almost thirty children are pulled from the b.c. earth in central russia after years living in dark on the ground cells as part of a radical muslim sect. the syrian army says it's advancing into the country's key combat zone the rebels deny that while the mainstream media does little to provide the real picture. a un report slams israel for killing palestinians off almost a fifth of the west bank territory turning it into a military training ground. pushing r.t. live from moscow almost thirty children forced to live in

a multi-story series of catacombs beneath the earth have been rescued by police in central russia they had spent years crammed there without daylight at the mercy of their religious fanatic parents and a self-proclaimed prophet artie's dumbarton joins us live with the disturbing details tom so tell us what exactly was going on there in the capital com. well marina if you walked past this building on the outskirts of the city of cars in central russia you would notice anything that would have been going on beneath it was a three story building with a small minarets and a tin presents on top was a bit run down but was otherwise rather than remarkable but a possible i would not have noticed the eight story secret complex that is being built underneath there it was indeed a dog and an isolated world twenty seven children. adults among those taken out

from these catechumens extended basement underground complex whatever you want to call it most of them had been there for a decade without proper heating without proper light or sanitation and crucially without any access to the outside world a few were allowed to go and work at the local markets the rest were kept down there among them the youngest an eighteen year eighteen month old child and a seventeen year old girl who was later found to be pregnant the children are currently undergoing medical examinations and all of those involved will also undergo psychological tests to see how they may have been affected by such a long period in isolation well indeed these are shocking details of this but what can drive people to lock themselves let's take a look at the motives here and of course they are children and what drives them to

be in such conditions. fires rock monster tire off his the eighty three year old leader of this muslim sect he's named it after himself he is reported to be bedridden and delirious he started this all in the one nine hundred sixty s. when he reportedly interpreted a spark from a trolley bus. a sort of tram in the in the city as a divine message from god proclaimed himself a second islamic profit and also designated this complex as a muslim caliphate essentially an independent islamic state he then used this for a t. that he he had essentially given himself to keep his followers in this isolated state and it's not the only time that this sort of thing has happened after the collapse of the soviet union there was widely regarded to be

a religious gulf after the atheist state of the soviet union and a number of sects and cults did spring up to try and fill that gap hume that vacuum one of them was a sect in the central russian city of penza in two thousand and seven where a group of people. locked themselves dug for themselves an underground system similar to this one to wait the coming apocalypse they were eventually talked out of out of that complex and emerged bleary eyed into the sunshine as these people from this underground complex are now doing. all right tom thanks very much indeed for bringing us the details artist on barton there. you know what you have to live from moscow still to come in the program a helping hand or a bargaining chip. the u.s. starts cleaning up the council weapons

a drop in viet nam almost four years ago to find out why critics thing stopping the influence of china is the real reason. plus violence in spain find themselves in a steep dive as financial collapse forces airlines to introduce measures which could potentially put passenger lives on the line. now the syrian army claims to have seized a key rebel held district in the northwestern city of aleppo violence broke out there last month after a major a flow of militants into the area opposition friendly activists accuse government troops of using heavy weaponry which results in civilian deaths although colonel doug macgregor an author and decorate of u.s. war veteran says that seems unrealistic well it's been some years since i saw the syrian army up close but what i did see convince me that of the arab armies in the region the syrians were by far the most competent and capable and they maintained good discipline so we have to assume that the syrians have moved very deliberately

in aleppo and that suggests that they have probably moved to seal off the rebels in the enclaves or in the areas that they currently hold to do that they have concentrated armor and artillery for direct fire not for indirect fire and they will move very very carefully with infantry and engineers in support with the object of doing as little damage to the infrastructure as possible because the more damage you do to the buildings the more likely they are to create defensive positions for the people you're trying to eliminate so i would say based on my again limited experience of the syrian military that the rebels in aleppo are now in serious trouble. now with the mainstream media's over reliance on amateur food and dubious reports from syria it's becoming hard to tell what's true or false in the conflict and some experts suggest that is a pattern familiar to any resolution in the region over the last few years i just takes a look. in the arab world millions have been seen uprising. in

the western world one international news channel is standing accused of falling short on providing a full picture of the revolutions oh susan great deeds. give us his human rights were supporting. them some time to raise the flag that a lot of the people i was. killing and torturing edward mortimer conducted an independent review of the b.b.c.'s coverage of the arab spring the public news channel was criticised for many things including a lot of reference to video which wasn't authenticated and repeatedly using the word regime which is a word that carries. connotations. or regime is something i think you know that starts the reaction. i had to the b.b.c. refer to the british government as the camera regime you know. so are you guys i'm

not sure i asked one of the executives i said you know how do five hundred people what is your policy on things and they actually give me different audiences to ousted leaders and one military intervention later the b.b.c. now claims it will address its mistakes meanwhile across the atlantic america's corporate owned news networks still pioneer subjective rhetoric that the syrian regime of bashar al assad regime is now also facing another dynamic critics say more than one year of flawed reporting on syria may already have hard wired public perception to see only one side of the story the focus is on action coverage that reinforces a preconceived notion of what's going on and of course the government you know of of syria is all dead if everything that happens there is a result of what assad is doing there or not doing. again that's in the

interests of people who want to intervene and want to overthrow this government washington has made no secret of its desire to force syrian president bashar al assad out of office and serious in syria with questionable impartiality many mainstream media outlets in the us have been seen portraying the syrian opposition as a single entity at the forefront of a democratic uprising there now overwhelming humanitarian grounds intervening in syria critics say the very same news outlets have not been so eager to report on the less appealing actions of syria's washington backed opposition. to the aid of people were very much involved in trying to undermine the syrian government and they have fighters there just as they had in libya this isn't just a question of western democracy good. bad it's a much more complicated mosaic of forces involved here media doesn't seem to be

keeping up with them as syria approaches its most delicate tipping point many experts say the western media machine should avoid oversimplifying sixteen month deadly crisis that even the international community so far has been unable to resolve her in a port i.r.t. new york despite u.s. claims it's providing only non-lethal assistance to the syrian opposition american happens are still flowing flowing into rebel hands saying activists on says activist on middle east and un issues phyllis bennis the full interview with her is coming up later this hour. there is already intervention underway the western countries have provided the military of saudi arabia the military of cutter that's where they buy their weapons from they buy american weapons so it is already western weapons that are going in it's not coming directly from the u.s. but it is weapon. of the west the danger of that escalating is very serious.

a un report warns israel it may be in violation of international law after it cordoned off nearly a fifth of the west bank for army training israeli forces are demolishing palestinian homes and driving people off their land saying they might spy on military drills are disposal your reports from one of the villages. i'm standing in susi a palestinian area that has been earmarked by the israeli government for demolition there are many similar situations just this week in the palestinian village of jim these really soldiers went from house to house searching for weapons and ammunition now they found nothing but that was not before they literally turned people's kitchens in particular upside down these soldiers searched through bags of sugar and rice and salt and bottles of olive oil now this comes as the united nations issues a new report outlining that the israeli government has declared some eighteen percent

of the west bank closed military zone for training for so-called firing zones this is roughly the same amount of the west bank that is in full palestinian control the report highlights the humanitarian effect that this will have on the roughly five thousand people who live in and around these areas and it also says that they are now in direct access of danger at the same time we're talking here about people most of whom are herders who need fields for their cattle to graze on and many of these fields are being taken away from them so this will affect their livelihood at the same time many of them are routinely arrested or detained for defying military orders we're talking here about people who have very little access to electricity and to water they essentially don't even have an infrastructure when it comes to housing and to any kind of normal facilities that people in the western world take

for granted the report of course israel and occupying power and reminds the israeli government that international law condemns any kind of confiscation of private or public property unless it is for military necessity now the israelis are going to have a hard time claiming that the establishment of firing zones or areas for training these soldiers is of military necessity policy r.t. . in the south hip on hills as more to come your way later this hour including an appetite for. i phones i pads and iran the prices may be higher by businessmen aren't letting u.s. sanctions stop high tech iran from staying plugged damn. it with a thirty seven year delay the u.s. has launched a program to help clean up the aftermath of the vietnam war it will help purge the soil and water of traces of agent orange a toxic defiance if used during the conflict the substance is still causing

illnesses and the four ways among the local population but man i believe washington's motives are in purely humanitarian it isn't like one of those things that you just stop start spraying it it goes away this is a pathway for centuries and it is definitely seeped in i'm not a scientist but it's definitely seeped into the water table and everything and what the what the u.s. is proposing is really rather paltry. to come up with forty three million dollars to clean up the neighing which was a large military air their base you know this is just really the tip of the iceberg of the problem but i mean you cannot you have to question the timing of it and it can only be viewed as you know a concern to try to like. vietnam closer to them because of the growing influence that china has as a emerging superpower around the world. so there is more on the u.s. legacy r.t. dot com as well as

a lot of other stories including specs appeal i'll force of the jews can now keep their thoughts on god and eyes off scantily clad women thanks to the help of some unusual glasses. plus those very same glasses could be useful for drivers in st petersburg motorcyclists there are facing fines for taking their girlfriends for a ride on the back of their bikes and the bar and distracting other motorists. suicidal and that's how the two biggest labor unions in spain have described the government's anti-crisis measures and hysteria is particularly life threatening what even the highest of flyers are affected as are his legs here chaps the reports spanish pilots say their passengers have been put at risk to save cash.

fly fly fly at any cost but why be more when you can get just about the same thing for less money since low cost airlines took more than half of spain's aviation market many regular companies have gone bankrupt local of course choose low cost fly to cheaper the seats are less comfortable but it's not such a big problem in a trip after all and this discount model is supported by the state over the past three years the larger part of the government's two hundred fifty million a year investment into aviation was allocated to low cost airlines this scheme is simple lower expenses all round but while passengers are happy it's cause turbulence in the cockpit as pilots find themselves less and less motivated. we don't have high salaries and there's no prestige about our work as it always being we turn to the bus drivers were only doing it in the skies nowadays we even have to

pay for our insurance and buy uniforms for ourselves the industry has become a mess since two thousand and eight the number of recruits in spanish flight schools has been dropping rapidly and the general economic situation has also been affecting the quality of graduates. the unemployment rate's already massive and. that's why many of our graduates have to take several jobs just to survive. it is not difficult to see that degrading pilot quality may have serious consequences not only has the job been suffering in spain over the past several years with less and less people actually willing to become pilots but also experts say the policy of the local airlines is harming the most important thing in more than day every nation which is the security spanish pilots working hours are already stretched to extremes new legislation to increase them to sixteen hours a day is now being considered by the european union there is we go over the limits

here then the problem of stressed and fatigue personnel arises prison pulled the law says there must be at least forty five minute breaks between flights but in reality it's barely twenty minutes. or twenty minutes between flights it's almost impossible to conduct a proper check of an aircraft in terms of force to take off without any security check. it's clear that cheaper flying is essential to keep europe moving during the financial crisis but pilots and aviation specialists shudder to think what could happen if low cost airlines increasingly cut corners and dangerously push those who keep us safe in the sky. looks you are shifty r.t. reporting from madrid in spain i just financial guru max kaiser has spoken to the former head of risk the bank of scotland turned whistleblower and is exposing financial fraud to an ad seven thirty g.m.t. for the kaiser report but here's a preview. what percentage of those working in regulatory oversight and compliance

in the industry are clean that is a say they're not corrupt when i was working on wall street for example at paine webber an op and i'm sure certain every every year at christmas time i would bribe our compliance officer as did every broker at these firms there was no the cop lineups or was crooked you give a big enough christmas bonus any over overlooks margin requirement deficiencies the overlooked fraud he overlooks all the tricks of the trade there's two points the first is you have to have no professional qualifications to be a chief risk officer a chief compliance officer or a chief internal auditor and so that's one thing the second thing is if you report to the executive what's going on the second you stick your head above the parapet and the messenger gets well and truly shot so i don't know the answer the question but i would be all surprised if it's quite a lot of people who are going to be prepared to oversee or miss things that they

should cover cell system doesn't work. despite u.s. imposed sanctions the iranian capital's apple stores are full and thriving the high tech use of tehran love i pods and macs as much as anyone and creative businesses aren't letting our little thing like an international blockade again the way of feeding that appetite i despair for thanks flights. i pads i phones i pods apple's callable popularity has meant that their products familias like everywhere from our workplaces to our homes and on our high street there's one place you might not expect to find products like this on sale and that the iranian capital of tehran where apple along with many of the u.s. products abandoned the functions that had been in place the year but it seems that techs are the iranians are managing to outsmart this u.s. embargo and products like the not only popular in toronto they're widely available

as well just like any other apple next door this one in tiran is bustling and busy . i have no difficulty in importing electronics from the us nor do we feel any impact on imports from sanctions what doesn't come so easy indeed is getting technical support and updates for the products but we still manage to get them all the time. the circus of u.s. sanctions has been mainly on iran's banks and oil industry in a bid to curb the country's nuclear ambitions but when it comes to the bans on consumer products alternative trade routes and enterprising iranian tradesmen have meant that in forcing the sanctions has proved virtually impossible in fact it's estimated there are now hundreds of traders in the capital selling these kids. the only impact of these sanctions that we see is higher prices which alter the real sinking against the dollar we're also forced to charge more from costa mowers in

order to keep getting our shipments bypassing the sanctions and people still want to these gadgets even though they've become more expensive. so you know the sanctions working. out because if. you were going here new sanctions being announced by the u.s. congress or. the fact that the coming of the sanctions. on the board thanks i was working in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving anything banning these products in bouquets of punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative individuals musicians film it is right is the film a key part of apple's kind the world they've been one of the united states talks about internet freedom and the importance of iranians being able to communicate freely access the internet discuss you know what whatever they want to cell phones

. are saying sions make it so that cell phones are basically illegal in iran the very u.s. sanctions against iran are increasingly being proven ineffective and outdated and certainly see no match for the young iranian generation and able to stay connected . now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world libya's transitional council and a power to the country's general congress the first elected legislature since last year's uprising the two hundred seat a sandwich dominated by moderate islamists aims to form a new government within thirty days however the authorities are facing daunting challenges since powerful militias in different provinces continue to fight for political influence. at least thirty nine people have died and almost a million have been forced to leave damaged homes in the philippine capital and

surrounding provinces after a powerful typhoon struck thousands are staying emergency shelters waiting for better weather that is forecast for the end of the week this illusion is the worst since two thousand and nine when hundreds died in massive floods and landslides. time now for the business of date with natasha and we're hearing that russia is set to boost its business ties with asia tell us more absolutely a many really pinned their hopes on the upcoming apec summit in russia city of lot of us stock we'll have more on that and just a minute but first let's go straight to the equity markets and see what's going on there and do europe is starting to look pretty shaky london's footsie still gaining around terms of a percent germany's dax has already slipped and so right as you can see there within the first hour of trade the main news of the days comes from china's july inflation is a lower for a fourth month than a row that's elevating hope that more stimulating measures are on their ways freshly sense china's industrial output of sales came out

a little worse than expected on thursday here in russia the r.t.s. is around a tenth of a percent in the block the my six is managing to gain roughly the same most of the blue chips are still managing to stay above the line with russia lenders burbank at the moment gaining around also a tenth of a percent a lukoil has slipped in the red into red as bidding to develop the ukrainian shelf in the black sea and sales revenue of a retailer meat jumped almost by a third last month and the stock is doing quite well getting more than half a percent now onto the currencies the euro is gaining to the dollar this hour after the european currencies showed some weakness on wednesday following some bad news from the euro zone there should move all is gaining to the euro but is trading a lower to the u.s. dollar and the crude futures are trading mixed this hour with brand slipping into

negative territory is hovering at around one hundred twelve dollars a barrel what traders are obviously just walk with is the latest stats from china they really want to see more monetary easing and. a largest economy and speaking of a says st petersburg might be russia's going to give us stock is said to become its when due to asia the far eastern city is finishing up the preparations for the asia pacific economic cooperation forum also known as a pac it's hosting the event for the first time and reportedly the price tag already topped twenty two billion dollars that's almost twice the amount spent on london's a live text made to measure the denko explains why this event is so important for russia the fact that russia is spending so much money on the apec summit seems ridiculous first glance but let's face the facts russia's stance in the region is not as strong as it could be now it has become

a member of the world trade organization promoting trade liberalization is easier than ever before especially for the host of the event next there are obvious perks let's take a look at this for example russia is an energy and metals champion though it's producing seventy percent of the world's many of copper and nickel asia on the other hand is the main consumer of energy in metals and it accounts for fifty percent of the world's consumption of aluminum forty percent of copper and nickel this is a multi billion dollar market now let's take a look at china at its main port of shanghai the country imports resources from around the world but it takes more than a month to ship from brazil twenty days from south africa and two weeks from australia now would be so much quicker and this means cheaper to import from russia's than in a port just four days finally growth in asia projected at eight point four percent developed countries two point six percent max plus shift in priorities from europe

to asia would mean development for russia's lagging far east. well you are all up to date now i'll be back in about fifteen minutes meanwhile don't forget to check our site as are two dot com slash there's the swell definitely is thanks very much indeed for this date and next an interview with a washington based academic and activist and thinks the conflict in syria is the interest off foreign powers that's after the headlines coming to you very shortly.