forty eight a rainy and pilgrims are kidnapped in damascus amid reports of bloodshed in the capital as well as a serious northern city. outrage in israel thousands of protesters demand social justice from a government that keeps cutting at home but shelling out to score political points . and sectarian violence escalates in the gulf states dozens of demonstrators have been injured in bahrain and it's teenage protesters shot dead in saudi arabia. early morning to you six am here in the russian capital and lucy cathal of and you're watching our team our top story now in syria i'm at the fresh violence in

the syrian capital armed gunmen reportedly snatched forty seven iranian pilgrims just outside of damascus on saturday now there were no immediate details about their fate syrian officials do say that they are trying to trace the source of the abductions are these acts on a boy go explains 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 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 stopped by i'm known gunmen and they were taken hostage now see visited

this so you know 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 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 sick 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 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 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 mid july was found dad and a group that claimed responsibility for his execution just hot i knew so i was also known as sunni consolidation found out that he was killed because of being a should be oprah government just a few hours after the sad news emerged very learned that and not their syrian television employee these time cameramen was also abducted here in damascus. you

can also follow on twitter on her feed she sends a residents are watching heavy shelling in the distance from their balconies reports also that some buildings are on fire the images you're seeing now are just some of the pictures she sent us from today's shelling of the residential areas in the syrian capital. of. fierce fighting between government and rebel forces in syria's northern city of aleppo is showing no signs of abating as casualties continue to grow rebels say the syrian jets are bombarding the area clashes between syrian forces and rebels have been reported around aleppo's t.v. and radio station government troops are said to be preparing a strong offensive on the city to try to flush out opposition fighters perform campaigner aliya must lose a leave from the syrian social club says there's another proxy war going on in

syria. there's a saying about being nice to america or they will bring democracy to your door like we saw what happened in iraq for example they accused them of having a lethal weapon so they went there to spread democracy in peace. they're just saying that syria have peaceful protests 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. well still to come this hour the employment protection that's actually

keeping americans out of work. the u.s. is doing visa rules to send foreigners packing but these entrepreneurs are also taking their job to sting businesses along with plus. and now we make iran out to be the bad guy right here we were exchanging arms with them right why do you think the world is ok with that well because america is the hypocrisy yeah remember the days when america secretly and illegal you sold weapons to iran not you may have company on the streets of new york why have the latest from artie's the president. well thousands of protesters have been rallying in tel aviv furious at the ever growing cost of living there this week the israeli government passed a tough package of cuts and tax hikes in order to try to save about three and a half billion dollars in the next year's budget the protest movement has been on the rise in recent months and galvanized by some people setting themselves on fire

in desperation saturday's social justice demos are joined by groups calling for ultra orthodox jews not to be exempt from the army draft with moderates feeling like they are the ones shouldering the country's burdens artie's policy has been following the protests and she tweets that police use some kind of pepper spray to disperse the crowds the security forces may not be in short supply but as paul reports the government's action on welfare is definitely thin on the ground. in the middle of the west bank on land palestinians and the international community is not there is fifty israeli families live in a small outpost which government money has helped pay for. the government has invested here just as it did with this it 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 sidley. but for. appointing and calculations made the

cost of constructing settlements during the years was close to nineteen billion dollars and it includes investment in infrastructure as like housing electricity like energy like. also roads like water about fifty percent of the budget and certain mance are financed or subsidized by government or activities the supreme court ruled this outpost immigrant was illegal and has given settlers 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 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 melissa police is 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. 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 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. a teenage protester has been shot down over in saudi arabia after an anti regime group fired on an army patrol killing one soldier shiite demonstrators have been calling for an end to discrimination by the sunni monarchy since march last year meanwhile a neighbor hanged in neighboring baccarin dozens of people rights activists were injured as security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades as well as birdshot after a video leaked online allegedly shows government backed with mercenaries charging at demonstrators using cars or middle east expert dr yunus i believe you believe seem to national community as ignoring the events in the gulf because they are

western allies. everybody is focused now on syria and the hotspots in geopolitics and the fight between regional powers and also greater powers in the region so sold arabia and bahrain because because they are on the side of of let's say the strongest part in this conflict i've been shielded from any criticism or or trying to be portrayed as if they are right there's no market for tests and it is 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 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 oil interests go first before human rights i think what might trigger something

and as you said it is probably when things get started we're probably arms being used and the conflicts get worse maybe that in that case it just the community will be force even if it start willing to look towards bahrain and saudi arabia. well a lot more stories for you at our website at r t dot com. the ebola 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 fears of a new contagion. and not so war hungry after all recent insider information from the israeli government suggest the prime minister's office has not discussed iran for months all this despite vocal threats of potential military action against tehran this story and lots more for you at r.t. dot com.

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first use shooting on our. the unemployment in the united states may be growing by the day and one method being used to the americans in the work is to try to keep foreigners out well the problem is that it's hitting entrepreneurs who would otherwise be making not taking jobs as artie's preassure later 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 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 to you growing by a million a month by the end of the you know 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 nor 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. 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. 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 we found is that if you keep such people out you 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 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. more world news for you right now. the death toll from the suicide bomb attack in southern yemen city has now risen to at least twenty five people a suspected al qaeda fighter blew him self up at a funeral service apparently targeting tribesmen who had sided with the yemeni army this was during an offensive against the islamised militants there all this comes after a u.s. drone strike has killed at least five possibly more suspected al qaeda members earlier in the day. and if you've got vacations planned to mexico in jamaica well you may have to reconsider the tropical storm ernesto is on its way

there and it's expected to swell into a category one hurricane the u.s. national hurricane center predicts it will hit the mexican coast by wednesday with winds reaching one hundred and twenty kilometers per hour jamaican authorities have issued storm warnings and are evacuating people from the mainland to them inland. meanwhile the u.n. has announced a crude aid shipments to north korea this follows heavy flooding that's building in the hundred and seventy people there are hundreds of thousands more are just glazed and large swaths of damaged recent events prompted fears of food shortages during the flooding comes on the heels of the most severe drought in decades. iran has conducted military exercises launching a new short range missile it's also pushing to upgrade its rockets which can already target israel as well as u.s. bases in the middle east this comes amid tough new sanctions against the country

over its nuclear program which the west suspects is aimed at developing an atomic bomb. and while the u.s. weighs in on iran there's one skeleton in the closet that seems to have been forgotten the iran contra affairs it was one of the biggest scandals of the reagan presidency revelations that washington has been breaking an arms embargo on iran well following the end of the capitol hill hearings into the case of exactly twenty five years ago president reagan had taken full responsibility for what he called things he was unaware of well fast forward to today the full extent of his involvement is still unclear the man who broke the story robert perry fears that 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 and and make sure that he couldn't go off in his own direction the institutions of washington failed to both enforce the law or see the law 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 how. well the iran contra affair more venerable scandal of the dot on its time twenty five years later that people even know what it was all about lottie's the residents what 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 their run 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 stayed 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 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 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 you. 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. that's kaiser is going to ruffle more feathers this time of the notorious one percent behind the world's financial fallout all that's coming up next on r.t. . the.

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