policies haven't changed as the as a result of that change in the western narrative and the western understanding of the conflict your government is still persisting in arming the side that most people around the world would have absolutely no confident. clearly there are huge reservations about the rebels as they now all and one argument often heard here is that the reason the rebels have become jihadists and have accepted money from jihad is cause is a bit with that is precisely because the west is not be prepared to provide them with weapons if you were to accept that argument that means that you know rebels are so easy to manipulate that why would they would you put them at their house of the country in the first place if these people are ready to you know kill civilians and the crowd liver is hard just because some saudi money were accessible to them well i mean why would you want them to be a legitimate representatives of the syrian people in the first place the assumption of your question is that we started to the west somehow started this revolution all this democratic movem

bombing civilian towns because that's where they believe the rebels are i think what's crucial in the western narrative on the syrian conflict is that the line between combatants and civilians is really really blurred and i think i would argue that it is done for political reasons because one we have quite a mother who is nursing her baby somewhere in homes and her male neighbor with a kalashnikov who is a attacking in nearby army checkpoint you know these two people they may have the same political goals and aspirations but one has taken up arms and they were they all other one didn't isn't that the core distinction between combatants and civilians well the distinction is between those who as you say have taken up arms and are using them actively they are if you like legitimate targets fall for the regime trying to defend itself but what is not acceptable is to simply attack civilian areas because that's where the rebels are hiding and say well it's not my fault if i kill civilians because a still responsibility under international humanitarian law for any force whether it's the rebels all t

is still being pre-trained in many of the western media. syrian citizens. people have been tempered straining and they're resisting assad and have being slaughtered by assad for well over a year the biggest risk. to keep on slaughtering these people you've got a dictator who is brutalizing his people using chemical weapons against innocent. surge on a dictator who is slaughtering his own people is that an accurate description of what is actually happening in syria or what is actually happening is a very brutal civil war between the government supporters and the rebels and their supporters and both sides are clearly guilty of. regarding civilians as an incidental collateral damage if you like i think it's probably true to say that most of the casualties we're talking about around one hundred thousand most of the casualties have been civilians and very many of them it's very hard to say how many have been killed by the the government tactics of fighting the war by shelling and bombing civilian towns because that's where they believe the rebels are i think wha

but i like what babbage just said i mean i think it was a western a story well because he is paid by or has been paid by the united states of america when he set up a democratic alternative party a year or two ago it received money from the ne d. the ne d. is the national endowment for democracy which is the big regime change operation funded by the us congress that was the main organization funding the orange revolution in ukraine back in two thousand and four novell nice party received money then from. the americans to. showed it not so long ago and he has put forward in the western media because he's role is to discredit the russian political system as a whole that's the role that's the political role which develop the plates is to keep in everyone's mind at the forefront of everyone's mind the idea that the russian political system is a corrupt or storage area and dictatorship from which good minded people are struggling to free themselves and that's the role that he plays that's why he's put forward is not because anybody knows a thing about his programs or about his nationalism

media in particular and in the western political science community because you know almost again for the first year and a half you never heard anything about the existence of the other side the other side that is now. about i'm sure the many western leaders have concerns about what would happen if they emerge as a van and why do you think it was so misrepresented is it just a mistake on the part of a western community like happenstance or a deliberate policy no i don't think it's a labor policy i think the middle east is very complicated and you have so many different forces which come in you again you have to states which were involved then you have your own of. saudi arabia or qatar if it would make sense to continue with this rising death toll in syria for the sake of getting rid of or diminishing around iranian influence well i don't know i think the point is simply that the conflict has evolved so much today it's not just an issue of human human tragedy it's an issue of state failure even if you have. the state is already breaking apart absolutely but i think it's also an issue

especially into western japan, out towards portions of western hanchu, these areas are on the western slopes of the mountains, you get the moisture inflow pushing upslope, it squeezes it out like a sponge. ahead of the low pressure area, we have the moisture coming in off the pacific ocean, hitting southern hokkaido. going into tuesday and wednesday, what we're going to be seeing is the high pressure, i was talking about, starting to lift to the north. now most of the time that would improve the conditions, but what we're starting to see is the temperatures warm up, we're still going to have the instability in the atmosphere, so thunderstorms, rain showers are still a big threat out here and it's falling on already-saturated ground so there's still the risk of flooding and even landslides. >>> japan's nuclear regulator has ordered the operator of fukushima daiichi plant to remove radioactive wastewater from underground tunnels. high levels of radioactivity has been reported since may. the utility reported that contaminated water from the facility is leaking into the sea. the nuclear r

strategy i think the free syrian army is very keen to get western intervention i think they're now change their strategy unless and look al qaeda going to take control unless we do need and help us who's going to buy a low end of the day from al qaeda as interesting is and i think it's very important to understand that one of the biggest myths in international relations over the last eight years is the west coast al qaeda they're not able support marriage. and libya for example in the balkans in the ninety's have al qaeda linked groups etc if they want to topple a secular regime and so it's a myth that think they're the big enemy the biggest enemy was a western the biggest and western foreign policy in this region is to counter iran and hezbollah so i don't actually think the question out ok the state to exist however they're very happy to work to try to talk and present a sad. funny a world in it regarding fact the oil again if they got more of a control more of a hold on in syria bigger marketplace in syria how much could it affect world prices or would that would that not be a signific

that is a little bit from "the guns at last night: the war in western europe, 1944-1945". jim in south dakota, question or comment for rick atkinson. it helps if i push the button. >> caller: "the guns at last night: the war in western europe, 1944-1945" would be my first book about world war ii. i am a journalist, and two years ago when my mother died she had given me a pack of a thousand letters written between 1942-1945 which represent correspondence of my parents during those years. my father had enlisted in 1942 at the age of 47. he served with the seventh armored division, and my biggest question today, now my question is where do you recommend as a repository for these letters my father was a very good writer. and his letters are informative, they are in sight for training leading up to their departure and all his letters survived show her letters and the war years or the war years when he was actually in the front, they do not survive, but his do. and he asks a lot of questions in these letters and they are potentially valuable. >> host: thanks. >> guest: thanks fo

see at is lurking towards the west , the more showers are across western maryland and western pa. as we go in to the afternoon, that's our better chance for the showers and the storms to pop up. the dew points are on the high side again. we are looking at the upper 60s. measure of the moisture in the air, in the 60s. we can feel it. when you hit the 70s. annapolis, coming 71. centerville 72. 70 perry hall and elkton. sultry and oppressive and uncomfortable. in terms of temperatures, we are above average in a lot of spots, annapolis 74. pasadena 76. centerville the same. baltimore 78 degrees. with the sunshine we are really going to heat things up. the humidity going to make us feel hotter than what it is. thunderstorm is possible across the yeah. once again, this is what you can expect to plan your day, if you are heading out, made the tee time. after noon we will see the pop up showers and thunderstorms and the golf course is not the place you want to be in a thunderstorm. >>> traffic alerts on route 50, contractor drop off that shutdown a westbound lane. en burnie, a car struck

and several western governments to keep opprobrium on the verdict. and to. basically claim that in the fall he has been on fairly sentences i think that russia are actually paying attention to some of the particulars of the case and they are a familiar with the ball me as a political figure in quite a different way than he has conceived of in the west and the west the baldly is is presented as a poster boy for a liberal opposition and he's a commonly referred to as the most popular leader of the liberal opposition and a potential threat to president putin the facts on the ground really don't lay this out even after the trial and the may or all race which of all me has been running in who's. not only is known by still only thirty two percent of russians and that's after a lot of heavy t.v. and newspaper coverage of. russians really aren't that interested in the brand of politics that he's selling them and that's because what is often on presented in the west is in the holy holds what could be considered in the west as quite extreme ethnic nationalist racist z

i grew up in public housing in the western addition.grandmother raised me and my brothers and i went to public schools here in the city. ended up at u.c. davis and graduated and immediately returned back to the community and started working for the mayor's office of neighborhood services, and worked on treasure island, and eventually became the executive director of the african-american art and culture complex located in the western addition, a place i participated in programs in the arts as a kid. so, it was really an honor to be able to work directly in the community, to impact so many lives. and i really thoroughly enjoyed that experience. >> you've lived most of your life in san francisco. why did you choose to live in the city? >> i chose because it's my home. it's just a place i love the most. i pretty much only lived outside the city when i went to college and i came home almost every weekend on the greyhound bus. and i just love san francisco. it's an amazing place, it's a beautiful city. it's nothing like coming across that bri

and its western allies are going to have a hard time of moving anything that they came. well let's get to more on this from middle east expert and historian tatic ali he joins us from london are you surprised to learn that syrian troops illegibly seized chemical weapons belonging to the rebels. no if this turns out to be true and i don't know whether it is or not it wouldn't surprise me at all it's very clear that the sections of the rebel leadership have been desperate for western minute cream to bring. and. had to go a long way to achieve victory remember before all just after this sarin gas attack . media. emblazoned across their front pages in some european countries to put pressure on washington the fact that washington then pulled back from going beyond what they are already doing indicates that they were not convinced and i think the russian un ambassador was absolutely right to have the west has no proof that these get bent gas. sarin gas was being used by the syrian state by the syrian state so if the latest claim from the syrians is true it's very serious indee

well about this conviction has drawn instant criticism from western governments washington condemn the ruling as suppression of civil society in russia was that opinion largely acco by e.u. officials however british legal expert and blogger alexander macoris who's been following that a volley trial told us that outsiders are jumping to conclusions without looking at the details of the case as far as i could see. the charges made out the facts were set out clearly mr navarro he was given an opportunity to cross-examine witnesses to respond to the evidence and i think if you look at the evidence and i think a lot of the people who question the fairness of the trial have not. but i think you do look at the entrance you would decide that he was probably convicted well that's exactly the problem what one gets to see the feelie people who have already made up their minds before the case even started and before the trial even started simply following their own opinions which they formed in advance of the crown prosecution service here takes the view that in the case of theft which is what thi

some western states including the u.k. have so far backtracked on their arms supplying to the opposition voicing concerns about the threat of extremist in syria but the free syrian army has admitted it will accept help from anyone including al qaida my colleague bill dodd spoke to rebel army spokesperson document. the situation in syria with the out of position is pretty much complicated if you hear on the that there's lot of the visions within the free syrian army in there of the one that let's say you say it's complicated there are divisions basically you've been hijacked by radical extremists by the likes of al qaida no. you can't so we've been hijacked by the logs of al qaida who. took the advantage yes and they will look brothers are being killed by these torrent and the world is doing nothing about it just sitting back on the backs of us and doing nothing or what will get us there being so you know like anyone who's willing to hold us in advance to take on this torrent we are willing to accept him whether he looks li

they unloaded 12 osprey aircraft at a base in western japan. they'll test the planes for a week and then send them further south for their permanent distinction. a ship carrying the tilt rotor aircraft arrived at the air station. they will test fly the ospreys for about a week. local government officials agreed to the deployment, but they want u.s. commanders to let them know when and where the planes will fly. they're urging the americans to shorten the testing period. the marines will then deploy the aircraft to futima aircraft station in okinawa. the aircraft was put into service in 2007. they can take off and land like helicopters and cruise like planes. but ospreys have been involved in a number of accidents. >> translator: we will try to get the understanding of local residents, and we'll ask the u.s. military to consider conducting test flights outside of okinawa. >> u.s. commanders are also considering a plan to deploy more of the planes to tokyo. they are thinking about replacing the transport helicopters they use now with ospreys. >>>

now, the peak of heavy rain is over across western japan. but instead central japan is targeted by quite heavy rain. we're expecting about 150 millimeters of rain to fall in the next 24 hours. so flash flood is going to be a very big concern. and as we go into tonight the system is expected to sag toward the south so that will affect the northern parts of western japan once again. so more disastrous conditions are likely to happen, unfortunately. the same frontal system is affecting the southern parts of south korea as well as east-central china. lots of rain there as well. and a rainstorm can be found across northern vietnam, producing widespread rain here. southern china is also targeted by heavy rain as well. and a tropical depression can be found over central parts of the philippines. the system will likely maintain its intensity while making its way toward the northwest. temperatures are quite seasonal in shanghai once again. 39 for you with abundance of sunshine. tokyo the upper 20s, relief from the heat. beachgoers and surfers in hawa

something that fulfills western interests believe you me we have seen a much much and a far more early intervention than we have right now can i just ask you a mansion for humanitarian concerns humanitarian issues several times now. yes since you're so kind of concerned about the humanitarian aspect of it do you think the support of the armed resistance here proclaimed fairly early in the uprising and the military support that they say resistance is getting. from the gulf countries from turkey from some other international players this is actually how to decrease humanitarian suffering in syria because even if you take the argument that president assad was a brutal dictator which is still contested but even if i was to consider concede that point the extent of human suffering onder assad regime or worse. not comparable to what is actually happening in syria because they once again let me go back this revolution started peacefully it started peacefully it doesn't matter how astonished when talking about what is happening on the ground until it got to a stage until it got to a stage wher

rebels were responsible for the deadly use of chemical weapons in the conflict zone as moscow slams western claims to the contrary. but egypt is deposed president on spying and ruining the economy as we report on what impact the political crisis is having on the country's free falling finances. you are just in time for the weekly here on r t with me will receive a share live from moscow thank you for sharing your sunday with us here. this week saw a little change to the plight of edward snowden the whistleblower remains in the transit zone of moscow's sheremetyevo airport however he did manage to talk to representatives of human rights organizations and replaced his bid for refuge here in russia meanwhile guardian journalist glenn greenwald who's been breaking the news about the n.s.a. snooping he claims snowden holds information which would be america's worst nightmare if revealed let's bring in our teams are going to go on this right now joining us live here on this sunday morning arena good to see you so edward snowden a good job a good salary what is it that happened that changed him so

the other thing in the western edition they have a public hearing in the western yoiths along with public hearings with the supervisors christen and the number is the number that she filed this one - anyhow may this meeting i'm meeting with the oversight committee and the o w d to find out what happened. our supervisor has been in office for 5 months but i'm up here saying we need the city and county to look at what happened in the western edition all those businesses are closings. have you been down on fillmore. my name is ace and i'm on >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> yeah. supervisors daniel for the record. i was thinking on my way down driver's license that ace was talking about some of the conditions we're facing in the fillmore area. you know, traveling have on martin death and the outcome people like san francisco the city like san francisco i think it's appropriate we should entertain some types of outcome in a country that we say life and a liability and it's protected. now as american people individual some days you feel like you have no power and some days that's why peo

but i want to say about the release is that and it is surely the proof that the western idea that this trial is political is false because if the court were and the prosecutor were under the control of dhimmitude it as the western press caricatures this is trial then. then it is clear that he would not have been released on appeal because between now and his appeal he cannot run for moscow city mayor he can give as many interviews as he likes it's an absolute public city godsend for him it doesn't remove him from politics at all it's the absolute ideal solution for him in a sentence because it gives him maximum publicity and it enables him to carry on politics so this release if you like is the proof that the trial is not being it's not telephone justice. and of course if you missed any of our coverage you can catch up at r.t. dot com also there are a lot updates and the best pictures from the protests against the verdict also check out our correspondent on twitter they're keeping an eye out on all the latest news from around the globe. and u.s. judge has ruled bradley manning must fac

what i want to say about the release is that it is surely the proof that the western idea that this trial is political is false because if the court were and the prosecutor were under the control of dhimmitude it as the western press caricature is this this trial then. then it is clear that he would not have been released on appeal because between now and his appeal he cannot run for moscow city mayor he cannot give as many interviews as he likes it's an absolute publicist a godsend for him it doesn't remove him from politics at all it's the absolute ideal solution for him in a sense because it gives him maximum publicist he and it enables him to carry on politics so this release if you like is the proof that the trial is not being is not telephone justice small group seven of only a supporters continued their protest against his tail sentence in central moscow on friday that appeals in comparison with a rally that was held straight after that verdict was announced i did enter farmer brings us the latest reaction from the all scamp. they have asked his supporters not to carry out demonstr

ization because in many western countries especially in the united states we hear a lot of political talk about the so-called corporate responsibility to hire people at home to hire people in the united states and to pay taxes in the united states and i wonder if it's morally and economically defensible argument these days in the era of globalization that you should hire people and create those jobs in the united states rather than in china even though you know many of your products are money factored in china many of your products are consumed in china but you know many countries still insist that you know there should be policies in place to protect their own national interests for global sake. that's a totally old fashioned view of the world again that doesn't work like that you create jobs in china because they're more competitive in terms of the part that they're producing there you create more jobs in the united states or in europe because they're mostly are being the technology the knowledge part but also more and more in countries like india like china like mexico brazil you

really springlike in western maryland right now. 82 in hagerstown. down at the boardwalk at ocean city, it is 84. inland, a little bit warmer. .7 to 88 degrees most areas, those temperatures are really not all that bad. there is a flood watch in garrett county. as we widen the view of hd doppler, you can see numerous showers and thunder coming across ohio. a good chance that rain could get into garrett county overnight tonight. they have that flood watch up. a few lighters wrinkles except for the storms in somerset county and st. mary's county. aound baltimore, just passing shower or two. southwest wind at five. otherwise a partly cloudy sky. 65 to 56. there is a decent low off to the west. this one stalled out and is kind of stationary across new england. this one has drier air behind it. it looks like it will scoot through here on thursday. there will be some rain ahead of it, but should be pretty nice for writing and the weekend. tropical storm chantal is making its way through the caribbean. it will go off west perhaps to haiti.nican republic and

western thinking and western influence leaders good for the egyptian people yes ok caroline do you think that's and do you believe that i always get worried when watching i always get worried when washington expresses its wishes you know and desires in the greater middle east it never works. well that's just a reaction of doing you know a lot of care on the global story had to work go ahead caroline go ahead. well yeah i mean i suppose you know if one's looking out through the eyes of those in the middle east. they they kind of see the interventions of america britain as well as quite often opportunist quite often confused actually given for example that initially. mubarak was sort of being propped up. by governments and in the west to keep out the islamists. and then you know now we're in a situation with you know in syria where you know on the same side as. i do you still use the word confuse you hear that you heard a sin yeah. ok brian if i go back at you with the fact that ok go ahead caroline go ahead keep going keep going. what i was just going to say that you know together the fac

at least 75 have been killed after an earthquake struck western china. more than 580 others have been injured. 14 are still missing. egypt, legislators of the upper house of parliament supporting mohamed morsi and say they will be holding a session in the coming hours. elsewhere, six people have been killed. 11 more wounded in the wave of attacks in the sinai peninsula. the violence flared in the area after the army ousted president mohamed morsi more than two weeks ago. his supporters have been protesting in cities across egypt. in cairo, they marched to the headquarters of the military intelligence service. thousands gathered to demand the former leader be reinstated. there has been a large demonstration in support of mohamed morsi in the northern city of alexandria. the professor of political science at cairo university, perhaps you can tell us about the press conference that just happened. i understand the deposed president's family has been issuing a statement. the family a sure they have not been in contact with the president and nobody has been ab

to the western region, the humid flow from the western region of the area. developing a lot of rain clouds. we're still talking about very heavy rain in the korean peninsula as well as inland china. possibly we're looking at additional amounts of 200 millimeters, some places in the korean peninsula. lots of heavy downpour to be found yet again. temperatures in the mid-30s in ti yoet oh, at 35 degrees. tokyo 30 degrees yet again. we'll see the rainy season come back starting tuesday. >>> that is all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in to o tokyo. do stay with us. we'll be back with more at the top of the hour of the.

strategy of the free syrian army is very keen to get western intervention i think they're now change their strategy look al qaeda going to take over unless we do the and help us the f.s.a. have lost all bases and i think now they're lost and say look you've got to help us and to try to put the trends of the good guys the moderate rebels but i'm not talking committed some terrible crimes and terrible terrorist atrocities so it's i think it's a kind of faux division to say that there are bad rebels and good rebels the fact is elections are due in syria next year twenty four thousand in this new teach for anybody to be using violence now to achieve political change in syria democratic elections are available to people so i think the f.s.a. this is a sort of desperate last chance for them really. top story that she was becoming a central moscow of the last couple of supporters of anti corruption blogger alexina valmy gathered to protest his five year jail sentence police sources in moscow suggest only three thousand people are rallying opposition put the number meantime it's seven thousa

western observers are not being allowed in. it is up to zimbabwe's neighbors to try to police the election. the president is already crying foul. but his popularity has also been damaged by revelations about his personal life. former lovers appearing here in political advertisements to discredit him. and so, as zimbabwe hurtles , thed another election loser seems unlikely to accept defeat. >> now to sugar, which has captivated stomachs and minds since ancient times. americans eat more than 22 teaspoons of sugar per day. that is 77 pounds of added sugar per year. it is blamed for high rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. cohen wrote this month cover story in national geographic called sugar, why we can't resist it. i spoke to him a short time ago. what happened millions ago -- millions of years ago to start the sugar epidemic? >> some smart guy took a bite of sugar cane and discovered it was the most awesome thing he had ever eaten. the sugarcane basically started to migrate from you get a into india, eventually into pe

. >>> a man enraged by a dispute involving taxes threw fire bombs inside a city hall in western japan. at least five people were injured. the attack occurred where the man threw two fire bombs over the counter of a taxation department. about 600 people were inside the building at the time. the 63-year-old man was arrested just after the incident. police say he was arguing with an official. city authorities had confiscated his apartment because he failed to pay his property tax. >> translator: this is very shocking. why did this happen? >> firefighters extinguished the blaze after about an hour. five people were taken to the hospital after inhaling smoke. >>> executives at a power company in western japan have filed applications to restart their reactors. the units must pass stricter safety checks put in place in response to the 2011 accident at the fukushima nuclear plant. officials at kyushu electric power company applied with the nuclear regulation authority to restart two reactorses at the genkai plant. kyushu electric officials have estimated the highest possible tsunami from two