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 grows also. activists carrying school supplies of denied entry to the west bank by israel with the country's soldiers also accused of using palestinian children as human shields a lot of reaction on this story very short. and over a hundred nations not in line with the u.s. government to look for global solutions despite washington dismissing the.

on screen international news and comment live from our new center here in moscow heavy clashes continue in the syrian capital as activists claim rebels have shot down the helicopter over damascus 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 civilians in the town of daraa where the capital the government has said they carried out an operation in the area the syrian president has vowed to stand firm in the face of what he describes as a foreign plot against his nation. says it's no coincidence the word massacre is once again being used you may find some of the following images. look to see who who who said this it was opposition activists again and straight on putin he comes out and condemn 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 on what 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 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 it's murdering 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 massacre were 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 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 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 region change and we've already got a democratic solution on having syria 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 that my party'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 they want because they won't get any other way. well later we talked to german left wing politician who says his government has revealed its to face nature when it comes to the conflict in syria. officially there don't take sides something sure of the. human rights. 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 going over this place upon the ground. invite three and put it to. the time thereafter. here. and officially they seem to take sides but it's clear to me who they are

somebody selected people and on the basis of which criteria have no clue i mean we now have been invited for final discussion by moderates i mean how can you train some people and other 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. and you can see the full interview with german left wing politician young van auken in about twenty five minutes from now here on our team. 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. 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 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 had not be silent 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 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. so certainly not a good time for the i.d.f. it's finding out been criticized on any number of fronts. r.t. television. is not order a high stall or he's a former soldier in the israeli army and member of the breaking the silence rights group which blew the whistle on abuses by israeli soldiers and your nice actions accuse israeli army of abusing palestinian children and using them as human shields is this something that you witnessed during your time in the armed forces first of all i mean i served a few years ago one of the examples that i can think of was that in one of the raid operations that we had that we basically invaded the palestinian town in the south of the city of hebron. children started throwing stones at us so it's some point we picked at random kid didn't even necessarily threw stones at us and used him as

a shield so that the stones that were being thrown by his friends or by his supposed friends would hit him instead of us and we were hoping that that would stop him somehow that would stop his friends from throwing stones obviously didn't help him he just got injured in the in the occasion and what is that saw any other incidents that prompted you joining a time in the army that made you want to speak out. well i have to say that when it comes to children i mean as you can witness from the testimonies that we published and from my own experiences as a soldier i have to say that the main point here is that there is there is no real distinction when it comes to treatment between adults and children the treatment in the in the end is basically the same i mean for example we were doing constant arrest operations throughout the west bank arresting i don't know how many people you know on a nightly basis and many of the people that we were arresting were either children

or teenagers that in most occasions we didn't even know why they were being arrested for and many of those children by the way we're after wards beaten up on the way back to base do you think you'll be able to change the attitude with your organization breaking the silence rights group you think you have in an impact on soldiers actions in the future. i have to say that breaking the silence aim is not to educate the army and not to be you know some kind of military police our aim is to basically tell our story so the public the israeli public that send us that sends us you know to the west bank or to missions of this kind would basically know what's happening you know on the daily day reality of occupation of military occupation because in the end it's a political decision to maintain this reality and we're trying to make the public understand that there is no way of doing this in a moral way it's not about education it's not about proper conduct it's about the fact that military occupation is immoral by definition and children i guess are

a big part of the people who get hurt and victimized in this reality so you want to educate the israeli public what sort of image does the army have among the public in your country. i think that if there is one thing the israelis think when they think about the army is this almost a month here that we have the most moral army in the world and to be honest i don't really know about the conduct of other armies i only know from my own experiences and from the testimonies that we collected about the conduct of israeli soldiers and what can i say what i can say in this sense in the end is that this that there is this gap between what israelis expect which means that everything that happens is always a result of palestinian hostilities and everything that we do on the ground is essential in order to provide security for the israeli public and we're here to say that when you send nineteen year olds to do policing job to control through the

barrel of the gun hundreds of thousands of palestinians in dnd these are the outcomes of their actions you know this is the outcomes of a military occupation just briefly israel has also brought their product we're coming to show the israeli public sure and therefore what what the idea of stopping humanitarian aid going to ask you the question about israel blocking pro palestinian activists from bringing school supplies into the west bank up why would they want to stop humanitarian aid and that sort of action what does that do for israel's reputation. well i think it's less about stopping you many darian help to palestinians and more about trying to block the outside world if it's israelis or if it's people from the international community from actually seeing and exposing the daily day reality that exists there i think that's the main reason why the israeli government is doing everything it can first of all to

silence organizations like my own like breaking the silence and stopping international activists from reaching the west bank and assisting the palestinians there that i think is the main reason why they are stopping there and what is it doing to the israeli reputation it's definitely not helping it but i think that israel's problem is not foreign relations problem it's not about you know how we present ourselves to the world it's the political reality that in many ways we decide to attain eternal life and. the way that in the end it's implemented on the ground good to talk very interesting to hear your perspective as a former soldier in the israeli army a number of breaking the silence rights group in jerusalem thank you for your time . well still to come this hour here on the hunt for runaway relatives two women from the russian punk band pussy riot have reportedly fled the country to escape arrest and recruit new members. also still to come protest

against radical islam hit germany streets with demonstrators say they want to test the muslim community's appearance to the country's civil laws. iran says it's trying to help forge solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues at a summit in tehran of one hundred developing nations which don't consider themselves aligned to the u.s. or 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 the first egyptian leader to visit iran in over three decades the u.n. secretary general ban ki moon also visit despite attempts by washington to play down the summits importance of changing political analysts from hong kong city university says the u.s. is losing ground internationally. the fact that the summit is now in turkey iran and well as members of the non allied rules mainstays including countries like.

egypt and so on certainly is very much against in the first scenario of the united states washington d.c. actually soon understand that it is rather flawed. excerpt pressure on didn't on my money and since it has acted publicly worth about you certainly doesn't look good on the obama administration and there's certainly the fracs the brought strain of countries desiring more independence more influence than i think most footwell governments understand by three fully following the american nine. mastic support. seventeen afghan civilians have been beheaded by insurgents for taking part in the music event and the taliban controlled area this amid two days of violence which left a total of twenty nine people dead in afghanistan 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 dodes 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 everybody 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 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 strap in 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. just remind you more stories in a website on t.v. dot com online right now to al qaeda members serving life plotting terror attacks in the u.k. take the country's intelligence service to the european court of human rights as they claim m i five was complicit in the two which are. trading priests in belgium will have to undergo psychiatric training to prevent cases of paedophilia in churches find out the details that dot com. is sixty.

days. to put iraq members you've been on the. from authorities have reportedly fled russia and wanted for questioning over the. performance of the country's main orthodox cathedral which is that of three of the phone i went to jail meanwhile defense lawyers of the convicted of appeal against the two year prison sentences. reports according to 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 foreigners 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 abroad this was a political stunt it certainly worked as we've seen another group called the famine in ukraine which had cut down and orthodox cross their 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. german demonstrators have taken their grievances to the doorsteps of mosques in the country they've been brandishing caricature of the prophet muhammad which part of violent backlash the first time they appeared in denmark peter oliver 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 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've got what's your view of 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 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 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 there are quote our message is clear it's not the kebabs over but the politicians following false parlous these who are your enemy they're the

ones wearing islamic extremists thrive here the incident with the cartoons isn't the first time german courts of past controversial judgement regarding islamic beliefs already this year a ban on circumcision received outcry from the country's muslim community if lawmakers want to avoid future protests of this nature then it's up to them to come up with a solution to tensions between non muslims and germany's islamic community peter all of a r.t. . before the business news when the tasha let's check out some other international headlines now in our world update the libyan interior minister has resigned in protest and criticism over the government's failure to stop sectarian violence this after severe religious sites were destroyed by armed salafi islamists sectarian clashes have risen since the. of the eight month civil war that toppled colonel gadhafi the 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 second major city of one hundred protesters gathered in the city center demanding reforms after last year's toppling of. meanwhile five suspected al-qaeda members were arrested in the country's terror plagued southern region a crackdown comes as a backlash to the attack on yemen's intelligence headquarters that left twenty one dead last week. for tropical storms 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 mph the time it reaches the coast in haiti the death toll from the storm has risen to nine hundred people with some fourteen thousand fleeing the disaster site. as promised time for business with. apple seems to be benefiting from its patent victory absolutely it has want to battle against its rival samsung and stock this monday is certainly reflecting that

i'll tell you more on the story a bit later in the program but first gold is off its record highs it reached this monday but it could double in price that's according to a metals expert. you have massive amounts of printing right now that's been sort of very carefully and very well concealed to plug up deficits what people are seeking about any talk with 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 and there it is then 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 fact it has is much bigger because that much more money out in the system and that's where you can get the gold price

to go around but as i understand gold prices have been mostly driven all only by the belief that base is as safe as it is about the ultimate bubble to say that it's a bubble it's pretty hard because if you talk about the total amount of assets invested in gold 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 that 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 seat that's not a bubble and that's more that represents more of the gold market today than any sort of public stocks have past. let's now quickly run through the markets and we'll start with moscow and dead with

a loss it is losses that has slipped into red after a good solid oust second quarter losses and crude really failed to offer its support to the russian equities it's feeling the pinch of the speculations that the united states could release crude from its strategic reserves. that would use the oil supply it has drive the prices down it would do that to control down from going to high now moving on to the currency market the ruble close mix that was stronger to the dollar but finished weaker to the euro and the euro itself was under pressure as some german politicians talked about the cost of a temporary nice exit from the euro zone a concept that many find questionable over in europe the footsies closed for a holiday elsewhere european stocks are in. the positive territory in fact pretty hefty losses over for the dots as you can see more than one percent greece is tightening and tightening its belts the country's prime minister will sell to the

government's three airplanes the air force will buy one while the other will be sold in the open market the new comes as part of the commitment to cut spending in exchange for international bailout funds. and of moving on to wall street it has rebounded over the past hour in the second hour of trade the nasdaq is managing to stay in the positive territory this is the dow is actually just a notch one of the biggest winners of the day is out those sockets gaining roughly cheaper sound after that court ruling a bit more on that in the second and finland's phone maker nokia is also feeling the fact its stock is up around eight percent sounds and shares of suffering the biggest plunge in about four years after a u.s. court ruled the firm infringed six out patents for mobile devices the south korean

giant will pay over one billion dollars in compensation now and the fines could go even higher it also has another hearing upcoming that could lift a sales ban on some of the products in the united states and mcdonald's is expanding into siberia it's one of the last places on earth you can't buy a big mac it plans to open its first restaurant and cross they are next year before rolling out throughout the region twenty percent growth a year make russia one of the most profitable fast food markets but for the past couple of decades who are logistics have held them donald's back from opening up its restaurants there. and bill if we only had starbucks in siberia i think we'd be all set. and it's probably going to happen in the trash in iceland but we. will shortly will be asking how germany is involved in the syrian conflict that will be off to an update on our top stories this hour stay with us live this is our

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