casualties mount. between rebel fighters. between. saudi arabian forces and. the anti government protesters. in london.

with the top stories over the weekend of today this is the weekly on our t.v. with me live in moscow where fierce fighting continues in the syrian city of aleppo this going on of course between government forces and rebels we're getting reports of heavy casualties on both sides the opposition is calling for international action. in the city very close to the border with turkey syrian officials say the rebels are now trying to. terrorism are . supported and directed by western states will not force us to go and london based security analyst says opposition forces fighting the syrian president could drag the country into even deeper chaos. there are certainly amongst the opposition democrats perhaps people

who are secular working on the inside as well as the outside with that has to be said many of those should we say opposition figures who are speaking about secular democracy are actually on the outside of syria itself the question is who is controlling who is the influence behind the armed rebels who are succeeding on the ground it may well to continue one has to look at the supplies and inspiration of those people and one looks to places like saudi arabia and one has to wonder whether saudi arabia is interested in promoting democracy so it isn't with its it within its own internal borders and one i think has to have the greatest fear is that assad fall it will fall from being a panacea for this problem for syria may well be the precursor for atrocities chaos and carnage on a secular basis and a syria that may well be far worse than people can imagine could possibly be a replacement for assad. now the ongoing conflict in syria has seen thousands of

people displaced and for a large number of them though it's just 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 are returning home from damascus with this report are two socks on a boy 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 given before their weiland broke out in syria the residents of the neighborhoods 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 us 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 beheaded in the past two weeks many are scrambling to leave i don't know how much we're here because this 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 there are regions of the gang known many here believe it's al qaida 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 wrong. 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 it 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 travels 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 say. thousands of shia muslims are in danger of massacred by the free syrian army and groups affiliated with them she rights 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 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 freedom would be on the boycott r.t. reporting from damascus in syria that r.t. is coming to life in the heart of moscow it's good to have you on the program today still to come though of. show time for others. it's really something that you want to see some oh i know we two are annoyed might not be pleasant but there isn't a fracture. see the thing that actually occupies the media now we report why

a vantage point on the israeli border with syria has now become a bit of a tourist attraction for many people armed with cameras. and meantime over in saudi arabia the royal family has stepped up its crackdown on protesters riot police reportedly fired live rounds antic crowds and witnesses say several people were injured and a number of activists arrested there on russia's grip the country's oil rich eastern province a mostly populated by shia muslims have been venting their anger at what they call discrimination by the country's sunni rulers and also were against the 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 this according to human rights activist hussein. the uprising in bahrain has shown. a clear the standard in the us foreign policy toward the

country is going through the arab spring or that democracy movement well they support. some countries. like syria. libya because we don't you know this is not like. the best use of the team just use the democracy i want the people in bahrain the people so people in yemen calling basically for the same rights. in a free and fair elections but we don't see the same kind of forceful clear foreign policy. is especially so european because those countries or those governments are considered an ally so somehow democracy now is used as a weapon against the countries that we don't like however the people in blue jeans that incident allied to the united states. supporting the government that. are

still to come here and that of being stuck in an economic downturn spain is it needs more reforms people are already struggling to make ends. meet. and let's investigate. find them feed ourselves in a russian sparking suspicions of legal and medical research. past the hour here in moscow years of preparation are finally paid off in london as the two thousand and twelve summer olympic games opened in the u.k. capital already the first gold medals have been won but the opening ceremony did not pass without incident certainly a bit of action going on outside the stadium one hundred cyclists were arrested when they allegedly tried to push through a security barrier officers reportedly even used pepper spray or scuffles 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

and leapt to their defense authorities laura smith now reports that many long londoners are 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 for travelex londoners fleeing their city in this people are saying specifically that they want to avoid the olympics 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 take a. it's 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 little bus tickets have gone to not only the corporate sponsors but big corporate hospitality packages in general is an inevitable result of the way the going is 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 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 structured center it's full of independent traders who've come up against the big corporate sponsors unlike rich corporates local stallholders on to learn how 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 stallholder darell that's not easy because it's too much of a really small piece of cheese we call open an account with huge companies and that's one experimental versus well. you know it's very small business i would love to but. it's created an uneasy relationship between locals and the games with the corporate monster is such that it's keeping the negativity to the games itself which is just a lot of local people a bit upset and not particularly positive to the caves but is really to see structures with the. covert 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. isn't for everyone while the fat cats sit back and watch the limpid cash raise seen the londoners the streets seize up because of special olympics 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. was send an e-mail to one of my good friends in paris saying congratulations. alex he loved it. well of course though it is there the medals and olympic records that are on the mind of the athletes of course competing in london right now let's cross to our supporters for the result the first of the games and paul paul good gracious me the man who got fourteen golds in the four in the olympics like a brick in the olympic pool whatever happened to michael fell yeah really disappointing performance from the fourteen time olympic champion he didn't even

finish on the podium in the four hundred meters medley will have more now but it wasn't good news for russia as. one gold is russia's first gold on day one hopefully plenty more to come we'll have all the sports news in around half an hour . saying paul saying the financial rain clouds over spain show absolutely no signs of clearing madrid is in the grip of an unprecedented double dip recession dismal unemployment figures only going further downhill for example almost one in every four persons are out of work nearly half of young people are unable to make a living by revealing the figures or the international monetary fund warned spain it needs more reform despite previous cuts hitting the public hard. protest movement has taken root in the country which has faced a violent response from. demonstrations have reflect. public anger at the government from posing austerity in return for an e.u.

bank rescue financial adviser marco pietro pauli says helping banks instead of the people is ruining the prospects for recovery the situation is deteriorating they have this massive property bubble which is biased. massive amount of austerity measures and the whole 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 yes because the more that there is civil unrest the more that detracts 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 the business is not yes it is. even many ways the problem that we have in terms of implementing reform are only economies and implementing austerity is that seems to me i mean equal balance in the economy

where banks have been helped massively but the rest of the economy. hasn't to some extent as things stand the market has already priced in. that spain is our. bangkok will need a bailout and i don't think there's anything that can stop that. of course always are more stories for you online dot com let's have a sampling right now i want to view this hour for example of forewarning for find out why the u.s. department of homeland security has ordered massive quantities of riot gear equipment and what exactly they're intended for. and what plugs a pipe china's government to public pressure. the pipeline after huge protests. where.

is. he watching the weekly here and the world's top might not need to go to sweden after all. agrees to offer to question julian assange inside his london embassy it's where he's been holed up for the past six weeks still seeking political asylum the wiki leaks chief fears that if he sent to sweden to wants a sex crime allegations he might eventually end up being extradited to the u.s. and charged with espionage washington is investigating him for publishing thousands of classified secret u.s. documents on the internet says it will decide after the end of the london olympics

on a political asylum request his legal adviser says the possibility of being questioned in the south american nations embassy up of some hope for the wiki leaks founder. it's positive because julian assange made a choice not to go to sweden because he knew in sweden he would be put. prison. not given bail and that it was more likely than not in fact my view is an american lawyer for julian someone that it was almost on a percent that he was going to be indicted and extradited to the united states never getting out of prison so the fact that he might be able to do what he has been demanding for almost two years which is to be question in london about these allegations would be a major step our hope is that when julian gets an opportunity i under the circumstances that sweden questions him that he would be exonerated of these allegations and that would be the end of it he should be overwhelmed first of all

that the united states is going after him that you know i'm a man who should be protected by our constitution and the first amendment why if the united states gets its hands on to be put into an underground prison and treated cruelly like bradley manning was treated the man who allegedly got access to the documents so he's obviously very worried about that situation and very angry that the united states is wanting to suppress what probably one of the major truth tellers in the world today. just a couple of minutes on the aussie wild update for now at the raging conflict in syria has been preoccupying wealth leaders on international media but in one country it's become an attraction for sightseeing as in israel thousands have been flocking to the border what they are calling a must see event. asli has been to see how the pain and heartache of syrians has become little more than a photo op with us. 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 besides seeing 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 and that country unfortunately there are hundreds of people being killed every day it's the perfect spot it seems for war boy is keen on getting a glimpse of syrians killing each other from a safe vantage point the only hard way they carry binoculars and cameras rely on our armed forces that. 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 it's war i know it might not be pleasant but there isn't a threat to see the thing that actually occupies the media and it's like you feel you are in the center of stuff. the furred 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 moods of schooling here we are one kilometer from the border. who couldn't wait to get her jewish parents fled syria in the early fifty's for this visit is a dream come true it's like the motion because my parents keep the air and they need that daily bury these are the people and that's why we went. some to a groups are now thinking of including the syrian unrest on their list of must see excursion they maybe day trips now the disaster is on the horizon should the

fighting get closer until of choose to get involved. on these raids syrian border i let's get straight to the r.t. world update as promised to all start with a senior advisor to mitt romney who says the u.s. presidential candidate would actually support at the end of the day an israeli strike against iran to prevent terror run from developing nuclear weapons the statement came during a visit by the white house contender 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 and u.s. pressure with fresh sanctions targeting its lucrative oil industry. thousands of rallied in tokyo demanding an end to the use of atomic power it is the latest in a string of peaceful demonstrations in japan after the nuclear plant meltdown which followed last year's earthquake and tsunami protesters are angry over government

restarting two reactors earlier this month that's after the country's nuclear power plants which used to supply one third of japan's energy were taken offline for checks. romanians are heading to the polls to the. side whether to send president packing process you is facing the impeachment referendum after being suspended by parliament for abuse of power he's also become unpopular for imposing e.u. austerity measures with chaff led to widespread protest process you himself denies the accusations against him and his urged his supporters to boycott the referendum the vote comes as romania is finalizing an i.m.f. backing bailout of the e.u. as expressed concerns over efforts to oust the elected president our very own. keeping all of us updated on the developments of twitter you can follow her twitter feed at the address you see on your screen. now 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 but some doctors even believe the material could be the product of cloning should warn you 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 catalina berg in some cases the remains spilled onto 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 product of cloning despite its universal ban and that's. why they were thrown out like that these were not future human beings but how human half artificial creatures it's a very daring theory if you just as could have been thrown out and purpose to create scandal untracked attention maybe attract attention to the ban of 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 to you live from the center of moscow it's good to have you with us today and just a couple of minutes i will be discussing america's antiwar street protest movement that'll pay off an update of the week's top stories hope to see you in just a moment.

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