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the republican party's presidential candidate this week while the democrats are. broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us the most open push for military intervention in syria came this week proposed by turkey has requested security for refugee camps inside the country which would lead to foreign forces guarding the camps while they are protected by a no fly zone but the idea of. security council was several member states expressed

strong reservations about militarizing humanitarian efforts. they could completely bypass the un if the conflict meanwhile the new international envoy to syria. that any intervention would. professor paul sheldon foote from california state university fullerton believes that for some it's not about ending the violence. it's a pretext it's still another way to divide and take over the country years seeing the united nations as your vehicle that playbook worked in libya they want to try the same playbook and do it doesn't work anymore well there is no desire by. the west's nero to have a negotiated settlement the oldest purpose of this exercise is to make sure that there is no competition in the middle east or in such as by way of syria iran and other places i think the people in the west to be very happy that ended up with a massive civil war and a breakup of their country is the lack of competition of life while they claim that

they care one bit about humanitarian concerns as it is a gross or two more bomb blasts have hit damascus and going off almost simultaneously near the headquarters of the joint chiefs of staff state t.v. says a four people were injured in the explosions and the number of bomb attacks and some of which have been claimed by al qaeda have grown sharply in recent months they are said to be sowing panic among residents of the capital and across the country fuelling the exodus of refugees but as our teams possibly are reports what they find when they escape often makes them wish they had never left. exhausted and drained there's not much for these refugees to do besides swelter under the school ching desert sun children from the vine inspect home soon they walked for days in the heat to get here and so they come in numbers and under the wire not one person here has gone through the official board as in state depending

on the level of violence in syria as many as a thousand people each day a feeling of cross into jordan that picked up from the border by the jordanian police and brought here to the scamp. and now a man doesn't know what to do with them the country is struggling with few natural resources little water and is in need of foreign aid their growing number is putting pressure on an already refugee way republic we can't order on the faces of the refugees we have to help syria is like a sister to jordan and king abdullah and president assad friends now our king is in a very difficult situation has a direct impact. relations between a man in damascus are already strained a number of defected soldiers and senior officers are being sheltered in the kingdom the most high profile refugee was the prime minister riyad hitch up who fled to turkey through jordan earlier this month and then that the tribes who fearing massive amounts of weapons ammunition and sniper rifles to syria from

jordan saudi arabia is promising economic assistance in exchange for months cooperation but it could backfire. if there is regime change in syria and the extremists come to power. problems where we have our own extremists. and so now jordan faces the backlash of a conflict which some in the country have helped escalate meanwhile more than one hundred fifty thousand refugees remain stuck on its borders and what's supposed to be a safe enclave but we food is hard to come by toilets case and not enough tends to go around leaving some to the mercy of harsh desert conditions this. fear here is so. serious you die quickly but here we are dying a slow death i wish now i never left to come here. jordan narrowly escaped a wave of uprisings that swept the arab world it says it's getting reforms in place

bash caught between both sides it might not be enough to stop the serious shockwave however that conflict in. zante refugee camp on the jordanian syrian border. within the pressure on syria piling up of france is increasingly being seen as a leader of the west's efforts against assad but director of the french center for intelligence studies a. french policies on syria depend on a steady stream of one sided reporting. i would say we don't truly. the time being i mean the mainstream in paris is in motion everything is about emotion we are absolutely end of the disinformation of movies. and then i read that and the people are reacting only with motion we don't have these good restriction about jill politics and the room we have to be in in the middle east even if the political leaders change you know a few months ago most of the police saying that most of the diplomatic teams are of

the same kooks lacky frenzies know the new the u.s. the u.k. has always been this is where the. good between us and france because we are doing their. selective reporting however isn't just limited to france 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 typically shall see that next hour. also with the leaks begins publishing millions of leaks syrian government e-mails those blasts what he calls the trans national surveillance empire that is taking over the developed world. iran's nuclear ambitions have won some powerful backing as one hundred twenty countries voiced of 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 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 attended the summit he condemned of their persistent aggressive rhetoric and threats of a strike on iran geo political analyst eric draitser believe the summit clearly indicates that 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 the. a 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 di 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 exports excuse me to the levels they were at just before you ban and in achieving that tehran expects help from its asian partners japan india and china have been regular customers of iranian crude despite the current sanctions author and a journalist off she believes in 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. to remain with. nations so it's a great pity and i hope those capitals as nato capitals will get increasingly moved

frightened by what is happening as the global comes closer together. in terms of 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 to 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. parky hears from a witness to the death of us activist rachel corrie who was killed by an israeli army bulldozer controversially cleared the military of any blame plus. argy explores the reasons behind an unprecedented rise of islamic extremism in russia following a series of assassinations of moderate muslim clerics. mitt romney officially

accepted the republican party's nomination as 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 toward some countries including russia but critics have questioned much of what was said artie's 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 geopolitical 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 a 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 a joke 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 argued by demonstrators. took to the streets ahead of the democratic national convention protesters are marching through the city's business district slogans and holding up signs decrying corporate influence on u.s. politics the democratic convention is set to open in the city on monday earlier demonstrators gathered in tampa during the republican national convention but the turnout was less than expected due to hurricane isaac to pass through florida. the u.k. court has shattered the hopes and of the reputation of russia's exiled tycoon boris spread a softy his high stakes lawsuit against a billionaire. was dismissed in one of the most expensive cases in british legal history artie's lawyer smith is in london and has the latest 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 also going for for a. run up but 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 for the viewing of the general public the milky world of russia's mega rich and what they go to back in the one nine hundred ninety s. the wild east as we called it back then we're talking about stiff 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. to school building billion ads along with their own megger expensive lawyers and bodyguards who want to round these courts area in their shades in a menacing way but he's got 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 were but abramovich says that in fact. we never business partners that he was making payments to better 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 is been one of the biggest civil trials ever held in british legal history

it's been. hundred and resulted in millions of. illegals so we've had the result of no win this time around we may see more cases. news of that mega rich court battle over billions in london might not go down so well in crisis head spain where one in four is now out of work according to the latest figures from euro expert opinion more on that in a minute. and two hundred years after a key battle when russia fought against the invasion of the pole in. the class. 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 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 criticised 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 is sure the driver killed on purpose is 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 happened next in my view i told the court and as i told the. bulldozer driver. drawing up. before he got to rachel during which time he must have been able to see. both that took place just before she was crushed and she was on a mountain trying to escape so in my mind it's absolutely no doubt that he would have seen a. nice rally going to treat. such crimes and that culture. fortunately

sometimes. attacks by radical muslims on moderate islamic leaders in russia have been on the rise recently prompting fears of a surge in extremism an influential sheikh was killed. when a female suicide bomber entered the home disguised as a pilgrim and blew herself up this comes after a double assault on moderate muslim figures in central russia in july going off found out where the roots of extremism are leaving. the trip to work that turned to tragedy our sons had moved he was driving when a series of blasts threw him from his car the man who's been openly against the spread of radical ideas among 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 washington yes some of the local muslim communities are financed by arab families from states where it's an official religion because the money has to be worked off and they demand their ideology is spread here it's. like a business is one of the most fundamental branches of islam it's strongly advocated in saudi arabia which backs it up with billions of dollars of support across the muslim world its followers often oppose all other religions sometimes even calling for jihad holy war against them but some business or any other radical movement of us lot of course not part of the official religion here but i thought the same different ideas are 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

. we don't divide brother muslims and there can be no radicalism no terrorism these are words only used by prove a kidders who want to discredit islam. we were told here believers are taught sincerely and equality there are no longer up held in modern society with justice can only be achieved through islam and when someone sends islam is the only fan way of life and social order they're called radical or extremist and what's the punishment for stealing the hand is. 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 experts it could be partly to blame on how the list of banned extremist literature was thrown together. in the books by classical world famous author of. prophet muhammad saying how can we expect muslims to react

and of course the radicals use this to gain influence. of course start their stand is a long we from becoming engulfed by the worst of the radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism is now keep the wrong means only reversing the situation you are g. . stories on our website dot com here's a little of what is online for you right now. an eleven year old pakistani girl allegedly falls victim to any mom who is accused of trying to frame her for blasphemy and burning. us insurance companies try 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 the first sanctioned opposition rally in months to demand. the release of a prominent human rights activist.

the latest unemployment figures for the eurozone 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 on home 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 zero study for all the different countries to reduce the deficit very certainly not and also it's not working he says actually growth which he says 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 spain he's. now performing a very harsh agenda of a study to cats and that he's actually biting all sectors of his funny economy and the problem is that he's not working it'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 . and we'll have more on the eurozone crisis next hour including german chancellor angela merkel's attempts to tap china's financial wealth to help shore up the struggling euro zone. let's take a look at some other news 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 is the most militants recent drone strikes are part of a joint u.s. yemeni government campaign against al qaeda in the country. hundreds of buddhist monks took to the streets of me in mars' second largest city 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 march was less left almost ninety people dead according to the un muslims are one of the most persecuted minorities in the world. controversial south korean preacher's son. died and he was ninety two years old and he was in seoul of the time when was the founder of the unification church which turned into a worldwide movement the church gained notoriety for alleged brainwashing and the mass weddings of followers critics accused him of profiteering through the church

after he created a business empire that included arms factories and publishing ventures. an event of the past has been brought back to life in russia thousands of actors and historic uniforms have recreated the battle of when russian soldiers fought the invasion of napoleon exactly two centuries ago. and 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 come both 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 have the polian failed to make imperial russia super peacekeepers the russian army that was marching into paris. and i'll be back in just a few moments with

a recap of our top stories watching our two. culture is that so much about the taxpayers and i mean to say she's going to be the model people at area forward to a lot of muskoka on the eve of the meeting will be asia pacific economic

cooperation regional group to what degree is the global economy now. i had a family i lived in a fairly nice community wasn't rich it was an upscale it was just like you know archie bunker's society ok then they started showing up here what happened was my company decided i could get cheap labor and they got rid of us. through these are long negroes in the eaglets line legally we have to get up every morning we have to go to work and you know we have to pay our bills only have to do it and i could that's just the american dream and if you want the american dream you have to go by the law so i figure it's here's one of the major trails into the united states and . i watch and they run run down my property and something about this noise. bothers a little chap mean that cockroaches from coming to the wire is.