almost thirty children are pulled from an easy 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 denying that while the mainstream media does little to provide the real picture. a un report slams israel for kicking palestinians awfulness of fits of the west bank territory turning it into a military training ground. watching i see live from moscow i'm right

rescued by police in central russia they had spend years crammed there without daylight at the mercy of their religious fanatic parents and a self-proclaimed prophet chairs a disturbing details. if you were walked past this building on the outskirts of the city of cazan in central russia you wouldn't notice anything that would have been going on beneath it was a three story building with a small minaret and a tin crescent on top was a bit run down but was otherwise rather unremarkable but a passer by would not have noticed the eight story secret complex that had been built underneath and there it was indeed a dark and an isolated world twenty seven children thirty eight 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 market the rest were kept down there among them the youngest an 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 pfizer a command such was the self declared leader of this cult eighty three years old bedridden and delirious he'd declared himself a second islamic prophet and had declared his complex a muslim caliphate essentially independent muslim state and then got his followers

to live inside it and refused to let them leave a similar kind of cult in the central russian city of pens or in two thousand and seven a group of followers there dark and underground complex and waited there they said for the coming apocalypse. they were eventually talked out so that they emerged into the sunshine as these people are in. some bargain reporting their fortune are to life from moscow still to come helping hand or a bargaining chip the u.s. starts cleaning up the chemical weapons dropped in viet now almost forty years ago find out why critics think stopping the influence of china is the real reason. plus pilots in spain find themselves in a steep can only dive as financial collapse forces airlines to introduce measures which could potentially put passenger lives on the line. the battle for

control over syria's northwestern city of aleppo has resumed with each side giving conflicting accounts about who has the opera hand violence broke out there last month after a major flow of militants into the area opposition friendly activists accuse government troops of using heavy weaponry resulting in civilian deaths although a decorated us 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 with the mainstream media is over a reliance on amateur footage and dubious reports from syria's becoming hard to tell what's true or false in the conflict and some experts suggest that as a pattern familiar to anyone in the region over the last few years i guess marina park nine takes a look. in the arab world millions have been seen uprising. in the western world and one international news channel is standing accused of falling short on providing a full picture of the revolutions oh susan. how could you give us his human rights were supporting. themselves why to reduce the fact 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 lack of reference to video which wasn't authenticated and repeatedly using the word regime which is a word carries a place. connotation 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 what are you guys now for i os but if you say i said you know how do you find hundreds of people what is your policy options and they actually gave a different concepts 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 and everything that happens there is a result of what assad is doing or we're 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 getting 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. the 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 marina porton i.r.t. new york despite u.s.

claims is providing only non-lethal assistance to the syrian opposition american weapons are still flowing into rebel hands says activists a middle east and u.n. issues phyllis bennis the full interview with her is coming up next hour there's 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 weapons of the west the danger of that escalating is very soon. eeriest. a u.n. report warns israel may be in violation of international law after of 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 disposed to 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 an 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 well there's more to come your way later this hour including an appetite for our people i phones i pads and the rock the prices may be higher by businessmen aren't letting us sanctions stop high tech to ron from staying plugged dan. now 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 defiant used during the conflict the substance is still causing illnesses and deformities among the local population but many believe washington's motives aren't purely humanitarian. it isn't like one of those things that you just start to sprain it goes away this is a lie for centuries and it is definitely saved and 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 denying that which was a large military air air 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 emergency power around the world owes more on the u.s. legacy of comics was a lot of other stories including specs appeal all four of the jews can now keep their thoughts on god and eyes up scantily clad women thanks to the help of some of the usual glasses. plus those very same glasses could be useful for drivers in st petersburg motorcyclists they are facing fines for taking their girlfriends for a ride on the back of their bikes and distracting other motorists. suicidal

and that's how the two biggest labor unions in spain have described the government's anti-crisis measures the austerity is particularly life threatening what even the highest of flyers are affected there are reports spanish pilots say their passengers are being put at risk to save cash. fly fly fly at any. 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. of course and choose low cost flights it's 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 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. employment rates already. 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 morton which is the security spanish pilot's working hours are already stretched to extremes yet new legislation to increase them to sixteen hours a day is now being considered by the european union. there's we go over the limits here then the problem of stressed and fatigue personal rises and prison pull the law says there must be at least forty five minute breaks between flights but in reality it's barely twenty minutes he should be embodied with twenty minutes between twenty eight it's almost impossible to conduct a proper check of an aircraft you know in terms go to force without any security check. it's clear that cheaper flying is essential to keep you removing during the financial crisis but pilots and aviation specialists shudder to think what could

happen the floor 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 spain largest financial world next kaiser has spoken to the former head of risk at the bank of scotland has turned whistleblower and is exposing financial fraud tonight at eleven thirty g.m.t. for the kaiser report here's a preview. what percentage of those working in regulatory oversight in compliance in the end astri are clean that is the say they're not corrupt when i was working on wall street for example at paine webber in oppenheimer and harrison every every year at christmas time i would bribe our compliance officer as did every broker at these firms there was now that top line up there 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 audit and so that's one thing the second thing is if you report to the executive well hang on a 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 get all surprised if it's quite a lot of people who are going to be prepared to oversee or may. things that they should cover so all system doesn't work. despite u.s. imposed sanctions the iranian capital's apple stores are fall into the high tech usent after iran law i pods and macs as much as anyone and creative businesses aren't letting a little thing like an international blockade get in the way of feeding that appetite artists are first explained. i pads i phones i pods apple's political

popularity has meant that their products over millions 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 abandon the functions that have been in place in the years but it seems that techs are the iranians are managing to outsmart these u.s. embargo and products like the ninety popular in toronto they're widely available as well just like any other apple next door this one in tiran is bustling and busy. and i have no difficulty in importing electronics from the us nor do we feel any impact on imports from sanctions doesn't come so easy indeed is getting technical support and updates for the products but we still managed to get them all the time . the world of the so you can save us 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 a rainy and 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 customers in order to keep getting our shipments while 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 the higher you were going here new sanctions are being announced by the u.s. congress or. the powers the fact that they're coming up with new sanctions. isn't the case in the dog thanks so it's been

a good working in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving anything banning these products in bogey's of punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative individuals these issues still made it is right is if only key parts of apple's clients know the world even on 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 prevented in effect if and outdated and certainly see no match for the young iranian generation eager and able to stay connected. now some other stories from around the world violence has

flared up again in egypt with police clashing with armed man near a police station and northern sinai it comes a day after the military launched air strikes against suspected militants in the same area that was in response to sunday's attack on a border checkpoint which claimed the lives of sixteen egyptian security officers so the region is seen as a fertile ground for islamist militants with some estimates putting their number as high as two thousand. the new transitional council has handed power to the country's general congress the first elected legislature since last year's uprising but two hundred seat of soundly dominated by moderate islamist aims to form a new governments within thirty days however the authorities are facing daunting challenges as 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 in emergency shelters waiting for better weather that is forecast for the end of the week visited luzhin is the worst since two thousand and nine when hundreds died in massive floods and landslides. well in bag mission is also something that traders hope to see so natasha has more for us. absolutely and that's so true that they are really hoping for better business conditions investing conditions and of course the overall economic conditions and especially after european equities slumped into negative territory following a rather upbeat opening let's see the numbers london's footsie is down less than a tenth of a percent as you can see there germany's dax is losing more than a quarter percent the main news of the day the day's comes from china it's july inflation is lower for a fourth one third of a row and the industrial output and sales came out lower than expected all of that

of course signals a slowdown which in turn raises the hopes that then why do you know more stimulating measures for the economy here in russia let's see those numbers there the indices have shed the bulk of their earlier gains at lunch hour but they're still managing to stay above the line most of the blue chips are on the rise of russia's biggest lender it's very bank let's see the blue chips there. there they are and russia's biggest the lender's very bank is gaining just around town of a percent to or somewhere around there. boil is bidding to develop the ukrainian shelf in the black sea sales revenues of the retailer mog meat have jumped almost a third last month and as a result the stock is gaining around the quarter of a percent as you can see now moving on to the currency markets let's see those and the euro is gaining to the dollar this hour after it showed some weakness on

wednesday on disappointing data from the euro zone the russian ruble is losing to the dollar this hour but it's managing to stay above the line toward the euro and crude futures are mixed the w. china's klaatu positive but brand is there now and it's how growing around one hundred twelve dollars a barrel what traders are obviously just stuart with is the latest on china they really want to see some monetary easing in asia's largest economy and speaking of asia st petersburg might be russia's window to europe but give us the oca's set to become its window to asia the far eastern cities finishing up the preparations for the asia pacific economic cooperation forum known as apec is hosting the event for the first time and reportedly the price tag for the preparations top twenty two billion dollars that's almost twice the amount spent on the london olympics mid-term of denko explains why this event is so important for russian. the fact

that russia is spending so much money on the apec summit seems ridiculous of 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 organisation promoting trade liberalization is easier than ever before especially for the host of the event next there are obvious perks in trade 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 allan 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 shifting priorities from europe to asia would mean development for russia's lagging far east. well there you have it let's hope that spending that twenty two billion dollars actually brings some results and that's all the latest helmet just cut right and today thanks very much indeed for the sub that amex you can watch our special reports about the amazing russian republic offer to buy and the people's passion for music there that's after the headlines coming your way shortly.

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