forty eight a rainy and pilgrims are kidnapped in damascus this bloodshed is reported both in the capital and in syria's northern city to. outrage in israel thousands of protesters demand social justice from a government to keep cutting at home but splashing out to score political points. i'm sick tear in violence escalates in the gulf states dozens of demonstrators have been injured in bahrain and a teenage protest that shot dead in saudi arabia. hello they're broadcasting live from russia this is r.t. it's now one am moscow time my name is kevin zero in first image fresh violence in the syrian capital forty eight pilgrims from iran have been kidnapped in damascus

which iranian diplomats blame on terrorist groups there are no immediate reports about their fate and syrian officials are trying to trace who is behind the abductions examine the reports now from damascus. nationals who were kidnapped in damascus on saturday were of the largest group of foreign nationals. 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 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. 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 visited this so yeah 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 adduction and that's just a nation for quite some time this area houses predominantly iraqi refugees tens of thousands of them most of them shia muslims and they've been targeted by the predominantly sunni rebels for months on and so six tearing divisions all really 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 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 to 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 of adoption for syrians this risk is much higher and unfortunately that chances of being released unharmed very. on top of the of i learned that 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 i know also known as sunni consolidation find out that he was killed because of being should be a pro-government just a few hours after the sad news emerged learned that and not their syrian television employee this time cameraman was also abducted here in damascus. to avoid because there was she's keeping us updated on twitter at the moment she's tweeting that to residents watching heavy shelling in the distance from the balconies in damascus and reports also some buildings are on fire these are the pictures she said of the

shelling of residential areas in the syrian capital. fierce fighting between government and rebel forces in syria's northern city of aleppo showing no sign of abating either there are casualties on both sides with rebels saying that syrian jets are bombarding the area clashes between syrian forces and rebels have been reported around aleppo as t.v. and radio station two government troops are said to be preparing a strong offensive on the city to try and flush out opposition fighters. from the syrian social club spoke to me earlier and says there's another proxy war going on in syria 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 weapons 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 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 progress there's 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. so the cover the employment protection is actually keeping americans out of work the u.s. is still means of rules to send foreigners packing but those same entrepreneurs are also taking their job businesses with them as we report plus. and now we make around out to be the bad guy but here we were exchanging arms with dan why do you think the world is ok with that call because america's the hypocrisy remember the

days when america secretly under legally sold weapons to iran the president tries to jog a few memories a bit later in new york. but back to the present thousands of protesters have been rallying tonight in tel aviv angry at the ever growing cost of living this week the israeli government passed a tough package of cuts and tax hikes 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 setting themselves on fire as we've been reporting on this channel sort of a social justice demos joined by groups to calling for ultra orthodox jews not to be exempt from army draft moderates feeling shouldering the country's burdens get live updates on what's happening from our correspondent on twitter paul the story is tweeting in the most latest tweet as the demonstrations brutal close police used some kind of pepper spray to disperse the crowds. now the security forces may not

be in short supply but as paula steer reports next government action on welfare is definitely thin on the ground. in the middle of the west bank on land palestinians and the international community claim it's not the is fifty israeli families live in a small outpost which government money has helped to pay for. reviews of course the government has invested a lot here just as it did with this it when it's but we don't know the reason for the social protest if people find her inexpensive to live in cities should not point fingers at. but fingers are pointing and calculations made the cost of constructing settlements during the years was close to nineteen billion dollars and you think. the investment in infrastructure is causing like electricity like energy like. horse or 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 is given status here until august the twenty first to move out either way its way the 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 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 but 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 in outposts like this 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 one outpost in the west bank.

protesters were shot dead in saudi arabia after an anti regime group fired on an army patrol killing one soldier traitors have been calling for an end to discrimination by the sunni monarchy since march last year in neighboring bahrain dozens of equal rights activists were injured the security forces fired tear gas stun grenades and shop at them while a video leaked online allegedly shows government mercenaries charging it demonstrators cards opposition politician believes the international community is washing its hands of the situation gulf because material interests way principles. this is part of. the national community we want to support. not all human rights abusers when they consider the international. financial and economic. and other things foreign policy

these are more much more. human rights own democracy and that's why we. called for. security just these are. something that is. for this it isn't just two months. it is going out so it's not killing other places but they are trying to. trying to. humiliate. people. and they are going to new york. this by ignoring. right now the federal reserve first ever audit of the hidden gold stashed under the streets of manhattan for some believe was really stolen years ago or not online. on

the snap piece spiritual leader may regard the web as corrupting but nonetheless. embracing social networking these days with his own photo sharing count on histograms. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations to rule the day.

which brightened. about from heights to. dot com. unemployment in the united states is still ticking outwards and one method being used to keep americans in work is to try and keep foreigners out problem with that is that it's hitting entrepreneurs who would otherwise be making not taking jobs as artie's press freedom. 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 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 unit of the twenty five million highest rafiki 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 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 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 were. these. 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 u.s. made i think that at the time i spend can call it. 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 now having the time of our life we also know that this opportunity of building a marketing. 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 coming up just a bit late to find those who are some studies to discuss how people's beliefs influence the global as well as having a look at greece's financial troubles to. there is either is zero percent or a one hundred percent chance that greece is going to leave the euro there's no seventy five now it's fifty percent in now it's ninety percent they're just making up numbers telling some clients and the clients they buy cell by cell based on these numbers that they just pull out magically from thin air but those numbers they pull magically out of thin air are the collateral that backs derivatives the derivatives that we know definitively are backed by magical thinking they themselves are algorithmic bots that are referencing each other and now it's going to be informed by magical thinking magical thinking informs a lot more rate magical thinking informs the nielsen rating system we now know is completely rigged it's another rig market is part of the trifecta of fraud media

wall street and washington they're all rigged they're rigged together. actions made a bit later then back to the present world news in brief has been a car bombing in the libyan capital one man was injured in the blasts near military police officers in tripoli it's the first such 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 benghazi updating you on the fireworks factory in central pakistan that suffered from an explosion has left at least six dead now and some fifteen injured it happened on sunday morning well workers unloaded fireworks from a donkey cart the entire factory into adjacent buildings became engulfed in the ensuing fire pakistan's been trying to crack down on the country's many illegal fireworks when a fracture is likely to 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 u.s.

bases in the middle east becomes as new tough sanctions are imposed on iran over its nuclear program which it insists is peaceful the west suspects it's aimed at developing an atomic bomb. and while the u.s. weighs into iran over its. patients is one skeleton in the closet seems to have been forgotten the iran contra affair was one of the biggest scandals of the reagan presidency revelations of washington being 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 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 would congress really hold the president to task in make sure that he couldn't go off in his own direction the institutions of washington failed to both in force the lawsuit that 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 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 the president's in 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 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 where everything that's going on out there knew 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 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. 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. question marks and code just now schumann's like max kaiser ruffles more feathers this time of the notorious one percent but on the world's financial fallout he's here with the rest of the table a couple of minutes to the top stories for you just over five minutes in fact here on our team coming to live from russia.

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