starts on t.v. dot com. new man fresh algeria's former foreign minister could replace kofi annan as the un's envoy and try to revive the peace process and turbulence there. first hand reports but disturbing scene in central russia where a muslim sect kept almost thirty children in an eight story underground and without daylight for a decade. and gazans stand to lose their only lifeline to the outside world after border violence problems egypt to seal off the massive smuggling tunnel network crucial to the blockaded region.

it is good to have you with us on this friday here on our. researcher live in moscow a former algerian foreign minister could step into the breach and try to give a kiss of life to the peace efforts in syria lakhdar brahimi who has previously represented the u.n. in afghanistan and iraq will reportedly replace kofi annan as a special envoy to the water on state and stepped aside saying that he was lacking international support let's cross over now to peter all over here and get some details on this man the algerian foreign minister. well it's got to be the job one of the jobs anyway that nobody would want in the world special envoy dealing with the syrian the ongoing syrian crisis but it seems that the next man to take over the role from kofi annan is going to be but he me the seventy eight year old former i'll jury and foreign minister he does have pedigree when it comes to dealing with. seemingly. ongoing in endless crisis he was

a key figure in the late one nine hundred eighty s. in bringing peace to the lebanese civil war in recent times he was a u.n. envoy sent to the iraq invasion of afghanistan i beg your pardon in two thousand and one he was also sent to iraq in two thousand and three less success there as those conflicts raged on for many years of course afghanistan still a scene of bitter and ferocious violence at times now it looks like he would provide a different outlook than kofi annan did and of course was very keen to speak to both the opposition and the asaad government due to ties in his personal life and his own personal politics it would seem that but he me would possibly be looking for a type of closer ties with the syrian rebels now his daughter a former c.n.n. and b.b.c. news correspondent herself is married to a jordanian prince one of the sons of the king of jordan jordan of course a place that's been accused of smuggling weapons and arms into syria to help the

rebels there also the place the place of choice for those wanting to defect from the assad regime to go so it would suggest that those close ties with the likes of jordan could see him looking to. be keener to speak to the rebels as opposed to the assad government but it looks like it will be lakhdar brahimi who will take over as the special envoy for the u.n. and arab league on the syrian crisis. certainly has his work cut out for him 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 that are two socks on a boy who's been looking at exactly who these rebels are really. the syrian 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 the reuters news agency has published the story of syrian rebel syrian militants complaining about an increasing influx of foreign jihadists pointed radicals within. them multiple reports of libyan the slimy of gunnies fighters operating on the syrian frontlines and the units are usually far better where i'm 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 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 we see you atheist way too liberal

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 signs here in syria especially among people who describe themselves as pro position that they're now being increasingly forced to choose between the two evils and 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 unstated at some point to r.t. reporting from damascus. and you can always check out our twitter stream for more first time reports analysis and images from the war zone the u.k. foreign office is reportedly ready to give an extra eight million dollars to syrian rebels but that will not include weapons aid it all comes as 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 on the provision of non-lethal supplies sophisticated weapons including surface to air missiles or are already reportedly making their way to syria this via neighboring turkey. and america's expansion in the region adds up to iran's headache for the u.s. pushes forward with new defense shield plans in the persian gulf on top of the sanctions terror ron is already struggling that is still ahead but also. the notorious of blackwater mercenaries charged with civilian killings and weapons smuggling criminal prosecution in the u.s. by simply paying a fine. now most of the twenty seven children forced to live in catacombs in central russia by an islamic sect have been sent to orphanages

and they have been underground for up to ten years without daylight or contact with the outside world until being rescued by police. 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 men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen dealing i suppose with thought these children living in south even in. the basement right on the sile 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 dr had to treat her right there at the scene it took a lot of effort to convince her she needed his help. 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 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 but 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 rehab 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. 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. if you live in the heart of moscow plenty of stories still to come including the employed. low wage earners accuse the british government of leaving them on the

breadline however they work. in flight pilots from all around the world. to demonstrate. one hundred years of the russian. now the u.s. department of justice has literally put a price on the lives of iraqis private security for the. blackwater notorious for the killing of seventeen iraqi civilians has been fined seven and a half million dollars for gun smuggling and will avoid any 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 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 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 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 the department of state is opening the door for clark water and helping blackwater sell its services. now r.t.

did discuss washington's foreign policy with the green party u.s. presidential candidate jill stein she believes it's actually home to the country and here's a preview of what's coming your way 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 worth the cure for it we spent trillions of dollars in the air when we withdrew from iraq how did we do it we withdrew from iraq in the dead of night and 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. i do stay with us for the interview coming your way shortly but for now 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 egyptian revolution a militancy has seen a sharp rise in the sinai area which does also happen to border israel party's policy looks at what the gazans stand to lose if indeed the tunnels are officially closed. these tunnels have been operational for civil uro's 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 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 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 there was still fully intact i saw huge refrigerators and even people the tunnels are a massive myth would 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 look at sometimes by the egyptian security personnel who are outside the tunnels on the egyptian gaza border. reporting right there there's

a much more in the situation going on inside egypt find it on our web site on the top comments there with many of those stories including the big bang a brand new prototype not so spacecraft has a bumpy start to its. crashing down to earth in one. fiery explosion. because of that whistle blowers a new group calling itself and t. leaks claims responsibility for a series of attacks on the wiki leaks website that took it down for days. all right it's quarter past the hour moscow time the u.s. is teaming up with its arab allies to build a missile defense system across the persian gulf washington says the plan to deploy radars 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 right here shows iran essentially surrounded by american military bases and installations sariah support an independent research

and writer believes a hypothetical threat from a terror on 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 needs 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 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 exposed 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 merica with the oil it needed and soldiers or whether it's actually for . any wider purposes. and connections with iran because a transatlantic spat in the banking sector more on that now from our business to. u.s. regulators are accusing standard chartered bank of laundering money for to iran but london mayor boris johnson says this is all part of an anti london campaign to damage his reputation as a financial hub tell you more about that around five minutes. before dimitri will get to the world update but for now some of the world's best pilots have gathered in the city or should confiscates in russia's moscow region holding a full dress rehearsal for an air show to mark the centennial of the russian air force and more than one hundred aircraft and helicopters are all taking part artist

on barton 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 uist and then of course there's the displays there's been a display of this 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 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 there's been a display by the parachutists occurring twenty three meter long flags for the russian state the russian air force the russian air force was created by sonic close the second back at the beginning of the century it took part in global

warming there tried some of the world's worst aerial bombing russian air force today is looking to the future trying to upgrade its equipment and streamline 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. enjoying himself far too much as promised into the world of it we go now we'll start with libya where the general congress has elected a formal opposition leader that of mohamed el and my god if as the first president after decades of daffy's rule at the nation's political elites mostly joyful over the transition of power but critics claim the situation has not become any better the country is being torn into pieces by powerful militias and the regional leaders who all claim their autonomy over one hundred killed many more wounded in tribal clashes over the summer. the attorneys for james holmes the alleged colorado

shooter say he is mentally ill but the defense wants. 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 fifty eight wounded in the. now working heart of britain doesn't mean avoiding poverty millions of low wage earners say they're barely surviving some accuse the government of slashing wealth well cutting taxes for the rich artist laura smith reports. single mom mary has always worked 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 and my child and 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 and 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 the work recent figures show that in modern britain have a good 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 mystics the poorest tend to hit thirteen times harder as a portion of the richest and that's partly because poor 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 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 go. by the government says it wants to make work pay but those assurances ring increasingly hollow when the big worry is that the government too flagship policy is about helping people into work the work program and making work pay through universal credit. but with the births were 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 economy's in a poor health mary relies on those tax credits all relieved to help her make ends meet and she's recently got into debt do you feel that you think you're also. seeing him. 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 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 when you got young children i saw him out 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 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 not do well into the future with deep and take effect on british society laura smith r t. and off to the mission we go from here on a business update good to see you today what's the problem no worse thank god it's friday feeling on the markets no not at all so you know china is to blame we've got a batch of disappointing economic data when it comes to china you know too big to fail doesn't even begin describing it because there's always

a risk of hard landing in the second largest economy in the world and what we've got right now is a surprise drop in trade surplus countries july exports grew just one percent from the year ago period while traders anticipated eight percent and imports expanded five percent despite expectations of a seven percent increase in the markets reacted pretty quickly with asia dropping around one percent as you can see there the nikkei that's led by exporters stocks and also the hang seng was down around point six percent but better than that and it's led by consumer goods leaf and form and reported operating profits dropped twenty two percent to two weeks or months in the u.s. over in the commodities market we're seeing a pretty similar picture with traders choosing to sell oil more than a dollar down now both for brant and the light sweet crude and that's of course traders are worried about the state of global demand given that china's economy is

slowing down. also china's national petroleum corporation is in talks with russia's lukoil to join its west kind of two project in iraq russia's largest private oil companies looking for a partner for a thirty percent stake in the project west kind of two is one of the largest world appalled. in iraq which is now explored by luke or and the country's north well. it's move over to other markets let's go to currencies where the euro is dropping versus the greenback as investors of course cashing out and cashing out preferably into the u.s. dollar therefore it's in demand as opposed to the euro the russian ruble also shedding value now down almost zero percent versus the greenback russian markets also continuing to drop deeper with the r.t.s. now declining almost two percent m i six feeling a bit better on the weaker ruble but the basically the main drivers of losses burbank which is down around one hundred percent. you've been given that room other

see in d.c. might be teaming up with it with in iraq in the west. and over in europe we're also seeing a negative session of that down around half a percent the footsie is feeling a bit bad sir and i want to talk about is the i.p.o. of manchester united f c it's not going as planned it's going cheap fourteen dollars pushchair well the expected range was sixteen to twenty and some of the fans are really really hoping for a failure of the i.p.o. because the glazer family are now choosing to keep the money and use just to pay off debt rather than all of it and also standard chartered is down one and a half percent as the bank is fighting accusations that it's been laundering around two hundred fifty billion dollars for iran and basically the bank is saying that. we've lost a quarter of its market value when new york officials went public with the charges

the bank's troubles of kicked off a transatlantic spots with none other than london mayor boris johnson accusing new york of damaging london's reputations of financial hard but british m.p. john mann agrees it's a targeted attack on the british financial system. what the american politicians and regulators. doing it specifically tying it saying wait over emotive language british banks and the reason is that new york piece trying to steal the dollar trading business that goes through a lot of this is america taking on europe and trying to regain its that's the empty britches bias that's going on and when american politicians and regulators say there's a long term 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. rory i'll be back one more time next hour and

then it's your favorite business plan to katie will be everybody's favorite person present thank you see you later. i will get to the headlines in a minute but then after that we'll be talking to a us presidential candidate who questions whether america's democracy might be an illusion.

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