the battle for syria and gulf the country's second city aleppo braces for the worst as rebels and government forces go head to head. out where in the restive region united arab emirates sees a fresh protest or clamp down with the west's or blind eye attitude and cooling its stance on saudi arabia and bahrain. but can the troubles past the ancient a limping truce politics hangs over support for the syrian squad at the london games. live from moscow you're watching r t it's six pm here in the russian capital our top story syrian government troops and rebels are reinforcing their positions as

the week long battle for a key northern city of aleppo intensifies columns of army tanks are reportedly rolling into residential areas where opposition fighters are placing snipers on rooftops seizing control of syria's commercial capital is seen as crucial to winning the fight for the north of the country clashes are also being reported on the outskirts of damascus where rebels launched a major offensive recently but were pushed back hard as one of the few international broadcasters still covering events from inside syria here's a piece on a boy with photos. over the past few days that aleppo has been at the center of a matter major military operation we know that the army the syrian army used tanks used stuff i did jats 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 are calling it the battle squad. and there are some reports

that on the eve of this battle they received major reinforcements and new supplies the military equipment new supplies of 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 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 i'm now stationed at the complex of the i left university residence from other locations of. the compass

so it police on one level syrian people were able to come together and try to help with 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 a boycott reporting there from the conflict zone which it brings you updates and fresh pictures via twitter as we continue to keep a close eye on developments in syria for syria for you on line. a syrian campaigner pushing for peaceful political reform told or to that foreign powers one of the insurgents to soften the country up and make it ripe for regime change. the. decision and the decisions come from outside the from countries like commode. 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 the massacre happened in syria. killed. commanders in syria. the syrian army has called now for a swift action and the people is called for. 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 moscow says nearly nearly cleaned from them is going to be cleaned we what we want as a syrian we want to dialogue we want a political process we want to ballot bowl. later we look at whether london twenty

twelve can really be the world level playing field for serious athletes to go into the olympics with a message of peace but can't sport we now over politics the details in a few minutes. first the united arab emirates continues its crackdown on protesters eight new arrests have been made with almost forty now in detention the rest came after the government announced investigation into groups plotting crimes against the state the activists were locked up for allegedly opposing the constitution as well as the country's ruling system follow similar crackdowns in saudi arabia and bahrain but the coeditor of the website alternative right told us that western silence over the protests makes it clear who is a friend and who is not. with the united arab emirates you have a situation where they are from washington to respect it being. good boys they the

oil flows it's denominated in dollars they are adhering to the washington consensus and therefore the united states is going to remain silent about a few human rights protesters says they don't want to ruin this good thing the arab spring really has legs and the arab leaders are very fearful of what's going on and they probably should be particularly if some kind of rebellion group starts to take life the united states gets behind the united states decides we don't like this guy you know gadhafi he was threatening our system he wasn't going to let the oil flow he wasn't get a nomination dollars let's take him out and pretend we're doing it for democracy i think there are a lot of regimes in the middle east and syria looks to be next on the hit list they're looking at this whole arab spring thing very skeptically very seriously because the matter is for them quite deadly. some other international news in brief

for you this hour fierce finding between bunky troops and militants in the province of diyala has 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 the worst attack in two years which took at least one hundred and sixteen lives. a bomb attack at a busy market in pakistan's district of bridge or has killed nine people 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 the taliban in the country no one has claimed responsibility yet for the blotched. and the european commission president is heading for talks in greece aiming to get the country out of its financial mire despite the outline bailout plan greece is still contracting at another marmion

rate and pushing through further conses proving hard to stomach both for politicians and the public adams has only enough money to make it to the end of the summer and speculation is swirling again that it may have to quit the eurozone. but walgreen's struggles to stay afloat even europe's biggest players can escape the economic tsunami later we've more on the ratings cloud being cast over the chief powerhouse. that is downgrades the outlook on seventeen german banks just a week after it made a similar move on the conference credit rating certainly confidence in the euro area going even further down more details coming up in the business update. russia is in a state of shock after grisly remains of human fetuses were discovered dumped in a forest investigators are now poring over the evidence for clues some experts believe the fetus is could have been used in research or illegal beauty treatments you may find some images and sean 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 at this and i went to get some food 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 hair and some tanned with surnames and identification numbers discarded in a remote ravine around seventy kilometers north of you catalina 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 the 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. to be nation discarded syringes and other materials were dumped into sent beats 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 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. . israel is warning of tough decisions ahead of head on iran and its calling on major powers to speed up efforts to curtail the country's nuclear program meanwhile tehran remains defiant saying extra pressures won't hamper its push for peaceful atomic energy later on antiwar activist bill ayres tells our team that the u.s.

and israel are leading a military campaign while ignoring their own nuclear stockpiles. it would be a test for everyone if the united states or nato which is just the united states fig leaf or 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 proliferation in the heart 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 iraq there are so many better ways to be

a citizen of the world that the shake your sword every time you feel like it. it was shot four times in total and i have worn a zero and. three of the boys are still in my body. and people should be allowed to defend themselves wherever they are guns in the hands of law abiding decent people are not a problem national rifle association was a group of basically retired military police loves to shoot holes and i'm sorry if you know that the bullet comes out here and this makes it go bang and if what's in front of here is going to die that's all the training you

really really need raise your hand if you know somebody's been shot ok to live without one of the philadelphia horns or the streets. you can live without a gun hopefully we will never have to use the weapons for self defense but we should be prepared for the full class including the teacher i say close. seventeen students and say that i am one of seven or still alive.

here with r t a live from moscow now with summer games in london about to kick off there's no sign about the conflict torn syria conflict or in syria is prepared to observe the ancient tradition of the olympic truce that's as fighting rages in the country is sending its largest delegation in thirty years without saying they'll carry a message of peace but support can't be split from politics that easily as roof an ocean of 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 was just as important

a mission i know and the situation in syria is better than how 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 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 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 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 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 to vote for her but despite a national wide crisis the country. sinden is biggest of a geisha and since then one thousand nine hundred most still games but although we are in a state of war we are not listening to what they say about us specially the little 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 officials 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 seriously impacted him the phrase is a reminder of a real conflict they'll be living behind however a hit will be a message of peace not war that these competitors take to the london games written off nati from damascus in syria. now we report on some early olympic embarrassment of our dot com for you with the first games gaffer north korea's women's football team get in a flap over their flag storming off the pitch after being used to do with south korea of color. the ultimate star war as the u.s. and europe a song with china to capture the song get details of the solar power struggle. it was a global conference full of clowns but not

a politician in sight these are the real deal and they're getting together in guatemala silly city argue dot com has the spots to examine coverage for you. download the official application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch all its here all you need is your mobile device to watch r t any time. u.s. congress is considering extending an 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 you know we always comply by the law everything's been approved by the courts we now know that was a lie 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 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 a whole classes of information including the location of everyone in america was detected by their cell phones which report back to the so-called companies where they are the government is now sweeping all of that information together without

any warning there spying on where everyone is all the time without getting a court to sign off on it a huge shift and very scary. and there's some big news in russian football as fabulous capello has officially become the head coach of the national team one of the world's most successful coaches of course and he signed a two year deal with the aim of leading rusher twenty four to the world cup in brazil more on the big appointment coming up for you in our two sport later this hour. and katie now joins us from the business task that means one thing she has more of my you talk for us absolutely i'm probably the biggest money story today. has been the rating agency moody's really continuing with that downgrade in the. love of the outlook for seventy. one of more cuts to come tess else and it has details for us. the moodies is downgrade at 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 the country's credit rating is not stable it just goes to show and follow 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 have 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 past 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 bailout to keep investors really jittery greece has also been on the spot like the troika of the i.m.f. the e.c.v. of the european commission had just gone there and really there wasn't much of a surprise in 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 size at all from the euro zone nations ok then let's talk about wall street them because stocks on now and they are climbing. goods orders cohen and the european central bank president he pledged to defend the year also as a tough race because it's coming out with death of ports that is a public company. that's going to happen later on in the afternoon u.s.

time. de beers we know just give us the european markets and see how his comments all affecting investor sentiment they are indeed still get even got the footsie out one point four percent on the edging towards two percent now so speaking of the euro we'll see how the common currency of the trade is favored is responding and is still managing to climb once many. of the variable is still gaining and the power of trade here in most of the actually market is that we've also got marrying what's happening in europe too with oil as well have with. the mood here. just around two point three percent on the mises edging towards a woman the hot season move is. biggest and this bag is expected to chill raise its benchmark mortgage right next month we've also got a subsidiary of french general is becoming one of the biggest money which is shareholders of b.z. by s. and p.

those ones it could cut the rates the overall snags if it's possible position all of the home team kate does take place right now. well let's see why. they are indeed dating and they're really saying some appreciation for the e.c.b. president's comments that we've had in the last hour or so you say is that he's going to deal with those. as well the boring costs in the region all right. in other news to regain the crown of the world's top also a make up is sold almost five million vehicles in the first hope of a good three hundred thousand more the last is they did general my other aunt so it's a loss of thought so as a result she was hit by the two thousand and eleven nuptial dissolves. china's relationship with africa is getting stronger and stronger china's president has even pledged a new level in africa relations a country has. ready to place the united states as

a top trader on the cards that beijing's been so successful if faces an african backlash as ulti has done you personally expect. a ghost town in angola for a whole four million people gleaming new headquarters for the african union and vols overling sudan's electricity all built by choice in return for the continent's fabulous riches from hoff the world's dormans to two thirds of its platinum mobile phones use the mineral called turn mined 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 hoping mad at the west continued colonial attitude china's intentions of different from europe 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 to new general hospital shut down off the big cracks appeared patients are now seen intense new chinese built 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 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. ok makes our names i have the clothes in vegas for the russian market share of us all right well see you here same place same time for those figures katie thanks for that next

we'll look at the future of the protest movement in the u.s. after the had. full started here before going global and now it's cooling the fire.

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