the latest headlines in the week's top stories syria's rebels find to retake control of aleppo for their western financial backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on a whole new. members of the russian female problem which will see right away their verdict on turnout time in the country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation. plus egypt kills the seven suspected no ten months of operation during the town and its increasingly violent since i rejoined last sixteen border guards dead. and what a difference

a year makes me look back at last all this straw i of which raged across england have made fears they could return. hello and welcome to our tease the week this sunday on karen terror that's four o'clock here in moscow while the arab league postponed sunday's crisis meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to regain ground in the country's biggest city aleppo foreign ministers were to discuss a new envoy to syria to replace coffee anon who quit earlier this month u.n. chief a bunk house been fact in the presence of international monitors in syria as the current observers mandate runs out in a week's time this as foreign powers a led by the u.s. are piling more pressure on damascus bypassed. the un washington and turkey have

set up a joint group to facilitate regime change us and its allies have also pledged even more multimillion dollar support for the rebels in london the latest to weigh in with international powers having little unity over syria those who working in the country's public sector are fearing for their lives next on a boycott reports. it's a fixture in any public office in syria whether you buy tickets or get a driving license president assad will be watching over those working here it's not a political statement rather a sign that that 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 he was 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 page you're trying to estimate what's going on boy and. his brother a plastic surgeon also received brad's their family belongs to the alloway it's the same religious group as assad but they were never politically active. documents confirm syria's opposition has a list scientists engineers doctors and civil servants on it. what started as a battle against the regime now increasingly looks like a battle against the syrian state but there are around a million and a half of the country's civil servants becoming targets doctors teachers municipal workers have all been kidnapped or assassinated for simply doing their work and the

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 cleaned 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 of permanently drawn not because of the scorching heat but for 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 revealing the identity of. all the syrian people are in danger children the elderly farm workers civil servants doctors and scientists there are no exceptions over the fact that my life and the lives of other syrian people aren't true makes me tremble with fear along with fears put their safety syrian civil servants also have to deal with

a much higher workload many now put in sixty hour weeks with 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 the some factions and the opposition to make things worse for people so that those people who are in the silent majority join in the fight and around the 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 dema syria from our public sector staff are seemingly being targeted in aleppo this one from amateur

footage apparently shows rivals throwing the bodies of the host office workers from a rooftop some syrians have been supporting the opposition now say they'll have nothing more to do with people who commit such gruesome acts they link to the video as retreated artie's are kind of lojka you can stay up to date with the latest from syria but following her on twitter. you can based journalist and broadcaster neil clark says fighting in syria will only escalate as the rebels get strong support from their western backers aim a veteran change. there is going to be a grave danger that the rebels become even more violent now more desperate because it's quite clear they haven't got the job to support and they will be using more violence with attacks on members of the government etc because this isn't going to plan the rebels get routed this past week and think it really matters who succeeds unless there is a sort of sea shift in the approach from from the west and the arab league because

at the moment all they're talking about incessantly is a sad moscow we have the grotesque eating in turkey between hillary clinton her and the turkish as they talk about regime change in a country which is illegal by international law we've got to understand quite clearly the u.s. doesn't want a peaceful solution to the situation through the last very last they want is democratic elections free democratic elections because they know the baath party knew very well and so they want to undermine the u.s. mission they did it all the time and they established pressurizing the rebels to you know put down their arms actually encourage and actually sending them arms so it's quite clear that washington doesn't want a peaceful solution they want violent regime change so unless that changes then they are afraid that the ship will continue. and at least activist daniel an expert phyllis bennis explains why sunday more weapons into the conflict can only create more danger. if the escalation 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. you can see the full interview with activist an un expert phyllis bennis and just about twenty minutes right here on our team. well it's been two weeks of courtroom

drama for the russian female punk group pussy riot they face prison on hooliganism charges for an anti-government stunt on moscow's main cathedral in february prosecutors are demanding a three years' jail for the women with the final verdict expected on friday his peer over reports. 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 russia'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 reach russia of blood of me of 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 her 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 or 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 act. and still to come this hour a criminal case is launched over the actions of a muslim sect in central russia. kept around thirty children in a secret underground bunker for almost ten years details of the shocking story just ahead. and we look into how iranians get their hands on the latest gadgets to survive a coordinated western sanctions cutting off trade to the islamic state. in gyptian security forces say they have killed at least seven suspected militants in northern sonali or terror attacks have us plated recently the operation was launched after sixteen and gyptian border guards were gunned down a week ago the campaign to hunt down the killers was the biggest in the region since the nine hundred seventy three war with israel carol also deployed extra troops tanks and weaponry to the area while destroying many smuggling tunnels into

gaza militant activity has surged in the senate and insula since hosni mubarak was ousted last year israel based journalist jaco flop and it believes chaos is the legacy of abrupt changes of power across the middle east and north africa. the attack was first of all to i think increase tensions between israel and egypt i think that's one of the. 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 believe that in the act itself as an ideological goal to shield. their religion as they see it 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 very abscesses if you don't know opportunities for the countries closer together the islamists and especially

the jihad these that we're talking about have been for years. and now what they're doing is taking advantage of the fact that they're he is an unstable situation in egypt but if you just lift the lid as we've seen now across the region egypt syria and all the other countries north africa and what we're going to see is chaos and that is what we're seeing unfortunately. london's olympic summer spectacle is coming to a close with the last of the medals to be awarded for the final events but some are wondering what's next for the u.k.'s capital where serious academic troubles remain last august songwriting crowds torture and loot the city with the police unable to regain control for almost a week artist laura smith and what lessons britain has learned one year on. draw it saying 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 youth 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 tottenham 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 it's also true to say that businesses on the high road 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 man mark duggan became a spark that ignited a powder keg of disadvantage boredom and it did. functional relationship with the police something social justice campaign elite just says has not been addressed and employment is going up generally useful new clothing 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. policing which which amounts to 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 months. so that with him people. can give something to do keep them busy and they're. going to get work i mean hopefully one thing it will take many to trust the work situation and that picking people up for the benefit of well nothing. i'm back on the board now i'm going to happen again quite the same way but i don't think

anything's been addressed now in this area and 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 plenty of stories for you with wants more on line on our website partita com including the family way find out how brothers are working as border patrol agents helped hundreds. legal immigrants enter the u.s. from mexico. but north korean reports sound the alarm about u.s. and south korean tera plans to blow up monuments of former communist leaders by the out of their fear foundation r.t. card. criminal cases have been opened russia against some of the parents of twenty seven children rescued this week after the horror of being forced to live underground for a decade they were under the control of an islamic sect and the world barred from

any contact with the outside world he has that he tells. 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 deal it was posed with for least children who were living in south in the basement right in this syle 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 dr had to treat her right 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 of max i thought of 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 way of life that is really what you are fighting against ally himself the authorities have already opened several criminal cases involving senior members of the sect and the

feet of the children is yet to be decided plans are also being drawn up to rehear sect members who are allowed to film inside neither did any of the groups or members agreed to speak with us on camera but off camera the man that i spoke with said that around forty people remain on their territory they do expect the authorities to try to take everything down but he claims that they are going to resist even if they bring a court order since they don't recognise there are neither do they recognise the authority of muslim leaders or do they recognize the existence of the state or any country altogether. you go to school of. now to some other news from around the world rescue operations have ended after two earthquakes in iran which killed two hundred twenty seven almost fourteen hundred were injured in the disaster which level a fifth of iran's northwestern villages with powerful travel measuring over six

point three magnitude rescue personnel working through the night to recover survivors from the rubble have now been reassigned to help the estimated sixteen thousand left homeless. and american naval destroyer has crashed into a japanese oil tanker in the persian gulf the u.s.s. porter a guided missile destroyer. or is assigned to the fifth fleet based in bahrain and was on a scheduled deployment when the collision occurred it's unclear yet whether the crash resulted in an oil spill there were no injuries and an investigation is underway. for any human rights activists nabila which all but is due to appear in court accused of involvement in only meetings he's currently serving a three month jail sentence for writing anti-government statements on twitter to vote for any opposition has been subjected to a major crackdown after pro reform protests began last year.

two people have died when thousands of muslims quantised with police in mumbai angry over media coverage of ethnic riots in india's northeast last month dozens were also injured as protesters threw rocks and set fire to television broadcast rounds while police fired into the air trying to disperse rioters the worst violence in the north east in two decades between muslims and a few local ethnic population left at least fifty three dead and calls to four hundred thousand people to flee. international security contractor formerly known as blackwater has agreed to cough up seven and a half million dollars to avoid criminal prosecution and face seventeen counts relating to arms smuggling illegal weapons possession and other charges but the u.s. justice department deferred prosecution if the firm which is now called danny paid money to the government a company which has been through

a few incarcerations and its troubled history has previously been the source of strained relations between the u.s. and iraq five blackwater staff opened fire on unarmed civilians killing seventeen in baghdad five years ago scott horton from harper's magazine says the contractor will be delighted with the deal which underlines how close it is to the u.s. authorities. the amount that's being paid is a real pit this is it as these things go generally this is an absolutely tiny some on the other hand we've got this way blackwater is not completely out of the woods yet what they got here was a deferred prosecution agreement that is they have time to persuade the justice department not to prosecute the justice department gets an extension in the statute of limitations period to continue its investigation but that being said these sorts of agreements aren't entered into unless the government thinks dismissal that is

non-prosecution is a probable outcome so obviously black why there's got to be delighted with this one thing that comes out these papers is that a lot of this is being done in a very very close relationship with the united states remember blackwater is a principal contractor for the department of state and it appears in many of these dealings and department of state is opening the door for blackwater and we have comparable incidents in many many other countries so they are basically. soldiers of fortune out there for hire and they're operating principle seems to be shoot first ask questions later. the u.s. might be trying hard to make life worse for iranians posing sanctions on the country's vital while industry and its banking sector too but while america has also banned high tech product exports to iran they still find their way there as r.t. sarah ferguson now reports there's even a store selling apples latest gadgets in the capital for those wanting to enjoy the

i life i pads i phones i pods apple's cool overall popularity has meant that their products familiars 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 abandon the sanctions 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 not only popular in toronto they're widely available as well just like any other apple next door this one in tiran is bustling and busy so. 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 keep the country's nuclear ambitions but when it comes to the bans on consumer products alternative trade routes and enterprising a rainy and 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 customers in order to keep getting our shipments while bypassing the sanctions and people still want to these gadgets even though they become more expensive. so are the sanctions working. the sanctions have not had the desired outcome because if they had 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. isn't the case in the door thanks i was when they're doing the work and in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving anything banning these products in bug is a punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative individuals musicians film editing is right is the film a key part of apple's kind tell the world a favor. stay with r.t. the headlines are on the way and right after that we hear from one expert who says foreign nations sending weapons into the syrian conflict only prolong the crisis.

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