council tees mount 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 live rounds and tear gas at anti-government protesters as the kingdom ask its clampdown on dissent. and the first battles are handed out in london but the olympics have already been marred by over one hundred arrests and accusations corporate adverts are overshadowing the sport. oh and welcome to our tease the weekly with me karen tara the fierce fighting continues in the syrian city of aleppo between government forces and rebels with 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 of 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 germany has admitted knowing that almost a hundred terror attacks in syria have been committed by organizations with ties to al qaida nevertheless berlin continues to back the rebels in their fight against the regime with dozens of high ranking syrian opposition members being secretly trained in the european country a german journalist told r.t. that berlin simply follows orders from overseas i am surprised about the surprise in berlin because what they say now what they admit now what is going on in syria is not a thing which goes on since one day or one week this is what is going on there it's in several months so i'm surprised that now would they are acknowledging what is going on. there with the rebels and of course with sunni extremists with al-qaeda

related militants going on against the syrian civilians and the syrian government why is germany thought the german government knows about what is going on not able to do a decision about this fact they know this might have to do with the fact that the german government until today is not making a foreign politics like a sobering state should do it. i think we are very close to washington and before a german politician tells anything he will ask in washington if this is ok so i think this has to do with the fact that the german government especially in foreign relations and is not acting on their own behalf but on the behalf of the so-called western community of. the. european community but not in the interest of the german country or of germany. the ongoing conflict in syria hussien thousands of people displaced and for

a large number of them it's not the first time they have been forced to flee many iraqis who escape the violence in their homeland took shelter in neighboring syria but now they're returning home arches oksana boyko reports from damascus they fled their home countries in search of peace only to be ambushed by war in a place they thought was safe syria has long been counted among the most welcoming countries in the region for refugees with almost one hundred thousand of them registered here permanently it was before that while and broke out in syria the residents of the neighborhood were all well familiar with the ugly realities of war or the past decade this area has become home thousands of war refugees from somalia afghanistan pakistan but the largest community here iraqis who sought to escape the u.s. waged war 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 after several dozen

residents of this area were shot or be had it 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 unknown 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 is. not brought peace to any of them now after nine years iraq still can't produce enough electricity for

a whole day and 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 most travels a sunni a years base share group has just published a statement calling on the united nations to intervene according to our sources in . 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 a share iraqi 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 they have girls with their heads covered and girls with their heads uncovered you have christians sunni's in shiites 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 show time for others. really something that you want to see some. very but there is an attraction to see the thing that actually occupies the museum we were poor and why vantage point on the israeli border with syria has become a tourist attraction for many armed with

a 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 have been arrested the unrest has gripped the country's oil rich eastern province copulated by shia muslims they have been venting their anger at what they call discrimination by the country's saudi rulers and at 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 human rights activist hussein. browsing and as shown. clear the standard in the u.s. policy toward big concern is that going through the arab spring or the democracy movement well they support. some countries. like syria.

in the first libya because we don't notice it does not like. the best way to change the rules of the genus to use the democracy however people in bahrain and people should be and people in yemen are calling basically for the same rights self-determination the free and fair elections but we don't see the same kind of forceful clear foreign policy toward those is especially. so early because those countries or those governments are considered so somehow democracy now is used as a weapon again. the countries that we don't like however the people with blue jeans that is the united states who are supporting the girl in the. coming up on our team stuck in an economic downturn spain is warned that it's more reforms as people are already struggling to make ends meet under ever deepening cuts. and riot police

investigate a horror find don't feed us isn't a russian forest sparking suspicions of a legal matter of research. years of preparation have finally paid 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 was actually outside the stadium over one hundred cyclists were arrested when they allegedly tried to push through a security corridor officers reportedly even use pepper spray as scuffles broke out police say they wanted to keep the cyclists from blocking us from attending the opening ceremony activists protesting against the corporate aspect of the olympics or leapt to their defense 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 please this has come to town in

fact according to research by currency exchange travelex londoners fleeing their city. 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 lotteries. i get tickets and it's recently been revealed that hundreds of thousands of tickets returned by for an olympic committees are being privately sold to corporate sponsors it's provoked outrage but not surprised have gone to not only the corporate sponsors but big corporate. backers in general is an inevitable result of the way the goings of done primarily for the interests of the rich in 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 parents drop 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 struck. it's full of independent traders who have 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 limb pick some or all gold in their advertising any games related merchandise must be official and according to still hold it down that's not easy because it's

too much of it we really small businesses we call open accounts with huge companies and that's one x. amount of. you know it's a very small business i would love to but. it's created an uneasy relationship between locals and the games side with the corporate monster is such that it's keeping the negativity to the games itself which is just so what's a low people a bit upset i'm not particularly positive to the caves but is really to see structural. be covert and coated with. 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 water isn't for everyone while the fat cats sit back and watch the elim pick cash raised in the london as the streets seized up because

of special olympic traffic lanes and their commuter trains grinds to a halt as they route the day the game's 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 loved it. but it's medals and olympic records that are on the minds of the athletes competing in london now let's cross to our sports to ask for all the results from the first day of games. also it seems something to celebrate already for russia yes that's right just won the day into the competition and russia have already claimed their first gold medal. winning these men's sixty kilogram category in the judo but there was a poor display from legendary swimmer michael phelps i'll have all the details around of all of yesterday's action and a full sports round up in around half an hour's time. financial rain clouds over spain show no sight of clearing but here it 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 with nearly half of young people unable to make a living revealing the figures of the war in spain

and to bring an unpopular industrial waste. at r.t. dot com. sixty minutes past the hour on the police are investigating whether illegal medical research is behind a gruesome discovery in 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 however some doctors even believe the material could be the product of cloning you may find some of these images and sham thomas' report to starving. 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 birds 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 ten and with surnames and identification numbers discarded in a remote ravine around seventy kilometers north of you catalina 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 fetus is came from in the first place in russia abortion is 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 stated 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 can task but these fetuses could have been the product of 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 if you just as could have been thrown out in purpose to create scandal untracked attention maybe attract attention to the van and 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 and then manned russian cargo spacecraft has read dr at the international space station marking a successful test of a new all digital docking system that's after a failed to turn up to five days ago they probably were separated from the i assess earlier this week to try and reconnect the station with the help of the new equipment but a technical glitch developed on the docking was aborted the problems were however fixed and the second attempt went smoothly but the new digital docking system will be installed on cargo ships as well as the man so use spacecraft. but it.

started for the first time coming up in a few minutes do you believe your personal information on social networks is safe well think again. it's more about more than just invasion of privacy it's about destroying the concept of privacy online and some networking sites are giving away most users as personal data to the u.s. government and there's no way of preventing that as we report in a few minutes. time now for some other news in brief for you this hour a senior adviser to mitt romney says the u.s. presidential candidate would support an israeli strike against iran to prevent iran from developing nuclear weapons a statement was made during a visit by the white house hopeful to israel just after american president barack obama signed a new law to strengthen u.s. israeli military ties around insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful but is under increasing e.u. and u.s. pressure with fresh sanctions targeting its oil industry. has announced

that it's repatriating all of its aid workers from refugee camps in western algeria letter it has art in response to fears over security in the country recently a growing al qaida presence in the neighboring town of mali in neighboring mali rather has brought instability to the region. militants on the stones border with afghanistan have started to hand over their weapons after a major security operation which left at least thirty of them dead and forty one captured in an ongoing offensive launched on tuesday seventeen soldiers also died while fourteen were injured in the 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. remain ians are heading to the polls to decide whether to send their president packing but i am also school. is facing the impeachment referendum after being suspended by

a parliament for abuse of power he's also become unpopular for imposing e.u. all staring measures which have led to widespread protests as a school himself denies the accusations against him and has urged his supporters to boycott the referendum the vote comes as romania is finalizing an i.m.f. back to bail out while the e.u. has expressed concerns over efforts to out's the elected president parties to us are silly is keeping you updated on all the developments via twitter you can follow her twitter feed at the address you see on your screen. that is the rage and 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 parties paula slayer 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

a ringside seats in this this is the israeli syrian border and it's now also the latest israeli tryst attraction feels good to be able to get close to it a little bit and besides seeing only the items on television i was actually thrilled to come here today to syria to realize that with only a few kilometers and a country unfortunately there are hundreds 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. on our armed forces that they are aware of the situation and take all the precautions and so i feel i feel very safe you see both his family to see where he forty against the syrians nearly fifty years ago the border areas which could erupt again as the free syrian army takes on assad forces. but for now it's good business and

two guys are making a killing it's really something that you want to see some oh i know we two are in or might not be present but there is an attraction to see the thing that actually occupies the media now it's like you feel you are in the center of stuff the fed was sparked when israeli defense minister who came to see for himself what was going on. here in the border with real fighting in syria and you can hear the noise and sprawling here we are one kilometer from the border. of. cotton couldn't wait to get jewish parents fled syria in the early fifty's. this visit is a dream come true it's like in motion because my parents keep the air and they tell me that they leave bury these are the people and that's why when. some two groups are now thinking of including the. rist on their list of must see exclusions they may be day trips now but disasters on the who winds and should

define to get closer until of it choose to get involved. on these radios syrian border millions of people now use social networks like facebook and twitter to share their 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 art is more important explains 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 white americans post on line 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 michael 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 ip address of a user it's more of 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 us. privacy protection which he says has been carried out by washington for more than

a decade it must of been right for. more than a week after. he decided to begin to speak with us from binney 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 we were there for here is that we said we think it's. true that he knew that at the height of his career binney served as technical director for n.s.a. as m 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 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 of 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 marina portnoy r.t. new york charlie would discuss america's wall street protest movement first an update of the week's top stories in a few minutes. wealthy

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