thanks. a car bomb rocks a suburb of damascus killing civilians as rebels continue to call from no fly zone over syria. that's a host a presentation of a plan created in the west for a syria without its sides drafted by those for whom his exit is already set in stone. an israeli court rules the army is not guilty of 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 live from the new center here in moscow good to have you with this if you just joined us syrian state t.v. reports that a terrorist attack has ripped through damascus with a car bomb killing at least twelve people and injuring dozens the deadly blast hit a funeral in the capital suburb for the two people reportedly killed in a similar attack on monday 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

a 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 a damascus suburb slaughtered civilians men women teenagers and children. killing women and children in cold blood. 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 their whereabouts of my husband and my children my husband works for the security forces i have two boys and a girl terrorist spread among survivors seek help us get rid of these gangsters 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. 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 in peter all of the reports from the german capital where the details are being announced. well the road map that's been put forward here in berlin by syrian opposition activists 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 and securing syria's borders also the repository ation of refugees and the rebuilding 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 would they picked also there are a few problems that there's no mention of the assad government in this roadmap only to say that it would be for the day after assad was toppled in fact it's not only really mentioned that in terms of him not being in power the roadmap says that that's an outcome that 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 from swallow london 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. the 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. but his people over there an arab to needs to read to the french center for intelligence studies says that paris has not learned from mistakes of the past. even if the political leaders are changed you know few months ago most of the policy at the same and most of the diplomatic teams are the same it's never learned from the mistakes and from the past we have to remember that the intervention in libya has been created callous in

western africa and we obviously share responsibility about that with the other countries involved but we don't take a listen from this we don't truly foreign policy for the time being i mean the mainstream in paris is in motion everything is about emotion where you are absolutely and the disinformation of the movies by c.n.n. . and the people who are reacting only with emotion we don't doubt the lease good reflection of the job politics and the bad 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 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 report shortly america's most time ally egypt is

taking a step toward the east of the country's new president is in china searching for investment and balanced foreign policy. that's still to come for you but 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 let's not talk to ronnie barker and israel based activist now i understand you were in court when the sentence was read out so what do you make of the ruling which absolves the army of negligence. good evening meal. the verdict is unfortunately not surprising. it's it is not it doesn't

carry water actually every argument that was given by the judge that was called upon by the judge was actually refuted by the court family attorney general san. even simple factual data was. turned around actually in this verdict. i'm saying that this is not surprising because these are the legal system is actually. one of the vehicles or maybe even the main vehicle of israeli policies of occupation and apartheid and it is actually legitimizing. some things that are or illegitimate and what we are calling for is that israel will abide by its obligations nothing more just abide by its obligations under international law in respect universally recognized human rights and that's holds for civilians also in times of war like israel claims that happens in gaza they claim that this is a situation of war and still it has implications to civilians there i know you were

in court and despite the accounts given by eyewitnesses what was the reaction in the court when the verdict was read out. so i mentioned first of all that there wasn't much surprise but i think that everyone was you know raising an eyebrow about how. why does it seem that israel is. as white as snow and carries no responsibility whatsoever and as if they did nothing wrong and the whole blame lies upon the deceased so what is rachel this is all this judge a state issue and so what does this verdict mean then for the future of human rights in israel now. family stated that this is. a sad day for human rights in israel and i absolutely agree with that . all throughout the period. this case has been going on this was not

only about rachel this was about israel's obligation to protect the lives of civilians you've just been discussing the situation in syria and there was even calls for a no fly zone over syria and that should be considered because we have to protect human lives civilian lives but why isn't the same being discussed about israel why aren't we discussing israel's obligations and why doesn't the world act in order to take responsibility and action to protect the lives that israel is actually told if this regards its stated in court to. get a high ranking officer in the israeli army to be in court that there are no civilians in gaza as far as they're concerned in gaza no one. is innocent just one thought you've been very critical of the israeli judicial system this was in fact an american activist foreign citizen in question here do you think there's

any chance perhaps that the family could take it beyond an israeli court now and take it to international appeal. the family attorney first of all stated that they will appeal to the supreme court again i do not think that many of us have high hopes of the israeli supreme court for the reasons that i mentioned. boxer yes the legal venue is still open and i'm sure the family is considering what are the possible options. the main thing is that two to three remember that it is not only about rachel's case rachel's case is a very clear example of the violations carried out by israel on this is as a matter of policy and this is a systematic issue and this has to be challenge now those who are funding and supplying the means of destruction those who are or who are supporting israel politically financially. militarily of course. those who supply the

means of the strike in this case caterpillar the american company who built the bulldozers that were purchased by american money. and were delivered to israel. they were the ones who were actually used to kill rachel so so all of these all of those elements that i mentioned are complicit in one way or another and we have to challenge the whole the whole system that is on the one hand not respecting human rights and on the other hand those who are funding and being complicit in that role it will leave it there thank you very much indeed ronnie barker an activist calling on boycotting israel from within there very good to hear your thoughts thank you very much indeed. leading muslim scholar and spiritual leader has been killed in a terror attack in russia's caucuses republic of dagestan local police a female suicide bomber blew herself up at the home of the cleric at least six

others were also killed in this following developments for us. seventy four year old shaikh side of fundy was a leading muslim scholar a spiritual leader and an author 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 belt around her waist with investigations ongoing earlier in the russian city of khazan in central russia the region's religious head its morphy was wounded and his deputy was killed there were both moderate muslim preachers who've 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. and their the portuguese are said to find out if tightening their belts under tough austerity is enough to qualify

for more cash from the e.u. and the international monetary fund inspectors are in lisbon to assess the country's performance at the moment but portugal has fallen short on budget targets as its margin its deepest recession since the nine hundred seventy s. it's now talk to portuguese euro m.p. route to vote is it so do you think your country will get the next tranche of its seventy eight billion euro bailout. well that's actually a political decision not an economic one so. i was on to the season of of the leaders in early in brussels and front. so that's a question that i cannot answer the question that i can't vouch for is whether it's on track to. to fulfill the targets that it has promised to the troika or that the troika has demanded of fortran and the answer to this is a clear no our deficits targets our. target targets will not be

achieved and for a very simple reason that the medicine that. we have given to the portuguese of the economy itself the fuel to the economy is contracting so there is much less tax collection than what we had before so mainly because of a huge gap on. the portuguese government is again. and balanced budgets which was after all the main point of having the money from that from the troika so we are. who we are in this india is that you know self-fulfilling spiral of recession. seems to be no way out if the figures aren't adding up and economically is not the right decision you say this is going to be a political decision whether the country will receive its next bailout is that a case of perhaps the goalpost shifting and say well if you haven't met the targets will still give you a bit more time take a bit more money because the euro kratz want to save face on this to say to the

rest the world well actually the bailout is working. yes i think there is a. you know and in addition aren't part of mainly berlin and barriers to have greece as the sole example of the medicine not working so in order to achieve that it is very important to portray portable as a country that is not that is unlike reese island as a country that is unlike greece and everybody else has as countries that are and like greece so to say the problem that greek problem then will be correct arose as a problem of the greek ethos of the greek minister of greek history or culture or whatever well what we know from the gates of. economic history is that when you apply recessionary measures to an economy well the economy recedes the economy contracts and everybody was. already waiting for for

this. recession and austerity is not working either in greece portugal or or ireland. is what is politically a statement for the portuguese government because clearly this is coming at a price for the portuguese people there be mass protests across to cross the country public sector salaries have been slashed just what will the backlash be from the public just how long can the portuguese carry on swallowing this very bitter pill of austerity. well i think that that's what might maybe probably the the bests sample possible where it looked like austerity measures because the bodies have been very patient with the measures of this government. that this government has majority support in the parliament in botswana so if you are looking for a place where you can apply a bit of measures out front foot on berlin and brussels that been prescribing

actually it is well they don't work anyway but our government is intent in keeping . a bar file as the best possible part of the eurozone authorities in order to get more politically way to get. a favorable a favorable treatment from brussels berlin and frankfurt that's that's the whole game of the portuguese government as of now i don't think that many in the portuguese government even believe that there are measures make economic sense they do not they may do so they may do some political success rate about as your m.p. there in brussels is a portuguese your own piece it's very interesting to hear exactly what you think is going on there in your country thank you very much indeed really good to have you thought here. well read all these stories indeed see that interview again if you like on our web site r t v dot com here's a quick look at what else is there for the moment a russian activist is jailed for eight years for drug dealing with

a supporter say the sentence is politically motivated get the full story right now on r t v dot com. going up plans for an elevator to the moon are unveiled but american firms saying they've had a breakthrough that could revolutionize space travel. the thousands of illegal immigrants continue to breach u.k. borders each year britain once again and nance's a crackdown the home secretary has declared war on sham marriages with new rules also expected to stop those in the country illegally from claiming government benefits but sara first 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 at the u.k. 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 for 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 about one hundred fifty thousand figure came from the couch where people have applied to extend their leave to remain in the u.k. refuse and they 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 amir's eighty tells us this the buddha agencies don't have any hope of reducing the number of missing migrants they need to radically change their approach i think the u.k.b.a. need two percent stop promoting a very tough line because the people who absorb the tough line in the media or of

course on 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 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 neat database that will be depended upon to track down they 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 cv thinly when it failed to deliver enough stuff for the olympic games they're seeking their multi-million pound contract it's a place to aid the clean up of a catalogue of disasters and mismanagement in the u.k. immigration system so if. 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 and the lights of the u.s. for decades after beijing morsi will travel to iran for a summit of the so-called aligned movement a gathering over one hundred nations which don't consider themselves in union with the us he'll be the first egyptian leader to visit to iran 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 caro wants to distance itself from the west. where the egyptians are trying to do. their sources 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 that causes a certain leaning towards not only china. but also 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 own line to their economic needs. india wants to join russia's vast optic shelf dimitry is that the business test to tell us more about this that's right it could be joining companies from the united states no way and it's only in this endeavor as a correspondent previously the 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 oil under the deal each of the non russian partners would have a thirty three percent stake in one of the projects with ro snuffed and pay for all

the initial exploration cause india's oh n.g.c. wants roast enough 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 reach it 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. swerves stock markets in the u.s. they are flat and mixed going between news that consumer confidence is falling unexpectedly in the month of august to sixty point six points and on the other hand home sales prices grew by two point three percent which is the biggest month of the a jump in the past decade move over to europe where prominent german politician alex dobrynin is basically greece's exit from the euro zone is inevitable and therefore the footsie of the bags are down point six percent on this pessimism and in the currency market the euro is gaining still to the dollar as the e.c.b. is aiming to ease the liquidity requirements for banks in order to facilitate its

programs for for financial rescue and the ruble is also losing value against both currencies at the close of the session the russian markets and the day mixed and flat with my six up point one percent driven by financial shares notes we burbank was up one point eight percent and that's the most liquid stock in the world. poverty is back in europe according to consumer goods giant unilever the owner of the personal and lipton brand says they now treat the e.u. as an emerging market selling washing powder mayonnaise and small packs and creating low cost brands for tea and all of world companies european head adds if a consumer in spain spends just the seventeen years and shopping i can't sell i'm washing powder for half the budget. and that's your business for now but thanks very much indeed dimitri will see in about an hour from now now very soon we'll be finding out about bank runs and how financial institutions are missing the boat that capital account from our washington studios will be out of the headlines in

just a moment stay with us live this is our team in moscow. you know you're. all.