the latest news on the week's top stories these syrian rebels struggle to hold back an appliance and by the regime of the once it is allies falls to the insurgency while looking for new ways to see assad out. the pussy riot re await the verdict for staging and i want to put in stanton russia's main cathedral with that case attracting that tension of some of the world's biggest music stars. also criminal probes are launched into muslim sects in central russia that kept around thirty an underground bunker for almost ten years. and a major offensive is under way in egypt's volatile sinai region to restore security after buddha violence which left sixteen egyptian soldiers dead last week.

hello and welcome to r.t. twenty four hour news life for a moscow i mean you know shapovalov up with the latest news and the week's top stories series on drug suffered a setback this week when government forces pushed them out of a kid district in the commercial capital aleppo was the battle for that city intensifying foreign powers led by the u.s. piling more pressure on damascus bypassing the you are in washington and you had set up a joint group to facilitate regime change and find a replacement for assad the arab league meets on sunday discuss its own additional measures against the syrian government the rise and its allies have also obviously anti by pledging even more multimillion dollar support for the rebels with london being the latest to weigh in with the international community and syria itself split into warring camps those working in public jobs or fearing for their lives as

a ton of boycott reports. it's a fixture in any public office in syria but if you buy a ticket or get a driving license president assad will be watching over those working here it's not a political statement rather a sign that their company belongs to the state your design is now becoming a death mark for an increasing number of state employees. this call in the middle of the night cost here my brother. was one of syria's most experienced civil pilots u.s. educated more than twenty thousand hours around the globe he was coming home from the airport when gunmen attacked his car. radical islam. is the worst enemy of radical islam when you were rounded incapable of using your cage you're trying to estimate what's going on. his brother

a plastic surgeon also received. their family belongs to the alloway it's the same religious group as assad but they were never politically active. you said the documents confirm syria's opposition has scientists and engineers don't just and civil servants only. what started as a battle against the regime now increasingly looks like a battle against the syrian state but the round a million and a half of the country's civil servants are becoming targets doctors teachers many simple workers have all been kidnapped or assassinated for simply doing their work and in government in the world where they seem aquatica not has two distinct groups of people working for a political fox whose job is to keep the ruling party in power and civil servants to make sure that streets are clean and hospitals are running and in syria regardless of that political affiliation civil servants are being targeted as assad

sympathizers in damascus hospitals window blinds is permanently drawn now because of this. the fear of snipers a local doctor was kidnapped on his way from work a few months ago his family hasn't heard from him since his colleagues are now afraid of prevailing the identities. all the syrian people are in danger children the elderly farm workers civil servants doctors and scientists there are no exceptions relevant to the fact that my life and the lives of the syrian people are a true just makes me tremble with fear along with fears for their safety syrian civil servants also have to deal with a much higher workload many now put in sixty hour weeks but barely a day off due to inflation their salaries have devalued as have their lives so i am not surprised to hear that some groups within the free syrian army are targeting those people who are trying to make life better or orderly because at the end of

the day if things get back to normal they will lose any support they will lose any attention from the media from the international community it is in the interests of at least some factions in the opposition to make things worse for people so that those people who are the silent majority join in the fight and round of world attacks against they don't situations carry some of the highest sentences and promptly condemned as terrorism yet in syria for the sake of ousting one man millions of lives are put on the line it's not boycott artsy democracy syria and later this hour middle east activists standing phyllis bennis explains why escalating the militarization of the conflict can only be more dangerous if the as a nation continues if the militarization continues what we will then see is that the post assad government will be led by the men with guns when the victors are

those with the guns that always bodes ill for women for children for civilians syria is not libya syria has a long history of civil society mobilization and organizations they have many things that was not possible in libya but the danger is that you will have certain . parallels certain similarities such as unaccountable militias who will not put themselves under the accountability of a new government that is a very dangerous reality and if syrian body politic explodes it will be an explosion not an implosion the danger of course is that with that growing the sectarianism growing there is the danger that it will spill over the border. the trial of the russian punk band pussy riot has reached its final stage with the verdict expected next friday prosecutors are demanding three years jail for the women for their stunt in russia's main procedural back and cyber every piece on of

it is following the case for. over the past few days we've heard from the prosecution on the defendants themselves the prosecution saying that they wanted three year jail sentences for the three women for the demonstration which they held in rush's main cathedral in february of this year the women themselves speaking to the court said that they never intended to cause any offense to the orthodox church or its believe as by their protest in which they performed a so-called punk rock prayer calling on the virgin mary to rid russia vladimir putin now we've also heard support coming out for the three women on trial from celebrities in the music industry madonna. speaking about pussy riot during her concerts in moscow also having heard having the name of the group painted on her back madonna of course no stranger to controversy regarding the church itself and

nine hundred eighty nine a single like a prayer the video for which caused such a controversy that some catholic church groups were calling for her to be excommunicated was also condemned by the vatican and is also being politicians from . great britain germany and the united states that have been giving their support for the women but it remains a hugely divisive case here in russia with some people saying that the women are modern day saints almost building them up to huge levels of. social standing saying what they are doing is right for russia and others mostly linked to the orthodox church suggesting that these women are essentially the anti christ that we all have to wait until the seventeenth of august at three pm moscow time when the judge in the courtroom just behind me will deliver the verdict. in a few minutes the american firm let all thought on smuggling notorious music and try to tell which used to be black also is allowed to pay its way out of the prosecution up for

a probe into illegal weapons dealings. in london learned its lessons from the riots which took the nation by surprise a year ago that play. criminal cases have been opened in central russia against some of the parents of twenty seven children rescued this week from an underground bunker they were forced to live in a car to cruise by islamic sect for nearly a decade and were barred from any contact with the outside world you go to school not has been to find out more about the secretive community. 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 men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen daylight i suppose and thought this children were living in south in the basement right in this silo 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 the sectors 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 hand written texts which are now being examined for possible extremist content but sect members appear to be defiant about their way of the 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 and sign. did any of the group some 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 their own story and 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 or she doesn't.

egyptian authorities have accused five militants of training jihad it sounds smuggling weapons it's connected to the ambush that killed sixteen soldiers on the border with gaza last sunday the minute she launched a major offensive deploying tanks and dropped it launches to the area the gaza crossing was closed except for palestinians wanting to return to that blockaded region egypt's sinai region remains highly volatile with militant groups having grown since the toppling of hosni mubarak last year and israel based journalist pain believes terrorists are taking advantage of egypt's weak security right now. the attack was first of all. raised tensions between israel and egypt i think that's going to be. the attackers had in mind and second of all we have to remember that these organizations will leave that violence. and that justifies all means

they do that in the act itself as an ideological goal she'll be. there when the general as they see it a responsible decision makers in egypt should be trying to increase cooperation with israel in order to ensure that these kind of homicide terrorists are not able to carry out their plans so perhaps this is going to not get unities from the countries closer together the islamists and especially did you have is that we're talking about you know have been for years are. and now what they're doing is taking advantage of the fact that there is an unstable situation in egypt but if you just listen as we've seen now across the region egypt syria i mean all the other countries north africa and what we're going to see is chaos and that is what we're seeing unfortunately across the entire region and still to come to you all see why sanctions once top iranian swapping thank you way down by going but all those left behind and the sense i have that still gets you out of trying to get

high tech of course the whole second story you have. to keep it. thanks. thanks thanks thanks. thanks. thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks thanks . wealthy british scientists think it's time to. go. to the. market so why not.

find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on r g. this is about the international security contract says formerly known as blackwater has agreed to cough up seven and a half million dollars to avoid criminal prosecution if a seventeen counts relating to on smuggling illegal weapons possession and other crimes but the u.s. justice department the fact prosecution fund which is now code i could dammy paid money to the government the company which has been through a few incarnations in its troubled history has previously been the source of strained relations between the u.s. and iraq five blackwater contractors opened fire on unarmed civilians killing seventeen and back done five years ago and retired us on an attendant know. almost that accepting cash instead of convictions and said thank you express it. gets

a bad course of action by the u.s. government by the obama administration who came in talking about accountability look people die hard here and yet you're giving a fine to the company my goodness if you would hold an airline accountable for bad acts why would you not hold accountable the mercenaries for equally if not even more spat actually four people died so it's a bad it's a bad course to set and frankly it is nothing more than a bunch of money from a company that no one is going to be held accountable i cannot believe you're actually paying a bill to get out of criminal allegations that's that's a very bad president to say that i'm critical of the whole process of bringing in contract mercenaries if you will to conduct military operations in a foreign environment you have lust capability of accountable. and frankly i've been i work with our congress here all the time and i've been a big proponent of congress interceding in this saying you cannot send mercenaries to do an act for someone who is taking the oath of office should be sent to conduct

military action it's bad regarding economics it's bad regarding accountability in many ways. like our central intelligence agency use mercenaries to get around congressional oversight which again is not good for anybody if they do that. this summer all eyes have been on london which has proudly hosting the olympics with the success of the games in mind if you remember that exactly a year ago the city was ravaged by ma street violence and looting. and the riots and repercussions. roya ting looting disorder these were the explosive scenes on the streets in towns and cities in england last august shops and warehouses attacked and torched by out of control youths and adults alike a situation the police took days to bring under control a year on and on the surface all is well damaged buildings have been rebuilt or

boarded up and people are going about their business again but there's a little deeper and areas like here in top know where the riots started are still troubled and the underlying issues which caused the riots remain unresolved tottenham's m.p. says his community pulled together in the aftermath but it mitt trouble could break out again unemployment is up and it's also true to say that business is on the highroad are still struggling a many of them had very poor pavements under the right damages act that was made to assist them in a double dip recession that hits the poorest communities hardest so you know it's one of those situations where yes we must be positive and hopeful but it's a fragile a fragile situation for us here in the last year numerous studies have been conducted into why the unrest became so intense and so widespread what began with anger over the fatal shooting by police of tottenham on mark duggan became

a spark that ignited a powder keg of disadvantage boredom and a dysfunctional relationship with the police something social justice campaign elite just says has not. being addressed by employment is going up generally useful employment is going up in the country we're seeing closure after closure of youth facilities and services school services are being caught and i think all of that with more aggressive what is called policing which we shall monstrous zero tolerance policing means that takes only a matter of time and not so much if but when in the aftermath of the violence communities banded together to clear up their streets but many accuse the government not only of ignoring the root causes but of making problems worse for working class families oxfam says the poorest ten percent of society will suffer thirteen times more from seeing austerity cuts than the richest tenth and fifty six

percent of young black men in britain are unemployed people in riots hit hackney like to think it won't happen again but are aware that it could be long. till. people. can give something. to keep them busy. going to get work somehow believe me it will take many to trust the work that way and that picking people up for the benefit well. back on the force so i'm going to happen again quite the same way i don't think anything's going to just going it's very well for these people the fuse is still a light the fear is when and what will trigger the next explosion in their neighborhoods laura smith r.t. london. and update now some of today's while a rescue operation is underway in north west a wrong after two strong earthquakes

a raise the villages to the ground killing two hundred fifty people and injuring over two thousand more both quakes happened near the city have to bring these residents were told to spend the night outdoors. warning that more aftershocks are expected and the agency crews are struggling to reach some of the remote villages where phone lines and electricity have been caught. some and the relief would rise activist in about her job is to face school for allegedly organizing and participating illegal meteor or child is already in seventy three months for posting anti-government statements on twitter there has been a series of violent crime downs against the country's apposition political reform protests in bahrain erupted over a year ago and has seen fifty killed and schools arrested. protests against ethnic riots have turned violent in mumbai leaving two people dead and dozens injured some thousands clashed with police throwing rocks and burning a t.v.

broadcast of the calls it was sparked by media coverage of last month's violence in the state of a sum which is accused of bias against the muslim victims a series of incidents claimed at least fifty three lives and caused over four hundred thousand people to flee. police not at a road block in afghanistan has opened fire on fellow officers killing at least ten it's all their talk i was a taliban infiltrator on and he was killed at one police returned fire it comes a day after six major troops were shot dead in separate attacks by afghans one of them a police chief. iran may be getting a rough ride from sanctions when it comes to its oil trade and banking but it's a very different mindset for high tech addicts a store selling apple products and tear run is blossoming and as sarah first reports the blockade isn't stopping gadget hungry iranians from living the high life. i pads i things i because apple's callable popularity has meant that

their products familias like everywhere from our workplaces to our homes and on our high street there's one place you might not expect to find products like this on sale and that the iranian capital of tehran where apple along with many of the u.s. products and the functions that have been in place the year but it seems the text of the iranians are managing to outsmart this u.s. embargo and products like the ninety popular in toronto they're widely available as well just like any other apple macs store this one in tiran is bustling and busy. i have no difficulty in importing electronics from the us nor do we feel any impact on imports from sanctions what doesn't come so easy indeed is getting technical support and updates for the products but we still manage to get them all the time. the so you can save us sanctions has been mainly on iran's banks and oil industry in a bid to curb the country's nuclear ambitions but when it comes to the bans on consumer

products alternative trade routes and enterprising iranian tradesmen have meant that in forcing the sanctions has proved very chilly impossible in fact it's estimated there are now hundreds of traders in the capital selling these kids. the only impact of these sanctions that we see is higher prices which alter the real sinking against the dollar we're also forced to charge more from costa murs in order to keep getting our shipments bypassing the sanctions and people still want to these gadgets even though they've become more expensive. the sanctions working. the sanctions have not had the outcome because if they have if you were going here new sanctions are being announced by the u.s. congress or. the recent powers the fact that they're coming up with new sanctions. is an indication the door thanks i was very mature to working in fact many critics

of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving anything banning these products mbogo is a punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative individuals musicians film editing is right is a key part of apple's clientele the world eva. and plenty for you to discover online now at home including a quest to impress the social network junkies belly to extremes to improve their online status but sometimes with tragic consequences as were reported online. dozens of illegal immigrants crossed the u.s. border from mexico but with the help of american border control.

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