linage. fierce fighting in syria as regime troops try to push rebels out of a key city while defections among top officials continued to plague the government . while german intelligence finds evidence of kind is behind some nine hundred terror attacks in syria with suggestions the rebels have been passing the victims of us fatalities of the regime. the united arab emirates follows the example of saudi arabia and bahrain as it leaves a fresh clampdown on protesters but the west stayed silent. international news line for most of this is he was me thanks for joining us fighting continues in syria's key city of aleppo was troops trying to hold

a rebel advance the country's commercial hub has been plagued by fi is street battles for several days since opposition fighters began their souls and his son a boy one of the few remaining international correspondents in syria. over the past few days that leper has been. at the center of a matter major military operation we know that the army to syrian army used tanks used fighter jets military helicopters to strike its targets to free syrian army has also. enlisted a lot of support for it it's a parade in there they're calling it did battle qualify and there are some reports on the eve of this battle they received major reinforcements and supplies all the military equipment all new supplies of arms from turkey and saudi arabia they're fundamentally. group. members well what.

we also are going to bring the world to you about. people who we were before people who were. true and you know who it is. for when you talk about syria what's important to keep in mind is this sequence of events it is the syrian army is employing having artillery in the city but they are conducting drive military operations in response to terror attacks that have been happening in this city that have been happening in aleppo for several months and many residents of aleppo are telling us that they don't understand why the to the government so long to dive those military operations because they've been suffering from this criminal activity for quite some time now the residents of our product also telling us that before this military operation was launched the army how to evacuate the residents local residents out most of them are now stationed at the compost of the i left university residence from other locations at. the campus so

it police on one level syrian people were able to come together and try to help which other and what's important to stress also is that is believed to be the stronghold for both the bashar al assad government and for the opposition but most people i've spoken to they say what they want now is the violence to stop and then they can proceed with the political process and we're keeping a close eye on the developments in syria with our crews reporting from the heart of the country and all she's on a voice isn't a mosque is bringing you the latest updates and pictures via twitter she says people are beginning to return after last week's rebel assault on the city with damage to the infrastructure across the country now estimated at eleven been then told that. the syrian rebels continuing sold on the country's key cities say they have been inspired by last week's are talking done. and

activist. feels the violence by the opposition fighters is making it 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 the saudi arabia and qatar so they just do what they've been told is to break the infrastructure of syria believe me. call me so that's what they're taking on but i believe since they are we massacred . who killed. commanders in syria the syrian the syrian army has called now for a swift action and the people is called. we are here we called for swift action from a month or two months ago because enough it's enough these people they understand only the language of the guns and the language of the bullets so this is what they

have to be faced by the syrian army by the bullets and it's going on now damascus is nearly nearly cleaned from them is going to be cleaned we what we want as a syrian we want a dialogue we want a political process we want to ballot box. german intelligence has found a large number of terror attacks in syria could be attributed to al-qaeda or jihad as creeps while correspondent has suggested rebel fighters have been passing out civilians killed as victims of the regime. of reports now from berlin. german intelligence the b 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 being 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 and it's all across the newspapers here in germany at the moment prompting one senior german foreign it was correspondent to suggest that the rebels in syria were deliberately killing civilians and passing them off as victims of government troops coining the phrase the phrase of massacre marketing for these actions now germany has been something of a quiet partner. 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 u.n. resolutions now this is those resolutions of course some in favor of military intervention in syria something which russia is be imminently opposed to but this information coming out shows that 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 to be toppled. and later we'll look at whether it's only about medals behind the efforts of syria's alembic squad what they had of the syrian games committee barred from the lantern twenty twelve is already facing accusations it's become mired in politic. also later this hour a grim discovery as hundreds of five month old fetuses are bound dumped in a russian forest sauce they may have been used for illegal with. a new way acquired downs on protesters has taken place in the united arab emirates

new arrests have been reported with almost forty people now in custody that activists who are detained for allegedly opposing the constitution as well as the country's ruling system this follows similar developments in saudi arabia in bahrain but the silence on it from the west is deafening says hussein abdullah from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain. the uprising in bahrain as shown. clear the standard than the us one policy toward the country is that going through the arab spring or the democracy movement while they support some countries that. like syria or in the first libya because we don't you know says there's not likely to the best way to change this because of the genius to use the democracy however people in bahrain and people should be and people in yemen are calling basically for the same rights self-determination the free and

fair elections but we don't see the same kind of forceful a clear foreign policy toward those these especially. so the arabia because those countries or those governments are considered like saw somehow democracy now is used as a weapon against the countries that we don't like however the people in blue jeans that have been sort of allied to the united states who are supporting the government that is oppressing them. and you can find more stories online at r.t. dot com including but i put all this saying it'll finally make a decision on whether to grant julian assange political asylum after their lympics they took whistleblowers fight is going to have a way to boost the details are constantly. parachute guru storm this kind of training where needed to prove there are no limits what the russian team setting a new world record in the formation skydiving. download

the official r.t. application to self choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite from our team well t.v. is not required to watch our team all you need is your mobile device you can watch r.t. any time. europe has been delivered a new blow as moody's investors service announced fresh downgrades that's the cost our business desk for the day to. sobering it was the target this time. was germany once again only this time it was in some of the regions which is what we heard about earlier on in the week as the sun was seventeen banks of course all this comes after moody's also called the acted like outlook for the euro zone's rescue fund making the whole situation even worse of course we all know that investors are

really worried about what's happening with that crisis and the things that don't help but i'll tell you why were these the order of business in fifteen minutes. a sinister discovery in central russia has shocked the entire nation that's after barrels full of human fetuses were found dumped in a forest investigators and poring over the evidence for clues they fetuses over five months old and may have been used for illegal medical research find the images and sean thomas' reports disturbing. a picturesque meadow in russia's urals first seemingly serene but an unfortunate encounter for one outdoorsman reveals a scene far more disturbing i discovered the birds well i was out there fishing and i went to get some wood for the campfire which i found the barrels and i thought i would take them home but when i looked inside so many little babies medical waste in total two hundred forty eight fetuses each around half the size of an adult human hand some ten and with surnames and identification numbers discarded in

a remote ravine around seventy kilometers north of the catalina berg in some cases the remains spilled onto the ground was inspecting the scene we found a total of four barrels fifty to seventy liters each filled with human fetuses 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 often the hospital contracts out the service which is where companies can cut corners. we've got to be nation discarded syringes and other materials were dumped into sent beats ended up in children. or police say hospitals in the area had been contributing fetuses to scientific 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. those fetuses contain stem cells which may be used to treat cancer various immune system diseases and forage of an asian 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 of the stories making headlines around the world overnight as of the london olympics have been left red faced after they mistakenly. plays 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 a shoot is the latest embarrassment for the organizers after numerous high profile security problems. israel's defense minister ehud barak has warned of tough decisions ahead of the latest european union sanctions fail to stop iran's nuclear program and eskom is making. his comments came shortly after iran's supreme leader an ounce to increased pressure will not interfere with his country's design

for peaceful atomic energy the latest e.u. sanctions talks have islamic states or an industry came into force on july fast. and active is the bill as tells us he believes the u.s. and his. painful ignoring. it would be a catastrophe for everyone if the united states or nato which is just the united states fig leaf or israel went into iran and attacked iran there we can live in this world as a nation among nations as long as we insist on the old colonial mentality that we can dominate other peoples we can tell them how to be and have a double standard that's just so good tell us so we're frantic 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 nonproliferation and part of even admitting that they have them

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welcome back days summer games may be out started but the tradition of the limbic truce looks like it to go unfulfilled in spite of pressure sirrahs sun does biggest immigration for decades claiming its participants bring with them a message of peace but as a few notion now reports despite efforts these olympics are sailing to stay away from politics. 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 who is just as important a mission i think. the situation in syria is better than ours the media trying to show that we are going to send the message that well country safe and beautiful and that its people don't want violence and it 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 through loudly condemning the bloody regime of bashar assad calling for tough sanctions military intervention and the president to step down seems to turn a sport into another 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 i feel sad and disappointed though 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 israel risked 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 crisis the country seemed in its biggest of a geisha since the 1980's games. although we are in

a state of war we are not listening to what the say about this especially the media we know the truth and this is very important especially this time we raise the flag of our country and to the world the best of a free. speech would actually say syria is unlikely to go home with any medals. but it seems 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 written off knotty from damascus in syria. all right so let's go back to business news room now for more information on moody's announcement hammering about how investors are reacting to it well you let's be honest with you i think that investors have become sort of a means to this by the hour because we've had so many downgrades in the past couple

of bad spot investors are reacting to all the news of course we've had a lot of downbeat earnings reports across many sectors and the big names there as you can see both the footsie and the dikes are in negative territory but they are more or less flat and that's across the board that's what we've seen is there life faster performance across the board also with more than say that spain's banking giant that has closed a second quarter profit report that plunged at ninety three percent needless to say definitely. expectations there were a dollar waiting for something like that at all and also important to say that european commercial price of the horse and i go but also is clearly had into athens and that's one of the concerns that. production that targets so investors will be definitely looking out for that. what he has to say they'll stay with the europe to those who missed the program earlier when we're talking about movies and how it's

continuing with sound waves in the euro zone it has now called the outlook for seventeen german banks after a similar move against the country's rating earlier this week and of course the euro zone's rescue fund as well the agency want that more that if there was a quote further deterioration of the credit worthiness of germany's central or regional governments. you can take a look at currencies the euro is still in wednesday's gains against the us dollar and the one that comes to the ruble it's again against both major currencies in stark contrast of what we saw the previous day now let's look at how the russian markets are performing i did say in the previous hour that the my sense was slipped into negative territory and it has as you can see there similarly with the r.t.s. but i get more lies too negative is what we see in that if we can take a look at some of the major movers on the. it still it's taken quite a bit to react so when it comes to the stocks are still higher most of the blue chip says it's at a point one percent this hour and we do know that it's expected to raise the

benchmark board to trade next month also we to be is that in the half a percent that we know that a subsidiary of society is going to become one of the biggest minority shareholders of the bank that next we have a rolls left and then just launch there as well and in fact stander them wars has now warned that it will downgrade the company if it continues and manages to acquire all seeing play b.p. so we'll see what happens there then moving on to crude prices which always have of course a major effect on the russian economy as the plans on energy they're heading south lights we trade in close around eighty eight dollars there and then the broad blend just above one hundred four dollars per barrel will know that stockpiles in the u.s. are increasing and some analysts say it may signal faltering demand now and it's now the trading session there is. now over the next day finished in the previous hour it gained almost one percent there that i'm citing just the last and investors

are also digesting a string of local and international earnings a report now focusing on china and its cooperation with africa employed secular china's president has even pledged that there's a new level of relations with of the country with africa and in fact we do know that the country has already replaced the united states as its top trader and the continent and artie's that your bottle takes a look at how and why that is. a ghost town in angola for a whole four million people gleaming new headquarters for the african union and vols doubling sudan's electricity all built by choice no return for the continent's fabulous riches from whole of the world to two thirds of its platinum mobile phones use the mineral called turned mind in congo in a decade china has overtaken the states as an africa's top trading partner taking a whopping ninety three billion dollars in goods stricken by did washington and

brussels have taken their oil off the ball and the continent's leaders are hoping mad at the west continued colonial attitude china's intentions are different from europe's as south africa's president europe still influences african countries for this benefit loans from beijing also cheaper and come without lectures on transparency and human rights but made by choice may have gone too far big projects are being built so badly they crumble and go lose 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 the europeans in the past four hundred says one top of fish. just getting started but this month china africa forum president hu jintao promised to take relations to

a quote new level with twenty billion dollars fresh cash for the continent we will forever be a good friend good partner and good brother of the african people and we are expecting more details on the moody's and move from brussels next hour but for now back to you in the studio. thank you very much indeed looking forward to it actually all right sanjay back with a recap of our top stories in just a few minutes.

if they shoot something inappropriate from the public they can easily be shown to accept casualties of war ok. i wish you would have never happened but it has happened. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary what destroys their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave room. and the spear what happens with such witnesses i got him on my site. one of many objects submitted. to nurses shooting on our. you know

sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report.