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all. week's top stories on our t.v. turkey's military intervention in syria gets the cold shoulder as rebels declare civilian airports their latest target warning international plights to stay away. a chorus of support for iran's peaceful nuclear program as the country destroys any notion that's been perfectly isolated by the west but the toasting of

a massive international something. the republicans especially nominated presidential candidate mitt romney promises a hard line stance against russia but faces criticism for flip flopping on major issues it's. the war of the wealthy but i'm over it successfully back legal attempts by a london based tycoon buddies exults to cut off a slice of his multibillion dollar fortune. though and welcome to our tease the weekly i'm karen terror and now for your news the most open push yet for military intervention in syria came this week proposed by turkey backing from both britain and france have proposed that you want to stop list meant of refugee camps on syrian soil which would be guarded and protected by

foreign forces feo a no fly zone the idea had a dead end however at the security council with russia and china standing against any further interference. but britain and france remain determined and think they might sidestep the un altogether and that according to brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition would be like a return to the pants. 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 and 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 bathed 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 this new so-called opposition government or what they will declare to be the legitimate government of the syrian people the rebel fighters say that foreign powers coming in and establishing a no fly zone over syria would significantly help them in their fight against assad's government but in the meantime their promise to expand their own offensive and a new battleground are 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 for it syrian army but that's not the only tactic employed by the

rebels that's raising serious questions as artie'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. no love i told you 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 what 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 retards and government forces and 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 escaped 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 challenged in syria is met with more whether by the government or the rebels the violence seems to be the name of the game and so the further shatters the prospects for peace agreement reality for the civilians caught in this bitter war. no for r.t. and moscow meanwhile syria's neighbors are feeling the heat of the long running war that's now were we were hard on al assad friendly jordan found itself between a rock and a hard place with a never ending stream of refugees from one side and arms smuggling from the other.

weighing in on the syria situation as wiki leaks with joins us on 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 t.v. interview since he was granted asylum by ecuador he criticized washington's harassment up with the leaks he said speaking the truth wasn't harmful unlike america's actions in iraq and afghanistan some of which his website helped expose also talked about a transnational surveillance empire that he says is quickly taking shape across the developed world it was a blower cited internet giants such as google as being complicit in a mammoth spying operation by the united states paul west and 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 keep leaks 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 any of the stuff that they revealed is fraudulent or misleading the whole story seems to be to take them out because the actual documents speak for themselves and clearly for the most part you know it's. a very relevant. and plenty more to come this hour including no mercy for minors. israeli veterans

speak out chronicling the humiliation and brutality their army has committed against palestinian children on t.v. and. also in attempt to tap into china as well as german chancellor angela merkel tries to convince space to use its billions to prop up an ailing. iran's nuclear ambitions have won some powerful backing as one hundred twenty countries wants their approval of peaceful atomic research in 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 had been left to reeling by the success of the gathering as they've been trying to undermine it all along it comes as a new report suggested iran has doubled its nuclear capacity but the document was rejected by tech run as politically motivated there was another blow for israel and

its western allies when the un chief ban ki moon appeared at the summit he condemned their persistent aggressive rhetoric and threats of the strike on iran saeed mohammad marandi a professor at the university of tech crunch says it's ironic that the us have forced iran chill 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 anymore twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but the americans and the europeans by taking iranian citizens and people hostage forced the iranians to take that 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 researchers

serai support for all rick believes iran is the main barrier to us how much money in the 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 you found to iran's participation and i'm sure that the united states and israel good likeness to ban ki moon to come down hard on iran but 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 in particular although i think they have the whole goal in mind they would love to be a global hamonic power that the nonaligned movement now is one hundred percent coming together to resist this kind of aggression. unlike iran its enemy israel has

lost popularity points or several israeli soldiers testify that children are 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 possibly or 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 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 or asians 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 radio parisian streets we had that we basically invaded the palestinian town 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. distilled it will being strong principles but he supposed friends who did team instead of us we were hoping 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 i.d.f. it's finding a been criticised on a number of fronts policy r.t.e. television here with our team and still have free on the programme the style just for old notes. we report on why many germans remain fallen to the deutsche mark and why it's still popular a decade out tripping hero was made the country's official currency. and two

hundred years after a key battle when russia fought against the invasion of napoleon enthusiasts are reacting the clash. a british high court has smashed the hopes and reputation of russia's self exiled tycoon buddies because of ski his high stakes lawsuit against billionaire compatriot but a mortgage was dismissed one of the most expensive cases in legal history more on that from archies laura smith. the final verdict in this case found against a body 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. what i want to promote himself was not in court. was he a relieved looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system that 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 key wold old brushes make a great show what they go to to back in the nineteen nineties the wild east as we called it back that we're talking about the history of sums of money offshore bank accounts elicit 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 the 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 megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this area in the shades in a menacing way but he spent his old ski says that he was driven out of billions of dollars when he says that i'm over it intimidates 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 he's also whenever business partners that he was making payments to it as well to keep it 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 fee so we've heard the results of this case new when the bet is going to be this time around but we may see more cases will be sneaking here in london. news of that mega rich squabble over billions in london might not go down well in crisis hit spain where. it's hard to calm one in four is now out of the job according to the latest figures from ural stat expert opinion on

that next hour. also online acting in bad faith we explore the reasons behind the other president a grise of islamic extremism in russia following a series of assassinations of moderate muslim clerics. u.s. presidential candidates have of this week been trading verbal blows as they toured the streets to see rather as they toured the states they see as vital to their success in november's election earlier republican mitt romney beat barack obama to the gulf coast visiting areas hit by hurricane isaac there's also been a lot of harsh rhetoric between the two obama supporters accused romney of paying little attention to u.s. soldiers fighting abroad all the republican slammed obama's term as a fair and policy failure and that out that he would show more backbone in relations with russia however sociology professor william robinson says the highly

personalized campaigns the fact that there's little real choice for american voters . 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 us military industrial complex this is a longstanding reality of u.s. electoral campaigns increasingly their personalized increasingly the real issues 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 attack there is one difference of substance and this is coming out in the campaign pickering and that is that the obama administration has been pursuing what we could call a very limited neocon as your answer in a little more social programs that are a little more just facts and really those are the only i feels are the only significant differences right now between these two parties in their presidential

candidates. the next artie's guy image can asks all for 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 that 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 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 there are brands and there are people trying to sell different products one of two products two products and it's. a pressure

that's not all it's not so much 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. head to argue dot com for more on this and many other stories here's what you can find there right now. an eleven year old pakistani girl allegedly falls victim to a mob was accused of trying to bring her from once for me and the koran burning. also online leave darkly humorous itchy and scratchy characters from the simpsons lose a cat and mouse game to russian lawmakers find out how. german chancellor angela merkel has wrapped up her visit to china it was aimed at tapping into the country's monetary muscle to help pull europe out of its downward spiral

she sought to boost the flow of investment from the. into the european stability a firewall against financial trouble that the chancellor worked hard to create however the german leaders overtures or met with a guarded response from china leaders were stopped short of pledging more cash injections into the european debt and school money from the european council on foreign relations explains why 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. offer 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 in the case of a boss obviously this is a european company and so it would 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 while germany as striving to make sure the euro stays afloat its all currency that deutsche mark is showing no signs of being discarded pair oliver has the details of berlin's old school savings for a rainy 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 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 was on the name of three the reason we accept bleach 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. it's not just in shops that they're accepted if you find a few d. mark 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 is not in one of my other lead relatives gave me before 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 deutsche marks as a minister. i keep them as a souvenir i'm not going to change them into euro and 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 euro zone 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 theory. though who say that in the banks vaults are trillions of marks being stockpiled should the euro crisis deepen only only rumors so if the cash that's returned isn't being kept for a rainy day what happens to it and once the exchange is complete those deutsche

marks the shredded ending their days is very expensive confetti peter all of a r.t. pearl in an epic event of the past has been brought back to life in russia thousands of actors in historic in a form have recreated the battle of but i did not wear russian soldiers all the invasion of napoleon exactly two centuries ago sambar now has more from the front line. battle is raging here at the field of bora deano to the west of moscow the french and the russians have squared up a cannons are blasting the infantry is squaring up and the cavalry is preparing to charge and the reenactment of the climactic battle of napoleon's invasion of russia two hundred years before cows of people have turned out to see this reenactment and has a come both from russia and all the way from france and germany to take part really

all of this on the scale of a hollywood film all the people here getting just a part of the experience of what it was like to be present at that great historical moment polian marched into russia in one thousand told with what was there a largest army ever assembled he intended to make imperial russia sue for peace and so become master of europe but it was here at this point to the west of moscow that the russians decided to stand and fight the result being an enormous long and brutal smorgon much of a battle the french guns pounded the russian lines all day rather like this but the russians failed to break they stood their ground the next day they were forced to retire from the field having lost so many men but polian took moscow but he wasn't able to keep it within two years not only had the polian failed to make imperial russia super peace it was the russian army that was marching into paris. to stay

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