soon which we're trying to. move. from funds to pressure. me to start on t.v. dot com. the latest headlines in the week's a top story syria's rebels want to retake control of aleppo with the help will for the west financial backing as the u.s. and turkey consider a no fly zone to put pressure on domestic. violence and egypt the sinai peninsula of flares up yet again with a tribal leader and his son shot dead as the military crackdown on islam and in the area continues. and members of the russian female punk you see riot await their verdict after an end to putin stunt in the country's main cathedral in a trial that divided the nation.

they're watching are to you with me to say first with syrian rebels struggling to regain ground in the country's second city of aleppo some nations led by the u.s. are piling more pressure on damascus and bypassing the u.n. washington and turkey have discussed bringing in the no fly zone over syria and have set up a joint group to the fullest faith regime change the u.s. and its allies have also pledged even though multimillion dollar support for the syrian rebels london being the latest to wait in the to the west and the pope of the rebels will only up the conflict increasing the possibility of it spilling into a regional war that's according to dr lee mohamad to editor in chief what was syria trying to do you. know when anybody talks about a no fly zone they are talking about a regional war. 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 a no 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 lot of 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 whenever 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. for people in syria the situation remains as dangerous as ever with public sector workers in particular fearing for their lives of fun a boy call reports. 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 all. those working here it's not a political statement rather a sign that their company belongs to the state your design 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. 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 incapable of using your page you're trying to estimate what's going on. his brother a plastic surgeon also received brad's their family belongs to the l a way it's 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 on it. 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 and the government in the world where they seem aquatica 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 cleaned 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 for fear of snipers a local doctor was kidnapped on his way from work a few months ago his family hasn't heard from him since his colleagues are now afraid of revealing the identity of. all the syrian people are in danger children the elderly farm workers civil servants doctors and scientists there are no exceptions to the fact that my life and the lives of the syrian people are a true 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 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 in the silent majority join in the fights around the world attacks against they don't situations carry some of the highest sentences and promptly condemned as terrorism yet in syria for the sake of ousting one man millions of lives are put on the line it's a boycott artsy democracy syria. now news just in from egypt the volatile

sinai peninsula where a tribal leader and his son were killed by a group of armed men it comes amid a military crackdown on islamists in the area after sixteen egyptian border guards were killed a week ago egyptian security forces say they've killed at least seven suspected militants in north and finite where violence has recently escalated the campaign to hunt down the killers who was the largest in the region since the one nine hundred seventy three war with israel it comes amid a reordering of egypt's political force as the country's president has ordered the powerful defense minister and the chief of staff to retire who've left in israel based journalist a 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 going to be. 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 perhaps this is going to not unity in. the countries closer together the islamists and especially did you have these 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 and what we're going to see is chaos and that is what we're seeing unfortunately across the region. it's been two weeks of courtroom drama for

the russian female punk group pussy riot they face prison on hooliganism charges one anti-government stunt and moscow's main cathedral in february prosecutors are demanding three years jail for the women with the final verdict expected next friday peta all of us report. 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 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 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 her 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 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 are 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 a long thirty children secret underground bunker up almost and me as details of the shocking story just ahead. and we look into how iranians get their hands on the latest gadgets and despite coordinated western sanctions cutting off trade to this level state. in london the closing ceremony of the twenty twelve olympic games has finished with pomp and pop some of the biggest names in british pop of the vomit in front of the crowd of eighty thousand at the olympic stadium the olympic flame was passed on to your guys as of the twenty sixth in games in rio de janeiro to check on the final results and look back on some top class here's andrew farmer. 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 or have made their olympic debut which bodes well for the future they're also a breakthrough sport and did 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 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 them 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

more stories about the olympics for you online at r.t. dot com including female athletes and heroes in london also cheers of the only being that at home the story of the first saudi arabia and also women struggles to compete in the summer games. does their media shell of pete find out when and where mother nature will brighten up this guy with hundreds of shooting stars and fire balls at our c dot com. my parents really truly honestly believe that what had happened was as a result of my father's exposure to agent orange i was born with multiple problems . i was missing my leg and my fingers and my big toe on my right foot i use my hands a lot in my artwork i find myself drawing my hands quite a bit to me for my hands you know just as if anyone would. but

they do tell a story they tell us story of. the oxen. they're watching are tipping for tuning in 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 islamists that bought them from any contact with the outside world and got up with going off half the details of these 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 causing men women the elderly and more than twenty children most of whom have reportedly never seen daylight as follows with thoughtfully this 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. this act is around twenty years old its founder is eighty five year old for that. 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 life 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 house sect members who are allowed to film inside neither did any of the group's members

agreed to speak with us on camera but off camera the man that i spoke with said that around forty people remain on their territory they do expect the authorities to try to take everything down but he claims that they are going to resist even if they bring a court order since they don't recognize their own story and neither do they recognize the authority of muslim leaders or do they recognize the existence of the state or any country altogether. you go to school of. now a look at some other stories from around the world rescue operations have a period at after to at quake stop iran there is life death toll is now three hundred but more than two thousand injured that is that the level to a fifth of iran's northwestern villages with both quakes measuring six point three in magnitude rescue personnel working through the night to recover from the rubble

have now been real. trying to help the estimated sixteen thousand left homeless. thousands of people did to the streets in indonesia to protest discrimination against the muslim minority in my mum 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. about sixty thousand citizens together at a stadium in mali's capital demanding for a transitional unity government to be formed the national peace and reconciliation rally was called by the country's most prominent muslim group activists claim the government is running out of time to regain the north which is taken over by islamist groups. fears wildfires or my calorie islands of ten or even local merab have forced evacuation of more than four thousand people the fires are

threatening some of spain's ways popular parts including one that is a unesco world heritage site banned by fierce winds and high temperatures the blazes have destroyed hundreds of had jews of land spain has already suffered a number of wars wires in several regions this year. the international security contractor formerly known as blackwater has agreed to cough up seven and a half million dollars to criminal prosecution it faces seventeen counts the relating to on smuggling and illegal weapons possession but the u.s. justice department deferred prosecution if the firm which is now told me paid money to the government a company which has been through a few incarnation of in its troubled history has previously been the source of strained relations between the u.s. and iran five a black war to stop open fire on armed civilians killing seventeen in baghdad five years ago got holton from harper's magazine says

a contractor will be delighted with the deal which underlines how close it is to the with authority. the amount that's being paid is a real pit this is it as these things go generally this is an absolutely tiny sum on the other hand we've got this 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 why there's got to be delighted with this one thing that comes out of these papers is that a lot of this is being done in a very very close relationship with the united states remember blackwater is

a principal contractor for the department of state and it appears in many of these dealings that department of state is opening the door for blackwater we have comparable incidents in many many other countries so they are basically. soldiers of fortune out there for hire and they're operating principle seems to be shoot first ask questions later. now the u.s. might be trying hard to make life or is for you ronnie and so imposing sanctions on the country's vital oil industry and its banking sector and while america is also banned high tech products exports to iran they still find their way there as r.t. sarah ferguson reports or there's even a store selling apple the 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 earth familiar sight everywhere from all workplaces top 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 sanctions that have been in place in the years but it seems that techs are the iranians are managing to outsmart this u.s. embargo and products like these 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 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 managed to get them all the time the world of the so you can save us sanctions has been mainly on iran's banks and oil industry in a bid to curb the country's nuclear ambitions but when it comes to the bans on consumer products alternative trade routes and enterprising

a rainy and tradesmen have meant 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 goods. 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 customers 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 so now the sanctions working over. the sanctions have not had the desired outcome because if they have if you were going here new sanctions are being announced by the u.s. congress or. the rest and powers the fact that they're coming up with new sanctions every other day is an indication the door thanks has been that you're 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. right there is where main headlines and main story of the hour the later the dish and of last up with peter level is next on our more than a week back with a head like that stay with us.

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