forty eight a rainy and pilgrims are kidnapped in damascus amid reports of bloodshed in the capital as well as a serious key northern city. outrage in israel thousands of protesters demand social justice from a government that keeps on cutting at home get shelling out to score political points. and sectarian violence escalates in the gulf states dozens of demonstrators have been injured involved rain and a teenage protester shot dead in saudi arabia. good morning it said three am here in the russian capital and lucy caffein of and you're watching r t well our top story now fresh violence in the syrian capital amid all

this forty eight pilgrims from iran have been kidnapped in damascus reunion diplomats blame this on terrorist groups although there are no immediate reports about their fate syrian officials are trying to trace who is behind these abductions are jesus on a boy go reports from damascus. forty eight iranian 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 is they not reaches one of the holiest shrines for shia muslims because it's believed to hold the relics of prophet muhammad's granddaughter and 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 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 duction and us us a nation for quite some time the 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 six tearing 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 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 voice 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 duction for syrians this risk is much higher and unfortunately of their chances of being released unharmed. very slim on the side of the roller and 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 hot i mean those who are also known as sunni consolidation found out that he was killed because of being a should be oprah government just a few hours after these sad news emerged very low and died and not their syrian television employee these time cameramen was also abducted here in damascus. looks on a boy the is there she's keeping us updated and on her twitter account over there she

says that residents are watching heavy shelling in the distance from their balconies reports of some buildings are on fire the video that you're watching right now is the sum of what she sent us from today's shelling of residential areas in the syrian capital. welfarist fighting between the government and rebel forces in syria's northern city of aleppo is still showing no signs of abating there are casualties on both sides rebels say that syrian jets are bombarding that area clashes between forces syrian forces and rebels have been reported around aleppo t.v. and radio station government troops are said to be preparing a strong offensive on the city to try to flush out the opposition reform campaigner aliya mahfouz a leaf from the syrian social club says there's another proxy war going on in syria now. there is this being very few american. democracy to your door. happened in iraq for example they accuse them of having rico weapons so they

went there to spread democracy in order to be here they're just a very. peaceful prepares just really. going to. to achieve democracy and freedom. well they are supporting my naval weapons. money financial finding everything so which is very sarcastic that. promote them as very peaceful protest 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. so the come this hour the unemployment protection that's actually keeping americans out of work the u.s. is skewing visa rules to send foreigners packing but those entrepreneurs are also

taking their job posting businesses with them plus. right now we make iran out to be the bad guy but here we were changing arms with them why do you think the world is ok with that well because america is the hypocrisy. remember that is what america secretly sold and illegally sold weapons to iran well if not you may have some company on the streets of new york we'll have the latest from artie's at the resident. what thousands of protestors have been rallying in tel aviv fieri us at the ever growing cost of living there this week the israeli government passed a tough package of cuts and tax hikes to try to save over three now have billion dollars in next year's budget the protest movements but on the rise in recent months galvanized by some people setting themselves on fire in desperation saturday's social justice demos are joined by groups for calling for alter or orthodox jews not to be exempt from the army draft with moderates feeling that they're shouldering the country's burdens we can get live updates on what's

happening for a month correspondent on twitter policy or tweets that as the demonstration drew to a close the police use some kind of pepper spray to disperse the crowds security forces may not be in short supply but as paula reports now the government action on welfare is definitely thin on the ground. in the middle of the way spend on land palestinians and the international community is not that is fifty israeli families live in a small outpost which government money has helped to pay for river though it was the world's reviews of course the government is in this ill and here just as it did with this it remains but we don't know the reason for the social proof it's going to hurt and expensive to live in cities should not point fingers at solutions but fingers a point. and calculations 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. fifty percent of the budget and settlements are finance or subsidized by government or activities the supreme court ruled this outpost to make was illegal and is given as 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 where we have lost years 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. remind 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. doing it to you by comparison not one person appears homeless in outposts like this one it may go on as the social protests continue more and more people are demanding on says to why the government is pouring money into new settlements at the expense of the poor

and existing communities. post in the west bank. plenty more stories for you online at our dot com. including the federal reserve's first ever audit of they had in gold a stash under the streets of manhattan some believe it was actually stolen years ago. plus a snap happy spiritual leader ironic may regard the web as corrupting but of the isle of ayatollah khamenei is bracing social networking with his own photo sharing account on and stuck around. the news today. again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing

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a big picture. a teenage protester has been shot dead in saudi arabia after an anti regime group fired on an army patrol there killing one soldier shii demonstrators have been calling for an end to discrimination by the sunni monarchy since march of last year in neighboring bahrain dozens of equal rights activists were injured as security forces fired tear gas stun grenades even birdshot at meanwhile a video leaked online allegedly shows government backing a mercenaries charging of demonstrators with cars full opposition a politician that marzouk believes that international community is washing its hands of the situation in the gulf because of material interests that outweight

principles. this is part of the. city and international community where they want to support. not all of 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. sort of thought we could not and still are called for dignity. security justice these are something that is. for the kids or this it isn't just two months until it. stops activists. from traveling outside the salt it's not killing other

places but they are trying to. trying to get a lot. but the people are. and they are continuing their struggle this by this ignore and the international. well unemployment in the u.s. seems to just be getting worse while one method being used to keep americans in the work is to try to keep foreigners out the problem is that it's having entrepreneurs who would otherwise be making not taking jobs. or explains. 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. 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 north 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. is that. the other sting in the tail for the states is that by turfing out skilled foreigners it's missing out on big bucks 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.

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 to nol employees 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 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. well later this hour finance wizards max and stacey discuss how

far people's beliefs influence the global markets as well as taking a look at greece's dire financial troubles if you want to know what i mean because i don't think that's crap. there's either 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 the 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 then there but those numbers of the polls. if there 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 magical thinking informs the nielsen rating system we now know is completely rigged so the rig market is part of the trifecta of fraud media wall

street and washington they're all rigged they're rigged together. well more on world news for you right now. at least eighteen people have been killed and twenty wounded in a suicide bomb attack in the city of jar and southern yemen the numbers could actually be much higher there's a spec that al qaeda fighter blew himself up at a funeral service apparently targeting tribesmen who are sided with the army during an offensive against islamist militants this comes after a u.s. drone attack has killed five suspected al-qaeda members earlier in the day. meanwhile a fireworks factory in central pakistan has exploded leaving a query of least six people dead some fifteen injured it happened early on saturday morning while workers were unloading fireworks from a donkey cart the entire factory in two adjacent buildings then became engulfed in the flames pakistan's been trying to crack down on the country's many illegal

fireworks manufacturers. and if you've got vacations planned to mexico in jamaica you may be in trouble tropical storm and ernesto is on its way there aren't expected to swell into a category one hurricane the u.s. national hurricane center predicts ill's it will hit the mexican coast by wednesday with winds reaching up to one hundred twenty kilometers per hour jamaican authorities have issued storm warnings are evacuating people to the mainland. iranian while conducted a military exercise as a launching. a new short range missile is also pushing to upgrade its rockets which can already target israel and u.s. bases in the middle east all this comes amid tough new sanctions against the country over its nuclear program which is going to the west as aimed at developing an atomic bomb. and while the u.s. always into iran over its military ambitions there's one skeleton in the closet that seems to have been forgotten the iran contra affair has been one of the

biggest scandals of president reagan's time in washington and revelations that washington had been backing an arms embargo breaking an arms embargo on iran everything that right 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 thinks he was unaware of fast forward to today the full extent of his involvement and his awareness is still unclear the man who broke that story robert perry bears 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 simpson strains 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 and make sure that he couldn't go off in his own

direction the institutions of 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 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 the american people have been denied we don't really know who did what and why and even now. well the residents 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 of. something big

he didn't know yes yes do you member it was about what was it about to 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. said no it's not 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 hypothesis 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 guys 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 . 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 the. as for all the series 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.

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