latest headlines on the week's top stories syria's rebels five to retake control of aleppo with the help of part of their western financial backing while the arab league puts its emergency get together on hold. members of the russian female pong group post the riot await their verdict. in the country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation. and egyptian forces killed seven suspected militants in a massive gratian launched after an attack left sixteen border guards dead in the creasing we violence in our region. and what a difference a year makes

a look back at last august riots which raged across england and they had local fears of a good return. alone welcome to artie's the weekly the sunday karen town and it's seven o'clock here in moscow while the arab league has postponed sunday's crisis meeting on syria where rebels are struggling to regain ground of the country's biggest city of aleppo foreign ministers were to discuss a new envoy to syria to replace kofi anon who quit earlier this month he won chief ban ki moon has backed the presence of international monitors in syria as the current observers mandate runs out in a week's time this is foreign powers led by the us are piling more pressure on damascus bypassing the when washington. they have set up

a joint group to facilitate regime change the u.s. and its allies have also pledged even more multimillion dollar support for the syrian rebels with 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 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. but. this call in the middle of the night cost him a 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 islamic. radical islam when you were rounded reducing your age you're trying to estimate what's going on with. his brother a plastic surgeon also received threats their family belongs to the alloway it's the same religious group as assad but they were never politically active. you said there were documents confirm syria's armed opposition has a hit list which scientists engineers doctors and civil servants on it. a lot of them up 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 and when you simple workers have all been kidnapped or assassinated for simply doing their work any government in the world where they seem

a credit cannot has two distinct groups of people working for a political force 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 courtroom 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 prevailing that identity is. all the syrian people are in danger children dale drily farm workers civil servants doctors and scientists there are no exceptions to look at the fact that my life and the lives of the syrian people are at tryst 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 tension from the media from the international community it is and interests. some sections in the opposition to make things worse for people so that those people who are the silent majority join the fight around the world attacks against the 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 up to the line it's not boycott artsy because syria. while more public sector staff are seemingly being

targeted. this unconfirmed 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 groups some acts they link to the video was we tweeted by our teaser tomboy you can stay up to date with the latest from syria following our own twitter. u.k. based journalist and broadcaster neil clark says fighting in syria will only escalate as the rebels get strong support from their western backers aimed at regime 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 darkies or and they will be using more violence because of the tax office of the government etc because this isn't going to plan the rebels get round it is possible i 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 at the moment let's talk about incessantly is a sad must go but we have the grotesque meeting in turkey between hillary clinton and the turkish beat 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 through 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 in the coke in one day instead of pressurising the rebels to people to put down their arms actually encouraged actually setting them up 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. finally sacked of a stand un expert phyllis bennis explains why sending more my friends into the call flicked 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 see the point of view with activist and u.n. expert banus in the next hour right here on our team. it's been two weeks of

courtroom drama for the russian female punk group pussy riot fs present on hooliganism charges for an anti-government stand and moscow's main cathedral back in february prosecutors are demanding a three years' jail time for the women but the final verdict expected on friday artist peter oliver 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 believers 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 concert 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 it's 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 verdict. so to come this hour a criminal case is launched over the actions of a muslim sect in central russia they kept around authority children in a secret underground bunker for almost ten years do you tales of this shocking story just ahead. we'll look into how iranians get their hands on the latest gadgets despite coordinated western sanctions calling off trade to the islamic state. and 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 just 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 the car also deployed extra troops tanks and weaponry to the area while destroying manning smuggling

tunnels into gaza militants are pivot he has surged in the tsunami peninsula since hosni mubarak was ousted last year to a political analyst eric draitser thinks the attack aims to drive a wedge between israel and egypt and increase regional instability. gets 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 the 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. parties getting news just in egypt's president mohamed morsi has ordered the retirement of both the defense minister and the country's chief of staff will bring you more details as soon as we get them. 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 or serious economic troubles remain last august songwriting crowds torch and boat the city or the police are unable to regain control for almost a week artie's laura smith looks at what lessons britain has learned on iran.

draw it saying looting disorder these were the explosives 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 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 dig 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. and a 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 what is called policing which we show monsters 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 those people. can give something. to keep 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 us lots more online at our website r.t. dot com including the family way find out how brothers working as border patrol agents help. hundreds of legal immigrants dropping us from mexico. plus north korean reports soundly on arm about u.s. and south korean tower plans to blow up monuments of former communist leaders find out if their fears have any foundations that are to downtown. criminal cases have been opened and 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 you go to school all 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 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 cells in 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 some doctor had to treat her right there at the scene it took a lot of effort to convince her she needed his help with this act is around twenty years old its founder is eighty five year old for that a mix up 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 the way

it 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 fate of the children is yet to be decided plans are also being drawn up to three hells 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 design. and after some other news from around the world best the operations have ended after two earthquake struck iran

a revised death toll is now to twenty seven with almost fourteen hundred angered disaster has leveled a fifth of iran's northwestern villages but both 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 left homeless. but craney human rights activist not bill rashard is due to appear in court accused of involvement in a legal meetings he's currently serving a three month jail sentence for writing anti-government statements on. twitter evolve or any opposition has been subjected to a major product down after her over foreign protests began last year. two people have died when thousands of muslims clashed with police in mumbai angry over media coverage of ethnic wyatt's in india's northeast last month dozens were also injured as protesters threw rocks and set fire to television broadcast vans ah

police fired into the air trying to disperse riders the worst violence in the north east in two decades between muslim settlers and the 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 it faces seventeen counts relating to arms smuggling illegal weapons possession and other charges but the u.s. justice department a firm of prosecution and the firm which is now called danny pay money to the government a 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 blackwater staff opened fire on unarmed civilians killing seventeen in fact and five years ago now retired u.s.

army lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer and warrants that cash instead of convictions sets a dangerous precedent. i think it's a 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 you would hold an airline accountable for bad acts why would you not hold accountable emerged areas for equally if not even more spread actually poor people died so it's a bad it's a bad course 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 i'm critical of the whole process that we're going to 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 has taken the oath of office should be sent to conduct military action it's bad regarding economics it's bad regarding accountability in many ways organizations like our central intelligence agency used mercenaries to get around congressional oversight which again is not good for anybody if they do that. the u.s. might be trying hard to make life worse for iranians opposing sanctions on the country's vital oil industry and its banking sector too but while america has also banned high tech product exports to iran they still find their way there and start to sour furthur now reports there's even a store selling albums latest gadgets in the capital for those wanting to enjoy the life. i pads i phones i pods apple's political popularity has meant that their products familiar sight 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 years but it seems that tech savvy arraign ians and 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 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 surprising 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 well 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. come because if they have you were going hear new sanctions being announced by the u.s. congress or. western powers the fact that they're coming over. every other this is the case on the board thanks i was very mature and working in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving anything banning these products the in vogue is a punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative

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