these mountains as the battle rages on between regime and rebel fighters in syria's key city of aleppo with accusations flying between the opposing sides. reports that saudi arabian forces have fired mob around here gas anti-government protesters as the kingdom as school its clampdown descended. on the first medals are handed out in london but the olympics have already been marred by over one hundred arrests and stations corporate adverts are shadowing the sport. though and welcome to the weekly this sunday with me karen tara well fierce fighting continues in the syrian city of aleppo between government forces and rebels what heavy casualties reported on both sides the opposition is calling for

arms and wants international action as they claim army tanks and attack helicopters are bombarding areas in the city which is close to the turkish border syrian officials say the rebels are now trying to turn aleppo into a base for terrorism having failed in damascus this week israel said it's prepared to deal with syria's chemical arsenal if it falls into hezbollah's hands should have solids regime collapse the u.s. also threatened damascus over its chemical weapons despite assurances from the assad government such arms will not be used to settle the country's internal conflict although william angle says all allegations serve the single purpose of military intervention. how many times it's going to take before people wise up to the fact that this is all those scenarios is scripted the rand corporation did the did the book on this in the pentagon put it into their how to military manuals and

they're just toppling one regime after another to create to greet their grand design like yogi berra used to say this is deja vu all over again i smell a rerun of the old the pentagon scenario that dick cheney and friends ran to justify the war in iraq with the niger yellowcake and now they're trying to do that with the weapon of mass destruction chemical warfare weapons with syria to create this climate that this is the most pristine thing on the face of the earth but i think that obama doesn't want this to break into an open war before the election that's the last thing american voters want is another iraq or another afghanistan on their doorstep the ongoing conflict in syria has seen thousands of people displaced and for a large number of them it's not the first time they've been forced to flee many iraqis who escaped the violence in their homeland took shelter in neighboring syria but now they're returning home on a boy to reports from damascus they fled their home countries in search of peace

only to be ambushed by war in the place they thought was safe syria has long been counted among the most welcoming countries in the region for refugees but almost one hundred thousand of them registered here permanently even before the while and broke out in syria at the residence of the napa neighborhood all well familiar with the ugly realities of war over the past decade the ferry has become home thousands of war refugees from somalia afghanistan pakistan but the largest community here iraqis who sought to escape the years more in that country and now have to flee yet again at this bus station iraqi destinations have never been in such high demand as now just several dozen residents of this. area for a shot of the habit in the past two weeks many are scrambling to leave when mohammed who arrived here with his family in two thousand and three is also packing

i've never come across such security is in syria and such a government is in syria it's a good state a good nation but the rebels come here with weapons to destroy our homes and we have no idea why the residents accuse the rebels of terrorizing their community extorting money or kidnapping for ransom while their regions of the gangs are known many here believe it's fighting alongside the free syrian army. the usa is not an independent nation because its government does not hear what its people are saying because whichever country it invades it destroys america invaded iraq libya egypt and yemen and has not brought peace to any of them now after nine years iraq still can't produce enough electricity for a whole day only for an hour or two. they say it is enough is one of the most important share shrines as it is believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter just

a year ago it was inundated with bill grams but after several worshippers lost their lives in a suicide bombing that is now closed some believe the attacks against iraqis in syria may also be driven by sick terror and division most iraqis a shia mosque travel's a sunni a year's base shia group has just published a statement calling on the united nations to intervene according to our sources and see. thousands of shia muslims are in danger of massacred by the free syrian army and groups affiliated with them she writes watch has learned from many shia muslims living in the area that the free syrian army has threatened to massacre all the shia in the area unless they flee yet not everybody is scary the way. a sunni syrian and an m. a share. raqi have been neighbors and friends for seven years ever since the killing of animals has been forced here to leave iraq they say we want freedom what freedom do you want in syria you have mosques we have girls with their heads

covered and girls with their heads uncovered we have christians sunni's in she ides they say they want freedom but is this the way to treat your country when you want freedom but iraqis know better than anyone else how relentless and how damaging the foreign quest for free there would be on the boycott r.t. reporting from damascus in syria. still ahead for you this hour war for some time for others it's really something that you want to see some. might not be preserved but there isn't a fraction to see the very factually. we report why a vantage point on the israeli border with syria has become a tourist attraction for money on camera. over in saudi arabia the royal family has stepped up its crackdown on protesters as riot police reportedly fired live rounds and tear gas at crowds witnesses say several people

were injured and a number of activists happened to rest it has gripped the country's oil rich eastern province mostly populated by shia muslims they've been venting their anger at what they call discrimination by the country's sunni rulers and that mass arrests of political activists clamp down on dissent has also been taking place in bahrain and the united arab emirates but the silence on the situation from the west is deafening says family rights activists the same block. the uprising in bahrain has shown. a clear the standard in the us one policy toward big concern is that going through the arab spring or the democracy movement well they support. some countries that. like syria or in the best libya because we don't you know this is not like. the best way to change this there was

a genius to use the democracy however people in bahrain and people saudi arabia and people in yemen are calling basically for the same rights self-determination free and fair elections but we don't see the same kind of forceful clear foreign policy toward those countries especially. so the arabia because those countries are those governments are considered. so somehow democracy now is used as a weapon against the countries that we don't like however the people in the genes that are considered allied to the united states who are supporting the government that is oppressing the. coming up on r t a stuck in an economic downturn. spain is warned it needs more reforms as people are already struggling to make ends meet. and police investigate and find a dump me this isn't a russian forest park it's

a special it's only going medical research. areas of preparation are finally paying off in london as the twenty twelve summer olympic games opened in the u.k. capital the first gold medals have already been won but the opening ceremony didn't pass without incident with action outside the stadium over one hundred cyclists were arrested when they allegedly tried to push through a security corridor officers reportedly even used pepper spray ask offals broke out police say they wanted to keep the cyclists from blocking guests from attending the opening ceremony activists protesting against the corporate aspect of the olympics to their defense and as artie's laura smith reports many londoners agree the event isn't all fun and games. it's been seven years in the making and the greatest show on earth is finally in london but no everyone's pleased this circus has come to town in fact according to research by currency exchange for travelex londoners

fleeing their city in droves people are saying specifically that they want to avoid the lympics you know they look at the streets and they look at the congestion and they look at the charges that there might be particular on the london area so they have taken the decision to go earlier a third of people traveling this summer will head off during the games but for those who stay behind it will be a television only affair millions ended up disappointed in the public lottery to get tickets and it's recently been revealed that hundreds of thousands of tickets returned by for a. an olympic committees being privately sold to corporate sponsors it's provoked outrage but not surprised tickets have gone to not only the corporate sponsors but big corporate hospitality packages in general is an inevitable result of the way the goings it done primarily for the interests of the rich and the olympics i'm

afraid are just the epitome of some of the worst things in the world the removal of resources from poor people and giving it to rich people carry a strap and station that can be no doubt what's going on the whole place is branded london twenty twelve i'm also surrounded by massive billboards on every building there's an advertisement for one of the main corporate sponsors b.m.w. lloyds t.s.b. but over here is the stratford that always was structured center it's full of independent traders who've come up against the big corporate sponsors unlike rich corporates local stallholders aren't allowed to capitalize on this world class event in their hometown edict from the brand police mean they can't even use words like a limp pick summer or gold in their advertising any games related merchandise must be official and according to stallholder darryl that's not easy it's too much of

a really small piece of cheese we can open an account with huge companies and that's one x. amount of. you know which we really small business i would love to but would like to it's created an uneasy relationship between locals and the games with the corporate monster is such that it's negativity to the games itself which is just so what's a low people a bit upset and not particularly positive to the caves but is really to see structures with being covered and coated with the corporate sponsorship so. from that point of view i don't like it despite the much vaunted olympic spirit it turns out the great is show isn't for everyone while the fat cats sit back and watch the olympics cash receipts in the london as the streets seize up because of special olympic traffic lanes and their commuter trains grinds to

a halt as they route the day the games picked their city the first thing i did when i. was sent an email to one of my good friends in paris and congratulations laura smith london. at its medals and olympic records that are on the minds of the athletes competing in london now cross to our sports desk for all the results of the first day of games paul already something to celebrate for russia yes yes that's right carin also has a claim to the country's first gold medal of the games he won the men's judo sixty kilogram a category there was a disappointing display from fourteen time a limbic champion legendary swimmer michael phelps i'll have all the details in a full sports roundup in the around half an hour's time. on the financial rain clouds over spain show no sign of clearing madrid is in the grip of an unprecedented double dip recession dismal unemployment figures only going further

downhill almost one in every four are out of work but nearly half of young people unable to make a living or feeling the figures of the i am war in spain needs more reform despite previous cuts hitting the public heart and mass protest movement has taken root in the country which has faced a violent response from police demonstrations have elected public anger at the government for imposing austerity and return for an e.u. bank rescue financial adviser mark up at a fairly says helping banks instead of the people is ruining the prospects for recovery. so the situation is deteriorating and they have this massive property bubble. which is biased. massive amount of austerity measures and our economy has imploded and you've got very very high levels of unemployment and people will take their anger out on the street is even a problem well yes because the more that there is civil unrest the more that detracts from external investment more but. that means that companies hold back

making investment decisions and decisions about the future. is it unfair that the banks are mean assisted when other businesses are not yes it is. a many ways the problem that we have in terms of implementing reform our own economies and implementing austerity is that seems to be an equal balance in the economy where banks have been helped massively but the rest of the economy. isn't to some extent as things stand the market has already priced in that. spain is are. bankrupt will need a bailout and i don't think there's anything that can stop that. for stories online or to dot com here's a sample of what's lined up for you this hour for a warrant and for our find out why the u.s.

department of homeland security has ordered mass want to tease right here that meant that what they are intended for. and also one of the plugs a pipe china's government bows to public pressure abandoning and other popular industrial waste pipeline after mass protests the details at r.t. dot com. police are investigating whether illegal medical research is behind a gruesome discovery and a forest in central russia hundreds of human fetuses were found dumped in barrels possibly taken from a local medical university by a former employee but some doctors even believe the material could be the product of cloning now you may find some of the images in sean thomas' report disturbing. a picturesque meadow in russia's urals at first seemingly serene but an unfortunate encounter for one outdoorsman reveals a scene far more disturbing i discovered the girls while i was out there fishing

and i went to get some wood for the camp fire which i found the barrels and i thought i would take them home but when i looked inside i saw many little babies medical waste in total two hundred forty eight fetuses each around half the size of an adult human hand some tagged with surnames and identification numbers discarded in a remote ravine around seventy kilometers north of here katherina berg in some cases the remains spilled on to the ground. inspecting the scene we found a total of four barrels fifty to seventy liters each filled with human fetuses police will investigate this incident the materials found will be examined at the lab the mystery of the discovery in the woods and how it got there has sent a shockwave around the world but one main focus for investigators is where the fetuses came from in the first place in russia abortion isn't legal only up until the twelve week mark and early evidence in this case shows that these fetuses were terminated between twenty two and twenty six weeks russian law states that women

can only have an abortion during this time period for medical emergency reasons now investigators must find out why there were so many late term abortions in such a relatively small area was there something deeply sinister going on such as an illegal abortion operation and why were they discarded so carelessly. human tissue is classified as hazardous waste and as such it should be incinerated when disposed of properly the group responsible for this in this area says they don't use the types of containers that were found and now new theories are starting to emerge that almost play out like a science fiction thriller. it may sound a bit fantastical but these fetuses could have been the productive cloning despite its universal ban and that's why they were thrown out like that since these were not future human beings but half human half artificial creatures it's a very daring theory that fetuses could have been thrown out and purpose to create scandal and tract attention maybe attract attention to the ban on cloning humans or

to abortions to shock people with the sight of these fetuses but skeptics say this scenario is unlikely considering the fetuses were found in formaldehyde rendering them useless for this type of research now the health ministry has requested information from all clinics within one hundred kilometer radius hoping to find answers to a story that has left a community perplexed sean thomas r.t. . coming up in a few minutes do you believe your personal information on social networks is safe well think again. it's more of a bit more than just invasion of privacy it's about destroying the concept of privacy online some networking sites are giving away most users personal data to the u.s. government and there's no way of preventing that as we report in a few minutes. and unmanned russian cargo spacecraft has read docked with the international space station marking a successful test of

a new all digital docking system that's after a failed attempt five days ago the progress craft separated from the us earlier this week to try and reconnect with the station with the new help with the help of the new equipment but a technical glitch developed and the docking was aboard it the problems were however fixed and the second attempt went on smoothly with a new digital docking system will be installed on cargo ships as well as the manned so use base craft. so our armory time now for a look at what's making headlines around the world. the u.s. suspects of that israeli intelligence is spying on cia agents stationed in the country it comes after a series of break ins the most recent at the television home of the cia station chief found that his communication equipment had been tampered with some experts believe that israel is a counter intelligence director for the u.s.

spy being a close ally in the middle east on saturday american president barack obama signed the israeli security bill to strengthen u.s. israeli military ties. spain has announced that it's repatriating all of its aid workers from refugee camps in western algeria hundred has acted in response to fears over security in the country recently a growing al qaeda presence in neighboring mali has brought instability to the region. militants on tajikistan's border with afghanistan of started to hand over their weapons after a major security operation which left at least thirty and forty one captured in an ongoing offensive launched on tuesday seventeen soldiers also died while forty were injured in an effort to track down a former warlord accused of killing a senior security officer authorities have sealed all border crossing points in the region but the only exception provided to nato supply trucks. and raging conflict

in syria has been preoccupying world leaders and international media but in one country it's become an attraction for sightseers in israel thousands have been flocking to the border for what they're calling a must see event artie's paullus lawyer has been to see how the pain and heartache of syrians has become little more than a photo opportunity for others up close and personal you don't get to base a ringside seats in this this is the israeli syrian border and it's now also the latest israeli truest attraction feels good to be able to get close with a little bit and besides as you know only the items on television i was actually thrilled to come here today to over look into syria to realize that with only a few kilometers in that country unfortunately there are hundreds of and of people being killed every day. it's the perfect spot it seems for war voices keen on

getting a glimpse of syrians killing each other all from a safe vantage point the only hard way they carry binoculars and cameras are you rely on our armed forces that they are aware of the situation and take all the precautions on them so i feel i feel very safe you see both his family to see where he fought against the syrians nearly fifty years ago the border areas which could erupt again as the free syrian army takes on assad forces near israel but for now it's good business and tour guides are making a killing it's really something that you want to see some oh i know it's war and or might not be present but there is an attraction to say the very factually occupies the media now it's like you feel you are in the center of stuff the fog was sparked when israeli defense minister who came to see for himself what was going on. here in the border was real fighting in syria and you can hear the mortons falling here

we are one kilometer from the border. of our children who couldn't wait to get their jewish parents fled syria in the early fifty's for ruth this visit is a dream come true it's like the promotion because my parents lived there and they told me that they live very peaceful with all the people and that's why we went. some tour groups are now thinking of including the syrian unrest on their list of must see excursions they maybe day trips now but disasters on the horizon should the fighting get closer and tell of if choose to get involved. r.t. on the israeli syrian border. millions of people now use social networks like facebook and twitter to share lives with friends and family but what you might not know is that you could be giving away your personal data to governments and as artie's marina porn i explained no privacy settings can bar the prying eyes of the authorities. in the land of social media users tweet tag

friend upload and share information at any given moment in the land of the free what americans post online can and will be used against them. according to twitter of the nearly twelve hundred government requests for user data filed in the first half of this year nearly eighty percent came from the u.s. government the micro message company says it complied with seventy five percent of user data washington requested social media in general twitter and facebook being prime examples of that are a part of an ever increasingly invasive police state in the united states it's it's not just about surveillance and about tracking and monitoring this is the way in which they're consolidating control in the past year u.s. judges have forced twitter to turn over private or deleted data on users as part of investigations related to wiki leaks or occupy wall street. the

ruling according to reports allows prosecutors access to tweets and additional information stored by twitter including the e-mail and i p address of a user it's more about more than just invasion of privacy it's about destroying the concept of privacy online at a recent conference called how cars on planet earth former national security agent william binney detailed the demise of u.s. privacy protection which he says has been carried out by washington for more than a decade it must have been right for you to order week after. they decided to begin to spy on you when there's been these spent thirty seven years working for the n.s.a. before resigning to blow the whistle on what he calls the creation of an orwellian state your vote for kerry is that we see everything. and they.

threw the key of them at the height of his career then he served as technical director for n.s.a. as am group a branch that was reportedly responsible for eavesdropping on the world today he estimates that the n.s.a. has secretly compiled and stored more than twenty trillion files of e-mails phone calls and other data belonging to u.s. citizens when it comes to social media he says even users with the strictest security settings are not protected by the reality of that is that that's not private at all if the companies don't have the government doesn't have it so either of them have it or they share with the unobstructed sharing of information is what's made half a billion people flock to social media sites like twitter but missing from the terms of agreement is the monitoring that can be taking place as citizens are bursting their short messages into the virtual world arena porton i.r.t. new york really we discuss america's wall street protest movement first an update

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