new man the fresh flannel derrius former foreign minister could replace kofi annan as the un's envoy and try to revive the peace process in turbulent syria. firsthand report from the disturbing scene in central russia for a muslim so kept almost thirty children in an eight story underground and helped put down daylight for a decade. and gazan stand to lose their only lifeline to be outside world after border violence from egypt to seal off a massive smuggling tunnel network crucial to the watergate had returned.

from moscow a former algerian foreign affairs minister could step into the breach and try to give the kiss of life to peace efforts in syria lakhdar brahimi who has previously represented the u.n. of ghana stand an iraq will reportedly replace kofi annan as a special envoy to the war torn state and stepped aside saying he lacked international support for him he has his work cut out with no let up in violence on the ground in syria the army has flushed rebels out of a strategic district in the city of aleppo following in street clashes boyko looks at exactly who these rebels are. steering the uprising now is very different from what it used to be even a year ago and western media are also now waking up to the fact that not all who are fighting the syrian army in the north are really standing up for freedom and democracy just recently a reuters news agency has published. syrian rebel syrian militants are complaining

about an increasing influx of foreign jihadists foreign radicals within own ranks there are multiple reports of pakistani of gunnies saudi fighters operating on the syrian frontlines and their units are usually far better a where and far better armed than those of the syrian born rebels as far as their goals are concerned they usually talk about the creation of syria based islamic caliphate that will be based on shared rear law now what met many western observers fail to realize is that these radical groups are fighting the assad government not because of its poor democratic record but why it's to the contrary because it is perceived as way too atheist way too liberal way too secular and. vision of syrian future would be far more constrained in terms of social religious

personal freedoms than what syria has at the moment you know there is a growing sense here in syria especially among people who describe themselves as pro position that they are now being increasingly forced to choose between the two evils and that the government that they are so committed to ousting may eventually prove to be a much less harmless and much more acceptable of turnitin than the forces that are now trying to unseat it i saw a boy car thirty reporting from damascus well you can check out a twitter stream for more firsthand reports analysis and images from the war zone. washington which is openly backing the syrian opposition has refused to rule out the creation of a no fly zone over an area reportedly under rebel control and that's on top of alleged help with intelligence and the provision of non-lethal supplies sophisticated weapons including surface to air missiles are also reportedly making

their way to syria by neighboring turkey. and america's expansion in the region adds to iran's headache you ask pushing forward when we're in the fan shield plans in the persian gulf on top of the sanctions that rod is already struggling under that still ahead plus. editorials blackwater mercenaries charged with civilian killings and weapons smuggling escaped criminal prosecution in the u.s. by paying a fine. most of the twenty seven children forced to live and catacombs in central russia by an islamic sect have been sense to orphanages they have been underground for up to ten years without daylight or contact with the outside world until being rescued by police artistic work has gone off reports from the scene of a disturbing discovery. three people in just one square metre this police footage shows the shocking conditions members of this isolated villages group had been

living in for years up to seventy people all cramped in a small country house on the outskirts of gaza men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen daylight a spokesman for these children who were living in south end and the basement right in the soil under the house it looked kind of like an eight story and. shocked by what they found the authorities began taking the kids outside in order to take them to doctors most of them are still being examined while their parents demand they be left alone. the children are terrified and after everything that's happened. they're afraid of what can be done to them despite being in need of urgent medical help some of the adults had to be talked into allowing doctors to see them. one woman had a miscarriage doctor had to treat her right there at the scene it took a lot of effort to convince her she needed his help. the sect is around twenty

years old and its founder is eighty five year old for that. he proclaimed himself a prophet almost fifty years ago and is now too weak to get out of bed his followers believe only in the koran rejecting all other religions and even movements within islam the police found them while investigating a recent terror attack in the city they also found around a thousand religious books and texts which are now being examined for possible extremist content but sect members appear to be defiant about their way of life and actually what you are fighting against ally himself the authorities have already opened several criminal cases involving senior members of the sect and the fate of the children is yet to be decided plans are also being drawn up to three house sect members who are allowed to film inside neither did any of the groups or members agreed to speak with us on camera but off camera the man that i spoke with said that around forty people remain on their territory they do expect the authorities

to try to take everything down but he claims that they are going to resist even if they bring a court order since they don't recognize there are neither do they recognize the authority of muslim leaders or do they recognize the existence of the state or any country altogether. archie. plenty of stories so i have it including employed for poverty. low wage earner is accuse the british government of leaning down on the breadline are hard they work. one hundred years of russian military aviation joined as that they sat build south of moscow a stunning displays and a hundred years of flying history. they were made of justice has literally put a price on the lives of iraqis private security firm previously known as blackwater

the tory is for the killing of seventeen iraqi civilians has been fined seven and a half million dollars for gun smuggling and will avoid further prosecution scott horton from harper's magazine says the us government never planned for a proper trial the amount that's being paid is a real pit this is it as these things go generally this is an absolutely tiny sum on the other hand we've got this way blackwater is not completely out of the woods yet what they got here was a deferred prosecution agreement that is they have time to persuade the justice department not to prosecute the justice department gets an extension in the statute of limitations period to continue its investigation but that being said these sorts of agreements aren't entered into unless the government thinks dismissal that is non-prosecution is a probable outcome so obviously blackwater there's got to be delighted with this we get

a really deep view into the way blackwater was conducting business around the world and its provision of arms and sophisticated communications equipment to other governments and not quite governments and one thing that comes out of these papers is that a lot of this is being done and a very very close relationship with the united states remember blackwater is a principal contractor for the department of state and it appears in many of these dealings and department of state is opening the door for blackwater and helping blackwater sell its services. our to discuss washington's foreign policy with green party u.s. presidential candidate jill stein she believes it's actually harmed the country and here's a preview of what's coming up in about twenty minutes time. this world police policy is bankrupting americans we're spending about a trillion dollars a year on the military industrial security complex that budget has

roughly doubled over the last ten years and we are certainly not more secure for it we've spent trillions of dollars in the last when we withdrew from iraq how did we do it we withdrew from iraq in the dead of night at a secret undisclosed date because we were afraid that we would be ambushed in the process how many friends exactly did we make in this war what kind of a stable democracy did we make in iraq you know iraq continues to teeter on the brink of a civil war. egypt's government is shutting down smuggling tunnels across its border with gaza after sixteen of its soldiers were killed in clashes in the region since the start of the gyptian revolution militancy has seen a sharp rise in the sinai area which also borders israel or do you suppose the euro looks at what gazans stands to lose if the tunnels are closed. these tunnels have been operational for civil us ever since gaza was first put under blockade back in

two thousand and six for many gazans they are essentially be only lifeline they have with the outside world and that's why you'll hear many gazans saying that they feel that they were living in a massive prison we're talking here about everything about goods about items about people even food and fuel that are smuggled through this extensive underground network of tunnels into gaza carlow has voiced its suspicions that some of the militants who were involved in sunday's deadly attack were smuggled through these tunnels from egypt into gaza but it is still a highly unusual move to seal off the tunnels particularly under the presidency of the new egyptian president mohamed morsi who's muslim brotherhood party has close ties to hamas which rules the gaza strip what's more morsi has said that he is committed to improving the lives of ordinary palestinians now i've been down some of these tunnels and i can tell you that i've seen everything pass through them i

saw because it was still fully intact i saw huge refrigerators and even people the tunnels are a massive myth work everybody is somehow connected to everyone else and the people on top of the ground know what's going on underneath the ground they stay in constant contact they also looted sometimes by the egyptian security personnel who are outside the tunnels on the egyptian gaza border. publicly reporting there now there is more on the situation in egypt on our web site as well as lots of other stories including the big back. up for any prototype nasa spacecraft has a bumpy start to its test phase crashing to earth fiery explosion. but of course birth is whistleblowers and a new group calling itself and leads claims responsibility for a series of attacks on that we can expect side that took it down for decades. the u.s. is teaming up with its arab allies to build a missile defense system across the persian gulf washington says

a plan to deploy raters in the united arab emirates and qatar is to guard against a possible attack from iran the u.s. already has a vast presence in the region this map shows iran surrounded by american military bases and installations sariah set up for olrik and independent researcher and ryder believes a hypothetical threat from tehran is a pretext for further expansion in a key strategic area. american believes in realigning its forces to better control and dominate the world and i think there's perhaps and it means the cooperation of the countries involved and i and i think that iran being made into a threat has allowed the arab countries to cooperate with america big because really they rely on america for their internal securities and which is which actually is an important point here because the internal security is of

something countries are now in jeopardy and with every base that america creates with every missile defense shield all patriot missile everything that it exports to any given country it has personnel going with it so one has to question whether these are to calm down the potential threats that might arise in countries that have always supplied america with the oil it needed and soldiers or whether it's actually for. any wider purpose and connections with iran because a transatlantic spat in the banking sector and more on that from our business desk . u.s. regulators are checking that legations of money laundering for iran by standard shots at the mayor of london boris johnson saying this isn't launched to damage the reputation of london as a financial harm more innocent time by. working hard in britain

doesn't mean avoiding poverty millions of low wage earners say they are barely surviving and some accuse the government of slashing welfare while cutting taxes for the rich i guess or smith reports. single mom mary lawrence has always worked but despite that as a school dinner lady making just above the minimum wage she's classed among the millions of working poor with my wages my. tax credit is a much sharper. friends have got them in per month and my outgoing i'm left with about twenty five to thirty pounds a week and that's for clothes birthdays christmas. and with nothing left for emergencies or savings mary worries about five year old alfie growing and more expense as he gets older and she's just one of a staggering seven point nine million adults living in poverty in the u.k.

sixty percent of work recent figures show that in modern britain having a job is not enough to lift people out of poverty and government cuts creating a perfect storm for people like mary as the state's approach to reducing britain's budget is by slashing welfare and services not by increasing taxes impulses mystic's the poorest tend to hit thirteen times harder is of course i think the richest and that's partly because people will line the services they don't have any other option and it's partly because incomes of the people in poverty is so low to start with if you take out one of the services away from them then that represents a much bigger part of what they need to get by the government says it wants to make work pay but those assurances ring increasingly hollow when the big worry is that the government. policy about helping people into the work program and making work pay through universal credit. with the best way in the world the success of both

depends on the state of labor market and the big problem here is that i would walk we call them in a poor house mary relies on those tax credits or relieved to help her make ends meet and she's recently got into debt do you feel that you are thinking of. saying . and she has a message for prime minister david cameron please think of the people that are not the ones that are on the highway. you know we still got to survive and have a life. and a life isn't working monday to friday and that's all you do you know so she wouldn't get young children are so the amount in the paper the other day with his wife and children to a park he takes that for granted but for some of us that's a truth. or a trait poverty is about material deprivation but it's also about feeling excluded

from mainstream society and experts argue that chopping the welfare budget now will have an impact on poor families that will last well into the future with deep and no sting effect of british society laura smith r.t. . now some of the world's best pilots have gathered in the city i was a cost in russia's moscow region they're holding a full dress rehearsal for an air show to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the russian air force that's now across town bar it's got all the latest for us there. hi there marina yes here at this airfield south of moscow there celebrating a century of russian military aviation crowds are here to glance and to go inside russian and soviet craft both old and new and then there are course the displays including a critical flight of aircraft going back all the way one hundred years there's was

well this russian display teams foreign display teams have also been invited great britain's red arrows are here and there's also a finnish team the midnight talks the polish red and white flashes amongst. the russian aircraft air force was created all the way back to the beginning of the century by san nicolas the second round the titles the emperor's military air fleet it entered world war one and tried some of the the world's first aerial bombing the remains of that air fleet were taken up by the fledgling soviet union and then it went into its greatest challenge in world war two after the soviet union the route the russian air force was reborn in one nine hundred ninety s. were a tough time with budget cuts and low morale these days though all of the pilots in the russian air force and all of this stuff are looking to the future looking to modernize their equipment and streamline their staffing from the crowds here and

the displays it's clear to see that through the winds of change throughout history there is a flight line going all the way back and connecting today's pilots with those first russian pioneers one hundred years ago. the town breathtaking for it is there while you were telling us about the bad ground of this and what a fantastic show it is thanks very much indeed for bringing us the latest on the one hundredth anniversary of russian air force dumbarton reporting there. now almost four decades after the aunt of the vietnam war the u.s. has started to. up the toxic chemical agent orange was used as a weapon during the conflict as health effects continued long after causing the former days to hundreds of thousands of people war veteran chuck a lot so believes there has been a history of denial and washington over the damage caused i really don't think the united states government nor the manufacturers of orange ever really wanted to

admit any full already guilds and in fact to this day the manufacturers of it are i'm sure refuse to admit any older in any purchase a patient other than they were following the orders of the united states government in the military the generational effect is on on well into the third generation as i said approaching the fourth generation and we have no idea how long this is going to continue so it could be too late but i see the devastation every day. i live in the nagen which has one of the major hot spots in our. entire nation here. i see the handicaps i see the form of these. attend the funerals of. former military as well as the senate there were exposed to agent orange and now we're well into the third generation and going into the fourth

generation of the effects of that you know and people are continuing to get sick and die as a result of the. exposure of the war agent orange and there's no law there's no relief in sight. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world maybe as general congress have a look at the country's first democratically president after decades of moammar gadhafi is dictatorship hobbit. a former opposition to your will hold the office until a new constitution comes to power next year the new leader is facing the daunting challenge of controlling powerful militias continuing to fight for political influence. three people have been killed and thousands of evacuating from their homes after a tropical storm ernesto hit mexico's gulf coast causing floods and damaging buildings strong winds and heavy downpours forced the authorities to close several major oil export ports tourists are staying in emergency shelters waiting for the strongest storm of this hurricane season to pass. it terry is for james holmes

the alleged colorado shooter say he's mentally ill but the fans want more time to assess the nature of his illness and its influence over him holmes is accused of a bloody massacre at an aurora movie theater during the opening night of the latest batman movie term twelve people were killed and fifty eight wounded in the incident three. followed ritter is here next with the business news so the markets are selling off and fears of a hard landing in china that is true that happens indeed there we will see huge wave of another crisis all across the globe and so far basically economic indicators are showing that this could happen as opposed to a soft landing when china's extremely growth rate the it's the locomotive of economic growth around the world it's up more than eight percent g.d.p. this year so far was nine last year now if it goes down to around one percent then of course that will slow down the global economy by very very much what we're

seeing right now is that it's trade surplus is shrinking july's exports grew just one percent from a year ago period well eight percent were expected and imports expanded only five percent despite expectations of a seven percent. and the reaction on the markets is pretty expected the nikkei is falling almost one percent so is the hang sang and the consumer goods firmly in form is one of the biggest losers out. of the reports in operating profits dropping to twenty two percent despite net profits to be higher and this is on the back of this report goes from china's commerce department over the commodities markets we're also seeing a drop from a local eyes the seen before this is as traders of course worried about the state of potential demand for energy as china is the main consumer of energy and resources in the world now that has not been providing any support to the russian markets where also lukoil is and talks with china's national petroleum corporation

to join its west to project in iraq russia's largest private oil company is looking for a partner for a thirty percent stake in the project west kern is one of the largest oil deposits in iraq which is now explored by luko and the country's north well company. as move over to some other markets on the currencies market the euro's continues dropping versus the dollar as excuse me investors are moving into cash and notably the greenback around the world and the russian ruble continues dropping around half a percent against the basket of currencies but the. russian ruble remains under thirty two roubles per dollar so far. and on the russian stock market the r.t.s. is now dropping already one point six percent as you can see there now with a weaker ruble to my six bearing a bit better but still on the my six financials are feeling pretty bad with this burbank dropping one and a half percent lukoil is fairing

a bit better and you're of the markets of also opened on the negative notes but the fairing better than asia or russia now in london standard chartered is actually up by a notch as the bank continues to fight off allegations that it's been laundering a quarter of a trillion dollars for iraq and more details on that story the bank argues that only fourteen million dollars worth of deals were potentially dodgy under u.s. legislation now the troubled lender lost a quarter of its market value when new york officials went public with the charges british banks troubles kicked off for transatlantic spats with none other than london mayor boris johnson accusing new york of damaging london's reputation as a financial british m.p. john mann agrees it's a targeted attack on the british financial system what the american politicians and regulators are doing is specifically targeting with over emotive language british

banks and the reason is that new york he's trying to steal part of the dollar trading business that goes through a lot of this is america take you know europe and trying to recreate it that's the and richest buyers that's going up and when american politicians. and regulators say there's a lot of the problem they're wrong there's a problem with international banking there's a problem in the ethics of behavior of international banks including in london but this isn't a problem it's not a british problem is a problem of international banking and the british banks have come under pressure recently with the libel scandal with the accusations h.s.b.c. is in connection with the drug cartels in mexico so this could be this could be a tack against the system indeed all right well we'll wait and see and of course monitor the situation there and thanks very much indeed for this they retreat and up next here on our t.v. we talk to u.s. presidential candidate who thinks that america's democracy sometimes are examples

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