you know why if you care about humans in the world this is why you should care only dot com. a former foreign minister is tipped to be the new international envoy to syria in order to replace kofi annan we take a look at the man who might be tasked with trying to resolve the ongoing conflict. at all as he lifts the lid on the reclusive underground sucked found in central russia after over twenty children were rescued from a hideout having spent a decade without a bite. plus egypt briefly reopened just crossing to gaza but only to let palestinians back into the blockaded region which remain sealed off from vital aid routes all of this off the border by.

this i just after seven pm moscow time you're watching r t with me wrong. 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 to him is expected to replace kofi annan who resigned last week blaming finger pointing and name calling among foreign powers over the failure to end the fighting . and now 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 my 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. well as peter was saying brahimi will certainly have his work cut out for him if indeed his appointment is can. as we all know the violence in syria shows no signs of letting up the rebels now admitting they've lost ground in the strategic city of aleppo this softer 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 have a touch themselves to the course he talks on

a boycott of. 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 about syrian rebel syrian militants complaining about an increasing influx of foreign jihadists point of radicals within ranks them multiple reports of libya the slimy of gunnies dividers operating on the syrian frontlines and 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 rear law now what met many western observers fail to realize is that these radical groups are fighting the assad

government not because of its poor democratic record but why it's to the contrary because it is perceived as we do you atheist way to liberal secular. 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. being increasingly 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 unstated some boy artsy reporting from damascus wallace has more details on this one are crossed and i join i guess the amount of what the member of

the u.k. based syrian social group a group advocating reform in syria good to see you today thank you for coming on the program let's start with discussing this news here the algerian for. it was really going to be the next international envoy to syria if indeed his appointed how do you assess his chances of even resulting in the syrian conflict. well first of all i think we should congratulate the international community not to let the diplomatic process down indeed that seems to be it seems to be that the diplomatic process isn't really a liberal he has a lot of experience in the region he's been given before as an envoy he's been he's been in iraq before and now we see area and all hopefully he would have the you know you know a good understanding with his country first thank you very much and. i think it is very important to keep the diplomatic solution unlike mr a while i was talking as you say that this this man mr brahimi as you were saying

he has got experience in for example iraq and afghanistan there are many that are say that iraq and afghanistan still continue to be a hotbed of activity what would you say that his experience in these regions is one that this was a. well if we take into consideration that both in iraq and afghanistan the central government collapsed which is the reason why these two countries still face a lot of turmoil there let us hope that the central government won't collapse in syria and let us hope in doing that you regret would be a much better one for it now as we've been reporting here at r.t. britain has announced today that it is a broadening its support of the syrian opposition just for my me just bear with me here i want to listen to what foreign secretary william hague had to say ok now in the absence of diplomatic progress the united kingdom will do much more we will exploit our support to the syrian people and the syrian political opposition with an extra five million pounds and non lethal practical assistance this will help

protect an armed opposition groups human rights activists and civilians from some of the worst of the violence. so here we have the british foreign secretary saying that millions of pounds are will be heading over to the opposition or alternately the armed opposition in syria and we do apologize here on r.t. we're just we're just trying to reestablish our connection with mr walker if i do try to you can hear me now as we're just making a very good indeed as we were just listening to william hague millions of pounds now are being sent to support the armed opposition who we hear were increasingly being aided by radical islamists from abroad is that a wise idea do you think that is a huge dilemma the british government has increased tenfold its assistance to non-lethal assistance to the rebels or to the civilians as mr hague really stressed in a sense the british government is taking sides technically in internal conflict. in a sovereign state now is that wise we don't know obviously medical equipment and

medical aid is very much welcomed however we need to remember that only yesterday a turkish member of the parliament said that ambulances used to clear wounded persons from inside syria into turkey are actually taking ammunition and weaponry to inside syria and we been hearing similar reports here at r.t. and certainly not just in england sending money but now america is also expected to announce today that it is also widening its financial backing off of the opposition how does that tally do you think with america's promise to pursue a diplomatic solution to the syrian conflict when washington is funneling money to the opposition well they are playing it both ways you know whichever happens then probably they think they will be winning i don't think it is wise for the american government to help i don't think the american electors would would would feel come to the presidential elections when they realize that their country is actually from the go even though the foreign secretary the secretary of state

hillary clinton is today warned against proxies and extremists been sent into. syria that is media talk i mean it does go back to mr hague statement he said that's communication weapons communication devices will be sent in order to warn civilians against impeding impending story government attacks you know who's going to be warning them are there are satellite images that are going to be passed to the ground will those communication devices be released into civilians or would they be sent to rebels and would they be used as they are intended who can guarantee that you can guarantee that body armor is going to be used not to assassinate political opponents in front of t.v. cameras just like what they did with the bernie foley you know we need a little bit more transparency with this or certainly i think a lot more transparency is needed here you know as we have the mainstream media painting one picture we have an awful lot of covert activity going on behind closed door you admire the work of a member of the u.k. based syrian social club a group advocating reform in syria conflict you enough for coming on the program

here at r.t. today thank you very much so. this is our team now most of the twenty seven children forced to live in catacombs in central russia by an islamic sect have now been sent to orphanages they've spent over ten years and underground cells without daylight or contact with the outside world of course until being rescued by police . got a person off brings us 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 opposed to thought least children living in south in the basement right in the sile under the

house it looked kind of like an eight story and hill 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 miscarriages and a 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 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 rehab sect members who are allowed to film inside now. 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. to resist 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 this state or any country altogether. you go to school or she doesn't.

want us to have you on the program here on the british government looks to make life even harder for those reliant on well critics say the new cutbacks will push the pole the poverty line extending the gap between the rich. and business the global markets of right to die as investors are having difficulty digesting time is was an expected trade intensifying concern the wild card to me is the sly journey in about ten minutes time i think it's. now the u.s. and its arab allies are quietly pursuing a missile defense system across the potion american official said the project is aimed at repelling 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 have a look at this right here is a startling map it shows how essentially the iranian state is being increasingly in

so-called buy all kinds of u.s. military bases and weapons. and independent research on writer believes a hypothetical threat from toronto is a pretext for further expansion in what is known as a key strategic area. america 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 of something countries are now in jeopardy and with every base that america creates with every missile defense shield all patriot missile everything that it explores

to any given country it has personnel going with it so one has to question whether these are to calm down the potential threats that might arise in countries that have always supplied to market with the oil it needed and soldiers or whether it's actually for. any of why do this. and staying with iran it could soon lose political support from russia sources inside the kremlin suggest that might happen if tyrone doesn't abandon an international lawsuit against moscow or demanding that it pays of billions of dollars for holding supplies of missile defense systems a lot more on that of our to dot com. egypt has reopened its border with gaza for two days but only to let palestinians return to the blockaded region or the government has to close the crossing following the recent violence in the sinai area where sixteen soldiers were killed by militants and also shutting down

smuggling tunnels across its border with gaza a vital lifeline for many there are to use a policy or investigates. 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 the same. 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 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 pass through them i saw because it was still fully intact i saw huge were for generators 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 arteries or policy right there were there is a much more the situation in egypt on our website our two daughters called me as well as our many other stories including the big bang a brand new prototype nasa spacecraft a rather short lived why that goes up. into a ball of flames or girls are lots of good creatures on our website. plus it's been a defense from invaders for the chinese for centuries but

a big section of the great wall has just collapsed because of our website our two dot com to find out how it happened. right now it's only twenty minutes past the hour moscow time 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 a huge budget deficit plan the cuts will force the u.k.'s poorest even deeper into debt despair as artie's laura smith reports. single mom mary lawrence has always worked but 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. fronts of what i mean per month and my outgoing i'm left with about twenty five to thirty pounds a week and that's for clothes birthdays christmas. and with nothing left for emergencies or savings mary worries about five year old alfie growing and more expenses he gets older and she's just one of a staggering seven point nine million adults living in poverty in the u.k. sixty percent of work recent figures show that in modern britain 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 hystrix the poorest tend to hit thirteen times harder for think of 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 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 way in the world the success of both depends on the state of labor market and the big problem here is that i would walk we call them reasonably poor. mary relies on those tax credits so relieved to help her make ends meet and she's recently got into debt do you feel that you were thinking of. saying again. and she has a message for prime minister david cameron please think of the people that are not

the ones that are on the highway. you know we've still got to survive and have a life. and a life isn't worth came monday to friday and that's all you do. so she wouldn't get young children are 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 welfare budget now will have an impact on poor families that will not do well into the future we did nothing but a british society laura smith r t. r libya and afghanistan are in the world of dead but war start with the philippines where the heaviest rainfall rains in three years

of left up to sixty people dead around two and a half million have been affected by the 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 the. three u.s. special forces soldiers have been killed in afghanistan by a man wearing an afghan military uniform local reports say the gunman was a police commander who invited the troops to dinner to discuss security before killing them there is also speculation however that the killer was not a member of the local forces but was merely disguised in the unit. and a former libyan opposition leader mohamed el baradei has been elected as the first president of the country after the ousting of more market daffyd during last year's revolution the country remains highly unstable however with powerful militias and regional leaders vying for control over one hundred people have died with many more

wounded in tribal clashes over the summer. after katie we go for the ali business update good to see you again though the world's second biggest economy china is just about sucking any positive buzz the investors were hoping for absolutely they are reporting a surprise drop in trade so there's the country's july exports grew just one percent from the year ago period while traders were anticipating eight percent says a massive disappointment also imports expire. only five percent and that's despite . a seven percent rise so to say the reaction to all of this as we can see we have got to klein's on wall street just now about the dow jones around a third of the senate down on the radio much this they are at the beginning of the trading day susan a see if they managed to pull through towards the end on the biggest sort of to commodity in the world is also coming off the highs reaching last night's we

haven't. see that reaction. in the broad goals and it means. that the world's economic growth driving up the size the international energy agency decreased school costs were all tomorrow and on the back of this also data from us as well is taking its toll on these two countries because of all energy supplies produced on the globe's china and the u.s. combined is resulting in those figures on the screen just that all right is going to be european markets and then you to feel the pressure in the session today they also think of. us as the worst an expensive china trade adds to investors fears that the global economy as a whole is slowing is to find out too is that a radio fade in the pants today because the violence by paying more. to see the common currency is indeed declining that says investors is still choosing the u.s.

dollar the common currency really because they're saying it in these times of uncertainty a risky asset this is how the ruble finished for the day the closing of figures for the russian currency. against the boss of cars says much can be said for the markets as well that was a choppy most all sessions friday all in the public going to be no problem since tonight as you can see the around two percent down the mindset around one of our marshes knowledge is part of a company. call is reportedly in talks with the china national petroleum corporation to join its west quantity project and rob nicol is looking for a partner for a thirty percent stake in the project was cornered as one of the largest all deposits in a rod which is now it's called by little and the country's north well company now mentioned banks's gets here as standard chartered says fighting back on charges it loaded a quarter of a trillion dollars for a run of the bank argues that only forty million of those dollars of those deals

where does he under u.s. regulations would lend lost a quarter of its market value when new york patients went public with the charges the british banks troubles have kicked off a transatlantic spat with no love then london man boris johnson accusing new york of damaging london's reputation as a financial hub now british m.p. joe man 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 he's trying to steal the dollar trading business that goes through love which is america taking a europe and trying to recreate that riches bias 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. as a lot of problems going on today i'll be giving you more in about fifteen minutes looking for tobacco. related i just made on the headlines here on r t that is going to be could all of l. and another foreign edition of crossed.