the u.n. general assembly has started to can download the security council's inaction on syria as moscow calls just speed up the search for a new peace envoy. tear gas and stun grenades involved praying that the government leaves a fresh crackdown against the long running protests as activists try and cut all the way. down the anti putin punk band is defending why it's called a political stunt in russia's main role the group with three women face up to seven years jail if convicted.

clone thank you for joining r t this friday with me karen. well the u.n. general assembly is to vote on condemning the security council for failing to stop the violence in syria as bloodshed in the country surges russia is urging the u.n. and the arab league to move fast in finding a new chief peacemaker for syria kofi annan is stepping down blaming ask leading bloodshed and finger pointing at the security council we had now live to new york an r.t.s. i must try to get now so what kind of resolution could come from the general assembly. after what has been virtually months of diplomatic deadlock highlighted by the recent thursday's resignation of un special envoy to syria kofi anon the international community seems to be back to attempting to make baby steps and pushing the syrian process forward and this friday the one hundred

ninety three member united nations general assembly is set to vote on a resolution which is not going to be legally binding it will be purely recommendation this text basically condemns the syrian government calling describing the failure of it to pull out of civilian areas it calls on the syrian government to stop the use of heavy weapons and it also condemns the united nations security council for failing to find some sort of tangible solution to the events unraveling on the ground now how prepared is the international community at the u.n. to compromise. well karen interesting really the initial text of this resolution still use the term regime didn't actually use the term regime change but it did call for bashar al assad to step down and this regime change is exactly what the united states and the west have been calling for this entire time and it's also the exactly the kind of language that russia and china vetoed three times at the united

nations security council and we've seen yesterday on thursday the second the news broke out that kofi annan was stepping down this language of calling for assad to step down was again on the table from the western nations and the united states even though it had been put on pause for a while when the six point peace plan was put on the table by kofi anon interesting lee this was taken out because the general assembly understands and the country pushing forward this text understand that a majority is needed and it's not just russia and china who oppose this kind of language it has other countries as well and for this to text to pass this tough language was taken out to get a slight majority still russia has called this text one sided and unbalanced well now with kofi annan is resignation what is actually next in syria's peace process without him while the six point peace plan does remain on the table even though

it's proven to be quite unproductive and didn't go anywhere and didn't get the process started we also know that the united nations observer mission expires on july twentieth whether or not this mandate will be extended remains to be seen we do know that moving on the arab league are in negotiations to try to figure out who kofi annan successor is going to be russia has said that it's very important to get this person in position as soon as possible but how soon and exactly how the diplomatic deadlock on the conflicting positions will be resolved remains to be seen all right live from new york are teasing us to see a child cannot thank you. the battle for a serious second city aleppo as likely to get even more bloody un observers report a heavy build up of weapons every area rebels have been accused of executions and abuses against christians supporters even so revelations in the us media claim

washington as funneling mark over to the opposition historian gerald horne says america could pay for stoking extremism in syria it's well known that washington basically has perfected the idea of a two trucks foreign policy that is to say on the one hand you talk and smile when the other hand. 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 in the vastness and then washington will be faced with a replay of what it helped engineer in afghanistan where he helped engineer the coming to power of the taliban which opened the door to gain influence there which led to the tragedy of september eleventh two thousand and one. however the war

cries still ring on at some of the main media outlets coming up a report balance broadcast from syria get some more feisty rallying support for regime change. and echoes of apartheid south africa's white communities say they're now being made second class citizens. anti-government protesters in bahrain her face tear gas and stun grenades hundreds of people attempted to block a key highway when to say some have been taken into custody the demos against the ruling regime began nearly eighteen months ago with activists claiming they face daily discrimination from the sunni monarchy to a political analyst patrick henningsen says the situation in bahrain is being ignored because it's a washington ally. in bahrain what you have is a genuine uprising a genuine political movement

a potential revolution. that is being completely in order for two reasons the main reason is bahrain host the united states fifth naval fleet it's a very important strategic piece on the chessboard especially in terms of looking towards potential aggression against iran so as bahrain has a role family that completely have society locked down because the it's free it's there there's no way that the u.s. wants any kind of a democratic uprising in that country because it will make the government's policy unstable towards hosting u.s. military presence in the country which leads so badly the difference between syria and bahrain is that syria refuses to be an outpost for international western imperialism and bahrain is you know posed for that so maybe hillary clinton should be having friends of bahrain meetings to help the bahraini people of course that's not going to happen the situation in bahrain is grave if you're on the side of

reform if you're with the royal family everything's fine. it's day five in the trial of the russian female punk or pussy riot defense lawyers have begun explaining the stunt and the capitals make a future role in february the three band members are charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred participator all over is following the hearing. this 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 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 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 orthodox 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 there are also those 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 and abroad artists like sting and 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. but i hope the court will rule with her just to susan if the bonds let's say defiled a sacred place in israel they would have to cope with some tough guys there are some of his difficulties from attempting to leave the country or to for example he went to the caucuses and 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. well day five of the trial is currently underway i'll be bringing you live reports from outside the courtroom as soon as we get all the latest news

and we've been following the pussy riot trial from the very beginning you can get the full story at our dot com here's what else is lined up for you. for trying to claim the wages he was on a low paid workers at a luxury hotel in cairo gunned down by police as his plight for all safe areas crowd plus. more about the pentagon's missile defense staff are ordered to stop watching x. rated material on their own that's being serious but it's to protect their machines rather than their morals. if the.

download the official the application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch all its hear all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time any. twelve minutes past the hour and authorities in russia have to open a criminal case into last week's discovery of twenty to fifty one fetuses dumped in a forest surveying artist john thomas has more on the story which stunned people across the country you know criminal investigation into this case of around two hundred fifty fetuses found about seventy kilometers north of you katherine a 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 cabin me 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 you capturing a bird by a man who was looking for wood a fisherman and he found these four large barrels closer inspection found that they held a visa human fetuses all between twenty two and twenty six terms which are late term . foetuses 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 the responsible for research who was fired in two thousand and eleven might be responsible for these fetuses of 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 the mother of julian assange says she fears her son. could face execution if extradited to the u.s. christina songe is in ecuador lobbying for the country to grant asylum to the wiki leaks out after she met president bush sure at her doorstep and will not be influenced by external pressure julian assad has been elected or is london embassy for over six weeks now he is wanted in sweden over sex crime allegations which he denies saying there are a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. to face trial over leaking secret cables later in our exclusive interview his

mother christine tells r.t. that she's proud of her son. to be one is the mother of course which he did they don't know. but is that students who did this because he likes. to dance to see who will get these should keep the school. in forward in both big financial institutions of course these guys. and you can watch our exclusive interview with julian assange mother throughout the day right here on r.t. time now for more news from around the world and attacked my kurds in southeast turkey has killed at least one soldier and wounded several others the rebels opened fire on a military outpost as troops were breaking their ramadan fast at sundown on thursday

violence has grown in the area as kurds seek autonomy in the region it's thought groups on the border are taking advantage of unrest in neighboring syria. greece's decision to privatise a bank brought out crowds of angry employees in athens in one of the biggest protests in weeks over five thousand staff of the formerly state owned bank are five days into a nationwide strike fearing for their jobs greek banks have been under growing pressure to reorganize since the financial crisis hit and plunged the country into long running recession. north korean leader kim jong un has set out plans to develop the economy and people's livelihoods as his top priorities moving away from the military first mindset the statement was made during a meeting with china's foreign minister in the aftermath of floods and famine which

have devastated swathes of north korea reformers have been circulating since a top military figure in killing young was sacked for opposing change. let's return now to syria and specifically how it's tragic events are unfolding across the media from many foreign outlets that simple reports that back up the push forward change get top priority talks on a boycott explains. right now pursuing a story and joining the camp when a japanese journalist traveling with syrian rebels converted to islam it wasn't just his old name he abandoned. but for those around him he still being someone who reported the conflict he became one of the few camera hanging in place of a rifle. while religious conversion of journalist is rare on the syrian front lines becoming political disciples on one side of the rebels is

almost the norm for many reporting to the world in the past week of coverage c.n.n. has the earth five packages from the syrian frontlines all detailing the plight of those fighting the government and while the regime is always pinned down to voice 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 with satellite dishes or household commodity syrians do watch western coverage of the conflict and many feel that their concerns their fears their losses are intentionally. but you don't you're not getting the gist was you know what this is not first time i've been able to come to syria you know you might want to get away before you don't have

a visa. we've been waiting for these you know you're sort of there with them to get these are the usual claim that the syrian government doesn't let 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 welcomed at home christiane sun is an independent belgian writer. and you want to bring a certain picture about syria. the evil. the use of force or selective editing is hardly a new invention the war war's 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 rather they are told to strive for balance and integrity and

to put humanistic values above political but syria is once again a special case in this bloody conflict western media rarely hear calls for reconciliation or political dialogue rather it's for arming the rebels and for the war also known as freedom fight to go on a summer break artsy reporting from syria racial discrimination was felt nowhere more painfully in the world than south africa when apartheid was dished nearly two decades ago the country was reborn of race related prejudice has reemerged in this time against the whites living their party's policy clear investigates. 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. feels like everybody forgot about as. old as one of a growing number of concept africans living a hop skip and

a jump from sleeping on the streets who will be positions amount to a bed and some clothes to waste on handouts from charities and churches sometimes she goes without food for days. there are always plans as well as the go door since stuff like that now is walk into place there's no go put words when south africa held its first democratic elections eighteen years ago it marked the end of apostates separation between whites and blacks but what 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 model clause 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 funny 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. when grandfathers and grandmothers was against. it i was staying in sheds like us and they were staying in houses got everything and now it's out then we staying in

chests and. this abandoned caravan park is home for now it lands 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 get nothing nothing nothing to work go to a place to go they've got. nothing that's where the. 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 alter from 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 through all of the war your goals. put us in more except the hope that one day a door will open instead of slam policial teen south africa. so

dimitri everyone's talking these days mainly about the olympics how about the business side of the event does it generate profit well not necessarily actually have been several cities in israel which have actually regretted having the olympics in city but when it comes to london it's already been fueling the flames of anger actually in the u.k. because its initial cost was around three point eight billion pounds now it's around ten times as much here's a report from lawrence. there's no doubt the lympics have been more expensive than it was first thoughts 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 first starts but much of it is going into building the olympic park including the eight hundred fifty million dollars stadium itself they're quite excited to 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 divisions of to the athletes have gone home and the stadium itself is currently a worrying white 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 a 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 lie empty and fooling 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. or at this hour worrying on the markets today as you can see very buoyant the nasdaq adding almost two percent on the back of a fresh the labor department reports that the economy in the month of july added more than it had. in the separately in the past five months it's added one hundred sixty three thousand jobs in the long farm sector and that's way above expectations so basically what we're seeing in the u.s. as well as in europe is on the back of that report indeed the dax is up three point four percent is driven by financial shares and deutsche bank a.g.

is up almost eight percent something spectacular for a huge blue chip like that as take a look at what's happening in commodities same picture there lights we added three and a half dollars for just remember a couple of days ago it was a report saying that crude inventories in the u.s. dropped more than the the most in seven months of therefore this has been supporting oil prices and now this is on the back of the hopes of recovery for global demand for energy over on the currencies market the russian ruble is very much supported by these oil prices it's gaining more than one percent versus the dollar and the dollar is as you can see is losing against the euro as investors come back from cash and into assets basically and into those really the euro. over on the russian market there is around fifteen minutes still left on the clock for trading but it's looking very positive for the r.t.s.

gaining two point seven percent of my sex on a strong the ruble is gaining less than that also very juicy returns have been promised for investing now in russian infrastructure relations asset managers say pumping money into new toll roads hospitals and airports will bring over twenty percent annual return that something most investors only dream about. russia's government will back businessmen who will raise national g.d.p. from four to predicted six percent by buying into these projects. and also twenty billion dollars been wiped from facebook's value in four days of. previous days now it's gaining finally as the bad news stories keep coming sister of facebook's co-founder mark zuckerberg she has moved to google and fresh lawsuits accuse it of encouraging ordinary facebook users to invest while hiding negative earnings forecasts mark zuckerberg says only now the seventy seventh richest man in the

world. so there you go that's the business update for you this hour of course i'll be back in fifty five minutes i'm still how the russian markets for instance close all right we look forward to thank you dimitri. on the way of the life story of a former soviet soldier afghanistan left him trapped in a country for decades that's after the headlines.