scandal. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our. new man fresh planet algeria's former foreign minister could replace kofi annan as the un's envoy and try to revive the peace process in turbulent syria. a first time report from the disturbing scene in central russia where a muslim sect kept almost thirty children in an eight story underground and kill without daylight for a decade. and gazans stand to lose their only lifeline to the outside world after border violence prompts egypt to seal off the massive smuggling tunnel that were crucial to the blockaded region.

a pleasure to have you with us here on our to today i'm rory sushant live in moscow a former algerian foreign minister could step into the breach and try to give a kiss of life to peace efforts in syria lakhdar brahimi who was previously represented the u.n. in afghanistan and iraq will reportedly replace kofi annan as a special envoy to the war torn state i don't step aside saying he was lacking major international support now let's hand over to our he's pretty all over who he can size up the new recruit. well it's not a job many people would have wanted you think but considering the situation in syria but it seems that lakhdar brahimi will be taking over from kofi annan as the next special envoy on the syrian crisis now the seventy eight year old former algerian foreign minister does have pedigree when it comes to dealing with serious conflicts he was instrumental in forming a peace in the. late one nine hundred eighty s.

in the lebanese civil war in two thousand and one he was sent by the un as the envoy to afghanistan as the united states invaded the country following nine eleven he was again sent to iraq in two thousand and three for the invasion of that country representing the u.n. on that occasion but it's also interesting to look at what type of an envoy he will be kofi annan had quite openly spoke to both the syrian rebels and the assad government now if we look a little bit better he means personal life in his personal contacts we might see a different approach from him brahimi is daughter of former b.b.c. and c.n.n. correspondent is married to wear one of the sons of the king of jordan. strong family ties there jordan of course a country that has been linked to the smuggling of weapons another arms into syria into the hands of the syrian rebels and jordan of course a haven a place of choice for those defecting from the assad government to go so perhaps we

could see brahimi focusing attention focusing his attention on speaking to the rebels as opposed to the way that kofi annan tried to do it with speaking to both the rebels and the assad government but it looks like he will take over from kofi annan so it looks like the next envoy going to be locked up or he me the former algerian foreign minister taking on that difficult job in syria. indeed well but he certainly has his work cut out for him as peter was saying just no letup in the violence on the ground in syria. has flushed out rebels from a strategic district in the city of aleppo following intense street clashes. on a boy looks at exactly who these rebels really are. 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 a 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 libya but he slimy of gunnies fighters operating on the syrian frontlines and units are usually far better where the 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 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 to the contrary because it is perceived as we see you atheist way 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 now 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 the government that the. still committed to ousting me eventually proved to be a much less harmless and much more acceptable alternative than the forces that are now trying time stated that some boys are reporting from damascus. so you can check box on his twitter stream for many more first hand reports analysis and images from the war zone the u.k. foreign office is reportedly ready though to give an extra eight million dollars to syrian rebels but that will not include weapons and it 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 and that's on top of alleged help with intelligence on the provision of non-lethal supplies sophisticated weapons including surface to air missiles are also reportedly making their way to syria via neighboring turkey. well america's expansion in the region is also adding to iran's headache the u.s. which is forward with new defense shield plans for the persian gulf but tehran already struggling under sanctions is the main target that is still ahead for you also. the notorious blackwater mercenaries charged with civilian killings and weapons smuggling escaped criminal prosecution in the u.s. by simply paying a fine. by this is r.t. live from moscow where most of the twenty seven children forced to live in catechumens in central russia by an islamic sect have been sent to war from each

years they had been underground for up to ten years without daylight or contact with the outside world until being rescued by police go to prison 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 only out. men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen daylight as opposed to thoughtful like least children living in south 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 doctor 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 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 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 and neither did 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 authorities to try to take everything down but he claims. even if the. recognize there are neither do we recognize the authority of muslim leaders. recognize the existence of this state or any country altogether. or to be. ten minutes past the hour moscow time this is many more stories still to come in the program including that of employed property low wage earners accuse the british government of leaving them on the breadline however hard they work. a

century inflight face pilots from all around the world assembling right here very near to. here to demonstrate some top class action to mark a hundred years of the russian air force. the u.s. department of justice has literally put a price on the lives of iraqis the private security firm previously known as blackwater notorious 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 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 naps at least 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 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 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. but when it comes to issues of foreign policy oh we did discuss washington's foreign policy with green party u.s.

president presidential candidate jill stein she believes it's actually harmed the country for our preview of what's coming up at one thirty g.m.t. . 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 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. it's good to have

you with us here on our to today but 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 militancy has seen a sharp rise in the sinai area which also borders israel. looks of what guards and stand to lose if indeed the tunnels to shut down. these tunnels have been operational for civil years ever since gaza was first put under blockade back in two thousand and six for many gazans they always seem to be the 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 feel 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 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 looted sometimes by the egyptian security personnel who are outside the tunnels on the egyptian gaza border. the reporting right there well there's much more on the situation in egypt on our web site on t.v.

dot com as well as many other stories including the big bang new prototype nasa spacecraft has a bumpy start to its test phase crashing to earth in a well a fiery explosion. versus whistle blowers a new group calling itself anti leaks has claimed responsibility for a series of attacks on the wiki leaks website that took it down for days. 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 have a look at this map right here ultimately showing that iran is massively surrounded by american military bases and installations support and independent research and writer believes a hypothetical threat from 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 security is and which is which actually is an important point here because the internal security is that something countries are now in jeopardy and with every base that america creates with every missile defense shield or 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 all this abiding american oil it needed and soldiers or whether it's actually for. any why do this. and connections with iran cause a transatlantic spot in the banking sector more than half my business to ask and dmitri. u.s. regulators are accusing standard chartered bank of laundering money for to run by the london mayor boris johnson says this is all part of an anti london campaign to damage its reputation as a financial hub more and is in around seventy. ad some of the global news in brief in a moment with the world update but for an hour some of the world's best pilots have gathered in the city of zuckoff skates in russia's moscow region holding a full dress rehearsal for an air show to mark the send ten year old of the russian air force and more than a hundred aircraft and helicopters all getting involved to use tom barton while he's out there to enjoy himself. 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 earliest time 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 carrying twenty three metre long flags for the russian state the russian air force the russian air force was created by nicholas 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 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 both point to a clear flight path back through the changing winds of history to those first russian aviation pioneers. of course once on barton right there at let's get into it as promised at the r.t. world update now and start with libya where the general congress has a formal opposition leader that of mohamed el up my god if that's the first president after decades of war market that these nations of political elites are mostly joyful over the transition of power but critics claim the situation has not become any better and the country is being torn into pieces by powerful militias and regional leaders who all claim their own autonomy over one hundred of a quilt killed and many many more wounded in tribal clashes are just over the past summer. so the attorneys for james holmes the alleged colorado shooter say he is mentally ill the defense wants 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 film twelve were killed and fifty eight wounded. the head of the b.b.c.'s somali service has left his job to run for president about those in somalia the election should be held this month with the transitional federal government's mandate expiring this year for the nation has been locked in a violent struggle between different paramilitary groups for almost two decades now . working hard in britain doesn't mean of voiding poverty millions of low wage earners say they're barely surviving some accuse the government of slashing welfare while cutting taxes for the rich artist laura smith reports. single mom mary laura 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 at once i've 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 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 work recent figures show that in modern britain have a good job is not enough to lift people out of poverty and government cuts are creating a perfect storm for people like me. mary as the state's approach to reducing britain's budget is by slashing welfare services not by increasing taxes impulses hystrix the poorest tend to hit thirteen times hardest thing in 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 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 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 all relieved to help her make ends meet and she's recently got into debt do you know what you're thinking of. saying here. 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 a highway which you know we've got to survive and have a life. and a life is a work in monday to friday and that's all you do you know so she when you've 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 true. well . 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 we and nothing effects of british society laura smith r.t. . of the business update dimitri a big hello to you but you've got bad news for us the world second largest economy

what's going on with china well you know any news that comes from china is short of expectations it's bad news obviously and that's obviously the case today another indication that china could be headed for a hard landing is the recent report on its trade surplus shrinking the country's july exports grew just one percent from the year ago period while traders anticipated eight percent and imports expanded only five percent despite expectations of a seven percent increase. therefore in asia we saw a drop in the markets with nikkei going down almost one percent and saying feeling a bit better the biggest loser there consumer goods. reported weak results in the u.s. and the commodities market also seeing a drop with investors choosing to sell black gold because of worries about the state of global demand given that report from china and a faltering economy china's national petroleum corporation is in talks with luke oil to join us with her in a two project in iraq russia's largest private oil companies looking for

a partner for a thirty percent stake in the project west kurt is one of the largest oil deposits in iraq which now explored by nucor and the country's north well company. now we go well prices are not helping russia's a rube or it's losing value against both currencies right now almost a percent there versus the greenback while the europe is shedding value against the greenback on the on the grounds of investors basically cashing out all across the globe and the greenback is the preferred currency now over on the russian market we're also seeing the decline deepening the r.g.s. down more than two percent this hour my six feeling slightly better on a weaker ruble financials are leading leading the drop with her bank losing almost two percent this hour over in europe things are looking a bit better although still we're are seeing losses especially in frankfurt also led by the financials but in london the football club manchester united's a finalized its i.p.o.

price at fourteen dollars per share which is lower than the sixteen to twenty dollars that dissipated price range and fans really some fans have been saying that they want the i.p.o. to fail because the glazer family who own the club want to take half of the proceeds just for personal use and not to pay off them also standard chartered is down almost two percent this out the bank is fighting back on charges that it's been laundering a quarter of a trillion dollars for iran now the bank itself has been saying that only fourteen million dollars worth of deals could be considered the u.s. regulation now the trouble then the last a quarter of its market value or new york officials went public with the charges british banks troubles have kicked off for transatlantic spats with none other than london mayor boris johnson he is accused new york of damaging london's reputation as a financial hub 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. the dollar trading business that goes through a lot of this is america taking of europe and trying to regain kids that's the anti british bias that's going on and when american politicians and regulators say there's a lot in 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. all right finally if you've ever dreamed of buying and castle somewhere in europe now is pretty much your chance because these prime minister mario monti is putting up around three hundred fifty castles and palaces for sale in order to cover the budget deficit that the country is running now this is not the first time that written italy is selling off historical

property earlier this year many lighthouses on the island of sardinia also changed hands the fresh ground is facing headwinds as many of this is fearing the collapse of the euro many have redlined it lead with the big financial troubles as a doubtful place to park cash so my salary can only buy me castles in the sky well i think aspect of the no cost a little to me all right next hour you got katie pilbeam something you've been waiting for for a long time all my life thanks to me three c. later. back in a second here and i see the headlines in a special documentary that i'll tell you about in just a moment. you

know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hardy welcome to the big picture. wealthy british style. that's not on the title of money. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the globe.