today's news on the week's top stories battle in syria as the rebels on the regime fight for the country's second city while the u.n. looks for a new peace envoy after kofi annan steps down. facing seven years for storming russia's main cathedral the trial of. pussy riot divides the country. and violent crackdowns on anti regime protesters asco late in the gulf states but the world staying silent on the long running on rats.

hello and welcome to our tease the weekly this sunday on carriage. well they have the fighting raging in syria's second city of aleppo between government and rebel forces could prove decisive in the eighteen month conflict the syrian army's sending thousands more troops and artillery to the front line in damascus the government says it's pushed rebels from their last stronghold but sporadic clashes are ongoing on saturday forty eight iranian pilgrims were kidnapped in the syrian capital video shown by the news channel allegedly shows man identified as the abducted iranians surrounded by rebel fighters international peace efforts were thrown into turmoil this week when chief mediator kofi annan quit the un then voted overwhelmingly to condemn the syria by let's call the biased for only pressuring the regime to act patrick a is covered syria for the news web site spiked dot com

he says the states behind it are pursuing a short side of the agenda. i think in general it's being used to try and step up the pressure on both russia and china to start to take a stand against the sides and effectively what it's doing is saying that we disrespect the sovereignty of syria and we don't want the syrian people to determine their own future william hague suggested he's going to offer non-lethal aid he hasn't given specific details of this yet but it does seem like it's going to be intelligence it does seem like there's going to be an awful lot of support announced for the rebels over the next few weeks and of course this comes just after president obama has announced well it hasn't been announced but it has been revealed that there has been a secret plan basically allow the cia to assist the rebels as well the thing i find very striking about this is that there's a real historical amnesia that's taking place among western leaders where they don't really know who the opposition is there are

a lot of concerns about the makeup of it you have you elements there are a lot of people who the west would not like to be dismissed with their stuff into this mentality that they draw to help anyone get into power there drove a sports any of the opposition in syria then they would support assad's assad has become this bogeyman just like it actually before him and they just see we need to get rid of him and everything will be ok it's a naive approach that will do no hope no help at all. the syrian rebels are increasingly bolstering their ranks with inexperienced and young fighters many are still willing to die for their calls expecting to be glorified as martyrs boyko reports 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 gold to shell a syrian army checkpoint near by omar's twenty three he left his family in dubai to join the uprising. to support the young fighters and to feel the 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 at a military hospital in damascus a week long supply of coffins has been used in boston forty eight hours while the syrian authorities do not release an illiterate just so all indications are that over the past few months it has increased dramatically here in damascus main military hospital ninety soldiers and officers died just the last two days. in the

beginning of the uprising the soldiers were laid to rest through the sounds of a solemn march but if you days ago a military band was. now the burial site conducted in silence and then. nineteen year old who is an army conscript was tasked with bodies into conference it was working in his uncle small shop and i love you for being drafted a year ago. no i'm not afraid. to be in the place of my fallen comrades and to become a martyr defending my country it's every man's duty yet 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. jesus all the prophets calls for peace we need it. marching them 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 so deadly when the youngsters profess readiness to die for their cause they usually even more ready to kill for it. artsy damascus syria. on monday i'm ask our corn began hearing the case of russian female punk pussy riot three women are being tried for staging an anti-pope stunt and the capital's main cathedral in february artist jacob graves is following the trial that's dividing russian society. throughout the course of the week this trial 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 she usually been involving those who are witnessing the events that date back to favoring price a feature this so called home prayer how it was politically motivated but it took

place in a very sacred and religious spots the symbolic head of the russian orthodox church as such it offended many of the believers out of fairness have been very outspoken throughout the course of proceedings this week they first and six occasions called for the judge to be are placed on different grounds some of them including their detention facilities the conditions of which they're being detained at the moment amounts allegedly to torture i mean the price of 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 art 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. are you sure it's what i hope the court will rule with a just decision if the bond let's say defiled a sacred place in israel they would have to cope with some tough guys there are many of them look at these 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 the public anger. nevertheless i don't think we should judge them too strictly on their own and i hardly need some important conclusions themselves anyway the final decision rests with the court so we're going to get a bit lonely of who's in essentially calling for some degree of leniency when it comes 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 for to be handed out. and still have for you this hour germany's going to extremes.

it's not the bob center who is going to be good rather the politicians who are at the wheel of the country later we'll look at why there was a spike in anti immigrant anger in europe's richest nation. and find out how many dollars went down the drain and failed american attorneys to pump money into policing in iraq and afghanistan. chad protesters in bahrain and saudi arabia are search for mass rallies in their countries united in their call against what they see as discrimination by the ruling elite activists are also demeaning the demanding rather the release of political prisoners crackdowns on dissent has been gallery force in the gulf states teenage protester and a soldier work killed in clashes in saudi arabia on friday that's the latest violence in the country's predominantly shiite could teach over each other. dozens of equal

rights activists were injured security forces fired tear gas and stun grenades at them while a video leaked online magically shows government mercenaries driving cars demonstrators and leading figure in vaqueros largest opposition party believes monetary interests in the gulf states are more important to western politicians then human rights. this is part of. their mission and community will they won't do it so it will. not all of the human rights abuses when they consider the international . financial and economic. and other things. these are more much more. human rights and look that's. why we. so don't we can order and still call for. dignity. security and justice these are all something that

is being called the kids for this it is in just the two months under the. other store activists baringo. outside so it's not like killing other places but they are trying to. trying to. humanely but. people are still and they are going to new york they're struggling this by this ignore and. we've got plenty more stories for you on our team dot com here's what we have lined up right now a fishing township radiations just covered in marine life and sea water off japan while anti-nuclear approach as they're showing no sign of slowing. and roving around the red planet two point five billion dollars tempted to look for life on

mars. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada after a. giant corporations are old today.

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come. and welcome to our team it is fourteen minutes past the hour this is the weekly well joining us on jules lawyer says he has information to suggest washington as advancing proceedings to extradite the whistleblower for leaking secret u.s. cables the wiki leaks editor fears he will face torture or even execution after horde it. is an aqua door campaigning for her son's a solemn there she exclusively told r.t. that american politicians are gunning for revenge. from the beginning. from the us from politicians and from. news commie tell you it's. screaming at his noodle in the most brutal way. they seem to be. built up all in how they were feeling. calling out to google for this and move is such

a move against my son and still in the last few weeks there's been folks who see this entire i think it's folks these who paid the balance who was screaming at julian six occasions this is somebody who is not pro war and has done nothing more than any good in this egregious which is to be interested in this one doing the work for. you go watch our exclusive interview with christina salcha at r t dot com on wednesday ecuador's president assured her his country is decision on a solemn will not be influenced by any external pressure he worked a week senator has been holed up in ecuador's embassy in london over six weeks now he's wanted in sweden over sex crime allegations which he denies he says there are a pretext to hand him over to the u.s. former lawyer jennifer while the servant says these are been hailed by his own country. it is a great shame this is to my knowledge the first time in history than

a straight in citizen has sought refuge with a foreign government because our government refuses to take the action which was legally possible for a government to take many suspect that there is an existing sealed indictment for joy and that that indictment they simply waiting for the appropriate time to exercise to implement that indictment as a matter of u.s. law is a criminal offense to reveal the existence of a sealed indictment but what the u.s. government has not done and which is available to them that if they are not interested as the us ambassador states then it would be a simple matter for the u.s. attorney general to state explicitly to confirm that the criminal investigation is over and that no charges will be laid and no extradition request would be made but they have so far failed to do so unless and until they do that we are very alert to the possibility that this is an ongoing criminal investigation all of the evidence that's coming out of what we know about the grand jury about what's coming out of the bradley manning proceedings confirm that there is as government has been reported by our embassy in washington

a criminal investigation of unprecedented size and scale so unless and until the u.s. government confirms that that criminal investigation is over and no charges will be laid we have to be alert to that very real possibility still to come history repeating in reverse in south africa because trouble with apartheid now seems to be separate getting the minority white community party reports from johannesburg shortly. for right now tional is movements are gaining ground in germany along with an upsurge in attacks on immigrants it's being linked to the growing number of foreign workers attracted to europe's economic powerhouse peter all of our reports on how today's anger has spent decades taking root. 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 he and those working for him suffered abuse and attacks would be hands of local views on police 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. right wing violence on the streets of germany 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 and the fascist campaign as a warning that juju europe's current financial predicament we could see a similar rise again i would these are popular models today we have facing developments in the i would parts of the germany a lack of jobs leads to helplessness and despair which are the main ingredients the trend is young handsome flour right ideology but 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. there needs to be more options for cultural integration especially for young people germany's far right national democratic party or in p d the faced calls for them to be banned from politics the n.p.t.

say that they'll be imminently 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 is that it's not the kabab center who is your enemy but rather the politicians who are at the wheel of the country and whether those words words reopen mohammed's pizzeria is isn't the only business in this town to face this type of attack but. i came here seven years ago from vietnam and i've been targeted twice used throwing rocks through my windows. as even germany's robust economy starts to really feel the pinch of the eurozone crisis there are concerns that we could see a further reason social problems in the country is. peter all over. germany. time now for some of today's world news in brief for this hour a bomb blast in a residential area in southwest pakistan has killed five people and wounded at base

ten most of the victims are women and children police don't know what hooves behind the attack but the region often suffers assaults from insurgents demanding a greater share of the income from the natural resources there islamised militants are also active and sometimes target minority shiites. a kurdish attack on a turkish military outpost has killed at least nineteen people close to the iraqi border the rebels fired rockets at troops in a midnight assault turkey then scrambled fighter jets to seek out the attackers clashes have been on the rise in the area over the past year as kurds seek an autonomous homeland in a violent struggle that started in one nine hundred eighty four. public anger in israel over living conditions have again drawn thousands out in protest in tel aviv this time it was sparked by new austerity measures and tax hikes at

a time when many israelis feel sidelined by the government spending more money on military settlements prime minister netanyahu has approval ratings are at record lows the protests began last summer and have seen several clashes on two people set themselves on fire. china summoned to u.s. diplomat in protest to criticism of beijing's new military garrison in the south china sea it's believed to be aimed at strengthening of china's control over potentially oil rich islands in the bitterly disputed maritime region territorial claims pit china against u.s. ally the philippines as well as vietnam. u.s. auditors say more than two hundred million dollars were wasted by washington on two security facilities in iraq which ended up on wanted it adds to recent reports suggesting billions were spent in vain during iraq's reconstruction huge sums are

also thought to be squandered on rebuilding another country the u.s. invaded afghanistan anti-war activists jason ditz says washington's too quick to spend its money abroad without thinking. in afghanistan we've got the same problems we have in 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 just a recipe for that money being stolen or wasted or just disappearing a lot of these programs they're 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 is 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 so have

a painful past of racial discrimination showing a worrying return except this time it's the white community that's now feeling on wanted in their home country paula slayer's been. once the color of ulta for installed 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. who are forgetting about her brother bar-s. ulta is one of a growing number of concepts africans living a hop skip and a jump from sleeping on the streets who will be positions amount to a bed and some clothes to waste on handouts from charities and churches sometimes she goes without food for days. stuff like. his. wives when someone took a held its first democratic elections eighteen years ago it marked the end of the

post hate separation between whites and blacks but what was once it was black people in this country who were discriminated against today it's white south africans performing 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 afrikaner 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 model clause created by the system in south africa and that created in essence sorry for haven for people since nine hundred ninety 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. it i was staying in sheds like us and they were staying in houses got everything and now it's out then we staying in chests and. this abandon 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 see it's got nothing nothing nothing to work than go to a place to go they've got. nothing that's another thing yes. 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 al to start an it is a depressing comedown 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 mother the war my goals and put us in more. except the hope that one day a door will open instead of slam policy r t krugersdorp south africa. and a few minutes we were veal of the unknown sides of the war in iraq after the week's top stories have authority.

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