on r.t. tonight forty eight a rainy and pilgrims are kidnapped in damascus as plug reported both in the capital and in syria's key northern city to. rage in israel thousands of protesters demand social justice from a government that keeps cutting at home but splashing out to score political points . and sectarian violence escalates in the gulf states of teenage protesters being shot dead in saudi arabia and dozens injured in bahrain. hello thanks for being with r.t. this hour it's midnight now here in moscow my name's kevin ollie and our top story

amid fresh violence in the syrian capital forty eight pilgrims from iran have been kidnapped in damascus which radiant diplomats are blaming tonight on terrorist groups there are media reports about their fate and syrian officials are trying to trace who is behind the abductions of his exam the boy 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 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 after they 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 visit to this so you know there's enough they were who just

a few days ago 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 this area houses 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 divisions already the playing a major role in fueling violence in 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 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 side of the of. the syrian national t.v. presenter who was kidnapped from own house near damascus in july was found dad. 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 just bad news emerged learned that and now there syrian television employed this time cameraman was also abducted here in damascus. reporting from damascus to know she's keeping us updated on twitter they should

tweets the most recent one that residents are watching heavy shelling in the distance from the balconies of the city also reporting that some buildings are on fire. some of the pictures she sent us earlier on today shelling of residential areas in the syrian capital. fresh fighting between government and rebel forces raging in syria's northern city of aleppo too there are casualties on both sides with rebels saying that syrian attack helicopters are bombarding the areas some twenty thousand government troops are also said to be dispatched through the city to flush showed opposition fighters syrian security forces claim they managed to hold regular terms to take control key government facilities earlier the free syrian army said it captured more than half of the financial help the. syrian activist from the syrian social club which campaigns for peaceful reform told me a bit earlier there's another proxy war going on in syria right now. there's a saying you like being nice to an america or they will bring democracy to your

door like we saw what happened in iraq for example they accused them of having lethal weapon so they went there to spread democracy in peace. they're just saying that syria have a peaceful protest there's just really peaceful ways that they want you. to achieve democracy and freedom while they are supporting my 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. they had a lot see this with me kevin i know in the climate protection is actually keeping americans out of work the u.s.

is skewing the rules to send foreigners packing but those entrepreneurs are also taking their job businesses with them good reporter mark coming up plus this. and now we make it around to be the bad guy but here we were exchanging arms went down why do you think the world is ok with that well because america's a hypocrisy remember the days when america secretly and illegally sold weapons to iran president first job a few memories in new york a bit later. but now with thousands of protesters 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 but on the rise in recent months galvanized by some desperate people saying the self is on fire as we've been reporting on this channel saturday social justice demos are joined by groups calling for ultra-orthodox jews not to be exempt from the draft with moderates feeling they shouldering the country's burdens right now live updates on

what's happening there her available through our correspondents twitter account to make sure if you can to follow paulus lee to get the very least the latest if you want to keep abreast of the story she's reporting now the critics who say in the government's keeping cashing in the supported regional political goals instead of spending what appears to be 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 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 we should not point fingers at said lose but fingers are pointing and calculations made the cost of constructing settlements during the years was close to nineteen billion dollars and they think. the

investment in infrastructure is like causing electricity like energy like. also roads like water. fifty percent of the budget and settlements are finance or subsidized by government or activities the supreme court ruled this are post to me grant was illegal and has given cities here until august the twenty first to move out either way is really taxpayers foot the bill this is where the settlers will be moved to the israeli government to spend more than a full million dollars building the site that translates into some eighty thousand dollars per family at the state budget is ok 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 last year's vast numbers of protesters who support leaders in tel aviv have refused permission for tense along its main goal of. god 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. remind you mr netanyahu you should help the poor in the wee hours i've been homeless for twenty years and no politician has ever come here they don't look at us as human 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. made one outpost in the west bank. spain's prime minister has given the strongest indication yet of the country might need a bailout months after the market needed rescuing the marianna is reluctant 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 to his why the single currency is ruining the region's finances as he sees it. 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 doesn't deserve it and that we have to sort of cut off out of the problems that the germans and the french lend to somebody they shouldn't have one too. and somebody who should not be borrowing

shouldn't people monitoring the market for your made the complete collapse of the beds to having it's. symbolic it's true that it's convenient for the poorest were moved between the states and but countries that did not enter the world. have done as well or better. than those that. did. the full interview with nobel economics more it would prescott on air again in fifteen minutes you have quoted already today. a teenage protest has been shot dead health ranty 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 in another gulf state bahrain dozens of equal rights activists were injured as security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at them while a video leaked on lines of edge of the showing government mercenaries driving cars

of demonstrators as quote the middle east expert dr yunus about you believe the international community ignores events in the gulf states because the western or. everybody's focused on syria and the hot spots in politics and the fight between regional powers and also greater powers in the region so so to review and bahrain because because they are on the side of let's say the strongest part in this conflict between shielded from any criticism or trying to be portrayed as if they are brought. is there are moderate artists and is that going to significantly happen and which is of course not the truth it's very hard to say when the international community can react the international community had the chance to 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 oil interests go first before human rights i think what might trigger something in it as you said is probably when things get started or probably arms being used and the conflicts get worse maybe that in that case it's just a community will be force even if it start willing to look towards bahrain and saudi arabia. play more stories online and r.t. dot com as well if you're right now a clued in the federal first ever audit of the hidden gold star system of the streets of manhattan which somebody was actually stolen years ago plus they snap path a spiritual leader iran may regard the web as corrupting but nonetheless ayatollah khomeini's embracing social networking these days there's a photo sharing account on instagram more on that online.

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hello 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 it's hitting entrepreneurs who would otherwise be making not taking jobs as artie's reports. 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 do you growing by a million a month by the end of the year to be twenty five million. 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 in the one 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 is it ends up being an incentive to u.s. companies to locate more resources outside the country and 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 were. these are. the other sting in the tail for the states is that by turfing out skilled foreigners it's missing out on big box opportunities they 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 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 to nol employees fifteen hundred people in ten cities across india and we are now having the time of our life we also know that this opportunity of building a market leading 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 elsewhere in the world and there's been a car bombing in the libyan capital. the military police officers in tripoli it's the first attack in the capital since the overthrow of moammar gadhafi regime last year although there have been explosions elsewhere mostly targeting the major city of big. fall works like from central pakistan has exploded this is the

aftermath is left of these two dead and some fifteen injured in the resulting fire quickly spread to neighboring houses in a crowded market district police describe the rescue to try for the rubble to try and rescue people investigators a look. into how the tragedy started to that has been a crackdown of late in recent months on pakistan's many illegal produces. iran's conducting military exercises launching a new short range missile 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 it insists is peaceful the west those suspects in saying that developing an atomic bomb. and while the u.s. weighs into iran over its military ambitions as one skeleton in the closet that seems to have been forgotten 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 thing as he was unaware all but 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 there is 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 of washington failed to both. enforce the law stupid law 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 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 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 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 have progress the. 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 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 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. on the way wife dog days ahead for the euro knows the numbers suffer the headline

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