with mike's crimes are a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to cause a report on our. casualties mount in syria and rebels reportedly short shoot down an army helicopter on the government is accused of massacring over three hundred people as international pressure grows on assad and also. activists carrying school supplies are denied entry to the west bank by israel but the country's soldiers also accused of using palestinian children as human shield. and over one hundred nations not aligned with the u.s. gather in terror run to look for global solutions despite washington's dismissing the event.

a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow. heavy clashes continue in 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 also blaming syrian security forces for killing more than three hundred civilians in the town of daraa that's very close to the capital there and the government has said that it carried out a minor anti terror operation in the air the syrian president has vowed to stand firm in the face of what he describes as a foreign plot against his nation and journalist neil clark says it's no coincidence the word massacre is once again being used only fair to warn you you may find some of the following images disturbing. to see who said this it was opposition act. this 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 a great these massacres always seem to happen just one 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 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 him to be and then when the dust settles and we've planted 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 mass a whole 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 was a 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 in summer is democracy the

very last they want forcible region change and we've already got a democratic solution on having 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 facts parties 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 to any other way . a bit later on r.t. we talk to a german left wing politician or that of a young van aken 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. repression within the country sure enough but officially them 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 others to. invite

three and put it to. the time thereafter train them here. and officially they seem to take sides here to me who they are somebody selected people and i don't know on the basis of which criteria 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 the young man in about an hour and twenty five minutes from 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 as

refugee camps but the incident is a not the only one involving palestinian children israeli soldiers are being accused of a longstanding culture of abuse as artie's 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 op or 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 if we could 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 their mother as she was manhandled by the soldiers who what was stun grenades so certainly not a good time for the i.d.f. it's finding itself being criticized on a number of fronts. television and also is coming to you live from moscow still on the way for this hour the hunt for runaway rioters are two women from the russian punk band pussy riot have reportedly fled the country to escape arrest and recruit new members. and protests against radical islam hit germany streets demonstrators saying they want to test the muslim communities and their words to the country's civil war.

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you're watching r t thank you for joining us today iran says it's trying to help forge solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues at a summit in terror on over one hundred developing nations which don't consider themselves aligned to the u.s. they're all taking part iran says it will discuss a comprehensive package to resolve the crisis in syria it's also calling on participants to oppose western sanctions over to iran's nuclear program egypt's new president is also attending the gathering the first egyptian leader to visit iran in over three decades now the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon he's also attending despite attempts by washington to play down the summit's importance joseph chang a political analyst from hong kong city university says the u.s. is losing losing ground on an international level. 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 the united states washington d.c. actually says understand that it is. tool excerpt pressure on didn't on. and since it has acted up to be worth about you certainly doesn't look good on the obama administration and there's certainly the fracs that brought strain of countries desiring more independence more influence than i've seen most foot will go to the man's understand that i see fully following the american nine they made mastic support. ten minutes past the hour moscow time seventeen afghan civilians have been beheaded by insurgents for taking

part in a music event in a taliban controlled area this amid 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 adult cell phones or says this is an alarming trend . there are pockets of unrest and pockets of stability but of course every news of this kind rattles everybody and also reminds us 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 all saw these kinds of fees 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. although i do bear in mind always many more stories on our website. for example online for you right now to al qaeda members serving life for posting terror attacks in the u.k. take the country's intelligence service to the european court of human rights and they claim m i five was complicit in the torture. and trainee priests in belgium will have to undergo psychiatric training to prevent cases of paedophilia in churches details on that also on our website.

he used to be. released. from the world update for now though two pussy riot members who have been on the run for more reportedly russia wanted for questioning. in performance in the country's main cathedral which is three of their fellow activists in jail meanwhile defense lawyers of the convicted have appealed against their two year prison sentences. points. 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 price to save the speech which you can see behind me that really really stirred international attention now post by the pussy riot group twitter feed it looks like the two women are planning on supposedly recruiting for an ominous for a new options of the 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. you're watching 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 backlash the first time they appeared in denmark. following events 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 with protected by artistic freedom 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 feet. high . the protests say that they're doing this to gauge the willingness of the islamic community to out here to jim a little difficult once you admit you know 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 concert demonstration but it 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. 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 that were not our quote our message is clear it's not the kebabs over but the politicians following false parlous sees 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 r.t. . all right into the world of that we go will start with the libyan interior minister he has resigned in protest of criticism over the government's failure to

stop sectarian violence and this comes after sufi religious sites were destroyed by salafi islamists sectarian clashes have risen since the end of the eight month civil war that toppled moammar gadhafi the current country is 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 after last year's toppling of ali abdullah saleh meanwhile five suspected al-qaeda members were arrested in the country's terror plague southern region the crackdown comes a backlash to the attack on yemen's intelligence headquarters that killed twenty one learns. a powerful tropical storm has hit the florida keys and is now targeting the northern gulf coast of the united states a state of emergency was declared in four states and some fifty three thousand

residents have been urged to evacuate tropical storm isaac is predicted to bring winds of over one hundred miles per hour by the time it reaches the coastline and in haiti the death toll from the storm has risen to nineteen with fourteen thousand forced to flee. i will see natasha shortly for 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 and the government's found its own methods of punishing reporters whose overseas operations don't meet with the wishes of capitol hill. you 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. 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 qaida succeed to suggest that in any way only or more in a news organization of your investigative journalism or in any way sympathetic towards al qaida or its goals and this is disgraceful i do think those kind of serious. stakes involved the cia remembers claiming that it killed civilians in pakistan for more than a year our reporting the reporting of many other credible news. or condemning

scenario shows that simply isn't the case that simply aren't true usa today journalist tom banda burke and ray locker became the subject of a sustained internet campaign to discredit their work just days after they began publishing the results of their investigation into a multi-million dollar pentagon funded propaganda mission in iraq and afghanistan fake websites twitter feeds and facebook accounts were set up under the journalist's names in which they were accused of being backed by the taliban we tried to contact mr locker but he wrote back saying his editors prefer that he does not do any interviews. 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 from john brennan or whatever obama's advisers but for 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 i'm going to check our reporting from washington. for it it's time for the only

business update of this natasha good to see you again emerging markets could be expecting bouldering waistlines as well donald's continues to ride any global economic downturn absolutely it's planning to plow ahead with its strategy of expanding to emerging markets and so putting up its restaurants in siberia now more on that in just a moment but first gold is off its record highs on monday but experts say it could double in price in the near future that's according to a metals expert to much. 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 notes argument is when the velocity of money does kick up basically what happens everyone scared take the money of the banks take the money out of different things that investment and keep the money cache 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 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 to both price to book travel 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 we talk about the total amount of assets invested in gold will believe 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 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 passed. and it's time now to check out the markets so let's start with a russia and its equities finished the trading session with what losses they slipped into red after mining giant new sol announced second floor losses crude is shedding value this hour and speculation that the united states could release crude from the strategic petroleum reserves that would boost the. oil supply and would obviously drive the prices down w t i is more than eight at the dollars higher a barrel this month so there is a lot of reasons to believe that now into the currency market the ruble closed mixed it ended the day stronger to the dollar between her to the european currency and the euro itself is under pressure as some german politicians talk about the cost of temporary greece exit from the euro zone a concept that many find

questionable and europe the foot sea is closed for a holiday elsewhere we're seeing pretty have to gains in fact at the moment the dax is gaining around three quarters of a percent a pretty good day there wall street is mixed this hour in the second hour of trade the nasdaq is managing to stay in the positive territory the dow is losing just a notch though one of the biggest winners of the day is out will its stock is gaining roughly two percent to just under a fall of court ruling in its favor at the end of last week finland's phone maker new kid is also seeing the effects of that's about ruling its stock is up around eight percent and samsung shares have suffered the biggest plunge in about four years after a u.s. court ruled that from infringed six apple patents for mobile devices the south korean giant will pay over one billion dollars and fines and they could go even

higher but it also has another hearing upcoming that would lift a sales ban on some of its products in the united states and mcdonald's is expanding into say the area it's one of the last places on earth you can't buy a big mac. it plans to open its first trust run across they are next year before rolling out through the region twenty percent growth a year make russia one of the most profitable fast food markets but for was a decade or more logistics have held mcdonald's from opening up its rest. once that week. and that's the latest from the business desk this hour will be back in about fifty minutes always a pleasure natasha see you know that. far to the headlines in just a moment then it's put all of crosstalk zeroing in on the possibility all the world food crisis have to seize. the. moment.

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