a former algerian foreign minister is tipped to be the new international envoy in syria to replace kofi annan we took a look at the man who might be tasked with resolving the conflict. party lifts 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 off the border violence. on screen international news and comment live 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 from foreign minister locked up to 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 peter all of it 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 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. 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 brahimi will have his work cut out of his appointment is confirmed with no. top environments in syria rebels have admitted they lost ground in the strategic city of aleppo offer a government offensive. reports of 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 own ranks there are multiple reports of pakistani. 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 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. atheist way too liberal secular and vision of syrian future would be far more constrained in terms of social religious personal freedoms than

what syria has at the moment you know there is a growing 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 unseat it excellent. reporting from damascus the u.s. is imposing new economic sanctions on syria as it tries to put more pressure on the rule of prisons as the u.k. has promised to give an extra eight million dollars to fund what it calls normal lethal supplies to the opposition 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. 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 or 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 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 burger if only you know we needed 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 orphanages they spent over ten years in on the ground cells without daylight or any contact with the outside world until being rescued by police what is your position on 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 gaza men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen daylight i suppose and thought these children were living in south in the basement right in this syle under the house it looked kind of like an eight story and here shocked by what they found the authorities began taking the kids outside in order to take them to doctors most of them are still being examined while their parents demand they be left alone. the children are terrified and after everything that's happened they'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 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 texts which are now being examined for possible extremist content but sect members. appear to be different about their way of life or 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 three house sect

members who were allowed to film and 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 are going to resist even if they bring a court order 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. of. what's in the head for the british government looks to make life even harder for those reliant on welfare critics say you can't 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 investors are having difficulty digesting time is was an expected trade intensifying concern the world's economy

is slowing down in about ten minutes time how the south think it's going. so well that's still to come for you but first 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 has been increasingly encircled by all kinds of u.s. military bases and weapons so it's a poor can independent research and writer but these hypothetical threat from toronto 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 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 exports 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 of wider purpose. green party u.s. presidential candidate george starling believes washington's global security strategy will have last thing negative effects on his interview with her is coming

up in the next hour but here's a quick 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 worth the cure for it we spent trillions of dollars in the air. when we withdrew from iraq how did we do it we withdrew from iraq in the dead of night at a secret undisclosed date because we were afraid that we would be ambushed in the process how many friends exactly did we make in this war what kind of a stable democracy did we make in iraq you know iraq continues to teeter on the brink of a civil war. that

interview coming away a little later here in egypt has reopened its border with gaza for two days but only to let palestinians return to the blockaded region the government is close 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 of the. small. 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 there are essentially be only the 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 there and i saw because it was still fully intact i saw huge were for generators and even people the tunnels are a massive network 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. where there's more on the situation in egypt at the moment on our website as well as lots of other stories including the big burn a brand new prototype nasa spacecraft has

a rather short lived floyd crashing back to earth. in a ball of flames. plus it's been a difference from invaders for the chinese for centuries but a big section of the great news just collapsed bizarre web site or to dot com to find out why. download the official application to cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device to watch ati any time. despite being in minutes of britons earning just the legal minimum wage or 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 at his door 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 poor with my wages my. tax credit and my child. price of cotton in 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 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 imposed sophistic so the poorest tend to hit thirteen times hardest thing in 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 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 is all about helping people into work the work. i'm 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 the economy in a poor house mary relies on those tax credits all relieved to help her make ends

meet and she's recently got into debt do you feel that you are thinking of. this in any. way and she has a message for prime minister david cameron please call the people that are on the lower wage not the ones that are on the highway which. you know we've 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 wouldn't get 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. 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 deep and lasting effect of british society laura smith r.t. . now let's take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world the heaviest to ritual 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 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 is also speculation however that the killer was not a member of the local forces but was merely disguised in the uniform. former libyan opposition leader mohamed el mcgaha for has been elected as the first president of the country after the ousting of moammar gadhafi 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 with many more wounded in tribal clashes over the summer . some of the world's best pilots are gathered in the city as you can ski 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 and 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 design it 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 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. the joint committee on the business terms for zero and up of the week's business news this friday night. i mean it's been a bizarre week really because at one point we had

a rally on our hands we've also had some scandals as well we've had the standard chartered the u.k. bank the money laundering case to amuse us we also have the chinese data is coming out today that's really put a spanner in the works and it's kind of had a domino effect through the markets which i'll be demonstrating and it's really because of that drop in the trade surplus the countries july exports grew just one percent from the year ago period and traders they were anticipating eight percent so they were disappointed in pause expire there's only five percent and that's despite expecting a seven percent rise as we can see just now really in the last maybe one minute the dow jones is actually going up into positive territory so it is defying expectations at the moment and really with the u.s. markets we've had corporate results coming out this week and a lot of the really failed to impress also worth mentioning that volumes are always

low in august as well and investors very much staying on the fence at the moment to see what central bankers are going to do whether they're going to intervene to get the markets moving along again so let's have a look at the oil markets and we'll be able to see that they are still coming out of of their highs that they reached last week traders are selling at the moment because of the potential lower demand for the world economic growth driver china of course that really the world is relying upon at the moment to boost everything up also the international energy agency decrease its forecast for demand on the back of this data also cited weak data coming from the u.s. as well so china and the u.s. combined make up a third of all energy. the poised just on the fly to see how the european markets finished up today them and they too had a lackluster performance a five day rally and that was because of the news coming from china really really

kind of signifying a global slowdown and it was the financials that particularly suffered in the session today so let's see the exchange rates and we'll see what the euro is doing at the moment is still trading at is one twenty nine greece or down as the ruble it's not trading any of all this is how it closed up the week so it did fall against both the u.s. dollar and the european currency out of the x. markets here in russia they also had a volatile session and they failed to impress they were firmly entrenched in red territory having a tougher time of it this friday moving on to russia. to

put up three hundred fifty palaces he's putting them up for sale in order to cut the country's deficit this is not the first time the debt ridden italy is selling off their historical property earlier this year many lighthouses on the island of

sardinia they changed hands too but the fresh round is facing headwinds as many investors are faring the collapse of the year it all together now many have red lined with big financial troubles as a doubtful place to park catch bill that is the business will today this way and have a great weekend. course all in this week i wish dusting vacuuming the work out in the mail to do it because i'm a student will. you have to we can see the recovery our top stories in a few minutes.

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