device watch r.t. any time. a formal jury in foreign minister is tipped to be the new international envoy in syria to replace kofi annan we take a look at the man who might be tasked with resolving the conflict. the lid on the reclusive underground sect found in central russia after over twenty children 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 to the blockaded region which remain sealed off from vital aid routes of the border violence.

screen international news and comment from our new center here in moscow the 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. 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 peter all of a takes a closer look at the man who could be tasked with breathing new life in to 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 brahimi is 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 brahimi focusing attention focusing his attention on speaking to the rebels as opposed to the way that kofi annan tried to do it with speaking to both the rebels and the assad government but it looks like he will take over from kofi annan so it looks like the next envoy going to be locked up or he me for algerian foreign minister taking on that difficult job in syria. where as peter was saying but he will have his work cut out if his appointment is confirmed with no. letup in violence in syria rebels have admitted they lost ground in the strategic city of aleppo after a government offensive as artie's external book reports given that radical groups of attach themselves to the calls the aim of the so-called opposition has become increasingly questionable. 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. and pakistani. fighters operating on the syrian frontlines and units are usually far better at 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 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 you 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 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 unstated. reporting from damascus. the u.k. has promised to give an extra eight million dollars to fund what he calls non-lethal supplies to the opposition the u.s. is also expected to announce today that it too is what the its financial backing of the rebels. for a member of the syrian social club says it's not clear what they say will be useful . 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 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 story government attacks who's going to be warning them are there satellite images that are going to be passed to the ground will those communication devices be released into civilians or will they be sent to rebels and will 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. 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 their ten years in underground cells without daylight or any

contact with the outside world until being rescued by police but as you got to sort of brings us more insight on the reclusive cult after speaking to some of its members. three people in just one square meter 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 powerful leashed children were 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 miscarriage so a doctor had to treat her right there at the scene it took a lot of effort to convince her she needed his help with 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 and rejecting all other religions and even movements within islam and the police found them while investigating a recent terror attack in the city they also found around a thousand religious books and hand written texts which are now being examined for possible extremist content but sect members appear to be defiant about their weight of a way that 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. did any of the group's members agree 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 the are going 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 the state or any country altogether. you go to school of. the live in moscow still ahead for you this the british government looks to make life even harder for those reliant on welfare critics say the new cut backs will push the poor further below the poverty line extending the gap between rich and

poor class. in business the global equity markets are three of red today as the vessels are having difficulty digesting china's worse than expected trade days intensifying concern the world's economy is slowing journey in about ten minutes time happy two thousand and think it's probably. the first u.s. and its allies are quietly pursuing a missile defense system across the persian gulf american officials say the project is aimed at repelling a potential attack from iran washington has boosted sales of detection systems of missile batteries to countries like kuwait united arab emirates and saudi arabia this map shows how the iranian state has been increasingly encircled by all kinds of u.s. military bases and weapons so our support alric an independent research or russia but it is a hypothetical threat from iran is a pretext for further expansion in 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 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 something countries are now in jeopardy and with every base that america creates with every 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 why do. green party u.s.

presidential candidate jill stein believes washington's global security strategy will have lost negative effects she's interview with her was coming up in the next here's a preview for you. 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 want to care for it we spend trillions of dollars in iraq when we withdrew from iraq and we do it 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. stable democracy did we make in iraq you know iraq continues to teeter on the brink of

a third world war. that interview in full coming away 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 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 a vital lifeline for many there. has more. these tunnels have been operational for civil uro's 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 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 mohamed 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 refrigerators 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 looted sometimes by the egyptian security personnel who are outside the tunnels on the egyptian gaza border. there's more on the situation in egypt on our website as well as lots of other stories including the big bang

a brand new prototype nasa spacecraft has a rather short live flight crashing back to earth. in 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 dot com to find out why. download the official r.t. application to cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from our time our t.v. is not required to watch our team all you need is your mobile device to watch r.t. any time any. 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 do with a huge budget deficit plan cuts will force the u.k.'s poorest deeper into debt

despair what is your 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 classed among the millions of working paul with my wages my. tax credit a much higher. price of call 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 are 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 one of the services away from 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 work the work program. a making work pay through universal credit. but with the births 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 of economies nepal 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 please think of the people that are on the lower wage not the ones that are on a highway which you know we've still got to survive and have a life. and a life isn't working monday to friday and that's all you do you know so she went quite young children i saw him out in the paper the other day with his wife and children to a park he takes that for granted but for some of us. that's a treat. poverty is about material deprivation but it's also about feeling excluded from mainstream society and experts argue that chopping

the welfare budget now will have an impact on poor families that will not do well into the future with deep and lasting effect on british society laura smith r.t. . now let's have a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day the heaviest 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 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 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 a uniform. for the libyan opposition leader mohamed el mcguinty first been elected

as the first president of the country to be ousting of mana gadhafi during last year's revolution the country remains highly unstable however with powerful ministers 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 in artie's tom barton is among the action hungry crowd. here at this 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 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 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 first aerial bombing russian air force today is looking to the future trying to upgrade its equipment and streamline it 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. time to join k.c. now on the business test to find out how the markets are reacting to that disappointing data from china yeah absolutely it's kind of

a record say three the markets actually today wall street is now responding it was the surprise drop in the trade surplus the other cultures july exports grew just one percent from a year ago period now traders were expecting eight percent and imports expanded only five percent and traders were expecting a seven percent rise so there really was a disappointment we can see that just now and this comes the week or the day actually after china reported inflation killing as well so that's really been the main news event coming out. asia this week and as we can see the dow jones to tens of percent of the nasdaq around at this hour we'll move on to the oil markets not as well because they are coming off the highs reached last night traders setting the black goals as it means. for the world economic growth drive up also its

national energy agency decrease its cool calls on the back of the states up these two countries the u.s. and china combined take up a third of all energy supplies produced on the globe so that's why when it comes to oil prices it's china and u.s. a for a much dictate them now if you look at the european markets they are close now but these are the closing of figures so is a pretty much lackluster day as you can see the sea bass is poised down in the dax around and that's not been a five day rally really because the news from china the worse than expected trade data adding to vesta space in the global economy as a whole is slowing and it's financials that really took a beating that was the sector that was particularly bad to begin with things changed for the whole the on the for extra it is because one car is he still managing to the color line that sells investors choose the u.s. dollar as a safe haven this is out of russian currency got all of it today than at most to lose out in the session they gave us and the you're right the markets it was

a lackluster performance here as well investors remain on the fence with the artists in the my states you'll be able to see for yourselves how the numbers they often do speak for themselves though as we go around what on the hearth down l m i six just a percent down in negative territory russia's largest private oil company lupul is reportedly in talks with the china national petroleum corporation joint west corner in a wrong call is looking for a partner for thirty percent stake in the projects west corner is one of the largest all deposits in iraq. which is now explored by local colleges north or companies who follow that one and the story that's really been top of the agenda of all hours traders investors this week is standard and says it is now fighting back on the chargers' known that a quarter of a trillion dollars for

a run on the bank all that is only fourteen million of that fourteen dollars worth of deals could be doughty on the u.s. regulators now the troubled lead that lost a quarter of its market value when new york officials went public with the charges this week the various rags troubles have kicked of a transatlantic spark now with none other than a london mayor boris johnson accusing new york of damaging london's reputation as a financial hub which is john mann agrees is a targeted attack all the press is 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 of europe and trying to regain cage that's the and. when

american politicians and regulators say there's a little problem there 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 if you're looking for a new property you might want to consider a castle somewhere in europe because this is prime minister mario monti has three hundred fifty castles palaces for sell to cut the country's deficit now this is not the first time the debt ridden italy is selling off their. historical property to make a buck or two earlier this year many lights houses on the island of sardinia have changed hands but the fresh ground is facing headwinds as many of us is all fearing the collapse of the year right many have red lights it's a with a big financial trouble a doubtful place to park cash. very nice indeed bell i'd love

a palace and i am sure you would assume to sell off the history and heritage is in it but then again it's not about that thanks for that. about nothing absolutely. up next for you lauren that leicester and the capital account first though that's from washington first i'll be bringing you the headlines from the new center here in moscow stay with us.

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