fierce fighting in syria as regime troops tried to push rebels out of a key city while defections among top officials continued to plague the government . while german intelligence finds evidence al qaeda is behind some nights it terror attacks in syria with suggestions rebels have been passing that own victims of as fatalities of the regime. under pressure clamp down on protesters in the united arab emirates but the west stays silent on similar actions in bahrain and saudi arabia. hello and welcome to our c twenty vala news live from moscow our top story now fighting continues in syria's key city of aleppo with troops trying to hold

a rebel advance the country's commercial hub has been plagued by a fierce street battles for several days since opposition fighters swept two more senior syrian officials have defected from the government also he calls home by phone with a reporter who is currently in the city. fair were fundamentally. by the corporations members what syrian free army recruits for just. by. we can treat truth. we share and. also organizations the volunteers that are flying through their. government people trying to there by opening the place. they are trying to help people. to work and to get there and what the theory that we will not be changed but.

changed. or changed by ford i think we were in it for people in syria it's seeing pictures and inner. peace in a political way fight for to fight and hide from the press a position syrian social club believes violence by the rebels is making the possible it's impossible to find a political solution in this so-called rubble they don't have a decision in their hands the decisions come from outside the from countries like united states backed by disorderly be on qatar so they just do what they've been told to break the infrastructure of syria bleed on the. economy so that's what they're taking on but i believe since a week since that massacre happened in syria who killed. commanders in syria the syrian the syrian army has called now for swift action and.

here we called for swift action from a month or two months ago because enough it's enough these people don't understand only the language of the guns and the language of the bullets so this is what they have to be faced by. me by the bullets and it's going on now damascus is nearly nearly cleaned from them is going to be cleaned we were we want of the syrian we want to dialogue we want the political process we want to ballot bowl. german intelligence has found a large number of terror attacks in syria could be attributed to al-qaeda or jihadist groups while of war correspondent has suggested rebel fighters have been passing off civilians they've killed tens of their regime on a reports now from their land. german intelligence the p n d a saying that around

ninety terror attacks may have taken place in syria between december of last year and july of twenty twelve these attacks been carried out by groups with connections to al qaeda as well as other jihadist organizations now this is come to light following a question that was raised in the german parliament all across the newspapers here in germany at the moment prompting one senior german foreign war correspondent to suggest that the rebels in syria were deliberately killing civilians and passing them off as the victims of government troops coining the phrase the phrase of massacre marketing for these actions now germany has been something of a quiet partner kept keeping something of a real low profile when it comes to syria although they have supported their allies in the united states and the united kingdom have been far more vocal in pushing

forward with un resolutions now this is those resolutions of course some in favor of military intervention in syria something which russia is be immensely opposed to but this information coming out shows that well germany had intelligence regarding what was happening on the ground in syria and they didn't do anything about that it's also being reported that germany's foreign office is working with the syrian rebels to try and determine what will happen to come up with a concrete plan for the transition of power should assad be toppled. and still ahead here this hour a message to the world with syria's alan pixie adamant if it's to promote peace at the games in london twenty two hours is a recipe martin politics. aside. grim discovery as hundreds of five month old fetus is up found dumped in

a russian forest is sort of they may have been used for illegal. then going conflict in syria has been thousands of people displaced seeing rather thousands of people displaced and a large number of them it's not the first time they've been forced to flee many of rockies who escapes the violence in their homeland to shelter in neighboring syria but now they are returning home to boycott reports now from damascus. if one of their home countries in search of peace only to be ambushed by war in the place they thought was safe syria has long been counted among the most welcoming countries in the region for refugees with almost one hundred thousand of them registered here permanently given before the while and broke out in syria the residents of the neighborhood were all well familiar with the ugly realities of war or the past decade d.c. area has become what thousands of war refugees from somalia afghanistan pakistan

but the largest community here iraqis who sought to escape the u.s. waged war in that country and now have to flee yet again at this bus station iraqi destinations have never been in such high demand as now after several dozen residents of this area were shot or beheaded in the past two weeks many are scrambling to leave a woman who arrived here because family in two thousand and three is also packing i've never come across such securities in syria and such a government is in syria it's a good state it's a good nation but the rebels come here with weapons to destroy homes and we have no idea why the residents accuse the rebels of terrorizing their community extorting money or kidnapping for ransom while their regions of the gangs are unknown many here believe it's a fighting alongside different. syrian army. the us a

is not an independent nation because its government does not hear what its people are saying because whichever country it invades it destroys america invaded iraq libya egypt and yemen and has not brought peace to any of them now after nine years iraq still can't produce enough electricity for a whole day only for an hour or two but this they say it is enough is one of the most important share shrines as it is believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter just a year ago it was inundated with bill grams but after several worshippers lost their lives in a suicide bombing it is now closed some believe the attacks against iraqis in syria may also be driven by sick terror and division most iraqis a shia mosque travels a sunni a year's base shia group has just published a statement calling on the united nations to intervene according to our sources in c. . thousands of shia muslims are in danger of massacred by the free syrian army and

groups affiliated with them she rights watch has learned from many shia muslims living in the area that the free syrian army has threatened to massacre all the shia in the area unless they flee yet not everybody is scary the way. a sunni syrian and an m a share iraqi have been neighbors and friends for seven years ever since the killing of animals has been forced here to leave iraq they say we want freedom what freedom do you want in syria mosques that they have girls with their heads covered and girls with their heads uncovered we have christians sunni's in shiites and they say they want freedom but is this the way to treat your country when you want freedom but iraqis know better than anyone else how relentless and how damaging the foreign quest for freedom could be next on the boycott r.t. reporting from damascus in syria. in the conflict in syria at home including a war for show time for others find out why the golan heights near the israeli

border with syria has become a tourist mecca with people armed with binoculars and cameras flocking to the area . and what i could all saying it will finally make a decision on whether to grant drew and our sons' political asylum after the olympics they took whistleblowers find has given have a way to boost the details at home for you. if. you.

download the show r.t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch or to all you need is your mobile device watch are to any toy. and you wear the crackdowns on protesters has taken place in the united arab emirates eight new arrests have been reported it was almost forty people now in custody they are accidents or detained for allegedly opposing the constitution as well as the country's ruling system as follows similar developments as saudi arabia and bahrain but the silence on it from the west is deafening says hussein abdullah from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain. uprising in behind him as shown. clear the standard in the u.s. foreign policy toward the country is that going through the arab spring or the

democracy movement they support some countries. like syria. in the first libya because we don't you know sisters not like. the best way to change the rules of the genius to use the democracy however people in bahrain and people should be and people in yemen calling basically for the same rights self-determination free and fair elections but we don't see the same kind of forceful clear foreign policy toward those countries especially. so there will be a because those countries or those governments are considered allies saw somehow democracy now is used as a weapon against the countries that we don't like however the people and bluejeans that instead of allied to the united states who are supporting the government that is oppressing the. percent of talent from americans who are democracy and human

rights in bahrain that talking to us from alabama. a sinister discovery in central russia has shocked the entire nation that's after barrels full of human embryos were found dumped in a forest investigators an outpouring over the evidence for clues this is out of the five months old and may have been used for illegal medical research and you may find the image isn't showing thomas' report disturbing. a picturesque meadow in russia's year olds at first seemingly serene but an unfortunate encounter for one outdoorsman reveals a scene far more disturbing they go discovered the burial says he was out there fishing it on the barrels and he thought he would take them home but when he looked inside what is on many little baby's medical waste in total two hundred forty eight fetuses each around half the size of an adult human hand sometimes with surnames and identification numbers discarded in a remote ravine around seventy kilometers north of you katherina berg in some cases

the remains spilled on to the ground. inspecting the scene we found a total of four bottles fifty to seventy leaders each in size filled with human embryos police will investigate this incident the materials found will be examined at the lab. the mystery of the discovery in the woods and how it got there has sent a shockwave around the world but one main focus for investigators is where the fetuses came from in the first place in russia abortion is legal only up until the twelve week mark and early evidence in this case shows that these fetuses were terminated between twenty two and twenty six weeks russian law states that women can only have an abortion during this time period for medical emergency reasons now investigators must find out why there were so many late term abortions in such a relatively small area was there something deeply sinister going on such as an illegal abortion operation and why were they discarded so carelessly human tissue

is classified as hazardous waste and as such it should be incinerated when disposed of properly in the hospital contracts out the service which is where companies can cut corners. discarded syringes and other materials were dumped into scent beats ended up in children. police say hospitals in the area had been contributing fetuses to. if it research but the project supervisor was fired in two thousand and eleven they believe she took some of the bio medical waste with her when she left but those embryos contain stem cells which may be used to treat cancer very sunny and ceased in diseases and for origination purposes but skeptics say this scenario is unlikely considering the fetuses were found in formaldehyde rendering them useless for this type of research now the health ministry has requested information from all clinics within one hundred kilometer radius hoping

to find answers to a story that has left a community perplexed in moscow sean thomas r.t. . and now to some other stories making headlines around the world this hour the man accused of carrying out the colorado cinema massacre sent crude writings about shooting people to his university us media is reporting the package because stain contains details of how he was going to kill and illustrations of that time the shooting at the premiere of the new batman movie left twelve dead and scores injured. organizers of the london olympics have been left red faced after they mistakenly displaced this south korean flag instead of the north korean one it happened at the beginning of the women's football match against colombia the north korean team left the pitch for an hour in protest before an apology was issued is the latest embarrassment for the organizers after numerous high profile security problems. as defense minister ehud barak was warned of

tough has warned of tough decisions ahead of the latest european union sanctions failed to stop iran's nuclear program his comments came shortly after iran's supreme leader announced western sanctions and diplomatic pressure will not interfere with his country's desire for peaceful atomic energy the latest e.u. sanctions targeting the islamic states or in the street came into force on july the first their worst fears terrorize secretly developing nuclear weapons something iran's always denied and later actually mr bill has tells r.t. he believes the u.s. and israel are leading a campaign for ignoring their own nuclear arsenals. it would be terser food for everyone if the united states or nato which is just the united states or israel went into iran and attacked iran. we can live in this world as a nation among nations as well as we insist on the old colonial mentality that we can really look at peoples we could tell them how to be we have

a double standard that is so good turds so we are free a bit about the possibility that iran. might have a nuclear warhead some day meanwhile we have two thousand nuclear warheads and that doesn't make us frantic israel is the third largest nuclear power in the world not part of nuclear proliferation and part of even admitting that they have them this is a world that's dangerous you know unstable but it's not unstable because of the run there are so many better ways to be a citizen of the world but the shake your sword every time you feel like it. and you can watch the full interview with acts of instable as in just ten minutes time here on aussie. the summer games may be at starts but the traditional day olympic truce looks likely to go unfulfilled despite precious serious sundaes biggest delegation for decades claiming its participants bring with them

a message of peace but as the notion now ripples despite efforts of these and big south facing to stay away from ponce. for almost half his life twenty eight year old and had has been part of syria's national weightlifting team during the opening ceremony for the two thousand and eight olympics in beijing he carried the syrian flag this year his going to the games in london was just as important a mission and i think. this intuition in syria is better than our sun media trying to show that we are going to send the message that our country safe and beautiful and that its people don't want violence and hate says his major competitors in london will be from russia but the country's true enemies the athlete flames the nations back in the rebel forces there is a very grave situation of murdering regime britain the country that's hostin this

year's games and has been among the most loudly condemning the bloody regime of bashar assad calling for tough sanctions military intervention and the president to step down seems to turn sport in turn other battlefield they had of the syrian olympic committee former syrian army general and a close friend of the country's leader has been refused a visa and will be watching games on t.v. in his home in damascus. this is a conspiracy against syria and its people and it even contradicts the olympic charter if you're sad and disappointed this is part of a pressure package and serious psychological pressure today the cycling team will have to double their training the day before it was cancelled due to security concerns apart from the psychological pressure the syrian afflatus six men and four women have been preparing for their peaceful mission in a real war zone at home with a real risk to their lives the u.n.

says in seventeen months of the revolt of a ten thousand people have been killed while some opposition sources asked to meet almost twice that figure. but despite a national wide crisis the country's sinden is biggest of a geisha instance the 1980's moscow games. although we are in a state of war we are not listening to what the sea a boat is especially the media we know the truth and this is very important especially this time we raise the flag of our country and the world the best of our free since sport experts say syria is unlikely to go home with any medals these year but it seems winning is not the highest prize for the team sport is often described as a matter of life and death but for serious olympic team the phrase is a reminder of a real conflict they'll be leaving behind however it will be a message of peace not war that these competitors take to the london games. or if an option r.t. from damascus in syria. in cities is might have to drive their nicknames and start

using their real names while posting their views online at least that's what he achieves trying to encourage that's along with introducing a tool that enables users to police the websites content and his leg and locus with more. you two were wise on users to self police the site using the flyer button click on it to reveal a dropdown menu listing different types of content that violates are guidelines selected type of content sometimes you'll be prompted to enter the window of time offending content appears in the video then click the flag this video but it's that simple you two want to take anonymity out of the internet by encouraging people to use their real names when it comes to making comments here's how it works when you try to comment on a youtube video a box will pop up that displays your username along with a side by side comparison of what it will look like to like you to pull your name from google plus if you choose to make the switch another box will pop up to show

you what your comments will look like from now want or you can keep your anonymity if you choose to keep your anonymity you just click on the button that says i don't want to use my real name but that will lead to another dialog box that questions why you don't want to use your real name and there are six options for why including my channel is for show or character my channel is for personal use but i cannot use my real name and i'm not sure all the side later now some say this is you tube the tap to become more transparent but for now it's up to the users to decide if this change is for the benefit in the long legged lopez r.t. . the business news and marine is that submarine that china's president has pledged to a new level in african relations from last time to stand please tell us more. basically has already replaced the united states. on the continent that has actually been so

successful that knowledge faces and the african backlash explains what that is all about. a. million people. had called just for the africa union involves. electricity. why china in return for the continent's fabulous riches from half the world's diamonds to two thirds of its platinum mobile phones use the mineral called turn mind in congo in a decade china has overtaken the state as africa's top trading partner taking a whopping ninety three billion dollars in goods stricken by did washington and brussels have taken their eye off the ball and the continent's leaders are hoping mad at the west's continued colonial attitude china's intentions are different from europe as south africa's president europe still influences african countries for this sole benefit loans from beijing are also cheaper and come without lectures on

transparency and human rights but made by china may have gone too far big projects are being built so badly they crumble and go as new general hospital shut down off the big cracks appeared patients are now seen intense new chinese build roads linking zambia were quickly swept away by rain and the mainland brings its own workers distrusting local labor more chinese have come to africa in ten years than europeans in the past four hundred says one top official just getting started at this month's china africa forum president hu jintao promised to take relations to a quote new level with twenty billion dollars fresh cash for the continent adding we will forever be a good friend good partner and good brother of the african people. let's take a look at how asia session is still the only one trading right now and basically what we're seeing in there is moderate gains after

a chalk restarts of the trade in session is that the nikkei is adding a third of a percent on the high side in just a knowledge that investors are reacting to a mix of local and offshore earnings reports that some highlights their new ten dollars getting almost three percent in us after reporting that it had a smaller loss than the previous year and the cannon is setting. percent and that's after the comma form. for the fiscal year ok let's move on it's like a look at currencies now the euro is raised in wednesday's gains to the dollar when it comes through the ruble low slightly into both major currencies on the ones that will give you of course the updated figures for the when the russian markets open which is in two hours from now it was a choppy trading session a year as well on wednesday and what we saw is that the markets managed to post some gains it's always the the r.t.s. and the mindsets adding and just the knowledge that let's move on take a look at crude prices which always have a major effect on the russian economy and we see in that light sweet asserting

eighty eight dollars and sixty five cents and the breadline that are around one hundred four dollars and cents out of their declining once again and that says u.s. stockpiles are on the rise of investors say may signal faltering to that and that brings us to the end of this mission of business. in the studio thank you very much indeed merino we'll see you next hour and i'll be back with a recap our top stories in just a few minutes stay with us. if

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