any toy. and fresh plan algeria's former foreign minister could replace kofi annan has the un's envoy in trying to revive the peace process in turmoil and syria. firsthand report from the disturbing scene in central russia more muslims than cats almost thirty children eight story on a browns and kill without daylight for a decade. and gazan span to lose their only lifeline to the outside world after border violence bromst long the massive smuggling tunnel network crucial to the blockaded region.

one pm in the russian capital you're watching r t joshie a formal jury and foreign affairs minister could step into the breach and try to give the kiss of life to peace efforts in syria but they are bringing me previously represented the u.n. in afghanistan and iraq two states that remain restless to the present day you will reportedly replace gopi on as a special envoy to syria who stepped aside saying he lacked international support for amy 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 intense street clashes which is a sign a boy who 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 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 radicals within own ranks there are multiple reports of pakistani. fighters operating on the syrian frontlines and their units are usually far better at weird 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 unstated excellent. reporting from damascus well check out examine twitter stream for war firsthand reports and alice in images from the war zone. now 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 ron's headache. for this forwards with brand new to the band shield plans in the persian gulf on top of the sanctions iran is already struggling under that still had. the four years blackwater mercenaries charged with civilian killings and weapons smuggling state criminal prosecution in the u.s. by hanging a fine. now most of the twenty seven children forced to live in catacombs in central russia by an islamic sect have been sands to orphanages they have been underground for up to ten years without daylight or contact with the outside world until being rescued by police as a group 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 religious group have 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 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 here 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 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 the sectors 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 inside neither the. any of the group's 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 afghanis 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're going to school of. plenty of stories still ahead including employed for poverty low wage earners accuse the british government of leaving them on the breadline however hard they work. and a century in flight a spile is from around the world a sample here moscow to demonstrate some top class action 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 torrijos for the killing of seventeen iraqi civilians has been fined seven and

a half million dollars for gun smuggling and well avoid further prosecution scott horton from harper's magazine says the u.s. 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 naturally tiny 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 it 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 quark water and helping blackwater sell its services. markey discuss washington foreign policy with green party u.s. presidential candidate jill stein she believes it's actually harmed the country now here's a preview of what's coming up next hour. 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 not worth the cure for it we've

spent trillions of dollars. 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. while 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 seen a sharp rise in the sinai area which also borders israel looks at what gazans stand to lose if the tunnels 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 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 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 pass through them i saw because it was still fully intact a sort huge refrigerator and even people the tunnels are

a massive make 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 well there's more on the situation in egypt on our website as well as lots of other stories including the big bang. brand new prototype now of the spacecraft have a bumpy start to its task a crashing to earth in a fiery explosion. was heard versus whistle blowers and new group calling itself anti leaks and claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on the we can expect side to get down for days. the u.s. is teaming up with its arab allies to build a missile to fan system across the persian gulf washington says the 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 the map shows an iran surrounded by american military bases and installations so rise have a poor and independent researcher and writer believes a hypothetical threat from to iran is a pretext for further expansion and i keester to area and merican 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 because really they rely on america for their internal security is 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 explores

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 purpose. and connections with iran cause a transatlantic spat in the banking sector more on that from our visit there. u.s. regulators are accusing standard chartered bank of laundering money for tehran but london mayor boris johnson says this isn't tag launch that damage the reputation of london as a point natural born different around. some of the world's best pilots have gathered in a city under car ski in russia's moscow region are holding our full dress rehearsal for an air show to mark the centennial of the russian air force more than one

hundred aircraft and helicopters are involved and he is among the action hungry crowd here at this airfield south of moscow celebrating a century of russian aviation heritage crowds have gathered to see soviet and russian aircraft both old and to the very newest and then of course there's the displays there's been a display of his historical timeline right back to plains one hundred years old and then there's a display teams as well as well as russian display teams there are also display teams from around the world great britain's red arrows here there's also teams from finland the midnight hawks and from poland the red and white flashes amongst others has been a display by parachutists carrying twenty three metre long flags for the russian state the russian air force the russian air force was created by san nicolas the second back at the beginning of the century it took part in world war one and

they're trying some of the world's first aerial bombing russian air force today is looking to the future trying to upgrade its equipment and streamline it staffing all the crowds and all the displays here though point to a clear flight path back through the changing winds of history to those first russian aviation pioneers. to martin reporting there now working hard in britain doesn't mean avoiding poverty millions of low wage earners say to have barely surviving and some accuse the governments of slashing welfare while cutting taxes for the rich parties laura smith reports. single mom mary lawrence has always worked despite that as a school dinner lady making just above the minimum wage she's classed among the millions of working paul with my wages my. tax credits and my child. friends of course 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 work recent figures show that in modern britain having a job is not enough to lift people out of poverty and government cuts are 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 for something the richest and that's partly because more 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 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 one 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 reasonably poor. mary relies on those tax credits so relieved 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 lower wage not the ones that are on a highway which you know we've 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 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. a troop. or a treat 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 a deep and lasting effect of british society laura smith r.t. london. well now it's a look at some other stories from around the world maybe as you know congress has like the former opposition leader mohamed al margaret as the first president after decades of monarchy down he's ruled the nation's political elites are mostly joyful

over the transition of power critics claim the situation has not become any better country's been torn into pieces by powerful militias and regional leaders who claim their autonomy over a hundred were killed and many more wounded in tribal clashes over the summer and. now were 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 winds and heavy downpours forced the authorities to close several major oil export boards and tourists are staying in emergency shelters waiting for the strongest storm of this hurricane season to pass. the attorneys for james holmes the ledge colorado shooter say he is mentally ill but if fans want more time to assess the nature of his illness and its influence over him holmes is accused of a bloody massacre in aurora movie theater during the opening night of the latest batman movie twelve people were killed and fifty eight wounded in 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 chuck a lot so believes there has been a history of denial in washington over the damage caused. i really don't think the united states government or the manufacturers. ever really wanted. any fall. and in fact to this day the manufacturers of it are i'm sure refuse to admit any older and you should know they were. the united states government and the military the generational of that 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.

be too late by seeing the devastation every day. i live in and has one of the major hot spots. in town here. i see the gaps i see the former to. attend the funerals of. former military is a lot of the senate. and now we're well into their generation and going into the fourth generation. and people are going to be going to get sick and die as a result of the. explosion. and there's no there's no relief. to the business now with me tree now worrying data coming from the world's second largest economy what's that all about well right now it's about the narrowing trade surplus for china which is the next sports oriented economy therefore it's

increasingly worrying that it's slowing down basically faster than expected and that all indicates all this negative that we could be heading for a hard landing which means drastic slowdown of economic growth now indeed the world's economic powerhouse is losing its the chinese report is a price drop in trade plus exports in june just one. said from a year ago well traders anticipated eight percent imports expanded to five percent despite expectations of a seven percent increase now these worries of course the asian markets first of all on friday to slump and plummet with the negative down one percent saying ended a bit better than that down just a twofer of a percent one of the biggest losers it's consumer goods li and fung has reported weak u.s. performance and therefore operating profits dropped twenty two percent now over in the commodities markets we're also seeing

a decline with investors choosing choosing to sell the black gold because of worries about the state of global demand with this chinese data and china is a crucial consumer of energy and also china's national petroleum corporation is in talks with luke oil to join its west end of two project in iraq russia's largest private oil companies 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 luke oil and the country's north wales company. move on now in currencies we're seeing the euro drop dramatically right now already compared to the greenback that says investors so worldwide are cashing out and the primary cash out currency is the dollar and therefore it is in demand and the russian ruble in line with that is dropping against both currencies dropping around two thirds of a percent versus the us dollar. now on the russian stock market so we're also

seeing negative dynamics there with the r.t.s. declining one hundred percent my sex a bit but on the weaker ruble and leading the fall financial stocks like this burbank which is down more than one hundred percent this out. and in the europe has an interesting market today footsie is up point one percent standard chartered is down around one percent we'll look at it in just a second first of all let me also talk about manchester united's i.p.o. which has had its price set of fourteen dollars per share below the regular price range and fans right now some of them are calling for the i.p.o. to fail because it's not going as planned and apparently the glazes want to use now half of the profits made from the idea of just on their personal needs and not just to not to pay off big for the clubs of big debt we'll see how that goes. let's go back to standard chartered leave the london bank is right now fighting off

accusations that it's been a laundering around one quarter of a trillion dollars in iran now the bank argues that only fourteen a million dollars worth of deals could have been classified as dodgy according to u.s. regulations now the troubled lender lost around a quarter of its market value when new york officials went public with the charges the british bank troubles have kicked off a transatlantic spat with one with none other than the london mayor boris johnson accusing new york of damaging london's reputations of financial british. john mann agrees it's a targeted attack on the british financial system. but what the american politicians and regulators are doing is specifically tying 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 london this is america taking on europe

and trying to regain kids that see and riches buyers that's going up and when american politicians and regulators say there's a little 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 is a problem of international banking. finally now if you've ever dreamed of buying a car still somewhere in europe now is your chance because instantly the prime minister mario monti is putting up around three hundred fifty castles and palaces for sale in order to reduce the country's deficit now this is not the first time that written italy's 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 euro and some of readline did leave with big financial troubles as the doubtful place apart. now

marina you are listening to this because there are probably some very good deals out there for you well definitely you know i was thinking that the only castle they have built so far is a single tale for hope for thinkers across in the future i have someone describes it well it ain't all right richard thanks very much indeed for this update and cross stock will be coming your way there resort that's after they had lines.