free bird video for your media project a free meal gondar t. dot com. the un envoy to syria also says he's quitting with kofi annan blaming the international community's failure to night to find a peaceful solution to the crisis. while foreign media coverage of the conflict just criticized as inconsistent by some syrians as rebel atrocities go largely on reported. the trial of members of a woman's punk band over an anti putin stunt and moscow's main orthodox cathedral continues with the controversy bringing sharp divisions but the cold case that everyone seems to have an opinion on both deal with russia to broaden the latest to weigh in with their view has been president glad to be of good join me in a few moments for all the latest on this ongoing face.

and welcome to our t.v. this friday i'm karen taraji it's three o'clock here in moscow and we go to our top story in syria the u.n. and the arab league are looking for a new a joint envoy to syria after kofi annan said he'll step down at the end of the month the diplomat blamed a lack of consensus at the u.n. for the shortcomings of his peace plan for syria where the violence is escalating and i started going to has the latest from new york. 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 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. 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 violence and the political accommodation russia has also said that if the international community is interested in a peaceful process in syria you one observer is 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 the one of the servers 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 transition 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 bunky moon is currently in talks

with the arab league to determine kofi annan successor several large explosions have been heard in and around the syrian capital damascus activists claim a palestinian refugee camp was shelled killing twenty one people and the ongoing battle for the city of aleppo is apparently about to get even more intense according to u.n. officials aleppo has seen heavy fighting between government as rebel forces over the last week rebels are reportedly receiving a growing flow of weapons from neighboring turkey and its gulf allies britain has also pledged more material backing for the insurgency and revelations in the us media claim the white house has authorized further covert support for anti assad forces despite their links to al qaeda author and historian gerald horne it says america is repeating past mistakes by stoking extremism in syria. it's well known washington basically has perfected the idea of the cheap tricks in policy

that is to say on the one hand you can smile when the other hand. in the back that's basically what's happening in syria all this blather of belt 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 what the consequences there is to say that there is a real danger that al-qaeda like forces will be coming to power sooner rather than later in the in the in washington would be this with a replay of what if help you. engineer you know. where to engineer the coming to power of the taliban which opened the door to gain influence there which led to the tragedy of september eleventh you know what the way later this hour coverage on covered find out why some syrians have slammed into mainstream western media reports from the conflict zone. and spanish authorities questioned three suspected

al qaeda operatives of her body parts in europe and links to chechen terrorists. the defense in the trial are members of the pussy riot female punk group is due to present its side for an anti putin stunt in the capital's main cathedral in february charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred or hostility the three accused could face up to seven years trailer convicted artist peter oliver has the details listen all goes back to the incident that 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 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 a little 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 all the docs church who have been damning in 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 they're also saying that they are an artistic right to be able to to perform in the way in which they did know 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 under a broad artist like sting and to me kid is from the red hot chili peppers was playing a performance in moscow wearing a pussy riot t. shirts are the latest to weigh in with his opinion as being president vladimir putin 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. but i hope the court will rule with a justice isn't if the bonds let's say defiled a sacred place in israel they would have to cope with some tough guys there and would face difficulties from attempting to leave the country or to for example they went to the caucuses on the feast 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 on them 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 and i'll be

bringing you live reports here from outside the courtroom as soon as we get all the latest news. the mother of wiki leaks editor joins us launch who's lobbying ecuador to grant him asylum says she fears her son could face execution if he's extradited to the united states christine is solved doors leader all of one's day who's considering whether to grant political asylum to the little glow or president that decision won't be influenced by pressure from any country a former computer hacker has been holed up in ecuador zone the sea in london for over six weeks now he's wanted in sweden over sex crime allegations but believes there are just a pretext to hand him over to the new class to face trial over a massive leak of secret files and later on in our exclusive interview his mother cristina songe tells r.t. that she's proud of her son and fully supports here's some of what to expect.

to have one is the mother of course i don't know. but is this is this is. this because we keep these. students who are going to. keep the school. and who were involved big financial institutions of course these guys. all right time now for some international news in brief for you this hour security forces in bahrain how fired tear gas and stun grenades hundreds of protesters attempted to block a key hallway of late on thursday it's the latest in a series of violent clashes between riot police prover for mark davis in the gulf kingdom the protest movement against the ruling regime began nearly eighteen months ago since when at least fifty people have been killed and scores of others arrested

. at least one soldier is thought to have been killed and ten more. did in a kurdish rebel attack in turkey's volatile southeast gunmen attacked a military outpost late on thursday as troops were breaking their ramadan fast at sundown it's been a recent upsurge in violence from rebel groups who want to talk to me for turkey's kurdish dominated southeast. fears the conflict in neighboring syria might inspire and uprising by kurds. had to brazil now where the trial of thirty eight politicians accused of bribery has begun all denying using public funds to pay lawmakers monthly kickbacks for their support during the first government of president so about seven years ago the trial is expected to tarnish the former leader's image with some of those accused of holding high positions in his workers' party. and in just a few minutes on r.t.e.

they used to rule the roost but now the tables have turned. white south africans complained they become a frequent victims of racial abuse and inequality two decades after the country overthrew part by. authorities in russia zero as have refused to open a criminal case into last week's discovery of two hundred fifty one fetuses dumped in a forest ravine we get more now on the story from marty's sean thomas which this story shocking russia certainly shows on what could be the reasons behind this decision to refuse to open a criminal case well karen certainly interesting developments here and as you mentioned no criminal investigation into this case of around two hundred fifty fetuses found about seventy kilometers north of you've got to bird in the year olds in the wilderness there in fact police have directed an administrative investigation into the urals medical academy where they have determined that these fetuses that came from in the first place now this is interesting because the car

that was determined to have dumped the fetuses was believed to be registered to the municipal. municipality of the region so that's interesting it did not belong to the actual academy itself now they have one month to conduct this investigation if they do not come up with an answer of who is responsible for this negligence then police have said that they will open up an administrative investigation into the director of the academy himself so very interesting turn of events here let me give you a little bit of a brief history last week around two hundred fifty fetuses were found dumped about seventy kilometers north of the capturing of berg by a man who was looking for would a fisherman and he found these four large barrels closer inspection found that they held these human fetuses all between twenty two and twenty six terms which are late term abortion fetuses so kind of a mystery in terms of where these came from this of course created shock and

scandal not just in russia but around the world as well now the health ministry believes that there was a woman who was responsible for research who was fired in two thousand and eleven might be responsible for these fetuses being found in the woods but the actual academy itself says that they actually have to conduct their investigation before they can make any determined determination into who is responsible now the story certainly many various as to what really might have happened sean can you remind us of the main. certainly what we've heard everything from illegal abortion operation which stands to reason on some levels because all of these fetuses were late term between twenty to twenty six weeks in russia you can only have an abortion up until twelve weeks and passed the twenty week mark you can only have an abortion if it's for medical reasons for the woman involved in the pregnancy so these all are very late term for that there's also some suspect of illegal cloning operations in those accusations came out as well as possible legal or illegal stem cell research people

who are skeptical about those theories say that these fetuses could not have been used for research because they were stored in from. aldehyde which would have rendered them useless for that type of research at this point in time. again it looks like they're not going to try and find out where these fetuses came from or what they were used for because there is no criminal investigation and also of course it doesn't answer the question as to why a car that was responsible for the dumping of the fetuses was registered with the city or the municipality of the region as opposed to the medical academy itself so it looks like we're going to have at least one month to wait before we get any answers in this case all right recent developments that are on thomas thank you. syria again now and the information war 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 pious has and period some syrians as

oksana boyko reports. pursuing a story or joining the camp when a japanese journalist travelling with syrian rebels converted to islam it wasn't just his old name he abandoned. most but for those around him he still being someone who wanted to become politically but he became one of the few camera hanging places when i. was religious conversion of ground is rare on the syrian front lines becoming political disciples on one side the rebels is almost the norm for many reporting to the world in the past weeks of coverage c.n.n. has aired five exactly just from the syrian frontlines people all detailing the fighting began on monday and while the regime was always pinned down to avoid use of force against the militants this is a government monster killings by the rebels barely get a mention what happened to the go you capture this room he died the rebel commander

says god willing he went to hell 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 the satellite dishes or household commodity syrians do watch western coverage of the conflict and many feel that their concerns that fears their losses are intentionally. to their feelings just because you know what this is you know it was even first time i've been able to come to syria you know why you might want to get away before you don't have a visa. we've been waiting for a visa you know you're sort of there really don't come to 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 sizable number of them european or american but there dispatches are not always

welcome to tall. is an independent belgian rider. the beauty of india want to bring a certain about syria to. the evil tree the use of force or selective editing is hardly a new invention the war war's has long become a cliche but inferior one sided coverage keeps the war going and shooting for t.v. really killed. journalism schools no longer teach their students to be objective it's considered impossible rather they're told to strive for balance and integrity and to put humanistic values above all a to go but syria is once again a special case in this bloody conflict western media rarely rolls of the emotional political dialogue rather it's for arming the rebels with the war also known as freedom fight to go on at some point the artsy reporting from syria and r.t.

is closely monitoring the situation in syria on our website where the latest news and in-depth analysis is available twenty four seven including we were pouring on the latest atrocity in aleppo that sparked a massive nation across the globe towards the free syrian army plus a u.s. court has declared the use of drones in american skies completely illegal find out the date the details of a new big brother scenario all at our t.v. dot com. here with r t it's nineteen minutes past the hour and three terror suspects are appearing out of corn spain over alleged plots for attacks in europe including one on a joint u.s. spanish naval base they were arrested on thursday and what the authorities claimed

was a major operation against al qaida two of the men are also suspected of links to terror plots and russia's rest of republic of chechnya artists are selling reports. 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 boss and he also said that these three men had received training in camps in places like afghanistan and pakistan now one of the men who was arrested on his own say that he is from turkey and that he's considered the facilitator in this group now the two other men were arrested together while they were planning to make their way to a friend so these two men are said to have lived in chechnya and as we know what is part of russia's volatile region of the north caucasus which over the years have see the waves of violent attacks now according to officials these attacks have had had the links to al qaida and 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 and 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 a monitoring of by the authorities for some time now and we can see that and we can expect that authorities here in europe will definitely be even a higher alert after the arrests that were made. the discrimination of the apartheid in south africa has long come to an errant but now two decades after the country's long fallen battle for human rights finished it's the whites who feel they are second class citizens polis later looks into their claims. once the color of all to start in 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. cultures one of a growing number of africans living a hop skip and a jump from sleeping on the streets to worldly positions amount to a bed and some clothes the rest are handouts from charities and churches sometimes she goes without food for days. stuff like that. is. what words when south africa held its first democratic elections eighteen years ago it marked the end of apostate separation between whites and blacks but what was once it was black people in this country who were discriminated against today its white south africans were falling through the cracks in the days of apartheid impoverished white often conners were cradled by the state the national party came to power nine hundred forty eight on

a wave of qana 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 money. created by the system in south africa. that created. sorry for haven for people since one thousand nine hundred forty 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 sickening new south africa there are many who feel washed up and unwanted forty year old irene has lived here with her husband and four children for six years she suffers from the pain of arthritis which makes it difficult for her to walk she calls the government's well meaning policies little short of reverse racism many many many many. grandfathers and

grandmothers was against. it i was staying. and they were staying in houses got everything and now it's out then restarting in chests 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 because they got nothing nothing nothing to work then go to a place to go they've got. nothing that's why they don't yet. fifty million people live in south africa one in nine is white and very many of them a struggling try telling that to the millions of black south africans living in grinding poverty but for people like all to start and it is a depressing comedown all she can see in the land of her birth is

a door slamming in her face forever. the mother the warrior girls and put us in more. except the hope that one day a door will open instead of. policy r.t. south africa. organizers are under fire for vast cost overruns daniels our business starts with more what's the story danielle the current public anger is growing as the host country recession deepens also smith is in london explains. 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 has gone 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 division of 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 up to twenty one of which now lie empty and pulling down much like its economy as a whole. 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. and sean this is fed up with the returns it gets from point u.s. government the u.s. economy is a source for you to new orleans a new record lows on the two percent is now on a more attractive market for its three trillion dollars national reserve fund. with australia being mentioned as a likely target. the dollar's shedding to the euro again first gain in three days for the ruble on the greenback as well on the whole old price by violence in syria report finds new calls in europe have skidded significantly due to the crisis italy and france are the worst hit by contrast the russia cause selves accelerated fourteen percent this year as the country's economy continues to grow the e.u.

very juicy returns have been promised for investing in russian infrastructure that money just say pumping money into new toll roads hospitals and airports will bring over twenty percent annual returns something most investors dream about renaissance as russia's government businessmen will raise national g.d.p. from four to six percent by buying into those products projects. twenty billion dollars has been wiped from facebook's value in four days as the new stories keep coming the sister of facebook's co-founder has moved to google fresh lawsuits accuse it of encouraging ordinary facebook users to invest while holding negative earnings forecasts mark zuckerberg is now only the seventy seventh richest man in the world and europe today we'll have more for you next hour i think for about a day and coming up shortly the life story of a former soviet soldier whose mission to afghanistan in the eighty's after trapped

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