more bloodshed outside damascus and an escalation in syria's key northern city while moscow slams the un's vote which so many pressures the regime all applied in . outrage and in israel thousands gear up to march across tel aviv demanding social justice from the government that keeps cutting at home but splashing out to score political points. and forty five people reported injured in bahrain police fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters demanding political reforms.

hello and welcome to our team this saturday karen taraji with the latest fresh clashes have erupted near the syrian capital with reports of heavy shelling and gun fire in damascus fighting between government and rebel forces is also escalating in the key northern city of aleppo casualties are reported on both sides with rebels saying the syrian army is run barking several areas opposition fighters also claim they've now control more than half the financial hub this as forty eight the iranian pilgrims are kidnapped in the syrian capital near a holy site the iranian embassy is quoted as saying armed terrorist groups seized the pilgrims from abbas as they made their way to the airport there are no immediate reports about their fate and syrian officials are trying to trace those behind it. america's pledging to fill the void in solving syria which will be left to by kofi anon ramping up its regime change efforts and rebel

support patrick a is covering the conflict for news website spiked dot com he says those backing opposition fighters are engulfing syria in more tragedy i think in general it's being used to try and step up the pressure on both russia and china to start to take a stand against the sides and effectively what it's doing is saying that we disrespect the sovereignty of syria and we don't want the syrian people to determine their own future as william hague suggested he's going to offer non-lethal aid he hasn't given specific details of this yet but it does seem like it's going to be intelligence it does seem like there's going to be an awful lot of support announced for the rebels over the next few weeks and of course this comes just after president obama has announced well it hasn't been announced but it has been revealed that there has been a secret plan basically allow the cia to assist the rebels as well the thing i find very striking about this is that there's a real historical amnesia that's taking place among western leaders where they

don't really know who the opposition is there are a lot of concerns about the makeup of it there are jihadi elements there are a lot of people who the west would not like to be business with but they're stuck into this mentality that they draw to help anyone get into power there drove a sports any of the opposition in syria then they would support assad's assad has become this bogeyman just like it's a few before him and they just see we need to get rid of him and everything will be ok it's a naive approach that will do no hope at all. russia believes the u.n. vote on syria was one sided pressuring all near the regime to end the fighting from moscow the non-binding motion passed at the general assembly does nothing to ease the conflict parties and a start see a child can now has more from new york. this resolution apart from condemning the security council for failing to move the syrian peace process forward also condemns

the syrian government for failing to stop using heavy weaponry as well as condemns the syrian government from for not withdrawing from civilian areas among the ones that voted against this text was of course russia russia believes that the behind the humanitarian facade of this resolution lies the militarization of the opposition and russia says this resolution is not helpful and that the country supplying weapons to the opposition are well known take a listen it is a this resolution exacerbates the confrontations and solving the syrian crisis it's not helping the sides enter into dialogue find peaceful ways to solve the crisis in the interests of syrian people this resolution is not how can you because it contradicts the efforts to realize the annan plan it undermines the syrian led crucial political resolution. russia believes that this particular text is one sided and balanced as well as the whole idea of pushing the syrian government of

stepping down is really an intervention into sovereign affairs six point peace plan remains on the table as coffin and steps out of the picture this plan of course called for the creation of the transitional government in syria the idea was to have both sides of the conflict. form this government to hold new elections however the idea of where exactly this would leave assad was left open and now with countries continuing to push for him stepping down it's unclear what's going to happen to the plan we do know that the moon is currently in the process of speaking with the arab league trying to find a successor for kofi annan we're going to have to wait and see who that person is going to be and how that person will handle this particular crisis and of course we also have the you want to serve a mission expiring on august twentieth unclear whether or not it will be extended we will have to wait and see we certainly know that this is something that russia is strongly rooting for. still to come this hour the employment protection that's

actually keeping americans out of work. the u.s. is skewing visa rules to certain foreigners parking but those entrepreneurs are also taking their job boosting businesses with them also. and now we may run out to be the bad guy right here we were exchanging arms with why do you think the world is ok with that because america is the hypocrisy remember the days when america secretly and a legally sold weapons to iran the president tries to jog a few memories in new york a little later. thousands of protesters are set to rally in tel aviv this saturday angry at the ever growing cost of living israeli government of past a tough package of cuts and tax hikes this week to try and save over three and a half billion dollars in next year's budget they protest movement on the rise in recent months has been galvanized by some desperate people setting themselves on

fire saturday's social justice demos will also be joined by groups calling for a universal army draft recruiting ultra orthodox jews to serve in the military prime minister netanyahu is popularity has massively dropped with over sixty percent now on happy with his work but critics say the government keeps cashing in to support its regional little goals instead of spending at home fall asleep or reports. in the middle of the west bank on land palestinians and the international community plane is not there is fifty israeli families live in a small outpost which government money has helped to pay for. the world's reviews of course the government has invested a lot here just as it did with this it but we don't know the reason for the social protests if people find her inexpensive to live in cities we should not point fingers at settlers but finger pointing and culture. lation is made the cost of constructing settlements during the years was close to nineteen billion

dollars and it includes investment in infrastructure causing electricity like energy like. also roads like water about fifty percent of the budget and certain amounts are finance or subsidized by government or activities the supreme court ruled this outpost immigrant was illegal and has given settlers here until august the twenty first to move out either way it's really taxpayers foot the bill this is where the settlers will be moved to the israeli government to spend more than four million dollars building the site that translates into some eighty thousand dollars per family the state budget is a cake. if you take one piece for this there is much less live for the other

there is one place where the government is all roses enough money for anything and this is in the occupied territories for the settlements. and this is why israeli taxpayers are saying enough is enough for a second straight summer protest some around the country's large cities but weary of last year's vast numbers of protesters who support leaders in tel aviv have refused permission for tense along its main boulevard in symbolic defiance paper tens have sprung up but for many of these people the tents are home and the protest is not temporary they're in for the long haul. shame on you mr netanyahu you should help the poor in the week i've been homeless for twenty years and no politician has ever come here they don't look at us as humans they think we're animals in the soup already people have set themselves on fire if nothing changes we'll all start doing it too by comparison not one person appears homeless and outposts like this one in

the ground as the social protests continue more and more people are demanding answers to why the government is pouring money into new settlements at the expense of the poor in existing communities policy r.t. migwan outpost in the west bank spain's prime minister has given his strongest indication yet that the country might need a bailout months after denying any that rescuing but mariano rajoy is reluctant to sign up beef for stringent cuts being imposed until you know what the conditions might be spain's banks are already receiving one hundred billion euros of help from the e.u. later nobel economics laureate edward prescott explains why the single currency is ruining the region's finances. you have. poor children and give more credit cards to go out and buy. but tell me that they have to behave responsibly and one of them does that it's going to and you have to sort

of cut off that the problems that the germans and the french lent to somebody they should not want to do. and somebody who should not be borrowing shouldn't people monitor the market or you are made to complete collapse or not we have beds to having roots in the symbolic it's true that it's convenient for the poorest women moved between the states and but the countries that did not enter the world. have done as well or better. than those that. did. a full interview with noble economics laureate edward prescott as well just over an hour right here on our team. activists in bahrain say at least forty five people have been injured after the country's security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at crowds of protesters hundreds marched demanding an end to

discrimination by the sunni rulers in videos leaked online allegedly showing government mercenaries driving cars at demonstrators around forty people were arrested early on friday after activists blocked a key highway bahrain's uprising started eighteen months ago but have been largely ignored by many foreign news outlets human rights activist saeed hadi almost says the government's blind to the real to the people's real concerns. the problem the authorities always try to change this subject and saying there is. violations comes against them while you know on the other hand they are of a buy only thing the know trying to use although i have learnt against the people saying that they are trying to control the security in the country the problem but they don't listen to the opposition demands they don't

looking forward to about a real dialogue and. truthful dialogue let's say they are trying to disappear from this angle because of these violations against human rights is the politics issues which is more gnocchi. domination of all the. sectors of cities like judicial authority and. the others. plenty more stories online at r.t. tile com there for you right now. america passing the superpower but home to china one u.s. congressman believes it's his country that created a new economic monster. plus the snap half a spiritual leader in iran may regard the web as corrupting but ayatollah

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nice for instance on t.v. dot com. thanks for joining our team at sixteen minutes past the hour and unemployment in the united states is still taking all ports on one method being used to keep americans in a war is to try to keep foreigners out the problem is it's hitting entrepreneurs who would otherwise be making not taking jobs sridhar explains. one of southeast. as hottest new entrepreneurs twenty eight year old ball is behind india's largest e-commerce company snapdeal dot com is often compared to amazon for its daily deals on services and products but we have tremendous momentum in the business we have you know sixteen million registered users one out of six internet users in india is registered on snap do you growing by a million a month by the end of the year to be twenty five million highest traffic e-commerce

site in india. but if the young business tycoon had his way he would have started in the united states where he got his ivy league qualifications but paul had no choice despite his eagerness to start a firm and create jobs america's searching on employment saw immigration authorities deny more and more visas for foreigners when your resume gets rejected you pretty much have to go back there is no other there's no recourse us such and i think that was disappointing maybe we would have started something in the u.s. had we gotten. my visa but then you know it doesn't matter experts say it's no coincidence that the rising rejection rates occurred as america's economy tanked but acting on the perceived fear that immigrants were taking american jobs has had the opposite effect it's unfortunate if denials are being made that are justified because what happens if it ends up being an incentive to u.s.

companies to locate more resources outside the country in some ways in ways that might. well u.s. immigration authorities have increased the rejection rate of temporary work visas for citizens of all countries india has been the hardest hit just last year a lot of interest and of indian applicants for a certain. to

then march. the discrimination of shiite muslims by the sunni monarchy. has been a car bombing in the libyan capital one man was injured in the blast near a military police offices in tripoli it's the first such attack in the capital since the overthrow of moammar gadhafi ridge regimes last year although there have been explosions elsewhere mostly targeting the major city of benghazi. and fireworks factory in central pakistan has exploded leaving at least two people dead and some fifteen injured the resulting fire quickly spread to neighboring houses in a crowded market district police are now scrambling to rescue people from the

debris investigators are looking into how the tragedy started but there has been a crackdown in recent months on pakistan's many illegal fireworks producers. conducted military exercises launching a new short range missile it's also pushing to upgrade its missiles which can already target israel and u.s. bases in the middle east it comes as new tough sanctions are imposed on iran over its nuclear program which it insists is peaceful meanwhile the west suspects it's aimed at developing an atomic bomb. and while the u.s. weighs into iran over its military ambitions there is one skeleton in the closet that seems to have been forgotten the iran contra affair it was one of the biggest scandals of the reagan presidency revelations that washington had been breaking an arms embargo on iran. following the end of the capitol hill

hearings into the case exactly twenty five years ago president reagan took full responsibility for what he called things he wasn't gonna wear off in the two and a half decades later the full extent of his involvement at his awareness remain unclear the man who broke the story robert parry fears there are still too many details that will never see the light of day. what you saw here was the failure of the institutions of washington to get control of these things there had been an effort in the seventy's after watergate after the exposures of cia abuses to bring some constraints on to this process and then you saw the iran contra scandal it was the first test case really what would congress really hold the president to task in and make sure that he couldn't go off in his own direction the institutions of washington failed to both enforce the law suit the wall was in

force but also in just explaining to the american people what had happened there are still many sections of this scandal that we don't know the full story about or even a trunk of the story so much of this remains still something outside the historical picture that this the american people have been denied we don't really know who did what and why and even how. they residence in new york task whether the iran contra affair is one episode which time can't heal. western media would have you believe that iran is some sort of evil enemy so do they not remember their run contra scandal of one thousand nine hundred sixty this week let's talk about that have you ever heard of the iran contra scandal. sorry no i haven't. you have a nice day no i have not heard. something big he know yes

yes the member it was about what was it about you remember. nuclear weapons i believe iran is but the army going in and trying to go the oil is and it was about all over north was taking the funds from selling arms to iran to use to fund the contras. in nicaragua you got it and now we make iran out to be the bad guy but here we were exchanging arms with them why do you think the world is ok with that well because america is a hypocrisy do you think that the world knows that this is a hypocrisy. i guess we know a little bit about it but sometimes i find us to be very naive and we are not really enough to wear over everything that's going on out there they were in a war with iraq so you know what we thought that they were they were the good

relative good. and iraq was the you know the bad you know it's just the whole it's ridiculous if we change our definition of of who's good and who's bad to suit our needs whenever doesn't that kind of make good and bad relative and meaningless. it's almost thirty years ago so there in thirty years someone can go from being an ally to an enemy well unfortunately that happens yeah so we should probably be more careful with whom we give arms to that is a very. good observation but then again you never know which side of the regime you fall on when you support something and one of the issues of u.s. foreign policy is they've always picked sides which they did in vietnam they did it in other places and sometimes they were successful sometimes they weren't whether or not people remember the iran contra scandal but the bottom line is the media certainly seems to have a selective memory that suits whatever message they'd like to promote.

charley we talked to the director of the world's largest particle physics laboratory for the headlines so with us.

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