a blot on the face of london twenty twelve dozens of cyclists are swept away by police outside the olympic stadium while some are met with blasts have her spray. persian man rebel fighters already for a key battle in syria's city of aleppo has un peace or ferd's on the ground failed to take hold. and saudi arabia reportedly opens fire on crowds of protesters as ethnic clashes continue in the country with injuries and arrests. thank you for joining our team this saturday with me karen tear out to you we are broadcasting to you live from the heart of moscow well a cloud has descended on the celebration of sport and peace that is the olympics that's after police arrested some fifty cyclists outside the main stadium in london

officers used pepper spray against members of the amateur club who allegedly tried to push through a security cordon that says the spectacular opening ceremony kicked off the games artie's laura smith reports. were made in connection with the critical mass which is a demonstration by cyclists that takes place in the last part we've all around the world and what i'm trying to do with the piece it's live in is to basically talk where they want hearing. the words need to do that on this day not the hope that the mark security operation has. the opening. game. and. the people were rescued she future numbers to be erected demonstration here and there were between police. and the fact is they in. which is

a technique that the police sometimes used to bring large numbers of people into a small area and keep them there we have no confirmation of that they leave a capital behind lines of police cars and bonds and then even video which who is to show least associating and spraying what happened spray a disabled man who is writing a charge to go to these are quite extraordinary to see and some witnesses will say said that the cyclists were pushed aside in order to let david back in three to get to the olympic stadium the police have confirmed on twitter that they were directed at large number of people they say that they did ask the court has to stay away from the olympic park and only critical mass website there are indications that they had this to happen they say that they are that members to have keep the peace really assertive when they are making this demonstration of course this is all taking place along the sidelines of this huge. names that are many which was opened by right in the wake in a minute. or two cyclists ever to one that sort of prongs earlier this month he's

also an m.p. and he ran you know about this massive ceremony began almost a mile did by danny boyle who is named best to the outside world having been the brains behind trainspotting the film everybody was that old the who's who or which is society even the queen who participates in a short video along with w. seven daniel craig they then came and appears to have a shoots the two of them james bond mcqueen into the atlantic stadium where the queen appeared in that town has seats and this was an extravaganza it was really the history of britain condensed into about hootie five minutes completely industrial revolution appealing to the national health service artists from all walks of life including paul mccartney he sang a song and a cool thousand have done since i'm a spectacular light display and then towards the end of the ceremony of the athlete

the pavement is ten thousand documents will be participating in the village games and they were all carrying a plaque that countries because the that plantation on new growth hill inside the stadium this is the live piazza it's now officially and. security and political scandals have been plaguing the olympics for months but there's a new concern on the horizon coming up we look at how fleets are cashing in on their perfect bodies but glossy covers and praying seeking moves are racing sport out of the games also. are you excited about doing big i know i'm here. our resident new york is asking people whether they actually care about the olympics at all. syrian troops and rebel fighters already being for a major about all in aleppo that could prove a turning point in the months of opposition fighters claim they've captured a hundred soldiers in the city as government forces reportedly shelling several

areas but despite u.n. efforts on the ground and international calls on both sides to stop the violence the situation is not improving artie's oksana boyko reports from syria. one week has passed as the united nations has issued a new mandate for its observer mission in syria reach at least theoretically should how calm tensions in this country but if anything violence in syria has only intensified over the past week the clashes between the army and the rebel still continued in the world and see if you book with the death toll believed to be in the hundreds and the enormous damage to the city's infrastructure now before the syrian uprising began aleppo was considered the best case for the burgeoning economic and political ties between syria and its northern neighbor turkey but ever since are there on and bashar assad stopped calling each other friends turkey has played a very active and i would say a very distractive row in the syrian affairs turkey's territories being actively

used to smuggle weapons for the free syrian army i don't the top of that void there is news agency has just revealed that alongside saudi arabia and qatar has. that app a secret military base in one of its southern cities to direct vital military communications support for the free syrian army now a number of experts have long warning that turkey's adamant support for the syrian opposition may calm at a cost to its own security for a number of decades the turkish state has been struggling against its own militants i'm talking about the crudest on its workers party b p k k b it's been fighting for the establishment of an independent sovereign state for the kurds the world's largest people without a state a few months ago i shouted a chance to visit several. kurdish settlements around syria and i was very

surprised to find that there are defected independent they have their own security forces their own schools that own administration so old these developments with the kurds in syria leave turkey very nervous and on thursday its prime minister accused bashar al assad of aiding kurdish militants in syria and those are the on sad that he's country it reserves the right to strive kurdish targets kurdish locations within syria thank you much like it does in iraq and. may be needed for turkish self-defense but if there is the attacks carried out that's going to make it very volatile a very bloody very unstable situation in this region far worse the u.s. was also allegedly involved in setting up a secret weapons to smuggle weapons for the syrian rebels dr ali mohamed editor in chief of the syria tribune says turkey and the gulf states are acting beyond

international law. the u.s. seems to have finally understood that it will not have a clean clean clear success in syria and if it decides to intervene it's willing ruin the whole country on the way and that's why it's leaving the dirty work to local proxies saudi arabia and turkey seemed to like the idea of middle east controlled by the muslim brotherhood which they can control easily thinking of it this is their battle it seems gives them the privilege. that's what they think nothing allows them to do so this is against international law this is against every concept of neighboring countries so they think it's ok for them and they think they will get away with it and that's why they act this way and the question is are they going to get away with it. another popular uprising in

egypt has far reaching consequences not just for the country's future but for its past as well ancient artifacts and museum pieces end up in private pockets of the new government has more pressing matters at hand as we report in a few minutes here archie. plus georgia is held by many outsiders as one of the world's best young democracies but we hear from those on the inside who tell a very different story. download the official r.t. application. choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from our time our t.v. is not required to watch our team all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time any. place in saudi arabia have reportedly opened fire on anti-government protesters in the country's

east leaving several injured and ember of activists. have also been detained the arrest took place in an area where the shiite minority happened clashing with police over the past year thing to managing and just what they call discrimination rulers said crackdowns have previously taken place and crane political analyst dr most believes the u.s. sets the tune for what's going on in the persian gulf arab countries. in saudi arabia have been for a long time they have been deprived of their basic rights it's an irony that they'll find in this is all kinds of detroit so these people who are in this country that's why they feel the agony of these people might be a mark of a greater volution in saudi arabia and that's what the united states and this

saudis really are afraid of that's why they are killing people detaining people and also they go to one and also. kill people and they detain most of the. that's why i guess these people to start their movement they won't stop they send letters to that king and he did not hear any word of these people they increase their guard down everybody knows that this one of the medievalist regimes in the whole world everybody would. think that the saudis would really give their people anything in spite of all this money and in saudi arabia they talk to show that they the saudis are living a good life that's not the true saudi arabia now is a base for the american for the american magazines and we've got more on the u.s. position towards the events playing out in the arab gulf countries on our website that's our team to come along with many other stories let's see what's online right

now. kurds are asked to help. american security forces protect the internet as the u.s. government now tries to win the support of the very people it's previously been prosecuting . so we hear what could be behind the grim discovery of hundreds of human fetuses found dumped in a russian forest all that and more at r.t. dot com. they were evolution may have brought freedom to egypt but it also dealt a heavy blow to the country's ancient treasures looting has become a. black market for art of war that is booming as archie's post we are now reports the new leadership isn't doing enough to stop it. egypt's pride and past which is slowly being stolen from its people here at the museum of egypt and antiquities in cairo more than five thousand years of civilization on display unearthed over the

years from the shifting sands with the world's largest collection of fair army pieces and the treasures of king two tin common but the ancient world's artifacts are being plundered to this museum and some say in. the museum. this is. one of the better downsides of the chaos of last year's bloody uprising on the streets of egypt an outbreak of fifty museums and antique warehouses across the country more than one hundred thousand artifacts are stored in the cairo museum basement alone and at least a million are stored across more than egypt protecting these traces requires a colossal effort all the more difficult since many police have lift the force in the wake of the countries and raced before the revolution where fifty go to the police the maximum very little can people then to fifty after the seventy four hundred people of them that's a good is. the inside it all starts here in the shadow of the pyramids or ancient

temples in a desert sites here egyptians dig for a quick and illegal back it is easy to go deep under the cover of darkness and far from the nearest security guard but many don't even go there far instead turning over the own backyards under the ground on the only house there are only one. if you want to conclude from a million people on the ground even something as simple as a knife from the times of the pharaohs can sell for up to fifty million dollars on the black market deals are done through a labyrinth of illegal buyers across europe and the united states. of money digs happen and vast open places that are difficult for us to access those responsible then leave the country by sea or across the border where we have few police it's impossible to know what's been stolen directly from the ground as we have documented evidence that at least three hundred pieces were stolen from museums

since the revolution and it's estimated that illegal digs have increased one hundred fold in the last year those trying to safeguard egypt's in comparable history feel powerless the country's treasures are falling into the wrong hands and lost to the people forever the egyptian president may have more pressing matters right now but many archaeologists here feel the legacy of the people is surely worth fighting for before it's too late egypt is in a state of flux and while there are many people here worried about its future there just as many more you do about preserving its past policy our team. time now for some other main stories every four years our a man calling himself a joker has been arrested in the u.s. state of maryland threatened to shoot up the business or was being fired from he reportedly made several threats after which police searched his apartment and found a heavy arsenal of guns they said. specked in last week's rampage at a premiere of the new batman movie in colorado also told police he was the joker.

google has broken its promise to delete data it secretly collected on people across europe and australia while using a street view cars the company admitted is still keeping a small portion of the private electronic information google inc angered officials on both sides of the atlantic and twenty ten when added to knowledge to its mapping cars had also scooped up passwords and other personal data from wife i now works. spain is in the grip of an unprecedented double dip recession with dismal unemployment figures only going further down help the international monetary fund revealed the figures and warned madrid needs more reform despite previous cuts hitting the public hard almost one in every four people is currently out of the job massive protest action has taken root in spain clashes with police are getting ever

more frequent with people anger about the government for imposing austerity and return for an e.u. bank rescue. meanwhile britain's economic output has also collapsed leaving the country in its worst recession since the second world war later are from a financial expert max cause or says politicians and bankers are condoning the money war. britain announces huge downdraft in their economy simultaneously that both barclays h.s.b.c. to the biggest banks in the world in britain announced that they are involved in massive drug money laundering schemes and library manipulations games are those two connected yes of course they stole all of britain's money and they forced the government to take that austerity and put it on to the british people to pay off the bondholders and the executives at these corrupt banks with the help of tony blair who's a jerry sandusky of banking internationally in the economy in the u.k. is announcing huge downdraft at the same time barclays just b.c.

two biggest bank in the world both in britain they announce massive money laundering for mexican drug cartels and library manipulations ghana is this why the economy is shrinking yes there's george osborne note this in any of his speeches no because he's also a joke paternal character aiding and abetting financial rape by the biggest banks around the world thanks georgie porgie we love you to. you can watch the kaiser report in just over an hour here on r.t. . well the olympic games in london now have gotten off to a shaky start with political controversies security failings and traffic concerns and now it's some of the athletes in the main spotlight and not only because of their sporting skills it's their toned bodies that are grabbing the headlines the child cannot reports. faster higher stronger bodies built like machines

an olympic extravaganza of athletes graced magazine covers baring it all it would be nice to tape like to not look at these athletes like you know these are special specimen to almost members of a different race but these are people just like us they could they could help us strive to do better their superhuman bodies are on display in a competition for attention and personal exposure the olympic gold is not just the the gold at the sleeves when and where but the good old of all these endorsements and all this this ability you know they want to cash in on it's their moment in the sun unfortunately i think that undermines the olympic goal and ideally. the original idea of an old to lettuces and human might scrapped the olympic dream and culture now transformed into glossy images of athletes striking a pose in the nude the original olympics were performed completely naked so you could make the case this is turning back to the original form of the olympics and

while london will see plenty of action and t.v. coverage some people will choose not to watch simply because of its location i don't think london's a fun city to have it in and the brits are boring people so i'm not interested. in an ever expanding entertainment culture surrounding the olympics self p.r. is the new tradition and the fifteen minutes of fame an opportunity not to be missed and you've got hundreds of athletes who come back to nothing but a lot of them really look back and say well what do i get out of the last four years i could have made more money being a manager at mcdonald's corp that's one of the biggest sponsors of the olympics is on a journey to send a somewhat confusing message while the athletes are busy promoting their stunning bodies mcdonald's sets up the biggest joint in the world outside beale in big stadium to record one hundred fifty thousand condoms are also being. distributed at the olympic village that's roughly fifteen condoms for each athlete some argue

sexing up the olympics is slowly racing the true meaning of these historic games the marathon really became into effect and they base it off this is a great story regardless that's a pita coming from wanting you know so that citizens about basically how the war was ending with the persians and going twenty five miles in just having bleeding feet and have that inspire the marathon for what it is today. while the aura surrounding the olympics of today's anything but poised sportsmanship appears to be the last guest joining this party and as they see a church in a hearty new york. and while these athletes work hard to look fabulous and attract attention many people don't really remember their names neither do they pay that much attention to the olympics themselves as our very own new york resident has been finding out.

do you really care about the olympics this week let's talk about that are you excited about the olympics and no one here. is that crazy back home because of it yeah and we got out what are you excited about rod team usa i hope we go all the way to be really great does that mean we're the best country in the world if we win all the gold medals who i don't know about that people really aren't that into track and field and. you know then the swimming you know the media build up between . phelps and his rival you know but you don't even know the name of the right man even to give his name on the front just finish tonight. for a minute do you think that the olympics are kind of a way to just distract people from what's really going on might be. problems do you think people remember the names of all the athletes three months after the olympics are done i guess it depends what kind of sponsorships they've gotten what

advertisements are doing but yeah if their names are in plays and in lights everywhere they're selling us wheaties yes exactly those athletes will be remembered a lot of them probably wouldn't be you know i guess a sore and also did push ups. that does push ups that i admired for the olympics. that's in the state and so they're trying to yeah they're getting they're getting people excited about any way that they can what is why do they do that just for the good of sports no idea probably just try to drum up some more money for their country at that right over here tourism you know historically the olympics is something that's always meant to be a unifying action yes so it doesn't that kind of take away from that message of unification when it comes down to just drumming up business. you know i don't agree . unfortunately taking over the priority of some folks whether or not you care

about the olympics the bottom line is that you should be prepared to be bombarded by a lot of media coverage in the coming week. here with our chain out praised for preaching freedom and reform the georgian leadership has cast as a fledgling democracy success story both by the western media and by the state channels at home however some journalists working in the country see a very different picture. found out. that's exactly what we're seeing in my culture the world in my part of the world you know you are leverage that you know energy by giving people more freedom freedom is the key word find words from the georgian president some western officials like hillary clinton continuously praised me really for his supposed program of reform but journalists in the country are less impressed and say talk of freedom doesn't extend to the media made it through the

new journalists is now a dangerous profession in georgia there's always a risk of being accused of being a spy journalist get beaten up frequently all of this is happening in front of the entire country and. the chances are that most people in georgia won't find out about these cases from their evening news according to the latest polls more than eighty percent of georgians depends on t.v. as their main source of information yet georgians only have free access to three channels all of them controlled by the state one way or the other. one channel is owned by saakashvili eight another his friends relative to all people get really is just state controlled propaganda and we think so whatever georgians don't get the full scope of their country's events from the t.v. sets after all there is always the internet but still they have to understand a lot of people here still live in rural areas and for a lot of them the world wide web is simply not available readily at their

fingertips independent channels like of cossey or channel nine are available only to those who have satellite dishes and other luxury for most georgians. sometimes i have friends or relatives visiting from other parts of georgia and they watch these channels and say what is this really happening in this country we knew nothing about it but operating an independent media outlet isn't easy here journalists say their cash flow has run dry since advertisers were told by authorities to stay. we from channels which may be affiliated with the opposition on top of that their every move is being closely watched by authorities here by those who know that i constantly find myself facing over the top control from local officials i'm always being followed by some strange people who say they're from some unknown news agencies and ask me questions why do we film stories about political prisoners for example cholesterol just it's about the state officials

don't feel comfortable coming to us because we ask questions they don't want to answer but state controlled media never ask those questions about the president saakashvili is a frequent guest on various american t.v. channels but he's never made an appearance on any of the opposition channels at home perhaps it's not so much the questions that he minds as the effect his answers may have in tbilisi georgia is an r.t.s. i would go to in a few minutes we touch upon more plausible issues such as how was the how did the universe come into existence that's after the headlines coming up here on r t.

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