but. let's get right to. the most open push yet. proposed by turkey requested security for refugee camps inside the country which would lead to. by a no fly zone but the idea hit

a dead end that the security council and several member states expressed strong reservations about militarizing a humanitarian effort however britain and france warned if they could completely bypass the un if the conflict worsened and that according to brian becker from the antiwar answer coalition would be like a return to the. if the united states and 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. 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 that'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 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 this new so-called opposition government or what they will declare to be the legitimate government of the syrian people meanwhile syria's largest rebel group of the free syrian army have promised to expand their offensive and will now start targeting civilian airports rebels have warned international 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 and its feared any aircraft landing there civilian or not could now be a target for the free syrian army but that is not the only tactic employed by opposition fighters it is causing international concern as. 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 love us thank 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 captives said to be a member of the should be a militia with a 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 about human rights groups called evidence of an attempted murder a potential war crime under international law video of rebels from the free syrian army trying to use a prisoner as an unwitting suicide bomber in their attacks on 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 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 taliban in syria is met with more protests whether by the government or the rebels the violence seems to be the name of the game and further shatters the prospects for peace agreement reality for the civilians caught in this bitter war. for r.t. and moscow meanwhile the syrian conflict is spilling across its borders leaving neighboring countries to deal with the turmoil of war we report on how jordan is struggling with the stream of refugees from one side and arms smuggling from the other that's coming up next hour on our team. weighing in on the syria situation is weak you weeks with julian assange promising it to publish millions of e-mails showing just how comfortable the west used to be with us and why the media is so intent on vilifying him. in his first t.v.

interview since he was granted asylum by edward or he criticized washington's harassment of wiki leaks he said speaking of the truth wasn't harmful unlike america's actions in iraq and afghanistan some of which his website helps to expose also talked about a trans national surveillance empire that he says is quickly taking shape across the developed world the whistleblower cited internet giants such as google as being complicit in a mammoth spying operation by the united states and from the u.k. independence party says that 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 twenty four hours a day. now we we in the u.k. independence party trying to fight this. has been trying to do but it's very difficult because you're married to be the rule of law or if you don't want to be

a very you know every moment of 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 reveal is fraudulent or misleading the whole straw seems to be to it because the actual documents speak for themselves and that clearly for the most part you know. very relevant. and plenty more to come this hour including no mercy for miners israeli veteran speak out chronicling be humiliation and brutality their army has committed against palestinian children on occupied land. also tapping into china's monetary wealth as german chancellor angela merkel tries to persuade beijing to spend billions to support a struggling euro zone. iran's nuclear ambitions have won. some powerful backing as

one hundred twenty countries voiced their approval for 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 reeling by the success of the gathering it comes as a new report suggested iran has significantly enhanced its nuclear capacity but the document was rejected by tehran as politically motivated there was another blow for israel and its western allies when the u.n. chief bunky moon appeared at the summit he condemned of their persistent aggressive rhetoric and threats of a strike on iran 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 at 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 uranium at twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but americans and the europeans by taking iraq 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 researcher soraya support already believes iran is the main barrier to u.s. domination in the region this decline ki-moon does recognize the facts and he has said so this iran is a key player in the region and nothing much really can be solved youth hours of 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 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 align movement 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 israel is being heavily criticized after several of its soldiers testified to children were often their main targets the release follows the publication of two damning reports one from the british lawyers that visited israel's military courts and the other from the human rights group a defense of children international that detail multiple violations committed against children artie's policy or has the story. there were demonstrations as indeed there are if we had not be 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 me 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 out on the heels of another damning conclusion there is when 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 dinner party targets children 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 the most occasions we didn't even know why they were being arrested in one of the raid operations that we had that we basically invaded the palestinian town in the south of the city of hebron the children started throwing stones at us so it's we picked a random kid that didn't even necessarily threw stones at us and used him as a shoe. the stones that were being thrown by his friends but he supposed friends 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

occasion so it's certainly not a good time for the i.d.f. it's finding ourselves being criticized on a number of fronts. tell. the u.k. court has shattered the hopes and of the reputation of russia. has high stakes lawsuit against a billionaire compatriot roman abramovich was dismissed in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history artie's lawyer smith is in london and has the story for us. the final verdict in this case found against bodies which means that he won't receive a cent of the more than five point six billion dollars that he was all skiing for 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 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 all the viewing of the general public the murky world of russia's mega rich and what they go to up to back in the one nine hundred ninety s. the wild east as we called it back that we're talking about used to have sums of money offshore bank accounts elicit payments made between people often in massive sums of cash. 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 is brought to the school building billion ads along with their own two roses megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this course area in the shade in a menacing way but he spread his old ski says that he was done 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 will but abramovich says that in fact. we never business partners that he was making payments to but they were only for political protection all 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 this has 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 fee so we've had the results of this case new win but that is not ski this time around but we may see more cases of this nature here in london. well a news of that mega rich court battle over billions in london might not go down so well and prices had spain where one in four it's now out of a job according to the latest figures from the euro stat expert opinion more on that next hour. plus two hundred years after

a key battle russia fought against the invasion of the polian enthusiasts are reenacting the clash. this week the u.s. presidential candidates have been touring key states to secure support for november's election 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 accuse romney of paying a little attention to u.s. soldiers fighting abroad while the republican slammed obama's first term as a foreign policy failure that he would get tough with russia however sociology professor william robinson says 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 or 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 at stake the vital issues for the people in the united states and worldwide are not dealt with an increase in leaders simple simply personalized the times there is one difference of substance and this is coming out in the campaign bigger and that is that the obama administration has been pursuing what we could call a very limited neocon has years and a little more social programs that are a little more liberal and really those are the only i see those are the only significant differences right now between these two parties in their presidential candidates. meanwhile in and charlotte north carolina hundreds of occupy demonstrators took to the streets ahead of the democratic national convention protesters are marching through the city's it business district chanting slogans and holding up signs to cry and corporate influence on u.s. politics the democratic convention is set to open in the city 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 for more perspective on the upcoming election we're now joined by dr gerald horne author and historian from chicago dr horn thank you very much for being with us. but i do want to me well let's get right to it then the city of charlotte has been braced for much larger protests than what we have been seeing do you think the demonstrations will eventually reach the levels authorities are predicting. i don't think i don't think that strongly there's not a problem but i had with regard to an impending hurricane likewise i think that the community in north carolina that is very much interested in raising quite simply learning the war in afghanistan and the intervention in syria the debacle that actuated and libya and of course what is hanging over all of the pending attack on iran that may think well for the first to remember that they may think lection

well and if you actually look at the protesters they say they want to and i'm quoting here raise up the demands of the people what do you think of their message . well i think what they mean by that is that the ninety nine percent of the u.s. population is still praying at the hands of the one part but mostly of the wall street robber barrons have entirely too much they don't want to look political propped up through their campaign donation never letting the television terribly misleading campaign commercials particularly for the republican party and because romney i think the better for both of them are both in the minds of these protesters in charlotte now the i.q. by moment movement excuse me is clearly using the presidential campaign as a stage to get their voice heard switching to the candidacy in the republican candidate mitt romney he's promising to take a tough stance against russia now isn't this a bit of a cold war mindset in that

a vote winner in the u.s. i don't like a vote winner i think he's making a strategic blunder but i think a very revealing i think his cold war sample going to mock baldrick question of the fact that he would like to raise the u.s. military budget sharply and in order to do so he needs to revive the republic they were images of the cold war likewise i think that there is something deeper and false that is the phrase that has stored those who were world domination and nothing but the cold of mitt romney's republican party and that they needed to control and he has control of the land bridge between the most popular continents which is asia and the rest of the continent which is europe mach i don't dance between the two through an airport going to forty four interested in world domination which happened to include mitt romney it's important for them to have a program to the domination over russia. so well how do you see the existing two

party system in the u.s. do you think that the election process needs to be modernized to reflect more the the real america. i think so but unfortunately it's going in the opposite direction if the parent of the republican party which just concluded its convention in tampa feel that it can only win and threw over the prussian better to the pressure of the vote particularly of black people of the latino population of the youthful population cleaned up particularly of the women vote so and there is something to expand the electorate and expand the voting pool there are moving to restrict and come straight voting pool explaining to me the very dangerously clinton i'm going to ignore to the rest of the world. voting suppression aside and we can go into that at length i'm sure for hours on end but recent polls suggest that both obama and romney are attracting roughly the same number of supporters what does that tell

us about the choice millions of americans will make in november and who do you think has a better chance of taking the lead well you have to realize that this is a very antiquated political and electoral with them or electing a president of their own state al gore the two thousand nominee of the democratic party could tell you you can win the most vote and the presidential election and actually lose that because you want the election is actually. a flawed election and so therefore it's important that when he speaks you'll notice that mr obama campaigning heavily and i want and in colorado mr romney is campaigning heavily in ohio and florida if you work up track me to make a prediction right now i would believe that mr will come up with richie and narrow victory but at the playing time i would also point out the way that the number of choices the u.s. order is given and of the election it's a very narrow choice there are things usually a choice between it's going to candidate of the democratic party

a right wing candidate of the republican party and goes out on the left are generally excluded from the political problems in terms of having an electoral choice. thoughts on the subject dr gerald horne author and historian joining us live from chicago now we have more for you on this and many other stories on our website dot com. therefore you know you can hear about an eleven year old girl from pakistan who allegedly falls victim to and who is accused of trying to frame her for blasphemy in the koran burning case. u.s. insurance companies tried to wriggle out of billions of dollars worth of payments for the damage caused by this summer's record breaking. tens of thousands take to the streets of bahrain in the first opposition rally and to demand democratic reforms and the release of a prominent human rights activist. german

chancellor angela merkel has wrapped up her visit to china it was tapping into the country's monetary muscle to help pull europe out of its debt spiral she sought to boost of the flow of investment from beijing into the european stability fund a fire wall against financial trouble the chancellor worked hard to create however the german leaders overtures were met with a guarded response from china's leaders to stop short of pledging more cash injections into european debt. from the european council on foreign relations explains why the chinese are in no hurry to lend a hand to berlin. the big 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 bones in any case the chinese don't tend to make their own publics out 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 know. there's a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty about in the case of a boss that we see this is a european company and said 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 rolled into european companies and in that sense there is a competition going on between germany and other european countries generally seems to be winning that competition. now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world for you this hour at

least fourteen civilians have been killed in a u.s. drone strike near the town of rada in southern yemen local tribesmen say women and children are among the victims military officials claim the airstrikes were based on incorrect intelligence as the targets were thought to be armed islamist militants recent drone strikes are part of a joint u.s. yemen campaign against al qaeda in the country. hundreds of buddhist monks took to the streets of myanmar second largest city mandalay on saturday they gathered in support of government plans to deport or move the camps to camps the muslim minority living in the country the idea came after a recent outbreak of sectarian violence in the west of me and maher which left almost ninety people dead according to the un the muslims are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. controversial south korean preacher sun moon has died he was ninety two years old and he was in sole moon was

the founder of the unification church which he turned into a worldwide movement the church gained notoriety for alleged brainwashing and the mass weddings of followers critics accuse him of profiteering through the church after he created a business empire that included arms factories and publishing ventures. will be back in just a few moments with a recap of our top stories we're watching. the . science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've. covered.

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