and won't be satisfied until we get a big war with iran dr kevin barrett radio talk show host author and specialise in the developments there in arab countries thank you very much indeed for your thoughts good to hear from me thank you. have a twelve thousand christians are trapped in a syrian village near the lebanese border besieged by rebels the two week blockade as cause shortages of food medicine and other crucial supplies but people can't leave the area due to the threat posed by rebel snipers we want to cross the border in lebanon the situation remains fragile following a spike in syria related sectarian violence these fifteen people have been killed and more than one hundred injured in clashes between pro and anti assad government troops were deployed to stop the trouble they replaced political analyst dr franklin lamb says there's growing dread among lebanese as the bonnet spilled over continues. the concierge of my building who is syrian sometimes hides in my apartment there's been round up of syrian nationals here in beirut in south beirut even and it's a great deal of fea

american author kevin barrett there talking to us a little earlier from the u.s. . georgia's interior ministry says its forces have killed eleven suspected militants near its border with russia three troops also died and five others were wounded in an exchange of gunfire the officers were sent to the region to aid local police in tracking a group of gunmen reportedly entered georgia from russia's republic of dagestan then took a number of local people and georgia says all hostages were released in the operation which continue with troops surrounding six militants and a mounting. now to some other news making headlines around the world in. egypt says it extends its offensive against militants in the sinai peninsula the campaign was launched after militants attacked and killed dozens of border guards a month ago the operation has raised fears in israel about the movement of the area near its border where there are restrictions on weapon deployment peace treaty the sinai region has seen widespread disorder since the overthrow of hosni mubarak last year. dutch police sa

and moscow an american author kevin barrett says it is not surprising that powerful forces can push the media into withholding pictures or information they don't want the public to witness. it's pretty obvious what happened which is that the b.b.c. reported some news that higher ups in the western intelligence apparatus don't want them to report so they force them to take it out and that doesn't surprise me at all that's just one example of many examples of b.b.c. complicity in this military agenda you know the b.b.c. is heavily complicit in this series of wars of aggression that were triggered by the events of nine eleven and it's very sad because western journalism used to be more independent and today everybody and all the big outfits located the big in speaking countries are putting out propaganda twenty four seven three sixty five and there was an american author kevin barrett talking to us just a little bit earlier. twenty past the hour here in the russian capital pirates have seized a greek owned oil tanker off the west coast of africa with twenty four crew members on board all o

american author kevin barrett talked to us a bit earlier from the united states. now pirates have seized a greek own to oil tanker off the west coast of africa with twenty four russian crewmembers on board the hijackers exchanged gunfire with security forces from togo but did a skate on the tanker it's believed no crew members were hurt and the latest reports we have here at r.t. say the tanker has been found but is still under the control of pirates near nigeria a similar incident in the region recently saw the crew released after the oil on board was stolen piracy is rather common in africa both office west and east coast's. buy into the r.t. well doubt they will go will start with amsterdam where a dutch police say a mix up between the pilot and the control tower was to blame for ports of the plane had been hijacked on its way from spain to amsterdam the reports turned out to be false and military police searched and released the aircraft after it landed at the city's it shifts airport the dutch defense ministry had scrambled two fighter jets to accompany it to

accusations that all came just as international policy to decide their next moves on syria dr kevin barrett tunes a specialist in the affected region told odd to you earlier that he believes the timing is no coincidence but once again as with the houla massacre we have a very interesting set of circumstances where right before this u.n. ministerial meeting coming up on august thirtieth we have a big orchestrated p.r. event designed to smear the government in damascus and prod the west into intervening in syria and i'm very suspicious i was asked about this shortly after the school massacre and i think we need to wait and see what really happened and there are some indications that much and perhaps most of the killing in the whole atmosphere was actually perpetrated by the rebel forces and the same thing might be true this time the so-called no fly zone of course what that really is is just a euphemism for an aerial attack on the country yet again i'm told that if western countries do try to take over syrian airspace they may very well be shot out of the skies and so i certainly hope they do

and moscow of the meantime american author and former university lecturer kevin barrett says it's just not surprising that the powerful can push the media into wiping out all traces of what they believe the public shouldn't see. it's pretty obvious what happened which is that the b.b.c. reported some news that higher ups in the western intelligence apparatus don't want them to report so they've forced them to take it down and that doesn't surprise me at all that's just one example of many examples of b.b.c. complicity in this military agenda you know the b.b.c. is heavily complicit in this series of wars of aggression that were triggered by the events of nine eleven and it's very sad because western journalism used to be more independent and today everybody and all the big outfits located in the big in which speaking countries are putting out propaganda twenty four seven three sixty. are you watching r t live from moscow let's get back to our guest is patrick henderson a geo political analyst for the web site u.k. column if i said coming back we just had to had some technical difficult