the latest news on the week's top stories on. the syrian opposition pleads for heavy weapons from abroad for direct intervention in the battle for the country's largest city. saudi arabia reportedly using force to form protesters from the streets as the wave of discontent continues across the nation. as the country struggles with a double dip recession with record high unemployment and warnings from the. need. to an explosive start in the british. restrictions

making many londoners miss out on the. very warm welcome to you from all of us here you're watching the weekly with me wrong. in syria the unfolding battle for the commercial capital aleppo is now turned into the focal point of the sixteen months of conflict government forces are pushing to reclaim the country's largest city from the rebels who now control or roughly half of its neighborhoods three million people live in. and made international fears of a looming massacre russians accuse foreign powers of fueling the bloodshed by the rebels to fight on against. the political leaders are. calling for intervention shipments of heavy weapons from abroad and revelations in the media this week claim

that's already happening a secret base in. security analyst. told us a. regime change. as for the country. there are certainly amongst the opposition democrats perhaps people who are secular working on the inside as well as the outside without has to be said many of those should we sell position 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 qatar saudi arabia and one has to wonder whether saudi arabia is interested in promoting democracy so it isn't with it within its own internal borders and one i think has to have the greatest fear is that assad fall it will far from being a panacea for this 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 and most members of the largest diaspora in syria iraqis or they escaped the war at home nine years ago and settled in the new country with new hopes but many are now being forced to flee from violence once again to return back home. on a boy who went to hear their grievances. it's one of 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 even before the while and broke out in syria the residents of the nap 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 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 just 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 right here with 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 their regions of the gangs are unknown many here believe it's a 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 worshipers 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 in division most iraqis a shia mosque travels a sunni a u.s. base shia 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 massacre 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 we 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 iraq is no 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. on friday saudi arabia unleashed its police on protesters who have been demanding reforms and and to discrimination activists say

around fourteen demonstrators were injured after officers used tear gas and live ammunition a number of them also detained earlier this month the saudi government had to deploy troops to the country's oil rich eastern province which is mostly populated by shia muslims they've been venting their anger at the sunni role family and that massive arrests of political activists silencing the opposition has also been taking place in the united arab emirates and by. grain rallies were banned after more than a year of clashes political analyst says it's hypocritical for gulf states to support rebellions elsewhere while suppressing dissenting voices on the home front . in all the arab countries i believe the twenty two arab nations there are some legitimate democratic reforms that are necessary. for by the people there are some limitations on basic freedoms there are some there is

a lack of a system of accountability there are some basic demands in all these countries and therefore one would expect people to come out and take to the streets and call for these reforms and this is completely illegitimate however when when things go out of violence comes in and nothing happens is the case in syria and that's what we're witnessing in syria today and i believe that's what we witnessed earlier in other countries and it's very difficult and problematic to rebuild after everything has been destroyed and the ironic thing is that some gulf countries and saudi arabia support the violence in syria and that's a clear double standard when one calls for democratic reform in syria and one does not apply these democratic reform back home that's a serious concern with credibility of the whole region all the arab countries and as i said in the beginning early quiet and need a democratic reform and more freedoms and that applies to all the countries that

will require some fast movement on the part of the regime to have an open dialogue with the opposition groups however you cannot have an open dialogue when you have an atmosphere of tension and killing and violence and countries sending in weapons and guns into the country where there are opposition groups just are telling ten minutes past the hour here in moscow this is r.t. and still to come in just a few minutes was a legal scientific research police of russia still have no clue. clue as to why hundreds of human embryos were found dumped in a ravine. now anger has been growing in london and the number of empty seats at olympic events supposedly sold out best occasion is under way into the weight of corporate sponsors are not turning up it's putting a dampener on the high spirits following the breathtaking opening ceremony of the queen was at the heart of the action when she teamed up with double zero seven to make a stunning appearance at the stadium and officially announced the start of the games

but while sixty thousand spectators were enjoying the spectacle a peaceful mass bike ride nearby was cut short by police officers are reportedly using pepper spray as they arrested over one hundred cycling activists when scuffles broke out in the saudi's laura smith reports they are not the only locals who have suffered from restrictions and other olympic side effects. it's been seven years in the making and the greatest show on earth is finally in london but not everyone's please this circus has come to town in fact according to research by currency exchange for travelex londoners fleeing their city in troops 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 around 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 an olympic committees are being privately sold to corporate sponsors it's provoked outrage but not surprised a lot of tickets have gone to not only the corporate sponsors but big corporate. patches 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 karen stratford station there 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 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 home town 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 stall holder daryl that's not easy it's too much for rich we really small businesses we can open an account with huge companies and that's one x. amount of. you know which we're really small business i would love so but. it's created an uneasy relationship between locals and the games with the corporate monster is such that it's given a whole negativity to the games itself which is

a sporting event so lots of local people a bit upset and not particularly positive to the games is really 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 greatest show on earth isn't for everyone while the fat cats sit back. what's the cash raised in the london is the street seized 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. was send an e-mail to one of my good friends in paris saying congratulations. r.t. . you're watching the weekly here on r t thank you for joining us today spain is suffering from an unprecedented double dip recession with no signs the euro zone's

fourth biggest economy is managing to weather the financial storm unemployment figures are new record highs with almost one in every four out of work the international monetary fund has warned that spain needs even more reform despite the fact previous austerity measures have hit the public hard mass protest movement has taken root in the country similar to what we're seeing in greece demonstrations reflecting public anger at the cuts being imposed on them in order to win an e.u. bank rescue this all comes as athens has reportedly agreed on almost all of the austerity demanded so far in order to secure its financial lifeline although pensions and wages are now being targeted to find the final one and a half billion euros of savings financial advisor. believes 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 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 detracts from external investment more but. that means that companies hold back making investment decisions or decisions about the future. is it unfair that the banks are being assisted when the business is not yes it is. even many ways the problem that we have in terms of implementing the full are only calling names and implementing austerity is that there seems to be i'm 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. spain is on.

bangkok will need a bailout and i don't think there's anything that can stop that. the debt crisis is also driving car makers off the road slowing sales of putting the brakes on production lines of some of europe's top car makers with thousands of workers told to just take the highway as aussies are tests are silly reports the economic downturn is not the only thing that's hurting the industry. the anger among workers eight thousand jobs across france will be slashed by their employer p.s.e. fusion 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 trigger 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 their 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 ban 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 then there's

a so-called lost generation of young people many of whom are without problems and they're also seeing a change you want to begin for a clearly getting them are on their own it's out of that was a capitalist system of riches the myth in my generation we've been studying for years. myself i am. a master degree and i cannot find a job of course i cannot buy a house or 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 prisoned with reason alone 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 for their generation a similar vision you might see them. we will start a new bottle with p.s.e.

group because what's happening is a normal i think. to me the route in your evolution we're working on it does or sylvia r.t. paris well it's a good to have you with us here on our team today still ahead for us in this program involuntary confession. well we do report online here about tell you about a private data being posted on the internet ending up in the files of u.s. officials and the bad news is there's no way to stop it. all right while we are coming to life in the heart of moscow and the police probing whether illegal and medical research is behind the shocking discovery of hundreds of human embryos in a forest in central russia and they were found dumped in barrels on monday could have been taken from a local medical university by a former employee but it's not his sean thomas reports some health experts have more extreme theories. 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 at this 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 onto the ground while 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 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 and purpose to create scandal and tracked attention maybe attract attention to the band 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 r straight to the author with update for you now will start out with west african leaders who are dropping a request to the u.n. security council for military intervention in mali and the heads of neighboring states have expressed concern that al qaeda linked militant groups managed to seize control of the country's north during a minute tree with in march an interim president has been sworn in but the

government still hasn't succeeded in gaining control over the occupied territory. a referendum in romania is currently underway on whether to impeach incumbent president. who's accused of executing his authority and meddling in government affairs he has already been suspended by the country's lawmakers but now the move has to be backed by more than half of the country's population polls suggest a process you enjoys the support of only a third of romanians but experts say the referendum will still likely to fail due to the low turnout. the political crisis has put brussels on high alert with e.u. leaders voicing deep concern on the matter. police in tajikistan have reportedly uncovered a potential terrorist plot to blow up in the country's border region with afghanistan . during a major operation to hunt down a former warlord accused of killing a senior security official the crackdown so far claimed the lives of at least

seventeen soldiers and thirty militants and has prompted many of the gunmen to lay down their weapons all of the crossings with afghanistan have been sealed to prevent militants from crossing into the country. as always here are plenty more for you in store on our website. including a match made in space after a failed first attempt. breathless expectation go online to find spectacular footage of the much anticipated docking of the progress of the international space . still stricken by the timeline of the disaster plus the latest updates available. and a bridge too far. drive to get slapped with a. thirty thousand years worth of salary find out how much you have to pay for breaking the bridge.

live from moscow this is the billions of people all around the world use social networks daily to share their lives dreams and secret to the carefully selected number of friends but what little of them know is however careful you are with your privacy settings there will always be more people. watching. reports. in the land of social media users tweet tag friends 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 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 u.s. privacy protection which he says has been carried out by washington for more than a decade it must have been right for. more than a week to. decide to begin. with it's been the spend 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 dad. or you know there is that we see everything. and they. turn the key. but 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 some 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 marina port i.r.t. new york. the latest gadgets in just a few moments here nancy of course with the latest installment of technology update after the headlines in just a sec. well

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