as a wave of accusations by governments and rebels follow a deadly funeral car bomb in syria we'll look at how ugly tactics adopted by the opposition are being sanitized in the mainstream media. with millions in the e.u. sinking into poverty unable to afford basic necessities companies are forced to produce smaller cheaper goods for the struggling masses of the age of austerity. then why the p.d. is targeted by civil rights groups after six years of spy operations on muslims who turned out to be guilty of nothing. for me the most good snow snow call sure which kicks into kids of the beatles in the business news with.

ten am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie harris a car bomb attack on a funeral procession in damascus has sparked a wave of mutual accusations by both syrian government and rebels there are still conflicting reports but it's twenty seven people were killed the opposition claims the government staged it to divert attention from its other alleged large scale atrocities the finding across the country shows no sign of easing at a high profile member of the anti regime syrian national council has resigned she suggested visions within the opposition prevented from serving the wishes of the syrian people and as artie's losing confidence reports much of the mainstream media coverage isn't serving the interests of the whole country either. it was another disturbing example of the many atrocities committed throughout the syrian war a truck bomb with homemade explosives headed for a checkpoint to the entrance of syria's largest city.

but the men that are loading it aren't assad forces they're one of the many groups fighting under the banner of the free syrian army and their captive is said to be a member of the should be a militia with very close ties to the outside government the video filmed by the new york times and turn into an on air segment by the b.b.c. captured about human rights groups called evidence of an attempted murder a potential war crime under international law review of rebels from the free syrian army trying to use a prisoner as an unwitting suicide bomber in their attacks on government forces now the cameras didn't follow the prisoner who had no idea that while being blindfolded he was actually embarking on a suicide mission he simply thought that he was being given his freedom the very next morning he was said to have a scaped after the bombs failed to detonate and the b.b.c. had aired a story on august twenty second but this glimpse into the darker side of some of the tactics now being used in the uprising never aired again the story was also pulled from the b.b.c. website the network told me that this was due to copyright issues and this very

video raises the question about whether such tactics may be more widespread among the opposition than what has been previously documented they have yet to draw the same level of scrutiny as the crimes committed by the government were talented in syria is met with more whether by the government or the rebels the violence seems to be the name of the game and he further shatters the prospects for peace agreement reality for the civilians caught in this bitter war. for r.t. and moscow american author and former university lecturer account the shows the tactics of western mainstream journalism to. it's pretty obvious what happened which is that the b.b.c. reported some news that higher ups in the western intelligence apparatus don't want them to report so they force them to take it down and that doesn't surprise me at all that's just one example of many examples of b.b.c. complicity in this military agenda you know the b.b.c. is heavily complicit in this series of wars of aggression that were triggered by

the events of nine eleven and it's very sad because western journalism used to be more independent and today everybody and all the big outfits located in the big english speaking countries are putting out propaganda twenty four seven three sixty . later this hour r.t. has more insight on the syrian crisis here's a preview of an interview with a man who took part in operations in the region in the past. it's the game it's not a movie where the good guy the good guy boy can. make everything and quite in the city ok just two or three bad guys and after i would at the end of the movie. the beautiful woman the mother in the they have a lot of to learn it's not really since story it's middle east it's very savage. and. what they would be to the window would be

the window. after the swell you were over there were about. to three months ago and getting. revenge getting in someone is the border of iran it's between iran and you have. been one problem which is not so far so normal one to be involved. in watching our new life in moscow still ahead of the program questionable justice israeli court clear is a military over the killing of a u.s. activist crushed by an army bulldozer in two thousand and three we talk to an eyewitness who says this was no accident. the e.u. is facing up to a new era of becoming progressively poorer and increasingly desperate it's forcing big companies to restrain their strategies and how they can sell their goods to people with nothing to spare are just us are cilia reports. with more than eighty

million people in the e.u. would risk of poverty including twenty million children this has become an all too common sight in european cities as a debt crisis and its effects drag on from madrid to athens and even brussels twenty three year old the wrong is one of many jobless and homeless europeans when he's not out looking for a job he sits in this corner reading his favorite classics hoping to receive enough money from passers by to buy some food for himself and his dog. before the crisis i had an apartment i worked as a group leader in youth camps there hasn't been much of a difference for me since then except the bread is more expensive everything is more expensive if i meet someone who gives me an opportunity and tells me ok you can work next week i'll say yes ok i'll try and if it works it works if not the nevermind. but the numbers don't paint

a nice picture for people like no home and share everything is increasing and defeats almost all indicators for the child thing bristol is and think everything is fine it's as if. the child of each choir's know how to kind of kick a fence or touch the most. this means this is how it is as a dire consequences for people. and big companies are taking notice take you deliver for example the company behind a slew of consumer products from shampoos to ice cream has started to look at europe from a different angle the head of its european business told the financial times deutschland that poverty is returning to europe multinationals in fast moving consumer goods are seeing the state of poverty in europe as more than just a passing trend the thinking of readjusting the strategies they use here and in point was a big use in developing countries such as asia where you find happening like this one from this asian store and what you call sachets for each piece is. much cheaper

than a bigger packaging and therefore easier on the pockets of consumers a practice the company has already started doing in spain and greece people have to store savings on their most basic needs. shampoo foods so that's really showing you. what the crisis really means for many struggling people in europe there's while there are disproportionate burden on individual citizens. specifically the increasing fear the rates fear t. on the most basic products other everyone uses in their daily lives i'm sure this has a huge effect a crippling effect on people like simone a homeless woman and pensioner who only has three euros to spend each day with weight i can't feel different so i try to live where i can i don't eat much i didn't eat much tool it's all because of the you're right many people have problems

because of the crisis. problems that make the e use target of reducing poverty and social exclusion by at least twenty million people over the next eight years seem further out of reach. to so sylvia r t brussels financial inspectors are in lisbon reviewing how well the country's following tough staring measures and evaluating the state of its battered economy in may portugal became the third european country forced into taking a bailout this one worth seventy eight billion years many experts doubt the country will be able to repay its debts with a interest rate on its ten year bond now over nine percent forty is euro piero it's a virus as the bailout system is being in a vicious circle. our deficits targets our. targets will not be achieved and for a very simple reason that the medicine that. we have given to the party is 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 go on tax collection the portuguese government is again. and balanced budget which was after all the main point of having the money from the from the troika i think there is an intention on the part of mainly berlin and the 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 and that is not that is unlike reese as a country that is unlike greece and everybody else has it as countries that are and like greece so to say the problem that the greek problem then will be correct arose as a problem of the greek political ethos of the greek government is certain of history or culture or whatever the recession and austerity is not working either in greece

portugal or poor. there seems to be no one else. you're watching r t live from moscow coming up in the program the prince is around as that republican convention nominates mitt romney to face rock obama at the upcoming presidential election with a look at what changed my brain for the american people.

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why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with much stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into a report. you're watching r.t. and israeli court has ruled that the country's military was not responsible for the death of u.s. activist rachel corrie who was crushed by an army bulldozer in two thousand and three the twenty three year old was taking part in a demonstration against the demolition of palestinian homes in the gaza strip the judge rejected the civil lawsuit filed by the girl's parents saying her death was an accident that she had brought upon herself the case has drawn international condemnation over the years journalist tom dale who witnessed rachel corrie's death says the court is simply turning

a blind eye to the atrocities of these really military. it's tremendously just pointing out on the basis of what i saw on that day in two thousand and three it's absolutely not possible to characterize what happened next to them in my view so i told the coach and as i told the israeli military before the bulldozer driver had a very long drive up. before he got to rachel during which time he must have been able to say even on the basis of the shots presented to the court by the threat of military the law. head was visible above the top of the boulder sublight just before she was crushed and she commented on amount of trying to escape so in my mind that absolutely no doubt that he would have seen. this but it represents a want watching what happened on that culture in the israeli military impunity to such crimes and that culture impunity it's the senate take it fortunately sometimes

by the courts who deliberately turn a blind eye of course the main shoulders on which the palestinian shows because it's full of civilians almost every area is a civilian and so the israeli government to say we refuse to treat anyone in this area especially given that human rights because we've given it this particular name . coachmen treasonable happy to me i think that's just me serving that responsibility. well we've also been following the proceedings in rachel corrie's case on our world web site and that's where you can find a full background behind the tragedy here's a quick look at what else is there for you. in the founding of internet freedom twitter refuses to release information about an occupy wall street activist saying its users should be able to find a valid government requests. plus as education protest in chile

game and then we've got a timeline of the movements that are key to calm our you tube channel as well. and go back in helicopters not exactly a classic combination units at a sports desk with news of unusual clash of the choppers in the skies of the moscow region certainly in deed i tell you what moments not too off that helicopter pilots get their day in the sun but they did this week because you are watching the fourteenth world helicopter championships taking place in moscow and want more great news for those three a wall in the u.k. where second germany were third even better news so we've got more on the stone plus all the rest of the sport in a row in twenty minutes time. r t looking forward to that you know thank you. now to other news that we're following for you here in r.t. the republicans in the u.s. have officially nominated mitt romney to challenge president obama in the race for

the white house recent opinion polls show romney and obama locked in a tight race with republicans accusing the president of causing unemployment and high taxes the party's main convention in florida now was course back a day and that fear is hurricane isaac might disrupt the proceedings the storm has now hit louisiana unleashing floodwaters and putting residents on alert for evacuations but a blogger richard spencer says it doesn't matter who takes office as neither will solve the country's economic woes. it's wrong to believe that a president really any president has so much power that he can with a magic wand make the dow jones industrial average go up or increase in oil no president can really do this and another thing that's connected with that is that a lot of these economic problems quite long in the making and if you really look back at what caused the financial crisis of two thousand and eight it was

a horror george bush's policies to get anyone with a polson to hold it into a thirty year mortgage but it was also this the federal reserve policy of essentially giving up free money to banks when it comes to low interest rates and also bailouts and things like these problems or more structural and there are deeper than just having a different face in the oval office and if you really think about it presidents get interchanged they they come and they go but these bankers. the new york police department is under fire from civil rights groups who say they broke federal guidelines on information gathering for over six years informants in the big apple spied a muslim americans watching them pray work and talk on the phone as our reports all that peeping came to nothing in a post nine eleven world it's no secret that the u.s. has exponentially expanded its surveillance practices in the name of national security however recent revelations indicate that local and federal officials have

wasted many years and enormous amount of tax dollars and faced no consequences over targeting muslim americans according to court documents the commanding officer of the n.y.p.d. intelligence division has testified that the department's so-called muslims by program has not produced even one more terrorism investigation in the past. six years now the new york city police department following the september eleventh attacks created a demographics unit this according to this sociedad press that unit mapped unmonitored muslim owned businesses and also had police officials infiltrate mosques and muslim student groups throughout the city and parts of new jersey according to reports the n.y.p.d. was also eavesdropping on conversations taking place between muslim americans now

many civil rights lawyers say the n.y.p.d. violated any laws and civil liberties by targeting people based on their ethnicity or their language they also argue that laws were broken because officials were trying to gather information on people that did not commit any crimes so here we are nearly eleven years following the september eleventh tops and america's most powerful arms of war and force may still appear to be targeting muslim americans this is of course left the f.b.i. and the n.y.p.d. producing very little results but critics say it's also left u.s. citizens with very little accountability for an up or nine artsy new york now pirates have seized a greek owned oil tanker off the west coast of africa was twenty four crew members on board all of them russians hijackers exchanged gunfire was told was security

forces but escaped on the tanker according to the international maritime bureau less than two weeks ago a similar incident in the region saw the crew released after the oil on board was stolen piracy has escalated them in west africa with six vessels seized this year. a look at some of the stories now in canada police have arrested eleven people at the university of montreal after students clashed with security guards to protest against tuition fees attempted to the struck classes. after the autumn term start of a monday the quebec provincial government has passed a bill forcing classes to reopen with fines for those trying to block access to rallies have seen scores of arrests throughout quebec this year. two days of violence in pakistan's largest city of karachi have claimed the lives of at least twenty four people that's according to local media most of the victims said to be connected to political and religious groups have been shot dead by gunmen riding

motorcycles pakistan's branch of taleban issued a warning to the country's government in response to an offensive in the militant militant stronghold in north waziristan. french prosecutors have opened a murder investigation into the death of former palestinian leader yasser arafat's his family filed a complaint last month after a swiss scientist hired for a documentary found traces of radioactive polonium on some of his belongings he was reported to have died of a stroke near paris in two thousand and four but rumors about poisoning have endured since his death. when she vonn ki-moon is due to arrive in iran to attend the sixteenth summit of the nonaligned movement despite strong objections from the u.s. and israel secretary general says he's planning to use the visit to address concerns about iran's nuclear program as well as a crisis in syria officials from one hundred twenty countries not connected to any our blog are expected at the gathering. and syria's moving to

dodge western sanctions danielle's our business desk yes more good morning granted stepping up trade relations with russia are sanctions still to point damascus has little exports including crude food like only for the country's economy chief country jamil recently visited mosco syria has also for loans and of the resistance in return something is rick of five percent as investors digest pates and when a few days ago the euro is holding near its seven week high on wednesday is that its only gives up to that group will just open mics lower opening in the first few minutes russia's benchmark two years those heading north of twenty minutes of trade premiers expected at the international coal show which kicks into gear today bentley j girl must see these unveiling new models of what's become one of the world's biggest motor events we're bringing the latest from there throughout the day for you and the world's deepest door well has been drilled fifteen times the

height of the tallest skyscraper devise bush relief for the twelve thousand meter boreholes may but exxon mobil is certainly one deposit in russia's forest six of the world's top ten deepest wells all in the region with all major force to go over further in the search for crude europe today well i definitely don't know thanks very much indeed and shortly we get a firsthand analysis of the syrian conflict from a man who took part in operations in the region and that's right after the headlines in just a couple of moments. from .

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