well. technology innovation. the embattled syrian opposition makes a fresh plea for foreign action as activists claim people support for the insurgency is dwindling amid new allegations of rebel atrocities. egypt's president orders the country's top two military officials to retire as a major offensive continues and the country's volatile sin our region. and while the northeast of gyptian border heats up and al qaeda linked groups infiltrate syria israel feels trapped in the middle and beefs with security forces just in case it's.

welcome to our team this monday i'm karen terror and it is three o'clock here in moscow while syrian rebels claim they have shot down a government warplane and captured its pilot this comes after the political leaders of the opposition made fresh calls for a no fly zone in the country they syrian national council also wants foreign troops to start patrolling areas near borders with jordan and turkey but the u.s. and its allies remain reluctant to get directly involved and are instead bolstering material support for anti-government fighters meanwhile alleges rebel atrocities are forcing more syrian activists to renounce the opposition this amateur footage apparently shows insurgents throwing the bodies of loyalists from a rooftop and aleppo a key flashpoint city in the worsening conflict we had one independent media outlet in syria told r.t. that he's puzzled why the rebels are pleading for foreign action when they claim to

have the people support. when anybody talks about the no fly zone they 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 a no fly zone will be on the tour by war and any war between syria and turkey or syria and any need to nation will turn into a large regional war 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 falls even workers are being attacked if seemed 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 are losing in any point 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. some of those willing to help the opposition are often on aware of the ethnic sacré what's going on in the entire camp candidate can shed some light on the darker side of the rebellion. ever thought about adopting someone why not a syrian rebel as this headline says for just one dollar a day you too can help a syrian rebel oust president assad these days you have a good number of organizations which present themselves basically as charities where you can make a donation to the rebels in syria this is the website of one of the rebel groups there saying among other things they are seeking military equipment then there is another organization which collects donations based here in washington and supported by the u.s. government they're called syrian support group we try to reach out to them and ask how they plan to distribute that money we never heard from them another web site

one called adopt a revolution they also present themselves as a charity but it's organizer admitted that it's hard to see where the money goes as far as who the donors are he said they range from corporations to retired couples and students possibly those mentioned retired couples who've seen videos like this one with the rebels singing a backstreet boys song oh. oh but what the pitch for donors does not say is that not all rebel fighters are some romantic backstreet boys fans probably not these ones and this footage shows an apparent mass execution of assault supporters by the rebels in cold blood. reports on the ground show that very sick straightness groups are doing the fighting including al qaida but it's not to say that all of them are all either it's

a full blown civil war where the degree of hatred is so high that people commit atrocities on all fronts i spoke with one of america's leading experts on counterterrorism and he told me the bloodshed will be even harder to stop as more outside forces get involved it isn't any more simply a question. it's a question of saudi arabia versus iran and it's a question of turkey's increasing role in the middle east all these things make this more and more complicated and make it less and less likely there we're going to have a peaceful resolution instead we're going to have a winner take all solution one could say the danger is in simplifying things putting them black and white supporting people who kill can be called anything but charity in washington i'm going to check out and then now it's time we hear from dr abdul azeez all come here who spent fourteen years in prison for his political

activism in syria he says that a peaceful struggle is the only way towards his country's democratic future. everybody must cooperate. to convience the military groups first of all they're easy second round groups of the opposition that it's time it's high time indeed to come to a cease fire and to start negotiations about what to do and how to arrange some peaceful future for the country of course this includes the president and his family must step aside at least for a while. and the power must be passed on to his son acceptable personal from the regime acceptable to the regime and accepted to the opposition as well. to start a transitional period in which. some new constitution and some new legality

will be established in the country. egypt's president has ordered the country's top two military officials to stand down the defense minister and chief of staff have been told to go during the major offensive that's underway in the country's restive senile region along the israeli border the edge of chin leader who is in a power struggle with the military council to restore security in sanaa i but the region's only seen more lawlessness and since president mubarak was ousted with al qaida groups targeting security forces and the mass smuggling of arms from libya let's get more on what's going on in egypt from dr saeed solid a professor of political sociology at the american university in cairo thank you for joining us professor so with these latest dismissals of the country's top brass is mohamed morsi trying to show us who's in charge. exactly. easy is

the moment the gains of those that have been on the sideline the killing of egyptian soldiers in the beginning of the leave was put on the most of them their media began to serve the fish and was a sponsor her for the security of sinai directly professionally it was not me who it was a good opportunity for him to do what he was going to do with anyway and a few months of that there is a nuclear situation and parliamentary elections so it was very important that he goes just on me and that was one of the demand by the egyptians who should remember if the russian the emotion of the thing with all goes on here the minister of defense imagine if the function of lucian character then this top defense of the thing with of the mama of the c.m. thing happened in egypt that we kept the minister of defense for a long period and school that was politically awkward and he was considered the first line of the principal will power and it was all he was also considered have.

counter-revolution he had was what about in fact and start interrupt you that the president has also cancelled the military declared constitutional amendments that gave generals wide reaching powers how do you think their reaction will be to this vote of closer though some people who i was suspicious that that was see is not only helping the evolution but also helping his own group and its loans that the chief of islamizing the egyptians the that and its institutions as you shall meet is the strongest army at the top of the destruction of. the levy and now also the syrian economy being fed man and so those fears that this will evoke politicization of the egyptian on the in the end when you plug. it in step between each now israel has called on her to bring the situation in sinai under control due to militants infiltrating gaza but those eyes rolled by hamas. that shares an ideological stance

with morsi is muslim brotherhood party how hard will it be for the egyptian president to maintain stable ties with televisions do you think the for the time being i don't think of lending. vision that is why it's internationally diverse not usually easy for you to pull this your view of spin to include that because of the close relationship with thomas and also is most likely is building up all the establishing of the plead zone between guys that sinai was a no no secret doesn't start with the us to smuggle songs with you don't give everything is legal in all who's thought that. he would be really pushed us not cool and of america and i think as they could wish it was i'm not going and them because with me i want it and not making a push for any ideological stance at the un with all of those wild is

now you must agree that israel is growing increasingly wary of what it believes is a sign of growing radicalism spreading throughout the region and starting from the islamists now in power in egypt to syria's ongoing crisis what impact could egypt's new political structure have on the middle east in the coming years. of course we are with long term because in the short at the end of this photo two fold of the one seed is putting the house and all the i'll do the deed and civilize the go see the speech in a lot of internal challenges visionary and foreign policy would come later and i don't think anybody has spoken about war or if we usually call them and i don't see this conflict going to do you call them fine on this. the foreign forces have to intervene and not be thinks that it's the will of viable do it which is the continuation of the palestinian problem and finally very briefly we are running out

of time how much of this story shuffle is due to the security breakdown at sinai that left the military somewhat red faced to look at sinai is a police action. it was not entirely sure come on with the unconscious on me it's been all over the country. in sinai this is a i'm happy that i merely action but only of the guys who are either in caves or behind companies and don't is so it's not really an usual war it's a life i think any game this those old games so it's not a regular on the wall. of political sociologist science solving live from cairo thank you for your time. well israel staying alair amid growing regional instability with prime minister netanyahu announcing his country is investing billions in defense but militants penetrating a through egypt and al-qaeda linked rebels fighting for power in syria the state now believes it can no longer stand idle artist puzzler explains. as

a result of the arab revolutions israel now finds itself surrounded by rivals starting with egypt you have a situation in the northern sinai peninsula that last week saw the gyptian air force being employed for the first time these radios are concerned that you have linked jihadists operating there they're also concerned that they're not going to see the same kind of willingness for cooperation from the new egyptian president mohamed morsi who comes from the muslim brotherhood that you saw in the past between his predecessor of course mubarak and tell of of as far as the situation in syria goes the ongoing violence has israelis concerned that should if bashar assad is toppled he could be replaced by al qaida the violence hasn't extended you get to the golan heights but certainly israelis are concerned about the toppling of a same troll control from within damascus they're also concerned that you could

have chemical weapons falling into the hands of extremists elements in addition to those who have a massive control in the gaza strip you have hizbollah operating from lebanon all of this coming on top of an already volatile but dormant situation these are the israelis and the palestinians so certainly tel aviv is viewing with growing concern the volatile situation on its borders afraid that in a moment it could flare up of course here tel aviv. coming up in the program rags and ruin a bangladeshi clothes industry workers suffering appalling conditions so that we've got plenty to wear and. you look at these and he doesn't need you or. even if you use you see that white sharks are turning their back on the e.u. and heading home despite their country's long running push for membership.

all right it's time now for some other world news in brief for you this hour hospitals in iran's northwest all struggling to cope with the influx of thousands of injured people in the wake of saturday's earthquakes which killed more than three hundred entire villages were leveled in the quakes and thousands of people are sleeping outside fearing further aftershocks rescue workers had battled through the night to recover survivors from the rubble but their efforts are now in helping the estimated sixteen thousand who are left homeless. nigeria says it killed at least twenty suspected members of the islamist militant group boko haram the military raid reportedly targeted one of the group's hideouts in the northeast boko haram denies any losses accusing the military of killing civilians instead scores of people have died in the group's attacks in the area in recent months. tens of thousands marched in the capital of mali after the country's

interim president urged the prime minister to form a transitional unity government on sunday people gathered in support of the move for solid leadership after a crew in march saw islamist militants sweep into control parts of the noise it was concern over previous government in action on tackling insurgency which led the military agenda to see his control. germany and could block the next loan to greece if it doesn't stick to the bailout rules inspectors from the e.u. at the european central bank and the i.m.f. are currently going over greece's books to see if it's doing enough but a senior lawmaker and chancellor merkel's party warns that if germany's not happy there will be no more money greece has to slice another eleven point five billion euros off its spending to meet rescue targets. turkey has been trying for any membership card for over twenty five years but after the euro crisis struck

some began to doubt whether it was such a good idea financial gloom house caused many turks who've been living in the e.u. for generations to head back home in search of better jobs and opportunities artists are sillier reports on the migration reversal. what about five and a half million turks living in the european union their presence is certainly felt in societies in europe but as the e.u. continues to be deep in the red the lure of their original country's economic promise is getting harder to resist and the residents living on this street known as little anatolia say that more and more of their compatriots are thinking of cutting their losses and heading back home like the owner of this snack bar belgian born outside has been finalizing his plans and is set on relocating his family back to turkey. europe is finished the crisis is getting worse every year is going to continue first grease pencil pain easily. a lot of stress

a lot of taxes to be wiling to keep increasing every year. is good if you can live well why would you want it it's no longer like it is and the numbers say it all the e.u. managed a one point six percent growth in two thousand and eleven while turkey was at about seven point five percent gaining recognition as last year's fastest growing economy in europe while it is expecting a slowdown this year the grass still looks greener on their side and dependence on girl is not quite as it used to be the trade volume used to be very high with you countries percentage wise that used to be around fifty percent now it has gone down to just over forty percent that means we're diversifying our trade more and more trade with african countries asian countries all around the world and this of course has spurred a lot of growth so we need people to be able to manage this we need qualified

people personnel so we see that a lot of people are now coming you know second third generation immigrants are coming back home for this purpose but there's another reason why a growing number of turks want out of the e.u. . now with the crisis what's the result we reject. foreigners obviously know that there are fewer jobs less what happens is play origin is first given to the belgians and after the foreigners the turks the moroccans the russians my decision to go back to turkey is economic but also because when there's a crisis there is discrimination if you're going about this community and yet as this migration trend rises turkey is still officially knocking on the e.u. store its candidacy for membership hanging in the balance for the last twenty five years thanks to a long list of requirements to fulfill and political opposition from some e.u. countries people are afraid that you will come up with more and more excuses even if we do overcome them people say that they'll be other excuses their followers not that it matters any longer for some turks. turkey doesn't need you right look it's

europe needs to in a few years you will see that i mean against turkey becoming part of the e.u. and right now turkey doesn't seem to be in much of a hurry either does or sylvia r.t. brussels. and you can always get more from us online at r.t. dot com let's check some of the stories we've got there now a former chief of the fukushima power plant tells the true story of japan's devastating nuclear breakdown and heroic efforts to contain the disaster plus. the olympics officially over the pressure is now on for london's airports that is go online to find out just how they're coping with one of the busiest departure days on record. a lot of the clothes we wear are created in bangladesh it's one of the world's top manufacturers but it

also has a disturbing record an injury and even death among its workers factories cutting back on safety to save every penny and dollar are leaving those on the shop floor endangering their health for wages which are next to nothing pierce radar has the story. good smoke that's the last thing i saw before i fainted and i don't know what happened afterwards lovely day was only eleven when she almost died in a fire in the garment factory where she was working making only fifty cents a day to help her family survive while lovely escaped many in bangladesh have five hundred workers have died in garment factory fires in the past five years or so for a war i still have to buy medicine it still hurts a lot of my hands hurt my legs hurt too it's very difficult for me to walk around because of its extremely low wages bangladesh is one of the largest garment producers in the world attracting american brands from tommy hilfiger to j.c.

penney to gap but the conditions at the factories are shocking low safety standards crumbling buildings and or electrical wiring make working extremely dangerous because many of the clothing companies look the other way when things go wrong claiming that they don't know what their far away factory owners are up to labor activists say that the companies should take an interest in people rather than just profits it to them it's very clear these batteries don't care about anything except on the wants doesn't it workers may have. corruption between the factory owners and politicians extreme poverty and a slow justice system make it nearly impossible for western brands to be held accountable garments account for eighty percent of bangladesh's x. for nearly ten billion dollars more of the products are shipped from here mainly to the united states in europe every year despite the international demand workers

still put in long hours and work for extremely low wages and those who are brave enough to speak out against the system are often times silent easily one percent of bangladesh's garment workers belong to unions. most like lovely are terrified of speaking out she never received a penny in compensation from any higher ups in her factory or the companies they exported their garments to and has now been abandoned by her family because of the high costs of the medication she needs to survive i hope that something like this never happens to anyone but no one has to go through such a trauma while lovely hopes that no one else suffers through the risk ours are in every day reminder that because of her time in the garment factories her life will never be the same preassure either party dark of. the next hour we look back at the biggest sporting event of the year and the grand finale which closed in

spectacular style the twenty twelve london olympics concluded in showstopping fashion after russia managed to snatch three more goals before the games wound down russia came out on top in rhythmic gymnastics a discipline which has been dominated by the country for decades the men's volleyball final gave us quite a spectacle as the russians became the first team ever to win the gold medal match from two cents down and the hat trick of wins was capped off in the men's a light heavyweight boxing final you can get the full recap of the last day of the olympics from my colleague paul scott later next hour. all right we cross now to the business desk and crude is now trading around three month highs that should benefit russia shouldn't absolutely and so frank support to the russian equity markets they're managing to withstand the downward pressure from the asian indices which ended the day with losses and some parts of europe but the

russian stocks are doing quite well let's see the actual numbers this hour the my sex is up almost one percent the r.t.s. is gaining more than one percent stronger crudest certainly lending its support sure some of the movers on the sex that we're watching of this hour include rosneft it's reportedly considering expanding to armenia gas producer nov attacker's also off puts second quarter net profit by a third and a robust telecoms actually one of the biggest gainers almost two and a half percent. profit plunged by about half in the second quarter of the year that's according to the accounting standards moving on to the p. and equities if there is a foot sea like in asia value at the moment just an option it's definitely feeling the pinch from that latest data from japan as g.d.p. growth numbers came in much lower than expected and that really disappointed

investors japan's economy grew zero point three percent of the second quarter about slower than expected with exports and consumer spending showing some weakness u.s. futures are also down pointing to a little we're opening on wall street the euro this hour let's see the currency markets there they are the euro this hour is getting to the u.s. dollar after a the greenback showed some strength in the previous four sessions and the russian ruble is showing some strain to the major currencies crude is also stronger roza valvo one hundred fourteen dollars for brant trading at around one hundred fourteen a half at the moment supply concerns. as usual the supply of the north sea crude is at a record low and sanctions affect your rainy and output financial troubles across the globe don't seem to be dampening the olympic games certainly not this year the government of the disputing countries will pay millions of dollars to those who brought in the medals although russia came in and number four in the medals table

it's certainly the most generous when it comes to paying out its athletes artie's katie dean has all the details. the olympics is now over for the winners they have a permanent reminder of their victories a big shiny metal but what can the champions expect in financial terms when they return to their homelands well that depends on the individual and national olympic committees who reward their own sports stars the u.s. was a country with the most gold winners and the victorious that these can all expect a bonus of twenty five thousand dollars when they get back to the states in total that is one point eight million dollars that the u.s. government will be dishing out china hasn't revealed its official bonuses but it's gold winners will reportedly get a fifty one thousand dollar prize for u.k. athletes there's no extra cash to be won but there is a privilege of getting your head on a stamp so it depends what you consider to be more valuable russia has promised out

these one hundred thirty five thousand dollars for gold but some athletes can expect even more the russian judo gold champion is i have to look forward to a one million dollars paycheck when he gets home and even countries that are near the bottom of the league table still offer a lowering amounts singapore was hoping a one million dollar bonus would bring a gold medal but it'll have to wait four years for another chance although it hasn't won a medal since nineteen fifty six and the economic crisis isn't davening the incentives with debt stricken italy giving one hundred eighty two thousand dollars to each of their winners so while it may be the taking part that counts winning certainly leaves you counting more cash. and barry have it now all the russian athletes have to do is invest this money wisely answer i bank in atocha will be back with you in an hour. shortly cross-talk explorers whether americans think of

themselves as part of an empire but i'll be bringing the headlines first after the short break. the. blind rush is going to be so much brighter.