plus a bribe for desertion qatar reportedly offers the syrian ambassador to martini a one million dollars and political asylum if he defects and voices his support of the rebels. and the u.s. says it's into tehran shows that there's no nuclear weapon in the works yet but a leading paper reports that an israeli strike on iran could be imminent. and broadcasting live from our studios in central moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas and these are top stories washington and turkey are weighing bringing in a no fly zone over syria as well as getting ready for worst case scenarios including any use of chemical weapons by the assad regime u.s. foreign policy chief hillary clinton has pledged a further five and a half million dollars in aid to syrian rebels during a visit to turkey it brings the total funding for the opposition to eighty two million since the conflict began last year in istanbul clinton received a far from warm welcome riot police clashed with turkish anti-war activists from a leftist party trying to reach the building where she was to meet prime minister and the one officers respon

and qatar two of the leading hawks on syria so when you're receiving that much money from us in qatar it's hardly surprising you go to a summit and criticize syria but it was not a big surprise really so the new leader the new egyptian leader mohammed morsi or perhaps already. signaling his friendship with the west or possibly a war capitol hill as you say with his brown envelope should you think that with the whole summit going on and you know one hundred twenty members of member states being represented here do you think they can come to something to resolve the ongoing crisis in syria well i think you know i think the key player in this rule is the u.s. i mean the u.s. is the main part of the u.s. and its allies which look at a force as well and if we get a change of position from there i don't really see what the any any movement can actually do i think the ball's in the u.s. each quarter we're getting a break from the washington is more sort of right wing rhetoric about arming rebels congolese rights today so i actually get a major shift there it's not going to help really and eg

sell to nato-partner states and if you see that we have exported arms to libya for instance and now qatarof being somebody who can have arms from germany, there's a change in politics of this obviously. >> reporter: the german government used qatar as a ally in the region, but in this case, the sales of tanks berlin facing a dilemma, take the deal and lose support at home or turn them down and lose lucrative markets overseas for good. fred pleitgen, berlin. >>> coming up, these guys, elmo and big bird looking for a new friend. that is right. sesame street is holding auditions for a new latino character. we will discuss that. [ annie ] this is the story of a girl named annie who dreamed she could fly. like others who braved the sky before her, it took a mighty machine, and plain old ingenuity to go where no fifth grader had gone before. ♪ and she flew and she flew, into the sky and beyond. my name is annie and i'm the girl who dreamed she could fly. powered by intel core processors. ♪ >>> finding a home on sesame street, well, that is about as good as it gets, isn't it? well, here's your c

to the house of south something that happened two weeks ago the emir of qatar actually went to cairo truck to morsi gave him two billion dollars as a star any immediately afterwards morsi made his move which was counter cool i guess the treeview school against the muslim brotherhood. it's so late isn't it so late as you're saying so far in hand that work a list of where these new appointments the new defense ministers also taking over as the head of the military council the former intelligence chief he also started in the u.s. what we expect from ayman. well basically from the movie brotherhood point of view day don't want any more frictions between scaf and the press there so we can say that for the moment this korea's muslim brotherhood won skaf zero the problem is the military even if the june is reliant now or rearrange they control almost forty percent of the egyptian economy egypt is broke it has no money they have an annual deficit of thirty six billion dollars so these two billion dollars from catarrh it's a little bit of help but not much because tourism in egypt they used t

it is believed that qatar and saudi arabia are garmin the rebels although they will not confirm that. the u.s., other western countries are providing logistical support, operational support, advise on the ground. there has never been a confirmation they are providing weapons but everything short of the weapons including the kind of tactical and strategic a device to make the opposition more affective. we certainly have been seeing out on the ground. the kind of weapons that have been caring and the six hassles -- and the successes they have had. >> thank you very much for that analysis. today, markets across europe let out a collective sigh of disappointment as european central bank left central bank's unchanged. this is not a bold action they were hoping for. the president of the central bank promised to do whatever was necessary going forward. >> we have seen so many make or break summits since the eurozone crisis began and that of them seem to have worked. many of -- many have stopped wondering if the european leaders can stop the crisis. >> we need our mandate. the ecb is ready to

would transfer five taliban prisoners to qatar first and then there would be an exchange where a u.s. being held by the taliban would be released. qatar has played an important role in america's talks with the taliban, but they have presented some serious obstacles to the dealings with al qaeda as well. >> translator: qatar is intervening directly in the financing and material of the islamists. and we think this is blatant support of the islamists. >> that was one of the leaders of course for the fighters fighting al qaeda based in northern mali. officials stress if a deal is worked out, it would be done in accordance with u.s. law, but of course questions remain over whether qatar is a friend of the united states. >>> the billionaire has filed a $60 million lawsuit against the national jewish democratic council. he's suing for libel claiming the organization said that he approved a prostitution at his casino. he threatened to sue the democratic national campaign committee for making similar actions, but they retracted statements. but, not this time. in a statement, the national jewis

the rebels have been armed by qatar and saudi arabia. >> the shelling of cities has intensified. >> kofi annan has been frustrated by a deep divisions at the united nations with the united states, britain, france, pitted against china and russia. things fell apart, he said. this fundamental split sent a very mixed signals. today, u.n. observers are still at work, but observing the relentless spread of fighting is about all they can do now. after kofi annan steps down at the end of august, it is far from clear what the u.n. role will be. more and more, syria is falling apart. today, opposition activists near damascus buried these victims of what they allege was execution by the government. in aleppo, the battle for syria is still raging. the story in syria is now war, not peace. >> the bbc's chief international correspondent is currently in jordan's capital and she joins me now with more on the impact of kofi annan's announcement. how was this received where you are? >> this was a very difficult assignment. now, he is saying that it was a mission impossible. many here saw that it was inde

farez argues political support from qatar and saudi arabia is not enough. he says the opposition fighters need more weapons and funds. >>> japanese and north korean red cross officials plan to meet in beijing this week. they will discuss returning the remains of japanese nationals who died in north korea at the end of world war ii. the state-run korean central news agency said the delegates will meet for two days starting on thursday. the japanese red cross society says three officials from each side will attend the talks. the meeting will be the first of its kind in ten years. japan's health and welfare ministry says more than 34,000 japanese nationals died in north korea at the end of world war ii. some died in battle with former soviet troops. others died from starvation or during the cold winter on their way back to japan. the remains of more than 20,000 have yet to be collected. some japanese government officials say the talks are a sign that kim jong-un is trying to make policy changes. others say north korea is others say north korea is looking for a

while qatar reportedly tried to bribe syria's ambassador to mauritania to side with the rebels with promises of a million dollars and political asylum. in the u.s. says it. shows there's no nuclear weapon in the works she gets but a leading paper reports that an israeli strike on iran could begin. next insight into how to try to keep the eurozone countries afloat by sending them their separate ways. today i'm at capital economics talking to roger bootle he's the head of the winning team in the wolfson prize which is the competition to find the least disruptive way for a country to exit the euro logical thanks very much for talking to us now this wealth in prize the competition why was it important to you to put together such a strong entry i was fascinated by the question that lord will some posed and as i thought about it i quickly became aware that no one of the release satisfactorily even i think attempted to answer is no i thought we could learn a lot as well as contributing quite a lot in trying to answer it and that's what we did and talk me through your winning entry very briefly coun

member of the block to openly spoken out against sideline in damascus but several member countries like qatar and saudi arabia are pushing to mobilize support for syrian rebels longstanding regional rivals sunni dominated riyadh and shiites have taken opposite stances on syria i guess it expects this is syria's opposition steps up calls for a libya style intervention with reports that fighters who topple gadhafi are among rebel ranks let's talk more about this now with dr every milou she's from is it to a university and a man dr you live on r.t. thanks for taking the time to be with us it's kevin owen here tonight talking to you know some experts say serious conflict is long ceased being a domestic one that it's not only about rebels versus a sad but more of a question of saudi arabia versus the rand and turkey's increasing role in the middle east the so much in the pot here isn't there what do you think. i think it's not only sort of the area versus iran that's also russia and china versus nato and the united states what we are talking about here is a conflict with many many of dimensions th

peter all of our reporting for us there now qatar has reportedly tried to bribe the syrian ambassador in my allegedly promising one million dollars and a political asylum in exchange for defecting the syrian diplomat is thought to have turned down the offer calling it flagrant interference in syria's internal affairs middle east history and politics professor jeremy salt says gulf nations are using their huge financial clout to help topple the government of president assad what about the gulf states is they have any supplies money. to buy people out and this is the first question that should be asked will these defectors how much they pay you how much do you get then there must be some kind of sliding scale i mean what is the ambassador with what is a foreign minister worth what is a kind of a low level represented mauritania worth i mean he was reportedly been given also a one million dollars plus twenty thousand dollars a month for the next twenty years which you know is pretty good but one would imagine that people would be offered even more than we know what the beginning of this

could be carrying differences actually promote american foreign policy and its allies saudi arabia qatar yes i think yeah well that's an exact the sectarian differences lead to the destruction of states i mean where before you had an iraq that was. a serious state and a reasonably powerful state now we have the code which is virtually succeeded we have. conflict with each other this is come about as a result of u.s. policy i mean u.s. policy makers on stupid they didn't exactly come as a complete surprise to them that this was how what would happen once the united states invaded the same thing as happened following libya i mean we've already seen the spillover effect. in mali i mean again this was always a likely one see realty this instability is working for the united states we want to get rid of the regime in iran ok this is the end game isn't it so instability works. i think it depends you want instability if you're unhappy with the status quo if you're happy with the status quo like we were in egypt then you don't look upon things like revolutions very kindly but in terms of what's

here that are the main proponent saudi arabia and qatar are somehow lecturing syria on democracy anduman rights both countries that are hereditary police state monarchies that are some of the most rooted one repressive dictatorships on the planet yet they're somehow able to lecture this other country about how they should run their government and be sending weapons and potentially bombs and soldiers to those countries to to overthrow its government not to mention the us government which is the greatest violator of human rights on the planet with a vast empire occupying multiple countries out war with multiple countries bombing and carrying out drone strikes in multiple countries expose for carrying out the legal rendition illegal torture that continues to this day and within its own borders a prison population over. we're two point two million people the highest on the planet that's not just even per capita that's by number so you have the greatest purveyors of human rights violations lecturing others about human rights but it really all comes down to who is controlling the resources

of these sectarian differences actually promote american foreign policy and its allies saudi arabia qatar yes i think yeah well that's the exact the sectarian differences lead to the destruction of states i mean where before you had an iraq that was. a serious state and a reasonably powerful state now we have the code which is virtually succeeded we have. which are. conflict with each other this is come about as a result of us policy i mean us policy makers aren't stupid and they didn't exactly it didn't come as a complete surprise to them that this was how or what would happen once the united states invaded the same thing as happened following libya i mean we've already seen the spillover effect. in mali i mean again this was always a likely once the united states aligned itself with various radical islamic forces very very groups that it had already listed as terrorist organizations and the same thing is clearly happening in syria we've seen that the the civil war which has been clearly few and funded and financed by the united states has now spilled over into lebanon and this as this w

while qatar reportedly tries to bribe syria's ambassador to mauritania to side with the rebels with promises of a million dollars and political asylum. the u.s. says it's i enter to rally shows there's no nuclear weapon in the works and gets spread a leading paper reports that an israeli strike on iran could be him and. welcome as his r.t. live from moscow one i am in now my name is kevin are in the top stories this hour and washington and turkey are wearing upbringing in a no fly zone over syria as well as getting ready for worst case scenarios including any use of chemical weapons by the assad regime u.s. foreign policy chief hillary clinton has pledged a further five and a half million dollars meantime in aid to syrian rebels during a visit to turkey it brings total funding for the opposition to eighty two million since the conflict began last year in istanbul clinton received from the welcome bright police clashed with turkish antiwar activists from a leftist party trying to reach the building where she was to meet prime minister read them with offices responded with batons and tear gas

positions russian positions qatar's positions saudi positions anybody's positions except for the people of syria what the outside powers are doing has virtually nothing to do with what actually is going on on the ground so what we're seeing. layout of the united nations is a power struggle between the united states and russia between nato and the gulf states on the one hand and other arab states on the other we're seeing a bunch of different battles playing out diplomatically almost none of which are taking into account the interests of the people of syria where do you think that's had you think there will be since susan rice clinton and other diplomats have talked about intervention on site they want to think that's going to happen do you think that's a possibility that the west is looking at there is already intervention underway the western countries have provided the military of saudi arabia the military of culture that's where they buy their weapons from they buy american weapons so it is already western weapons that are going in it's not coming directly from the us but it is weapo

not ready to arm the rebels, leaving that to allies like saudi arabia and qatar. but the u.s. provide clandestine assistance and intelligence. we understand this could have been in place for months already. and we understand the u.s. has been help saudi arabia and qatar vet some of these groups. one of the complaints is the u.s. doesn't know who it would be arming. they're trying to find how to get the weapons into the right hands so countries like saudi arabia and qatar can do something like that. and also providing intelligence on what kind of troop movement syrian troops are making so that opposition rebels are not found in a difficult situation, erin. >> elise, thank you very much. so many report that is al qaeda has infiltrated some of those groups. arming the rebels in syria is not a simple and clear-cut thing. >>> the federal reserve says it's not going to give us any more. no more drugs from ben. they come "outfront." >>> and how specially trained tsa officers rescued a kidnapped woman who was passing through an airport. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empt

but in this particular case, you've got the united states working with syria--with qatar saudi arabiame degree with intelligence and work an arms' henning distance away without sending troops and bombs and outfitting the resistence can large scale military capacity. the reason for that, as i've written recently, the problem is there are real horrors unfolding in syria and it may be soon bosnia, but syria is not just syria. it's a platform for iranian interests and as of late russian interests. what you run the risk of, whatever is done or not done by the united states in europe inside sir are a could lead to real geostrategic shifts one that ties iran and russia together that we have not seen historically. people need to understand what that means. if russia and iran had been adversaries in the past and have not been comfortable and close as people might suspect given what we've seen in syria, they control the largest fossil fuel and natural gas reserve undeveloped in the world. it would basically tie together the largest geoenergies that will be in position for the next 40, 50 years.

they will be setting up a political office in qatar so they will have diplomatic process. it is wrong all the way around. >>shepard: the white house says they don't know anything about this. >>guest: well, this has been in the works for a very long time they wanted 21 talibans in exchange if bergdahl and they narrowed it down to five this is just an initiative to say, look, the taliban in peace negotiations with the karzai government so we can leave and everything will be fine. it will not work out. more importantly --. >>shepard: wait, wait, wait, you say this is if public consumption. so for public consumption so the united states people can be fed the line that the taliban and karzai administration are in peace negotiations and the reason they will say that is because we are talking about a deal. not because it is true. >>guest: we are fighting with a different group of people in pakistan. it has nothing to do with these old farts. they have nothing to do with the war in afghanistan. this is just a little puppet group of people to make it look like we kissed and made up

>> we went to qatar the was the last overseas trip by took. we landed there. i have never flown in a plane flown by arabic pilots. i woke up with the pilot speaking arabic. [laughter] we landed. is such a different culture. the second highest standard of living in the world. everything starng at $200,000. i believe the king paid all the mortgages off and they are consumed with money. at some point* i got jealous. i had not been in a culture so consumed with learning. >> i am glad you are here. i know you have heard this but i love your show you had a few years ago. [inaudible] [laughter] >> we were putting good deal together and jon klein said we will put you on tv right now. i was overwhelmed. i did not know what i was supposed to be. it was like landing in russia, of total culture shock. i learned a lot about myself and people. >> no you do not. [laughter] >> do you think we have the special wealth americans avalon love for learning that is missing from our society. >> i think we have been consumed that we used to make things. growing up, i remember quality

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but the spokesperson for this man he is in a neighboring country to syria, and then going to qatar, andhen some say, he didn't defect, he was fired. that will remind you what the administration said about a man from iraq who said he was fired, and he did not defect. it is how you spin the news in case, but either way symbolically, silg nif can't, michael. >> and another sunni from the inner circle if you like. this is coming amid news of attack on syrian state television, and of course, not many casualties, but again, extraordinary access to the inside of the cabinet. and what is this saying about the opposition forces are better organized. >> they are getting better organized. this is not the first attack on a television station that is a s supporter of the regime. you will remember that on june 27th that there was and attackn another television station, and that attack killed three sdwrour journalists and four security guards and this is looking like the aftermath of a explosion on the state television building in damascus and no deaths, but symbolically striking at the heart of the r