a former algerian foreign minister is tipped to be the new international envoy on syria to replace kofi annan and we take a look at the man who might be tasked with resolving the whole conflict. and lifts the lid on the reclusive underground sect found in central russia over twenty children who were rescued from a hideout having spent a decade without daylight. plus egypt briefly reopens its crossing to gaza but only to let palestinians back into the blockaded region which remains sealed off from vital aid routes after border violence.

if you join us here on r t today rule resewn live in moscow diplomats have revealed for the first time who could become the next key international envoy to try and solve the syrian crisis former algerian foreign minister locked up with me is expected to replace kofi annan and resigned last week blaming finger pointing and name calling among 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 in 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. 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 locked up or he the former algerian foreign minister taking on that difficult job in syria. well as people are saying but he will certainly have his work cut out for him especially as the violence in. syria continues to rage rebels in the most recent years have admitted that they have lost ground in the strategic city over a. government offensive meanwhile the u.k. has promised 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 of a touch themselves to the course. reports. 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 point of radicals within own ranks there are multiple reports of lead b.m.p. 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 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 are now. 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 unseat it at some point the r.t. reporting from damascus. and oksana is closely following the developments in syria via twitter feed and you can check that off all kinds of comments analysis and of

course incoming for the latest images from the conflict torn country. this is our team over twenty children forced to live in catacombs in central russia by an islamic sect now being sent to orphanages they have spent over ten years an underground cells without daylight or any contact with the outside world of course that is until they were rescued by police. or prison offerings are more inside of the reclusive cult after speaking to some of us members. the 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 daylight as posner thought really these children 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 are 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 miscarriages and a doctor had to treat her right there at the scene it took a lot of evidence to convince her she needed his help with this act is around twenty years old and its founder is eighty five year old for that of marx i thought of 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 like you are fighting against ally himself the authorities have already opened several criminal cases involving senior members of the sect and the feet of the children is yet to be decided plans are also being drawn up to three house sect members who are. 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. even if they bring a court order since they don't recognize their own neither do they recognize the authority of muslim leaders or do they recognize the existence of the state or any country altogether. you go to school of.

your life in the heart of moscow still ahead for you in this program of the british government looks to make life even harder for those reliant on wealth critics say the cutbacks will push them further below the poverty line extending the gap between the rich and the poor. class flying high some of the world's most daring pilots high in the sky right around where we are here in moscow showing off the aviation expert celebrating one hundred years of the. time the u.s. and its arab allies are quietly pursuing a missile defense system across the persian gulf american officials said the project is aimed at repairing a possible attack from iran and washington has boosted sales of detection systems and missile batteries to. countries like kuwait the united arab emirates and saudi arabia now this map you looking at right here it shows quite clearly how the

iranian state is being increasingly in so-called buy all kinds of u.s. military bases and weapons. poor old rick an independent research and right to believe that a hypothetical threat from terror on is a pretext for further expansion in this strategic area. an american who 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 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 market with the oil it needed and soldiers or whether it's actually for . any why do this. and staying with iran they could soon lose the political support from russia sources inside the kremlin suggest that might happen if a terror on doesn't recall an international lawsuit against moscow demanding that it pays billions of dollars for stopping supplies of missile defense systems i'm on that. call. for someone like for you a brand new prototype nasa spacecraft goes up. and comes down all of that as well or much more photographs that are to talk.

all right so we are coming to you live from the heart of moscow and egypt has reopened its border with gaza but just for two days. only to let palestinians return to the blockaded homes of 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 the smuggling tunnel in network all across the border with gaza which is considered to be a vital lifeline for the residents there to support a slew went to investigate. 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 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 passed through them i saw because it was still fully intact i saw huge were for generators 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. he's reporting 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 find the military contractor a seven and a half million dollars but allowed it to avoid prosecution and the firm is also accused of killing seventeen iraqi civilians that was back in two thousand and seven and scott horton from hopper's magazine says washington at the end of the day 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 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 black why there's got to be delighted with this one thing that comes out these papers is that a lot of this is being done in 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 quackwatch there and 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. now here at r.t. we did discuss washington's military presence in iraq with green party u.s. presidential candidate jill stein and she believes nothing good has come of it as a preview of what's to come your way in about well just over two hours 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 the worst secured 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. despite being at 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 a huge budget deficit cuts will force the u.k.'s poorest deeper into debt despair. laura smith explains. 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 that mean per month in my outgoing i'm left with about twenty five to thirty pounds a week and that's for clothes birthdays christmas. i'm not fat. 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 hystrix the poorest tend to hit thirteen times harder or think the richest and that's partly because 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 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 states of labor market and the big problem here is that i would walk the colonies in a poor house mary relies on those tax credits all 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 can you think of the people that are not the ones. on a highway. to survive and have a life. i'm 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 he takes her for granted but for some of us. that's a treat. or

a treat properties 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 lasting effect on british society laura smith r t. well the financial markets have taken a hit on concerns coming from china could have a business to ask and tell us more right now. coming up in business the global equity markets are pretty much the of red today now wall street has joined in that as investors are having difficulty digesting time as was expected trade data we had my concerns and while the enemy is slowing don't read about five minutes time i have the keys out. straight into the r.t. world update we go will start with the philippines where the heaviest torrential rains three years of up to sixty dead around two and

a half million people have been affected by severe flooding or some forced to take shelter in special evacuation centers rescue efforts continue along with a massive cleanup operation but officials say it's still too dangerous for many to return to their homes. three u.s. special forces soldiers have been killed in afghanistan by wearing an afghan military uniform local reports said 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 but rather was merely their scarves in uniform. former libyan opposition leader mohamed el it my god if has been elected as the first president of the country after the ousting of more market duffy during last year's revolution the country remains a highly unstable however with powerful militias and regional leaders all vying for control over one hundred people though have died with many more wounded in tribal

pastures so far this summer. will be joining a katy pilbeam shortly for the business for now there were some of the world's best pilots have gathered in the city of zuckoff ski it's in russia's moscow region they're holding a full dress rehearsal for an air show to mark the one hundredth anniversary of the russian air force and more than one hundred aircraft and helicopters they're all involved and artie's tom barton is out there having the time of his life. 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 and then of course there's the displays there's been a display of a historical timeline right back to planes one hundred years old 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 has been a display by parachutists current 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 that 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 recruitment 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. as promised ok here we go they are to go there you are so the world's second biggest economy china is ultimately killing any positive buzz investors may be searching for absolutely that's what we would expect on a friday afternoon the momentum building up to the weekend but it has been completely dies out by china really now it's wall street that are responding the

biggest economy in the world together the figures but let me just give you the details the powerhouse is the well it's like it's losing its day really china is reporting a surprise drop in trade surplus the country's july exports grew just one percent from a year ago period while traders did anticipate an eight percent and imports expanded only five percent despite expectations of the. evan has sent the rise so as we can see this is wall street's reaction just look at the dow jones down around four tenths of a percent on the nasdaq and about the same region and oil is also coming off the highs reached last night on the news from china with trade is selling the black golds as it means potentially low as a model for the world's economic growth drive an obvious size the international energy agency decreases all demands on the back of the states up and also weekdays in from the us as one of these two countries consume. energy supplies produced.

how serious it is it's going to europe and see how they're responding just now they are still fairly new at the pinch they are under pressure and they are snapping a five day rally so it's all about the news from china and investors really fearing that the global economy as a whole is slowing and is the financial sector that is particularly. violent posting significant declines are going to talk about banks but later in the meantime this have a look at the exchange rates we can see the common currency is also reacting to all of this is demonstrating. one twenty two seventy nine hours for the ruble it's also declining it is the last sort of hour or so trade here in moscow with that in mind is going to see how they're looking to set to close that it was either going to close on the back but that has been a volatile session it was yesterday as well it's been even today yes around two percent down the my sex around one on and off russia's largest private company

google is reportedly in talks with china the chinese corporation to join its west corner and iran. is looking for a partner for a thirty percent stake in the project when it is one of the largest old poses in iraq which is now explored by the company. mentioned banks that the child has is fighting back. charges that the wounded. a quarter of a trillion dollars for run the bank argues that only forty million of dollars worth of deals could be dodgy under a u.s. regulations now the troubled lender lost a quarter of its market value when new york officials went public with the charges the british banks troubles have kicked off a transatlantic spats with none other than london. boris johnson accusing new york of damaging london's reputation as a financial hub now britain's and john mann agrees is 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 the dollar trading business that goes through this is america take you know europe and trying to reach . that sea and ship riches bias that's going up but 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 the problem it's not a british problem it's a problem of international banking and now have you want to buy a castle some way europe now is your chance it's a prime minister mario monti has put three hundred fifty castles and palaces up to sell to cut the country's deficit now this is not the first time that reason is the

is selling off historical property earlier this year many lighthouses on the island of sardinia have changed hands but a fresh wound is facing headwinds as many of us isn't there in the collapse of the year right many have red light it's lay with big financial troubles as a down for a place to park cash. back in about an hour of the closing because of the us and the last markets are ok thank you. i just want to hear not see the headlines out in a special documentary a special report about how the big companies such fault and gas can be ruinous to your health and to your property.

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