france calls on the syrian opposition to form a government pledging to recognize it while casualties of the conflict mounts also . by. 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. intel to look for global solutions despite washington dismissing the events.

online on screen international news and common live from the new center here in moscow the french president has called on the syrian opposition to form a provisional government saying it would be recognized by paris. already the second leader to back military intervention in syria echoing barack obama who said chemical weapons would be a legitimate cause for direct action this is heavy clashes continue in the syrian capital with opposition supporters claiming rebels have shot down an army helicopter over damascus activists have blamed syrian security forces for killing more than three hundred civilians in the town of daraa near the capital the government said it carried out an anti terror operation in the area the syrian president is valid to stand firm in the face of what he describes as a foreign plot against his nation let's get more on this from the anti war coalition going to be live now from washington well the french leader has called on the syrian opposition to form a provisional government saying france would recognize it what do you make of this

. well it's most important to remember that france is the former colonizer of syria the colonizer along with the british in the middle east it's very odd and ironic in fact completely hypocritical to have the french government saying to the syrian opposition you form a government and we'll recognize you i mean that's just a script from the good old days when the colonial powers operated through proxies in in syria in egypt wherever a colonialism was and that was most parts of the world what we see now is an escalation of the foreign intervention if france and if the british and the united states if the nato powers in fact recognize this is a government by the syrian opposition called for by the by french colonialism in new form then we will see the basis being laid down right full scale military intervention to defend this new government which the west will say is the legitimate voice of this people who would fool me that new provisional government

bearing in mind of course the opposition is made up of all sorts of factions. well there would be those who would be most of kin to the french british and u.s. interests in other words there was an opposition a big opposition to the assad government in syria that was against violence against civil war and particularly against foreign intervention they've been pushed to the side and in their places the free syrian army so-called the so-called syrian revolutionaries who are nothing really at this point other than the chosen proxies of the foreign powers so it will be they those who control the monopoly of violence that is the nato powers themselves will be the ultimate determiner of what the character is of this new so-called opposition government or what they will declare to be the legitimate government of the syrian people moskos warned the u.s. and its allies against the so-called democracy by bomb scenario meanwhile the french president said that russia and china weakening the u.n. over syria what's your view on the. well that's the thing you know if the united

states and france and britain consider the united nations to be nothing other than their plaything a fig leaf for their own foreign policy yes they're very disappointed in russia and china for quote weakening the u.n. but if the u.n. is actually to be a voice for peace. a method an instrument to avoid war in the scourge of war to avoid the ravages of colonialism as it has pretended to be to be at least in the past then of course russia and china are doing completely legitimate function which is the say no the united nations must be a world body not the plaything not the instrument of french british and u.s. foreign policy but by their sheer maintaining an independent position they are. they are raising the ire of the western powers but of course the people in syria in the middle east hope that they'll stay the course because they need the middle east to be independent of the former colonial powers let's talk about the latest

development before us this question to you just one of use of the graphic nature of some of the footage we're about to show as we've been reporting the rebels blame the syrian government for the massacre in the town of the run that's near the capital but some witnesses blame the opposition for the killings what do you make of the timing of this blame game. well first of all we have to say that this civil war is a catastrophe a true tragedy for the syrian people like none other and in civil wars like in the united states civil war in eight hundred sixty to sixty five nothing is more bloody than a civil war in the case of the american civil war it was the bloodiest conflict that america has ever been involved in both sides are killing the other side and both sides they're saying either way when are we die that's the nature of the civil war but this civil war has been for mentored by outside forces turkey saudi arabia qatar and principally the western powers who irresponsibly recklessly meant that

civil war not caring really about what happens to the syrian people yes both sides will point the finger and say the other is the blame it's not really at this point about who shot first or who did the most killing both sides or are doing the killing how did how to come to a peaceful solution and that is to say no to foreign intervention push those who formated civil war out of the new political equation that's the solution from anti war on to coalition joining me live there in washington thanks for your thoughts. what a bit later we'll be talking here on r.t. to a german left wing politician young but i can now he says his government has revealed its toothpaste nature when it comes to the conflict in syria. could be the something true of the. human rights. repression within the comforters sure enough official be taking the other sides with the reposts i want to inform of you see it from their involvement with this question from the ground. and they invite three

and petitions the time they're off to try him here so officially they seem to take sides but it's unclear to me who they are so somebody some people. on the basis of which are two areas of the clue i mean we now have been invited to the forefront of this. from my mob i mean how can you train some people are 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 see the full interview with the german left wing politician in about twenty minutes from now here on r.t. . israel has got to run 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 and saudis paula slee 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 target strolled and 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 eminent group of british lawyers and another an international human

rights group known as save the children foundation now both of these found that the idea is in violation of international law when it comes to how it treats palestinian children they say that very often these children are put into solitary confinement they are treated and abused the army is using things like 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 them 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 think. so certainly not a good time for the idea of finding a thumping criticized on any number of friends point if they are to tell of it. talk to a former soldier in the israeli army another member of the breaking the silence rights group which blew the whistle on abuses by israeli soldiers he recalls incidents when his regiment used children as human shields cheering his service 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 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 in one of the raid operations that we had that we basically invaded the palestinian town south of the city of hebron. children started throwing stones at us so it's some point we picked a random kid that 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 we were hoping that that would stop him somehow that would stop his friends from throwing stones obviously didn't help and he just got injured in the in the occasion. still to come free of this on her naughty the hunt for runaway rioters two women from the russian punk band pussy riot have reportedly fled the country to escape arrest and recruit new members. and protest against radical islam hit germany streets with demonstrators saying they want to protest the muslim communities appearance to the country's civil laws

those stories still to come. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. that's not on. the. market find. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline news you need to cause

a report on our. iran says it's trying to help forge solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues of a summit into ron over one hundred developing nations which don't consider themselves aligned to the u.s. are taking part iran says it will discuss a comprehensive package to resolve the crisis in syria but also calling on participants to oppose western sanctions over to ron's nuclear program egypt's new president is attending the gathering the first egyptian leader to visit iran in over three decades general ban ki moon will also visit despite attempts by washington to play down the some its importance joseph chang political analyst from hong kong city university says the u.s. is losing ground internationally. the fact that the summit is now around and well and members of the nine allied rules mainstays including countries like. egypt and so on certainly is very much against it the first scenario the united states washington d.c.

actually understand that it is rather flawed. excerpt. on didn't on my money and since it has acted up to be worth about you certainly doesn't look good on the obama administration and there's certainly we frac stop brought train of countries desiring more independent owns more influence then i think most foot world governments understand that by three fully following the american line they may mastic support. seventeen afghan civilians have been beheaded by insurgents for taking part in the music event and the taliban controlled area this image to those events 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 the checkpoint political analyst. 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 also reminds us of how. fragile everything is and it is a double edged sword on one hand the taliban are trying to a 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 stop 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. more stories on our website r.t. don't come online right now for you to al qaeda members serving life for 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. course on the web site trainee priests in belgium will have to undergo psychiatric training from consist of paedophilia in churches fun of the details about don't come right now. is to go. to. do you. believe.

two pussy riot members who've been on the run from authorities have reportedly fled russia they wanted for questioning over the part of the performance in the country's main orthodox cathedral which is noted through their fellow activists in 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 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 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 new options although remains to be seen what that actually means and entails now we have to remember back in 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 blizzardy stunt it certainly worked as we've seen another group called 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. jim and demonstrators have taken the grievances to the doorsteps of mosques in the country they've been brandishing caricatures of the prophet mohammed which spoke to vomit backlash the first time in a period and. 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 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 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 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. 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 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 during the protest right wing politicians say that while in germany muslims should accept german law. 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 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 r.t. . will have the business news with the tasha very shortly but first let's check out some other international headlines now in a world update the libyan interior minister has resigned in protest to criticism over the government's failure to stop sectarian violence is after sophie religious sites were destroyed by salafi islamists sectarian clashes have risen since the end 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 one activist in the second major city over 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 human intelligence headquarters that left twenty one dead last week. on a world update this hour a powerful tropical storm has hit the florida keys 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 coast of haiti the death toll from the storm has risen to nineteen people with some fourteen thousand fleeing the disaster site. as promised attash is with us now with the business news greece is tightening its belt tell us more well absolutely they have . to do something you know to get the european union to send them more cash all the details in just a minute but first let's check out the equity markets and we'll start over on wall

street or traders pretty active the sour and they are mixed as you can see the dow is below the line after a brief a rebound last hour the nasdaq is managing to stay in the positive territory one of the biggest winners of the day is out bull its stock is gaining following poor ruling in its favor last week all the details in just a moment samsung shares have suffered the biggest plunge in about four years after a u.s. court ruled the firm infringed six apple 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 the products in the united states and mcdonald's is expanding into siberia one of the last places on earth where you can't buy a big mac. at the moment it plans to open its first restaurant in plus they are next year

before rolling out throughout the region. and gold well gold may be off its of record highs it reached earlier on monday but it could double in price that's according to a metals experts to 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 sinking about and you talk about the four thousand five hundred dollars an ounce argument is when the velocity of money does kick up basically what has everyone scared take the money of the banks take the money out of different things that investment and keep the money cash they know where it is and there it is then he's a basically 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 the gold price to book travel but as i understand gold prices have been mostly driven all only by a 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 globally 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 the 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 stuff happens. let's now see how the russian equities ended their

trading session on monday and they ended the day with losses this we can see there the r.t.s. and the my six have slipped into red after mining giant one sol announced second quarter losses and crude also failed to offer its support to the russian equities it's feeling the pinch of these speculations that the united states could release crude from its strategic reserves that would boost the oil supplies and drive the price down which is exactly the idea because there's a has gained as much as eight dollars per barrel over the past month moving on to the currency market the ruble closed mixed stronger to the dollar but weaker to the european currency as you can see there the euro was under pressure as some german politicians talked about the cost of a temporary greek exit a concept that many find questionable over in europe the footsie was closed for a holiday that down x.

and the day with pretty have to games more than one percent greece is trying to tighten its belt the country's prime minister work will sell two of the government's three airplanes the air force will buy one of them the other will be sold on the open market the move comes as part of the commitment to cut spending in exchange for international bailout funds. well it's actually quite honorable that they're trying to do something considering that there's so much talk about greece actually exiting from the euro zone absolutely intentional thanks very much for that now what you we've got within an hour from now with no absolutely great to see you then and shortly will be asking how germany is involved in the syrian conflict that's all for an update on our top stories this hour stay with this is not.

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