syria's a commercial capital becomes the country's fiercest battleground today. as the rebels on their western patrons for leaving damascus no choice but to fight on. clouding the olympic ceremony british police take down a peaceful mass bicycle ride during the games opening as organizers astonished the world with a breathtaking show. saudi arabia police club down demonstrators and fired live rounds as program form protests spread from bahrain the united arab. it is six pm moscow time this is arts he lives with me rule received welcome to the program dozens of people have reportedly been killed in fresh clashes in syria's

largest city as government forces stop a counter offensive against the entrenched rebels witnesses describe the scenes in aleppo as the fiercest fighting of sixteen months of conflict now russia says syrian authorities need to work towards peace but can't be expected to concede while the western backed insurgents continue to take over cities most of his foreign powers of fueling the violence to bring about regime change in damascus and the former head of the u.n. mission in syria says assad's full is just a matter of time but does admit that it won't necessarily mean an end to the conflict new allegations of also of most of foreign meddling in syria in defiance of u.n. efforts as are two socks on a boycott reports. one a week has passed since the united nations has issued a new mandate for its observing mission in syria beach and this theoretically should help calm tensions in this country but if anything violence in syria. as

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 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 and on the top of that swore there is news agency has revealed that turkey alongside saudi arabia and qatar has 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 dishonest workers' party the p.k. k.b.'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 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 force 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 that he's country it reserves the right to strike kurds. targets kurdish locations but then

syria pretty much like it does in iraq and at. least may be needed for turkish all self-defense but if those attacks carried out that's going to make a very volatile a very bloody very unstable situation in this region far worse our correspondent on a boycott reporting meantime dr ali mohamed the editor in chief of the syria tribune a blog america's mideast allies are walking a fine line though well beyond that of 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 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. if you want to know if he's still to come in this program to murray goes on a rampage find out why educational authorities are failing to stem the increasing flow of stolen artifacts from the country. now the summer olympic games are finally underway in london and while athletes were gearing up to go tough on their opponents police are getting tough on locals run one hundred cycling activists taking part in a monthly mass bike ride were arrested during the games opening ceremony they claim to have been encircled by police while pedaling towards olympic park officers

reportedly used pepper spray as scuffles broke out the opening show itself though proved to be a breathtaking masterpiece of art a final price tag though twenty seven million pounds the olympic torch was delivered by football star david beckham via a speedboat on the thames and seven young athletes nominated by british sporting greats lit the flame to the largest harmonically bell in the world course right here the extravaganza culminated with a marvelous fireworks display. well updates on the competitions results and more stunning pictures including some of the queen pulled a colony on david beckham all playing the roles of the olympic opening spectacle all available for you on our website short of visit r.t. dot com for our coverage of the grand sporting event. some of being swept up by the spirit of the olympic games others not so if you.

know you hear. the crazy back home because. yeah later we asked people in the big apple whether they'll remember even the names of the athletes several months after the event because mr president that's coming up in about. ten minutes time here on out say. also we look at how athletes are cashing in on their bodies glossy covers the fancy photo shoots up perhaps even the games as a bit of an after thought. now tensions are simmering in eastern saudi arabia following friday's police crackdown on protesters clashes occurred in the city of qatif where activists say about fourteen people were injured after officers began shooting live rounds several arrests were made following the demonstrations against political imprisonment and discrimination by the sunni rulers of the area mostly populated by shiites is seen unrest throughout the year with saudi authorities beefing up security opposition voices have also

been silent in bahrain and the united arab emirates geo political analyst eric draitser says the ruling elites in the region are actually marching to the beat of a different drum. to voice your view in saudi arabia is to stand against anglo american hegemony in the region remember the united states the british the israelis and the western powers have been propping up these regimes for decades and so to popularize ideas that are anti regime is essentially to say that saudi arabia qatar and the various gulf monarchies are not going to be subjected to us hegemony any more saudi arabia has a very repressive police state apparatus that exists in the country and because of that you see a tremendous amount of repression and that repression can very easily escalate into violence we saw a similar situation in bahrain where the the royal family essentially carries out

what what would what could be considered entirely backward style system where people are thrown into prison for tweeting people are thrown into prison for criticizing the regime really what we're looking at is a situation where there it's the pot calling the kettle black the united states and the western powers and their proxies in the middle east are using human rights as a cover when it is convenient and in turn violating human rights when it serves their interests so we can't we can't look at this in any objective terms this is all in the service of anglo-american imperialism in the middle east and in the gulf . gypped writes new pages in its own history pieces of the countries alleging dream past are slipping away museum looters and tomb raider have stepped up their hunt for artifacts but officials say they lack the resources to stop the thieves that is paul a slayer investigates. egypt's pride and past which is slowly being stolen from its

people here at the museum of egypt in antiquities in cairo more than five thousand years of civilization on display unearthed over the years from the shifting sands but 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 so this is this museum and sums in. 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 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 the police the maximum very little ten people. to fifty after the russian it became

seventy four hundred people of them that's again is. the twenty inside it all starts here in the shadow of the permits ancient temples in visit sites here egyptians dig for 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 in egypt on the only house there are for only one so if you if you want to conclude from 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 them an awful lot 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 whereas 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 cairo. are we coming to you from the heart of moscow are still ahead for you in this hour that over words of freedom a georgia is hit by many outsiders as one of the world's best young democracies but we hear from those on the inside tell a very different story. if they shoot something inappropriate

for public they can. easily be. casualties of war ok. i wish he would have never happened but it has happened. in a war a t.v. camera becomes an unnecessary witness for their own safety all foreign nationals including journalists and inspectors should leave. and this clear what happens with such witnesses i got on my site. many. churches versus shooting. everyone wants to be president. whether their old lady an engine driver.

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to have you with us here on our t.v. today let's get straight into the r.t. world update now with overnight sectarian clashes between sunni gunmen and their rivals in lebanon's northern city of tripoli have. police fired warning shots trying to disperse the combatants before troops were deployed in the area tensions in the country months ago by the uprising in neighboring syria with the minority supporting president assad the two countries share a tangled web of sectarian connections which can be easily inflamed. a drive by shooting in southern thailand has killed at least four soldiers and injured two others but the troops were cornered by suspected islamist militants and shot at close range as they were returning to the base from a military patrol the islamist insurgency in the country's volatile south erupted

in two thousand and four since then over five thousand have died. a major police operation on tajikistan's border with afghanistan has left at least seventeen soldiers dead and forty injured in the ongoing offensive was launched on tuesday in an attempt to track down a former warlord used to killing a senior security official police have killed a total of thirty militants and captured forty one some of them reportedly having defected from neighboring afghanistan authorities have sealed all border crossing points in the region with the only exception provided to nato supply trucks. severe wildfires to bring gulf parts of russia's far east to the state of emergency being declared the situations being hampered by extreme temperatures but the crews are battling the blaze say they've managed to protect a residential areas the firefighters work is being held back by a poor visibility that prevents the emergency planes and choppers from reaching the worst hit areas the cities in the region are also look to pick smog making it

difficult to breathe. well praise for preaching freedom and reform the georgian leadership is cast as a democracy success story both by the western media and by the state channels at home but some journalists who work in the country see a completely different picture as artie's are in a good. that's exactly what we're seeing in my culture the world in my part of the world you know you are liver and begin your 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 suppose a 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. 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 his friends relatives so 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 concierge 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 i know 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. 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. 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 is the effect his answers may have in tbilisi georgia. of course we have many more stories on our website team dot com the latest news our in-depth analysis waiting for you twenty four seven putting. google's little secret find out how the search giant has managed to keep going and legal private data collection that it sure is destroyed in two thousand and ten your classified information the online. tree huggers get hot under the collar thousands of chinese protesters are rampaging in the coastal city of all to plug a pipeline find out those details that are to be done.

now while the olympics scrapped the headlines these days the lavish opening ceremony and sporting events some do say though it's just a way to hide from the real problems next our resident takes to the streets of new york asking whether people share the jubilant olympic spirit or that has obviously taken over the british capital. 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 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 finished and i think. 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 blazoned and 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 in london for a. big push ups that i admired for the olympics. that's in satan 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 that kind of take away from that message of unification when it comes down to just drumming up business ya think. greed is 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. or staying there with a story number one in sports today the olympic games which of course are a perfect chance for the athletes to attract the world's attention not only by well not only with their sporting skills but also shock and horror by flushing their

flesh as if he is an associate found out of some of the competitors have been very quick to strip. faster higher stronger bodies built like machines an olympic extravaganza of athletes graced magazine covers baring it all it would be nice to take it 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 ideally. the original idea and only two of lettuces and schumann 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 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 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'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 games the marathon really. it came into effect and they base it off there's the great story i'm a guy that's a peters coming from wyoming you know so that citizens about basically the how the war was ending with the persians and going twenty five miles in just having bleeding feet and how that inspired for what it is today. or surrounding the olympics of today's anything but sportsmanship appears to be the last guest joining this party and. new york all right in just a moment here on out he will be diving into the world of gizmos and gadgets with our latest edition of technology updates me on a second. world

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