france calls on the syrian opposition to form a government pledging to recognize it while casualties of the conflict mount 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 . one hundred nations not in line with the u.s. gather in toronto look for global solutions despite washington dismissing the. online on screen international news and comment live from the new center here in

moscow the french president called on the syrian opposition to form a provisional government saying it would be recognized by paris france one hundred as the second leader to back military intervention in syria echoing barack obama who said chemical weapons would be a legitimate cause for direct action let's get more on this from our europe correspondent. fronts has promised to recognize any opposition government in syria take us through the details test. have the statement i. have here we just want to. carry on we've got you right the statement made by france today it's one of being one of the strongest see has made so far when it comes to syria first of all he did say that france will recognize the provisional government any provisional government that is formed by the opposition forces the rebels essentially telling them to come together and form a representative government and that this is done france is going to recognize

recognize this group and we know already that there is a working group that will consent to their findings in fact tuesday this week different members from the syrian national council from the muslim brotherhood and several other opposition members who had come together to draw a political roadmap essentially already talking about what they would do after assad's regime falls now this will be presented in berlin and it was initiated by u.s. institute in partnership with the tremont one and was signed from the talk of. recognizing it the opposition group. along has also said that barack obama had said that the use of chemical weapons or even the threat of it would in the jet of mice and justify direct foreign intervention that. seemingly exactly what barack obama had said just a week ago and also a lot of stress that they are working on the idea of buffer zones this is idea

could put forward by turkey now when we're talking about buffer zones they're saying that this is for humanitarian reasons to protect civilians and protect their people what we know that it will also involve some sort of military element too with as they say in order to protect civilians this is following a very similar roadmap that we've already seen in past conflicts and again this is the strongest words coming for us all along so far in reference to syria the only year ago the former french president nicolas sarkozy he was among the leaders calling for foreign intervention in libya. has a new leader the rhetoric seems the same for syria. yes it does if you look locally what's happening in france and france all along has been receiving increasing of criticism from mostly a right wing politician saying that he hasn't been strong enough when it comes to syria and here we have a statement that does echo what nicolas sarkozy and his predecessor has been say in the lead up to the crisis in libya almost exactly the same following a road map first of all threatening a direct foreign it's

a bench and as well as recognizing an organized opposition group this adds to this as a divided u.n. security council france is going to be chairing a working group of foreign ministers in this week to discuss again the possibility of another resolution a lot has criticized russia and china for having vetoed any resolutions with regard to syria through the times already and they said that they will continue to push for a u.n. resolution but it seems that from all the other statements that all the other moves that they want to make they are very eager to get involved in syria one way or another in one capacity or another. to cecilia talking to us live from brussels thanks a lot. the syrian activists have blamed security forces for killing more than three hundred civilians in the town of duran near the capital and you may find the images in this footage disturbing the government has said it carried out an anti terror oppression in the area accusing gangs for the killings the syrian president has vowed to stand firm in the face of what he describes as

a foreign plot against his nation reports of the massacre came just days ahead of the u.n. meeting on friday and growing international calls for a no fly zone and of military action in syria. from the anti war coalition i spoke to a little earlier here not he says western states are pushing a colonial agenda. if the united states and 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 un but if the un 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 to say no the united nations must be a world body not the plaything not the instrument of french british and u.s. foreign policy that's very odd an 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 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 determine or 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 brought back from the antiwar a coalition talk to be a little earlier from washington. he's wrote this book to run a hundred international proponents and activists from crossing into the west bank

from jordan now trying to bring school supplies to children in bethlehem refugee camps but the incident is not the only one involving palestinian children israeli soldiers are being accused of a longstanding culture of abuses 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 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 even weekend now a big salad which is a palestinian village villagers there are complaining about the gradual encroachments of a nearby settlement on the water supplies they say that those water supplies are being taken over by the citizen as a result they have no water with which to use on the fields all for drinking water

but in footage that was captured on camera these soldiers can be seen going from house to house and physically taking people out of their homes one person was injured at least six people were arrested five of 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 think. so certainly not a good time for the idea of finding a been criticized on any number of friends point if they are to tell of it. when i talk to a high stall or a former soldier in the israeli army and know a member of the breaking the silence rights group which blew the whistle on abuses by israeli soldiers and he recalls incidents when his regiment use children as human shields during 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 did 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 him he just got injured in the in the occasion. r.t. can be live from moscow still to come for you this hunt for runaway rioters two from the russian band pussy riot have reportedly fled the country to escape arrest

and recruit new members. still to come for the protests against radical islam germany's streets with demonstrators saying they want to test the muslim communities of here and to the country's civil laws. a story still to come but first iran says it's trying to help forge solutions to some of the world's most pressing issues and a summit in tehran of one hundred developing nations which don't consider themselves aligned to the u.s. a 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 he gypped new president is attending the gathering the first egyptian leader to visit iran in over three decades u.n. secretary general ban ki moon will also visit despite attempts by washington to play down the summits importance of chang political analyst 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 so understand that it is rather flawed tool excerpt pressure on dinar. 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 train of countries desiring more independence more influence than i think most first will governments understand that by free fully following the american nine they may still mastic support. more stories on our website dot com 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 they claim m i five was complicit in the torture. it was on the web site trainee priest in belgium will have to undergo psychiatric training to prevent cases of paedophilia in churches find out more details about dot com. the u.s. republican convention expected to formally endorse mitt romney as the party's

challenger to barack obama has opened in florida but immediately went into recess amid fears of the approaching tropical storm isaac the republicans are hoping to step away from the recent political blunders by various party members well let's now talk to william robinson professor of sociology at the university of california where romney is expected to focus on the economy with the republicans saying policies of damaged u.s. finances romney is presenting himself as a successful businessman but does he really have a solution. you know what he doesn't have a solution and secondly this is all politics because there's no real significant difference between the republicans and the democrats regard to the economic program both parties are beholden to transnational corporate interests particularly to banking interests of oil interests to the u.s. military industrial complex both parties are receiving a majority of funding from these sources both parties in terms of their economic program internationally are following what we call the neo liberal programs

unbridled free trade free market capitalist globalization transnational corporate expansion there's no difference they're both parties as well in terms of their domestic economic programs are following very similar proposals that is to liberate the big corporations to liberate banks to liberate capital from public constraints those are really the three fundamentals of the economic policy of both parties. no major difference them with their policies but just how much is this presidential campaign based on personal bickering and mutual accusations because romney is accused of campaigning on the basis of anger and divisiveness. both. this is a longstanding. reality of the u.s. electoral campaigns increasingly they're personalized increasingly the real issues are at stake the vital issues for the people in the united states and worldwide are not dealt with and increasingly they are simple simply personalized attacks this is

nothing new in u.s. policy politics. they didn't want to say though that there is one difference of substance and this is coming out in the campaign big career and that is that the obama administration has been pursuing what we could call a very limited neocon as you said in a little more social programs that are a little more liberal and really those are the only i seals are the only significant differences right now between these two parties in their presidential candidates now protest is a gathering in florida at the moment despite those storm warnings you've got the wall street movement feminists even animal rights groups that help mitt romney's managed to get such a broad crowd. well first you have to well mitt romney is angering such a bored crowd in behind romney is the republican party and what's happened the republican party has moved. to the extreme right at this point they won't be public and party has been taken over and this goes back to the bush years the worst jr hears probably can party has been taken over by the extreme right in the united

states and really the dominant force of the republican party is at this point fascist we can call it a near fascist line within the republican party and this is a fascist bloc which by addition to the economic program of basically unbridled free market capitalism which i mention in addition to internationally militarization and your venture and you have a domestic program of this really no fascist right which is a complete dismantling of of civil rights and civil liberties an attack on all of the gains by the different social sectors that go back to the one nine hundred sixty s. troubles of the one nine hundred sixty building women's rights and gay rights and student rights and so forth so it's not hard for this for this. far right wing of the republican party which is now setting the agenda to antagonize all of these sectors on the other hand we have a crisis the crisis of two thousand and eight was it we have not overcome the crisis and its predictions that we're going to have a second if we're going to have a serious recession in the following year in this crisis is heating up it's a larger crisis in the united states and i don't like to joke or usually it's just

brief as a result of that crisis of course we've seen the occupy wall street movement angry sentiments against capitalism a course of form during obama's time but now they've switched their anger to romney so really how much of a choice are make americans really getting with these two candidates or is there a demand now a growing demand for a third candidate you know. the anger in the rumbling from below is mounting in the united states and even worldwide but that has not yet translated into united states into calls for a political force or political party outside of the two dominant party so we still very much. of the two parties on the ballot in a number of states we're going to have five six seven different parties which will garner read the most half a percent or one percent of the vote so we do not yet see this rumbling from this growing mass movements against the programs that are going to bodies being translated into a political program that they can actually affect the electoral process hopefully

in my view i mean i would like to take place and that's what. this book really interesting tortie thanks so much william robinson professor of sociology at the university of california joining me live there in santa barbara thank you. too pussy riot members who'd been on the run from authorities reportedly fled russia they wanted for questioning over their part in an anti putin performance in the country's main orthodox cathedral which is that of three of their fellow activists in jail meanwhile defense lawyers of the convicted have appealed against their two year prison sentences loosely coming off reports. according to unconfirmed reports two members of the punk bands the anti-crime and punk band have reportedly fled the country. to in order to avoid prosecution and potential questioning over their participation in a very controversial stunt that the crisis 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 quote recruiting foreigners famine ists for new actions of those 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 list of the 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. to some other international headlines now on our world update the libyan interior minister has resigned in protest to criticism of the government's failure to stop sectarian violence this

after so he religious sites were destroyed by salafi islamist 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 at least one activist in yemen second major city every 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 terraplane southern region a crackdown comes as a backlash to the attack on human intelligence headquarters that left twenty one dead last week. german demonstrators have taken their grievances to the doorsteps of mosques in the country they've been brandishing caricature of the prophet mohammed which sparked a violent backlash the first time they appeared in denmark. 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 they're doing this to gauge the willingness of the islamic community to out here to german law you're going to. your office is not provoke a shoot 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 just yet 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 i was. one of his and 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 and 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 the do not acquire our message is clear it's not the kebabs over but the politicians following false paralyse 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. . time for business when the tasha and apple seems to be benefiting from its peyton victory. absolutely its stock is definitely benefiting i'll tell you all about it let's first take a quick look at the u.s. markets where trade is pretty active the sour on. over on wall street the equities are mixed as you can see at the moment the dow is back below the line after a brief a rebound a couple of hours ago but the nasdaq is managing to stay in the positive territory one of the biggest winners of the day indeed as apple its stock is gaining around two percent following

a ruling in its favor at the end of last week sound soon shares have suffered the biggest plunge in about four years after a u.s. court ruled the firm and french to six out patents for mobile devices the south korean giant will pay over one billion dollars in compensation and the fines could go even higher it also has another hearing upcoming that could lift a sales ban on some of its products in the united states and mcdonald's is expanding into slave bierria one of the last places where you can to get a big mac. at the moment it plans to open its first restaurant a crust they are scum exterior before rolling out throughout the region and. actually gold that is all fits record highs that we saw earlier in the day but some say that it could double in price again that's according to a metals group to mccutcheon. 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 sinking about any talk with the four thousand five hundred dollar notes 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 at 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 go right 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 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 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 safe that's not a bubble and that's more that represents more of the gold market today than any sort of public stocks happen here. back to the markets equities here in moscow and their session with losses they've slipped into rare after mining giant moves solve reported that second little losses disappointing investors crude also 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 tricky job preserves that would boost the oil supply bringing the price down and that's exactly the idea there onto the currency market the ruble closed mixed stronger to

the dollar but weaker to the euro as you can see and the you feel current see it was under pressure as some german politicians talked about the cost of a temporary temporary increase exit from the euro zone whatever that might mean in europe the footsie was closed for a holiday the dax saw some pretty have to gain is actually one of one percent as you can see there greece is tightening its belt the country's prime minister will sell two of the government's three airplanes the air force will buy one and the other will be sold in the open market the move comes as part of the commitment to cut spending in exchange for international bailout funds. and that's the latest from the business desk we'll be back in about fifteen minutes see that.

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