forty eight a rainy and pilgrims are kidnapped in damascus and the reports of bloodshed in the capital as well as syria's northern city. outrage in israel thousands of protesters demand social justice from a government that keeps on cutting at home but shelling out to score political points. meanwhile sectarian violence escalates in the gulf states and dozens of demonstrators have been injured in bahrain and a teenage protester shot dead in saudi arabia. early morning to you it's seven am here in the russian capital you're watching r t

with me lucy catherine of well made 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 and syrian officials say that they are trying to trace who is behind these abductions are she's exhausted boyko 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 is they not 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 on t.v.

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 that's just a nation for quite some time the area house is predominantly iraqi refugees tens of thousands of damn 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 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 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 hunkies own house near damascus in july was found dead . a group that claimed responsibility for his execution just hot. also known as sunni consolidation found out that he was killed because of being a should be a pro-government just a few hours after the bad news emerged learned that and not their syrian television employee these time cameramen was also abducted here in damascus. pleading also

follow up on a boy on her twitter account to there she says that residents are watching heavy shelling from the distance from their balconies shells are reporting that some buildings were on fire at the images you're seeing now is some of what she sent us of today's 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 as casualties continue to grow rebels say that syrian jets are are bombarding the area clashes between syrian forces and rebels have been reported around aleppo t.v. and radio station government troops are said to be preparing a strong offense of on the city to try and flush out the opposition reform campaign campaigner who's a leaf from the syrian social club so there's another proxy war in syria now. there's a strange like being married to american. democracy to your door like we saw what

happened in iraq for example they accused them of her being rico weapon so they went there to spread democracy and be. disfigured syria have a peaceful protest just really. going to. to achieve democracy and freedom while they are supporting by 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 of the employment protection that's actually keeping americans out of

work. the u.s. is skewing visa rules and foreigners hiking but those entrepreneurs are also taking their job listing business is a long one a 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 of remember those days when america secretly sold weapons to iran well if not you may have company on the streets of new york going to have the latest from artie's the resident. thousands of protesters have been rallying in tel aviv fear eous 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 over three and a half billion dollars for next year's budget the protest movement is been on the rise in recent months galvanized by some people who set 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 in israel saying they feel like they're shouldering too much of the country's burdens archies possibly or has been following the protests and tweets that the police has used some kind of pepper spray to disperse crowds security forces in israel may not be in short supply but the government action on welfare is definitely thin take a look. 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 to pay for those the worlds and reviews of course the government has invested here just as it did with this it when it's the reason for the social protests if people find her inexpensive to live in cities we should not point fingers at sidley. but finger pointing and cultural. made the cost of constructing settlements during the years was

close to nineteen billion dollars and you think. the investment in infrastructure is like causing electricity like energy like. also 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 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 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 to. by comparison not one person appears homeless in outposts like this one in the grown 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 in existing communities policy r t outpost in the west bank. a teenage protester has been shot dead in saudi arabia the event followed after an anti regime group had fired on an army patrol killing one soldier shiite demonstrators have been calling for an end to the discrimination by the sunni monarchy since march last year. in the ring bahrain dozens of equal rights activists were injured as security forces fired tear gas stun grenades even birdshot at them meanwhile a video leaked online allegedly shows the government backing mercenaries charging at demonstrators with cars opposition politician color yellow marzouk the international community is washing its hands of the situation myself because material interests outweight principles. this is part of the. city

and international community where they want to support. not all of you mother i sort of uses when they consider the international. financial and economic. and other thing too and 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. security justice these are. something that is. good for this it isn't just a few months. it is. salt it's not killing other places but they are trying to.

trying to. humanely but. people are. and they are going to new york there was this by this ignored and then. play more stories for you on our website that's r t dot com let's take a look at what's going on at. the ebola virus outbreak in uganda and they have been brought under control but don't breathe a sigh of relief just to get a prisoner with a suspected case of the deadly virus managed to escape the hospital sparking fears of contagion. and is not so war hungry after all the recent research and insider information from the israeli government suggests the prime minister's office has not discussed iran for months despite vocal threats of military action against tehran this story and a lot more for you at our team. bring

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more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are old today. well employment in the u.s. continues to soar one method being used to keep americans in work is to try to keep foreigners out of the problem is that it's hitting entrepreneurs who are otherwise be making not taking jobs that are 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 do you growing by a million a month by the end of the united 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 other 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 had i got my reasons 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 if denials are being made that are justified because what happens is it ends up giving an incentive to us companies to locate more resources outside the country in some ways in ways that might be is economic well you. us 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 infrasound of indian applicants for a certain type of temporary work visa 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 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 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. 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 we are 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. let's take a look at some of the other stories making headlines around the globe. the death toll from a suicide bomb attack in the southern yemen city has now risen to at least twenty five people local reports estimate the number to. much higher a suspected al qaeda fire fighter or blew himself up at a funeral service he was apparently targeting tribesmen who had sided with the yemeni army during an offensive against islamist militants this all comes after a u.s. drone strike has killed five suspected al qaeda members earlier in the day. and if you've got vacation plans to mexico were jamaica you may be out of luck 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 twenty kilometers an hour jamaican authorities have issued storm warnings that are evacuating people to me and them. meanwhile the united nations has announced food aid shipments to north korea this follows heavy flooding that has killed nearly one hundred seventy people there hundreds of thousands more are just placed in large swaths of problems have been damaged the recent events prompted fears of food shortages in the country the flooding comes on the heels of the most severe drought in decades. and one if conducted military exercises launching a new short range missile the country's also pushing to upgrade its rockets which can already target israel as well as u.s. bases in the middle east all 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 into iran over its not very ambitions there is one skeleton in

a 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. indeed following the end of the capitol hill hearings into the case about twenty five years ago president reagan took full responsibility for what he called things he wasn't aware of or fast forward to today a full extent of his involvement is still unclear the man who broke the story robert parry they are said there are still too many details that will never seen 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 in 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 this the american people have been denied we don't really know who did what and why and even how well the iran contra affair may have been the stand all of the decade and that's time but twenty five years later to people even now what it was all about are does the residents took to 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 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. 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 through. 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 they 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 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 message they'd like to promote. or i were up to date i want to be back with the main headlines in just a bet. everyone

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