officials at least two hundred twenty nine thousand syrians have fled the country in the past eighteen months spilling over to neighboring countries turkey has asked the security council to consider setting up refugee camps inside of syria that outside countries would safeguard this is a suggestion that the syrian government say they are very much against russia and china also opposed that saying that it could only create more conflict and violence but we did hear all western countries address the security council their representatives are calling once again for syrian president bashar al assad to step down britain and france the foreign ministers of those countries today made a new call encouraging for more defections within the syrian government and the syrian military the russian ambassador to the united nations vitaly churkin i did address the security council and raised the issue of the fact that the unilateral sanctions that western countries including the u.s.

britain france those sanctions that they've placed on syria are only hurting the syrians that there was up on the stool the sink is imposed by passing the u.n. security council have nothing to do with actual efforts to settle the syrian crisis complicate the lives of average citizens and do not allow them to meet their elementary meads or fully enjoy basic human rights this is not only our conclusion but also that of an independent commission in syria we call upon nations who impose sanctions against syria to immediately lift them you see the efforts of certain states to use humanitarian reasons to justify financial technical and logistical support to illegally armed groups as an acceptable. but the u.s. and its western allies have underscored as late as this eat this meeting taking place security council that they will continue supporting the syrian opposition and continue providing them with a quick meant. professor paul sheldon foote from california state university has

been monitoring turkey's no fly zone bid he says that underneath the rhetoric and professed humanitarian concerns it's all about politics. it's a pretext it's still another way to divide and take over the country using the united nations as your vehicle is unfortunately a repetition of what happened in libya or the united nations being used to promote war instead of both case their playbook worked in libya they were drawn to the same playbook and deal with those who work at war there is little desire. of the west's nailed to have been negotiated so to live the old with the purpose of this exercise is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east for well in searches by way of syria you wrote in other places all these other things are excuses there to claim that they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross war also weighing in on the syria situation as wiki leaks but joining us on

promising to publish millions of emails to cast new light on the crisis they're supposed to show just how comfortable the west used to be with president assad and how the media is currently being manipulated to vilify him it was a blower made his comments during a rare interview with a south american t.v. network while he's holed up at the ecuadorian embassy in london criticised washington's harassment to point the leaks saying speaking the truth should never be considered a crime he also mentioned how the west is turning into a surveillance mega state which a believes makes a mockery of human rights as predicted he would stay for up to a year at the embassy surrounded by british police until either a diplomatic solution is found the case against him is dropped. and we've been following julian assange has legal battle and now you can track it back to the very beginning all on our website com and while you're there here's a taste of what else might catch your eye. plans for

a new app which gives the latest updates on u.s. military drone attacks including a body count find out why the app hasn't been approved. also on line vision all the future woman who had lost her sight has got it back again surgeons have implanted her with the first ever successful by on a guy. here with our team and mitt romney has been outlining more of his policy plans as he accepted his nomination as the republican candidate for the u.s. presidency he wants more stressed his aggressive views toward some nations including russia but with a reputation for changing his stance can be hard to tell just how trustworthy it's

going to count explains. mitt romney is now officially barack obama's opponent for the white house and he's talking tough throwing rocks well verbal rocks not only the president but also nations at the republican convention where he accepted his nomination mr romney did not fail to once again highlight his animosity towards russia he criticized the president for not being hard enough in his view on russia when it comes to missile defense mitt romney says under his administration quote mr putin will see less flexibility and more backbone and of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one geopolitical enemy and that they need to reset the reset that's actually what he says on his website as part of mitt romney's foreign policy agenda so yes a lot of tough talk i heard experts say that's how mitt romney makes up for lack of charisma what's interesting about the backbone comment is that mitt romney himself

is often characterized as lacking the backbone as he has flip flopped on so many issues like abortion he was for abortion before he was against it or illegal immigration he was for giving them legal status that he was for deporting them mitt romney is flip flops have been widely discussed they've become an endless source of inspiration for comedians this is. from the tonight show with jay leno it says actually mitt romney and hurricane isaac have something in common they can both change directions at any moment and another comedian goes obama is like you can be whatever you want to be while romney is like i can be whatever you want me to be there are tons of jokes about mitt romney and his backbone issues apparently one way of showing some backbone for him is this kind of tough talk full of threats we'll see how far it will take him in this november election. the idea of america's

greatness and special position in the world is a staple of both candidates campaigns but is it fair to say that the u.s. has a unique role to play in global affairs that's the question in today's cross talk and it's coming up at fifteen thirty g.m.t. . which take a look at a very well known clip from h.b.o.'s program newsroom. just in case you accidentally wander into a voting booth one day there's some things you should know and one of them is there is absolutely no evidence to support the statement that we're the greatest country in the world we lead the world in only three categories number of cars per capita number of adults who believe angels are real and depends upon who is america's number one there's a there's a gradual decline john quincy adams said when he was secretary of state in eight hundred twenty one before was president that we could be dictators of the world what our policy would then shift from a policy of liberty and freedom to a policy of domination and control and now we are

a country that's lost its way and it's not because we may not be number one in the amount of arms we sell you know we felt about three quarters of all the arms abroad or have the greatest military power but because we lost our moral stature and values of who we are as a people. all right german chancellor angela merkel is on a visit to china hoping to tap into the country's monetary muscle to help pull europe out of the downward spiral she's seeking to boost the flow of investment from beijing into the european stability front a firewall against financial trouble that the chancellor worked hard to create however hans the money from the european council of foreign relations says the chinese are not in a hurry to lend a helping hand to berlin. the big hope in europe is that the chinese would invest in some of the new vehicles that have been crazy like the european stability

mechanism. the chinese. offering lots of words of support today and yesterday but not much in the way of concrete promises to buy bonds in any case the chinese don't tend to make their bond purchases public so we don't know for example how much the chinese invested in european bonds in the last two years since the euro crisis began anyway and we probably won't know so there's a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty about in the case of their boss obviously this is a european company and so it will benefit not just germany but also france and other countries in europe but lots of the deals that have been signed. off of the german companies are old and for european companies and so in that sense there is a competition going on between germany and other european countries germany seems to be winning that competition. germany and striving to make sure the euro stays afloat its old currency market showing no signs of being discarded actors peter

oliver has the details of berlin's old school savings per day. here in germany the don't try are still very much alive and kicking in fact in a store in central berlin the good old they market is still accepted as legal tender when it comes to purchases with an exchange rate of around two dogs marks to the euro the store's manager says that there's still enough of the old currency around to warrant them taking it was on the name of three the reason we accept which marks is there are still plenty of people with the old currency we get quite a few people wanting to spend them in our store for it's not just in shops that they're accepted if you find a few demarche coins down the back of the sofa germany's public telephones will happily take them off your hands germany officially dropped the old money for the euro over ten years ago in two thousand and eleven alone though over eight million

dollars marks were brought to the bundesbank to be changed into crisp new currency but where is that cash coming from. that he had that is not only one of my ugly relatives gave me the school and as a gift so i decided to turn them into something it could spend on television. we've had them lying around the house for ages we've only just got around to getting democrats changed or there are those though who say they won't part with their marks as a minister. i keep them as a souvenir i'm not going to change them into euro any according to the blunders bank there's still more than thirteen billion dollars each marks in circulation they say they get returns from as far away as brazil and new zealand so unlike some eurozone members the bank won't place a time limit on accepting old money. so we will continue to take them as long

as people keep bringing them it's something of a tradition here that currency from years and years ago will always be exchanged for legal tender there are conspiracy theorists though. you say that in the banks vaults are trillions of marks being stockpiled should the euro crisis deepen only rumors so if the cash that's returned isn't being kept for a rainy day what happens to it and once the exchanges completes those deutsche marks the shredded ending their days as very expensive confetti feature all of a r.t. . let's now have a look at some other international news in brea south africa's justice minister has demanded an explanation over the decision to charge almost three hundred miners with the murder of their thirty four coworkers despite the fact the victims were killed by police prosecutors claim police were provoked during the incident two weeks ago and open fire only after orange protesters attacked them but there is

huge public outrage with many believing the government is trying to shift the blame incident was the bloodiest in the country's history since it became a democracy in one nine hundred ninety four. iran has rejected a as a political move of the latest report by the u.n. nuclear watchdog which claims the country's doubled to the number of uranium enrichment such a few users are finding sparked a wave of concern from some western nations and especially israel despite the fact only about a third of centrifuges are operational iran believes the i.a.e.a. report is aimed at overshadowing the nonaligned movement summit in teheran where the country's again stressed that its nuclear program is entirely peaceful. to massive wildfire in southern spain has forced around four thousand people to flee their homes with some losing everything in the flames firefighters believe the blaze was started deliberately they hope to get it under control by the end of the

day spain's countryside has been very dry this summer because of a prolonged heat wave. tens of thousands have taken to the streets of seoul to protest government labor policies and support the ongoing strike now one of south korea's largest trade unions nationwide out of more than one hundred thousand employees is expected to be supported by other unions the protesters demanded an end to the privatization of public companies and want to put a stop to mask. the main office and the private sector. the meter joins us from the business desk and all eyes on wyoming today where central bankers are meeting has arrived investors are basically rubbing their hands in anticipation of the fed chairman ben bernanke east speech now two years ago he gave a hint that there will be a new wave of quantitative easing and basically happened he expanded for out the

year let's take a look at what's happening on the markets a pretty much illustrates the anticipation on the market with the dax up one point four percent that self would see like behind a bit point six percent u.s. futures are also pointing to a positive start and this is all on hopes that ben bernanke he will announce further stimulus maybe a new wave of quantity easing although personally i doubt that there will be any kind of indication because we know we've had this story many many times that investors are very much anticipating this kind of action from the government but it seems the economic data is not bad enough to have one thing on the market i mean i won't be disappointed if i'm a. second ago a more stories now one of european union's few growth stories poland is feeling the squeeze of the downturn the country's second quarter growth eased to two point four percent the lowest in three years and significantly below the forecast poland's

g.d.p. kept expanding over the last few years well much of the e.u. showed negative growth at a series of gloomy economic indicators show that the so-called economic miracle is coming to an end. all right let's move over to the russian markets and it's kind of out of sync from its global peers with the my six actually declining point three percent the past couple of weeks we have seen a lot of steady growth and now it seems there's a much anticipated correction. and it's coming in with the my six driven down by luke oil shares after the company announced that it has been spending massive amounts of money on buying back its own shares could potentially continue doing so by the end of the year but it seems investors are now taking their profits in that company well among other stories after of as shares are very much of beat one other half percent now the car maker has announced they will be building the new version

of the red over logan car next year now flagship carrier air flow is down point six percent its announced passenger numbers up to twenty five percent in the first seven months of the year but it seems investors are not that impressed with that number and no most bank is an outstanding gain is actually a finley traded stock it's a second tier maybe even a two year asset and now it's up almost fourteen percent as you can see that was up around twenty percent that's as financial corporation that. said that it was consolidating the banks shares actually it didn't say so there are so correct myself now let's move over to commodities and this is still a continuation of the same story in anticipation of further stimulus from the government which means there will be potentially higher demand for energy oil is up as you can see there more than one dollar for the lights and on the currencies

market the euro is gaining massively although we could say that it's the dollar losing because if there will be more quantitative easing then the u.s. government will probably need a weaker dollar and therefore investors are selling it right now the russian ruble is in line with that trend it's up against the dollar although it has been losing a value for the whole week. now in other stories the privatization of russia's state assets could soon go online the state has agreed the terms of selling its property for electronic auctions and the. this would make the privatisation easier and more transparent however online sales do not exclude privatizing state assets for more traditional means. staying with high tech russia's largest free email service mail to our you has bought out its ukrainian namesake mail dot usa companies did not disclose the financial details of the deal but alice estimated to be worth around half a billion dollars now this move should boost mail to our use position in ukraine

where it's already pretty popular. and china is aiming to push its you want to be used more in international trade is currently using it in operations with hong kong and singapore and now it's eyeing latin america and the middle east russia has been long trying to do the same hong kong's financial secretary john tsang told r.t. the two countries can help each other but what is happening now is a great deal of trace. in the national currency so in terms of for example between russia and china they would be doing a lot of settlement in un or in ruble this way you can we reduce the currency risk that may incur and that is already happening i think we should expect to see a lot more of that and as these two currencies become at some stage of currency for

for the rest of the world. all right fed chairman ben bernanke is due to start talking at around thirty five minutes time at least expected to so next hour how for more information on that for you all right thank you very much for that update on the train i will be back with a recap of our top stories in just a couple of minutes stay with us.

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hello and welcome to our team karen terrell with your top stories the winner takes it all the loser's standing small the russian self the exiled tycoon bodies for the result is left empty handed after it runs an import dismisses his hat to a lawsuit against billionaire but imo rich. turkeys pitch for a syrian intervention has a dead end the new one leaving nato countries with morning they might simply provide the security council. plus republican mitt romney accepts his nomination as a presidential candidate with a promise to show russia more backbone critics snipe that's not his greatest asset . well with the two presidential runners now officially named r t's remain

dia talks to scholar and researcher of on l. and about the race for the white house. what do you read into the g.o.p. convention. well conventions in the u.s. now are sort of a beauty contest they're not they used to be in the history they used to have a lot more effect than nominees actually chosen at the conventions but now we have a party primary and caucus system which does that so it's just sort of a coronation of the nominee of the particular party and they script them pretty heavily romney has complete control over the conference convention there of a sort of you ron paul supporters that kicked up a little bit but largely even ron paul is playing the game inside the party so you don't see hardly any disputes or anything like that over the platform or anything

else and no surprises all the romney started at the very beginning of his campaign was very rough there was a lot of competition a lot of other candidates who basically discredit him and yet now at the convention it seems as the g.o.p. just wants from need to be the president yes well they've all that's the tradition in american politics usually is they have about a battle during the primaries call each other all sorts of names criticize each other's policy and then all of a sudden you see people who are criticizing him before when he gets enough electoral i mean convention delegates he flip and then start supporting him so as it ran this time they think now for the u.s. well usually they're on the republican side they they nominate the person who lost last time the next in line the democrats are a little bit more if he but but i think it basically comes down to these

conventions and surf surface phenomena at the don't really mean much people who actually study elections in the u.s. say it's not really between two candidates it's a referendum on the current in a straight and so you know they could have almost anybody running and the economy is bad and it's going to be very close but i think some of the models predict obama still leaking it out of a. close victory but it's going to be close so those models could be off as well but i think obama has an intrinsic. advantage in the electoral college because in the united states you know we don't. as we saw in two thousand election we don't elect the president on the popular vote it can sometimes be different than the electoral college so we really don't have a national election we have a state by state election and so. the candidates have to win so many states which add up to two hundred seventy electoral votes and so that can sometimes differ from the national popular vote totals so this could be another election

where that happens we'll see obama as a slight edge in the electoral map and they kind of means that romney's policies are too far to the right and he seems as if he's moving even further to the right choosing paul ryan for instance a lot of people like his and accuse him of wanting to assert to the right wing of the republican party do you think the u.s. is moving in that direction or is it just politics that brought him here well the republicans seem to think that they can energize their base more than the democratic base because the democratic base is kind of disappointed with obama in certain respects and if they can energize their base they can win that way but i don't know that's a bit iffy i think they may have made a bad choice in paul ryan and i think that's choosing him said ok we're going to mobilize our base instead of going for independent voters because he would have picked romney would pick somebody that was like chris christie or somebody that was

more moderate to go out to the center and there may have been a mistake because most of the conservatives are going to vote against obama. and so they really didn't need paul ryan they needed somebody to get people in the middle particularly. suburban women and you see these comments by the republican candidate. one of the senate candidates on abortion and rape. you know that really. disaffect women so the republicans led that's what happened leading up to the convention so they don't really want to talk about that the republicans want to talk about the economy and they want all those social issues which are very divisive and might turn key voting blocks like suburban women against them so in a close election they really need everybody on their side do you think he's able to move to appeal to the middle well not as much i guess somewhat it's hard to say where he stands on many issues he's kind of moved around enough that's believable

but after you do that and now if people you know stick you with the flip flopper type thing flipping back and forth between you know views like john kerry was labeled with that. a while back for the demo on the democratic side you know if you're inconsistent on your and then mitt romney has been inconsistent on abortion assault weapons ban and even on health care yes in fact obama and mitt romney have switched positions because used to be obama was against his own what became his own healthcare plan because hillary originally proposed it during the primaries and of course mitt romney was the guy who dreamed up the whole thing is governor of massachusetts and now he's against that sort of thing so you never know what's going to happen or what position they're going to take but that changing of positions don't you think it's going to weaken his campaign running his campaign especially now when you're talking health care economy.