fresh rebel calls for a no fly zone over syria where the u.s. where again with its support but reports of the opposition's alleged atrocities are making many activists in. egypt says the missing president moves to assert his power over the military as he sags both the defense minister and the chief of staff have made a growing militant presence in the sinai. and with the region in chaos isolated israel is taking steps to keep its borders safe while washington looks set to keep up support for revolutions even if they threaten its.

welcome this is our live from moscow at eight pm my name is kevin owen with the top stories for you this hour first the syrian opposition's written ratings calls for a no fly zone in the country although still reluctant to get directly involved the u.s. has previously voiced support for the move to even if it means bypassing the u.n. washington have also pledged more backing franti said fighters syrian rebels say they've meantime shocked the government plane and captured the pilot activists released a video showing a fighter jet catching fire as it was apparently hit by ground shelling but state officials insist it crashed because of technical failure all this is alleged rogue reveller trustees are forcing more syrian activists to renounce the opposition has claimed this amateur footage shows insurgents throwing the bodies of public sector workers from a rooftop in aleppo now a key flashpoint of the conflict the head of one independent media outlet in syria told us that r.t. . no surprise the rebels are pleading for foreign action if they have as much

popular support as they say they do. when anybody talks about an all 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 north fly zone will be responded to by war and any war between syria and turkey or syria and any need to a nation will turn into a large regional war in 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 seven workers are being attacked i've seen rebels kill people in the streets lot of them with knives and then miss clinton comes and gives them money they lost in the massacres they are losing in any poll and as usual when ever the they find themselves in a pickle like this they call for foreign intervention and 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 backing the opposition or her unaware of exactly what's going on in the n.t. assad camp artie's got a teacher can shed some light then on the dark 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 the 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 website 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 where 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 various experiments 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 vs a whole. 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 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 on. and with more on the crisis in today's interview when we hear from dr abdul aziz who spent fourteen years as a political prisoner in syria he says that a peaceful struggle is the only way to build a democratic future. they have to be very number one and the only group

in the opposition. are becoming more and more hostages in the hands of their allies. they are losing their. independent decision. they cannot apply what they think or believe and everybody must call for it. to congress the military groups first of all the regime second round groups although it was a sham 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. and you can see the full interview with the former syrian opposition leader in just twenty five minutes tonight here on r.t.

also covered as well this half hour of news the dream turned sour as the e.u. continues to struggle through recession many turks and i would guess their country jordan need despite their previously long running push for membership we'll tell you why and we'll look at how people in one small asian countries. suffer injury leave death to provide the rest of the world with top high street. egypt's president has taken his most decisive step yet to power over the influential military sacking two top generals the defense minister who served as the country's interim leader after hosni mubarak was ousted and also dismissed was the chief of staff morsi started to move more boldly against the army after an attack by militants in sinai that killed sixteen border guards there's no talk to asia times correspondent pepe escobar. thanks for being on the line with us tonight from hong kong to might i say then i was the psyching of these two top generals a sign that the military is decades long rule is coming to an end in egypt you

think. no it's you it's more complicated than that karen in fact the emir all scatter went to cairo few hours later more sue made his more what does that. tell you that first of all. sue billion dollars from the emir of qatar personally instead of more seeing going to america and talking to the house of south something that happened two weeks ago the emir of qatar actually went to cairo truck to morsi gave him two billion dollars as a star any immediately afterwards morsi made his move which was counter cool i guess the treeview school against the muslim brotherhood. it's so late isn't it so late as you're saying so far in hand that work a list of where these new appointments the new defense ministers also taking over as the head of the military council the former intelligence chief he also started in the u.s. what we expect from ayman. well basically from the movie brotherhood

point of view day don't want any more frictions between scaf and the press there so we can say that for the moment this korea's muslim brotherhood won skaf zero the problem is the military even if the june is reliant now or rearrange they control almost forty percent of the egyptian economy egypt is broke it has no money they have an annual deficit of thirty six billion dollars so these two billion dollars from catarrh it's a little bit of help but not much because tourism in egypt they used to get like five to seven billion dollars or units or is nobody's there's no tourism in egypt for months now and they have five billion dollars from the renting to suez canal and they have like four or five billion dollars from remittances from the gyptian workers who had this enormous gap where is the money coming from qatar cannot be

for egypt's that's indefinite their house of south now they are horrified that in fact morsi when they ask for money from the house will sow to two it's really weeks ago said ok we're study the situation now there are steps and this means that now the muslim brotherhood and morsi s. president they are extremely powerful against a rearranged and we can shoot don't shoot digital to they don't have a response for the moment so i am betting in the long run date will let egypt cool apps in terms of being practically defaulting or broke or unable to pay its bills and then maybe later do agree arrange another egyptian military coup and go back to power and so coming from there you can see it coming from i mean so you kind of answered when asked question really i was going to ask you what about the dismissed generals they've already been offered new roles as advisors to the government is not just a face save for yes this is this is cosmetic having sold to the effect of this as

a you know that mantle of medal of honor a savior of the nation that got a subsistence rhetoric and medals. set. except we should expect some say joe happened not immediately in terms of counter cool by scott because the joint is still there even if there are three or the other three rockets if the terms of that constitutional amendment which transferred powers from the presidents to them now more so if why did that completely dave may have some cards to play in don't forget it's very good relationship with the pentagon i'm sure a lot of people in washington are horrified about the morsi move and they really are these are areas are really freaking out with the morsi move because now they say that egypt has become an islamic dictatorship so there could be some counter coupes from foreign actors as well and i mean that of saudi arabia on

a final thought on the streets we've seen president morsy supporters again on tahrir square they're happy the top brass apparently have been ordered to resign do you think we'll see new clashes over this with the muslim brotherhood and the military rallying support as well briefly yes yes absolutely kerry i was talking to a very good egyptian a writer a journalist yesterday he was explaining to me basically that the muslim brotherhood is not widely popular in each day very well organized they have four or five different strengths they managed to organize quickly they won the elections but it's this doesn't mean that the are popular in the long run into the long run if egypt has more secular political parties including the people who started the revolution into real square the whole situation will change in the muslim brotherhood cannot count on remaining in power indefinitely in egypt thanks for your thoughts good to have you on the program. times correspondent in hong kong.

egypt's neighbor israel as a pet has told where there is concerned about keeping its borders secure amid regional instability with billions going into defense with the militant presence growing in sinai and al qaeda working its way into the ranks of syrian rebels israel's feeling isolated than a made hostile neighbors paulus lee is called outside of the story for. 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 egyptian air force being employed for the first time the israelis are concerned that you have linked jihad it's 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 tel aviv 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 to get to the golan heights but certainly israelis are concerned about the toppling of a central control from within damascus they're also concerned that you could have chemical weapons falling into the hands of extremists elements in addition to this you have a massive control in the gaza strip you have hizbollah operating from lebannon 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 party. news in brief police in norway could have done more to reduce the number of people killed by his brother last year that's according fishel report which blames officers for taking too long to reach a toilet brevik admitted killing seventy seven people mostly teenagers in twin

attacks the verdict due to be delivered next week the decision whether he said prison or a psychiatric facility. occupier home calling protesters have been ordered to leave their camp set up near the quarters of the h.s.b.c. berg the high court ruling which gives them two weeks to get out so they are. capitalism protesters are misusing public space this came a big criticism that the town attracted vagrants and the homeless inspired by the popular wall street movement hong kong protesters took to the streets last october and at their height had hundreds of activists living near the bank. almost a thousand people a bit evacuated by ferry from the canary islands overnight where firefighters are still battling huge forest fires there are threatening some of spain's most popular national parks destroyed nearly a thousand hectares of land of officials say it could take three decades for the affected areas to recover spain has been hard hit by forest fires after its driest winter in seventy years. don if you watched it last night i did it was spectacular

london's olympic summer spectacle came to an end with a star studded closing ceremony many of britain's most popular artists performed to be event with hit songs macross the generation cheered on by a stadium while the international athletes poured into the area in the center of the reform of u.k. . the baton was handed over to rio now then the next summer olympic host with the next winter games due to be staged in the russian city of sochi because all the work going into that you can watch our sports call it in later this hour for more the medals won and the record set jury in the. business now just staff there a sixty minutes past eight o'clock business thursby going to fully later but let's catch up with him for a second now from all the financial trappings of sporting glory in the event. russia turned out to be the most generous country in terms of its prize money awarding its sportsman with seven million dollars china only accept the gold paying

nothing for the silver and bronze and the u.k. traditionally does not provide any financial stimulus for more on this joining me in just a few minutes. thanks to me terry will do you know for over two decades turkey's been seeking new membership a goal that's recently lost much of its appeal thanks to the ongoing euro crisis financial globes cause some turks long term the residents to head home even to search for better jobs and opportunities to sell it's got the story. 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 la 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 it's going to continue first greece then spain italy right now belgium there is a lot of stress a lot of taxes to pay while in turkey every year turkey is very powerful life is good you can live well why would you want in belgium it's no longer like this 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 europe is not quite as it used to be the trade volume used to be very high with the e.u. countries percentage wise it 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 and 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. you know with the crisis what's the result we reject. foreigners obviously know that there are fewer jobs less money what happens is priority 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 is a crisis there is discrimination if you know this community it is 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 the e.u. will come up with more and more excuses even if we do overcome them people say that they'll be other excuses are for us not that it matters any longer for some turks. turkey doesn't need europe it's europe needs turkey 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. at our web site r t the call there right now the wiki leaks websites hit by a fresh wave of cyber attacks from its online enemy and to leaks find out why this o'kane on silencing the whistleblower and also standing ovations in london condemnation at home saudi arabia's first female olympians have been met with hatred in their motherland that's what website find out why this groundbreaking athletes are being labeled villains of heroes dot com. next though

one of the poorest nations on earth bangladesh is also one of the world's top clothes produces but a meeting foreign commercial demands factory workers suffer extreme poverty and notoriously harsh working conditions prostrate or investigates why no one's being held to account. i get it i want to sew or smoke that's the last thing i saw before i fainted 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 it five hundred workers have died in garment factory fires in the past five years i suffer a lot now i still have to buy medicine it still hurts a lot both 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 poor electrical wiring make working extremely dangerous 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 it's very clear that these factories don't care about anything except money once dozens of workers may have eaten a day or that month 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 and 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. only 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 that no one has to go through such a trauma while lovely hopes that no one else suffers her fate her scars are an every day reminder that because of her time in the garment factories her life will never be the same preassure either r. t. dhaka bangladesh. or so i'm just now is back again dmitri medvedev the business is

kind to me treats twenty four minutes past eight o'clock at night now it's all gone from bad to worse so the markets will start with japan today was looking like the well yeah it did indeed to start in asia because japan the released its g.d.p. figures which came all which are fell short of expectations indeed point three percent growth in just the second quarter which means an annualized one point four percent worse than expected and therefore what we're seeing right now in the united states as soon as the markets in the u.s. open this cause another shock wave and we're seeing we're seeing the markets go down moderately still within one percent however they were quite flat and sitting on the sidelines today traders were and dow jones is now down point seven percent on of course worries about the state of the global economy gets another example of a slowdown now over in europe where you are seeing the pretty much the same picture although volumes were pretty low until the very evening it was forty percent lower than usual trading volumes and the footsie and the one quarter of

a percent down the dax down a percent now over on the commodities market of course any worry about the state of the global economy because there's worries about global demand and anxiety as to what was going to happen with it to light sweet therefore it's now down twenty seven cents it was getting up to two dollars per barrel today brant still manages to hold back a plus sixty five cents program. over in russia we did see a positive session then did reality as m i six pretty much ignoring what was happening around the world but most of the steam was lost by the. end of the session one of my six games just three quarters of a percent now moving the my six were companies like will major ross nafta which is reportedly considering expanding to armenia gas producing nova and a roster and a common feeling better than the rest of the market up more than two percent to companies released second quarter profits they actually declined by of and by fifty percent respectively in the second quarter but this was better than expected and

therefore we were seeing buying in these yes let's move over to currencies is it yes that's right the euro is continuing to strengthen versus the dollar in this session but the russian ruble was gaining against the basket of currencies wow ever ended a losing value against both the dollar and the here. now despite the financial turmoil the moods of a limb pick medalists who came back home from london basically and is not hampered because many governments are spending money to provide financial stimulus to those who can go faster stronger and higher up for their country artie's pilbeam reports . the olympics is now over for the winners they have a permanent reminder of their victories a big shiny medal 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 its 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 can look forward to a one million dollar 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 winnings certainly leaves you counting more cash. which makes them foster stronger and richer the same time ok thanks to meet you both. now for headlines of former a syrian politician who suffered for speaking out explains why his country is struggling right now it's really interesting chat with you just start over two minutes time from now.

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 . and 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 i mean. they're my hands you know just as if anyone would.