i tried hard the best . the latest headlines of the week top story syria's rebels trying to retake control of aleppo with the help of further west and financial backing as the u.s. and turkey consider aid no fly zone to put pressure on damascus. president orders the country's consul defense minister and the chief's office to resign it comes amid a militant crackdown in the increasingly volatile sanai region. and to members of the russian female punk group pussy riot that wedo bergdahl from as you grew to stand in the country is going to be a drug trial that divided the nation. you

. know watching our d. here live with me to bomb would say from moscow here's a look at the weekly and the top stories of the day with syrian rebels struggling to regain ground in the country's second city of aleppo some nations led by the u.s. are putting more pressure on damascus and bypassing the u.n. washington and turkey had discussed the bringing in the no fly zone over syria and observer joining producer for food a greek food bank the u.s. and its allies have also pleasure even more multimillion dollar support for the syrian rebels london being the latest to weigh in this as you and she ran commune have backed the president over international monitors in the country as a current of servicemen they'd runs out of in a week's time but for people in syria the situation remains as dangerous as ever with public sector workers in particular fearing for the life of son a boy call 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 all. those working here it's not a political statement rather a sign that that company belongs to the state here this time is now becoming a death mark for an increasing number of state employees. this call in the middle of the night cost him a brother who was one of syria's most experienced civil pilots u.s. educated luck 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 rounding using your head you're trying to estimate what's going on with. his brother a plastic surgeon also received. their family belongs to the l a way it's the same

religious group as assad but they were never politically active. he said there were documents confirm syria's opposition has scientists engineers doctors and civil servants on. what started as a battle against the regime now increasingly looks like a battle against the syrian state but the round a million and a half of the country's civil servants are becoming targets doctors teachers municipal workers have all been his knob or assassinated for simply doing their work any government in the world whether it's him aquatic or 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 drawn now because of this.

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. all the syrian people are in danger children really farm workers civil servants doctors and scientists there are no exceptions to the fact that my life and the lives of all the syrian people are addressed 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 or from the international community it is in the interests of at least 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 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 underlying tomboy artsy because syria. while more public sector staff are seemingly being targeted in the lead this unconfirmed amateur footage package shows rebel throwing the bodies of raised off as worthless from the rooftops some syrians who've been supporting the opposition now say they'll have nothing more to do with people who commit such gruesome acts the lengths to the video is retreated it is oksana boyko you can stay up to date with the latest from syria by following her on twitter. the syrian conflict

could spill into a regional war if western support for the rebels intensifies that's according to dr ali mohammed added to in chief of the syria tribe in. the syrian army will not allow any foreign power or foreign armies to interfere within the syrian land and any attempt to create a safe zone or a north fly zone will be responded to by war and any war between syria and turkey or syria and any metered nation will turn into a large regional war that will burn everything and it will be a devastating war for everybody we seems clinton offering money to support a few genes but actually under the table they are supporting other groups and these to groups in the past few days we've seen them throwing post office workers from the roof just because they refused to resign their posts that we see we've seen rebels kill people in the streets slaughter them with knives and then mrs clinton comes and gives them money this is appalling as long as they they control the

muslim brotherhood they feel that they can control any or all other limits groups and their main goal as clinton said clearly is to overthrow assad and they are now talking about cost as said although i said this is still there and they have no means to throw to overthrow him they want him out and it doesn't matter how evil this is this working together they don't care they be we can live with just anybody to do this unfortunately it's only violence that is controlling the area and it's obviously the syrian army that is winning each and every time but every time rebels call for foreign intervention they are just reassuring everybody that they cannot do anything on the ground they lost in the masters they lost in any poll as usual whenever the they find themselves in a pickle like this they call for foreign intervention. middle east activists and u.n. acts were to phyllis bennis explains why sending more weapons into the conflict can only create more danger. if the lay ssion 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.

now of course the four interview is here on r.g.p. in about fifteen minutes stay tuned for that a little bit later. thousands of protesters have gathered in cairo in support of egypt's president's order of his two top military officials that events minister and the chief of staff are to resign now explanation for the decision has yet been given to discuss it is political changes when they are joined to live a by role for shawn mon host and producer of the national radio show talking athalie listen she month thank you so much for joining us here on r.g.p. egyptians have won been calling for an end to the ruling military rule claiming the generals have stolen their revolution with this reshuffle in the country's top of brass how likely are people to get what they fought for. well i think we have to understand a disses a century a cosmetic undertaking this is in relation to the attack which occurred in the sinai with respect to the gas supplies to israel and the blowing up of the lines

there and which in this instance the some eleven thousand soldiers were killed let's be very clear about this this was essentially an israeli operation general towel russo head of israel's southern command said that the air force the armed forces in in trying to have his real all participated in the repressive operation they simply closed in and in the main road and in the end it was destroyed from the air and also from the ground general guidance the military chief of his room touring the area sort of her a great tragedy was prevented by a very complex complex attack colonel events the military spokesman and intelligence said intelligence reports had led to me military to issue warnings several days before to israelis to avoid the sinai peninsula general even had said you judges and israelis work together so we have to understand that this operation in the sinai as all of them are indications of what we call

a false flag operation and what occurred here in relation to the sacking of tonto we and not only have ten towie but egypt egypt's intelligence chief and the head of the north sinai government general mohamed merah. was that he was quoted in the egyptian min media as confirming that you gyptian intelligence services had we see warnings of the sunday attack and he did not pass on the information by stating that the intelligence services job was only to collect information that it is indeed the circumstances that we and. general mohammad ma. were removed by morsi and quickly added. as presidential adviser so what we have to understand here is the specific context of these events in sinai the role of the israeli armed forces the role of the egyptian intelligence services and

what are the lies there. this is cumulative let me just jump in right now i'm trying to figure out if the the latest you know resignation calling all of these to top of military personnel will actually benefit what the revolutionaries have been doing out into heated square i mean is this is this worth talking about are these two people actually either going to change anything. well let me try to contest realize this and because the question is of course right on point and your question addresses the following in the sinai natural gas is being sold is that at a fraction of the price that is provided for the egyptian population who were the arbor the authors of this sale who were the beneficiaries of nick why it was done kawi and omar slay mon mubarak's vice president the military apparatus of staff itself it is enormous standoff in egypt and a fuel for the revolutionary uprising of the egyptian people in addition to which

the crazes in egypt is that the government is cutting fuel and some to subsidies for the population at large who just sparked a countrywide gas core a crisis and fueled a series of strikes on the part of the egyptian people the kickstarter workers strikes and cocked and conquer and my and my hala these steel workers strike you keach is strike the uprising average egyptian working class which the newspapers in the united states in the west are not inclined to discuss very openly but this is what underlies this crisis because the international monetary fund was negotiating to provide billions of dollars of aid to supply this gas the military was not proposed to the so take that because it would cut into their profits so what occurs now is that the emir of qatar goes to egypt and when he negotiates with morsi and he gives billions of dollars he leaves behind him

a check for billions of dollars plus ok rob i'm sorry to interrupt you there but just briefly can you explain to me the recent decision definitely indicates a substantial reordering of egypt's political political fourth what about the impact it will have on its regional policy of touch a little bit on that and its relations to israel in particular let's touch a little bit on that briefly while there is a. sensually what i'm trying to fix the discuss with un alliance between the muslim brotherhood government of mohamed morsi and the scaf the. command of the. supreme command of the armed forces and egypt it is an alliance between the muslim brotherhood government which is backed by the big boards was easy and the military apparatus in egypt itself therefore these sackings which were compelled by the acknowledgment that the israeli and operation was in the knowledge of egyptian intelligence and they did nothing about this nothing to do act of course because

they're complicit in it themselves it has to do with the human gas supply it has to do with the fact that something like sixty percent of the population not the official forty percent who live on less than two dollars a day that this corrupt oligarchy of the military which the muslim brotherhood government is servicing and facilitating is pitted against the egyptian masses and the israeli state is individually as is the united states linked to these events these are the class issues which on the line gyptian revolution which more sees government in conjunction with the military who are seeking to abort with false flag operations which enable the united states and israel and egypt's armed forces to mount military operations against the populations against existence and against a challenge to be oligarchy has control of the economy the foreign policy and the role of egypt in the imperial designs for the region that's what on lies this crisis that's what informs the events in sinai and that's what also explains the

cosmetic change to which you refer which does not alter the power of the military or the relationship of the government in egypt to that military power at all of us on monday just before i let you go i'm just curious do you think mohamed morsi is on the right track in terms of his presidency one line. morsi is alienated from the population he is attempting to cut to contain them he will not succeed because there is no reconciliation between the masses of the people who are of asian bear aspirations and this corrupt oligarchy which has continued power in egypt and that's the that's the essential dynamic that's unfolding before our eyes thank you so much on monday for your. obvious your point of view on this subject you also host and producer of the national radio taking aim thank you so much thank you.

right it's been two weeks of courtroom drama for the russian female punk group of pussy riot they face prison on hooliganism charges for an anti-government stunt in moscow's main cathedral in february prosecutors are demanding three years jail for the women with the final verdict expected next friday artie's put 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 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 believers 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 concert in moscow also having her having the name of the group painted on her back madonna of course no stranger to controversy regarding the church itself and nine hundred eighty nine 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. still to come this hour a criminal case is launched over the actions of a muslim sect in central russia to get drunk with children in a secret underground bunker for almost and yaz details of this shocking story just ahead. and we look into how iranians get their hands on the latest gadgets despite coordinated western sanctions cutting off trade to this limits to. london's olympic some of spectacle is coming to an end with the last of the events completed and all the medals and about the closing ceremony is now underway to put the seal on a memorable games to check on the final results and look back on some top classical sports heroes and reform. i think it will go down as one of the best in the olympic history i mean the venues have been fabulous the way the games have been managed over the last fortnight has been very smooth and the athletes have produced performances that i'm sure have captivated audiences around the world and not just

talking about the likes of you saying bolt or michael phelps the british team selves got twenty nine gold medals that is a record for them i think in over a century and that in itself created a feel good atmosphere in britain which i think hasn't wavered over the last fortnight russia you might say would be disappointed about finishing in fourth but if you look at the detail they have achieved what they have set out to achieve they want to get something like twenty five gold medals they've got twenty four that's one more than they got four years ago and they've got more medals than they got four years ago around nine more so in that if you look at it in that perspective they are starting to improve talent is coming through half the team i think are making their olympic will have made their olympic debut which bodes well for the future they're also breakthrough sports to do well in judo this time around they did well in artistic gymnastics which is an improvement and they've done well in the key areas their traditional key areas of athletics and resting russia might

learn from these games have been managed the single most important factor that russia will have to come away with is this is that if you are a host nation you have to have athletes that produce gold medals because that fact alone literally transformed the atmosphere here in britain at the start the first weekend i do remember the rain was pouring britain did not get that gold medal they thought they would get in the cycling but once they got it in rowing everything transformed and i think. part mainly because of that these games of being deemed as one of the most successful because when you do walk around the streets of london it's great the atmosphere has been brilliant people out lining the streets watching events such as the women's walk the marathon they've all enjoyed it they've cheered everybody and there is a real feeling of euphoria and i think the country as a whole is a bit disappointed that these olympics and now coming to an end. there's more news from london in our world update here places rain cycling plant in the city just ten

kilometers from the olympic park more than two hundred firefighters are tackling the flames there is believed to be london's biggest fire in recent years there were fears the incident could effect of the olympics closing ceremony but they have gone off without disruption no injuries have been reported and it's not yet clear how the fire started. rescue operations have concluded after two the earthquakes are struck iran the revised death toll is now over three hundred with more than two thousand injured the disaster leveled a fifth of the rounds of northwestern villages with both quakes measuring over six point three in magnitude rescue personnel working through the night to recover survivors from the rubble have now been reassigned to help the estimated sixteen thousand who are left homeless. thousands of people go to the streets in indonesia to grotesque the discrimination against the muslim minority in my mum to my demonstrators called on the government to end the bloodshed and recognize them as

citizens over seventy people have been killed and tens of thousands have been forced to leave their homes during the ongoing clashes. criminal cases have been opened in central russia against some of the parents of the twenty seven children rescued this week after the horror of being forced to live underground for a decade and it's not made to a sect or from any contact with the outside world. has the details of these 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 causing men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen daylight as posed with folks like these children 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 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 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 this act is around twenty years old its founder is eighty five year old for that of max i thought of he proclaimed himself a prophet almost fifty years ago and is now too weak to get out of bed his followers believe only in the koran rejecting all other religions and even movements within islam the police found them while investigating a recent terror attack in the city they also found around a thousand religious books and wouldn't texts which are now being examined for

possible extremist content but sect members appear to be defiant about. their way of life but actually what you are fighting against ally himself the authorities civil liberty open 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 house sect members who are allowed to film and sign 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 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're going to school of.

now the u.s. might be trying hard to make life worse for iranians imposing sanctions on come on the country's vital oil industry and its banking sector and what america's also banned the high tech product exports to iran they still find their way as our teeth are for three important as even a toll selling apple's latest gadgets in the capital for those wanting to enjoy the i. i pads i phones i pods apple's cool overall popularity has meant that their products the millions 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 that tech savvy arraign ians that 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

. 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 managed to get them all the time . this is a case of 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 iranian tradesmen have meant that in forcing the sanctions has prevented chile 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've become more expensive. so you know the sanctions working over all. the sanctions have not had the outcome because if they had if you were going to hear new sanctions being announced by the u.s. congress or. the reverse and powers the fact that they're coming up with new sanctions every other day isn't the case in the door thanks so it's been a good working in fact many critics of the sanctions feel that far from the achieving anything banning these products in bug is a punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative individuals musicians film editing is right is the film a key part of apple's kind tell the world eva so if. there's a main story as of this hour shortly we hear from one expert who says foreign nations are sending weapons into the syrian conflict only prolong the crisis but

first i'll be back with the headlines stay tuned. sigrid laboratory jim mcdermott was able to build on each most sophisticated robot .