children kept underground and in isolation for ten years by an islamic sect uncovered in russia city because we've got all the shocking details in just a moment. as the battle intensifies for the strategic syrian city of aleppo between government and opposition forces we look at the repeating pattern adopted by foreign media in covering arab revolutions. and u.s. sanctions on iran the fall flat as tech savvy youth center on have no trouble getting their hands on the latest american gadgets. live from the heart of moscow this is artsy rule research

a welcome to the program several stories of catechumens beneath the earth where children have been kept for years without daylight or contact with the outside world the accidental discovery by police in the russian city of cousin has shocked the country and the wider world a sect of seventy people has spent over ten years there following a self-proclaimed prophet. and reports. 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 children adults 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 or 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 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 uk man's. 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 their dog 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. artie's are reporting right now a clashes are raging between the syrian army and the opposition for control of the city of aleppo and what's being seen as a key battle in the war now there are conflicting reports as to who has the upper hand in the fighting for the commercial hub of the nation activists sympathetic to the opposition say the use of heavy weaponry by government troops has caused many civilian deaths but one u.s. war veteran in particular says that claim 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. and it's perhaps the troubles on the battleground that are

prompting some rebels to seek more support from abroad in response from a french president nicolas sarkozy one of the main architects of the nato air campaign in libya has now called for a repeat of the scenario in syria more on that. dot com. meanwhile a senior aide to president obama has not ruled out a no fly zone over a part of syria apparently under rebel control feature of the conflict generally has been how the support of the u.s. and its allies for the opposition is matched in leading international media and marina found out it follows a pattern of coverage of recent revolutions in the region. 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 it was a great deal to. give us his human rights were supporting but i think it took them

some time to reduce the fire 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 place. connotation. regime is something i think you know that starts the reaction you need to say sorry but i have integrity to refer to the british government as the camera regime you know. say what are you guys now for i os promise if you say i said you know how do you find hundred people what is your policy and they actually give 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 news networks are 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 options of syria's washington babbitts opposition he did the cato 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 and 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. now the syrian groups fighting president assad are being armed with the u.s. weapons despite washington's claims it's only providing non-lethal aid to the opposition this is all according to middle east and un issues expert phyllis bennis the full interview coming up next hour about an hour and twenty minutes from now. 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. or at a ten past seven early evening here in moscow american efforts to decontaminate parts of vietnam from agent orange are underway but more than three decades after

the war there ended the toxic chemical used to burn the country's jungles is blamed for health problems on widespread birth defects the vietnam war veteran bill while believes washington might have a hidden agenda in its attempt to make. it isn't like one of those things that you just stop start the sprain and it goes away this is a half life for centuries and it is definitely seeped in 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 to now 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. this is r.t. still plenty more for you ahead in this program including that of the true cost of budget airline fares and the rise in cheap flights is seeing safety standards and putting passengers lives at risk. more pain for the commie team or european companies have a now do you think they're exposed to spain we've got to find out till i empty in a three days security service company to announce all the fees customers won't be able to pay about their bills and it's time for a rundown of the exim out there. for now though the u.n. has expressed concern over israel's plans or cordoned off nearly a fifth of the west bank for army training israeli forces want to demolish palestinian homes and drive people off their land saying they might try to spy on military drills a reporting from one of those villagers as artie's paulus lier. 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 there was not before they literally turned people's kitchens in particular upside down the 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.

susa in the south hebron hills. now i do remember there's always are so much more for you and all website are to dot com let's have a quick look and see what's lined up for this hour here about see illegal weapons trading doesn't just mean jail for everyone it seems the notorious private u.s. security contractor no jail time for them instead a fine of seven million dollars. also online pictures from republican northwest russia by torrential rain and widespread floods this just months after a devastating deluge in the country's south a full details on our website. at quarter past the hour moscow time the world update in just a moment for now suicidal that's how labor unions in spain have described the

government's austerity measures it's not just on the ground but in the air as well pilots say passengers are being put at risk to save cash. points. i 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. of course they 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 course

turbulence in the cockpit as supply let's find themselves less and less motivated. we don't have high salaries anymore 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. i mean 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 people actually willing to become pilots but also experts say the policy of the local airlines is harming the most important thing in. 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. a force 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. r.t. reporting from madrid in spain. quite soon we're joining katie with the business for an hour straight into the world after we go into the chilean capital that's

where around fifty police officers have been hurt in fierce clashes with students over government education plans buses were burned while demonstrators hold rocks of police officers there were at least seventy five arrests in the latest protests which began more than a year ago campaigners that want the rich to pay more to give wider access to education but reject government initiatives including new scholarships and lower student loans. fresh clashes between the gyptian police and gunmen have erupted in the sinai town of. it's part of a campaign by the country's security forces to drive islamist militants out of the region on wednesday president mohamed morsi sacked his intelligence chief and the governor of north sinai after a militant attack killed sixteen soldiers in the area violence has drastically escalated in the country since the ousting of hosni mubarak last year. china's most high profile murder trial in decades has ended after just

a day the wife of disgraced former top politician bo xilai didn't contest the charge that she killed a british businessman last year when the death of neil heywood was first reported as a heart attack before a top chinese policeman fled to america where he alleged murder and a massive cover up the international media were excluded from the secretive trial and it's not known when a verdict will be delivered. now despite. now despite sanctions the iranian capital's apple stores are full and thriving the high tech youth of tehran love i pods and marks as much as anyone and creative businesses are not letting a little thing like an international blockade get in the way of feeding that appetite to surf earth explains. i pads i phones i pods apple's political popularity has meant that their product familiar sight everywhere from our workplaces times 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 arraign ians that managing to outsmart this u.s. embargo is products like the not only popular in toronto they're widely available as well just like any other apple macs store 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 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 or just the secrets 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 surprising 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 costa murs in order to keep getting our shipments bypassing the sanctions and people still want to these gadgets even though they've become more expensive you point out of the sanctions working. the sanctions have not had the outcome because if they have you we're going to hear new sanctions being announced by the u.s. congress or. of the western powers the fact that they're coming up. new sanctions. because in the gold sanctions been a good working in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from achieving anything banning these products in vogue is

a punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative individuals musicians film and it is right is key parts of apple's clients know the world and even surf. over to the business as we go there's curry to cater we all know evening hours or into the evening we go here in moscow but as always it's coffee time on wall street i mean other routine stimulants what else are they having to swallow right absolutely there's lots to digest such at the moment rory including the u.s. jobless claims because they unexpectedly declined lost weight and the u.s. trade deficit marriage sharply in june as well to its lowest level since december twenty ten so these news releases the really helping to offset concerns that with the year up so without him i have a look at europe but let's see you can see the dow jones there are five basis points up for the nasdaq around a third of that album was to terrorists or it's modest gains so far but with most of the situation is if they get up take

a let's see the european markets and how it is telecommunication companies that are down there being hit the wires but there's also speculation that policymakers will do more to stimulate the economy as a result of our report showed that china's inflation cooled and that's helping to avoid a complete sell off in europe as you can see that we do have declines but it's not a complete disaster right now ok one country that is not escaping investors' minds though is of course grades now with the number of jobless people in greece now hitting a record now that's according to the latest data apparently it's talking twenty percent in may which is now more than twice an outrage. and it's. young people that are being the was with unemployment rates i'm only using they are now up fifty. percent so we'll see the common currency that greece is desperately trying to hold

onto for now and as we can see it is declining a lot of that is because investors they don't like cool down certainty they don't like all the fragile state of the european sovereign debt crisis right now so what they doing looking to the safe haven of the u.s. dollar now the ruble has stopped rumblings of the session on these well the closing figures for today we'll also get the closing figures for the russian equity markets because they failed to impress we see the artists in the mindset stand not really as investors they were made on the fence or awaiting global central bank stimulus really crossing their fingers and toes for about one sees the movers and shakers them and see who really suffered in the session and i was a bit of a blog around there but we did have lou call in the last managing to pop up around a tenth of upset most to territory the biggest one to head out how to bit of a lackluster day with seven basis points magnates as well three and a half percent down on us despite the retailer jumping almost good last month say

the investors not impressed still on oil that it's trading this month high in the us a speculation that china will take more steps to be economic growth and that's offsetting signs of weakening demand in the u.s. the biggest consumer of crude of course now just like some pieces bug is considered to be the russian window to europe the country's blood is of the stock that didn't stop think of it another guy is set to become another window in this time to asia up on the far east is a visit is finishing up a chase back in august sauce is a gamble right now the far east that is finishing the preparations for the asia pacific economic cooperation otherwise known as apec the meeting is hosting the event the first time and apparently before his price tag already involves a twenty two billion dollars one. twice if it's your cost of the london and just to put it into perspective for you not to be tonight thank explains why the apec summit 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 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 now it's producing seventy percent of the world's allen medium 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 many and 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 van 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. that makes me tripping at my legs quite the runs dry following me i do it all day thank you cesar . back with the headlines and then bangs in their schemes to catch a full that can only mean one thing the kaiser report just a sec. well

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