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sigrid lumbered sure to mccurry was easy to believe in its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach music creation why it should care about human to endure. this is why you should care only. the week's top stories on our t.v. turkey stab military intervention in syria gets the cold shoulder as rebels declare civilian airports their latest target warning international flights to stay away. a chorus of support for iran's peaceful nuclear program as the country destroys any notion it's been politically isolated by the u.s.

but it's hosting a massive international summit. the republicans this freshly nominated presidential candidate mitt romney promises a hard line stance against russia but faces criticism for flip flopping on major issues. and the war of the wealthy but imo which successfully beats back legal attempts by a london based body spit is cut off a slice of his multimillion dollar fortune. hello and welcome to our tease the weekly i'm karen to. broadcasting from our studio in moscow where it is five o'clock well the most open push out for military intervention in syria came this week proposed by turkey with backing from both

britain and france have proposed the u.n. establishment of refugee camps on syrian soil which would be guarded and protected by foreign forces you know. the idea hit a dead and the security council with russia and china stand against any further interference but britain and france remained determined and saying they might sidestep the un altogether and that according to brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition would be like a return to the past. if the united states and in france and britain consider the united nations to be nothing other than their plaything a fig leaf for their own foreign policy yes they're very disappointed in russia and china for quote weakening the un but if the un is actually to be a voice for peace of. a method an instrument to avoid war in the scourge of war to avoid the ravages of colonialism as it has pretended to be at least in the past

just it's very odd in ironic in fact completely hypocritical to have the french government saying to the syrian opposition you form a government and we'll recognize you i mean that's just a script from the good old days when the colonial powers operated through proxies so it will be they those who control the monopoly of violence that is the nato powers themselves who will be the ultimate determiner of what the character is of business so-called opposition government or what they will declare to be the widget i'm a government of the syrian people the rebel fighters say the foreign powers coming in and the stablish in a no fly zone over syria would significantly help them in their fight against assad's government but in the meantime they promise to expand their own offensive. and then you bounce around our civilian airports with the free syrian army warning airlines to avoid damascus and aleppo they say planes arriving at those two

locations are part of an alleged arms smuggling network for the government it's feared any aircraft landing there civilian or not could now be a target for the free syrian army but that's not the only tactic employed by the rebels that's raising serious questions as archie's lucy coffin of reports. 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. you know love what i do 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 a very close ties to the 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 the times and government forces 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. in moscow. meanwhile syria's neighbors are feeling the heat of the long run our

next hour we're more on how solid friendly jordan out of self between a rock and a hard place with a never ending stream of refugees from one side and arms smuggling from the other are. also weighing in on the syria situation is wiki leaks with joy assad promising to publish millions of e-mails showing just how comfortable the west used to be with assad and why the media is so intent on vilifying him in his first interview since he was granted asylum but ecuador he criticized washington's for ausmin top wiki leaks he said speaking the truth wasn't harmful unlike america's actions in iraq and afghanistan some of which his website help excess helped to expose a silent also talked about a transnational surveillance and pirate that he says is quickly taking shape across

the developed world lower side it internet giants such as google as being complicit in a mammoth spying operation by the united states paul with friends from the u.k. independence party says the issues wiki leaks brings up are extremely relevant. we here in britain suffer even more from this surveillance society in the united states london is the world capital of surveillance everywhere you look there's a c.c.t.v. camera we are constantly monitored monitored twenty four hours a day. now we we in the u.k. independence party try and fight this in the same way that we kill each has been trying to do but it's very difficult because you're made out to be against the rule of law or if you don't want to be surveyed you know every moment of your your waking life but the fact of the matter is that there's been no attempt to say that only of the stuff that they revealed is fraudulent or it's misleading the whole

story seems to be true so to take them out because the actual documents for themselves are not clearly for the most part you know it's. very relevant you know . to stay with r t we have plenty more to come this hour including no mercy for minor israeli veterans speak out pulling the humiliation and brutality their army has committed against palestinian children. also ahead acting in ballots say we explore the reasons behind an unprecedented rise of islamic extremism in russia following a series of assassinations of moderate on. iran's nuclear ambitions have won some powerful backing as one hundred twenty countries will use their approval of peaceful atomic research on the country this was the key point in a unanimously adopted resolution that wrapped up

a nonaligned movement summit in teheran the us and israel have been left reeling by the success of the gathering as they have been trying to undermine it all along it comes as a new i hear a report suggested iran has doubled its nuclear capacity but the document was rejected by iran as politically motivated there was another blow for israel and its western allies when u.n. chief bond ki-moon appeared at the summit he condemned their persistent oppressive rhetoric and threats of a strike on iran side mohammad marandi a professor at the university of tehran says it's ironic that the u.s. has forced iran to launch an atomic program. the iranians are saying that this report came out a sensitive time to sort of distract attention away from this iranian success the irony here is that the iranians at the beginning had no intention whatsoever to produce it you anyway twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but the

americans and the europeans by taking. a citizen. people hostage forced the iranians to take the politicians senior politicians really know that an attack on iran would be devastating for the united states and not only for its economy but for its global position and its credibility. independent researcher soraya said before all right believes iran is the main barrier to u.s. hedge amounting in their region mr brime ki-moon does recognize the fact and he has said so this iran is a key player in the region and nothing much really can be solved youth hours if you want participation and i'm sure that the united states and israel would like mr ban ki moon to come down hard on iran because he's also aware of the fact there's two thirds of the countries that belong to the united nations are member countries of the nine aligned movement the united states state department they do tend to be

very aggressive in their foreign policy towards certain countries and pretty clear although i think they have the whole goal in mind they would love to be a global vision monic power that the nonaligned movement now is one hundred percent coming together to resist this kind of aggression. unlike iran and its enemy as ariel has lost popularity points after several israeli soldiers testify that children were often their main targets their words were backed by shocking footage showing how its army had separated a mother from her daughter and a small palestinian village artist paul slayer has the story. there were demonstrations as indeed there are if we had not been silent 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 is ready 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 op or treat 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 using them as human shields during its operations but these reports also going 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 distant one is 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 in many of the people that we were arresting were either children or teenagers did the most occasions we didn't even know why they were being arrested in one of the raid operations to it we had to basically invaded the palestinian town south of the city of hebron the children started throwing stones at us so it's some 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 strong. but he's supposed friends who did team instead of us we were hoping that that would stop him somehow did would stop his friends from throwing stones obviously didn't help him he just got injured in the in the so certainly not a good time for the i.d.f.

its funding of been criticized on a number of fronts policy r.t.e. television. still a lot more to come in the program including an attempt to tap into beijing's brilliance german chancellor angela merkel baker makes her plea in beijing hoping to convince china to use its massive cash reserves to problem an ailing eurostar. class we were poured on why the germans are something astounding for the torch market and why it's still popular a decade after the euro was made the country's official currency. the british high court has smashed the hopes and reputation of russia itself exile take on bodies but it's off skate as high stakes lawsuit against billionaire compatriot but our mortgage was dismissed in one of the most expensive cases in legal history more on that from archies laura smith. the final verdict in this case found against

bodies which means that he won't receive a cent all the more than five point six billion dollars that he was also going for . each run up but i want to promote himself was not in court it is old steve was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system what was 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 old old brushes make a great show what they go to up to back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back then we're talking about the history of sums of money off shore bank accounts illicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. or of kools five star hotels ski resorts and enormous business deals done only on the strength of a handshake with no documentation which of course has made this case

a very difficult one to judge it's cruel to london to school building a billion eggs along with their own two rushes megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around the courts area in the shades in a menacing way but he said that is all this case says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that i'm over 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 him but it's also good whenever business partners that he was making payments to but is also key but they were only for political protection. roof in russian 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 which this is being 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 knew when the bet is on speed this time around but we may see more cases of this nature here in london. they are us presidential candidates have of this soyinka been trading verbal blow as they toured the states they see as vital to their success in november selection earlier republican mitt romney beat barack obama to the gulf coast residents areas hit by hurricane isaac there's also been a lot of harsh rhetoric between the two bomb the supporters of cues romney are paying more attention to us soldiers have brought republican slammed obama stands as a foreign policy failure and valve that he would show more backbone in relations with russia however sociology professor william robinson says the highly personalized campaigns hype the fact that there's a little choice for american voters seemed out of place there's no real

significant difference between the republicans and the democrats regard to the economic program both parties are beholden to transnational corporate interests particularly to banking interests of oil interests to the u.s. military industrial complex this is a longstanding reality of the u.s. electoral campaigns increasingly their personalized increasingly the real issues are at stake the vital issues for the people in the united states and worldwide are not dealt with and increasingly they are simple simply personalized the times there is one difference of substance and this is coming out in the campaign and that is that the obama administration has been pursuing what we could call a very limited neocon is just a little more social programs that are a little more real and really those are the only high seal's of the only significant differences right now between these two parties in their presidential candidates. next hour our team is going literature can asks author andrew levine how much genuine choice americans have at the upcoming election here's

a preview. it's sort of like. a coke and pepsi and level of antagonism and out of we exist in the places where those things are manufactured and marketed but at the level of underlying political vision or underlying political orientation there isn't that much difference and romney would probably be perfectly happy doing what obama does we have a media which is so thoroughly to control 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 they're a brand and there are people trying to sell different products one of two products to a product and it's. a pressure that not all it's not so much of the pressure the tard to resist it's a pressure that most people or most people aren't even aware that there is an

alternative. attacks against muslim leaders in russia have been on the rise recently raising fears of a steady growth in radicalism and influential sheikh was killed on tuesday in the dark this time when a female suicide bomber entered the clerics home disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up this comes after a double assault on muslim figures in the republic of that that's in july artie's you go to school all found out where the roots of extremism are leading. 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 to other stuff on most people here

are muslim and that gets mentioned more and more when it comes to the spread of radical islam in washington yes some of the local muslim communities are financed by arab families from states where it's 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 abysmal in any other radical movement of us lot of course not part of the official religion here but i thought the same 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 the moms 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 and equality and there are no longer are 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 author is a band or in some of prophet muhammad saints how can we expect muslims to react and

of course the radicals use this to gain influence. of course star stan is a long way from becoming engulfed by the war stuff 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 of r.t. that are stun. and you can check out our t. dot com for more on this and many other stories here's what you can find there right now. and the eleven year old pakistani girl allegedly falls victim to any mom who is accused of trying to frame her for the last for me and make long for i mean kate's. big darkly humorous she scratchy characters from the simpsons lose a cat and mouse game to russian lawmakers sometime down the aisle that are called.

two hundred years after eight he rattled when russia against the invasion of napoleon enthusiasts are retired now acting with class we're bringing you right here a lot of spectacular transmission of our event and that's all at our website r t v dot com. german chancellor angela merkel has wrapped up her visit to china that was aimed at tapping into the country's monetary muscle to help pull europe out of its downward spiral the leader of europe's biggest economy oversaw the signing of business deals for the billions and discussed trade disputes which also sought to boost the flow of investment from beijing into the european stability fund a fire wall against financial trouble that the chancellor worked hard to create however holland's koon did not need from the european council on foreign affair

foreign relations says the chinese are in no hurry to lend a 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 bones 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 that in the case of a bus 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 for

german companies are open to european companies and so to do in that sense there is a competition going on between germany and other european countries and mostly germany seems to be winning that competition and while germany is trying to make sure the euro stays afloat its old currency to do it market showing no signs of being discarded participator oliver has the details of berlin's old school savings for a rainy day. here in germany the don't trot 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 dollars each marks to the euro the store's manager says that there's still enough of the old currency around to warrant them taking it on to name 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 from 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 each marks were brought to the bundesbank to be changed into crisp new currency but where is that cash coming from. he had that has not been one of my other leave relatives gave me beef corns as a gift so i decided to turn them into something it could spend television. we've had them lying around the house for ages we've only just got around to getting democrats changed there are those though who say they won't part with their deutsche marks as a good sum i keep them as a souvenir i'm not going to change them into europe. 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 who say. 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. . to try and stay with our tale be back with an update of the week's top stories in a few minutes.