earlier this week there was another glaring example a story about how rebels were caught using a blindfolded prisoner as an unwitting suicide bomber disappears from mainstream airwaves the latest in a series of such reports that were quickly shelved next hour. also we queue leaks it begins publishing it millions of lead to syrian government e-mails as julian assange blasts what he calls the trans national surveillance empire that is taking over the developing world. iran's nuclear ambitions have won some powerful backing as one hundred twenty countries voiced 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 tehran the us and israel have 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 i.a.e.a. report suggested iran has doubled its nuclear capacity but the document was

rejected by tehran as politically motivated there was another blow for israel and its western allies when un chief ban ki moon appeared at the summit he condemned their persistent aggressive rhetoric and threats of a strike on iran geo political analyst eric draitser believes the summit clearly indicates the u.s. efforts to isolate iran have been in vain. 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. 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 die or

his predecessors who will inevitably execute the agenda of the western powers regardless of whether that contravenes international law iran plans to return its oil experts to the levels they were out before july's that you ban and in achieving that iran expects help from its asian partners japan india and china have been regular customers of iranian crude despite the current sanctions author and journalist off she believes the nonaligned movement summit has shown the world's real feelings towards iran the united states and nature do not want any type of or sovereignty to remain a normal. nations it's a great pity and i do hope those capitals as nato capitals will get increasingly moved right but what. comes. in their attempts to trade with through what is basic western

a germany they have views regarding any type of peace in the middle east will hold famo sway than any here imposed views from london washington or brussels and i suppose the way that they react is by not covering it in the mainstream media as much. still ahead for you later this hour she was killed on purpose. our team hears from a witness to the death of u.s. activist rachel corrie who was killed by an israeli army bulldozer a court controversially cleared the military of any blame plus. explores the reasons behind and unprecedented rise of islamic excrete the stream ism in russia following a series of assassinations of moderate muslim clerics. mitt romney officially accepted his nomination as republican presidential candidate this week as he did so he slammed his rival barack obama saying his handling of foreign affairs was poor romney said a much tougher stance must be taken towards some countries including russia but

critics have questioned much of what was said artie's going to church or can comments. 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 any masorti 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 end of quote and of course that adds up to his earlier statements that russia is america's number one job political 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 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 that 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. meanwhile in charlotte north carolina hundreds of occupy demonstrators took to the streets ahead of the democratic national convention protesters are marching through the city's business districts chanting slogans and holding up signs decrying corporate influence on u.s. politics the democrats' convention is set to open in the city on later on monday earlier demonstrators gathered in tampa during the republican national convention but the turnout was less than expected due to hurricane isaac that passed through florida. a u.k. court has shattered the hopes and of the reputation of russia's tycoon boris berezovsky his high stakes lawsuit against billionaire compatriot roman abramovich was dismissed in one of the most expensive cases in a british legal history artie's lawyer smith is in london and has the story for us . 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 asking for but imo which run up what i want to promote himself was not in court but it is 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 all the viewing of the general public the milky worlds of russia's mega rich and what they go to up to back in the nineteenth ninety's 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. 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 brought to london to school building billionaires along with their own to raj is megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this area in their shades in a menacing way but he spit his old ski says that he was done out of billions of dollars when he says that abramovich intimidated him into selling shares in russian metals and oil companies for a fraction of what they were but abramovich says that in fact. when never business partners that he was making payments to bid as well scheme but they were only for political protection. roof in russian but as 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 feat so we've had the results of this case new when this

time around we may see more cases of this nature here in london. while news of that mega rich court battle over billions in london might not go down so well in crisis hit spain where one in four is now out of work or into the latest figures from the euro stat expert opinion more on that in just a few minutes. and two hundred years after a key battle when russia fought against the invasion of napoleon enthusiasts are reenacting the clash. a defeat for justice that's how a u.n. official branded the verdict by an israeli court clearing the military of any blame for the death of u.s. activist rachel corrie she was run over by an army bulldozer in two thousand and three the twenty three year old it was taking part in a protest against the demolition of palestinian homes in gaza but the judge ruled it was an accident brought on by cory's own actions human rights groups have criticized the decision fearing the case sets

a dangerous precedent that will allow israel's defense forces to operate with impunity journalist tom dale witnessed cory's death and claims he's sure the driver killed her on purpose. it's tremendously just pointing out on the basis of what i saw on that day in two thousand and three it's absolutely not possible to characterize what happens next in my view i told the court and as i told the truth before that bulldozer driver had a very long drive up. before he got to rachel jury which time he must have been able to see. both that took place just before she was crushed and she clambered on a mound of trying to escape so in my mind it's absolutely no doubt that he would have seen a culture in the israeli military unity such crimes and that courtroom facilitated fortunately sometimes by the close attacks by radical muslims on moderate islamic

leaders in russia have been on the rise recently prompting fears of a surge in extremism and influential sheikh was killed today and augustana when a female suicide bomber entered the clerics omit disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up this comes after a double assault on moderate muslim figures in central russia in july to see what peace can offer found out where the roots of extremism are leaving. the trip to work that turned to tragedy our stance had moved he was driving when it sees a blast through him from his car the man who's been openly against the spread of radical ideas among believers 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 spotlights 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 community are financed by arab families from

states where lack of islam has an official religion on the couple the money has to be worked off and they demand the ideology aside reza that's a sign that any luck of business is one of the most fundamental branches of islam it 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 or any other radical movement of us lot of course not part of the official religion here but i thought he say different ideas often taught in smaller mosques hidden from the mainstream. like this one form a boiler house rebuilt into a mosque in one of gazans many apartment blocks the art it's the mom's denying being radical but admit they do not support their stance official branches of islam and many of the 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 as. we were told here believers are taught sincerely and equality there are no longer up held in modern society looking with justice can only be achieved through islam someone says islam is the only thing a way of life and social order that called radical the more extreme islamists and what's the punishment for stealing a lot of bad and his chair. not the kind of punishment you'd find in russia's criminal court nevertheless such ideas are reportedly gaining more support among young muslims for some of its words it could be partly to blame and how the list of banned extremist literature was thrown together. often in the books by classical world famous author is a. prophet muhammad saying how can we expect muslims to react course the radicals use this to gain influence. of course start their stand is

a long week from becoming engulfed by the worst of radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism is now keep the wrong moves could only resourcing the situation you go to school of r g i don't understand. we have more for you on this and many other stories on our website r.t. dot com. an eleven year old pakistani girl allegedly falls victim to any mom who is accused of trying to frame her for blasphemy and koran burning case. and us insurance companies are trying to wriggle out of billions of dollars worth of payments for the damage caused by this summer's record breaking drought. the latest unemployment figures are for the eurozone and put it at

a record eighteen million in july that's more than ten percent the highest jobless rate since one thousand nine hundred five the worst affected country is spain where a quarter of the population is now out of work journalist and author miguel hole but oddo says that current economic policy isn't bringing a resolution of the crisis any closer. we haven't really tackled a problem with the eurozone we just have a program of austerity for all the different countries to reduce the deficit debt is certainly not and also is not working he says stifling growth which is an even worse problem and we are in the midst of a recession certainly here in spain and very soon in many other european countries so unless we have a clear idea of how to reform the euro now we are not in detroit but it's not just the economic crisis it's also the economic policies. he says is now performing a very hard agenda of a steady two cats and that he's actually biting all sectors of his funny economy

and the problem is that he's not working he's not bringing down the deficit which is the main targets and then as i say he's damaging all the aspects of spain's economy we'll have more on the eurozone crisis next hour including german chancellor angela merkel's attempts to tap into china's a financial wealth to spend billions to help shore up the struggling euro zone. now let's take a look at some other news making headlines around the world for you this hour at least eight people have been killed in a u.s. drone strike near the town of rada in southern yemen three civilians are confirmed to have been killed in the attack officials are still investigating the identities of the other five and their possible involvement in terrorist activities tribal leaders believe the target was a local al qaeda leader who survived the strike. hundreds of buddhist monks took to the streets of me in mars' the second largest city in mandalay on saturday they

gathered in support of government plans to deport or move to camps the muslim minority living in the country the idea came after a recent outbreak of sectarian violence in the west of me in mar which left almost ninety people dead according to the u.n. role here muslims are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. an epic event of the past has been brought back to life in russia thousands of actors in historic uniform have created the battle of bora deano when russian soldiers fought through the invasion of napoleon exactly two centuries ago artie's time barton 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 cousens of people have turned out to see this reenactment

and reenact as a combo for 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 then the largest army ever assembled he intended to make imperial russia soon for peace and so become a 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 civil war going 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 peacekeepers the russian army that was marching into paris. nice to see tom doing his part to make sure that russia wins that battle i'll be back in just a few moments with a recap of our top stories watching our team. i

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at the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember that we will. see a story and it seems so. think you understand it and then something else you hear sees some other part of it and realize everything is ok. i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. mission free critic a should be free. for charges free. arrangement free. three stooges free.

old free blog morning videos. free. tom. and the week's top stories right here on our team turkey calls for a no fly zone in syria fails to get support at the u.n. as rebels in the country declare civilian air. ports their latest targets and warning international flights to stay away from. iran welcomes a chorus of support for its peaceful nuclear program at the nonaligned summit in tehran doing a blow to u.s. moves to isolate the islamic republic. the republicans of freshly nominated presidential candidate mitt romney promises a hardline stance against russia but faces criticism for flip flopping on previous policy. and overt successfully fends off attempts by self exile to tighten borders

but is also key to carve a five billion dollars out of his fortune at the london court ruled but his office he was a fundamentally unreliable witness. up next hour to talk to author andrew levine on the upcoming u.s. presidential election and the troubles with america's political system. we're sitting down with an author professor of philosophy and currently a senior scholar at the institute for policy studies and your 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 the 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 by now he pledged to withdraw from iraq and afghanistan he says that's what he doing in what way could they bite him well they could all fall apart. if 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 standing 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 to it

will look defeated and that will and that's not a recipe for success for someone who has 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 experts 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's 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 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 before 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 but 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 hawkish of the lot why well he's the most hawkish of the lot with. respect to some issues there 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 gradually to get out gradual to get.