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

it's a pleasure to have you with us here on our to today. live in moscow heavy clashes continue in the syrian capital as a back activists are claiming that rebels have shot down an army helicopter over damascus and the footage allegedly shows a military helicopter engulfed in flames shortly before hitting the ground activists blamed syrian security forces in the meantime for killing more than three hundred people in the town of darayya that is very near to the capital and the government however says it carried out just a simple anti terror operation in the area syrian president 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 for the war you may find some of the following images disturbing. you got to see who who who said this it was opposition

activists again and straight on cue william hague 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 another pretext for intervention it's happened before it happened again among these massacres always seem to happen just want to point you and me to 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 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 murdered his own people we've got to intervene and then when the dust settles and we went from asia 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 government sponsored later on we find that actually the rebels were responsible for much of the killing then it was a clear cut so we've 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 in summer is democracy the very last they want forcible regime change and we've already got a democratic solution on hand in 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 used to 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. and i just a bit later here on r.t. will be talking to a german left wing politician yun. 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 search for human rights for. repression within the country sure enough but officially them are taking any other sides with the rebel to whatever informally and we see it from their involvement you know with us from

the ground and others to. invite three and put it to. the time they're after. here. and officially they seem to take sides but it's unclear to me who they are so somebody selected people and don't know on the basis of which criteria look lou i mean we now have been invited for a final discussion by moderate i mean how can you train some people and other smart i mean we the left party blinking 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 see the full interview with the german left wing politician a young man akin in about twenty five minutes time right here on r.t. . 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 are his policy of 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 of 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 that 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 if we had not be silent 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 whom were children and there are pictures of the daughters of one woman. trying to save a mother as she was manhandled by the soldiers who stun grenades so certainly not a good time for the i.d.f. it's finding itself being criticized on a number of fronts. and we are coming to live from moscow still to come for you this hour the hunt for runaway ryo two women from the russian punk band pussy riot have reportedly fled the country to escape to rest and recruit new members. and protest against a radical islamic germany streets with demonstrators saying they want to test the muslim communities here in the country's civil war.

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ten minutes past the hour moscow time this is r.t. iran says it's trying to help forge solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues at a summit on going into iran. over one hundred developing nations which don't consider themselves aligned to the u.s. are all taking part iran says it will discuss a comprehensive package to resolve the crisis in syria is also calling on participants to oppose western sanctions over to iran's nuclear program egypt's new president is attending the gathering are the first egyptian leader to visit iran in over three decades and the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon will also visit despite attempts by washington to downplay the summer to portland's the joys of chairing a political analyst from hong kong city university says the u.s. is losing ground internationally. the fact that the summit is now in iran

and well and members of the non allied rules mainstays including countries. each year and so on certainly is very much against it for the scenario of the united states washington d.c. actually sued 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 it doesn't look good on the obama administration and there's certainly we fracs the brought train of countries desiring more independence more influence than i've seen most fertile governments understand that by three fully american nine. mastic support. what you are to you now are seventeen afghan civilians have been beheaded

by insurgents for taking part in a music event in a taliban controlled region in the mid two days of violence which left a total of twenty nine dead in afghanistan earlier on sunday two american troops were fatally shot by an afghan colleague while in a separate attack ten local soldiers were killed at a checkpoint political analyst at the old sultanzoy says it is 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 the taliban are trying to portray their presence and they're trying to score on the other hand it also all of 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 one of the things that we always look at is that talking about whether they will take control

and they probably don't want to take control all they want to do is disrupt and disrupt in the stop and demoralize and and debilitate the governments 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. well always a more stories on our website on the dot com let's have a look online and see what's waiting for you right now example two al qaeda members serving life for plotting terror attacks in the u.k. and up the taking of the country's intelligence service to the european court of human rights they claim that m i five was complicit in the torture. and trainee priests in belgium will have to undergo psychiatric training to prevent cases of at ophelia in churches more details on that web site.

is easy. to. try. to deceive me. this is just a moment in the world update for now there were two pussy riot members who have been on the run from authorities 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 prison meanwhile defense lawyers of the convicted have appealed against their two year prison sentences with us reporters are lucy calf. 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 quote recruiting foreign minister for new options although to 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 move really divided opinion here within russia and also raised some serious criticism of the russian government abroad this was a political list of the stunt it certainly worked as we've seen another group called the 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 action and story is certainly not dying down any time today. 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 violent backlash the first time there appeared in denmark. has been following their friends. demonstrators in germany display cover to choose of the prophet muhammad outside a mosque german cool it's 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 the publication in two thousand and five. behind the pro. say that they're doing this to gauge the willingness of the islamic

community to out here to german law if you put your images on your office 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 a spokesperson for germany's islamic community has said they won't be baited into taking action to sphere 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 that will 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 in 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 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 the 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 were not a quiet our message is clear it's not the kebab solar but the politicians following false parlous ease 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 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. . and into the r.t. world of that we go will start with the libyan interior minister who has resigned

in protest of criticism over the government's failure to stop sectarian violence and this after soofi religious sites were destroyed by armed salafi islamists sectarian clashes have risen since the end of the eight month civil war that toppled moammar gadhafi the country currently being 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 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 the crackdown comes as a backlash to the attack on yemen's intelligence headquarters which killed twenty one last. powerful tropical storms 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 of the fifty three thousand

residents have been urged to evacuated hurricane isaac is predicted to bring winds of over one hundred miles per hour by the time it reaches the coast in haiti the storm has already killed eight people fourteen thousand forced to flee. well freedom of speech and journalism tend to go hand in hand but it's not a union that everyone supports in the united states for example with the government's found its own methods of punishing reporters whose overseas operations don't meet with the wishes of capitol hill artie's garniture can house the story. 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. 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 about 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 in any way sympathetic towards al qaida or its goals it's disgraceful i do think those kind of serious. mistakes involved the cia remember is claiming that it killed civilians in pakistan for more than a year our reporting the reporting of many other credible newspapers and 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 on. 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 is 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 all through the lesson is how should we

go time for the alley business out there good to see you again gold is glittering. absolutely and it's glitter is apparently irresistible although gold is off its highs it reached on monday it is actually spec to to double that's according to a metals expert tim mccutcheon. you have massive amounts of printing right now and it'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 dollars an hour 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 of printing money to the system to get money to move around in the build new businesses and everything else was it starts 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 effect it has is much bigger because that much more money on the system and that's where you get the full price of oil. but as i understand gold prices have been mostly driven all only by the belief that this is a safe house and is about the ultimate bubble to say that it's a bubble it's pretty hard because we talk about the total amount of assets invested in gold globally it's minuscule very very few people actually have gold in their vest portfolios very people very few people have gold it's their gold mining shares or gold related stocks in their overall investment portfolio and so that this doesn't smell of like a bubble a bubble is when people take out a margin a hundred to one the buy an internet stock but they don't know anything about the has no revenue no earning and nosiness 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. found it so time now to check out the equity markets

and we'll start with russia it's actually down in the last hours trying. after mining giant roofs all announced second quarter losses disappointing investors crude it is a shedding value the sour so that's not really offering any support for the russian market that's after gaining over the past several hours on concerns about a tropical storm isaac in the gulf of mexico and also that accident and explosion that have been a ban as well over finery brand has slipped to below one hundred twelve dollars a barrel on to the currency market the ruble is stronger to the currency basket the sour the euro is under pressure as some german politicians talk about the cost of a temporary greek exit from the euro zone a concept that many find questionable over in europe the footsies closed for a holiday elsewhere european stocks are moderately upbeat in fact the dax is gaining almost a one percent wall street started the trading session and mixed in the first twenty

minutes of trade the nasdaq is managing to stay in the positive territory. that's following some pretty hefty gains a las tweak on the fed reserve chairman ben bernanke he indicating he has more tools that is needed to stimulate the u.s. economy one of the biggest winners of the day is out bullish stock is gaining roughly two percent this hour following a court ruling in its favor last week and more on that ruling samsung shares have suffered the biggest plunge in about four years after a u.s. court ruled the firm infringed a six apple patent for a mobile device the south korean giant will pay over one billion dollars in compensation and has another hearing upcoming that could lift a sales ban on some of its products in the united states and mcdonald's is expanding into say varia that's one of the last places on earth you can't yet buy

a big map and plans to open its first restaurant and possibly our next year before rolling out. throughout the region twenty percent growth a year make russia one of the most profitable fast food markets but the last couple of decades for logistics have held mcdonald's back from opening its restaurants there. and of course once we have starbucks in siberia i think will really be all set the end of the world thanks very much so let's. talk with the headlines that we're asking how is germany involved in the syrian conflict the details just about .

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