thank. you. a car bomb rocks a suburb of damascus killing civilians as rebels continue to call for a no fly zone over syria. that's a host a presentation of a plan created in the west for it syria without its sides drafted by those who is exit is already set in stone. and israeli court rules the army is not guilty in killing american activist rachel corrie run over by a military bulldozer in two thousand and three with her parents calling it a sad day for human. britons cracking down on illegal immigration after authorities were left red faced by the disappearance of some one hundred fifty thousand people living without permission in the u.k. .

and on screen international news and comment line from the new center here in moscow syrian state t.v. reports that a terrorist attack has ripped through the capital damascus with a car bomb killing at least twelve people and injuring dozens this is the opposition claims assad forces have intensified airstrikes on the rebel held areas calling on washington to establish an immediate no fly zone over syria broad foreign media criticism against the syrian government also emerged after a recent report of mass killings in a damascus suburb but the release of related footage has painted a different picture and started checking the reports on the battles being waged on our screens while syrians are dying in the streets. thousands of people dead and the conflict between anti assad fighters and government forces seems nowhere near close this becomes all the more obvious as horrifying images like these continue to

surface this is a syrian television report featuring gruesome footage from darius. slaughtered civilians men women teenagers and children. killing women and children in cold blood that. entire families slaughtered bodies burned witnesses and the injured left in shock i didn't know who did this to me i know nothing about the whereabouts of my husband and my children my husband works for the security forces i have two boys and a girl terrorists spread among survivors seek help us get rid of these gangsters they killed us they destroyed everything we are unable to move to do nothing i don't know anything about my family please help us who they are those behind this massacre of yet another group of civilians in syria remains unclear now tradition in the syrian conflict both sides point fingers at each other as armed groups claim

the assad regime is behind the slaughter the assad army says it was on a mission to hunt down armed rebels in the affected area throughout the syrian bloodshed numerous human rights reports say civilians have been used as human shields by armed opposition groups something largely ignored by the western media waging a war of its own often eager to blame the assad government as part of their push for regime change on august thirtieth the want security council is scheduled to hold a ministerial meeting on the crisis at a time when the whole world is puzzled about what to do about syria the incident in dariush or to play into the hands of those who are trying to increase support for the fight against assad and r.t. moscow. the syrian opposition activists have drafted a political roadmap for the country's development after the fall of president assad which they claim is now inevitable the project was initiated by two think tanks based in washington but in order to peter all of the reports from the german

capital where the details are being announced. of the road map that's being put forward here in berlin by syrian opposition activists. it contains many positive aspects including a transitional period which would see dialogue across ethnic and sectarian boundaries the armed forces being stood down and sent back to the job of patrolling in securing syria's borders also the repository ation of refugees and the building of homes that have been destroyed during the conflict and an arms clean up to get guns out of the hands of civilians but the helping questions raised over just who this group are it's made up of fifty syrians they've been helped by both organizations from the united states and here in germany and who are these people why were they picked also there are a few problems that there's no mention of the assad government in this road map only to say that it would be for the day after assad was toppled in fact assad only

really mentioned that in terms of him not being in power the roadmap says that that's an outcome that's no longer in doubt what would happen to those involved with the current government now there's been support from the international community for the formation of this interim government we've heard france walland in paris saying that yes he's for the setting up of an interim government immediately however that's not really being echoed from washington in the united states they're saying that this is really a little too premature to be doing it right now however the united states remains committed to international military intervention in syria should chemical weapons being used that was named as a red line by president obama that if it was crossed would result in military intervention but what we are seeing is a triumvirate of the united states france and germany being the main western powers giving their support to the opposition in syria and it's quite reminiscent of what

we saw in libya where at least three were made up of the united states france and the united kingdom of course. russia's issue with that is that russia has always said that they don't want the same situation we have now in libya to happen in syria the chaos that now reigns in the north african country has been something that moscow is being desperate to avoid happening in syria's future. people over there and director of the french center for intelligence studies says that paris has not learned from mistakes of the past even if the political leaders are changing a few months ago most of the policy of the same and most of the diplomatic teams are of the same it's never learned from the mistakes and from the past we have to remember that the intervention in libya has been creating garrulous in western africa and we obviously share responsibility about that with the other countries involved but we don't take any lesson from this we don't truly foreign policy for

the time being i mean the mainstream in paris is emotion everything is about emotion we are absolutely under the disinformation of movies by c.n.n. . and the people who are reacting only with emotion we don't doubt the nice good reflection about job politics and the bar room we have to glee in the middle east i don't think they're going to be military action or it will be a very localized i mean special operation very limited series not clear but with the new french policy for some years it looks like a frenzy is now the new luxury of the u.s. flag that you get has always been this is where the operation is good between us and france because we are doing their policy. support for a popular uprising doesn't guarantee the allegiance of a post revolution government as we reported shortly america's long time ally egypt is taking a step towards the east with the country's new president is in china searching for investment and balanced foreign policy. that's still to come of

first an israeli court has ruled that the country's military were not responsible for the death of us activist rachel corrie who was crushed by an army bulldozer in two thousand and three the judge said it was an accident the twenty three year old was taking part in a demonstration trying to stop palestinian homes from being destroyed in gaza when it's not talked to tom daley's a caro based american journalist who witnessed rachel corrie's death you saw what happened to her do you agree with the court's ruling. i'm sure british journalist but no i don't agree at all i mean it's tremendously just pointing out on the basis of what i saw on that day two thousand and three it's absolutely not possible to characterize what happened as an accident. in my view you told the court. that i told the israeli military to go should before that bulldozer driver. a very long drive up. for he got to rachel during which time he must have been able

to see even on the basis of the visit of charges related to the court by the israeli military. the law. was visible above the top. just before she was crushed and she climbed on a mound of trying to escape so in my mind it's absolutely no doubt he would have seen. this but it represents a white washing what happened on that day why why do you think the court ignored your eyewitness account of amongst others. but unfortunately the. culture in the israeli military impunity for such crimes and that culture impunity it's the should it take it fortunately sometimes by the courts who deliberately turn a blind guy in order to facilitate the same impunity and a free hand if you will for their own forces and of course the main shoulders on

which the palestinian shoulders and that's why we've seen during the course of the past decade or more i believe not a single conviction of an israeli soldier for murder despite the very many which have taken place by palestine during our time let's just talk about reentered and which of course you were taking part in that demonstration when you were there you were warned were you not that you were entering what was described as a designated combat zone so one has to accept the fact that accidents like this do happen. well i think i mean of course when we went into that area we knew that it was dangerous people knew that we would take the risk. first of all i don't accept tool that it was not then. and i didn't accept that. merely. a relatively dangerous position is there by alleviates armed forces of all

responsibility to treat civilians. in a responsible humane manner. cost of billions because it's full of civilians almost every area is a civilian and to the israeli government to say we refuse to treat anyone in this area literally giving the human rights because we've given it this particular name . coachmen journal have you to me i think that's just a means of aiding the responsibility. you're talking about israeli military seemingly avoiding any form of punishment. understand the former israeli soldier got forty five days jail time into the deaths of a palestinian mother and daughter during the gaza war back in two thousand and eight and he's also the the only soldier to be indicted for the operation which killed around about fourteen hundred palestinians. one event there you were talking about this. current trend of israeli military not being held to account do you think that could change in the light of what we've seen in this case obviously the

spotlight now on israel and bearing in mind what happened with that flotilla back in two thousand and ten. of course i think we don't would all like to believe that it's going to change i'm afraid i don't see a trend and. i think that's why we see in the last week the revelations from breaking the silence which snow through israeli former combat soldiers who are coming out and saying we witnessed human rights abuses something we've been part of human rights abuses while certainly in the israeli army and i think really asking israeli society to kind of a stop to. the prevailing culture of careless disregard for human rights which is of course if. they're involved in new york so i think that even if this court case doesn't. show the trend toward ending the filter if there are forces in israeli society and

also within palestinian society in the international media more broadly which will bring that sort of thing to us tom thanks very much for joining us very interesting here we have to say sorry getting your nationality mixed up there u.k. journalist there based in qatar a thanks very much indeed tom there. a leading muslim scholar and spiritual leader has been killed in a terror attack in russia's caucuses republic of dagestan local police say a female suicide bomber blew herself up at the home of the cleric at least six others were also killed tom barton is following developments for us seventy four year old shaikh side of fundy was a leading muslim scholar a spiritual leader and an offer in dagestan in russia's north caucasus he had thousands of followers there was a previous attempt on his life in two thousand and seven which was foiled however this time a female suicide bomber dressed as a pilgrim entered his house and detonated

a bomb belts around her waist with investigations are ongoing earlier in the russian city of khazan in central russia the region's religious head it's more fifty was wounded and his deputy was killed they were both moderate muslim preachers who has spoken out against extremism investigators say that may have been the reason that they were targeted the government is adamant that attacks such as this shouldn't drive a wedge between russia's religious communities. of course you can read all these stories and more on our website r.t. dot com here's a quick look of what's there for you at the moment a russian activists is jailed for eight years for drug dealing but her supporters say the sentence is politically motivated get the full story on r.t. dot com. also going up plans for an elevator to the moon unveiled with american firms saying they've had a breakthrough that could revolutionize space travel. for

thousands of illegal immigrants continue to breach u.k. borders each year britain once again announces a crackdown the home secretary was declared war has declared war on sham marriages with new rules also expected to stop those in the country illegally from claiming government benefits but it's artie's sarah firth reports britain is struggling to find the very people it wants to deport. the black hole of the u.k. immigration system easy to guess in but no one's been properly tracking who should be is going out last month chief inspector john vine revealed just how bad things that the border agency were guessing when he discovered more than one hundred fifty thousand migrants that have been refused the right to remain in the k. had simply disappeared some people may have left the country some of them most still be here i think the key fact was that the agency had no idea how many were actually still in the country and how many are left and the u.k. immigration rules migrants who have been refused the right to remain have twenty

eight days to leave the country but a long running problem with enforcing these rules has left the border agency struggling in the wake of the revelations the government began talking tough immigration minister damian green said warning sent to immigrants would reduce the number who are overstaying their visa in a statement to us he said we're also working closely with other government departments to create a hostile environment which makes it much harder to migrants to live in the u.k. illegally the government's made a lot of noise about its efforts to cut immigration but at the total seven hundred billion pound government spending budget just one point nine billion is allocated to the u.k. border agency that's just a third of one percent it's an incredibly small amount and historically underfunded and still cripplingly under-resourced the u.k. border agency is now under pressure and the latest revelations that more than one hundred fifty thousand migrants the missing could just be the tip of the iceberg

that hundred fifty thousand figure came from to catch people have applied to extend . the refuse and then go into a much bigger part. or it's hard for different people try to come up with different results. million sounds about what normal people. immigration lawyer mears eighty tells us this is the buddha agencies that have any hope of reducing the number of missing migrants they need to radically change their approach i think we need to potentially stop promoting a very tough line because the people who absorb the tough line in the media or of course that my person sells and they don't come forward if the u.k. promote a transparent and fair lines they will take every case individually those that deserves they want to go but these individual groups can stay those people would come forward this hundred fifty nine would go down instantly and then applications could be processed properly instead it seems it will be a need database that will be depended upon to track down those staying in britain

illegally expected to launch next month among the companies bidding for the tender is g four s. g four s. the company that created a high profile controlled the sea recently when it failed to deliver enough stuff for the olympic games they're seeking their multi-million pound contract that's the place to aid the clean up of a catalogue of disasters and mismanagement in the u.k. immigration system so if there are thirty london egypt's president mohamed morsi is visiting china to seek investment to revive his country's economy and to pursue what he calls a balanced foreign policy he came to power in june after the ousting of hosni mubarak a loyal ally to the u.s. for decades after beijing morsi will travel to iran for a summit of the so-called normal aligned movement a gathering of over one hundred nations which don't consider themselves in union with the u.s. they were the first egyptian leader to visit tehran in over three decades which is seen by many as a major foreign policy shift for egypt professor lawrence davidson

a middle east expert at west chester university believes cairo wants to distance itself from the west. what the egyptians are trying to do is their birth by their sources of assistance particularly economic assistance if they can find financial and other sources of resources outside of the united states then they're going to do it and that hoards it's certainly leaning towards not only china. but on so maybe russia and also saudi arabia and the gulf morsi is catering to that area because of financial need i would think that you gyptian policy or egypt gyptian actions are going to essentially align to their economic needs. now to other stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day in a world update riots swept through kenya's coastal city mombasa video at least two

people dead as the unrest into the second day sparked by recess the nation of a prominent muslim cleric accused of links to al qaeda by the u.s. and u.n. people took to the streets during the riots a police truck was attacked with a grenade killing one officer and wounding thirteen others human rights groups have accused kenya's police of carrying out extrajudicial killings and forced disappearances in the country. american troops have escaped criminal charges over the burning of copies of the koran in afghanistan earlier this year they received administrative punishment after the investigation revealed that over one hundred holy books were destroyed in a separate incident marines caught on film urinating on the dead bodies of taliban insurgents also reprimanded both scandals triggered widespread protests and calls from afghan president hamid karzai to punish those responsible. for tropical storm isaac heading to the u.s. gulf coast could soon strengthen to the status of hurrican it could flood the shore of four u.s. states with heavy rains on its way to new orleans seven years after katrina struck

killing nearly two thousand people twenty four people have already died from severe weather in haiti alone and the storm caused significant damage in the caribbean however despite the storm the republican party convention is set to open in florida after being delayed by one day. and with the u.s. presidential election looming artie's speaks to an author and scholar at a major washington think tank andrew levine who believes it offers americans voters very little choice. it's sort of like. coke and pepsi and the level of antagonism and out of we exist in the places where those things are manufactured and marketed at the level of underlying political vision or underlying political orientation there isn't that much difference and romney would probably be perfectly happy doing what obama does we have a media which is so thoroughly controlled. all the institutions that manufacture

opinion are so pervasive and our electoral system has become basically i can advertising it's become a sales promotion's there are brands and there are people trying to sell different products that's a pressure that most people are most people aren't even aware that there is an alternative. and you can watch the interview in full in about ten minutes from now here on. the top global player in the united states tripled its weapons export to a record high of over sixty six billion dollars last year and in the shuffle from the task force on national and homeland security believe such a huge arms supplies won't make the world a safer place. we have a huge military industrial complex which requires all sorts of care and feeding but that's part of the deal frankly as we start to look at many military operations in

iraq and afghanistan the brutal truth is this we have an industry which is looking for new markets i mean we're talking about the u.s. ten times larger and it's exporting of weapons right now and the russians with that said no one believes for a minute expanding markets are going to help make things more peaceful obviously the more the greater influx of these weapons into any country especially some of those middle east which are greatly unstable i think go very far to continue to see further just new stabilization the middle east as we go. dimitris next with the business news so another nation looking to jump on the bandwagon to explore russians not to shelf india this time dimitri tell us more now is right well it's rich in resources though they're hard to get through but at the same time requires a lot of investments abuts could generate a lot of return on these investments so india is basically joining its colleagues from the united states exxon mobil it's nice at the end always stats well as.

reports. india is eager to grab its own piece of the arctic shelves energy rich pie india's. is looking to have a stake in one of three joint ventures russia's roast has planned with america's exxon mobil italy's norway's stat oil under the deal each of the non russian partners would have a thirty three percent stake in one of the projects with ro snapped and pay for all the initial exploration cause india's oh n.g.c. wants roast now to let it buy into one of the three projects but if that doesn't happen it says it's willing to look into one of twelve future projects russia has plans in that reaches it also says that if it can't get its hands on a thirty three percent stake it's willing to settle for much less at around eight per cent there is a lot at stake here at the u.s. geological survey says that thirty percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas

and thirteen percent of the world's undiscovered oil can be found in this region while india still has one of the largest economies in the world it has faced a sharp slowdown in the past year with limited growth in the country's i t and call center industries european stagnation has also impacted the indian economy which exports a lot to the eurozone countries so india is really looking for a new development projects and believes that tapping in to the natural resources in the arctic shelf could be a potential answer to its economic problems. brothers move over to the stock market starting with the united states and so looking very much positive right now in our prices for home sales have gone up two point three percent in the past month and that's the biggest jump in the past decade from the pe on the month to month basis

basically but on the other hand consumer confidence is going down in august unexpectedly and that's limiting gains over in europe the distinguished politician alex said greece is your exit is basically inevitable and spain's g.d.p. you went down point four percent compared to the previous quarter and therefore we're seeing a negative picture of the close on the currencies market the year i was gaining very much against the dollar as the european central bank is calling for measures to ease the liquidity requirements for banks in order to facilitate its rescue program and the russian ruble lost almost two percent versus the euro's you could see the loss also against the dollar on the russian that markets the picture at the close is mixed and flat at the same time with my six point one percent driven by financial shares her bank was up one point eight percent. poverty is

back in europe that's according to consumer goods giant you believe or the owner of the personal and lipton brand says they now are treat the e.u. as an emerging market selling washing powder and mayonnaise in small packs and creating low cost brands for t.v. and all of the oil companies european head adds if a consumer in spain spends just seventeen year olds on shopping i can't sell them washing powder for half the budget. that's the way the market will dmitri thanks very much indeed we'll see in next to me with all the business for us here in our team and back with us a say in an hour now surely will be discussing barack obama's residency in the white house with washington based author andrew limb. that'll be all from the headlines an update of our main stories for in about two and a half minutes from now stay with us live here in the.

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