egypt briefly reopened. to the region with. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the mosque. diplomats revealed for the first time who could become the next key international envoy to try and

solve the syrian crisis. foreign minister. is expected to replace kofi annan who resigned last week blaming finger pointing and name calling all among the foreign powers over the failure to end the fighting. takes a closer look at the man who could be tasked with breathing new life into peace efforts. it's not a job many people would have wanted you think considering the situation in syria but it's 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 u.n. 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 his personal contacts we might see a different approach from him but he's daughter a former b.b.c. and c.n.n. correspondent is married to wear one of the sons of the king of jordan. a strong family ties there jordan of course a country that has been linked to the smuggling of weapons and other 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 me focusing our 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 he the four algerian foreign minister taking on that difficult job in syria. well as peter was saying up for him he will certainly have his work cut out for him if indeed his appointment is. confer with no letup in the violence on the ground in syria the rebels have confirmed they lost ground in the strategic city of aleppo ofter a government offensive meanwhile the u.k.'s promise to give almost eight million dollars to fund what it calls non-lethal supplies to the opposition but some experts are questioning the wisdom of backing the rebels given that radical groups have a touch themselves to the course. on a boy reports the syrian uprising now is very different from what it used to be even if your ego 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 radicals within own ranks there are multiple reports of libyan pakistani of gunnies saudi fighters operating on the syrian frontlines and their units are usually far better at where and far better armed than those of the syrian born rebels as far as their goals are concerned they usually talk about the creation of syria based islamic caliphate that will be based on shared rear law now what many 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 to

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 sense here in syria especially among people who describe themselves as pro position that they're now being increase. certainly forced to choose between the two evils and the government that they are still 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 turn stated at some point r.t. reporting from damascus and oksana is closely following developments in syria via twitter feed or you can check that out all kinds of comments are analysis on the incoming images from the conflict torn country. this is our t.v. over twenty children forced to live in quetta coombes in central russia by an

islamic sect have been sent to orphanages they spent over ten years and underground cells without daylight or any contact with the outside world that is until being rescued by police go to prison offerings are some more insight on the reclusive cult after speaking to some of its members. 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 posner thought least children were living in south in the basement right in this syle 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 with the famous actors 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 the way

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 rehang sect members who are allowed to film inside. the group's members agreed to speak with us on camera but off camera. forty people remain. do you expect the authorities to try to take down. even if. recognize their own. leaders. recognize the existence of this state or any country. you live from moscow is still ahead for you in this program of the british government looks to make life even harder for those reliant on welfare critics say

they will push the poor all even further below the poverty line extending the gap even further between the rich and the poor. plus. some of the world's most daring pilots are in the air all around moscow. aviation expertise to celebrate one hundred years of the russian. just turning ten minutes past the hour here at the u.s. and its arab allies are quietly pursuing a missile defense system across the persian gulf american officials say the project is aimed at repairing a possible attack from iran washington has boosted sales of detection systems and missile batteries to countries like kuwait the united arab emirates and saudi arabia have a look right here this map shows how the iranian state is being increasingly encircled by all kinds of u.s. military bases and weapons. independent research believes that

a hypothetical threat from its pretext for further expansion in the area. the american who 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 some things countries are now in jeopardy and with every base that america creates with every missile defense shield all patriot missile everything that is 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 market with the oil it needed and soldiers or whether it's actually for. any why do this. kind of staying with iran it could soon lose political support from russia sources in the kremlin suggest that might happen and tyrone doesn't recall an international lawsuit against moscow demanding he pays billions of dollars for halting supplies of missile defense systems and more on that at r.t. dot com. fourth online for you a brand new prototype nasa spacecraft has a rather bumpy start and a bumpy there it goes crashing to earth a disappointingly fiery explosion. now egypt has reopened its border with gaza for two days but only to let palestinians return to the blockaded region and the government has closed the crossing following the recent violence in the sinai area where sixteen soldiers were killed by militants it's

also shutting down smuggling tunnels across its border with gaza ultimately a vital lifeline for many who live there with more on their societies paula. these tunnels have been operational for several years ever since gaza was first put under blockade back in two thousand and six for many gazans they are essentially 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 fuel that are smuggled through this extensive underground network of tunnels into gaza 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 a huge refrigerator is and even people the tunnels are a massive made where 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 the private security firm previously known as blackwater has been let off with a slap on the wrist for gun smuggling the u.s. department of justice fine the military contractor a seven and a half million dollars but allowed it to avoid prosecution of the firm is also accused of killing seventeen iraqi civilians back in two thousand and seven scott horton from harper's magazine says washington never wanted

a criminal trial. the amount that's being paid is a real pit this is it as these things go generally this is an absolutely tiny some on the other hand we've got a 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 that it's 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 fire quater we have

comparable incidents in many many other countries so they are basically. soldiers of fortune out there for hire and they're operating principle seems to be shoot first ask questions later. and as we discussed washington's military presence in iraq with the green party u.s. presidential candidate jill stein she believes nothing good has come of it as a preview for what's to come shortly here on our team. this week 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 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. i know that interview is coming your way in an hour and a quarter from now despite being in work millions of britons earning just the legal minimum wage are forced to live well below the poverty line as the british government tries to deal with the shoot budget deficit plan cuts will force the u.k.'s poorest deeper into debt despair. laura smith investigates. 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 benefit from forgot them in per month and my outgoing i'm going 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 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 or think the richest and that's

partly because poor 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 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 when the big worry is that the government. policy about helping people into the work program and making work pay through universal credit. with the best 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 we call them in a poor house mary relies on those tax credits or relieved to help her make ends meet and she's recently got into debt do you feel that you were thinking of. saying when. 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. to survive and have a life. i'm a life isn't worth came monday to friday and that's all you do. so she wouldn't get young children i saw him out in the paper the other day with his wife and children to a park he obviously takes that for granted but for some of us. lesser or treat. well there are a trait properties about material deprivation but it's also about feeling excluded from mainstream society and experts argue that chopping the wealth 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. ok straight to the philippines now to start off the r.t. world updated where the heaviest torrential rains three years have left up to sixty eight dead around two and

a half million people have been affected by severe flooding with some forced to take shelter and special evacuation centers rescue efforts continue along with a massive cleanup operation but officials say it's still too dangerous for many to return her. three u.s. special forces soldiers have been killed in afghanistan by a man wearing afghan military uniforms a local reports say the gunman was a police commander who invited the troops to dinner to discuss security before killing them there's also speculation however that the killer was not a member of the local forces rather just described in a uniform over twenty nato troops have been killed by one person in the last year. the former libyan opposition leader mohamed el of my grief has been elected as the first president of the country after the ousting of more market duffy during last year's revolution and the country remains highly unstable however with powerful

militias and regional leaders all vying for control over one hundred people have died with many more wounded in tribal clashes over the summer. in a moment it's katie with the business for now though some of the world's best pilots have gathered in the city of as you go off ski and russia's moscow region they're holding a full dress rehearsal for an air show to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the russian forces more than one hundred aircraft and helicopters involved in this tom barton is out there to witness it for himself. here at the field 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 new estate and then of course there's the displays there's been a display of historical timeline right back to planes one hundred years old 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 sonic close 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 though point to a clear flight path back through the changing winds of history to those first russian aviation pioneers. as promised off the coast here we go good to see you today and i know you're keeping your eye on the markets and all of what i do understand is that while the possibility is still very your dream of becoming a prince exactly. well i don't have the prince but i might be able to get myself

a castle because three hundred fifty palaces in castles are going on. you never know there's still a chance us talk about that later but for now let's get serious and talk about china his the power house is losing steam its reporting a surprise drop in trade surplus on the country's july exports grew just one percent from the year ago period while traders anticipated eight percent. in polls expanded only five percent and that's just spotlights expectations of a seven percent rise so that news is rocketing through the markets particularly the commodities we can see oil it's coming off the highs reached last night only news from china which is selling the so-called black gold as it means potentially loads of knowledge when the walls economic growth drive an obvious lies the international energy agency decreases bill calls for all demands on the back of this data and

also weak data from the u.s. as well now these two countries to put it into perspective consume a lot of all energy supplies produced on the guy ok let's say the commodities on time and the now the china national petroleum corporation is reportedly in talks with new coal to join its west point to two projects in iraq russia's largest private company is looking for a partner from thirty percent stake in the project was one that is one of the largest oil deposits in iraq which is now explored by luko on the country's north something that is a bit of russia that show it's been there all the volatile session yesterday was particularly bad today it looks even. for investors but we also yes i too in a home present down the my sex not doing much better at school around one another all in negative territory as for the russian ruble it see how is robbed a leg at this hour for those of you saying if you'll come home say any time soon i'd say what is doing ok so is a managing to decline i guess it was good occurrences we can also see the year it

is declining in that as investors heads will see us dollar as the future of the cars he continues to be brought into question that stay in the european markets and check out stocks they continue to feel the pinch they are nothing of. and that's because of that was expected china. adding to investors today is that the global economy as a whole is slowing so it's really trying playing down the misapplying not the biggest. last wednesday we got bank here and bank of ireland by foreleg council of fine forgot to mention standard chartered is fighting back on the charges it laundered a quarter of a trillion dollars run other banks all he's only forty million dollars worth of deals could be dodgy under a u.s. regulation of the troubled land the last quarter of its market value when new york officials went public with the charges other british banks troubles have kicked off a transatlantic spat with none other than london mayor boris johnson accusing new

york of damaging london's reputation as a financial hub of british m.p. john mann he agrees it's a targeted attack on the british financial system but what the american politicians and regulators are doing is specifically targeting with over emotive language british banks and the reason is that new york is trying to steal part of the dollar trading business that goes through and this is america taking on europe and trying to regain cage that's the and richest 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 ethic should behavior of international banks including in london but this isn't a problem it's not a british problem it's a problem of international banking now if ever you like a wanted to buy a consul somewhere in europe now could be your charles is in his prime minister

mario monti has put up three hundred fifty councils and palaces for sell to cut the country's deficit now this is not the first time debt ridden is lee is selling off historical property earlier this year many lighthouses on the island of sardinia have changed towns but the fresh ground is facing headwinds as many verses are fair in the collapse of the arrived many have red lined islay with big financial troubles at the doubtful place it's a part. of it well we'll be back in about fifteen minutes with more market sorry sounds good thank you kitty. just a moment here on r t we're going to be stepping aside for people of l. and crosstalk.

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