the latest headlines of the week the top stories here on our team syria's rebels fide to retake control of aleppo with the help of further west and financial backing as the u.s. and turkey consider a no fly zone to put pressure on damascus. egypt's president orders the country's hall full defense minister and the chief of staff to retire it comes amid a minute and crackdown in the increasingly volatile find. and members of the russian female come group pussy riot await their verdict after an empty suit in this dungeon the country's main cathedral and a trial decided the nation.

you're watching r.t. live from moscow with me to bomb would say with syrian rebels struggling to regain ground in the country's second city of aleppo some nations led by the year was piling more pressure on damascus and bypassing the un washington and turkey have discussed bringing in a no fly zone over syria and have set up a joint group with those they believe. the u.s. and its allies have all supposed to make multimillion dollar support for the syrian rebels london being the latest to weigh in but the lessons of the way. that the conflict in creating the possibility of building into a regional look at the footage and also from an editor in chief of history and maybe. when anybody talks about the no fly zone we are talking about a regional war. they know quite well that 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 north fly zone will be responded to by war and any war between syria and turkey or syria and any neato nation will turn into a large regional war and syria is a part of a huge alliance and for instance the iranians just last week made it clear that if any foreign power tries to interfere in syria they would not just watch their strongest ally for now we seems clinton offering money to support a few g.'s but actually under the table they are supporting other groups and the signal let's try to understand what they are in the past few days we've seen them throwing post office workers from. the roof civil war cars are being attacked and seen rebels kill people in the streets slaughter them with knives and then mrs clinton comes and gives them money they lost in the massacres they lost in any poll

they are losing in any poll as we speak and as usual when ever the they find themselves in a pickle like this they call for foreign intervention and if if they claim that they have popular support as they have been saying for seventeen months why do they need foreign intervention people in syria the situation remains the dangerous for the average joe with public sector workers in particular fearing for their lives on a boy call report. 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 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 or an increasing number of statements where. this call in the middle of the night cost him a brother. was one of syria's most experienced civil pilots u.s.

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. is the worst enemy of radical islam when you were rounded in cape using your head you're trying to estimate what's going on. his brother a plastic surgeon also received brads their family belongs to the al awaits the same religious group as assad but they were never politically active. he said the documents confirm syria's opposition has a hit list which scientists engineers doctors and civil servants only. 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 kidnapped or assassinated for simply doing their work any government in the world where they democratic or not 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 cleaned 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. 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 that identity's. all the syrian people are in danger children the elderly farm workers civil servants doctors and scientists there are no exceptions to the fact that my life and the lives of the syrian people are a true 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 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 use any attention from the media 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 fight and round of world attacks against they don't seem to sense carry some of the high sentences and promptly condemned as terrorism yet in syria for the sake of ousting one man millions of lives are put on the line at

a boycott artsy demos because syria. middle east activists and u.n. experts phyllis bennis explains why sending more weapons into the conflict can only create more danger. if the lation continues if the militarization continues what we will then see is that the post us 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. you can see the full interview with activists and you an expert phyllis the bennetts the next hour here on r.t. . thousands of protesters have gathered in cairo in support of the egyptian president's order for his two top military officials that offense minister and the chief of staff to retire one of them defense minister hussein had previously been egypt's interim ruler after the ousting of husni mubarak last year he also served in the defense role under mubarak for nearly two decades will be replaced by del fatah el-sisi you will also take charge of the country's powerful military council islamist president mohamed morsi has also cancelled the army's amendments to the constitution they gave top generals wide ranging powers the

muslim brotherhood relationship with the country's military have been strained since last year's uprising it comes as gyptian security forces say they've killed at least seven suspected militants in northwind sinai where violence has recently escalated the operation was launched after sixteen egyptian border guards we killed a week ago they campaigned to hunt down the killers who was the largest in the region since the one nine hundred seventy three war with israel gobble up in an ease rail based journalist believes the 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 aims that the attackers had in mind and second of all we have to remember that these organizations believe that violence. and justifies all means that even the act itself as an ideological goal to. their religion as they see

it 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 if you don't know opportunities for. countries closer together the islamists and especially if you jihadi is that we're talking about now have been for years operating inside and now what they're doing is taking advantage of the fact that they're he 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 then what we're going to see is chaos and that is what we're seeing unfortunately across the entire region 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 and moscow's main cathedral in february prosecutors are demanding three years jail for the women with the final

verdict expect that next friday. 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 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's self

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 . 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. still to come this hour a criminal case is launched over the actions of a muslim sect in central russia kept around thirty thousand in a secret underground bunker possible on the move and the details of this shocking

story just ahead. and look into how you raney and get their hands on the latest gadgets despite coordinated western sanctions cutting off trade islamic state. in london the closing ceremony of the twenty twelve olympic games has finished a with a bang some of the biggest names in british pop performed in front of the crowd of eighty thousand at the olympic stadium the olympic flame was a pos onto the organizers of the twenty sixteen games in rio de janeiro to check on the final results and look back on some top class his and reform. i think that 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 or 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 mess things 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 are 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 the 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. and there's plenty of all stories about the olympics for you online at home including down to the no athlete you were there in london and also the olympics at home the story of the first saudi arabian all to women struggle to compete in the primary game. plus the

major shell and find out when and when mother nature will want to not this guy but hundreds of shooting stars and by a ball at our team. download the official t. application so choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite. t.v. is not required to watch on t.v. all you need is your mobile device you can watch our t. any time. 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 islamist sect a bar them from any contact with the outside world peace cannot has 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 causing men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen daylight disposed of thought like these children were living in south end and the basement right in the 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 so dr 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 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 the. a way of life 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 sect members who are allowed to film and sign 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 afterwards 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 look at some other stories from around the world arrests may have to offer to at creates a struck iran the revised death toll is now over three hundred with more than two thousand injured but is that so leveled a fifth of iran's northwestern villages with bird 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

left homeless. thousands of people took to the streets in indonesia to protest discrimination against the muslim minority in my mom 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 to really ongoing clashes. vs wildfires and they carry islands of ten or reefs and have forced the evacuation of more than four thousand people the fires are threatening some of spain's worries popular parts and. one that is a unesco world heritage site found by b. as the winds and high temperatures the blazes have destroyed hundreds of hacked of land spain has already suffered a number of fourth why is in several regions this yeah. the international security contractor formerly known as the lack of water has agreed to cough up seven and

a half million dollars to avoid criminal prosecution it faces seventeen counts relating to on smuggling and legal weapons possession but the u.s. justice department to defer prosecution if the for which is not a whole lot of them be paid money to they did to the government a company which has been through a few incarnations in its troubled history has previously been the brain relations between the u.s. and iran by blackwater stuff opened fire on unarmed civilians killing seventeen in baghdad five years ago scott horton from harper's magazine a contractor will be delighted with the deal that underlined how close that is to the u.s. authorities. the amount that's being paid is a real pit this is as these things go generally this is naturally tiny some on the other hand we've got to say 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 to 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 who are these going 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. it appears in many of these dealings and department of state is opening the door for clark whether we have comparable incidents in many many other countries so they are basically. soldiers of fortune out there for hire and their operating principle seems to be shoot

first ask questions later the u.s. might be trying hard to make life worth for iranians imposing sanctions on the country's vital oil industry and its banking sector and what america's also banned high tech prompted to exports to iran they still find their way the hour for its reports there's even a store selling apple's latest gadgets in the capital for those wanting to enjoy the i life. i pads i phones i pods apple's cool overall popularity has meant that their products familiar sight everywhere from our workplaces 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 abandoned the functions that had been in place the year but it seems that techs are 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 what doesn't come so easy indeed is getting technical support and updates for the products but we still manage to get them all the time. the circus 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 this 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 have the sanctions working. out because if they hired you we're going hear new sanctions are being announced by the u.s. congress or. are the powers that 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 buggies a punishing the very people who will help in building around future creative individuals musicians film editing is right is a key part of apple's kind tell the world and even. after the headlines in a couple of minutes of the secret why berrien shah mens' on the ancient gods of

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