the latest news on the week's top stories in syria a decisive battle for aleppo is escalating as international peace efforts stumble with mediator kofi annan heading back to. the trial of the russian punk group you see ride evokes a chorus of responses from all around the world the three members can spend up to seven years in prison for performing an anti between stunt and the country's main procedure. on dancing regime protests are gathering source in the gulf region with saudi arabia's crown down one person says claiming more lives was dozens were arrested under injured in clashes in bahrain this week.

hello and welcome to all t. twenty four hour news live from moscow. with the latest news on the week's top stories in syria hundreds of people have reportedly been killed this week in fierce fighting between government and rebel forces the battle for the country's most populated city is escalating within such as making a crucial stand they now claim to control more than half of aleppo's districts while assad throws more troops on tongues of the front line fresh find exciting it's also been reported in damascus where forty eight rain ians have been kidnapped by the rebels who accuse them of being. the anti assad forces are said to be receiving an increasing flow of weapons and equipment from some neighboring countries and media reports this week its own light on broad also wising more bind . from washington it's about antiwar activist brian baca says these rights and its

allies as. well the united states military and intelligence services are as we know now from the u.s. government admission coordinating through turkey through a u.s. military airbase these are all you know turkey is a nato country the military operations for this so-called free syrian army these syrian so-called revolutionaries and it's clear now that this is not a shift in terms of u.s. strategy it doesn't represent any kind of alteration all that it does is reveal that the diplomacy of this so-called diplomacy the so-called looking for a negotiated settlement is a fraud that the diplomacy is in fact a form of perjury that the reality is that the u.s. government the obama administration with the pentagon and the cia i've been. coordinating the military operations to overthrow a sovereign government in syria. and with the super and still mounting but signs

are increasingly forced to bolster that but inexperienced and immature finances but many of the young blighted recruits are still willing to die for the cause expecting to be glorified is not says as x. on the point cover for young minds burning hearts bad blood while the syrian conflict often comes across as a power struggle of grown man on the ground many of those who fight and die in their late teens early twenty's. this group of f.s.a. snipers operates in a deserted town forty kilometers southwest of homes twice a day guard to shell a syrian army checkpoint nearby morris twenty three he left his family in dubai to join the uprising. to support the young fighters and to feel their pain and to experience what very experiencing on the ground and to help with the operation. while their weapons are becoming more sophisticated if you are good at handling

them most say they want to become martyrs and their dads help recruit their younger brothers. but those they're aiming at are not much older but a military hospital in damascus a week long supply of coffins has been used in less than forty eight hours by the syrian authorities do you know it really is military just so all indications are that over the past few months it has increased dramatically here in damascus main military hospital soldiers and officers died just the last two days. and the beginning of the uprising the soldiers were laid to rest to the sounds of a solemn march but if you days ago a military band was ambushed now the burials are conducted in silence and then. nineteen year old he is an army conscript who is tasked with putting bodies into conference he was working in his uncle's small shop and before being drafted a year ago. no i am not afraid to die i would do all that to be in the place of my

fallen comrades and to become a martyr defending my country it's every man's duty. another nineteen year old lies in a coffin just a few steps away he was the victim of a sniper near homs but unlike many in syria his father and uncle are not calling for revenge. we just want peace mohammed jesus all the prophets calls for peace we need it. martyrdom has long been glorified in muslim countries but it's also one of the reasons why the conflict in syria has been so protracted and sold deadly when the youngsters professor adam has to die for their cause they usually even more ready to kill for it. r.t. damascus syria and coming up here later on are you in a few minutes another trend. it's not who is your enemy but rather the

politicians who are at the wheel of the country will look at the spike of anti immigrant anger in china many and investigate what's behind it. plus extradition or asylum the fate of the economics editor julian assange hands and their balance with critics saying u.s. secret secrecy leaves him in limbo find out more this story coming up in about five minutes here on. three members of the russian c.m.l. punk group pussy riot went on trial on monday for staging and i want to put in stunned in the capitals a main cathedral in february herring's lasted all week before being adjourned for the weekend off his record greaves reports throughout the course of the week and its proceedings have been somewhat dominated by the prosecution they've mainly been having the opportunity to call witnesses to the stand and testimonies been very emotional much of the time. been involving those who are witnessing the events that

date back to fair price a defeat the so-called hold. now is politically motivated but it took place in a very sacred every. just sports the symbolic head of the russian orthodox church as such is offended many of the believers out of fairness have been very outspoken throughout the course of proceedings this week if and six occasions called for the judge to be replaced on different grounds some of them including that they're pretty detention facilities the conditions of which they're being detained at the moment amounts allegedly to torture i mean upright food access to drinking water and sleep as well they also think the judge isn't allowing them is preventing them from properly cross-examining the prosecution's witnesses so far in this trial so there's also this issue attracted the r. of many human rights organizations international musicians as well calling for the release of pussy riot members and it's been some it's galvanized the international

press and most lately we've heard from the president speaking out on this issue. as well i hope the court will rule with a just decision if the band let's say defiled a sacred place in israel they would have to cope with some tough guys there are many of them would face difficulties from attempting to leave the country was ready for example they went to the caucuses and a feast a muslim shrine security wouldn't have enough time to protect them from public anger nevertheless i don't think we should judge them too strictly on them i hope they've made some important conclusions themselves and the way the final decision rests with the court it would have been blown a fuse in a sense she calling for some degree of leniency when it comes to this trial and perhaps the most controversial part of it so far has been the potential prison sentence that could await these three defendants on charges of hooliganism that's potentially for seven years if the maximum sentence to be handed out. and you can

also follow our stories at our t. dot com the got plenty more in store for you that including. israel is flexing its military muscles by our grading is ballistic missile shield learning what the country's neighbors have to say about it on our website. plus the white house scrambles to explain the latest photo albro obama snapped while he was talking on the phone about a delicate international issue so go to r.t. dot com to his parents. a protester under soldier have been killed in a shootout between anti regime demonstrators and an army patrol in south arabia in saudi arabia rather it's the latest violence in the country's qatif region that's

home to a minority of shiite muslims who demand social reforms the opposition has been calling for an end to discrimination by the sunni monarchy since march last year and neighboring bahrain activists say dozens have been arrested after an evening of riot on thursday the clash left forty five people injured after security officers used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse protesters demanding political freedoms and an end to royal rule and on and carvell a former lecturer at the university of bahrain explains why the u.s. remains silent about that aspirations going to. hurt a. naval base in bahrain would look forward deployed barry. jones i'm sure aircraft carriers as well as why didn't you name the show you their boat and theirs is now the united maintained that there are demonic control over the entire middle east and this is very important to do you believe or do you have

the main very. so while they know that they're very difficult to try if not impossible to try to persuade an autocratic monarchy to become democratic they know this is a drain on the resources and it's only fueling opposition not only in bahrain but the really the entire region because people see us as a hypocritical stance a double standard where they go or certain reforms in syria while closing their. completely in bahrain. and coming out the art of throwing money out of the window points out how much was wasted and kind of account for after crashing into reckons trying to iraq and afghanistan. and the missing watches of the white minority in south africa have today become the surprise victims of the longed for to move on and. therefore worktops punished judge who is now

representing jude our son has said he has information to suggest the proceedings in washington are advancing to have his client extradited for spilling u.s. secrets fears he will face daughter and even execution if deported and his lord believes the case is politically motivated the wiki leaks editor took refuge in ecuador's embassy in london of the six weeks now breaking his bail terms to request asylum is wanted in sweden over sex crime gave him his which he denies they are a pretext to hunt him over to the u.s. to face trial over leaking secret cables meanwhile the whistleblowers mother christina salvage mess ecuador's president on wednesday who are sure the country's decision will not be influenced by external pressure and in an exclusive interview she told article that u.s. politicians are still gunning for revenge a wiki leaks painful revelations from the beginning. from the us from

politicians and from. news commentary. screaming at his news in the most brutal way. they seem to be. built up all on how they would feel like. calling out to google for this movie is so much to move against my son and still in the last few weeks there's been a fox news is intended to get fox news who paid the balance who was screaming out to julian the execution this is somebody who is not for the war and it's done nothing more than any good investigative journalist would do to get through to the news one doing a waterfall and you can watch all these exclusive interview with christina sargent on our website and scott horton from the hope is magazine says even if julian is granted asylum he won't be out of the woods. to me it's hard to understand how the ecuadorians are going to play this about even if they decide to grant his request

for asylum that doesn't mean he would be able to a walk out of the embassy go to heathrow and fly to ecuador he would still be held there you'd only be able to transfer out with some sort of consent from the u.k. government and i don't think that will be forthcoming without some sort of agreement from the swedish government so it's diplomatically very very thorny and setting up a scenario in which julian the songe may be a guest in close quarters and the ecuadorian embassy for many years well the question with australia is one that's been in the background for many many years in fact if you look through the history of the war on terror you find a number of australian citizens who were seized by the united states who were mistreated some tortured some held impossible conditions and one time tomorrow and the australian government was we mark a bully quiet about all this not only not intervening but sometimes attacking their own citizens and i think what's going on there is frankly

a rather surprising attitude on the part of the australian government towards the united states has been see to challenge the us over any issue. of rights nationalist movements and past his have blossomed in germany along with an upsurge in attacks on immigrants nationwide and they say it's linked to the growing number of foreign workers they are trying to to europe's economic powerhouse but as peace and one of the reports not germans should have more reason to be angry at the government. this sleepy town in saxony seems i however even here right wing extremists have made life hell for people who came to this country to set up businesses mohammed came to this town in the east of germany from pakistan to open a pizzeria and those working for him suffered abuse and attacks the hands of local view on him of our bible is over every time we called the police and the police

came every time we called them but until now they haven't found anyone they threaten to kill us and now we have a real fear that we cannot continue like this anymore the pizzeria is now closed after the last attack in early may mohammed explained to me how a group aged between eighteen and twenty five gathered outside the shop near closing time they broke windows and taunted the terrified staff telling them to go home a small explosive device was detonated which fortunately didn't cause any injuries but means the pizzeria is having to undergo an expensive refit and. the country saw a rise in extremist violence after reunification in one thousand eight hundred nine followed by an economic slump in the east which caused people to look to the far right anti fascist campaign as a warning that due to europe's current financial predicament we could see a similar rise again i would these are popular today we have basic developments in

the old part of the germany a lack of jobs leads to helplessness and despair which are the main ingredients the trend is young handsome flour rise ideology. there is a belief among activists down the issue of right wing extremism is being ignored by large numbers of the german people. education is in that part of this problem the need citing as a how to pay more attention to it that there needs to be more options for cultural integration. for young people germany's far right national democratic party all in p.d. that faced calls for them to be banned from politics the n.p.t. say that they'll be in and be opposed to any organization carrying out violent attacks and are working with young people to try and educate them i mean don't loiter our message to young people who come to our seminars and those that it's not bob center who is your enemy but rather the politicians who are at the wheel of the

country whether those words words reopen mohammed pizzeria is isn't the only business in this town to face this type of attack. and i came here seven years ago from vietnam and i've been targeted twice throwing rocks through my windows by as even germany's robust economy starts to really feel the pinch of the eurozone crisis there are concerns that we could see a rise in social problems because. peter all over. germany. us or does say more than two hundred million dollars awaited by washington on a police training program in iraq they money was used to build to facilities in the post conflict a country where both ended up being a wanted by the get out the revelations add to recenter a force that suggested billions were sent in vain or went missing during the record structure of iraq officials have made they precise amount lost to fraud and waste

can never be here sounds are reportedly also being squandered on a rebuilding and nothing country the u.s. invaded afghanistan and antiwar activists trace and it says washington's quick to spend money abroad without thinking. in afghanistan we've got the same problems we have an iraq but we also have the problems of government corruption being much worse throwing money at it with very little idea where it's going to go or if those programs are going to be successful is it is just a recipe for that money being stolen or wasted or just disappearing a lot of these programs that just sort of get added ad hoc to say the occupation in iraq or the occupation in afghanistan the administration will come up with something that they think is the reason why the war isn't going so well and they'll throw some money at that and very rarely do they ever consider if that program is

even needed or wanted so hundreds of millions of dollars go wasted. let's check some other news in brief for you this hour a suicide bombing at a funeral has left at least forty two people dead and more than thirty injured in yemen southern city of jaar that target reportedly targeted at local militia men who had been fighting with the army during their offensive against al qaeda insurgents and this year the blasts came only hours after a u.s. drone attack killed five suspected members of the islamist militant group in the country's east. egypt's president mohamed morsi has praised the army for its role in the run up to his presidency in his speech before hundreds of troops and the military council his words and market attempt to compromise with the military wish to control after the house sting of president mubarak last year the generals to hold legislative rights and powers to drop the country's constitution which they grant of themselves just hours after the presidential elections in may. at least

two new zealand soldiers and two security officials have been killed and central are gonna start the new zealand troops had arrived on the scene to assist local security forces engaged in shootout with suspended suspected militants this comes a day after the album parliament passed a vote of no confidence in the country's defense and interior ministers lawmakers blamed the government for multiple security at slips in the country. rainbow colored flags have been flying brightly in the capital of vietnam as hundreds attended its vast ever gay pride parade the demonstrators cross the city in style on bicycles and motorcycles chanting slogans in support of gay marriage this guys as they get an amazing ministry of justice proposed adding same sex couples to the country's marriage law the legislation would make vietnam the first asian country to allow gay couples to join in matrimony and adopt children. the u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is in africa for an eleven day martin across the

continent which kicked off on tuesday in cynical promoting democratic values and washington's commitment to partnerships with african nations were highlighted as the key objectives so many analysts believe washington's concern of a china's growing influence on the continent is what's actually pushing the obama administration towards action clinton handled the consequences of striking foreign business deals to take advantage of africa's vast natural resources while she never directly mentions the asian economic giant in her statements phasing was quick to head by saying it's none of washington's business he added south upon africa news wire about you only as a kiwi says the secretary of state made it blatantly clear though she was trying at one hour hillary clinton went to africa last year she expressed some trepidation about the growing relationship between africa and the people's republic of china but it appears as of most of the states in africa have

a very positive view of the burgeoning relationships between the african states and china and i think this is something that's very very frustrating for the united states the u.s. has been heavily dependent upon all that comes from various parts of africa there has been huge discoveries just recently both. in east africa off the coast of east africa and these of course are providing new opportunities for the people's republic of china to enter into economic partnership with africa because of the economic crisis in the united states it's going to pose a challenge to the u.s. state department i don't believe that hillary clinton is going to be successful and discouraging this growing relationship between africa and china in fact she may bring about some resentment for involving herself in the internal affairs of africa and africa as

a relationship with china. the dark days of apartheid and it's discrimination of the black population in south africa will soon be remembered only from history books but twenty years old says this is tomorrow they will raise division was overthrown some of the country's minority a white population feel the long fought battle for human rights has gone too far leading to reverse discrimination policy investigates once the color of all to start and skin was the key to the good life here and now it is merely part of another forgotten face of the new south africa white homeless and unemployed feels like a radical god the barrier is. old too as one of a growing number of we can't stop africans living a hop skip and a jump from sleeping on the streets who will be positions amount to a bed and some clothes the rest are handouts from charities and churches sometimes she goes without food for days. always plays as well as the girl.

stuff like there. is in the place for words when south africa held its first democratic elections eighteen years ago it marked the end of a prostate separation between whites and blacks but what was once it was black people in this country who were discriminated against today its white south africans were falling through the cracks in the days of apartheid impoverished white afrikaners were cradled by the state the national party came to power in one nine hundred forty eight on a wave of africana nationalism one of its election promises was to guarantee afrikaans beacon south africans employment subsidized housing education jobs and state benefits it left the black population out in the cold there used to be a big clause created by the system in south africa and that created in the since sorry fire even for people since one thousand nine hundred four the new government has carried out policies aimed at favoring black

employees in a bid to do away with the imbalance of the past what this means is that white people are often overlooked when applying for jobs college bursaries and public positions in this brave but often unsettling new south africa there are many who feel washed up and unwanted forty year old irene funny has lived here with her husband and four children for six years she suffers from the pain of arthritis which makes it difficult for her to walk she calls the government's well meaning policies little short of reverse racism and many many many many. grandfathers and grandmothers was against black people and i was staying in sheds like us and they were staying in houses got everything and now it's out then we staying in chats and. this abandoned caravan park is home for now it lends those on the fringes of society a place to sleep but even. this shaky safe haven is under threat the owners of this land are fighting in court to move off the people people as they get nothing

nothing nothing there and go to work then go to a place to go they've got nothing left and that's why they don't yet fifty million people live in south africa one in nine is white and very many of them are struggling try telling that to the millions of black south africans living in grinding poverty but for people like alter from start and it is a depressing come down all she can see in the land of her birth is a door slamming in her face forever i don't know what is going to happen to my little warrior or my girls. for us anymore except the hope that one day a door will open instead of slim policy r.t. krugersdorp south africa. and shortly we will bring you the life story of a former soviet soldier captured in afghanistan and eighty's but who then made the country his of but first a breather. much

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