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moscow diplomats have revealed for the first time who could become the next key international envoy to try and solve the syrian crisis the former algerian foreign minister locked up where he me 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 nazis peter all of a 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 that 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 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 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 me for algerian foreign minister taking on that difficult job in syria what as peter was saying but he will have his work cut out his appointment is confirmed with no less. in violence in syria rebels have admitted they lost ground in the strategic city of aleppo after a government offensive as artist reports given that radical groups of attach themselves to the cause the aim of the so-called opposition has become increasingly questionable. 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 about syrian rebel syrian militants complaining about an increasing influx of foreign jihadists pointed radicals within . them multiple reports of leiby empathy slimy. fighters operating on the syrian frontlines and their units are usually far better weird 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 wired to the contrary because it is perceived as to atheist way too liberal way too 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 are now being 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 alternative than the forces that are now trying to answer to some boycott artsy reporting from damascus. if you promise to give almost eighty million dollars to fund what it calls non lethal supplies to the opposition u.s. is also expected to announce today that it too is widening its financial backing of the rebels some out of work for a member of the u.k. based social club says it's not clear what this will be useful. only yesterday a turkish member of the parliament said that ambulances used to clear persons from

inside syria into turkey are actually taking and weaponry to inside syria it does go back to mr hague statement he said that's communication communication devices will be sent in order to warn civilians against impeding impending tory government attacks the who's going to be warning them are there satellite images that are going to be passed to the ground all those communication devices be released into civilians or will 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 family you know we need a little bit more transparency with this. most of the twenty seven children forced to live in catacombs in central russia by an islamic sect have been sent to often ages they've spent over ten years in underground cells without daylight or any contact with the outside world until being rescued by police. 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 looters group have been living in for years up to seventy people all cramped in a small country house on the outskirts of men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen the light as part of the thought these children were living in south in their 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 the bill left alone. their children are terrified and after everything that's happened there . 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 soon dr had to treat her right there at the scene it took a lot of effort to convince her she needed his help. this act is around twenty years old its founder is eighty five year old for that. he proclaimed himself a prophet almost fifty years ago and is now too weak to get out of bed his followers believe only in the koran rejecting all other religions and even movements within islam the police found them while investigating a recent terror attack in the city they also found around a thousand religious books and texts which are now being examined for possible extremist content but sect members appear to be defiant about their weight of the wife 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 three house

sect members who are allowed to film inside neither did any of the groups or members agreed to speak with us on camera but off camera the man that i spoke with said that around forty people remain on their territory they do expect the authorities to try to take everything down but he claims that they are going to resist even if they bring a court order since they don't recognize there are neither do they recognize the authority of muslim leaders or do they recognize the existence of the state or any country altogether. at the school of. life here moscow's to head the sound the british government looks to make life even harder for those reliant on welfare critics say that new cutbacks will push the poor further below the poverty line extending the gap between rich and poor class. in business the global markets are theory of bread today as

a breath of the having difficulty digesting china's worse than expected trade days intensifying concern the world economy is slowing job in about ten minutes time have the details and the think it's probably. 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 potential attack from iran washington has boosted sales of detection systems and missile batteries to countries like kuwait the united arab emirates and saudi arabia this map shows how the iranian state is being increasingly encircled by all kinds of u.s. military bases and weapons so our support alric an independent researcher writer believes a hypothetical threat from tehran 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 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 securities 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 it exposed to any given country it has personnel going with it so one has to question whether these are two. 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 wider purpose. green party u.s. presidential kind of the jule styne believes that washington's global security

strategy will have last thing negative effects on his interview with her is coming up in about fifteen minutes from now has a preview for. 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 more secure for it we've spent trillions of dollars in iraq when we withdrew from iraq and we do it and withdrew from iraq in the dead of night in 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. that interview in

full coming your way a little later here on r.t. egypt has reopened its border with gaza for two days but only to let palestinians return to the blockaded region the government has closed the crossing for during the recent violence in the sinai area where sixteen soldiers were killed by militants is also shutting down smuggling tunnels across its border with gaza a vital lifeline for many. this report. 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 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 who is a 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 refrigerator's and even people the tunnels are a massive myth with 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 noted sometimes by the egyptian security personnel who are out. the tunnels on me egyptian gaza border. there's more on the situation in egypt on our website at the moment is one of those lots of other stories for you

including the big bang a brand new prototype nasa spacecraft has a rather short lived flight crashing back to earth and a ball of flames. plus it's been a defense from invaders for the chinese for centuries but a big section of the great wall is just collapsed visit our website r.t. dot com to find out why. download the official application to cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from our. t.v. is not required to watch our team all you need is your mobile device watch r.t. any time any of the. 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 huge budget deficit plan cuts will force the u.k.'s poorest deeper into debt

despair artes nor smith has more in this. 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 bearing that price of course i mean per month and my outgoing i'm going for the bow twenty five 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 a 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 to sticks the poorest tend to hit thirteen times harder for something 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 that if you take out kind 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 too flagship policy about helping people. into the work program i'm 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 economies and poor health mary relies on those tax credits all relieved to help her make ends meet and she's recently got into debt do you feel that you think you're also. seeing him. and she has a message for prime minister david cameron for the people that are on the lower wage not the ones. on the highway. who want to survive and have a life. and a life is a work in monday to friday and that's all you go in there so she wouldn't get the young children i saw him out in the paper the other day with wife and children to a park. to take that for granted but for some of us. are a trait 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 last well into the future with a deep and lasting effect of british society laura smith r.t. . now let's have a quick look at some of the stories making headlines around the world the heaviest ritual rains in three years have left up to sixty dead in the philippines around two and a half million people have been affected by severe flooding with 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 a man wearing an afghan military uniform local reports say the government 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 was merely disguised in a uniform. form a libyan opposition leader mohamed el the got of has been elected as the first

president of the country after the ousting of one of gadhafi during last year's revolution 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. some of the world's best pilots have gathered in the city of zukowski 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 more than one hundred aircraft and helicopters are involved nazis tom barton is among the action hungry crowd. here at this airfield south of moscow celebrating a century of russian aviation heritage crowds have gathered to see soviet and russian aircraft both old and to the very newest 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 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 czar 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 first aerial bombing russian air force today is looking to the future trying to upgrade its equipment and streamline its 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. when the time to join kasia on the business for all the latest in the world of business there yeah well at the moment there seems to be

a feeling of has a mess i'm gay or lots of disappointment and that's really coming from the news with china reporting a surprise drop in trade surplus the country's july exports grew just one percent from the year ago period while traders they were expecting an eight percent and imports expanded only five percent and that despite expectations of a seven percent rise let's check out the u.s. markets now see how wall street is now responding to the. down days there are the ten other percent down and details of that down for the nasdaq. oil market as well though it's really coming off the highs that we saw last night on the news from china which right is selling the so-called black gold as they call it as a means to potentially lower the demand for the world's economic growth driver that's what they're expecting right now and the international energy agency decreased its forecast for all demand on the back of this data as well and also

with data coming from the u.s. as well that was their justification for that these two countries they do consumer goods of all energy supplies juiced almost globes not just put into perspective as to why it's so important that we check out data from china and the u.s. because they're the biggest economies in the world or at the top of european markets because they're not the end of their trading day and they did feel the pressure for a march there they managed to snap a five day rally and that was really was an expensive china day adding to investors fears that the global economy as a whole is slowing as the financials are diving bank bank of ireland also to be talking about standard chartered a little later on let's check out some exchange rates as well for the globe trotters or the four x. traders that may be watching the common currency as you can see there is a climbing it's one twenty two ninety seven that's how the ruble finished up the trading day lose out against the bosco crisis as you can say as for the russian

markets as well they too came under pressure today as a volatile session. and as you can see it's a sea of red around one and a half down for the r.t.s. and for the mind takes out the sounds and we're going to stay with russia and talk about the largest oil company is reportedly in talks with the china national petroleum corporation to join its west want to project iraqi luke always looking for a partner for thirty percent stake in the project corner is one of the largest oil deposits in iraq which is now explored by lou coal and the country's north company . i meant to stand in charge it's now fighting back on the charges that a quarter of a trillion dollars of our run on the bank of use only fourteen millions of dollars that worth adele's could be the u.s. regulations knowledge troubled loans or lost a quarter of its market value when the new york officials went public with these charges the british banks troubles have kicked off

a transatlantic spat with none other than london mayor boris johnson accusing me of damaging mondas reputation as a financial hub now which is and p. john monica raises a targeted attack on the british financial system. and what the american politicians and regulators are doing is specifically targeting with a very emotive language british banks and the reason is that new york he's trying to steal part of the dollar trading business that goes through this is america taking over europe and trying to regain cage that she and she preaches barriers that no one 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. and this is also got problems as well blots

every year of if i was of buying yourself a palace or a car so now could be your. thing your up it's is prime minister marion monti has but three hundred fifty castles and palaces up for sale to cut the country's deficit this is not the first time the debt ridden is really selling off historical property earlier this year many life houses on the island of sardinia have changed hands with a fresh wound is facing headwinds as many verses are fair the collapse of the year right many have red line is may with big financial. doubles as a doubtful place to park cash. so i could get a palace after all bell. yeah johnny to prince all right all right well few of those around here i'm sure thanks for saying about enough and up and up next all t. talks to us presidential candidate two things that america's democracy is an illusion first though i'll be bring you the headlines stay with us.

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