a former algerian 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. lifts the lid on the reclusive underground sect found in central russia over twenty children were rescued from a hideout having spent a decade without daylight. because egypt briefly reopens its crossing to gaza but i need to let palestinians back to the blockaded region which remain sealed off from vital aid routes to border vonnegut's. online on screen international news and common life from the new center here 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 brahimi 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. 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 a former b.b.c. and c.n.n. correspondent is married to wear one of the sons of the king of jordan. a strong family ties there jordan of course a country that has been linked to the smuggling of weapons and other arms into syria into the hands of the syrian rebels and jordan of course a haven a place of choice for those defecting from the assad government to go so perhaps we could see me focusing our attention focusing his attention on speaking to the

rebels as opposed to the way that kofi annan tried to do it with speaking to both the rebels and the assad government but it looks like he will take over from kofi annan so it looks like the next envoy going to be locked up or he me for all cheery and foreign minister taking on that difficult job in syria. well as peter was saying brahimi will have his work cut out if his appointment is confirmed with no letup in violence in syria rebels of emitted they lost ground in the strategic city of aleppo after a government offensive. reports given that radical groups have attached 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

a story about syrian rebel syrian militants complaining about an increasing influx of foreign jihadists point of radicals within. them multiple reports. and pakistani. fighters operating on the syrian frontlines and their units are usually far better a 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 the 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 stance 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. excellent. reporting from damascus and the promise to give an extra eight million dollars to form what he calls non-lethal supplies to the opposition the u.s. is also expected to announce today that it too is widening its financial backing of the rebels and the work of a member of the u.k. based syrian social club says it's not clear what this aid will be used for. it only yesterday.

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talked into allowing doctors to see them. one woman had a miscarriage 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 a wife like 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 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. 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 together. still ahead for the british government looks to make life even harder for those reliant on welfare critics say the new complex will push the ball further below the poverty line extending the gap between rich and poor plus. in business the global. sea of rights as a best is a having difficult. digesting china's worse than expected trade intensifying

the world economy is slowing down in about ten minutes time happy two thousand how to think it's. so all that still to come but first the u.s. and its 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 of iranian state is being increasingly encircled by all kinds of u.s. military bases and weapons so our support alric an independent research and writer believes a hypothetical threat from tehran 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 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 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 to calm down the potential threats that might arise in countries that have always supplied america with the oil it needed and soldiers or whether it's actually for. any wider purpose. green party u.s. presidential candidate joe stein believes washington's global security strategy will

have the last thing negative effects on his interview with her is coming up this hour here's a brief 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 not more secure for it we spent trillions of dollars in iraq 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. egypt

has reopened its border with gaza for two days but only to let palestinians return to the blockaded region the government is close to crossing following the recent violence in the area where sixteen soldiers were killed by medicines it's also shutting down smuggling tunnels across its border with gaza a vital lifeline for many the. has more. 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 sued 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 there and i saw because it was still fully intact i saw huge refrigerator's and even people the tunnels are a massive myth work 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 outside the tunnels on the egyptian gaza border well it's more on the situation in egypt on our website at the moment as well as lots of other stories including the big. brand new prototype nasa spacecraft has a rather short lived floyd crashing back to earth in

a ball of flames. also online has been a defense from invaders for the chinese for centuries but a big section of the great wall is just collapsed visit our web site audie dot com to find out why. download the official application to cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from outside t.v.'s not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch ati any 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 do with a huge budget deficit plan cuts will force the u.k.'s poorest deeper into debt despair

. 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 and my childbearing. france of course 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 whom work recent figures show that in modern britain having a job is not enough to lift people out of poverty and government cuts to creating

a perfect storm for people like mary as the state's approach to reducing britain's budget is by slashing welfare and services not by increasing taxes impulses mystics the poorest tend to hit thirteen times harder 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 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 what the big worry is is that the government. policy about helping people into work that. work program a 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 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 any. 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 then why is there. monday to friday and that's all you go in there so she wouldn't get 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. that's a treat. a rare 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 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 other stories making headlines around the world the heaviest rains in three years of 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 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 it'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 miguel it has been elected as the first

president of the country after the ousting of more regular feet during last year's revolution the country remains highly unstable however with powerful militias and regional leaders vying for control over a hundred people have died but many more wounded in tribal clashes over the summer . some of the world's best pilots gathered in the city of in russia's moscow region to hold 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. 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 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 though point to a clear flight path back through the changing winds of history to those first russian aviation pioneers. as choi in case you know on the business because we draw nearer to the end of the week for the market so what's happening well it's really focused on china that's what our trading floors are talking about and that's after

the second biggest economy in the world reported a surprise drop in a trade. in the us is one expecting it at all other countries july exports growth just one percent from the year ago period that was what they were expecting eight percent so that's a lot of difference seven percent different that and imports expanded only five percent and they were expecting seven percent students see the reaction there because the numbers will speak for themselves and also as well as this this week we're. also had figures coming from china do with deflation as well and consumer prices failing to really impress anybody so as far as china is concerned everyone's talking about a hard day if we look we can see it's pretty dismal pretty lackluster so we move forward and see what the markets are doing for now they are still coming off the highs that we've been experiencing as this week trade is selling oil and it means

potentially lower demand for the world economic growth driver china of course now besides the international energy agency decrease its forecast for this well on the back of this data as well as data coming from the u.s. as well that was their justification for it if we consider that the u.s. and china consume. of all energy supplies produced on the fly. right that's going to europe and see what the closing figures well because investors really did feel the pinch this friday and they snapped a five day rally a lot of that was because of the worse than expected china. it's really adding to vs the fear is that global economy growth is slowing in general and the financial sector really took a beating that was posting some of the biggest losses we have bank bank of ireland down also going to talk about standard chartered a little later let's go see the what goes in the banks and shall we the exchange

rates then we'll be able to see the euro and how it's responding to all of this just now and it is suffering is suffering pretty much for the majority of the session one twenty three hours for the ruble though it's finished up the trading day finished up the trading week as well here and it did lose our cars in the extreme markets as well failed to press today investors remain on the fence as a real anticipation the central bank is from some of the biggest economies in the world were high. no choice now but to intervene and out of it is stimulus as we can see that both the artist and the mises pasted to clive's they were entrenched in the red territory today i watched as largest private oil company missile is reportedly in talks with the china national petroleum corporation's join its west corner to project and walk the local isn't for part of a thirty percent stake in the project west corner is one of the largest or the poses in iraq which is now explored by lethal and the country's north will come

thanks to standard chartered is fighting back now and so on the charges that it loaded a quarter of a trillion dollars from around the bank argues that only fourteen million of dollars worth of deals could be dodgy of the u.s. regulations and the troubled land lost a quarter of its market value when new york officials went public with the charges this weight of british banks troubles have kicked off a transatlantic spat now with no mother the lungs of boris johnson accusing new york of damaging london's reputation as a financial hub a british and b. john mann agrees is a targeted attack on the basis 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

part of the dollar trading business that goes through this is america taking over europe and trying to regain cage that's the and chip riches buyers that's going up and when american politicians and regulators say there's a little problem they're wrong there's a problem with international banking there's a problem in the ethic should behavior of international banks including in london but this isn't a problem it's not a british problem it's a problem of international banking. and i've every wanted to buy a car so somewhere in europe now is your chance as his prime minister mario monti has put up three hundred fifty cars and palaces up for sale to cut the country's deficit this is not the first time debt ridden is it is selling off historical property by earlier this year many lighthouses on the island of sardinia they were sold as well but the fresh ground is facing headwinds as many investors are fearing the collapse of the year right many have

a red line display with big financial troubles as a doubtful place to park cap. next hour though i have the weekly roundup of the business yes the end of the week for you than the worst thanks very much indeed for that this is good he says was here in an hour from now in the meantime you'll be talking to us presidential candidate who thinks that america's democracy is an illusion first though our be bringing bringing you the headlines in about three minutes from now.

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