enjoy your favorites from alzheimer's now a t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device watch on t.v. any time any of the. latest news and the week's top stories border shelling between syria and turkey as fresh violence hits damascus with a car bomb exploding outside police headquarters. polling stations in venezuela waiting for the last voters to cast their ballots with anticipation rising to see if the long standing leader who go chavez or his democratic opponent enrique kept grillo spoke take the helm in caracas. battalions during over mounting cuts descends into clashes while civil servants marching for their jobs in spain.

in moscow i met treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news a car bomb exploded near police headquarters in the syrian capital damascus killing at least one person syrian t.v. is calling it a terror act the blast is the latest in a series of attacks aimed at security personnel and government institutions with damascus in particular a frequent target this is syria and turkey exchange another round of artillery shells across the border or middle east correspondent paula sleazier has the details for the fifth straight day take a shot tell him he has fired into syria this coming just minutes off to a most had landed in take a treat to fly in from syria we understand that at least eight more to his was fired from to key into syria now according to the mayor of the take border town away and this shell landed he says. that there was very little damage other than

damage to a grain depôt but other than that had landed in an empty field and there were no reports of injuries it is the same board of an age where five members of the same family were killed on wednesday that was two women and three children when a mortar five from syria landed in always a danger building at the same time we're hearing continuing words from the turkish prime minister that he will not allow these kind of events to go unprovoked he says that if pushed he will declare war and that has been quite a strong message from him now that it's going to be soon that this instability and on the turkish syrian border will result in regional instability there's also concern by numerous critics who have put forth the argument that they believe that the shells that are being fired from the syrian side are being fired at liberty in each remember that this rewarding area on the syrian side between syria and turkey is an area that is controlled by the rebels and as such it is possible that they're firing these these rounds deliberately to provoke turkey to go to nato and cool the

foreign intervention of course this is something that many people are increasingly concerned about the situation in syria after eighteen months of fighting is showing no lacing up there continues to be almost daily blasts in the capital city of damascus and they're particularly cost suicide bombings have become almost the norm the same situation is happening in the leftover the commercial hub of the country in the north and there we're hearing of continuous heavy fighting and also in recent days and in recent weeks we've witnessed a rise in prices start bombings there were also receiving a twitter feed from the shah adnan out now he is a sunni muslim preacher and the salafist leader has become almost a symbol of the rebels find him in syria he says that they have captured the cousin of the syrian president bashar assad we have no information on that at this stage and no way of actually being able to independently prove it russia continues to play a mediating role they are. acting and that be you in nato envoy to syria

could be in russia later this month and as such will be there for talks but russia is asian common saying that this kind of escalation in tensions along the take your syrian border is completely unacceptable in any kind of cross border operations are to be found upon political analysts are why now why do you think this action could be turkey's under the radar approach to intervention in syria. turkey's declared war on syria long time ago this is aragon endeavor to lose the war they've supplied weapons and that's why training assistant they've harbored you know gunmen in jihad just on their territory so so you know turkey's at a situation no crossroads where they cannot seem to get the international system they need to start or you know do a last question against the assad regime they cannot get a u.n. security council resolution to authorize these things and this may be you know setting the groundwork a pretext for

a backdoor into military intervention because of course turkey then caught can call on its nato allies to to assist in its sensually the nato allies who would anyways do you know a military confrontation with the assad regime if there was a u.n. security council resolution and there are questions about this is this the false why you know operation to to sort of set the grounds for military intervention there's been many false narratives over syria i think this is just another one bahrain is keeping up its crackdown on protests form protests causing more fierce clashes between police and demonstrators friday tear gas and water cannons were used to disperse crowds violence started after the funeral of a young protester who died in custody she activists demanding equal rights from the sunni monarchy and the release of prolific political prisoners one of the prominent human rights defenders is gone on a hunger strike he was briefly rizzi released to attend his mother's funeral but not allowed to mourn further with his family where job is serving

a three year term for participating in illegal gatherings meanwhile former c.n.n. reporter amber lyon believes her documentary on what's happening in bahrain was censored by the network. covering is paying c.n.n. to create content that shows bahrain in a favorable light even though c.n.n. says this contents you know is is editorially and dependent it doesn't see it can affect that what we. seen that with this documentary not airing and also with the constant struggle i had at c.n.n. to get coverage accurate bahrain coverage of the human rights abuses on air while i was there what c.n.n. is doing is they're essentially creating what some people have termed infomercials for dictators and that's the sponsored content that they're airing on c.n.n. international that's actually being paid for by regimes and governments and this violates every principle of journalistic ethics because we're supposed to be watchdogs on these governments we're not supposed to allow them to be paying

customers who are able to kind of dodge our minders and sneak into some of the villages and actually see these atrocities patients who have run out of the hospitals that were shot up with birdshot and as we were heading back out of these villages we were violently detained by security forces and buffering and luckily my female producer and i were able to hide some disks in our broad some are able to actually get out of the country with this content so you can imagine covering surprise when we got back to the u.s. and this content was airing on c.n.n. and right after that is when the phone calls started coming into the network complaining about me and trying to get my coverage off the air. violence and unrest returns to tunisia as well this time a clash over trosch at least thirteen thousand i agree residents hit the streets and set cars on fire over the reopening of a rubbish dump more details online. and washington d.c. the latest american city to display anti jihad as we look at whether it may

actually be provoking even more hatred towards the muslim world this and more online. voting till the last even though polling stations in venezuela are supposed to close a twenty to thirty g.m.t. the national electoral council's promise to wait for the last citizens in line to cast their ballots incumbent leader who go to chavez faces his biggest challenge yet to his socialist rule from henry lee so young democrats with both candidates vowing to respect the outcome of the election and of as leaders from caracas. the excitement here is a man and these people have been lined up as you can see the line is starting to finally move for hours hours before the polls even opened both candidates have been urging people to take to the streets to really get out there early to try to build up a mass of popular support early because a soon as there is an irreversible trend the winner will be announced now what is at stake here on one end we have in common is president hugo chavez who is really radically changed both venezuela and the region under his so-called socialist

twenty first century policies one of that has translated to centrally nationalizing certain industries using venezuela's oil exports revenue to really focus attention on the underprivileged the poor here in this country that's translated into social programs free health care education. communications housing and transportation services for people who really didn't have access for that and this has over the years built up a groundswell of popular support for the officer for two years and he wants to stay for six more years now his opponent has really seized on some of the problems that continue to plague this country this is corruption a very high crime rate in. young a forty year old wealthy businessman who has criticized this country's economic policies he's promised to improve ties with the west and could really radicalize the way this country's resources are drawn now critics here suggest and worry that perhaps he could represent

a radical alternative to shopping nominally in the sense that he could reverse a lot of those social programs policies potentially impose austerity packages on the country and really take away some of the programs of the poor here have continued to rely on of course that is not what his campaign says but that is the fear you see in caracas venezuela u.s. media coverage of the presidential race in venezuela has been criticized as biased against chavez is your times correspondent pepe escobar for one says washington would like a willing partner in caracas not an intractable leader. and there's the other election which is show this will i guess washington which of the united states didn't love to have a sat stripy client state and that's where i like it was before the job is before these two of us but chuck was it's amazing because if you follow mainstream media india west in western europe and even the most of south america big private groups

controlled media it's also better even as well in brazil and argentina what for instance chavez is the most big one now he's the head of state in modern times even martin said that was the same crowd out of five or ahmadinejad's you name it it's amazing. these private groups most of them they are aligned with washington just like the situation that you see sometimes and as well so often is that chavez is there just as a communist or even a fascist or even a mix of tools like a communist fascist this is completely absurd pakistani military has blocked an anti-u.s. motorcade rally that was heading toward the country's tribal hub along the afghan border the protests was led by cricket legend turned politician imran khan and attractive thousand a large number of civilians have died in american drone strikes khan is calling for an end to the killings robert naiman an activist an analyst pushing for reform is to us foreign policy so civilians have become the main victims of the drone attacks and not high level militant leaders as washington claim of any other president

obama's counterterrorism adviser has claimed that civilian deaths from drone strikes are exceedingly rare well we know that the bureau of investigative journalism in the u.k. has counted somewhere between four hundred hundred meter. civilian deaths since two thousand and four from u.s. drone strike so in fact far from being exceedingly rare the civilian deaths are normal that's a regular thing and in fact there are seven to fifteen times as many as the deaths of these so-called top level terrorist leaders so the actual policy is something completely different from the story that's being told in united states the story being told united states is it's all about targeting top level terrorist leaders and it's not killing civilians the reality is the total opposite of that the un special rapporteur tour on extrajudicial executions has said that you know if these reports are true about what the u.s.

is doing they would constitute war crimes. america's involvement in neighboring afghanistan has also seen countless civilians as well as nato troops lose their lives later r t we look at the legacy of the nato conflict eleven years on and whether it has brought more harm than good these stories and more after a break stay with us. culture is that so much given to each musician minute mark when we need to relieve the end of the strategy of the u.s. led mission in afghanistan is in a shambles green on blue attacks against coalition.

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to go live. live . sixty minutes past the hour in moscow and thai austerity anger mounting in europe as civil servants take to the streets for a second day in madrid trade unions gathered thousands to demand an end to cutbacks in the public sector and the privatization of public services italy has also seen its fair share of action this week led by the country students who clashed with

police thousands marched in major cities calling for the government to save schools not banks in a room up to six policemen were injured and students who are old stones of them and tried to rush a police van while in venice independence supporters marched saturday to demand the region go it alone investment advisor patrick young says thinks the new is headed toward collapse. the european union constantly believes it knows what's best for all of its client states therefore it pushed countries like ireland in to be allied in order to basically appease french and german borrowers there are absolutely no positive results from what the e.u. has done over the course of the last five or ten years indeed basically the history of the euro is not a horribly soiled exercise effectively breaching the people and trying to destroy economies the european union has several fundamental problems ultimately it is a very rich area with a great deal of resources the difficulty is it's very difficult to start

a business it's very difficult to run a business if you're successful in the business they're going to touch you to death and in the meantime they're all running absolutely ridiculous cul meanest era sized socialist states the truth is western europe is bankrupt it cannot afford the how the government be the major economic actor in the system and therefore just as we saw russia poland as them collapse so too we're seeing the death of western european socialism october seventh eleven years ago the day the u.s. led war in afghanistan started. more than three thousand alliance troops have died in the conflict most of them americans but far more afghan civilians have also lost their lives international affairs commentator rick rose off from the group stop nato thinks the alliance has fostered discontent among the afghan people. precious little has been accomplished on the bodies of the sons of course play that the western military intervention and occupation in afghanistan. most of you know

arguably the only accomplishment dubious as it is that opium production is skyrocketed under the watch of the u.s. and nato in afghanistan you know evidently the afghan people are not fond of having foreign boots on the ground and no particularly after such a long period of time the so-called green on blue attacks are an indication that the rank and file of the the afghan population would like to see us in their nato allies or the u.s. and their nato allies vacate the country x. this quickly as possible and then none of this. debacle would have occurred in the first place out of nothin or the card or in the reagan administration straight to the war which you know. make and regional and other times she's inside the country and there's an in essence led to thirty four year war in afghanistan and we have to place the blame where it belongs you know this is the result of u.s. intervention going back to the late ninety's seventy's. carrying out of some other

stories making headlines across the globe libya's recently elected president is to has been forced to stand down after a no confidence vote from parliament mustafa should go or has failed for a second time to win the lawmakers approval for a new cabinet initial cabin a lineup was rejected thursday protesters stormed the building calling for the prime minister's resignation bush or gore was the country's first elected leader after last year's overthrow of colonel gadhafi. and alleged palestinian militant was killed and nine others injured by an israeli airstrike in gaza aircraft targeted two motor say. the list that israel claims were jihad is plotting a terror attack against troops and civilians witnesses identified one is a member of a palestinian militant group two children were among the injured. but twenty two protester were protesters were arrested in an unannounced march in san francisco reported the marking of the year anniversary of the wright occupied with police dispersed the crowd that was blocking traffic in response demonstrators threw rocks

and flayers injuring one officer marchers were arrested on a variety of charges including conspiracy and assault and not having a permit. so then as president has ordered land and river border crossings with south sudan to reopen this after the two countries president's last month signed deals on security and cooperation held by experts as a signals part of the signal of the end of a long running tension between the countries the two nations broke apart in july last year after decades of civil war. a misunderstanding that left a young man badly beaten in a hospital bed a russian student who had been detained on charges later dropped is now facing a lengthy and uncertain recovery after being brutally beaten by inmates in a canadian to remain in center his family and friends say the country's authorities aren't doing anything to help our kids polly boy what's. a trick to study english in canada gone horribly wrong twenty four year old denise teller cough arrived in

calgary in june eager to learn about the country and make new friends it was at this language school those friends would quickly turn to enemies with a misunderstanding over a girl she was charged with making threats and placed in calgary's remand center i believe we're going to face to face like you were to me. you don't know whether you know what you claimed now that you know what no direct threat or something i mean. i don't know why it was just a big misunderstanding while his family in moscow tried to scrape together the bail money things took a turn for the wass cellmates brutally attacked him jumping on his head repeatedly after months on a life support machine denise recently retained consciousness doc to say he's in a vegetative state his adoring family is devastated by the lane go you know eating on his arm you have been there already and you really enjoy it if you.

feel you're already have go our way or and you know it's very slow very very the charges that denise faced have now been dropped which in turn meant the detention center was no longer responsible for his medical bills leaving his family facing a financial nightmare on top of the emotional one local media campaigning to raise funds for denise's ballooning medical bills. will watch action. all. to call and to call it bull or you and me both general. or we were always all warm and. well. denise isn't the only victim to emerge from this facility last month another man christopher kirk suffered a last aerated spleen and

a broken nose after a similar attack while in custody. very often in sharpening all we were and even though not a lot but. you know when we were very late in going. into the war i mean you know how the young man so eager to find out about life in canada studying english like he didn't initially set out is now a distant prospect fast he'll once again have to learn the basics how to walk feed himself and speak his native russian denise's family can only hope that the country where this brutal attack took place provides him with the help that we so desperately needs. next interview with an award winning economist and historian to get his take on how to mend britain's failing economy after a short break. looking

at some dogs you simply do not believe they come speak and goodness how they can wrong oh. it's an international sled dog race with those driving the dogs. coming from as far away as a strand in canada and the us i come to russia and everybody is so very friendly they welcomed me with open arms and the scenery is so beautiful it's very much like a laska and so i felt at home the first blood joke was brought here from a stray analysis france come to this remote russian village to take part in the race it's not surprising they love it this trail are amazing but even more amazing is the story of how racing first started here atoll it wasn't the top sled gracing who set the trail of place but

a nun and for all phones who brought their dia to life. five years ago. built a dog kennel in the village kids from the local open age came around to take care of the dogs and one day they state their life might seem extreme to some the boys wake up at six to feed the dogs before school in the evening they spend up to three hours training their full legged friends but smother her schedule also encourages her kids to become depth hands on the computer and internet the boys who regularly update their websites and they're in touch with the busy mother twenty four seven on the phone itself. but children are the most important thing my only interests not play any rule any more and regardless of whether parsky has huskies window race or not she hopes the composition will take place in the village next year. but called these dogs and the children it really is not the winning but actually just

the taking part that counts. wealthy british style. markets why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max conjure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report on or. download the official t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch all its all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any toy.

today i'm talking to north robert skidelsky he's a professor of political economy and also the biographer of john mayne arcanes widely considered to be the most influential economist of the twentieth century we'll be talking about what keynes could bring to today's economic crisis notes could ask you first would you explain to me in layman's terms what the government is doing to mend the economy and why you think it's not working well i don't think they're doing very much to mend the economy i think their policies of made things worse the sad fact is that the british economy has been shrinking slowly almost for a year now rather like a very slow leaking balloon and the government of been trying in one or two small

ways to give it a bit of a stimulus but i think they're quite new initiatives and it's too early to say how much effect they'll have but in general i don't think they will have very much effect and so i don't think at the moment they're doing anything very much to help because there's an awful lot of talk about prioritizing the economy and it's the main thing that we have to work on but on the same time you say that not very much is being done at all one thing is that they're blaming everyone but themselves first of all it was it was the euro crisis then it was the high high commodity rise in commodity prices and so they claim that the policy of a stereo should bring about the recovery but that it's been derailed by these unfortunate external shocks but the policy of a sterile. is basically wrong when there's a lack of.