the latest headlines on the week's top stories in syria brussels five to retake control of the help further was turned by an actual on the arab league puts its emergency get together on. numbers of the russian female group mostly run away at their birthday and i'm talking to the country's main draw in a trial that divided the nation. egypt's kills the seven suspected militants and some operational all out there in a tactic that's increasingly violent and i reject that left sixteen border guards dead. and what a difference a year makes

a look back at last august riots which raged across england made the local fears they could return. hello and welcome to our teens the weekly this sunday karen tara well the arab league has postponed sunday's crisis meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to regain ground on the country's biggest city of aleppo foreign ministers were to discuss a new envoy to syria to replace call for a non who quit earlier this month u.n. chief of bonn ki-moon has backed in the presence of international monitors in syria the current observers of the mandate along south in a week's time this us foreign powers led by the u.s. are piling more pressure on damascus bot. when washington and turkey set up

a joint group of facilitate regime change the west and its allies have also pledged even more multimillion dollar support for the syrian rebels london being the latest to weigh in but the international powers having little unity over syria those working in the country's public sector are fearing for their lives a sudden boyko reports. it's a fixture in any public office in syria whether you buy a ticket or get a driving license president assad will be watching for those working here it's not a political statement rather a sign that their company belongs to this day. is now becoming a death mark for an increasing number of state employees. but. this call in the middle of the night cost here my brother. was one of syria's most experienced civil pilots years 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 using your age you're trying to estimate what's going on. his brother a plastic surgeon also received. their family belongs to the alleyway it's the same religious group as assad but they were never politically active. you said the documents confirm syria's opposition has scientists engineers don't kiss and civil servants only. what started as a battle against the regime now increasingly looks like a battle against the syrian state but they're around 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 a soft sympathisers in damascus hospitals window blinds is permanently drawn now because of the scorching heat 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 to the fact that my life and the lives of the syrian people are a true 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 the some factions in the opposition to make things worse for people so that those people who are in the silent majority join in the fight around the world attacks against they don't seem to carry some of the high sentences and promptly condemned as terrorism yet in syria for the sake of ousting one man millions of lives up on the line it's not boycott our democracy syria. from our public sector staff are

seemingly being targeted in aleppo this on friday the amateur footage of apparently shows rubbles throwing the parties of post office workers from a rooftop some syrians who've been supporting the opposition now say they'll have nothing more to do with people commit such a gruesome acts they link to the video was read tweeted by our tees up. you can stay up to date with the latest from syria by following her on twitter. you can both journalist and broadcaster neil clark says fighting in syria will only ask the late as the rebels get strong support from their western backers and 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 i don't 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 must go we had a grotesque meeting in turkey between hillary clinton or and the turkish as they talk about regime change in a country which is illegal by international law we could understand quite clearly the u.s. doesn't want a peaceful solution to the situation in syria the last very last they want is democratic elections free democratic elections because they know the ba'ath party would do very well and so they want to undermine the u.s. mission they did it all the time and they cope in one way instead of pressurising the rebels to people to put down their arms actually encouraged 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 the budget will continue. well the least activist and you an expert phyllis bennis explains why sending more weapons into a 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. and you can catch the full interview with activist daniel an expert phyllis bennis and me next hour right here on our team. it's been two weeks of courtroom drama for

the russian female punk group posi riot they face prison on hooliganism charges for an anti-government stunt and moscow's main cathedral in february prosecutors are demanding a three years jail for the women with the fall verdict expected on friday peter all of our reports. over the past few days we've heard from the prosecution and 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 rid russia of a blow to 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 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 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're 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. 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 this shocking story just ahead. and we welcome to how iranians get their hands on the latest gadgets it's white who ordinated western sanctions cutting off trade to the islamic state. gyptian security forces say they've killed at least seven suspected militants in northern sonali where terror attacks have us collated recently the operation was launched after sixteen egyptian border guards were gunned down a week ago the campaign to hunt down the killers was the biggest in the region since the one nine hundred seventy three war with israel were also deployed extra troops tanks and of weaponry into 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 job political analyst eric draitser thinks the attack aims to drive a wedge between israel and egypt and to increase regional instability. it's less important to examine necessarily who might have carried that out because it's a somewhat unknown but the significance of this playing up the idea that egypt and israel must be at each other it benefits both sides because the muslim brotherhood is able to play to their base while the reactionaries in israel behind netanyahu and the ultra right are able to play to theirs so this is stoking the conflict stoking the tension in order to execute the geopolitical agenda of the west there is the obvious which is to destroy whatever cooperation does exist as a remnant of the egyptian israeli treaties this is also perhaps to bolster the

muslim brotherhood in terms of the salafi. extremist elements in egypt but at the very at a very basic level this is to stoke the conflict that is existing in that region and drives up the cost of gas for example attacking the gas pipeline infrastructure and a variety of other geo political issues this is jim political in nature not ideological . london's olympic summer spectacle is coming to a close with the last of the models to be awarded for the final events but some are wondering what's next for the u.k.'s capital where serious economic troubles remain last august's riding crowds torch the city with the police unable to regain control for almost a week laurus merfolk so what lessons britain has learned one year on. roy is 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 they go 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 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 man 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 been addressed and 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 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 lungs. filled. with people. and give something you've. seen them busy then you're. going to get work somehow believe me 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 force so 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 lots more online at our website dot com including the family way find out how brothers are working as border patrol agents . hundreds of all you know grants and through the u.s. from mexico. plus north korean reports sounding the alarm about u.s. and south korean terror plans to blow up monuments of former communist leaders find out if their fears have any foundations that are called. criminal cases have been opened in central 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 were barred from any

contact with the outside world. as the details. 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 as. least children who were living in south in the basement right in this silo 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 the bill 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 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 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 life if you know 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 rehab

sect members who are allowed to film inside neither. did any of the group's members agree to speak with us on camera but off camera the man that i spoke with said that forty people remain on their territory they do expect the afghanis to try to take everything but he claims that the or 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 this state or any country altogether. you go to school of or g. gaza. and now to some other news from around the world today. rescue operations have ended after two earthquake struck iran the revised death toll is now to twenty seven with almost fourteen hundred injured the disaster leveled a fifth of iran's northwestern villages with both powerful tremors of 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 homeless. proper any human rights activists not be over djalma is due to appear in court accused of involvement in illegal meetings is currently serving a three month jail sentence for writing anti-government statements on twitter the bahraini opposition has been subjected to a major crackdown after prover form protests began last year. two people have died when thousands of muslims clashed with police in mumbai angry over media coverage of affleck riots in india's northeast last month dozens were also injured as protesters threw rocks and set fire to television broadcast vans are police fired into the air trying to disperse rioters the worst violence in the north east

in two decades between muslim sandler's and the local ethnic population left at least fifty three and. four hundred thousand people to flee. the international security contractor formerly known as blackwater as agreed to cough up seven and a half million dollars to avoid criminal prosecution if a seventeen counts relating to arms smuggling illegal weapons possession and other charges but the u.s. justice department deferred prosecution at the firm which is now called danny paid money to the government a company which has been through a few incarcerations in its troubled history has previously been the source of strained relations between the last cent drop blackwater staff opened fire on unarmed civilians killing seventeen and five years ago retired u.s. army lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer mourns the cash instead of convictions sets a dangerous precedent. so bad course of action by the u.s.

government by the obama administration who came in talking about accountability look people died here and yet you're giving a fine to the company my goodness that you would hold an airline accountable for bad acts why would you not hold accountable. for equally if not even more spent actually poor 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 at so 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 accountability and frankly 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 to do an act we're 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. now the u.s. might be trying hard to make life worse for iranians imposing sanctions on the country's vital oil industry and its banking sector too but while americans also banned high tech product exports to iran they still find their way there are two sarah furthur now reports there's even a store selling apple's latest gadgets in the capital for those wanting to enjoy the i life. i pads i phones i pods apple's political popularity has meant that their products familias like everywhere from our workplaces to our homes and on our high streets 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 abandoned the functions that had been in place in the years but it seems

the text of the iranians are managing to outsmart this u.s. embargo and products like the only popular in toronto they're widely available as well just like any other apple macs store 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 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 secrets of u.s. 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 a rainy and tradesmen have meant that in forcing the sanctions has proved virtually 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 mowers in order to keep getting our shipments bypassing the sanctions and people still want to these gadgets even though they become more expensive. so are the sanctions working. out because if they have you we're going hear new sanctions being announced by the u.s. congress or. the western powers the fact that they're coming up. new signs as every other there is the case on the board thanks i was very modern working in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from achieving anything banning these products in buggies a punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative individuals musicians film editing is right is a form a key part of apple's kind tell the world they've a surface r.t.

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