the rebel to whatever informally and we see it from their involvement you know with this close upon the ground and

other stuff and they invite three and put it to. the time thereafter and train them here so officially they seem to take sides but it's clear to me who they are somebody selected people and i don't know on the basis of which criteria look lou i mean we now have been invited for a final discussion by margaret i mean how can you train some people and they're smart 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 you can watch either full interview with a german politician a young man akin in about an hour and twenty five minutes from now. israel has blockaded around one hundred international pro palestinian activists from crossing into the west bank via jordan they were trying to bring school supplies to children

in bethlehem as 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 are his policy points. 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 imminent 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 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 a 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 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 wore 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. tel aviv. still to come for you in this hour that of the hunt for runaway. two women from the russian. reportedly fled the country. recruit. protests against radical islam hit the streets of germany with. the muslim community here in the country.

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thank you for joining us today iran says it's trying to help forge solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues out of. tehran for one hundred developing nations which don't consider themselves aligned to the u.s. are involved in taking part iran says it will discuss a comprehensive package to resolve the crisis in syria also calling on participants to oppose western sanctions over the country's nuclear work the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon will attend the gathering despite attempts by washington to downplay its importance of a political analyst from hong kong city university says the actions of america just won't work. the fact that the summit is now in iran and well as members of the non allied rules and states including countries like. egypt and so on certainly is very much against the first scenario of the united states

washington d.c. actually soon understand that it is rather fluid tool excerpt pressure on didn't on my money and since it has to be worth about you certainly doesn't look good on the obama administration and there's certainly we've fracs that brought strain of countries desiring more independence more influence than i think most fertile governments understand that i see fully following the american nine. mastic support our turning our attention from iran to afghanistan where seventeen civilians have been beheaded by insurgents for taking part in a music event of a taliban controlled area this amid two days of violence which left a total of twenty nine people dead in afghanistan just earlier on sunday two

american troops were shot dead by an afghan colleague while in a separate attack ten local soldiers were killed at a checkpoint political analyst sultanzoy says it's an alarming trend. there are pockets of unrest and pockets of stability but of course every news of this kind rattles of a body and it also reminds us of how fragile everything is and it is a double edged sword on one hand that probably not trying to a portray their presence and trying to score on the other hand and also all of these kinds of atrocities 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 one of the things that we always look at is that talking about whether they will take control they probably don't want to take control all they want to do is disrupt and disrupt in the shop 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. they

wanted for questioning over the. performance of course in the country. according to unconfirmed reports two members of the punk bands the anti-crime one 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 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 recruiting foreigners famine ists 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 who 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 abroad this was a political list of the standard certainly worked as we've seen another group famine in ukraine which had touched down and are orthodox cross they're following that action more losses were actually shut down so regardless of how the pussy riot story plays out it does seem like it is sparking similar actions and story is certainly not dying down any time today. time job and demonstrators have taken

their grievances to the doorsteps of mosques in the country they've been brandishing caricature of the prophet muhammad which sparked a volley backlash the first time that appeared in denmark where he's pretty all over has been following events. 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 mohammed to be displayed saying they were protected by artistic freedom and did not qualify as a call to hatred the same cartoonist which originated in denmark and 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. give you what you have missed your 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 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 come to demonstrate 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 in the protest right wing politicians say that while in germany muslims should accept german law i would. invent some of his and 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 and right wing groups say that muslims aren't the enemy their problem is with government policy which they claim

allows islamic extremism safehaven within german borders and if there are quiet our message is clear it's not the kebab solar but the politicians following false parlous ease who are your enemy forward. they're the ones wearing slimy 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 oliver r.t. berlin. all right into the arty world of there we go we'll start with libya where the interior minister has resigned in protest at criticism over the government's failure to stop sectarian violence and this comes after sufi religious sites were destroyed by armed salafi islamists so terry clashes have risen since the end of

the eight month civil war that toppled more market daffy the country is currently being with the countries being ruled now by the 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 after last year's toppling of ali abdullah saleh meanwhile five suspected al-qaeda members were arrested in the country's terror plagued southern region and the crackdown comes as a backlash to the attack on yemen's intelligence headquarters that left twenty one last week. a powerful tropical storm has hit the florida keys and threatens to devastate the gulf coast of the u.s. state of emergency was declared in four states and some fifty three thousand residents have been urged to evacuate hurricane isaac is predicted to bring winds of over one hundred miles per hour a by the time it reaches the coastline in haiti

meantime the storm already killed eight with some fourteen thousand fleeing the disaster site. and the moans it will be natasha with the business for now though freedom of speech and journalism tend to go hand in hand but it's not a union that everyone supports in america for example the government's found its own methods of punishing reporters who's overseeing operations don't meet with the wishes of washington. and explains. 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 or 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 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 smears indicate the stakes involved about the cia remember is claiming that it killed ninety civilians in pakistan for more than a year during our reporting the reporting of many other credible news. academics now shows that simply isn't the case that simply untrue 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. 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 hard. part of the time again for the only persons up to this natasha thanks for coming on again i do stand emerging markets could be expecting bulging waistlines as mcdonald's continues to ride any global

economic downturn exactly it's planning to plow ahead with that strategy of expanding and emerging markets it's opening up a restaurant in siberia of all places a lot more on that in just a moment but first gold is off its record high as it reached on monday yet it's expected to double and price that's according to a metal is expert tim mccutcheon. you have massive amounts of. king 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 dollars an ounce 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 turnover 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 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 out in the system and that's where you can get both price to go around but as i understand gold prices have been mostly driven all only by the belief that this is a safe passage 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 ministry very very few people actually have gold in their vest 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 stock has happened. will start with russia and as you can see it's all in the red after mining giant one solid oust second quarter a wall says crude it is that makes the sour the dow b.t.i. is gaining on concerns about a tropical storm isaac in the gulf of mexico and also an explosion at a venice well a refinery in last friday. moving on to the currency markets the ruble at the moment is stronger to the currency basket as you can see there the euro is under pressure as some german politicians talk about the costs of a temporary we exit from the euro zone a concept that many find it questionable over in europe the footsie is closed for a holiday elsewhere european stocks are moderately all beat and socked at the moment the dax is gaining almost one percent and that following some hefty gains

last week in the united states on said reserve chairman ben bernanke he indicated he has more tools if needed to stimulate the u.s. economy apple is gaining around three percent in pre-market trade on monday after last week's court ruling in its favor a bit more on the effects of that poor ruling sound so shares have suffered the biggest one in about four years after a u.s. court ruled the firm infringed six out of patents for mobile devices the south korean giant will pay over one billion dollars in compensation and the fines could go even higher it also has another hearing upcoming that could lift a sales ban on some of its products in the states. and the mcdonald's is expanding into siberia one of the last places on earth you can buy a big map and plans to open its first restaurant and cross the u.r.c. next 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 couple of decades poor logistics have been donal's from opening its restaurants there. and back to you rory and will be back in about fifteen minutes with all the latest for you but meanwhile check out our site as watched as such a thank you see you later. for the headlines in just a moment then a very special a documentary about people with a passion for reenacting historic bottles just a moment here on the.

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