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the latest news on the week's top stories on our t.v. the syrian opposition pleads for heavy weapons from abroad and calls for direct intervention as the battle for the country's largest city continues. saudi arabia is reportedly using violence to force pro-reform protesters from the streets as the wave of discontent grows across the gulf nations. fragile 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. philippic games may have got off to an explosive start but a stockpile of organizers floor without restrictions making many londoners miss out on the sporting extravaganza.

with the stories that made headlines this week you're watching the weekly on our t.v. with me rule reduced to shy in syria the unfolding battle for the commercial capital aleppo was turned into the focal point of sixteen months of conflict government forces are pushing to reclaim the country's largest city from. the rebels who now control nearly half of its neighborhoods three million people live in aleppo now many are fleeing all amid international fears of a looming massacre russia's accused foreign powers are fueling the bloodshed by urging the rebels to fight on against. the political leaders of the insurgency are calling for intervention and shipments of heavy weapons from abroad and revelations in the media this week claim that's already happening a secret base in turkey analyst and consultant christophe horsetail says there's also a growing number of reinforcements coming in from other countries the attack on damascus was pushed back very successfully there are now seeing the house checks 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 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 with a secret service background sponsored by the usa. most members of the largest diaspora in syria iraq they escaped the war at home nine years ago they settled in

syria with new hopes but many are now being forced to flee from violence once again in order to return to their homeland on a boy their grievances if 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 given before they weiland broke out in syria the residents of the neighborhood were all well familiar with the ugly realities of war or the past decade this area has become home thousands of war refugees from somalia afghanistan pakistan but the largest community here iraqis who sought to escape the u.s. wage war in that country and now have to flee 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 a scrambling to leave i don't know how much we're right 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 gangs known many here believe it's fighting alongside the free syrian army. the usa is not an independent nation because its government does not hear what its people are saying because whichever country it invades it destroys america invaded iraq libya. 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 and the for an hour or two that this alone 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 sectarian division most iraqis a shia most travels 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 see. 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 you have girls with their heads covered and girls with their heads uncovered you have christians sunni's and shiites and 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 some of our t.v. reporting from damascus in syria. still to come for you here in the program on r t catching a glimpse of the killing in syria. actually. it's like you feel you are in the center of stuff tourists flock to the israeli occupied golan heights to get a peek of the deadly action across the border we have those details for you in just

a few minutes. plus police in 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 and discrimination activists say around fourteen demonstrators were injured after officers used tear gas and live ammunition a number of them were 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 have been venting their anger at the sunni role family and massive arrests of political activists silencing the opposition has also been taking place in the united arab emirates and buck grain rallies were banned after more than a year of clashes activist hussain abdullah says the events in bahrain and saudi arabia show that the west uses the term democracy only when he refers to nations

that are not it's. the uprising in bahrain has shown. a clear the us foreign policy toward the country is going through the arab spring or the democracy movement while they support. some countries. like syria. libya because we don't you know this is not like. the best for the team just use the democracy here i want the people in bahrain and people so maybe and people in yemen calling basically for the same rights self-determination. free and fair elections but we don't see the same kind of forceful clear foreign policy toward those countries especially behaving so that it be 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 the genes

that have been sort of allied to the united states were supporting the government that is oppressing them. this is arts he the mother of wiki leaks founder julian assange has in ecuador the country's leaders to grant her son political asylum the whistleblower has been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for the past six weeks seeking to avoid extradition to sweden where is accused of sex crimes and science fairs after being sent to stockholm he could end up in america being charged with espionage for this week ecuador offered swedish authorities the chance to question the wiki leaks chief and its embassy his legal adviser says the possibility does provide some hope for the whistleblower. it's positive because julian a sound 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 in my view with 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 for almost two years which is to be questioned in london about these allegations would be a major step our hope is that when you get an opportunity under the circumstances that sweden westerns him that he would be exonerated of these allegations and that would be the end or he should be or 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 you know. what if it were not under ground prison and who would like bradley manning was treated the man who allegedly got access to those obviously very worried about that situation and very angry at the united states is wanting to suppress probably

one of the major troops in the world today but the top stories of the weekend off today this is the weekly on r t being growing in london the number of vast number of empty seats at olympic events that were supposed to be sold out row upon row of seats are given to corporate sponsors have gone unfilled that's why the fact that many ordinary punters won't even able to get remotely decent tickets it's putting a damper 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 term rather shocking appearance when she officially started the games but while the 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 cycling activists when scuffles broke out and as aussies laura smith reports they're not the only locals who have suffered from restrictions on lympics side effects. it's been seven years in the

making and the greatest show on earth is finally in london but no everyone please this has come to town in fact according to research by currency exchange for travelex londoners fleeing the city. people are saying specifically that they want to avoid the lympics you know they look at the streets and they look at the congestion and they look at the charges that 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. fair 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 us tickets have gone to not only

the corporate sponsors but big corporate. backers 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 carry a strap 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 sensa it's full of independent traders who have come up against the big corporate sponsors unlike rich corporates local stallholders aren't allowed to capitalize on this world class event in their hometown edict from the brand police mean they can't even use words like a limp 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 the cans was huge companies and that's one x. amount of. you know which we're very small businesses i would love so but. it's created an uneasy relationship between locals and the games side where the corporate monster is such that it's negativity to the games itself which is just so lots of local people a bit upset and not so. the positive to look a bit is really the start 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 greatest isn't for everyone while the fat

cats sit back and watch the limpid cash raised in the london as the street things 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 email to one of my good friends in paris saying congratulations no it's me policy. now a quarter past the hour moscow time 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 have reached 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 that previous austerity measures have hit the public sector very hard and mass protest movement has taken root in the country similar to what we've seen in greece demonstrations reflecting public

anger at the cuts being imposed on them in order to win an e.u. bank rescue this comes as athens has a portaloo agreed on almost all of the austerity demanded so far in order to secure its own 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 imploded and you've got very very high levels of unemployment and people will take their anger out on the street. 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 and 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. our only colonies and implementing austerity is that it seems to me i'm equal balance in the economy when banks have been helped massively but the rest of the economy. isn't to some extent things than the market has already priced in but that spain is on. bangkok will need a bailout and i don't think there's anything that can stop that. you're watching r t a lot from moscow are still ahead of you in this program voluntary confession it's more of more than just invasion of privacy it's about destroying the concept of privacy online we report on how private data posted online ends up in the files of u.s. officials and the bad news is no way of stopping.

a referendum in romania currently underway or whether to impeach president try on a cesspool it's accused of exceeding his authority by lawmakers have already voted for him to step down but now the people have to back the move polls suggest support is shrinking but the referendum still might fail due to low turnout with more on the crisis from. our city. asking 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 basically more than nine million will have to vote in order for the results to be valid the challenger of school is the center left politician and current prime minister of romania victor ponta now he is also head to be a social liberals which makes up majority of the parliament and they have drawn large criticism especially from the us and the e.u.

as well as many rights were asked to the process of this whole impeachment execution the speed with which it had happened germany especially concerned saying we will watch what proceeds from now from here on that now as far as europe is concerned the political stability in romania is crucial as its membership into the issue and get a free movement area is up for review in september and sort of these leaders have made it clear that they will indeed walk its membership if the country does not find a solution to the political stalemate that it is and also it is still relying on the financial aid from the i.m.f. and the e.u. 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 it remain you. reporting right there let's go to the for you now some other global news in brief

starting 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 have expressed concern that al qaeda linked militant groups have managed to control of the country's north during a military coup in march an interim president was sworn in but the government still hasn't succeeded in gaining control over the occupied territory. surrounded the parliament in tokyo. an end to the use of nuclear power the protestors are eyeing get a government which saw two reactors switched back on earlier this month the authorities had promised an end to atomic power following the meltdown at the fukushima plant last year caused by the earthquake and tsunami the government claims it had no choice but to restart the plant was an energy short for. police in tajikistan have reportedly uncovered a potential terrorist plot to blow up a dam in the country's border region with afghanistan came to light during

a major operation to hunt down a former warlord accused of killing a senior security official the crackdown and claimed the lives of at least seventeen soldiers and thirty militants and has prompted many of the government to lay down their weapons all of touchy stands border crossings with afghanistan have been sealed to prevent militants from crossing into the country. the conflict wary israel is on increased over a possible spillover of the violence in syria the israeli occupied golan heights just across the border from the fighting but amid the fears they there are also those who are cashing in with tour guides bringing visitors are flocking to get a memorable shot from a safe distance. reports. up close and personal you don't get. this is the israeli syrian border and it's now the latest israeli tryst attraction feels good to be able to get close with

a little bit then 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 voices. of syrians killing each other from a safe vantage point the only hard way they carry. and cameras rely. our armed forces that. of the situation and take all the precautions and so i feel i feel a very safe use he bought 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 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 i know it might not be pleasant 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 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 engine spooling here we are one kilometer from the border.