almost thirty children are pulled from beneath the earth in central russia after years living in underground cells as part of a radical muslim sect. the syrian army says is advancing into the country's key combat zone of the rebels deny that the mainstream media does little to provide the real picture. a u.n. report of slams at israel for kicking palestinians off almost a fifth of the west bank territory and turning it into a military training ground. it's

a pleasure to have you with us here on our to today i'm sorry live in 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 that they had spent years crammed without daylight at the mercy of their religious fanatic parents and a self-proclaimed prophet. and shows the 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 present 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 after months of 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 an underground complex and waited there they said for the coming apocalypse they were eventually talked out of that and they emerged bleary eyed into the sunshine as these people are in. reporting right there well it's good to have you with us on the program still to come for you a helping hand or a bargaining chip the u.s. starts cleaning up the chemical weapons it jumped in vietnam almost forty years ago i did find out why some critics think it's all about stopping the influence of china. had its in spain find themselves in steep economic. financial collapse forces to introduce measures which could potentially put

passenger lives on the line. now the battle for control of a serious northwestern city of aleppo has resumed with each side giving conflicting accounts about who has the upper hand of 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 and causing civilian deaths although a decorated us will veteran doubts some of the rebels claims 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. and over the wayne stream media is over reliance on amateur footage and dubious reports from syria it's becoming harder to tell what's true or false in the conflict and some experts suggest that is a pattern familiar to any revolution in the region over recent years artie's more important as 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 there was

a great deal to. give us his human rights were supporting but i think it took 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 its use of words carries a strong. connotation regime is something i think you know that starts the reaction you need to say oh i have integrity to refer to the british government as the camera regime you know. say what are you guys now for i os promised executives i said you know how do you find hundred people what is your policy. they actually give you 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 syria is all dead if 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 help 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 on the 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 jihadi the people were very much involved in trying to undermine the syrian government and they had fighters there just as they had in libya this isn't just a question of western democracy good syria 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

a sixteen month deadly crisis that even the international community so far has been unable to resolve marina port i.r.t. new york. well despite u.s. claims that providing only non-lethal assistance to the syrian opposition american weapons are still flowing freely into rebels hands this according to an activist on the middle east and un issues phyllis bennis full interview with her is coming your way next hour. there is already intervention under way 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 serious. thank you for joining us here on our to today a u.n.

report warns israel that it may be in violation of international law after a 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 try to spy on the military drills. live reports from one of these villages. i'm standing in 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 the israeli 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 all 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 reporter 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. susa in the south hebron hills. and that much more still to come for you later this hour here on r.t. including an appetite for apple i phones i pads and i run a process maybe a businessman on letting us sanctions stop high tech terror on staying deeply plugged in. with a thirty seven year delay the u.s. has launched a program to help clean up the off the mouth of the vietnam war it will help push the soil and water of traces of agent orange toxic defoliant used during the conflict other substances still causing illnesses and deformities among the local population but some believe that washington's motives on purely humanitarian it

isn't like one of those things that you just stop start spraying and it goes away this is a half life 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 denying 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 as an emerging superpower around the world. and there's much more on the u.s. legacy at r.t. dot com as well as many other stories including suspect appeal ultra-orthodox jews can now keep their thoughts on god and the eyes of scantily clad women thanks to

the help of some rather unusual glasses. plus those very same glasses could be useful for drivers in some petersburg motorcyclists there are facing fines for taking their girlfriends for a ride on the back of their bikes in the buff and distracting other motorists. just a couple minutes on the world update for now though suicidal that's how the two biggest labor unions in spain it described the government's anti crisis measures and the austerity is particularly life threatening when even at the highest of flyers are being affected as r.t. is alex the reports of spanish pilots say their passengers are being put at risk

just to save cash. i fly.

with twenty minutes between flights it's almost impossible to conduct a proper check of the aircraft will be. forced to take over without any security check. it's clear that cheaper flights financial crisis but pilots and aviation specialists shudder to think. airlines increasingly cut corners and dangerously push those who keep us safe in the sky. r.t. reporting from madrid in spain. well arty's financial guru max kaiser is spoken to a former head of risk at the bank of scotland who now has turned into a whistleblower and is exposing financial fraud you can i watch the program the cars are reporting about where thirteen minutes are not. what percentage

of those working in regulatory oversight in compliance in the industry are clean that is to say they're not corrupt when i was working on wall street for example at paine webber an op and i am curious and every every year at christmas time i would bribe our compliance officer as did every broker at these firms there was no that top line up there was crooked you give a big enough christmas bonus any over over looks 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 get 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 so all system doesn't work. too natasha will join us for the business for now though despite u.s. imposed sanctions the iranian capitals are full of stores are full and thriving the high tech youth of tiran love i pods and macs just about as much as anybody and creative businesses are letting a little thing like an international blockade get in the way of feeding that appetite sarah further explains. i pads i phones i pods apple's political popularity has meant that their products familias like everywhere from our workplaces top 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 had been in place the year but it seems that tech savvy arabians and managing to outsmart this u.s. embargo and products like these 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. 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 or just 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 a rainy and tradesmen have meant this 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 costumers in order to keep getting our shipments while bypassing the sanctions and people still want to these gadgets even though they become more expensive. some of the sanctions working. sanctions have not. because if they have if you were going here new sanctions are being announced by the u.s. congress or. the western powers the fact that they're coming up with new sanctions . is an indication the door thanks so it's been that you're working in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving anything banning these products bug is a punishing the very people who help in building around future creative individuals these issues film editing is right is she possibly clientèle the world eva on one hand the united states talks about internet freedom and the importance of iranians being able to communicate freely access the internet discuss you know whatever they

want to be cellphones and i other hand the same sions make it so that cellphones are basically illegal in iran the u.s. sanctions against iran are increasingly being free very ineffective and outdated and certainly seen a match for the young iranian generation eager and able to stay connected. and straight into the world we go starting with egypt where violence has once again flared up as police clashed with armed men near a police station in northern sinai security officers were fired on from a moving vehicle although no injuries were reported it does come a day after airstrikes against militants in response to a border attack which claimed the lives of sixteen egyptian security officers of the region is seen as fertile ground for is the most militants but some estimates putting the number at well over two thousand. libya's transitional council has

handed power to the country's general congress the first elected legislators since last year's us not just the two hundred suit assembly dominated by moderate islamists aims to form a new government 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 massive typhoon struck thousands are staying in emergency shelters waiting for better weather that is forecast for the end of the week but this deluge is the worst since two thousand and nine one hundred died in massive floods and landslides . as promised there is a touch of the r.t. business desk good to see you again russia's planning to tighten its ties with asia absolutely and it hopes to do it in upcoming apec summit in russia city of lot of

us talk we'll have more on that in just a minute but first let's go check out the equity markets and see europe it's zigzagging this hour london's footsie is failing to withstand the pressure dropping in to grab germany's dax is also feeling the hands the main news of the day comes from china as july is is over for a fourth month in a row and the industrial output as well as sales to melt all well. expected all about of course indicates a slowdown that i'm sure of jobless in greece had a record put into the latest data topping twenty three percent in may that's up from just seventeen percent a year ago and that's more than twice the average for the eurozone young people are the worst hit unemployment rates among the youth are as high as five percent and coming back to the equities let's see what's going on in russia the indices are

now officially down in the dumps here in russia they were on the way there for a couple of hours i must say after a now big start of the trading session move the blue chips are also in the red this hour russia's biggest lender is better bank is shedding around a quarter percent and poor oil russia's own largest private oil companies bidding to develop the ukrainian shelf of the black sea the stock is also shedding almost three quarters of percent and sales revenue to read retailer money jumped almost by a third a last month that's not really helping the stock it's shedding more than a two percent the euro is losing against the dollar this hour that's after it showed some weakness on wednesday on disappointing data from the euro zone the russian ruble is gaining to the euro but is shedding value to the dollar and its pretty choppy trade for crude it's showing strength this hour though with grant

more than one hundred now have dollars a barrel traders are obviously convinced the latest stats from china as disappointing as they might see would lead to some monetary easing in about asia's largest economy and speaking of asia st petersburg might be russia's window to europe but the blood of us focus said to become its window to china to asia the four eastern city is finishing up the preparations for the big event asia economic pacific. cooperation forum known as apec and reportedly the price tag for those preparations is topping twenty two billion dollars that's almost twice as much as for the london olympics to meet and that's the day planes while this event is so important for us. 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 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 out of 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 as well and there you have it nobody spends that kind of money for nothing i'll go back and vote fifty five minutes to do that thank you see that. all the headlines coming up here in r.t. with banks and their schemes to catch a fool all is revealed in the latest edition of the kaiser report.

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