new man a fresh whannell jurist for a foreign minister to 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 where a muslim sect kept almost thirty children a story on the ground and tale without daylight for a decade. and a gazan stand to lose their only lifeline to the outside world after a border violence bronze egypt to seal off the massive smuggling tunnel that was bushell to the blockaded region. this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm marina joshie

a former algerian foreign affairs minister of could step into the breach and try to give the kiss of life to peace efforts in syria lakhdar brahimi previously represented the u.n. of ghana stand in iraq two states that remain restless to the present day he will reportedly replace kofi annan as a special envoy to syria who stepped aside saying he lacked international support for amy has his work cut out with no letup in violence on the ground in syria the army has flushed rebels out of a strategic district in the city of aleppo following intense street clashes which is a cowboy go looks at exactly who these rebels are. the syrian 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 a story about. syrian rebel syrian militants complaining about an increasing influx

of foreign jihadists foreign and radicals within. them multiple reports of pakistani. fighters operating on the syrian frontlines and you need say usually far better a whip 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 with wide to the contrary because it is perceived as you 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 alternative than the forces that are now trying to. reporting from damascus while you can also check out 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 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 via neighboring turkey. and america's expansion in the region adds to iran's headache u.s. forces forward with brand new defense shield plans in the persian gulf on top of the sanctions to iran is already struggling under that still ahead. plus the story is blackwater mercenaries charged with civilian killings in the weapons smuggling it's cave criminal prosecution in the u.s. why paying a fine. now most of the twenty seven children forced to live in catacombs in central russia by an islamic sect have been santa orphanages they have been underground for up to ten years without daylight or contact with the outside world until being rescued by police or does it work is going off reports from the scene of the disturbing discovery. three people in just one square metre this police footage shows the shocking conditions members of this isolated looters group have been living in for years up to seventy people all cramped in

a small country house on the outskirts of gaza and then women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen daylight as. least children who were living in south in the basement right in this syle under the house it looked kind of like an eight story and hill 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 the bill 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 so a doctor had to treat her right there at the scene it took a lot of effort to convince her she needed his help with this act is around twenty

years old 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 and the police found them while investigating a recent terror attack in the city they also found around a thousand religious books and hand written texts which are now being examined for possible extremist content but sect members appear to be defiant about their way of the way that 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 three hells sect members who are allowed to film and sinai. 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 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 their own story and neither do they recognize the authority of muslim leaders or do they recognize the existence of the state or any country altogether. you want the school of. plenty of stories still ahead including employed for poverty low earners use the british government of leaving down on the breadline however hard they work. and century in fly violets from around the world a sample of your moscow demonstrate some top class action to mark one hundred years of the russian air force. the u.s. department 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 plans for a proper trial. the amount that's being paid is a real pit this is and as these things go generally this is an absolutely tiny some 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 has got to be delighted with this we get a really deep view into the way out i 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 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 clark water and helping blackwater sell its services. hard to discuss washington's foreign policy with green party u.s. presidential candidate jill stein and she believes it's actually harmed the country so here's a preview of what's coming up at ten thirty am g.m.t. . this 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 spent trillions of dollars where. 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. egyptian 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 egyptian revolution militancy has seed a sharp rise in the sinai area which also borders israel or just falsely or looks at what gazans stand to lose if the tiles are closed. these tunnels have been operational for civil euros ever since gaza was first put under blockade back in

two thousand and six for many gazans there 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 all smuggled through the extensive underground network of tunnels into gaza carlow has voiced 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 mohammed morsi whose 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 passed through them i saw because it was still fully intact i saw huge refrigerator is and even people

the tunnels are a massive made what 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 know that sometimes by the egyptian security personnel who are outside the tunnels on the egyptian gaza border now there's more on the situation in egypt on our website as was lots of other stories including a big bang. brand new prototype nasa spacecraft has a bumpy start to its task face brushing to earth fiery explosion. mars hackers worthless whistleblowers a new group calling itself leaks claims responsibility for a series of attacks on the wiki leaks web side that took it down for days. now the u.s. is teaming up with its arab. allies to build a missile to phantom across the persian gulf washington's has

a plan to deploy raiders 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 so i set up for over it an independent researcher and writer believes a hypothetical threat from tehran as a pretext for further expansion in a case strategic area american believes and realigning its forces to better control and dominate the world and i think there's perhaps and it needs the cooperation of the countries involved and i and i think that iran being made into a thread has allowed the arab countries to cooperate with america 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 exported 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 to market with the oil it needed and soldiers or whether it's actually for. any of wider. and connections with iran cause a transatlantic spat in the banking sector more on that from our business desk. u.s. regulators are accusing standard chartered bank of laundering money for tehran but love them mayor boris johnson says this is an attack aimed at reducing the reputation of london as they by natural born is. working hard in britain doesn't mean avoiding poverty millions of low wage earners say they're barely

surviving and some accuse the government of slashing welfare while cutting taxes for the rich are just laura 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 kloster among the millions of working poor with my wages my. tax credit and my child. fronts of what i mean 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 expenses 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 whom work recent figures show that in modern britain having

a job is not enough to lift people out of poverty and government cuts to 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 hystrix the poorest trying to hit thirteen times harder is of course the thinking of the richest and that's partly because people rely on 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 that if you take out one of the services away from them the number isn't 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 what the big worry is 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 the colonies in a poor house mary relies on those tax credits or leaves to help her make ends meet and she's recently got into debt do you feel that you were thinking of. saying then . and she has a message for prime minister david cameron please think of the people that are on the low wage 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 in there so she wouldn't get young children i saw the amount in the paper the other day with his wife and children to a park. or take that for granted but for some of us that's a treat. or a treat poverty's 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 lasting effect on british society laura smith r.t. . some of the world's best pilots have gathered in the city of the cost in russia's moscow region and they're holding a full dress rehearsal for an air show to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the russian air force well more than a hundred aircraft and helicopters are involved and i just don't bargain as among the action hungry crowd. here at this airfield south of moscow there celebrating a century of russian military aviation crowds are here to gloms to go inside russian and soviet crafts both old and new and then there are of course the displays including a local flight of aircraft going back all the way one hundred years as

well as 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 the russian acro force was created all the way back at the beginning of the century by nicholas the second grandly titled the emperor's military air fleet it entered world war one and tried some of the the world's first aerial bombing all of the pilots in the russian air force and all of the stuff are looking to the future looking to modernize their equipment and streamline their staffing and from the crowds here on 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. combined reporting there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world libya's general congress has

elected a former opposition leader of mohamed el moderate as the first president after decades of moammar gadhafi is ruled the nation's political elite are mostly joyful over the transition of power but critics claim the situation has now become any better the country is being torn into pieces by powerful militias and regional leaders who claim their autonomy over one hundred were killed a man more wounded tribal clashes a work this summer. three people have been killed and thousands evacuated from their homes after tropical storm ernesto hit mexico's gulf coast causing floods and damaging buildings strong wind. is it having 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. eternity is for james holmes the ledge colorado shooter say he's mentally ill the fans wants 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 twelve people were killed and fifty eight wounded and the incident. almost four decades after the end of the vietnam war the us has started to clean up the toxic chemical agent orange it was used as a weapon during the conflict and its health effects continued long after causing deformities to hundreds of thousands of people war veteran chop 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 or the manufacturers. ever really want to do. any forward and in fact to this day many factors of it or i'm sure if used and he. says that they should know who they were. you know united states government and the military the generational of there is on the. well into the third generation as i said approaching the fourth generation and we have no idea how long

this is going to exist you know so. i see the devastation every day. as one of the major hotspots. in town who's in here. i see in the gaps i see the former to. attend the funerals of the. former military as well as the said that they were exposed to agent orange and now we're well into their generation going into the fourth generation. you know. people are genuinely good and as a result. and there's no there's no really. where now crossing to dmitri has got our latest business news and the markets are selling off and fears of a hard landing in china war can you tell us about this well basically there's

a new batch of stats coming out from the world's second largest economy which indicates that economic growth is slowing down and therefore there are fears that it might come to a standstill this economic growth and that would be called a hard landing as opposed to a gradual reduction of economic growth which would be a soft landing now a hard landing as very much serious risks for the global economy which could create shocks and lead to another wave of the crisis now what we have right now is the world's economic powers is indeed slowing down it's reporting a surprise drop in trade surplus countries july exports grew just one percent from the year ago period while traders anticipated eight percent and china's economy is export driven also imports expanded only five percent despite expectations of a seven percent increase and let's take a look at the stock market reaction indeed there is a sell off this is the close of the nikkei is down almost one percent and the hong kong index sank saying it's also falling by pretty much the same amount point nine

percent that's also on the back of that report and consumer goods from the from is the biggest loser as it's reported weeks before months in the u.s. . over in the commodities markets we're also seeing a pretty similar picture investors are choosing to sell off as they're worried about the state of potential demand for energy resources which of course china is a big consumer of and also china's national petroleum corporation is in talks with the loop oil to join its west qurna two project in. iraq russia's largest private oil companies looking for a partner for a thirty percent stake in the project west qurna is one of the largest oil deposits in iraq which is now explored by luke or iraq's north wales company. second look at currencies right now and the euro and the dollar are pretty stable against one another while the russian ruble continues his job is dropping a round hole five percent versus the dollar and bit less than that versus the euro

and on the russian market was still seeing a negative picture with my six feeling slightly better than the obvious and weaker ruble and the indices are dropping on a weak financial sector was very busy driving around one and a half percent this hour. now over to europe where we're seeing the footsie and the dax of flat to negative standard chartered is actually gaining back some of its last positions indeed it lost around twenty five percent recently now what's happening right now is of course the troubled lender is fighting back on charges that it's been laundering a quarter of a trillion dollars for iran now the bank argues that only fourteen million dollars could be considered dodgy hours according to u.s. regulations now the lender as i mentioned the last round a quarter of its market value were new york officials went public with the charges british banks troubles have kicked off a transatlantic spats with none other than london mayor boris johnson accusing new

york of damaging london's variations of financial harm british m.p. john mann agrees it's a targeted attack on the british financial system. and what the american politicians and regulators are doing is specifically tearing it saying 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 and this is america taking on europe and trying to regain cage that's the end to be. bias that's going on and when american politicians and regulators say there's a look at 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 london problem it's not a british problem it's a problem of international banking. and now if you've ever dreamed of buying up

a car sold somewhere in europe now is your chance because italy's prime minister mario monti has put up around three hundred fifty castles and palaces for sale to cut the country's deficit now there is this is not the first time the debt ridden country is selling off historical property earlier this year many lighthouses on the island of sardinia also changed hands the fresh round is facing headwinds as many investors are fearing the collapse of the year many of redlined italy with the big financial troubles and doubtful as a doubtful place to park cash of course if you want to buy a car solar power you need the cash to be able to afford that of course money makes the world around and say all right we thanks very much indeed for the sub date and i'll be back shortly was our top story so stay with us.

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