the latest headlines of the week's top stories from r.t. syria's rebels fight to take control of aleppo again with the help of further western financial backing as the u.s. and turkey reconsider a no fly zone to put pressure on damascus. egypt's president orders the country's powerful defense minister and the chief of staff to resign it comes amid a militant crackdown in the creasing leave volatile sinai region. members of the russian female punk group pussy riot await their verdict after the antiproton stands in the country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation. and what a difference a year makes a look back at last august's riots which raged across england at local fears they

could return. hello this is r t you're watching the weekly with me kevin owen it's a round of of the top stories of the last seven days and first with syrian rebels struggling to regain can ground and control in the second city of aleppo foreign powers led by the us apart and more pressure on the mask bypassing the u.n. washington and turkey is discussed now bringing in a no fly zone over syria and they've also set up a joint group to facilitate regime change the u.s. and its allies have also pledged even more multibillion dollar support for the syrian rebels london being the latest to weigh in all this is un chief ban ki moon has backed the presence of international monitors in syria as the current observers mandate runs just a week also for people in syria the situation remains as dangerous as ever with

public sector workers in particular fearing for their lives covering that six and a boy. 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 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 here my brother. was one of syria's most experienced civil pilots u.s. educated more than twenty thousand hours around the globe he was coming home from the airport when gunmen attacked his car. radical islam. is the worst enemy of radical islam when you were rounded using your age you're trying to

estimate what's going on. his brother a plastic surgeon also received. their family belongs to the l a with the same religious group as assad but they were never politically active. you said the way documents confirm syria's armed opposition has a hitlist we 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 many 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 fox whose job is to keep the ruling party in power and civil servants who 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 south sympathizers in damascus hospitals window blinds of permanently drawn now because of the scorching heat the fear of snipers a local doctor was kidnapped on his way from work a few months ago his family hasn't heard from him since his colleagues are now afraid of prevailing the identities. of. all the syrian people are in danger children dale drily farm workers civil servants doctors and scientists there are no exceptions well over the fact that my life and the lives of the syrian people are addressed a 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 those people

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 factions in the opposition to make things worse for people so that those people who are the silent majority join in the fights around the world attacks against paid institutions carry on the highest sentences and promptly come down as terrorism yet in syria for the sake of ousting one man millions of lives up to the line. are the democrats because syria. more public sector staff are simply being targeted in aleppo this unconfirmed amateur footage she's seeing on the screens apparently shows rebels throwing the bodies of post office workers from a rooftop some syrians have been supporting the opposition though say that have nothing more to do with the people who commit such gruesome mags this link to this video was tweeted by out xander boy can you mr the date with the latest from syria

following her on twitter. u.k. based journalist and broadcast neil clark told us fighting in syria will only escalate as the rebels get strong support from their western backers a 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 job or they will be using more violence because of the tax office of the government etc because this isn't going to land the rebels get routed this past week i don't think it really matters who succeeds kofi now unless there is a sort of sea shift in the approach from from the west and the arab league because at the moment they're talking about incessantly 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 a peaceful solution to the situation in syria 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 the u.s. mission they did it all the time and they instead of pressurising the rebels to you know put down their arms they 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 there are afraid that my ship will continue. middle east activist that you are an expert phyllis bennis explains why i said that 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 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. posen the danger of course is that with that growing the sectarianism growing there is the danger that it will spill over the border. who brought us in that interview all day today if you want to see the full version of callus on air again next hour. egypt's president saud it is to top military officials the defense minister and the chief of staff to resign no explanation for the decisions been given yet one of them defense minister who's saying turn towie had previously been egypt's interim ruler after the ousting of hosni mubarak last year he also served in the defense role under mubarak for nearly two decades he'll be replaced by a sissy who will also take charge of the country's powerful military council is

that his president mohamed morsi is also canceled the army's amendments to the constitution that gave top generals wide ranging powers the muslim brotherhood relationship with the country's military has been strained since last year's uprising all this comes as egyptian security forces say they've killed at least seven suspected militants in northern sinai but violence has recently escalated the operation was launched after sixteen egyptian border guards were killed there a week ago the company to hunt down the killers was the biggest in the region since the one nine hundred seventy three war with israel and israel based journalist your cough up it believes the chaos is the legacy of abrupt changes of power across the middle east and north africa. the attack was first of all. increased tensions between israel and egypt i think that's going to be. the attackers had in mind and second of all we have to remember that these organizations will leave that violence. and justifies all means they begin the act itself as an

ideological goal to. their religion as. a responsible decision makers in egypt should be trying to increase cooperation with israel in order to ensure that these kind of homicide terrorists are not able to carry out their plans so very absence is going to not be too nice for the countries closer together the islamists and especially did you have to use 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 listen as we've seen now across the region egypt syria i mean all the other countries north africa and what we're going to see is chaos and that is what we're seeing unfortunately across the entire region. to the criminal case is launched of the actions of a muslim sect in central russia that kept the of thirteen children in a secret underground bunker for almost ten he is a shocking story we've got the details ahead also we'll look into how radians are

getting their hands on the latest gadgets still despite coordinated western sanctions cutting off trade to the islamic state. but next 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 to moscow's main cathedral in february prosecutors are demanding three years jail for the women with a final verdict expected next friday is ati's peter all of. over the past few days we've heard from the prosecution on the defendants themselves the prosecution saying that they wanted three year jail sentences for the three women for the demonstration which they held in rush's main cathedral and 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 a. great britain germany and the united states that have been giving their support all 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. you know all of a criminal cases have been over to central russia or against some where the parents of twenty seven children rescued this last week after the horror of being forced to live on the ground for a decade they're under the control of as an in-law of an islamic sect and they were barred from any contact with the outside world can offer scott the story. three people in just one square metre 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 daylight i suppose with full leashed children who were living in south in the basement right in the sile

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 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 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 weight of the way 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 rehab sect members who are allowed to film and so. 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 the are going to resist even if they bring a court order since they don't recognize their own neither do they recognize the authority of muslim leaders or do they recognize the existence of the state or any country altogether. you go to school of.

a lot of interesting stories online tonight at r.t. dot com including go in the family way find out how brothers working as border patrol agents help hundreds of illegal immigrants enter the u.s. from mexico it's on line from us also reporting to tonight north korean reports sounding the alarm about a u.s. and south korean terror plot to blow up monuments of former communist leaders we delve into that a bit more try and find out if their fears have any foundation you get up to speed with the two at r.t. dot com. london this is lympics summer spectacles coming to a close tonight with the last of the events completed now the medals handed out but some are wondering what's next for the country with serious economic troubles remain last august saw crowds riot and loot across england with the police unable to regain control for almost a week what is the risk with looks at what lessons have been 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 taught by out of control youths 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 troubles and the underlying issues which caused the riots remain unresolved tottenham's m.p. says his community pulled together in the aftermath but it meant trouble could break out again on employment 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 and numerous studies have been conducted into why the unrest became so intense and so widespread what began with anger over the fatal shooting by police of tottenham on mark duggan became a spark that ignited a powder keg of disadvantage boredom and a dysfunctional relationship with the police something social justice campaign elite just says has not been addressed by unemployment is going up generally useful employment is going up in the country we're seeing closure after closure of use facilities and services school services are being caught and i think all of that with a more aggressive what is called total plea. which we show monsters zero tolerance

policing means that takes only a matter of time but 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 by 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. kill. people. and give something you. keep them busy and you're. going to get work coming out believe me it will take many to trust the work situation and they kick people off the benefits well. i'm back on the force

so i don't know about it happening again quite the same way but i don't think anything's going to just going it's very well for these people the fuse is still a light the fear is when and what will trigger the next explosion in their neighborhoods laura smith r.t. london. olympic to the big story coming through from london tonight too in a world update a huge blaze has been raging the last few hours at this recycling plant in the city it's only ten kilometers from the olympic park the moment more than two hundred firefighters attacking the flames there is believed to be london's biggest five for a number of years organizers say that the industry won't have any effect on the olympics closing ceremony later on the sebring no injuries have been reported it's not yet clear how that fire started either. will do to rescue operations have ended now after two earthquake struck iran the revised death toll is no two hundred twenty seven with almost. fourteen hundred injured that disaster leveled

a fifth of iran's northwest of villages with 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 who've been left homeless. by rainy human rights activists. appear in court he's accused of involvement in illegal meetings he's currently serving a three month jail sentence for writing and government statements on twitter the bahraini opposition has been subjected to a major. pro-reform protests began last year. international security contracts of forty dollars blackwater agreed to cough up seven and a half million dollars to avoid criminal prosecution it faced seventeen counts relating to smuggling illegal weapons possession and other charges too but the u.s. justice department deferred prosecution if the firm which is no called akademi paid money to the government the company which has been through a few incarnations of this troubled history has previously been the source of

strained relations between the u.s. and iraq five blackwater stuff opened fire on unarmed civilians killing seventeen in baghdad five years ago retired u.s. army left hand and colonel anthony shaffer warns that cash instead of conviction 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 if you would hold an airline accountable for bad acts why would you not hold accountable mercenaries for equally if not even worse bad 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 that's that's a very bad presidents to say that i'm critical of the whole process of bringing in contract mercenaries if you will to going. military operations in

a foreign environment you have less capability of accountability and frankly i've been i work with our congress here all the time and i've been a big proponent of congress interceding in this saying you cannot send mercenaries to do an act where 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 organizations like our central intelligence agency use mercenaries to get around congressional oversight which again is not good for anybody if they do that. the u.s. may be trying to make life worse for radians these days imposing sanctions on the country's vital oil industry and its banking sector too but what america's also by and high tech product exports to run they still manage to fund the way they. report says even a still selling apples lates is 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 oh 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 for years but it seems that tech savvy arraign ians that managing to outsmart these u.s. embargo is products like the ninety popular in toronto they're widely available as well just like any other apple macs still this one in tiran is bustling and busy. and 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 a world of 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 surprising 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 murs in order to keep getting our shipments while bypassing the sanctions and people still want to these gadgets even though they've become more expensive you point out of the sanctions working. out because if they have you we're going hear of new sanctions being announced by the u.s. congress or. are those arrests and powers the fact that they're coming over. new sanctions every other day isn't the case in the door thanks i was very much doing the work and in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving

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