forty eight arabian pilgrims are kidnapped in damascus as bloodshed is reported both in the capital and in syria's key northern city. in israel protests expected to draw thousands begin demanding social justice from a government to keep cutting at home but splashing out to score political points. and dozens of injuries in bahrain as police fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters demanding political reforms. hello live from russia this is r t it's ten pm here in moscow my name's kevin now in first forty eight

a rainy and pilgrims have been kidnapped in the syrian capital with a raid in diplomats blaming terrorist groups there are no media reports about their fate and syrian officials are trying to trace who is behind the abductions bring us up to date on this headline tonight artie's exam the boy reporting from damascus. forty eight iranian nationals who were kidnapped in damascus on saturday were of the largest group of foreign nationals to be abducted in syria even though assassinations and abductions by the rebels are by no means a rare here and now the iranians were on their pilgrimage to the site yet as they not reaches one of the holiest shrines for shia muslims because it's believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter it was. visited the mosque the pilgrims boarded a bus which was supposed to take them to the airport and on the way to the airport boss was told by i'm known gunmen and they were taken hostage now see visited this area there's enough they were who just a few days ago and from what i've seen there i can tell you that local residents

have been subjected to. threats of duction and that's just a nation for quite some time the area house is predominantly iraqi refugees tens of thousands of them most of them are shia muslims and they've been targeted by the predominantly sunni rebels for months on and so six tearing divisions already the playing a major role in fueling violence and fueling conflict here in syria but they are of course not the only pretext for abductions people have been kidnapped for various reasons because of that ethnicity or nationality for example a russian citizen was abducted here in damascus about two weeks ago on his way to the airport later two italian engineers were also kidnapped by unknown gunmen and no ransom demand was ever voiced these three people

a russian and two italians were later released by the regular syrian army now it is obviously not only for him there is who are facing the response duction for syrians this risk is much higher and unfortunately a dead chances of being released unharmed. very lean on side of the. syrian national t.v. presenter who was kidnapped from own house near damascus in july was found dad and a group that claimed responsibility for his execution just heart i know through our eyes also known as sunni consolidation find out that he was killed because of being should be a government just a few hours after it is bad news emerged very learned that and now there are syrian television employed this time cameramen was also abducted here in damascus. is keeping us updated on twitter you can log on now to read the latest news from her exam is reporting heavy shelling in the residential areas of damascus right now

also explosions near president residence as the latest we've got. well fighting between government and rebel forces continues in syria second city of aleppo with reports of heavy shelling and gunfire there are casualties on both sides with rebels in the syrian attack helicopters bombarding the area some twenty thousand government troops are also said to be dispatched through the city to flush out opposition fighters syrian security forces claim they've managed to hold rebel terms to take control of key government facilities the free syrian army said the capture of more than half of the financial system over the. syrian activists from the syrian social club of u.k. campaigns for peaceful reform thanks for being with us moscow of course voted against the latest u.n. resolution a couple of days ago in syria calling it one sided why do you think the international community refuses to remain impartial and to help syrians inside their own future

for themselves rather than as it appears to be doing. well this is. to get your. resolution well as three question syria actually is not being as your people are not descending on big as if you follow what's really going on in syria it's totally against most people's view. if you having a democracy and step it's what's happening in syria is not really. being handled by syrian themselves if you can see the militias they're mercenaries coming from other countries they're not helping syrians to to have their own of you democracy and freedom actually like more killing more injuries more losses destruction of infrastructure so this is not like syrian decision so what are your

thoughts about the u.s. and its. pledge. for rebel fighters and all the other mothers assisting its lethal support others that tally with their pledge to help bring peace do you think . well this is very sarcastic like there is a saying like being still in america or they will bring democracy to your door like we saw what happened in iraq for example that they have they accused them of having lethal weapons so they went there to spread democracy in peace now you are just like very me. just saying that syria have peaceful protests there's just really peaceful ways that they want you. to achieve democracy and freedom while they are supporting by naval weapons. money financial finding everything so which is very sarcastic that meet you and your promote them as very

peaceful protests there's simple protestors while they are in fact you're arming them and backing them up so all this back to the militias will result in every team that's those along with. america's policy in the region of course they are the heroes who. wonder why those countries would fully but the opposition which end of the day is a pretty disparate largely accountable. group of people we think is well infiltrated by islamists. the people that these countries are fighting against originally yeah i mean that's the funny part if you can call it like. they waged a war against terrorism and against al qaida and they started like this jesus of the world we are going to save you from florida but at this very same time they are supporting people who raise the flag graphic bands of the who kill people for

reasons because they're not followers. who have. completely totally styles in killing in their looks and everything so. like you are again periods and you are against the very same time you said. or do you spread democracy. it's a question that we ask a lot of us and thanks for part of yourself screwed over the program earlier a syrian activist member of the syrian social club based in the u.k. thanks ever so much and. still to come the employment protection is actually keeping americans out of work the u.s. is skewing visa rules to send foreigners packing these days but those entrepreneurs are also taking their job boosting businesses with the class. now we may run out to be the bad guy but here we were thinking arms went down why do you

think the world is ok with that as well because america is the hypocrisy remember the days when america secretly other legally sold weapons to the resident tries to jog a few memories of new york a bit later. but next thousands of protesters are gathering for a rally in tel aviv right now they're angry at the ever growing cost of living the israeli government 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 the process movement's been on the rise in recent months galvanized more some desperate people even setting fire to themselves as we've been reporting some of those social justice demos are expected to be joined by groups calling for a universal army draft to recruiting ultra orthodox jews to serve in the military whose popularity has massively dropped as well with over sixty percent now unhappy with his work but critics say the government keeps cashing in to support its regional political goals instead of spending at home as paul asli a found. in the middle of the west bank on land palestinians and the international

community claim is not there is fifty israeli families live in a small settler outpost which government money has helped to pay for. of course the government has invested a lot here just as it did with other settlements but we don't know the reason for the social protests if people find it hard and expensive to live in cities should not point fingers at settlers but fingers are pointing and calculations made the cost of constructing certain lands during the years was close to nineteen billion dollars and it includes investment in infrastructure like housing like electricity like energy like. also roads like water about fifty percent of the budget and settlements are financed or subsidized by government or activities the supreme

court ruled this our post immigrant was illegal and has given settlers here until august the twenty first to move out either way israeli 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 has already has 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 where we have lost years vast numbers of protesters you know support leaders in tel aviv have refused permission for tense along its main boulevard in symbolic defiance

paper tents 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 to make one 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. no i live updates are available through paula's twitter account you make sure you follow the very latest from the demonstrations on twitter and forwards watching the crowds gathering there a bit earlier on she'll be updating her feed in just

a bit now spain's prime minister has given his strongest indication yet that the country might need a bailout after denying it needed it but mariano rajoy is reluctant though to sign up for stringent cuts being imposed until he knows what the conditions might be spain's banks already receiving one hundred billion euros of help from the e.u. later nobel economics laureate edward prescott explains why the single currency thinks is ruining the region's finances. if you have. four children and give more credit cards to go out and buy it but tell me that they have to behave responsibly and one of them does that it's going to and now you have to sort of battle the problems that the germans and the french led to somebody they should have won to. somebody who should be borrowing it shouldn't people monitoring the market for your made a complete collapse of the beds to having it's symbolic it's true that

it's convenient for the poorest or the movement in the states and but countries that did not interview will. have done as well or better. than those that. did. the full interview with mobile economics laura did with prescott's here throughout the day as well in r.t. if you haven't caught it already. a teenage protest has been shot dead after ninety raging grew fired on an army patrol in saudi arabia which killed one soldier demonstrations have been demonstrators been calling for an end to discrimination by the sunni monarchy since march last year in another gulf state as well bahrain dozens of equal rights activists were injured as security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at them a leading figure in bahrain's largest opposition party told me he believes the gulf states a big hypocritically ignored by the international community. this is part of the.

international community where they want to support. you know all the human rights abuses and they consider the international. financial and economic. and other things foreign policy these are more much more. human rights on the markets and that's why we are going to. ignore them still called for dignity. security just as these are something that is being learned. or this it isn't just two months under the. activist bearing it is traveling outside so it's not killing other places but they are trying to. trying to. humanely but.

people are still and they are in tune you know their struggle this by this ignore and then you can. put in more stories a lot of. right now including the federal reserve first of all they're going to have gold stashed under the streets of manhattan which some believe was actually stolen years ago more than a line. of the slap happy spiritual leader of iran may regard the weapons corrupting but ayatollah khomeini's embracing social networking these days for the zone photo sharing account on instagram. is exactly.

wealthy british style. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on. hello again i'm plugged in the united states is still ticking upwards and one method used to keep americans in work is to try and keep foreigners out problem with that is that it's hitting on for the nurse who would otherwise be making not taking jobs as out his previous treated discovered. one of south asia's 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 we have commandos momentum in the business we have you know sixteen million registered users one out of six internet users in india is registered on snap to 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 it 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 that is annoyed 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. 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 type of temporary work were rejected while only around three birth of applicants from countries like germany and the u.k.

were rejected for the same type of temporary work visa. the other sting in the tail for the states is that by turfing out skilled foreigners it's missing out on big box opportunities that were forged in america's colleges i don't think we would be as effective entrepreneurs here had we not spend time in the us they don't think that the time i spend can call. really helped us in building the company we've been able to snapdeal now turns over one hundred million dollars a year the kind of innovation that indian immigrants have long been known for in the united states we found recently that. about half of the top fifty venture funded companies i mean to companies that were started with venture capital had at least one immigrant founder so what we found is that if you keep people out you'll get less job creation and less innovation in the united states jobs america desperately needs nolen ploys fifteen hundred people in ten cities

across india and we are having the time of our life we also know that this opportunity of building a market leading internet e-commerce company in our own country is never going to come again one door closes another opens for this internet highflyer america's visa rejection put him on the road to riches and indians into work preassure either r t new delhi india. well we'll put a car bombing in the libyan capital woman was injured in the blasts military police offices in tripoli it's the first such attack in the capital since the overthrow of one look at duffy's regime last year although there have been explosions mostly targeting the major city of big. through central pakistan's exploded you see in the aftermath it's left at least two dead and fifteen injured the resulting fire quickly spread to neighboring houses in what is a crowded market district police now scrambling to rescue people from the

investigators looking into how it all went wrong in a cracked. in recent months on pakistan's many illegal fireworks producers. iran's conducted military exercises launching a new short range missile it's also pushing to upgrade its rockets which can already target israel and the us bases in the middle east may comes as tough sanctions are imposed on iran over its nuclear program which it insists is peaceful the west suspects it saying though it's developing an atomic bomb. and while the u.s. weighs into iran over its military ambitions as one skeleton in the closet seems to be forgotten these days the iran contra affair 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 was unaware of but now two and a half decades later the full extent of his involvement and his awareness remain unclear the man who broke the story robert perry fares that 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 and make sure that he couldn't go after his own direction the institutions washington failed to both. enforce the law stupid was in force but also in just explaining to the american people what had happened there are still many sections of the skin and although we don't know the full story about or even trying to the story so much of this remains still something outside the historical picture that the american people have been denied we don't really know who did what and why and even how. well the residence in new york taught 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 the iran 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 no you haven't i state no i have not heard. something big he know yes yes do you 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 aware of everything that's going on out there they were in a war with iraq so you know we we thought that they were they were the good relative good. in 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 when ever doesn't that kind of make good and bad relative and meaningless absolutely 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 old. savation 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 methods they'd like to promote. more the resident next week shortly but to the present we bring the life story of a former soviet soldier captured in afghanistan in the eighty's but eventually maybe the country is home for the next two decades great story coming up after the headlines in the next.

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