the u.n. envoy to syria says he's quitting with compu and none blaming the international community's failure to unite to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. while foreign media coverage of the conflict is criticized as is consistent by some syrians as rebel atrocities go down tree and revenge and. a trial of members of a woman some punk band or an anti person stunt in moscow's main also looks cathedral continues but the contrasts and bring in sharp divisions of the cold case that everyone seems to have an opinion on both here in russia and to broaden the latest to weigh in with their view has been president vladimir putin join me in a few moments for all the latest on this ongoing case.

this is all c. coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the u.n. and the arab league are looking for a new joint envoy to syria after kofi annan said he'll step down at the end of the month the diplomat blamed a lot of consensus at the u.n. for the shortcomings of his peace plan for syria where violence is escalating and the citric in a has the latest from new york or us. this was a job that most called a diplomatic mission impossible from the get go firstly of course because of the intricacies of the conflict on the ground but also because of the conflicting positions of the key players at the united nations security council and now with one month to go before. the job is officially over we're already seeing reactions from the international community that some could call predictable russia for one has said that the resignation is regrettable other countries have said this as well

box we are seeing many countries in the west already back to singing the old tune of regime change something that russia and china have vetoed repeatedly at the united nations security council we're hearing the united states begin the finger pointing again saying that the resignation is actually a sign and underlines russia's and china's failure in the syrian process the west overall is back to calling for assad to step down a stance that was taken off the kofi anon six steps peace plan russia never supported regime change in syria it reiterates that the gist of the problem remains the same that the key players are continuing to separate words from deeds because on paper we're seeing seemingly the international community calling for peace talks and for a peaceful resolution to the crisis yet that is not so much the case in reality take a listen to those who insist that. we should be terminated they do not want this do

not want this objective information and they have some other things in mind rather than stopping the weapons and the political accommodation russia has also said that if the international community is interested in a peaceful process in syria you one observers are very useful on the ground but we did hear from the french ambassador who is currently holding the rotating presidency of the security council that the you want to serve his mission will and on august nineteenth and for now with one month to go kofi annan. said to leave behind his six steps peace plan which for now has proven to be ineffective the peace plan called of course for a transitional government to be formed in syria including both sides of the conflict this of course has not been the case we do know that the united nations security council and the united nations general assembly will be focusing on the syrian crisis for the rest of the week and we know that bond human is currently in talks with the arab league to determine kofi annan successor and the ongoing battle

for syria's largest city is apparently about to get even more in turns according to u.n. officials aleppo has seen heavy fighting between government and rebel forces over the last week but signs of pulling fresh reinforcements to the front line in the struggle to seize their levels are reportedly receiving a growing slower weapons from neighboring turkey through a secret transit hub revelations in the us media claim the white house has authorized more cover support for our forces despite their links to al qaida and author and historian gerald who says america is repeating fast past mistakes by stoking extremism in syria. it's well known that washington basically has perfected the idea of a truck for policy that is to say on the one hand you talk in smile on the other hand and mike in the back that's basically what's happening in syria all of this blather about negotiations with the regime is no more than that either they would

like to see regime change although as usual i don't think washington has caught up with the consequences that is to say that there is a real danger that al-qaeda like forces will be coming to power sooner rather than later end of the house and then washington will be faced with a replay of what if helped engineer in afghanistan where it helped engineer the coming to power of the taliban which opened the door again in florida there which led to the tragedy of september eleventh two thousand and one and on the way later this hour here in our coverage uncovered to find out why some syrians have slammed a mainstream western media reports from the conflict. also later this hour spanish police have arrested three suspected al qaeda operatives believed the links to terrorism bombers are. slate's ever before they defense in the trial of members of the crissy riot female punk group is due to present its

side of an arm to protest stunt in their capitals main cathedral in february charged with him again is motivated by really just hatred or instead the three accused could face up to seven years jail if convicted on of the hostages held. this all goes back to the incident it took place in moscow's main cathedral in february of this year when the punk rock collective known as pussy riot performed what they called a punk rock prayer now that provoked a pretty harsh reaction pretty extreme reaction from from some elements here in the country really of a polarizing incident this happened in one of the most religious sites in the country of course now the trial of these three women who are accused of being part of that group is in day five at the moment we're going to hear from the defense later on as they put forward their case we're also hearing that there is a possibility that we could hear a verdict alyssa later on that's a slim chance but if they are convicted these three women are being charged with

hooliganism they could face up to seven years in prison on one side you really have groups that are related or close to the old church who have been damning and their criticism of pussy riot and of these three particular with an accusing them of blasphemy and calling for the stiffest punishments that are available to be brought down upon them however there are others that are saying that these women have been unfairly treated that they were held in prison for they are awaiting trial for far too long there also they are saying that they are an artistic right to be able to to perform in the way in which they did now it's not just here in russia that we've heard the sentiments being echoed there's a lot of support from the music industry as a whole both here in russia broad artists like staying on to me kate is from the red hot chili peppers was playing in a performance in moscow wearing a pussy riot t. shirts are the latest to weigh in with his opinion is being president vladimir putin no he said although what happened in the church was wrong in his opinion that

these three women shouldn't be judged too harshly just based on the circumstances regarding where this incident took place. i hope the court truth of justice. if the band let's say defiled a sacred place in israel they would have to cope with some tough guys there and would face difficulties when attempting to leave the country or to for example they went to the caucuses and defaced a muslim shrine security wouldn't have enough time to protect them from public anger nevertheless i don't think we should judge them too strictly and i hope they've made some important conclusions themselves anyway the final decision rests with the court. all day five of the trial is currently underway they'll be bringing you live reports here from outside the courtroom as soon as we get all the latest news. theme of the we can leagues julian assange she is loving ecuador to grant him asylum says she fears her son could face execution if his extradited to the united

states christina songs from as ecuador's lead to only one state is considering whether to grant political asylum to the whistleblower president congrats that the decision won't be influenced by pressure from any country the former computer hacker who has been holed up in ecuador's embassy in london for over six weeks now and is wanted in sweden of a sex crime allegations believes they're just a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. to face trial over a massive leak of secret files and later on in our exclusive interview his mother cristina cyrus tells all see that she is proud of her son and supports him his son will expect. to have one is the mother of course i don't know. but as a citizen i believe this to go with he lives. to. the world about the abuses of the corruption to keep the story. of torture. and all the

involved big financial institutions of course. my son. let's now talk some more international news stories making headlines around the world security forces in bahrain has fired tear gas and stun grenades as hundreds of protesters attempted to block a key highway late on thursday is the latest in a series of violent clashes between riot police and prove. in the gulf kingdom the protest movement against the ruling regime began nearly eighteen months ago since one at least fifty have been killed and schools arrested. at least one soldier is thought to have been killed and ten more wounded in a kurdish rebel type of oneness while southeast gunmen have tox a military outpost late on thursday. as troops were breaking their ramadan fast sundown there's been a recent upsurge in violence from rebel groups who want autonomy for turkey's

kurdish dominated southwest growth is the conflict in neighboring syria might inspire an uprising. to brazil now where country's supreme court has started the trial of thirty eight politicians in order to. allow scandal the defendants are accused of using public funds to pay lawmakers monthly bribes for their support during the first government of president alluded to silver in two thousand and five but they deny the allegations the trial is expected to last a month and could tarnish the image of ex-president cluedo with some defendants in high positions in his work as. and to end just a few minutes here and i'll see they used to rule the roost but now the tables have . white south africans complained they've become frequent the victims of racial decent and want to take decades out of the country all the time.

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thank you welcome back this is to syria again now and the information wall surrounding the conflict is in full swing western media outlets are racing to blame damascus for most of the killing while turning a blind eye to rebel atrocities and this bias has infuriated some syrians as x. one point cover ports i shudder i'm not pursuing a story joining the camp when a japanese journalist travelling with syrian rebels converted to islam it wasn't just his old name he abandoned. cover for those around him he still being someone who reports in the conflict he became one of their own with his camera hanging in place of a rifle. while religious conversion of journalist is rare on the syrian front lines becoming political disciples of one side the rebels is

almost the norm for many reporting to the world in the past week of coverage c.n.n. has aired five packages from the syrian frontlines all detailing the plight of those fighting the government and while the regime is always pinned down towards use of force against the militants is a government monster killings by the rebels barely get a mansion what happened to the go you capture this room he died the rebel commander says god willing he went to hell and usually open and talkative syrians are now afraid of cameras those who agree to be interviewed often ask for their faces or names not to be shown for fear of reprisals. satellite dishes are household commodity syrians do watch western coverage of the conflict and many feel that their concerns their fears their losses are intentionally glossed over. to the feelings of what was you know what this is not first time i've been able to come to syria you know you might want to before you did and you don't have

a visa. we've been waiting for these you know sort of everybody can come to syria and get these are the usual claim that the syrian government doesn't love western reporters into the country is not accurate currently there are around eighty foreign media outlets accredited in syria a sizeable number of them european or american but there dispatches are not always welcomed at home christiane sun is an independent belgian writer. and you want to bring a certain about syria. if. the use of force or selective editing is hardly a new invention the war wars has long become a cliche but in syria one sided coverage keeps the war going and shooting for t.v. really kills. journalism schools no longer teach their students to be objective it's considered impossible rob they're told to strive for balance and integrity and

to put humanistic values above the way to go but syria is once again a special case in this bloody conflict western media rarely holds for the good boy political dialogue rather it's for arming the rebels and for the war also known as freedom to go on its own about the artsy reporting from syria. we are closely monitoring the situation in syria on our website where the latest news and in-depth analysis is available twenty four seven including a report on the latest atrocity in aleppo that sparked a massive indignation across the globe towards the free syrian army. plus a u.s. court has declares the use of drones in american skies completely legal playing down the details of a new big brother scenario that's also your call. spanish

authorities claim to have completed a major operation against al qaida they've seized three suspects in the south of the country who are being questioned over the planning of a tux in europe including one on a joint u.s. punish naval base two of them are now being investigated for links to terror plots in russia's restive republic of chechnya i'll choose to report. the police in spain have arrested three suspected members who they say had amassed explosives and were plotting attacks in europe that's according to the spanish interior ministry of the also said they found enough explosives to quote destroy a whole bus and they also said that these three men had received training in camps in places like afghanistan and pakistan now one of the men was arrested on his own they say that he is from turkey and that he's considered the facilitator in this group of the two other men were arrested together while they were planning to make

their way to a friend of these two men were said to have lived in chechnya and as we know what is part of russia's ball of how we should have been north caucuses which over the years have see the waves of violent attacks now well cording to officials these attacks have had had the links to. the men would masterminded them and also received training in places like afghanistan and pakistan now as far as europe is concerned and they've been on high alert for some time now ever since the attacks the nine eleven attacks and the united states spain in particular has arrested dozens of suspected al qaida members over the years and even more so after the two thousand and four train bombing in madrid now they say that these three men be arrested had been under monitoring a by the authorities for some time now and we can see that and we can expect that authorities here in europe will definitely be in a higher alert after the arrests that were made today. the discrimination of the apartheid in south africa has come to an end but now two decades after the

country's long sold basile for human rights finished is the whites who feel that a second class citizens policy and looks into that. once the color of all to start and skin was the key to the good life here and now it is merely part of another forgotten face of the new south africa white homeless and unemployed. god. alters one of a growing number of concepts africans living a hop skip and a jump from sleeping on the streets who worldly positions amount to a bed and some clothes the rest are handouts from charities and churches sometimes she goes without food for days. always plays as well as the girl. stuff like there. is in the place for words when south africa held its first democratic elections eighteen years ago it marked the end of apostates separation between whites and blacks but was once it was black people in this

country who were discriminated against today it's white south africans performing through the cracks in the days of apartheid impoverished white afrikaners were cradled by the state the national party came to power in one nine hundred forty eight on a wave of africana nationalism one of its election promises was to guarantee afrikaans beacon south africans employment subsidized housing education jobs and state benefits it left the black population out in the cold there used to be a big clause created by the system in south africa and that created in the since sorry fire even for people since one thousand nine hundred four the new government has carried out policies aimed at favoring black employees in a bid to do away with the imbalance of the past what this means is that white people are often overlooked when applying for jobs college bursaries and public positions in this brave but often unsettling new south africa there are many who

feel washed up and unwanted forty year old irene funny has lived here with her husband and four children for six years she suffers from the pain of writers which makes it difficult for her to walk she calls the government's well meaning policies little short of reverse racism and many many many many. grandfathers and grandmothers was against black people and i was staying in shirts like us and they were staying in houses and got everything and now it's out then we staying in chats and. this abandoned caravan park is home for now it lends those on the fringes of society a place to sleep but even. this shaky safe haven is under threat the owners of this land are fighting in court to move off the people people as they see it's got nothing nothing nothing to work then go to a place to go they've got nothing left and that's why they don't yet fifty million people live in south africa one in nine is white and very many of them are

struggling try telling that to the millions of black south africans living in grinding poverty but for people like al to find start and it is a depressing come down all she can see in the land of her birth is a door slamming in her face forever i don't know what is going to happen to my little girl's. price anymore except the hope that one day a door will open instead of. policy r.t. top south africa. traders are rushing to their facebook accounts daniel is here with the business so why is that daniel tell us not well fifty billion dollars has been wiped of the value of facebook shares since their embarrassing listing last may the firm low earnings estimates from many ordinary people who love the site so much they bought shares for the first time then on its first day on the nasdaq a malfunction stock trading three top executives have now left the company and the

sister of co-founder mogs now works for bitter rival google. lympics organizers are feeling the heat for vast cost overruns is fueling further resentment among taxpayers of the news the host countries recession has deepened ortiz laura smith has the story. there's no doubt the lympics have been more expensive than it was first thought even officially the budget quadrupled and some reports say it's increased by as much as ten times from three point eight billion dollars to thirty eight billion and where has that money gone one point six billion on security versus dogs but much of it is going into building the olympic park including the eight hundred fifty million dollars stadium itself the aquatic center at four hundred twenty six million three hundred and sixty six million dollars. and that's where the word legacy comes in where the government hopes the billions spent will

carry on paying dividends off to the athletes have gone home and the stadium itself is currently a worrying elephant it's been offered to a number of london football clubs none of whom want to take his own but the olympic park will become new housing parkland and the community health center in what used to be a depressed rundown area according to experts it's this current of legacy planning that separates an olympic host city that profit from one that loses and there are many cities that have lived to regret its hosting the olympics athens built grandiose spend years up to twenty one of which now empty and falling down much like its economy as a whole are you seeing spent an undisclosed amount of money hosting but the famous bird's nest stadium now lies under used much planning has gone into making sure london's investment doesn't suffer the same fate but nothing is certain. a new

report finds courcelles in europe slowed significantly this year and for all the worst it's more controls to roll should accelerate to fourteen percent as the economy continues to outperform while the country's euro's gaining a bit to the green but this is mixed in china. fed up with the returns he gets from u.s. government that the u.s. economy is in such bad shape buells also cool to new bones and the historic lows less than two percent beijing's knowing more attractive markets for its three trillion dollar national reserve fund with australia being mentioned as a likely target very juicy returns promise for investing no emotion infrastructure renaissance money just pumping money into toll roads hospitals and airports will bring over twenty percent annual return something most investors can only dream about in the current economic turmoil. but the businessmen who raise g.d.p. from four to predicted six percent by buying into those projects up to the year

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