because the actual documents speak for themselves and clearly for the most part you know extremely. very relevant. and plenty more to come this hour including no mercy for minors is really better and 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 i.a.e.a. 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 un chief ban ki moon appeared at the summit he condemned persistent aggressive 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 if you aim at twenty percent and then produce nuclear fuel but the americans and the europeans by taking. a citizens and people hostage forced the iranians to take that step and 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 mr brime 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 you sound as if you want participation and i'm sure that the united states and israel good likeness to ban ki moon to come down hard on the iran things 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 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 vision money 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 the 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 or tease policy or has the story. there were demonstrations as indeed there are if we weekend now 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 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 really 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 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 that we had to basically invaded the palestinian town in the south of the city of hebron the children started throwing stones at us so example we picked a random kid that didn't even necessarily threw stones at us and used him as a shoe. saluted the stones that were being thrown by his friends or by his supposed friends with the 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 ourselves being criticised on a number of fronts they are to tell. the u.k. court has shattered the hopes and of the reputation of russia's self exiled tycoon borders but his high stakes lawsuit against a billionaire compatriot roman abramovich was dismissed in one of the most

expensive cases in british legal history parties laura 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 asking for from which what i want to promote himself was not in court but his old scheme was he arrived looking very upbeat saying that he had full confidence in the british legal system but once the verdict was being read he held his head in his hands and as he was leaving he appears to have lost confidence in the british legal system now this is a case that has opened up for the viewing of the general public the key world of russia's mega rich and what they got up to back in the nineteen ninety's the wild east as we called it back then we're talking about sums of money off shore 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 two roses megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who walked around this course area in their shades in a menacing way but he spread 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. hundred and resulted in million. feet so we've had the results of this case new. this time around we may see. news of the mega rich a court battle over billions in london might not go down so well in crisis hit spain where one in four of now out of a job according to the latest figures from your expert opinion on that next hour. plus two hundred years after a key battle russia fought against the invasion of the pony in our reenacting the clash. this week 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's supporters accuse romney of paying 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 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 big ring and that is that the obama administration has been pursuing what we could call

a very limited neocon as you said in 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 the presidential candidates. meanwhile in a 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 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 if you don't know 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 think i think that it strongly does not have a problem but with regard to an impending hurricane likewise i think that the community in north carolina that is very much interested in raising questions concerning the war in afghanistan and the what intervention in syria the debacle that would be effectuated and libya and of course what is hanging over all of the impending attack on iran that may think twenty feet for the first tuesday in november that may take place before the u.s. election 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 growing at the hands of the one percent but mostly of the wall street

robber baron have entirely too much influence on the political process through their campaign donation never letting the television terribly misleading campaign commercials particularly for the republican party and mitt romney i think the better for both of them uppermost in the mind that these protesters in charlotte now the i.q. by moment in the 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 think a vote winner i think he's making a strategic blunder but i think it's very revealing i think that his coworkers tampa going to mock calgary 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 like wise i think that there is something deeper and fall that is the say that historically those who are world domination and nothing is the cold of mitt romney's republican party so i have felt that they needed to confirm whole russia and he is going to fold the land bridge between the most populous continent which is a just and the rest of the continent which is your lock out stance between the two and therefore we're going to get forty one interested in world domination which happens to include mitt romney it's important for them to have a program to think domination over russia. 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 it's apparent that the republican party which just concluded its convention in tampa feel that it can only win and rule over the president there is that the

pressure of the vote particularly of black people of the latino population is of the youthful population cleaned up particularly of the women vote so and there is something to expand to be electorate and expand the voting pool there are moving to restrict including straight voting pool it seems to me that very dangerous and think look i want to look into 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 look dumb for electing a president of the on state of war 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. quite 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 of trust me to make a prediction right now i would leave that withdrawal come up with it should be a narrow victory but of the playing time i would also have to say that the number of choices that the u.s. order is given and of the election it's a very narrow choice or there's the thing is usually a choice between candidate of the democratic party much of a right wing and a republican party and goes out on the left are generally excluded from the political process in terms of having an electoral choice. your 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 web site r t v dot

com. therefore you know you can hear about an eleven year old girl from pakistan who allegedly falls victim to a new mom who is accused of trying to frame her for blasphemy in the qur'an burning case. and us insurance companies tried to wriggle out of billions of dollars worth of payments for the damage caused by this summer's record breaking drought. and tens of thousands take to the streets of bahrain in the first sanctioned opposition rally in months 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 aimed at tapping into the country's monetary muscle to help pull europe out of its downward

spiral she sought to boost of the flow of investment from beijing into the european stability fund a firewall against financial troubles of 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. nonny 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 choices 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 know. there's a lot of there's a lot of uncertainty about in the case of a possibility 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 the german companies are all going to 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 myung moon has died he was ninety two years old and he was in seoul 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. but we're back in just a few moments with a recap of our top stories you're watching. the

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tycoon boris berezovsky to carve five billion dollars out of his fortune the london court ruled that as long as he was a fundamentally unreliable witness. next r.t. takes you on board of one of the world's fastest sailing ships for breathtaking sea race. playing football in the scorching july sun of the iberian peninsula is senseless torture for some of these men others see it as a simple warm up before more difficult contest on dry land they see their rivals face to face but at sea competitors are nothing more than a blip on a radar screen. the wind and waves of the only tangible evidence of their determination to win.

the crew of the russian three mass sailing ship mir has little time to prepare ahead of the second phase of the two thousand and twelve tall ships race nevertheless a fine five minutes for a brief meeting ceremony. i would like to congratulate you today as we begin our voyage out to sea i hope will have a good start this time too i urge you all to do your best like it was. a true success is a matter of honor for the captain and instructor of mir he will soon be celebrating his seventy fifth birthday and has devoted a third of his life to the world's fastest sailing boat victory would be the perfect gift that the crew will need to give it their all the first phase of the two thousand and twelve tall ships race ended with a discouraging result from the air. of the building actually we were the first to

come in after the first lap but after time update we turned out to be third in our class of ships. and frederic chopin polish sailboats where head of us our sister ship from poland will be our main rival both ships have similar designs and sails according to the time correction will last about thirty minutes during the first phase i. think again of thirty to ninety minutes will be enough for us to win here to give a long blast campaign. a. long one by. by noon more than thirty sail boats have left the port of lisbon the second part of the race is short little more than two hundred nautical miles they will need to make up for the time she lost in the first place before she reaches the spanish port of kiss the crew unfurls mears sails all three thousand square metres all.

over all of the boats in this prestigious class of ships mere has the greatest claim to victory her rivals pale in comparison to the number of wins she has racked up over the years she also boasts a skilful crew. strictly speaking these races are a side project from there the russian ship is primarily for training purposes cadets of them a car of academy a would be captains of the russian merchant fleet and they learn how to set sail climb the rigging and timing knots call them the age of nuclear vessels such skills seem as useful as speaking latin. your best out there and where you. will get your any seaman must have practiced as well as theory decides they need to have certain character traits epaulets as well as sailors are sent to other sail boats because these people need to make the right decision in the nick of time the

sail boat offers the best schooling and character training. day pharrell of canada knows what the person of his mainsail wants him to do their commands and not translated into english after spending several months on may he's used to the routine and was. expected of him indeed sometimes he copes with his assignments better than his russian comrades this is not my first time on this type of vessel is still aboard a vessel called the picture my house was on the around the world voyage and doing this made me realize i want to sail a tall ship a for a living and so i went to school to be a navigator and this was not one of the opportunities for our work term was to come on the show you know. there were about twenty trainees like dave on the ship like the sailors they keep watch and they also share courses with the crew there's only one thing that sets them apart they have to pay for the privilege this is a floating democracy even the old superstition about women on board being

a bad omen is ignored right you know twenty young female cadets some trainees are taking part in the race. my name's liane i'm from hamburg germany and yeah this is my second time on the air i would say that the big guys help us but we try to do our best like pulling the ropes and so on it's not difficult but it hard they like to think we are right now in fighting the position in the atlantic ocean on route it is and that's i plotted every half an hour i feel great about it we all work together as a team. we help each other through it also makes it ok. for chickie's pilot steering mir leaves the bay a two pm there is less than an hour to go before the race starts to motorbikes form a starting line.