the latest news on the week's top stories on the syrian opposition pleads for heavy weapons from abroad and calls for direct intervention all of this as the battle for the country's largest city continues. saudi arabia reportedly using violence to force program form protestors off the streets as the wave of discontent escalates across the gulf nation. financial rain clouds gather again over spain as the country struggles with a double dip recession with record high unemployment and warnings from the i.m.f. that madrid needs even more cuts. games may have got off to an explosive start but a stockpile of organizers floors and restrictions are making many londoners miss

out on the sporting extra some. of the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the week with me will receive. in syria the unfolding battle for the commercial capital aleppo has 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 nearly well let us report nearly half of all of its neighborhoods three million people live in aleppo many though are now flee international fears of a looming massacre russia's accused foreign powers of fueling the bloodshed by urging the rebels to fight on against assad the political leaders of the insurgency are calling for intervention and shipments of heavy weapons from. and revelations

in the media this week claim that's already happening a secret base in turkey analyst and consultant christoph horsetail says there's also a growing number of reinforcements coming in from other countries. the attack on damascus was pushed back very successfully then now seeing the house chick's in the massacres 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 for the survival of the government and as for now i'm quite confident the pushing back of the insurgents come terrorists will be successful but 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 with a secret service background sponsored by the usa. now most members of the largest diaspora in syria iraq is they escaped the war at home nine years ago they settled in this country with new hopes but many are now being forced to flee from violence and once again in order to get back to socks on a boy their grievances 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 their 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 after several dozen residents of this area were shot or be had it in the past two weeks many a 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 what. the residents accuse the rebels of terrorizing their community extorting money or kidnapping for ransom while there are regions of the gangs known many here believe it's al qaida 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 to invades it destroys america invaded iraq libya egypt and and yemen. not brought peace to any of them now after nine years iraq still can't produce enough electricity for a whole day and meet 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 the suicide bombing that is now closed some believe the attacks against iraqis in syria may also be driven by sick tearin division most iraqis most troubles a sunni a u.s. based shia group has just published a statement calling on the united nations to intervene according to our sources and say. 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 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 next on the boycott r.t. reporting from damascus in syria. we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow and still to come in the program catching

a glimpse of the killing in syria. that actually occupies the media like you for your. tourists flock to be as ready occupied golan heights to get a peek of the deadly action across the border those details coming your way in just a few minutes. plus police in the central russia still have no clue as to why hundreds of human embryos were found dumped in a forest ravine earlier this week. on friday saudi arabia unleashed its police on protesters who had been demanding reforms and an end to discrimination activists say around fourteen demonstrators were injured after officers used tear gas and live ammunition a number of them also detained this month the saudi government had to deploy troops to the country's oil rich eastern province mostly populated by shia muslims they've been venting their anger at the sunni royal family and that massive arrests of political activists silencing the opposition has also been taking place in the

united arab emirates and rain where rallies were banned off to more than a year of clashes but is geo political analyst eric draitser explains the actions of the gulf states will not attract criticism from the west. 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. oppression can very easily escalate into violence we saw a similar situation in bahrain where the the royal family essentially carries out

what 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 it's the pot calling the kettle black the united states and the western powers and their proxies in the middle east are 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 you're watching on t.v. the mother of wiki leaks founder julian assange just currently in. the country's leaders to grand political asylum the whistleblower has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london now for six weeks seeking to avoid extradition to sweden or is accused of sex crimes and being sent to stalk him he could end up

being sent to america and facing charges of espionage all over this week ecuador offered swedish authorities the chance to question the wiki leaks chief in its embassy his legal adviser songes advise about is says the possibility provides some hope for the whistleblower. it's positive because. julian assange made a choice not to go to sweden because he knew in sweden he would be put in prison. not given bail and that it was more likely than not in fact my view was that american lawyer for julian someone that it was almost one hundred percent that he was going to be indicted and extradited to the united states never getting out of it so the fact that he might be able to do what he has been demanding 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 under the circumstances that sweden westerns him that he would be exonerated of these

allegations and that would be the end he should be a one first of all the united states is going in that you know i'm a man who should be protected by our constitution and the first amendment why if united states gets its hands on would 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 that's a good to have you with us on the program today though has been growing in london of the number of empty seats at olympic events supposedly sold out a row off to a row of seats given to corporate sponsors have gone unfilled despite the fact that many ordinary punters one even remotely able to get tickets it's putting a bit of a damper on the high spirits following the breathtaking opening ceremony of the

queen though she was at the heart of the action when she teamed up with double dose seven to make a stunning of parents and officially opened the games that's the queen. sixty thousand spectators were enjoying the spectacle a peaceful mass bike ride nearby was cut short by police officers reportedly used pepper spray as they arrested over one hundred cyclists when. scuffles broke out but artie's laura smith reports they're not the only locals who have suffered from restrictions and lympics 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 has come to town in fact according to research by currency exchange for travelex londoners are fleeing their city in droves people are saying specifically that they want to avoid the lympics you know they look at the streets and they look at the congestion and they look at the charges that particular on the london area so they

have taken the decision to go 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 foreign elim pick 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 hospitality packages in general is an inevitable result of the way the game 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 here in stratford station they can be no doubt what's going on the whole place is branded london twenty twelve i'm also surrounded by massive billboards on every building there's an advertisement for one

of the main corporate sponsors b.m.w. lloyds t.s.b. but over here is the stratford that always was structured center it's full of independent traders who've come up against the big corporate sponsors unlike rich corporates local stallholders aren't allowed to. capitalize on this world class event in their hometown edict from the brand police mean they can't even use words like a limp pick 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 it's too much for rich we really small businesses we call open accounts with huge companies and that's one x. amount of. you know it's a 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 keeping

the negativity to the games itself which is just what people are upset and not particularly positive to book a is really see structure. 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 isn't for everyone while the fat cats sit back and watch the limpid 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. was send an e-mail to one of my good friends in paris and congratulations lloris me r.t. . while the no time for the president to check in with the force to find out how

your families are doing right now you know day two was the update yeah it's otherwise pretty much the same as yesterday team china rory doing everything they need to so far they're looking very very good because they have double as many gold medals any body else the ten meter on their way but i tell you what it's not all. doom and gloom russia have some gold medal chances coming up later in the day we've got a busy old team in london that stayed away from the beer so far they're sending us a lot of stuff so we're going to get through it and keep you up to date in around twenty minutes time sports today is coming up fast. so it will be seeing you know very soon here in our two spain is suffering from an unprecedented double dip recession with no signs that the euro zone's fourth biggest economy is managing to weather the financial storm unemployment figures have now reached new record highs with almost one in every four out of the international monetary fund has warned

that spain needs even more reform despite the fact that previous austerity measures have hit the public very hard and mass protest movement has taken root in the country similar to what we're seeing in greece with demonstrations reflecting public anger at the cuts being imposed on them in order to win an e.u. bank rescue but this comes as a athens has reportedly agreed on almost all of the austerity demanded so far in order to secure its financial lifeline for the 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 ultimately ruining the prospects for every day recovery. situation is deteriorating they have this massive property bubble which is biased. massive amount of austerity measures the whole economy has imploded and you've got very very high levels of unemployment and people take their anger out on the street.

yes because the civil unrest the detraction external investment but. that means that companies hold back making investment decisions and decisions about the future. is it unfair that the banks are being assisted when other businesses. i'm not yes it is. even many ways the problem that we have in terms of implementing. our own economies and implementing austerity is that there seems to be an equal balance in the economy where banks have been helped massively but the rest of the economy. isn't to some extent as things stand the market has already priced in but that spain is all. bangkok will need a bailout and i don't think there's anything that can stop that. nearly twenty

minutes past the hour here in moscow this is artsy police probing whether illegal in medical research is behind the shocking discovery of hundreds of human embryos in a forest and central russia they were found dumped and barrels on monday and could have been taken from a local medical university by a former employee but as aussies 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 well 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 tag 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 floor inspecting the scene we found a total of four barrels fifty to seventy liters each filled with human fetuses the 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 he just says could have been productive cloning despite its universal ban and that's why they were thrown out like that these were not future human beings but half human half artificial creatures it's a very daring theory the fetus's could have been thrown out in purpose to create scandal and tracked attention maybe attract attention to the ban on cloning humans or to abortions to shock people with the sight of these fetuses but skeptics say this scenario is unlikely considering the fetuses were found in formaldehyde rendering them useless for this type of research now the health ministry has requested information from all clinics within one hundred kilometer radius hoping to find answers to a story that has left a community perplexed sean thomas r.t.

. a referendum and it remains currently under way on to weather impeach president try and assess you accuse of exceeding his authority as lawmakers have already voted for him to step down but now the people have to back the move the polls suggest a bus as soon as a supporter is shrinking but the referendum still might fail due to low turnout with more on the crisis and book arrest azziz tester asta. asked his voters not to go out and vote into this referendum and abstain so was not to make the fifty percent of the total electorate required to make this referendum valid basically more than nine million will have to vote in order for the results to be valid the challenger who is the center left politician and current prime minister of romania. and he is also head to be a social liberals which makes up a dorothy of the parliament and the they have drawn large criticism especially from

the us as well as many rights groups to the process of this whole impeachment execution the speed with which it had happened germany especially concerned saying we will watch what proceed from here on that now as far as europe is concerned political stability is crucial as its membership into the get a free movement area is up for review in september and sort of these have made it clear that they will indeed block its membership if the country does not find a solution to the political stalemate. and also it is still relying on the national . again this comes of course with strings attached and experts say that regardless of what the outcome of today is the continuation of political confrontation and this battle between the center left and center right will continue in romania. he says rosalee reporting straight into the r.t. world up there we go some other international news in brief will start with west

african leaders who are drafting a request to the u.n. security council for military intervention in mali the heads of neighboring states of expressed concern al qaeda linked militants managed to seize control of the country's north during a military coup in march an interim president has been sworn in but the government still hasn't succeeded in gaining control over the occupied territory. thousands have surrounded the parliament in tokyo demanding an end to the use of nuclear power the protesters are angered at a government u. turn which saw two reactors switched back on earlier this month your thought is had promised an end to atomic power following the meltdown at the fukushima plant last year of course caused by the earthquake and tsunami the government claims it had no choice to restart the plant says there was an energy shortfall. police in tajikistan have reportedly uncovered a potential terrorist plot to blow up a dam in the country's border region with afghanistan it came to light during

a major operation to hunt down a formal warlord accused of killing a senior security official the crackdown is so far claimed the lives of at least seventeen soldiers and thirty militants and has prompted many other gunmen to lay down their arms all of tajikistan's border crossings with afghanistan have been sealed to prevent militants from crossing into the country and. now conflict weary israel is on increased alert over a possible spillover of the violence in syria the israeli occupied golan heights is just across the border from the fighting but amid the fears there are also those who are cashing in with two guys bringing visitors flocking to get a memorable shot from a safe distance artie's paulus lear investigates. up close and personal you don't get better ringside seats in this this is the israeli syrian border and it's now also the latest israeli tourists 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 a 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 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 in them so i feel i feel a very safe use he bought his family to see where he fought against the syrians nearly fifty years ago the border areas which could erupt again as the free syrian army takes on assad forces near israel but for now it's good business and tour guides are making a killing it's really something that you want to see some oh i know each war in

order might not be pleasant but there is an attraction to see the fair that actually occupies the media now it's like you feel you are in the center of stuff the fad 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 of spalling here we are one kilometer from the border. couldn't wait to get into the 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 told me that they leave bury these are the people and that's why we went. some two groups are now thinking of including the syrian unrest on their list of must see excursions they maybe day trips now but disasters on the horizon should the fighting get closer and tell of if choose to get involved. on these raids

syrian border. as always oh we have plenty more still fluid on t.v. dot com including match made in space after a failed first attempt and days of breathless expectation you can go online to find spectacular footage of the much anticipated docking of the progress more jewel of the international space station. and ruptures of siberia is still stricken by wildfires the timeline of the disaster plus the latest updates available for you on our website. and a bridge too far chinese truck driver gets slapped with a whopping fine equals about thirty thousand years worth of his salary online how he intends to pay him back.

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