the latest headlines in the week's top stories syria's rebels fight to retake control of aleppo with the help of further western pa announcer backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on hold. by members of the russian female punk group pussy riot await their verdict half drawn on top of their stands and the country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation. and gyptian forces killed seven suspected militants and a massive bomb ration to an attack left sixteen border guards dead in the increasingly violent sanaa region. and what a difference a year makes a look back at last august riots which raged across england

a major local beers it could return. and welcome to our tease the weekly this sunday i'm karen taraji it's six o'clock here in moscow well the arab league house suspended has rather postponed sunday's crisis meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to regain ground in the country's biggest city of aleppo foreign ministers were to discuss a new envoy to syria to replace coffee and all who quit earlier this month u.n. chief ban ki moon has factor the presence of international monitors in syria as the current observers mandate runs out in a week's time this as foreign powers led by the us fall piling more pressure on damascus bypassing the un. washington and turkey have set up

a joint work to facilitate regime change the u.s. and its allies have also pledged even more multimillion dollar support for the syrian rebels london being the latest to weigh in but international powers having little unity over syria those working in the country's public sector are fearing for their lives as oksana boyko 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 for 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. but. this call in the middle of the night cost him a brother. was one of syria's most experienced civil pilots years educated

a lot more than twenty thousand hours around the globe he was coming home from the airport when gunmen attacked his car. radical islam. just listening to me of radical islam when you were rounding using your age you trying to estimate what's going on with. 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. he said the documents confirm syria's opposition has scientists 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 with around a million and a half of the country's civil servants are becoming targets doctors teachers municipal workers have all been kidnapped or assassinated for simply doing their work any government in the world where they stimac radek are 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 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 live in the fact that my life and the lives of other syrian people are a true it 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 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 use any attention from the media from the international community it is in the interests of some factions and 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. but more public sector staff are seemingly being targeted in aleppo there's one firm to amateur

footage apparently shows rebels throwing the bodies 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 who commit such great some acts they link to the video was reiterated by archie's up on a boycott you can stay up to date with the latest from syria by following her on twitter. u.k. based journalist and broadcaster neil clark says finding in syria will only escalate as the rebels get strong support from their western backers aimed at regime change. so there is going to be a great danger that the rebels become even more violent now more desperate because it's quite clear they haven't got the drug use or they will be used for violent attacks on september the government etc because this isn't going to plan the rebels get routed this past don't think it really matters who succeeds unless there is a sort of sea shift in the approach from the west and the arab league because the

mother complex talking about the session is a sad must go we have a grotesque meeting in turkey between hillary clinton 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 solutions to the situations or the last very last they want is democratic elections free democratic elections because you know the ba'ath party would do very well and so they want to undermine our viewer mission they did it all the time and they instead of pressurising the rebels to put down their arms they actually encouraged actually sending them off so it's quite clear that washington doesn't want a peaceful solution they want violent regime change so unless that changes there are afraid the ship will continue phyllis activist and u.n. expert phyllis banner six planes why sending 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. 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 genuine expert phyllis bennis and just about twenty minutes right here on our t.v. . 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 in moscow's main cathedral back in february prosecutors are demanding three years jail time for the women the final verdict expected on friday are just bitter over 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 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 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 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'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. 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'll look into how iranians get their hands on the latest gadgets spike ward unaided western sanctions cutting off the trade to be islamic state. gyptian security forces say they've killed at least seven suspected militants and northern sonali where terror attacks have escalated 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 nine hundred seventy three war with israel carver also deployed extra troops tanks and weaponry to the area while destroying many smuggling tunnels into

goals up militant activity has surged in the synod peninsula since hosni mubarak was ousted last year israel based journalist yacov lop and 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 in the act itself as an ideological goal to kill. their religion as they see 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 even opportunities for the countries closer together the islamists and especially the

jihad these that we're talking about now have been for years operating. and now what they're doing is taking advantage of the fact that there 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 across the region. london's olympic summer spectacle is coming to a close when the last of the medals should 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 all riding crowds torching loot the city with the police unable to regain control for almost a week laura smith looks at what lessons britain has learned one year on. rioting and looting disorder these were the explosives scenes on the streets in towns and cities in england last two best shops and warehouses attacked and torched

by out of control youth and adults alike a situation the police took days to bring on to 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 on employment is up it's also true to say that business is on the highroad all 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 new murs 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. dysfunctional relationship with the police something social justice campaign elite just says has not been addressed and employment is going up generally 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 went in the often mouth 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 you to keep them busy then you're. going to get worse i mean hopefully it won't make it well i think maybe to address 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 in 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 with you know and lots more online at our website that's our t.v. dot com including the family way find out how brother is working hours but border patrol and. it's helped hundreds of illegal immigrants to the u.s. from mexico. plus north korean reports sound the alarm about u.s. and south korean terror plans to blow up monuments a former communist leaders find out if their fears have any foundation at r.t. dot com. 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 he has 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 gaza men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen dealing as posed with thoughtfully at least children living in south india and 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 soon dr had to treat her right at the scene it took a lot of evidence to convince her she needed his help with this act is around twenty years or its founder is eighty five year old was that a mix i thought of he proclaimed himself a prophet almost fifty years ago and is now too weak to give. but 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 the word but actually 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

rehearsal sect members who are allowed to film inside neither did any of the group's 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 the school of gaza. and are some other news from around the world rescue operations have ended till our lakes struck iran in revised death toll is now two hundred twenty seven but almost fourteen hundred injured the disaster leveled a fifth of iran's northwestern villages with twelve powerful tremors 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 that were left homeless. suffering human rights activists not be over a child is due to appear in court accused of involvement in how people meetings is currently serving a three month jail sentence for. writing anti-government statements on twitter people bringing our position has been subjected to a major crackdown after pro reform protests began last year. two people giant two people have died when thousands of muslims clashed 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 bands while police fired into the air trying to disperse the riders the worst violence in the north east in two decades between muslims but settlers and of

the local ethnic population left at least fifty three dead and calls four hundred thousand people to flee. the international security contractor 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 arms smuggling illegal weapons possession and other charges but the u.s. justice department deferred prosecution if the firm which is now called akademi paid money to the government the 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 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 naturally 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 the 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 of 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 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 imposing sanctions on the country's vital while industry and its banking sector too but while america's also banned high tech product exports to iran they still find their way there and artists are further 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 political 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 abandon the functions that had 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 . 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 or just 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 a rainy and tradesmen have meant this 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 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. so are the sanctions working. the sanctions have not had the outcome because if they have if you were going hear a new sanctions are being announced by the u.s. congress or. the western powers the fact that they're coming. every other day is the case on the board thanks so very much for the work and in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving anything banning these products in buggies a punishing the very people who help in building around future creative individuals these issues still made it is right is the full make key parts of apple's clientele

the world eva. and. 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 crisis.

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