london twenty twelve dozens of cyclists swept away by police. syrian rebels claim regime start moving into the key city of aleppo peace efforts on the ground. saudi arabia reportedly open. government protesters. in the country. it is a pleasure to have you with us here on r.t. this saturday. live in moscow a cloud has descended on the celebration of sport. the olympics after police

arrested some fifty cyclists outside the main stadium in london offices used pepper spray against members of the amateur club who allegedly tried to push through one security cordon with this report. 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 and that with lots of cyclists to basically talk wherever they want here and not into. poorest neighborhoods able to do that on this very day not because of the massive security operation that has surrounded the opening night of the indian pit games in london and as opposed to being fifty people were arrested when she future numbers to be arrested demonstration here and on said they will stop only between police and the cyclists and the cyclist in fact is saying they have to 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 called and balance and then even video which who is to show police associating and spraying with hecklers spray a disabled man who is writing a charge to come to these were quite extraordinary scenes and some witnesses will say said that the cyclists were pushed aside you know david beckham three to get to the olympic stadium the police have confirmed on twitter that they've arrested large number of people they say that they did also creates has to stay away from the olympic park and only critical mass website there are indications. that it's happened they say that they also have members to have to be peacefully assertive when they are making this demonstration. and officers are laura smith reporting right well i mean time security and political scandals have been playing in the olympics for months but now there's a new concern on the horizon coming up here on our tour we look at how i fully cashing in on their perfect bodies with glossy covers saying what a c.p.a.

and racing sport right out of the games and also. are you excited about the olympics and knowing here. our resident in new york is also. people whether they actually care about their lives that's coming your way shortly here on our city. for now there were syrian rebels claim that government tanks have started moving into aleppo where the battle for the city possibly proving to be a turning point in the unrest opposition fighters also say government forces a shelling several areas and all of this despite a u.n. efforts on the ground and international calls for both sides to stop the violence reporting from inside syria artie's talks on a boycott. 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 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 al assad stopped calling each other france turkey has played a very active and some would say very distractive role in the syrian affairs turkish territory is being actively used to smuggle weapons for the free syrian army i don't the top of that's reuters 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 come 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 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 shall get 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 that own administration so all these developments with the kurds in syria leave turkey very nervous. and our thursday its prime minister accused bashar al assad of aiding kurdish militants in syria and those are the answered that 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 all self defense but if those attacks every carried out that's going to make a very volatile a very bloody very unstable situation in this region far worse of course one talks on a boycott reporting right there well meantime the u.s. was allegedly involved in setting up a secret weapons hub to smuggle weapons for the syrian rebels dr ali mohammed the editor in chief of the syria tribune says turkey and gulf states are all acting far beyond the reach of international more 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 seem to to like the idea of

middle east controlled by the muslim brotherhood which they can control easily thinking that 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 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. and 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 on the in pieces ending up in private pockets the new government though has more pressing matters in hand we report on this in just a few minutes here on our. border 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. now police in saudi arabia

reportedly opened fire on antigovernment protesters in the country's east leaving several injured a number of people have also been detained but the arrests took place in an area where the shiite minority have been clashing with the police over the past year they've been demanding the release of imprisoned activists and an end to what they call discrimination by sunni similar crackdowns or previously taken place in bahrain political analyst dr most believe the u.s. sets the cheatin for what's actually going on in the persian gulf arab countries. this party 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 petroleum and so these people who are in their 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 high end and also they can only 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 the 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. they 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 this saudis are living a good life that's not there to saudi arabia now is a base for the american for the american. well we got more of the u.s. position towards the events playing out in the arab gulf countries on our website

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in moscow where the revolution may have brought freedom to egypt but also dealt a heavy blow to the country's ancient treasures looting has become rampant on the black market is booming and reports the new leadership simply is not 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 tooting carmen but the ancient world's artifacts are being plundered the this museum and something. looted from the museum. this is not the one of the better down sides of the chaos of last year's bloody uprising on the streets of egypt and outbreak of 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 gore placed the maximum very little in people. to fifty after the it became seventy four hundred people run that's against. the twenty 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 a 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 for only one so if you if you want to conclude from the 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. our let's get to some other global news for you in brief time for the r.t. world update now and at least eight people have been working at it overnight clashes between sunni's and weeds in the city of tripoli the same northern lebanon the lebanese army fired warning shots in an attempt to stop the violence the uprising in neighboring syria has sparked ethnic tensions in lebanon for months. now the two countries share a complex web of political and sectarian ties and rivalries while the syrian president himself is an overweight. british media is reporting the suspected suicide bomber who blew up a bus with israeli tourists in bulgaria last week could have been british u.k. security officials travel to the country to collect d.n.a. samples from the attackers body investigators are still struggling though to establish his identity as forensic evidence suggests he was of a heavy build our security camera footage you're seeing right there released showed

the attacker allegedly showing a very skinny man one fake american id was found on his body israel for the meantime blames iran and its lebanese ally has baller for the attack that ultimately killed five israeli tourists and a local bus driver. a man calling himself a joker has been arrested in the u.s. state of maryland 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 yoest in all of guns the suspect in last week's rampage which left twelve killed and dozens wounded at a premiere of the new batman movie in colorado also told police that he was the joker. is in the grip of an unprecedented double dip recession with dismal unemployment figures only going further downhill the international monetary fund revealed the figures and want to madrid that it needs more reform despite

previous cuts hitting the public very hard but almost one in every four people is currently out of a job massive protest action has been taking root clashes with the police getting ever more frequent with people angered at the government for imposing austerity in return for an e.u. bank rescue or. well meanwhile britain's economic output has also collapsed leaving the country in its worst recession since the second world war later on our financial expert mexico. says politicians and bankers are cordoning the money more . britons. 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 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 joe paternal character aiding and abetting financial rape by the biggest banks around the world thanks georgie porgie we love you too. and you can watch the cars report throughout the day here on our scene. for us now the olympic games in london they've got off to a bit of a shaky start with political controversies security failings traffic concerns as well now though 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 so he's an associate reports. faster higher stronger

bodies built like machines and olympic extravaganza of athletes grace magazine covers baring it all it would be nice to tate 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 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 ideal. the original ideal and old to of 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. 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 you've got hundreds of athletes who come back to nothing and 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 corporation 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 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 games the marathon really became its effect and they base it off there's the great story in

regards to subpoena coming from wanting you know 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 many people don't actually end up remembering their names and neither do they pay that much attention to their habits in the first place. and 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 how the 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 think of 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 advertisements they're doing but yeah if their names are in plays and in lights everywhere 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. and. does push ups that i admired for the olympics. that's insane so they're trying to yeah they're getting they're getting people excited 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 the country at that right over here terrorism 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. yeah greed is unfortunately taking over the priority of whether or not you care about the olympics the bottom line is. to be bombarded by a lot of media coverage in the coming week.

this is praised for preaching freedom and reform the georgian leadership 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. want to find 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 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 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. 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. but one channel is owned by saakashvili aid another one his friends relative to all people get really is just state controlled propaganda and i think so what if the 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 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 so 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 last august 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. r.t.a. . but all the latest gizmos and gadgets coming out of russian laboratories are you going to find out all the secrets of startling new toys our technology update in just a moment. well

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