freebird video for your media. free media or god or t.v. dot com. council g.'s 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 followed live rounds and tear gas at anti-government protesters as the kingdom escalates its clampdown on dissent. the first medals 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.

hello and welcome to the weekly you are with our team and i'm karen. but fierce fighting does continue 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 in the city 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 last couple lives the armed resistance supported and directed by some arab and western states while not prompt assad to go government consultant christophe horse told who's been to syria recently believes rebel fighters will lose the fight for aleppo despite being armed by their backers. the attack on damascus was pushed back very successfully they are now seeing the house chip. in the mask is going on by the army by the government

army and what we have in aleppo is of course a fight for the main let's say production and trade center that is a very serious syria in the survival of the government and as for now i'm quite confident that pushing back of the insurgents come terrorists will be successful that we had an influx of one to two times ten thousand fighters from outside syria into syria mainly from jordan and lebanon recently and these fighters have made their way to aleppo and damascus we have a leading group of small attack teams very highly trained obviously and to my best guess who is a secret service background sponsored by the usa. they are allowing conflict in syria has seen thousands of people to splay stand 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 with almost one hundred thousand of them registered here permanently it was before that while and broke out in syria the residents of the nap neighborhood were all well familiar with the ugly realities of war for the past decade this area has become what the 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 and many are

scrambling to leave the mohammed who arrived here with his family in two thousand and three is also packing i've never come across such securities 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 many others 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 and yemen. has 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 most 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 in c. . 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 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 mosques they have girls with their heads covered and girls with their heads uncovered we 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 freedom could be next on the boycott r.t. reporting from damascus in syria. still ahead for you this hour war for some show time for others. it's really something that you want to see some oh i know it's warren or might not be present but there isn't a direction to see the thing that actually occupies that we were for a while. vantage point on the israeli border with syria has become a tourist attraction for many armed with cameras. over in saudi arabia and 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 on arrest 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 actions of those regimes won't attract criticism from the west says eric draitser from stopping parallelism. 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 would what could be considered entirely backwards 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 is the pot calling the kettle black the united states and the western powers in their proxies. in the middle east or 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 coming up on our stock in an economic downturn pain is more and it needs more reforms as people are already struggling to make ends meet their ever deepening carts. and police investigate a horror find of down fetuses and a russian forest sparking suspicions of a legal and medical 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 but the action outside the stadium over a hundred cyclists were arrested when they all allegedly tried to push through a security cordon officers reportedly even used pepper spray and scuffles broke out police say they wanted to keep the cyclists from blocking guests who were attending

the opening ceremony activists protesting against the corporate aspect of the olympics leapt to their defense and as artie's laura smith now 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 has come to town in fact according to research by currency exchange travelex londoners fleeing their city in this 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 it 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 gay. 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 foreign olympic committees are being privately sold to corporate sponsors it's provoked outrage but not surprised because of gone to not only the corporate sponsors but big corporate hospitality packages 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's that always was structured sensa it's full of independent traders who've come up against the big corporate sponsors unlike rich

corporates local stallholders arms allowed to capitalize on this world class event in their hometown edict from the brand police i mean they can't even use words like a limb pick summer or gold in their advertising any games related merchandise must be official and according to still hold a dowel that's not easy because it's too much for rich we really small businesses we call open an account with huge companies and that's one x. amount of versions 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 are the corporate monster is such that it's given a whole negativity to the games itself which is just so low. so low who people are a bit upset and not particularly positive to look a bit is really odd to see structures with being covered 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 olympics cash raised in 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 heard that london got to do was send an e-mail to one of my good friends in paris and congratulations laura smith loved the. pic and had her you tube channel for all the spectacular shots of the olympic opening ceremony in london watch as queen elizabeth met james bond and then what the same like the pair of them parachuted into the stadium where the monarch of the crowds say also young athletes lighting

the flame and the olympic teams marching in behind their national flags all of that and much much more at you tube dot com forward slash our team. it's. fourteen minutes past the hour and the financial rain clouds over spain show no sight of clearing madrid is in the grip of an unprecedented double dip recession the dismal unemployment figures only going further down. hell almost one in every four are out of work but nearly half of young people are unable to make a living by feeling the figures the international monetary fund or in spain needs

more reform despite previous cuts hitting the public hard and mass protest movement has taken root in the country which has faced a violent response from police demonstrations have reflected public anger at the government for imposing austerity in return for an e.u. bank rescue financial adviser marco peter pollie says helping banks instead of the people is ruining the prospects for recovery situation is deteriorating they had this massive property bubble which is biased. massive amount of austerity measures and the whole economy has cause 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 detract from external investment more but. that means that companies hold by making investment decisions and decisions about the future. is it unfair that the banks

are mean assisted when on the business is not yes it is. a many ways the problem that we have in terms of implementing. our own economies and implementing austerity is that there seems to be i mean equal balance in the economy where banks have been helped massively but the rest of the economy. doesn't to some extent as things stand the market has already priced in. that spain is either. bankrupt will need a bailout and i don't think there's anything that can stop that. here ups auto industry is having a rough patch slowing car sales are putting a stop to the production lines of some of the used top car makers thousands of workers left out on the streets and it's just sort of silly and now reports the economic crisis is not the only thing that's hurting the industry. anger among

workers eight thousand jobs across france will be slashed by their employer situation more than three thousand in this plant alone a blow to the new president's pledge of creating new jobs and to france is once a thriving industry. but she has been working for the company for eighteen years at the end of last month he lost his job at another peugeot site that was closed down and was transferred to this factory as luck would have it he's about to get fired a second time and he showed us what exactly this would mean for him. after the close the other five g. i had no choice but to move to get closer to the only site where they had moved me otherwise i would have been unemployed but just as i arrived here i hadn't even finished painting the flood just as my wife came here the names the new closure i just don't know what to do now but workers say it's not just the economic crisis that's hurt them it's also politics specifically sanctions against iran. the

iranian market is huge it's the second market after france four hundred fifty thousand cars sold in two thousand and eleven so it's fifteen percent of the sales so it's a lot of money lost so if the government can intervene on a commercial level you can intervene at the social level to be firing the workers of this plant say that they have no other choice but to keep on fighting but they're not oblivious to the fact that a whole generation of older workers who had seen a france's industrial boom are now starting to see a change in their economy and that the so-called lost generation of young people many of whom are with our colleagues there will see that change you want to be good for clearly getting them are on their own it's out of that whatsoever. a capitalist system of riches the myth my generation we've been studying for years. myself. a month third degree and i cannot find any job of course i cannot.

buy a new car or if i want to do it i have to go to the bank and i get a credit so that means there will be presumed with was a loan this car dealer says the number of young first time car buyers has indeed gone down staggering youth unemployment adding injury to an already bleak future for europe's car makers and be it generations of workers or their generation a similar vision unites them. we will start a new bottle with p.s.e. group because what's happening is a normal i think. prince knew there is a new revolution will came and it does are still here r t paris more stories on line at our two dot com here's a sample of what's lined up for you this hour for war and for arm to find out why the u.s. department of homeland security has ordered mass quantities of riot gear equipment and what they're intended for. and what plugs up the pike china's government bows

to public pressure i am doing an unpopular 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 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 the images in sean thomas' report disturbing. a picturesque meadow in russia's urals and 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 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 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 if that's the with and it may sound a bit fantastical but these fetuses could have been the product of cloning despite its universal ban and that's why they were thrown out like that these were not future here. beings but half human half artificial creatures it's a very daring theory if you do says could have been thrown out on purpose to create scandal untracked attention maybe attract attention to the ban and cloning humans to abortions people with the sight of these features that is 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 or to some other main news in brief for you now 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 statement was made a during a visit i 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 iran insists its nuclear program is entirely peaceful but is under increasing e.u. and u.s. pressure with fresh sanctions targeting its oil industry. spain has announced that it's repatriating all of its aid workers from refugee camps in western algeria but

drought 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. for many and 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 parliament for abuse of power has also become unpopular for opposing e.u. austerity measures which have led to widespread protests but our school himself denies the accusations against him and has urged his supporters to boycott the referendum the vote comes as rumania as finalizing and i am back to bail out all the. hugh has expressed concerns over efforts to outs the elected president. 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 it failed an attempt five days ago

the progress craft separated from the eye assessor earlier this week to try and reconnect with the station with the help of the new equipment but a technical glitch developed and the docking was aborted the problems were however fixed and the second attempt went smoothly the new digital docking system will be installed on cargo ships as well as the man so you spacecraft. the art of harmony for the first time the 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 artist paula slayer reports on how the pain and heartache of some has become little more than a photo opportunity for others. up close and personal you don't get basic 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 worboys keen on getting a glimpse of syrians killing each other 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 they take all the precautions and 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. 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 too 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 more than. one kilometer from the border. cotton couldn't wait to get the jewish parents fled syria in the early fifty's. this visit is a dream come true it's like in motion because my parents leave the air and they need that daily bury these are the people and that's why when. some two groups are now thinking of income. the syrian risk on their list of must see excursions they may be day trips now but disasters on the horizon should define to get closer until of if choose to get involved policy r t on these raids syrian

border chartley the story of how journalists lost their lives trying to tell the truth about the war in iraq that's after the headlines in a few minutes. if they shoot something inappropriate for public they can easily be shot. as

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