i asked our common also that you could watch all the additions or the weekly eggs are an interview program that was broadcast here on r.c. including the one where he talks to ecuador and president rafael correa. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact of. the source material is what helps keep journalism on we. we wanted to preserve. something of. the longstanding conflict between israel and the palestinians continues with new evidence of children in the front line testimonies of always radio soldiers and a shocking video of how they separated a mother from her daughter in a small put seen in village have taken the strive to a new level of reports now from tel aviv. there were demonstrations as indeed there

are weekend now sally which is a palestinian village in footage that was captured on camera these soldiers can be seen going from house to house and physically taking people out of their homes one person was injured at least six people were arrested five of whom were children and there are pictures of the daughters of one woman trying to save their mother as she was manhandled by the soldiers who were or signaling stun grenades now these reports come hot on the heels of another damning conclusion there israeli defense forces has come under fire from its own rank and file an organization known as breaking the silence has published the testimonies of some thirty israeli soldiers and commanders and which they deal specifically with how the i.d.f. treats palestinian children palestinian minors they talk about the arbitrary use of violence by soldiers when it comes to children and at the same time they say that very often the idea of deliberately targets children and using them as human

shields during its operations but these reports also go on to say that even when children are not deliberately targeted they are not afforded any kind of protection when there is a shootout or any kind of military operation as you can witness from that distance that we published and from my own experiences as a soldier i have to say that the main point here is that there is there is no real distinction when it comes to treatment between adults and children for example we were doing constant arrest operations throughout the west bank arresting i don't know how many people you know on a nightly basis and many of the people that we were arresting were either children or teenagers did in most occasions we didn't even know why they were being arrested in one of the raid operations that we had to basically palestinian down south of the city of hebron the children started throwing stones at us so it's on point we picked a random kid that didn't even necessarily threw stones at us and used him as

a shoe. it distorted it will being thrown by his friends or by his supposed friends who did him instead of us we were all being that that would stop him somehow that would stop his friends from throwing stones obviously didn't help him he just got injured in the in the occasion so certainly not a good time for the idea for twentieth i've been criticized on a number of friends. r.t. television. and there's brings us back to the case of pro palestinian. rachel corrie was crushed by an israeli army bulldozing two thousand and three they twenty three year old was taking part in a demonstration trying to stop palestinian homes from being destroyed in gaza haven court ruled that israel was not responsible but journalist tom dale who witnessed corus death claims israel is trying to sweep the incident under the rug. it's tremendously disappointing on the basis of what i saw on that day in two thousand and three it's absolutely not possible to characterize what happened as an accident

in my view so i told the coach and as i told the israeli military investigation before that bulldozer driver had a very long drive up. before he got to rachel during which time he must have been able to see even on the face of the visitors shot presented to the court by the threat of military. head was visible above the top of the boulder sublight just before she was crushed and she clambered on a mound of trying to escape so my mind absolutely no doubt that he would have seen . this but it represents a want watching what happened on that day a culture in the israeli military think unity to such crimes and that culture impunity is the silly take it fortunately sometimes by the courts who deliberately turn a blind eye of course the main shoulders on which the fools palestinian shows because europe is full of civilians almost everyone that 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 . close matutinal happy to me i think that's just a means of evading that responsibility. this week iran was at the sun till the global political stage showing that despite economic sanctions and why it spread if occasions it's not as isolated as largely believed delegations from all the one hundred states gathered into run for the nonaligned movement summit a group of nations who don't consider themselves part of any power block dozens of country leaders attended including egypt's newly elected president mohamed morsi which marks the first visit to iran by an egyptian head of state since the nine hundred seventy nine islamic revolution the significance of the meeting was also underlined by the presence of the un chief who came despite the u.s. and israel discouraging him of doing so and independent research as psoriasis over

explains all the sounds about iran's role in the region and the histogram ki-moon does recognize the fact and he has said so this. player in the region and nothing much really can be solved you flowers if you want participation. sure that the united states and israel would like mr ban ki moon to come down hard on iran but he's also aware of the flag there's two thirds of the countries that belong to the united nations are member countries of the nine aligned group at the united states state department likes to say many things and i think that's precisely because they do tend to be very aggressive in their foreign policy towards certain countries in particular although i think they have the whole goal in mind they would love to be a global vision monic power. the nonaligned movement now is one hundred percent coming together to resist this kind of aggression to resist this kind of double

standards and hypocrisy and i think that's probably really thinking of the united states this point. so this summit in tehran resulted in a declaration stating every nation's right to peaceful development and he said nuclear energy seen as a binding of iran's controversial nuclear program it came just a new as a new report by the un atomic watchdog unmatched accusing the islamic state of stepping up its uranium enrichment and chant political analyst eric draitser says the timing of the release shows the only yays anything biased the iranians first of all they believe that they have the inherent right according to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty that they have the right to have a nuclear program so long as it's for peaceful purposes as is now accepted international law the united states and israel too to a large extent are terribly embarrassed about the fact that the nonaligned movement summit has gone off as a tremendous success and the fact that many around the world are seeing the n.a.m.

summit as really iran's coming out party in terms of geopolitics in terms of their position on the world stage and so the timing of the report i think is is in fact dubious and i would go further and remind people that the a a in many ways is part of what the leader in iran called the overt dictatorship of the united nations that is to say that the i.a.e.a. is always led by us produced think tank individuals like eldora di or his predecessors who will inevitably execute the agenda of the western powers regardless of whether that contravenes international law. this is and still ahead for you this hour with a history of flip flopping on political issues like republican presidential nominee mitt romney is becoming more of the punch line than a clear frontrunner from the white house. fears of radical islam spread throughout

russia after muslim leaders come under one time in the city on. britain's high court has given the final verdicts this week in one of the most expensive bottles in legal history so the exiled russian tycoon. has lost a multibillion dollar plea against his fellow countrymen and roman abramovich the charles a football club owner the months long standoff between the two only guards living in the u.k. heard scandalous accusations of greed and designer stayed laura smith takes a closer look at the case. the final verdict in this case found against bodies that is old school which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was also going for which run up what i want to promote himself was not in court but his old scheme was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but once the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he

was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the. whole of russia's a mega rich and what they got up to back in the nineteen nineties the wild east as we called it back then we're talking about sums of money offshore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash on the of course five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength and shake with no documentation which of course has made this case a very difficult one to judge it's cruel to london to school building billionaires along with their own megger expensive lawyers and dogs who walked around this area in their shades in a menacing way but he's got his old ski says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that i promote it intimidated him into selling shares in

russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact he would never a business partners that he was making payments to but is also key but they were only for political protection. roof in russian which has become a common collins in the legal circles here in london as a result of this case is that he did make regular payments to put his old ski up full of political protection but he says that. they weren't anything to do with the partnership they were often made in huge cash sums up to five million dollars hundred cash and totaling several hundred million dollars he says that he paid well but is also key to trouble in a private jet that he bought a french chateau and he also bought him a jewelry for his girlfriend but is also he wanted five point six billion dollars on top of the one point two billion that he received back in two thousand and two

from a mortgage this is been one of the biggest civil trials ever held in british legal history it's been hundreds of hours and resulted in millions of dollars worth of legal fees so we've heard the results of this case in new. york city this time around we may see more cases of this nature here in london. so after losing fortunes during high cost lawsuits some russian tycoons could use advice from a middle class chinese man to uphold their premium stages so learn more on our website r.t. dot com so you don't need to spend thousands of dollars to make a dream come true learn how chinese are all the stars now driving a luxury sports car. mind games chinese science scientists again close the gap between man and machine by inventing so much controlled drugs.

at the. u.s. presidential candidate mitt romney criticized the current president of barack obama for his handling of foreign affairs at the republican national convention this week his comments could be worse and for some nations as america's presidential election approaches so romney has a history of flip flopping on issues so it's hard to tell what his message will become. chicken 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 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 a 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 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. and it was the two party system in the us some voters feel they are going to left with much of a choice and later this hour also live in shows what he sees as the flaws of america's actual system but his approach. 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 softer although controlled and all the institutions that

manufacture opinion are so pervasive and our electoral system has become basically like an advertising it's become a sales promotions there are brands and there are people trying to sell different products one of two products. and it's. a pressure that not all it's not so much of the pressure that hard to resist it's a pressure that most people that most people aren't even aware that there is an alternative. take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour at least a dozen people are dead after a double suicide bombing near a military base in central afghanistan more than seventy others were injured they taliban said it sent out two bombers one driving a truck packed with explosives and the other also it. in belgium protests against the early release of the accomplice and ex-wife of the notorious

child killer and paedophile have ended in scuffles with police the demonstrations took place outside a convent where michel martin has been sent after serving just over half of her jail sentence the woman was sentenced to thirty years in prison for letting two girls starve to death in the cellar where helping her husband mark to true carry out sexual abuses on other girls. seven chair muslims have been shot dead in the city of quetta in pakistan police say gunmen on motorcycles falls the group off a bus and shots file them to survivors try to run away but were chased down and killed the talk is the latest in a wayward specter sectarian violence in pakistan and share groups blame the government for failing to hold the bloodshed. lot of the russia is a triscuit facing away will islamic radicalism after doug a stunning muslim spiritual leader was assassinated in his house on tuesday a female suicide bomber and the clerics home disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up this comes in the wake of last month's double assault

and muslim figures in the republic of tatarstan some experts believe the roots of extremism lead all the way to the middle east but others say the threat from anti islamic hatred could become even stronger if this can offer. the trip to work that turned to tragedy that our stance had moved he was driving when a series of blasts threw him from his car the man who's been openly against the spread of radical ideas among the lever survived to find out his deputy was shot dead in another part of town investigators still don't know the exact motivation behind the attack but the spotlight is now on the other stun most people here are muslim and that gets mentioned more and more when it comes to the spread of radical islam in russia yes some of the local muslim communities are financed by arab families from states where wacko business is an official religion the money has to be worked off and they demand their ideology is spread here. like

a business is one of the most fundamental branches of islam it's strongly advocated in saudi arabia which backs it up with billions of dollars of support across the muslim world its followers often oppose all other religions sometimes even calling for jihad holy war against them but any other radical movement of us live of course not part of the official religion here but i thought he saw a different ideas often taught in small mosques hidden from the mainstream. like this one form a boiler house rebuilt into a mosque in one of gazans many apartment blocks they aren't it's a mom's denying being radical but admit they do not support their stance of visual branches of islam. we don't divide brother muslims and there can be no radicalism no terrorism these are words only used by prove a kidders who want to discredit islam we were told here believers are taught sincerely any quality and there are no longer up held in modern society with

justice can only be achieved through islam and when someone says islam is the only fair way of life and social order they're called radical or extremist and what's the punishment for stealing the hand is chopped off. not the kind of punishment you'd find in russia's criminal code nevertheless such ideas are reportedly gaining more support among young muslims for some experts it could be partly to blame on how the list of banned extremist literature was thrown together. often in books by classical world famous authors have banned or even some of prophet muhammad saints how can we expect muslims to react and of course the radicals use this to gain influence. of course start our stan is a long way from becoming engulfed by the worst of radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism is now key in the wrong moves could only worsen

the situation you've got going to all of our d. that our son. just stay with us on the back by the recap of this week's top stories in just a few minutes. the .

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welcome this is c.n.n. these are the stories that shapes this week western nations around the pub calls for military intervention in syria in order to protect refugees but face criticism for aiming to help all the rebels who's fighting toxics are accused of being born crimes. treated in a song might have to spend from six months to get their code or an embassy in london the whistleblower makes a full cars during a rain to do you say he hopes for a diplomatic resolution to the standoff. also no longer an outcast iran refuses myths of its international isolation by hosting a high profile sun that attended by leaders and senior politicians from all over hundred countries despite opposition from. clash of honor guards russian business

tycoon romano when his in a multibillion dollar bombshell with fellow countrymen. and island of court in a case full of accuse ations of dirty dealings and spreads. up next to discuss the upcoming us presidential election on the troubles with america's political system was also then. we're sitting down with an author professor of philosophy and currently a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies injure a living thank you very much for joining me you contributed to a book it's titled hopeless barack obama and the politics of illusion what was the illusion in your opinion and how did it get hopeless well obama of course campaigned on the idea of hope and the possibility of change but he

was skillful in turning himself into something like a rorschach figure which anyone could see whatever they wanted to see the changes were not certainly ruptures with the past. and they dashed at the expectations of virtually every constituency that supported him because they envisioned. transformations of american domestic and foreign policy that were far more far reaching than what obama actually even attempted let alone achieved as far as foreign policy you're writing that president obama's wars could come back to bite him even the ones he didn't start but which you argue are his buy now he pledged to was draw from iraq and afghanistan he says that's what he doing in what way could they bite him well they could all fall apart. in fact the united

states lost both of those wars even before obama assumed office but the imperative that obama faced which was also the imperative that george bush faced in his final years was not to lose face i'd like you to expend a little bit on afghanistan you argue that ghana stand in particular certainly into a face saving operation for the president how is he handling that. well to the extent that he can develop a consensus in the political class in the united states to get out as soon as possible which seems to be happening not particularly through his own initiatives he will get out but unless that develops he is going to happen is going to have to be a continued presence there of some sort which is going to continue to wreak murder and mayhem and not to achieve any of the official objectives that the united states put forward in entering into that conflict in the first place if that explodes then obama will look bad because the united states will look weak and it will look it

will look defeated and that will and that's not a recipe for success for someone who is worked on an electoral campaign aside from the wars already on the u.s. plate you wrote that by far the biggest bullet for president obama to dodge is a war against iran do you think it might actually happen i mean expert even in the was government say so crazy idea. well it looks now like obama has dodged that bullet at least until november by basically by by by buying off israel with our arms what do you think about the president's approach with regards to iran when he's trying to cater to to everybody in a way to the israelis by saying that he would be ready to go to war and to everybody else by saying that he actually doesn't like the drums of war and there is still a chance for diplomacy to work i think the result is that although he maybe have succeeded in avoiding the war between now and the election and maybe even

afterwards one could hope the rationale for the war remains intact and so the past so the danger that some events could transpire which would lead to which would reignite the danger and maybe even lead to what to look at the eruption of the war remains real and obama hasn't effectively addressed that issue i think this is an instance of a general problem with obama's presidency and it's partly why it's very hard for anyone any of obama's supporters to come up with any reason for. it for supporting him especially for supporting him enthusiastically in the upcoming election other than that the alternative is so much worse. because whatever he's accomplished that could not on balance be given up a plus it's always in cumbered by negatives that are very

nearly cancel cancel out the benefits the contenders for the republican nomination they have a pretty scary rhetoric when it comes to foreign affairs everyone minus ron paul. they don't seem to have words political solution in there with capillary right and yet you called president obama the most part of the lot why well who's the most hawkish of the lot with respect to some issues they're not with respect to to all issues his position on afghanistan. is at least momentarily probably more hawkish than that of mitt romney they they. they have all of them said that now is the time to get out and obama has the steward of the empire can't say that and so he also well i gradually.