headlines. the battle for syria and don't the country's second city alack bio which braces for the worst that's rebels and government forces go ahead. elsewhere in the rest of region up to forty people are now detained in the united arab emirates amid a fresh protest or clamp down on the west turning a blind eye just like over saudi arabia bahrain. why can the troubles past the ancient olympic truce capsize politics hangs over support syrians walk out of the london games. live from our studios in central moscow you're watching our team with me and he said now it's four pm here in the russian capital three pm in damascus and in syria

government troops and rebels are reinforcing their positions as the week long battle for the northern city of aleppo intensifies columns of army tanks are reportedly rolling into residential areas where insurgents are placing snipers on rooftops now seizing control of syria's commercial capital that is seen as crucial to winning the fight for the north clashes are also being reported on the outskirts of damascus where rebels launched a major offensive recently but were pushed back are two stocks on a boycott is one of the few international reporters still in syria and brings us the latest on the conflict. over the past few days a leper has been at the center of a major military operation 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 its a parade in the aleppo they're calling it did battle for aleppo and there are some

reports on the eve of this battle they receive major reinforcements and supplies the military equipment you supplies with arms from turkey and saudi arabia when 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 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 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 also telling us that before this military operation was launched the army how to evacuate the residents local residents most of them are now stationed at the campus of the i left university residence from other

locations a move to the campus so it least on one level syrian people were able to come together and try to help each other and what's important to stress also is that allowed for 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. on board the reporting there from the conflict zone she's also bringing you updates and fresh pictures via twitter we continue to keep a close eye on developments in syria. well a syrian campaigner pushing for peaceful political reform told her to the foreign powers one thing insurgents to soften the country up and make it right for regime change. 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 i mean believe me. believe the economy so that's what they're taking on but i believe since a week since that massacre happened in syria and the bomb who killed. commanders in syria the syrian the syrian army has called now for 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 they have 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 will we want as a syrian we want to dialogue we want a political process we want

a ballot box. well later we'll look at whether london twenty twelve can really be the world's level playing field for syria's athletes they go into the olympics with a message of peace but can support win out over politics. coming up. but first the united arab emirates has extended its crackdown on protesters a new arrests have been made bringing the total number in detention to almost forty the arrests came after the government announced an investigation into a group crimes against the state activists were locked up for a bunch of the opposing the constitution as well as the country's ruling system probably similar crackdowns in saudi arabia and bahrain but as activists who say no explains western silence over the protests makes clear who's a friend and who is not. the uprising in behind him has shown.

a clear the standard the us foreign policy toward the country is that going through the arab spring or the democracy movement while they support. some countries that. like syria. in the first libya because they don't you know says does not like. the best way to change this because of the genie just use the democracy here however people in bahrain the people saudi arabia and people in yemen are calling basically for the same rights self-determination for the free and fair elections but we don't see the same kind of forceful clear foreign policy toward those these especially. so european because those countries are those governments are considered saw somehow democracy now is used as a weapon against the countries that we don't like however the big problem bluejeans that is that of the united states who are supporting the government that is

oppressing the. some other international news in brief for you this hour fierce fighting in the iraqi troops tense in the country's north province the house killed twelve people with an army helicopter also shot down the clashes erupted after a police patrol came under attack by a group of suspected al qaeda fighters on wednesday causing the army to intervene this comes just days after the terror group claimed responsibility for another deadly attack that took at least one hundred and fifteen lives. a bomb attack at a busy market in pakistan's northwestern district of bars or has killed ninety nine people i should say and injured twenty others the explosive device was hidden in a pickup truck the bus or district has been a front line in pakistan's fight against taliban militants in the country no one has claimed responsibility yet for the blast. the european commission president is heading for talks in greece to ensure enough being done to secure the much needed

second bailout payment greece's still are contracting. rates and pushing through further crowds is proving hard to stomach both among politicians and the public the country only has enough money to see through towards the end of the summer the speculations again swirling that it may have to quit the euro zone. but even europe's biggest players can escape later we have more on the ratings agencies that cast a cloud over the chief powerhouse moody's downgrades the outlook on seventeen german banks just a week after it made a similar move on the country's credit rating certainly confidence in the euro area go even further down more details coming up in the business update. russia's in a state of shock after a grisly remains of human fetus that were discovered dumped in a forest investigators are now poring over the evidence for clues some experts believe the fetuses could have been used in research or in illegal beauty treatment

you may find some images and some time with this report just helping 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 girls while i was out at this and i went to get some wood for the camp fire which i found the barrels and i thought i would take them home but when i looked inside a so 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 katherina berg in some cases the remains spilled on to the ground floor 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 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 was 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 do. s'posed of properly the hospital contracts out the service which is where companies can cut corners. we've had to be nation discarded syringes and other materials were dumped into sent beats and ended up in children. 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 for rejuvenation 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. . israel is warning of tough decisions ahead on the wrong end is calling on a made major powers to speed up after it's to cartel the country's nuclear program meanwhile tehran remains defiant saying extra pressure won't hamper its push for

peaceful atomic energy later antiwar activist bill ayres tells our team that the u.s. and israel are they doing a military campaign while ignoring their own nuclear stockpile. it would be a catastrophe for everyone if the united states or nato which is just a united states fig leaf for israel went into iran and attacked iran 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 and part of even admitting that they have that this is a world that's dangerous that's you know unstable but it's not unstable because of

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to the pressure. star totty dot com. with our two live from moscow well with the summer games in london about to kick off there's no sign that conflict torn syria is prepared to observe the ancient tradition of the olympic truce fighting rages on in the contrary sending a large and while sending its largest delegation in thirty years without leave saying both carry a message of peace but sport can't be split from politics that easily as maria from now reports. 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 and the situation in syria is better than ours the 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 athlete flames the nations back in the rebel forces 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 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 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 israel respects 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 to about her but despite a national wide crisis they can. sinden is biggest of a geisha instanced in one thousand nine hundred. one the. state of war we are not listening to what the sea about is especially the bad media we know the truth and this is very important especially this time we raise the flag of our country and

show 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 syria's alleged victim the phrase is a reminder of a real conflict they'll be leaving behind however a hit will be a message of peace not war that these competitors take to the london games. nati from damascus in syria we report on some early olympic embarrassment for you at our two dot com with the first games gaffe north korea's women's football team get enough for help over their flag storming off the pitch after being introduced with south korea's color. and the ultimate star war as the u.s. and europe face off with china to capture the sun get details of the solar power struggle. plus a global conference full of clowns but not

a politician in sight these are the real deal and they're getting together in guatemala city r.t. dot com has the slapstick summit covered. download the official r.t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from our. t.v. is not required to watch our team all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time any. the u.s. congress is considering extending the act which gives federal agents broad wiretapping permission officials have now come clean and said that the foreign intelligence surveillance amendments act has been used to violate people's constitutional rights at least once in the past four years when u.s.

activist describes the practice is virtually illegal government but they have broken the law they admit that the courts have said what they're doing is illegal and now they want congress to rubber stamp it anyway they've gone to congress and say look we always apply through you know we always comply by the law everything's been approved by the courts we now know that was a law but they were misleading congress in order to get this stuff approved at huge and it's important people know that it hasn't gotten enough coverage thankfully we can get the word out but i think once people understand and i think it's going to be a whole new debate about you know usually this stuff is presented to congress as this is just standard stuff we do it every year it's to fight terrorism how could you be against it we now know that what the government has been doing is in fact illegal that they've declared whole classes of information including the location of everyone in america was detected by their cell phones which report back to the cell phone companies where they are the government is now sweeping all of that

information together without any warning they're spying on where everyone is all the time without getting a court to sign off on it a huge shift in very scary. let's not get the rich latest from the business press katie bill beam is poised to tell us all the latest on the situation in germany what's happening there and. raising agency made is that continuing with the downgrades in the year as that is now. the outlook for seventeen german lenders warned of more cuts to come now tess eltham it has 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 so it it wasn't 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 funding a lot of the bailout that had gone to the other countries now 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 sponsors 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 bailout to keep investors really jittery greece has also been on the spot like the troika of the i.m.f. the e.c.b. of the european commission had 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 a further death restructuring here in order to get its finances in order so therefore we're not seeing good news any good science at all from the euro zone nations. all right then we've got a bit of all to ms i'm at the moment and that's because the european central bank president mario draghi said that policymakers will do whatever it takes to preserve the gains on this great mentioned spain just another thing i want to mention is about the banking giant is the second quarter profit plunging ninety three percent that was to the horror of investors and needless to say despite all the terrible going on in the country equal. to the year right now while i mention it and just see what the situation is it is chu also reacting to the news from the e.c.b. president one twenty two sixty one so is dating as far as everyone is concerned is managing to gain just a fraction that has evolved a car is a rush of the now have

a look at the exit markets and see the well still managing to extend his hours from wednesday really mirroring the situation in europe today and also following on from the gains made in asia there on into session as these moves in a shaky sense of these benefits in the biggest case it's now dow point four percent expected to raise its small mortgage right next to mum. as well subsidiary of friend general has become one of the biggest minority shareholders of the biggest newspaper that bank today we do have some guy in as i said to have wall that you could call the rights of the royal sonesta. acquisition that we do follow very closely here with t t and pave the takes place of oil as well managing to climb i was very much responding to the. president as well that all good news this is going to keep an eye on those as well in the region all right moving along. its

has rick perry in the crowd of the world's top. five million vehicles in the whole of the good three hundred thousand more than most is made up. the thought so as a result she was hit by the two thousand and eleven not to dissolve as a. corporation with africa is getting stronger and stronger china's president has even pledged to you level and african relations the country has already replaced the united states as top trade on the continent but beijing's been so successful it faces an african backlash resulting is that your burst of explains . a ghost town in angola for 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 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 states as an african 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 hopping mad at the west's continued colonial attitude china's intentions are different from europe says 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 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 official just getting started at 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 adding we will forever be a good friend good partner and good brother of the african people. interesting stuff on a safari in sas though today out way i'll be back about fifteen minutes of all for you all right both a few of them banks for that update coming up for you here in our chad we have the headlines and then oh look at the future of the protest movement in the u.s. .

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