lines. fierce fighting in syria as regime troops supply with rebels for control of a key city that's while defections among top officials continue to plague the government. while german intelligence finds evidence al qaida is behind some ninety turd tox and syria suggestions rubble have been passing their own victims off and spray televisa of the regime. and the united arab emirates follows the example of saudi arabia and bahrain as it leaves a fresh clampdown on protesters but the west stay silent. this three pm here in moscow this is r.t. coming to you live i'm nice in our way with our top story this hour and opposition

fighters are readying themselves for a major advance on syria's key city of aleppo the country's commercial hub has been plagued by fierce street battles for several days since opposition fighters began assault this as two more senior syrian officials have defected from the government here's archies oksana boyko. over the past few days aleppo has been at the center of a matter major military operation we know that the army the syrian army used tanks used fighter jets military helicopters to strike its targets the free syrian army has also. enlisted a lot of support for it's a parade in that they're calling it the battle for aleppo and there are some reports that on the eve of this battle they received major reinforcements and new supplies to all the military equipment all these supplies of arms from turkey and saudi arabia. but you could be sure and remember

well what theory are for your review also lord i mean for instance before and through the thoughts running through their local people who we were before through your. e-mail who had an inner peace in the. fort what do you talk about syria what's important to keep in mind is this sequence of events it is true that the syrian army is employing having artillery in the city but they are conducting dive 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 it took the government so long to conduct those military operations because they've been suffering from this criminal activity for quite some time now the residents of the laptop also telling us that before this military operation was launched the army how to evacuate developed and local residents and most of them

i'm now stationed at the compost of the i left university residence from other locations of. the campus so it placed in on one level syrian people very able to come together and try to help each other and what's important to stress also is that a laptop 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. lurches axon a boycott is not only on air but on twitter as well for you when you can follow her latest updates and pictures from damascus now the syrian rebels continue their assault on the country's key cities and say they've been inspired by last week's attack in damascus activists how fun is that by feels the violence by the opposition fighters is making it possible to find impossible i should say to find a political solution to this so-called rubble the. 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 i mean believe me. they're calling me so that's what they're taking on but i believe since are we this is the massacre happened in syria who killed. commandos in syria. the syrian army has called now for a swift action and the people it's called false reporting 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 the

masters is nearly nearly cleaned from them is going to be cleaned we were we want the syrian we want to dialogue we want the political process we want to ballot bowl . but german intelligence has found a large number of terror attacks in syria could be attributed to al-qaeda or jihadist groups work correspondent has suggested rebel fighters have been passing off civilians they've killed as victims of the regime or at least peter all over reports from berlin. german intelligence the b n d a saying it 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 kept in 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 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 to be toppled. but later we look at whether it's only about medals behind the efforts of syria's squad but the head of the country's olympic committee banned from the banned london two thousand and twelve is already facing accusations it's become marred in politics. coming up a grim discovery as hundreds of five month old fetuses are found dumped in a russian forest it's not they may have been used for search. the united arab emirates says there's an international plot aimed at overthrowing the governments of the arab countries in the persian gulf the chief of dubai police has warned that the threat is coming from the muslim brotherhood and as well as

syria and iran the u.a.e. appears to be following in the footsteps of box grain and saudi arabia which of launch a crackdown on anti-government protest eight new arrests of activists have been reported in the u.a.e. almost forty people today protesters were detained for allegedly opposing the constitution as well as the country's system but the silence on the situation in the west is deafening. from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain. uprising and behind him as shown. clear the standard in the us one policy toward the country is that going through the arab spring or the democracy movement well they support some countries. like syria. in the past libya because we don't you know this is not like. the best way to change this because of the genius to use the democracy however the people in bahrain the

people should be and people in yemen are 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 he says. actually my brain so the arabia because those countries are those governments are considered allies so somehow democracy now is used as a weapon against the countries that we don't like however the people in the genes that are considered allied to the united states who are supporting the government that is oppressing the people. do you find more stories online at our dot com including one who are saying it will make finally make a decision on whether to grant to leave political asylum after the olympics the thought was a fight is given anyway the details of our team. and parachute were song of the sky months of training were needed to prove there are no

limits but the russian team setting a new world record information skydiving. download the official application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. it's not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch on t.v. any time. 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 gators are now poring over the evidence for clues the fetuses are over five months old and may have been used for illegal medical research you may find some images in thomas' report disturbing. a picturesque meadow in russia's urals at

first seemingly serene but an unfortunate encounter for one outdoorsman reveals a scene far more disturbing i discovered the birds while i was out there fishing and i went to get some for the camp fire which i found the barrels and i thought i would take them home but when i looked inside i saw many little babies 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 catalina berg in some cases the remains spilled onto the ground were forced to look or inspecting the scene. we found a total of four barrels fifty to seventy leeches 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 isn't 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 should be incinerated when disposed of properly in the hospital contracts out the service which is where companies can cut corners but the issues of contamination were discarded syringes and other materials were dumped into sent beats and ended up in children's said boxes. 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 a nation 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. coming up to fourteen minutes past the hour and coming up here on our team for you europe was delivered a fresh blow by one of the ratings giants this time into the region's power center . modi's downgrades the outlook on seventeen that schuurman bags just a week after it made a similar move on the conference credit rating certainly confidence in the euro

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through. loans to the. dealer in more mouths to feed but where will the food come from can science provide the answers to the future of food under the microscope. we've done the future covered. live from moscow a look now at some stories making headlines around the world clashes in the wrong have killed twelve security members and one helicopter i was on times to retake its former stronghold is the third and deadliest day of the latest finding which occurred soon after another wave of violence killed a hundred and fifteen people are also claimed responsibility for those killings earlier the terror group's leader called to push back into areas it was forced out

of by the u.s. military. the interesting gun purchases has really risen in the u.s. and especially in the state of colorado where firearms license requests grew by forty percent following the cinema mass shooting in the state many americans want to be able to protect themselves and not have to trust the police to ensure their safety the colorado massacre left twelve dead and fifty eight wounded the accused james holmes is due to hear charges against him out of court hearing on monday. and organizers of the london olympics have been left red faced after they mistakenly displayed the south korean flag and set of the north it happen 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 organizers after a numerous after numerous high profile security problems. israel's

defense minister ehud barak has warned of tough decisions ahead that's if the latest sanctions fail to stop iran's nuclear program his comments came shortly after iran's supreme leader announced increased pressure will not interfere with his country's desire for a peaceful atomic energy the latest sanctions target the islamic states oil industry and came into force on july the first. later today bill ayres activist tells r t that he believes the u.s. and israel are leading a campaign for war ignoring their own nuclear arsenals. it would pass for free for everyone if the united states or nato which is just a united states fig leaf for 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 grotesque 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 in the heart of even admitting that they have them this is a world that's dangerous that's 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. you can watch that full interview with activist phil airs next hour here on our team. and the summer games may be at the start but the tradition of olympic truce looks likely to go unfulfilled in spite of pressure syria's sending its biggest delegation for decades claiming it's participants bring with them

a message of peace but aren't as we have a notion of reports despite efforts these olympics are failing to stay away from politics. for almost half his life twenty eight year old ahead 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 know. this situation in syria is better than ours some 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 had says his major competitors in london will be from russia but the country's true enemies the afflatus claims are nations back in the rebel forces 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 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 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 athletes 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 over ten thousand people have been killed

while some opposition sources asked to meet almost twice that figure to about her but despite a national wide crisis. is the country sending its biggest allegations since the 1980's games. although we are in a state of war we are not listening to want to see a bogus especially the bad 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 our faces spilled x. three say syria is unlikely to go home with any medals these years 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. you know you're a marine at the business and that means one thing of course it's time for her to

bring us up to date on what's happening with money around the world that's right and they say in this hour it is really the hour of change all the markets have gone completely the opposite way i'll get to that in a second but first i want to talk about ratings agency moody's which is of course continuing with its downgrades in the euro zone this lowered the economic outlook of almost sued doesn't determine lenders. are silly or has all the details for us. the moody's is downgraded seventeen german banks and this is just a week after the country's a credit rating was down downgraded from stable outlook to a negative outlook there so it it was a very surprising that this on the banks had followed mainly because many of those of those banks that have been downgraded hold government back to debts and therefore if the country's credit rating is not stable it just goes to show and followed that the banks themselves are not stable as well they've been struggling since two thousand and eight and also since the onset of the eurozone crisis now

aside from these downgrades the outlook in german business is not very good across all sectors business confidence has gone down in june certainly not bad news for the country that's considered the main creditor in all of the euro zone nations of funding a lot of the bailouts of it gone into the other countries one of the main a destabilizing factor in the euro zone is actually spain its current situation very unstable and it has long passed that psychological threshold on the interest rate on its sponsor seven percent right now investors are asking for seven point six percent of our doesn't take much to figure out that this is a very very unsustainable level and that there are many there are fears that spain is going to ask for a full country be allowed to keep the confessors really jittery greece has also been on the spotlight the troika of the i.m.f. e.c.v. of the european commission have just gone there and really there wasn't much of a surprise of what they had found out i think investors are already expecting to hear that greece is still off the track and it still needs to further death

restructuring in order to get its finances in order so therefore we're not seeing good news any good size at all from the euro zone nations. we are seeing good news right now is the european markets where as i said there's been a huge all involves the territory see the foot sea and the dikes adding over a half a percent right now does this news that in spain the banking giant there which is sun found that reported its second quarter profit and the plunge ninety three percent also we know that european commission prize than the whole sum i know but also it's heading for athens to assess the situation there because of course we have made mrs reduction targets that's the concerns of what investors are feeling right now let's move on and take a look at currencies where the euro walls are raising wednesday's gains now as you can see it's back up and game against the greenback when it comes to the ruble it's going against both major currencies right now it would take a look at the russian markets it was a choppy trading session but now it's firmly impulsive territory he has gotten

almost one and a half percent this hour if you move on and take a look at food prices they have also there and. then they're heading higher as you can see the light sweet trading at around eighty nine dollars per barrel at the brant blend out of the one hundred five dollars now if we want to look at all the news to yoda effort secular which has regained the crown of the world's top auto maker it sold almost five million vehicles in the first half of the year which is three hundred thousand more than last year's leader that was general motors and earlier on today are lost the title as its production was hit by the two thousand and eleven natural disasters in asia while staying with asia china right now that's the focus its cooperation with africa and in particular china's rise than the has already said that he's pledged a new relation in africa with the continent and basically we know that china has already replaced the united states as. in africa and artie's daniel bushell looked into how patient became so successful so successful in fact that it might face

a backlash from africa. ghost town in angola of a hole for a million people gleaming new headquarters for the african union and vols dans doubling sudan's electricity all built by choice 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 content mined 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 debts 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. well more news with a difference west i'm sure coming up for your next stop by there from blowing the summer out katie pilbeam will be here from a back seat on the so all right thanks but update marina and more financial

analysis coming up for you the kaiser report debates how frontally bankers manipulate the market that's after our top stories stay with us. well. it's technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered.

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