forty eight arabian pilgrims are kidnapped in damascus as bloodshed reported both in the capital and in syria's key northern city to. outrage in israel protests expected to draw thousands begin demanding social justice from a government to keep thing at home but splashing out to score political points. and sectarian violence is escalating in the gulf states a teenage protest has been shot dead in saudi arabia and dozens injured in bahrain . from russia eleven pm moscow time this is r.t. it's kevin zero in with you this hour with our top stories the mid fresh violence in the syrian capital forty eight pilgrims from around have been kidnapped in

damascus with the rain in diplomats blaming terrorist groups there are no immediate reports about their fate and syrian officials are trying to trace who is behind the abductions xander boyd who reports now from damascus. forty eight iranian nationals who were kidnapped in damascus on saturday were of the largest group of foreign nationals to be of ducks in syria even though assassinations and abductions by the rebels are by no means a rare here and now the iranians were on the pilgrimage to the sayed as they not which is one of the holiest shrines for shia muslims because it's believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter it was after they visited the mock the pilgrims boarded a bus which was supposed to take them to the airport and on their way to the airport boss was told by i'm known gunmen and they were taken hostage now 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 abduction and us us 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 the 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 their chances of being released unharmed . our very on site of the. syrian national t.v. presenter who was kidnapped from his own house near damascus in july was found dad and a group that claimed responsibility for his execution just heart. also known as sunni consolidation find out that he was killed because of being should be a pro-government just a few hours after these bad news emerged very learned that and not their syrian television employee this time cameraman was also abducted here in damascus. dated on twitter as well she's tweeting right now the residents are watching heavy shelling in the distance from the balconies in damascus reports also that some

buildings are on fire these are some of the pictures you sent us but earlier on today of the shelling of residential areas in the syrian capital as well keep up to date on twitter feed. fighting between government and rebel forces raging in syria's northern city of aleppo too there are casualties on both sides with rebels say the syrian attack helicopters are bombarding the areas 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 back rebel or terms to take control of key government facilities of the free syrian army said it captured more than half of the financial hub of the. syrian activists from the syrian social club which campaigns for peaceful reform told me there's another proxy war going on in syria now. very frustrating that being very few american. democracy to your door like we saw what happened in iraq for example they accused

them of having rico weapons so they went there to spread democracy in peace for him to be here they would just be like syria have a peaceful protest just really peaceful they want to. to achieve democracy and freedom while they are supporting by naval weapons. money financial finding everything so which is very sarcastic that. promote them as very peaceful protests there's stairs 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 goes along with. america's policy in the region. a lot more had this the employment protection that is actually keeping americans out of work the u.s. is skewing visa rules to send foreigners packing but those entrepreneurs are those

taking the job posting businesses with them as we report plus. now we make around out to be the bad guy but here we were changing arms went down why do you think the world is ok with. all because american hypocrisy remember the days of america secretly had to legally sold weapons to iran while the resident closed the job a few memories in new york of the. thousands of protestors are rallying in tel aviv angry at the ever growing cost of living the israeli government passed 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 protest movements put on the rise in recent months galvanized by some desperate people sitting on fire themselves we've been reporting on this channel sort of a social justice demos are joined by groups calling for ultra-orthodox groups not to be exempt from the army draft as well as moderates feeling the shouldering the country's burdens live updates on what's happening are available through

a correspondence twitter account make sure you follow paulus lead to get the very latest these are latest pictures of come in very recently to the r.t. new center she reports now critics say the government keeps cashing in to support its regional political goals instead of spending that much needed money at home. 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. the world 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 settlements 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 outpost immigrant was illegal and has given his 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 left 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 largest cities but where we have lost years vast numbers of protesters melissa police is in tel aviv have refused permission for tense along its main boulevard in some. 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 weak 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 image 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 it needed rescuing but marianna is reluctant to sign up for stringent cuts being imposed until he knows what the conditions might be spain's banks are already receiving one hundred billion euros of help from the you later nobel economics laureate edward prescott explains why the single currency is ruining the region's finances. if 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 is going to. sort of cut all the problems that the germans and the french to somebody they should have went to. somebody who should be borrowing it shouldn't people monitoring the market but you

are made that collapse will not be there it's the having it's. symbolic it's true that it's convenient for the poorest move between the states and but countries that did not enter the euro. have done as well or better. than those that. did. you know the full interview with nobel economics laureate edward prescott just over an hour ago now on air here on r.t. tonight. protesters been shot dead after an anti regime group fired on an army patrol in saudi arabia which killed one soldier demonstrators have been calling for an end to discrimination by the saudi monarchy since march last year and in another gulf state bar a dozens of equal rights activists were injured the security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at them as told to dr yunus and by you piece from the department of mideast and african studies at the columbia university thanks for being on the

line with us we've seen clashes in saudi arabia and bahrain as i'm saying there would activists accusing the ruling elite of abuses and political unrest was the international community not done more about it indeed the media barely reported on the events in these gulf nations rebuying i know all about this quite a bit but it's a huge question. it is absolutely right where you just said this isn't a major question but it felt to be addressed by the mainstream media and i think it's quite obvious the reason why everybody is focused now on syria and the hot spots in geopolitics and the fight between regional powers and also greater powers in the region so saudi arabia and bahrain because because they are on the side of of let's say the strongest part in this conflict are being shielded from any criticism or or trying to be portrayed as if there is there are moderate artists and it is not the significantly happening which is of course not the truth

something that may gather some attention than thinking about bahrain and we've been airing this video today we got it offline a video a league allegedly shows government most real driving cars the demonstrators missing in on a screen where is the red line that if this is not it to make the international community take a stand on bahrain at least. well it's very hard to say when the international community can react the international community had the chance to react when the formula one grand prix was organized in bahrain and the protesters and many civil rights activists around the world called for his cancellation but nothing happened and fortunately money and all and interests go all first before human rights i think what might trigger something in as you said is probably when things get start or probably arms be in used and then the conflicts get worse maybe in that case it's actually community will be force even if it's not willing to look towards

bahrain and saudi arabia so for now the majority of the international community is silent i want to can individuals make a difference i'm thinking about for instance the problem in bahraini human rights activist now bill roggio and he's been in jail holed up for some six months because he was interviewed by jewel in the sand and that interview was broken. on this channel can individuals make a difference. i mean individuals of course always make difference remember that minority. the process always starts as a minority and then it becomes something bigger so individual action is important individual responsibility is important but i am afraid it's not enough we need a structural a reaction we need institutions we need international institutions to react and push governments to say stop these people have legitimate grievances that should be addressed not by gaz and weapons by by dialogue and giving a voice to the oppressed. in both bahrain and saudi arabia the rulers are of course

the protest to shiites with that in mind can the sectarian differences be bridged. well i think these conflicts or the unrest is always portrayed as six areas i'm afraid the sort this is generally hundred percent true these people are oppressed first of all these countries don't have citizen based identity so people resort to those marginal identities like she are or still me or something like that of course it is in the interest of the rulers there to portray it as sectarian so they can avoid the spread of of the and risk to other people who are also oppressed and marginalized and they are sunni they could buy them in saudi arabia could find them in bahrain and they use this of course in this regional conflict against iran to say we are defending the sunni is against the shiite that are being manipulated and controlled by iran which is not true so far or i talk to you in a survey of the department of mideast so they can and african studies at columbia

university thanks have so much thank you plenty more online at r.t. dot com for you our web site including the federal reserve's first ever audit of the hidden gold stashed under the streets of manhattan which some believe but actually stolen years ago more than online. i'll have peace spiritual leader that snap happy indeed iran may regard the web as corrupting but side tell us how many is in bracing social networking none the less it appears these days there's a photo sharing account on instagram brought back from.

well again unemployment in the united states is still ticking upwards and one method being used to keep americans in work is to try and keep foreigners out problem with that is getting entrepreneurs who otherwise be making not taking jobs is pretty straight are found out. 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 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 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 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 had to go to my visa but 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 infrasound of indian applicants for a certain type of temporary work were rejected while only around rebirth of applicants from countries like germany and the u.k. were rejected for the same type of temporary work visas. 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 a dime in the us they don't think that the time i spend in color. 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 high flyer america's visa rejection put him on the road to riches and indians into work preassure either r t new delhi india who will do the brief now there's been a car bombing in the libyan capital woman was injured in the last minute police officers in tripoli it's the first such attack in the capital since the overthrow of moammar gadhafi is regina last year although there have been explosions elsewhere mostly targeting the major city of big. followed flags in central park a stone's exploded the aftermath i'm seeing on your screen that's left at least two dead than fifteen injured at least the resulting fire quickly spread to neighboring houses in this crowded market district police are now scrambling to rescue people from the debris investigators look into the heart of the tragedy started but there's been. crackdown in recent months on pakistan's many illegal what produces

iran's conducted military exercises it launched a new short range missile and it's also pushing to upgrade its rockets 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 is insists it's peaceful the west those suspected same that developing an atomic bomb. and while the u.s. weighs into iran over its military ambitions as one skeleton in the closet this seems to have been 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 two and a half decades later the full extent of his involvement and his aware this 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 under 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 suit 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 a chunk 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. robert perry will the residents of new york to ask 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. you have a nice day 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 do for 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 we were 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 it 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 on 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. there is that they're causing a stir on the streets of new york one time in a few minutes i can tell you max kaiser will be ruffling some feathers to this time of the notorious one percent the world's financial fallout that's the next program ahead here on the from moscow. from.

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