block on the face of london twenty twelve dozens of side one star swept away a. lot of the olympic stadium salma are met with blasts of pepper spray. regime rebel fighters are ready for a new battle in syria's cities. as u.n. peace efforts 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 threats. blow and welcome to our t.v. is saturday with me karen taraji it's ten o'clock here in moscow well clouds 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 while legibly tried to push through a security corridor artie's laura smith reports. these are right that's were made in connection with the critical mass pike right which is a demonstration by cyclists that takes place in the last part and three month all around the world and what i'm trying to do this peacefully is that with lots of cyclists to basically trying wherever they want here in london who are snake big words able to do that on this holiday not because of the massive security operation that has surrounded the opening night of the indian pig games in london and as opposed to this fifty people were arrested when she future numbers to be arrested demonstration here in london that will stop only between police and the cyclists and the cyclist in fact is saying they think capital which is

a technique that the police sometimes use to bring large numbers of people into a small area and keep them there we have no confirmation about they leave a capital behind lines of police cars and vans and then even video which who is to show police a so telling and spraying with have to spray a disabled man who is writing a charge to go to these were quite extraordinary scenes and some witnesses will say said that the cyclists were pushed aside in order to let david beckham free to get to the olympic stadium the police have confirmed on twitter that they've erected a large number of people they say that they did ask the princess to stay away from the olympic park and only critical mass website there are indications that they had this to happen and they say that they are that members to 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 everybody was that old who's who were pretty society even the queen who participated in

a short video along with w. seven daniel craig they then cain and appears to have a shoot the two of them james bond and the queen into the atlantic stadium where the queen appears in countdown has seats and then smoothly and very many who will be at the payment ten thousand ballots will be participating in the believe the games is going to live he added it's now officially open. 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 athletes are cashing in on their perfect bodies with glossy covers and seeking moves for racing sports out of the games also. are you about do you know i'm here. our resident in new york is asking people whether they actually care about the olympics at all. syrian troops and rebel fighters already in

for a major battle in aleppo that could prove a turning point in the months of unrest opposition fighters claim they've captured one hundred soldiers in the city with government forces reportedly shelling several areas but despite you want efforts on the ground and international calls on both sides to stop the violence the situation's not improving our boy to reports from syria. one week has passed since the united nations has issued a new mandate for its observer mission in syria beach and this theoretically should help 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 continue in the northern city of aleppo 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 france turkey has played a very active and some would say a very destructive role in syrian affairs turkish territory is being actively used to smuggle weapons for the free syrian army i don't the top of that's why there is news agency has revealed that turkey alongside saudi arabia and qatar has set out 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 church of state has been struggling against its own militants i'm talking about the crudest on its workers' party the 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 have a chance to visit several kurdish settlements around syria and i was very surprised to find that they are defected independent they have their own security forces their own schools our 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 the us are gone sad that he's country it reserves the right to strike kurdish targets kurdish locations within syria pretty much like it does in iraq and. this may be needed for turkish only self-defense but if those attacks ever carried out that's going to make a very volatile a very bloody very unstable situation in this region far worse u.s. was also allegedly involved in setting up

a secret weapons help to smuggle weapons for the syrian rebels dr ali mohamed added or in chief of the syria tribe says turkey and the gulf states are acting far beyond international mall. 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 will ruin the whole country on the way and that's why it's leaving the dirty work to do its local proxies so dearie turkey seems to 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 privileged. 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 really 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 this time 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 but the new government has more pressing matters at hand as we report in a few minutes here on our team. was georgia is hailed 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. police in saudi arabia have reportedly opened fire on anti-government protesters in the country's east leaving several injured a number of activists have also been detained the arrest took place in an area where the shiite minority have been clashing with police over the past year they have been demanding the release of imprisoned activists and an end to what they

call discrimination in our rulers similar crackdowns have previously taken place and bahrain political analyst dr mohsen saleh believes the u.s. sets the tone for what's going on in the persian gulf arab countries. so in part in saudi arabia have been for a long time they have been deprived of their basic rights it's an irony that the find in this is all kinds of detroit so these people are poor in their country that's why they feel that the agony of these people might be a mark of a greater value sion in saudi arabia and that's what the united states and this saudis really are afraid of that's why they are killing people in detaining people and also they go to behind and also in a car down they kill people and they detain most of the high years that's why i guess these people are starting their movement and they want to stop they send

letters to their king and he did not hear any word of these people saying they increase their guard down everybody knows that this one of the medievalist regimes in the whole world everybody would laugh if they think that the saudis would really give their people anything in spite of all this money and draw in saudi arabia they talk to show that the saudis are living a good life that's not there to saudi arabia now is a base for the american for the american marines we've got more on the u.s. position towards the events playing out in the arab gulf countries on our web site r.t. dot com along with many other stories too it's on line right now. the packers 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 that previously been prosecuting. can 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 artesia. down . the official application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch all its hear all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time. in minutes past the hour they revolution may have brought freedom to egypt but it also dealt a heavy blow to the country's ancient treasures looting has become rampant and the black market for artifacts is booming archies beausoleil reports of the new leadership just 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 egyptian antiquities in

cairo more than five thousand years of civilization on display and earthed over the years from the shifting sands with the world's largest collection of fair army pieces and the treasures of king two to carmen but the ancient world's artifacts are being plundered so this is this museum and something. from the museum. this is not the one of the bitter 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 treasures requires a colossal effort all the more difficult since many police have left the force in the wake of the countries and raced before the revolution where fifty go to a place the maximum very little ten people. to fifty after the russian it became seventy four hundred people when that's

a good is that when. it all starts here in the shadow of the permits on your ancient temples in visit 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 very house there are only one. if you if you monocoque looted from a million pieces 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. and 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 these three hundred pieces restore them from museums since the revolution and it's estimated that illegal digs have increased one hundred forward 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 with 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 are just as many know you do about preserving its past policy on team. other main stories in brief for you now police in the state of maryland confirmed they have arrested a man calling himself a joker after he threatened to shoot up the business he was being fired from he reportedly made several threats after which police searched his apartment and found

a heavy arsenal of guns the suspect 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 it secretly collected on people across europe and australia while using street view cars the company admitted still keeping a small portion of the private electronic information google inc angered officials on both sides of the atlantic in two thousand and ten when it had knowledge to its mapping cars had also scooped up passwords and other personal data from why find out 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 angered at the government for imposing austerity in 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 our financial expert max cause or sense politicians and bankers are condoning the money war. britain announces downdraft in their economy simultaneously that both barclays ledgers b.c. to the biggest banks in the world in britain announced that they are involved in massive drug money laundering scams 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 and 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 announced massive money laundering for mexican drug cartels and library manipulations ghana's 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 too. and you can catch the kaiser report throughout the day right here on our team. the olympic games in london 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 scales it's their toned bodies that are grabbing the headlines as our team is honest it cannot reports. faster higher stronger

bodies built like machines and olympic extravaganza of athletes grace magazine covers baring it all it would be nice to tape like to not look at these athletes like you know these are special specimens 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 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 ideal. the original ideal and only two of medicine 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 the olympic stadium a 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 gains the marathon really became into effect and they base it off this the great story in regards to the subpoena 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 how that inspired 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 hearty new york. and while these athletes work hard to look fabulous and attract attention when 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 i know i'm here. but is it 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. does that mean we're the best country in the world if we win all the gold medals oh 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 got and what the advertisements are doing but yeah if their names are in plays and in lights everywhere yeah they're selling us wheaties yes exactly those athletes yeah they'll be remembered a lot of them probably wouldn't be you know i guess a sort all some boss that did push ups. for a. big push up so that might for the olympics. that's insane so they're trying to yeah they're getting they're getting people excited anyway that they can what is why do they do that just for the good of sports i have no idea probably just try to drum up some more money for the 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 make 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. praised for preaching freedom and reform the georgian leadership is 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 as are. farmed out. that's exactly what we're seeing you know my culture the well you might part of the world you know you are leverage that you know energy by giving people more freedom freedom is the key word fine words from the georgian president some western officials like hillary clinton continuously praised me truly 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 at being a journalist 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. so 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 depend 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 i 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 concept or channel nine are available only to those who have satellite dishes and other luxury for most georgians ignore the 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 away from channels which may be affiliated with the opposition on top of that their every move is being closely watched by authorities here i know as well 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 the last all just it's about 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. 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 and billy see georgia is an r.t.a. . the latest news and discoveries in the world of innovation are coming your way in a few minutes with our latest technology update cell that's after a recap of today's top stories stay with us.

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