forty eight a rainy and pilgrims are kidnapped in damascus amid reports of bloodshed in the capital as well as in syria's key northern city. outrage in israel thousands of protesters demanding social justice from a government that keeps cutting at home but shelling out just for political points . and secretary and violence escalates in the gulf states dozens of demonstrators have been injured in bahrain and a teenage protester shot dead in saudi arabia. welcome back you're watching our t.v. it's four am here in the russian capital and you're with me lucy caffein of our top

story now amid fresh violence in the syrian capital gunmen snatched forty seven iranian pilgrims just outside of damascus on saturday there are no immediate reports about their fate and syrian officials are trying to trace who is behind these abductions are six on a boy who reports from the capital. 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 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 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 see visited this

area there's enough they were for 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 these areas 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 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 . very slim on 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 bad news emerged very learned that and not their syrian television employee these time cameramen was also abducted here in damascus. that's on a boy go there she's heaping us updated on her twitter feed if you take

a look she says residents are watching heavy shelling in the distance from their balconies also reports of some buildings are in fire the video watching right now is what she sent us today showing some of that shelling of residential areas in the syrian capital. well fierce fighting between the government and rebel forces in syria's northern city of aleppo is showing no signs of abating there are casualties on both sides and rebels are saying that syrian jets are bombarding the area clashes between forces and rebels have been reported around aleppo is t.v. and radio station government troops are said to be preparing a strong offensive on the city to try and flush out opposition fighters reform campaign a leader whose leave from the syrian social club says there's another proxy war going on in syria right now. there is this great anger at 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 and be. just really very serious for peaceful critters through just. really. going to. try to achieve democracy and freedom while they are still. i think that 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. still to come this hour the employment protection that's actually keeping americans out of work. the u.s. is doing these are rules to send foreigners packing but those entrepreneurs are

also taking their job boosting businesses with them plus 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 the hypocrisy remember the days when america secretly and illegally sold weapons to iran well if not you may have company on the streets of new york we're going to have the latest from artie's the president. thousands of protesters have been rallying in tel aviv a furious at the ever growing cost of living there this week these are earlier this week the israeli government passed a tough package of cuts and tax hikes to try to save over three and a half billion dollars in the next year's budget the protest movement has been on the rise in recent months of galvanized by some people even setting themselves on fire out of desperation saturday's social justice demos are joined by groups calling for old alter or that ox jews not to be exempt from the army draft moderates feeling that they're shouldering too much of the country's burdens you

can get live updates on what's happening from our correspondent on the ground there via twitter paula sleeper cells as a demonstration do close pulleys used pepper spray to disperse the crowds security forces may not be in short supply but as paula reports the government action on welfare is definitely thinning. in the middle of the way spend on land palestinians and the international community is not there is fifty israeli families live in a small outpost which government money has helped to pay for river though it was the world's a review of course the government has invested here just as it did with this it remains the reason for the social protests if people find it hard and expensive to live in cities we should not point fingers at simply. but for. appointing and cull collations made the cost of constructing settlements during the years was close to nineteen billion dollars and you think. the investment in infrastructure

causing electricity like energy like. horse or roads like water about 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 has given status here until august the twenty first to move out either way it's really taxpayers foot the bill this is where the sec is 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 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 summer around the country's largest 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 boulevard in symbolic defiance paper tents 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. by comparison not one person appears homeless in 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. outpost in the west bank. well spain may be inching closer to an e.u. bailout of the country's prime minister giving his strongest indication yet that is country may need more help for its already struggling economy this is the closer that the leader has come to admitting that he's considering a bailout after months of denying the fact but mario roy is reluctant to sign up just yet saying that he wants to know exactly what the conditions would be and what form the rescue package would take spanish banks are already receiving about one hundred billion euros worth of help from the e.u. later on this program noble economics lart edward prescott explains why the single currency could be ruining the region's finances. if you have. poor 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. have to sort of cut off that the problem is that the germans and the french let somebody they should not learn to do. and somebody who should not be borrowing should when people bomb a. market where you are may get. collapse and not leave beds to have a. symbolic it's true that it's convenient for the poorest were we in the states and but countries that did not enter the euro. have done as well or better. than those that. did. you know watch the full interview in about fifteen minutes right here on our. teenage protester has been shot dead in saudi arabia after an anti regime group fired on an army patrol killing one soldier she i demonstrated as 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. warning even bird shot at them meanwhile a video only timeline allegedly shows government backing mercenaries targeting half the demonstrators with cars middle east expert dr unis our do you believe the international community is ignoring the events in the gulf because they are western allies. 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 iraq is now a mockery of this and is not the significantly happened which is of course not the

truth but it's very hard to say when the international community can react the international community have 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. unfortunately money and all and interests go first before human rights i think what might trigger something in as you said is probably when things get stopped or probably arms being used and then the conflicts gets worse maybe in that case it's just a committee will be force even if it's not willing to look towards bahrain and saudi arabia. plenty more stories for you online at r.t. dot com for you right now. but the a bowl of virus outbreak in uganda may have been brought under control but don't breathe a sigh of relief just yet a prisoner with a suspected case of the deadly virus managed to escape the hospital sparking new

fears of a potential outbreak. and it's not so war hungry after all we saw in for cider information from the israeli prime minister's office suggests that his office has not discussed iran for months all this despite recent vocal threats of potential military action against iran the that and a lot more for you on our web site. more news today volunteers once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations are old today.

much brighter if you move. from phones to. t.v. don't come. in one employment in the us is still taking up words and one of the method being used to keep americans in a work is to try to keep foreigners out while the problem is hitting entrepreneurs who would otherwise be making and not taking jobs artie's priya shooter explains. one of south asia's hottest new entrepreneurs twenty eight year old colonel ball is behind india's largest e-commerce company snapdeal down. 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 you know 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 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 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 bucks opportunities there were forged in

a. because 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 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 to needing 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. take a look at what what is what other stories are happening around the world right now . at least eighteen people killed twenty wounded in a suicide bomb attack in the city of jar in southern yemen the suspected al qaeda fighter blum self up at a funeral service apparently trying to target tribes about who had sided with the many army and you're going to fence of against islamist militants this comes after a u.s. drone reportedly killed five suspected al qaeda members according to the u.s. earlier in the day. and a fireworks factory in central pakistan has exploded leaving at least six people dead some fifteen were injured it happened on saturday morning while workers were unloading fireworks from

a donkey cart the entire factory into adjacent buildings then became engulfed in the ensuing fire pakistan bit has been trying to crack down on the country's illegal fireworks manufacturers i'm sure not the least of their problems and if you've got locations planned to mexico or jamaica you may want to think again tropical storm ernesto is on its way there and is expected to swell into a category one hurricane the u.s. national hurricane center predicts is going to hit the mexican coast by wednesday with winds potentially reaching up to one hundred twenty kilometers an hour jamaican authorities have issued storm warnings are evacuating people to the mainland. and back to iran a country has conducted a military exercises launching a new short range missile that's also pushing to upgrade its rockets which can already target israel as well as several u.s. bases in the middle east this comes amid tough sanctions against the country over its nuclear program which the west suspects as aimed at the balloting atomic bomb.

now on the u.s. as weighing into iran over its military ambitions there is one skeleton in the closet that seems to have been forgotten they were on contract there was one of the biggest scandals of the regen presidency of revelations that washington had been breaking an arms or 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 fast forward to today the full extent of his involvement and his awareness well let's tell him clear the man who broke the story robert perry appears there are still too many details but 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 into 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 are 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 this the american people have been denied we don't really know who did what and why and even how. the iran contra affair may have been the scandal of the decade and it's time twenty five years later though do people even know what it's all about the resident hit the big the streets of the big apple to find out. 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 wear over 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. and iraq was the you know the bad guys you know it's just the whole it's just 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. well coming up why there could be dark days ahead for the euro from a man who knows the number that's after the headlines up next.

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