mean abducting and many kind you know. towards what example they would allow it i have seen. in homes or. if luck of blood. because in the day before. people you know. then defied gangs have been beheading nine i know with people just because they were i don't know if i have seen this with my eyes. or you can see that interview in full including more firsthand accounts from syria in about twenty three minutes from. jordanian security forces at a massive refugee camp on the border with syria are on high alert after two hundred refugees turned on the guards over the conditions there the government says anyone responsible for violence will be deported it appears that dealing with the immense

influx from syria is far beyond what jordan can cope with as are his policy reports . exhausted and drained there's not much for these refugees to do besides swelter under the scorching desert sun children from the violence back home in syria they walked for days in the heat to get here and so they come in numbers and under the wire not one person here has gone through the official borders instead depending on the level of violence in syria as many as a thousand people each day are fleeing across into jordan they're picked up from the border by the jordanian police and brought here to the scamp. and now a man doesn't know what to do with them the country is struggling with few natural resources little water and is in need of foreign aid their growing number is putting pressure on in a way the refugee way republic we can close the border in the faces of the refugees we have to help syria is like a sister to jordan and king abdullah and president assad friends now our king is in

a very difficult situation it goes on there has a direct impact on what has. relations between a man in damascus are already strained a number of defected soldiers and senior officers are being sheltered in the kingdom the most high profile refugee was the prime minister riyad hitch up who fled to turkey through jordan earlier this month and then that the tribes who fearing massive amounts of weapons ammunition and sniper rifles to syria from jordan saudi arabia is promising economic assistance in exchange for months cooperation but it could backfire. if there is regime change in syria and the extremists come to power. problems for jordan where we have our own extremists although they're far more flexible. and so now jordan faces the backlash of a conflict which some in the country have helped to escalate meanwhile more than one hundred fifty thousand refugees remain stuck on its borders and what's supposed

to be a safe enclave but we food is hard to come by toilets case and not enough tends to go around leaving some to the mercy of harsh desert conditions this is. the atmosphere here is so mysterious you die quickly but here we are dying a slow death i wish now i never left to come here. ordinarily escaped the wave of uprisings that swept the arab world it says it's getting reforms in place bash caught between both sides it might not be enough to stop the serious shockwave however that conflict in policy r t r three refugee camp on the jordanian syrian border. so ten minutes past the hour here in moscow our team at all to dot com of course working twenty four seven to provide you with the best stories and videos from around the world let's have a quick look and see what we have for you on the web site right now another school of hard knocks despair for two thousand students in the u.k. who may face deportation after the university lost its right to admit foreigners.

plus the masts. and the mall a new world record in thailand with relaxation all around this remarkable public rubdown video and all that are gone. now the killing of a spiritual leader and. muslims is being seen as another sign of a steady rise in extremism in russia and the attack came on tuesday when a female suicide bomber entered the cleric's home disguised as a pilgrim. of concern is also being fueled by last month's double assault on muslim figures in the republican party stand some experts believe the roots of extremism lead all the way to the middle east but others say the threat of anti islamic hatred could be even stronger go to prison or reports. the trip to work that turned to tragedy that our stance had moved he was driving when a series of blasts threw him from his car the man who's been openly against the

spread of radical ideas among the lever survived to find out his deputy was shot dead in another part of town investigators still don't know the exact motivation behind the attack but the spotlight is now on the other stun most people here are muslim and that gets mentioned more and more when it comes to the spread of radical islam in russia yes some of the local muslim communities are financed by arab families from states where wacko business is an official religion the money has to be worked off and they demand their ideology is spread here. like a business is one of the most fundamental branches of islam it's strongly advocated in saudi arabia which backs it up with billions of dollars of support across the muslim world its followers often oppose all other religions sometimes even calling for jihad holy war against them but abysmal in any other radical movement of us lot of course not part of the official religion here but i thought he saw

a different ideas often taught in small mosques hidden from the mainstream. like this one form a boiler house rebuilt into a mosque in one of gazans many apartment blocks they aren't it's a mom's denying being radical but admit they do not support their stance of visual branches of islam. we don't divide brother muslims and there can be no radicalism no terrorism these are words only used by prove a kidders who want to discredit islam we were told here believers are taught sincerely any quality and there are no longer up held in modern society with justice can only be achieved through islam and when someone says islam is the only fan way of life and social order they're called radical or extremist and what's the punishment for stealing the hand is chopped off. not the kind of punishment you'd find in russia's criminal code nevertheless such ideas are reportedly gaining more

support among young muslims for some experts it could be partly to blame on how the list of banned extremist literature was thrown together. often in books by classical world famous authors have banned or even some of prophet muhammad saints how can we expect muslims to react and of course the radicals use this to gain influence. of course there stan is along we mean the worst of radical islam how the state reacts to the spread of extremism is no. good only worsen the situation you go to school of already because i don't understand. well the russian city of cousin has come under the spotlight again this time as two women were found dead in their flat with the words free pussy riot written on the wall above them apparently in blood it's been treated as murder both the elderly woman and her middle aged daughter died from multiple stab wounds authorities are

investigating whether the killer was a supporter of pussy riot lawrence of the band have already described it as a provocation three members of the russian punk band were jailed earlier this month for two years after an anti putin stunt in the country's main cathedral. well this is r t thanks for joining us today coming up in just a few minutes that of a stairway to heaven an old idea of a soviet engineer is now being put into practice find out about the plan of boldly build an elevator into space. now the syrian delegation has walked out on a session of the nonaligned movement currently underway in tehran they were angered at a speech by gyptian leader mohamed morsi who called president assad's regime oppressive the high hopes were put on the gathering of the states who don't consider themselves allies of major western powers and their ability to negotiate a solution to the syrian crisis as discussed the implications of this now with

a journalist and broadcaster neil clark coming live on the program good to see you today sirius i report hello syria's foreign minister said that are more c's comments amount to inciting further violence in the country what do you think. well i think the problem i had we had this speech was it was so on balance i mean he didn't could criticize the rebels at all i mean the rebels would be responsible for much of the violence in syria the government fair enough to but you know there were bombs going off this week at funerals twelve people killed he didn't he didn't make any mention of that so i can understand the syrians feeling very green by what he said but don't you agree that mean what morsi would have foreseen that his statement however accurate or inaccurate or certainly would have angered the syrians and the hosts of the summit for that matter what do you think his motivation is here or a very simple answer brought on bill actually got to bear in mind the fact that egypt receives about one point five six billion u.s. dollars in aid and on top of that back in august they received two billion dollars who could start and of course the u.s. a guitar or two of the leading hawks on syria so when you're receiving that much

money from the u.s. into types hard i'm surprised you go to a summit and criticize syria it's not a big surprise really so so the new leader the new egyptian leader mohammed morsi or perhaps already. signaling his friendship with the west or possibly a war capitol hill as you say with his brow don't follow suit do you think that with the whole summit going on and you know one hundred twenty members of member states being represented here do you think they can come to something to resolve the ongoing crisis in syria. who are like you know what i think the key player in this room is the u.s. i mean the u.s. is the main part stoking it's not the u.s. and its allies which look you force as well and if you get a change of position for me i don't really see what the any movement can actually do and i think the ball's in the u.s. is corner we're getting i'm afraid from washington is more sort of right wing rhetoric about arming rebels on the lease or rights today so unless we get a major shift there it's not going to help really and i'm afraid egypt position is going to talk. more to the new egyptian leader he appears to be on friendly terms

with iran china and also israel and the u.s. as we've been saying here there have been a talk of a possible possible geo political shift in the middle east but didn't do you think we can really take this new egyptian leader of face value so that we can i. you know i think people who think they will be sure going to be disappointed in the extreme because of course the financial hole the west has over him and he's trying to be all things to all people isn't he i mean he's trying to be friendly with israel and iran you know it doesn't work you have to make make a choice and make a stand and you know that the palestinian issue he wants to support the palestinian people when he can't i'm afraid in france with the current israeli regime but i shouldn't like i do apologize for interrupting but don't don't you think it's a bit bizarre i mean ultimately here's morsi making this comment that angered syrians and probably many other people in attendance as well do you think is trying to undermine the summit because here we have the u.n. chief the moon you know america were saying about him and we don't want you to go by him and said no i'm going to go even banki moon hasn't said anything as harsh as what morsi has come out with oh absolutely i mean i mean i think it's all part of

the plan to go back to trying to sabotage the summit because i think a lot of people were naive about egypt they thought there was going to be a meaningful change egypt foreign policy after what happened last year but in fact it's continue eating you know if you can the same thing and i think morsi i mean that's part of the game the u.s. will be very pleased with what he said well certainly you know some plans i mean put on the table some possible plans to resolve the crisis in syria both egypt and iran have put forward plans to a four mediator group to try and resolve everything morsi suggests involving egypt iran turkey and saudi arabia suggests egypt iran and venezuela which one do you fancy the most when you look at the first i mean you've got three countries saudi arabia egypt and turkey who actually want regime change in syria so they can argue on each brokers they actually don't want and only solution to this a peaceful compromise solution so i don't think anything that involves saudi rape or turkey is on the cards i think the second one is better but i think as i said earlier i think i think it doesn't matter what media groups we set up which

countries are on the key player in all of this is the u.s. the u.s. is that wants to open this up the u.s. has to change its policies and to let syrian soldiers their own futures back out of syria then we can get some peace and dialogue now as you say so what and. another u.s. is the big player here perhaps behind closed doors of a higher behind the felted curtains are washington has said that the whole of nonaligned movement summit isn't worthy of any high level attendance that's coming from the u.s. state department just the other day do you think such criticism is justified when you look at one hundred twenty states or countries being represented here and they're saying that you guys don't amount to anything what is two thirds of the world war and it's two thirds of the world in the u.s. has the arab gets to say it doesn't count it's beyond which to really because of course the u.s. wants us to believe it only it and its allies represent the international community the international community is meeting now in tehran the u.s. doesn't like it the fact is that the u.s. getting more more isolated iran and a whole series of issues south america africa countries china russia you know that is the world and i think going to see more were shipped in the years to come and

the u.s. power is in decline and that's the reality and that's what i don't like journalist and broadcaster neil clark a lot on our program from oxford a great pleasure thanks so much actuary. well let's get to some other news for you now some other global news we'll start with australia for the aussie world update five australian soldiers have died in afghanistan in two separate incidents the two soldiers were killed when their helicopter rolled over while landing just hours earlier a man in an afghan army uniform opened fire on australian soldiers at a military base killing three and wounding two insider attacks in which afghan security forces or insurgents posing as soldiers are talking to coalition allies have escalated over the past year. scandal hit a bottle bank is facing another fraud probe over the billions it raised from middle eastern investors back in two thousand and eight the bank is suspected of not being open enough in what it had paid to advisors when it raised more than five billion

pounds of emergency capital at the height of the global financial crisis and the reputation of u.k. banks including r.b.s. and standard chartered have been taking a battering after a string of recent scandals. a gas explosion at a coal mine in southwest china has killed nineteen while dozens are still trapped inside the blast happened on wednesday evening when over one hundred fifty miners were in the pit the owners of the mine have been detained for investigation coal mine accidents killed almost two thousand people in china last year where safety rules tend to be neglected by big. a spectacular fireworks display has set the seal on the opening ceremony of the london two thousand and twelve paralympics with the show believed to be the events most watched ever by the competition of the last eleven days with over four thousand athletes from all around the globe taking part wheelchair basketball shooting swimming and track cycling among the highlights of the first day. now you can forget rockets and space shuttles

a lift could soon become the new way to get to space american and japanese companies are working on projects to achieve just that but at the heart of the ground breaking development lies a russian idea as artist on bottom explains. as strange as it sounds the idea of a space elevator has been around for decades it was a russian yuri azza turn of who in the one nine hundred sixty s. had some of the first modern ideas on it first you would have to send a satellite up into geostationary orbit then a line could be lowered and secured to earth and another one up into space as a counterweight all of this would keep the line tight and allow spacecraft to be lowered up and down it thousands of kilometers an hour and at the fraction of the cost of space flight it could literally be our lift to the stars and it's not far off as you might think most of the technology already exists the biggest problem being that cable reaching out into space to make one strong enough to stretch the thirty six thousand kilometers necessary scientists think you'd need

a material over thirty mega yury strong that's the measurement named after yuri arts the turn of the strongest material available now is just three point nine but new projects are trying to solve that science problem and make the space elevator a reality they want it to reach the moon the american company live port is raising money for the project and the japanese firm corp aims to have one up and running by two thousand and fifty in the meantime russia is working with ukraine and kazakstan to try and build super sized booster rockets for more traditional trips to the moon but who knows by the middle of the century we might have swapped iraq it's for a distant cousin of the humble lift. by let's do it over the business we go there to meet you good to see you today i understand that this might be the end of the mega project called stockman and now it's been put on hold well you know if you ask me i'd say not necessarily because if we look in long story short we look at the

main reasons behind it being put on hold then they are announced as the rising costs well demand is falling that's according to gazprom and its partners but let's get more details from our correspondent. the freezing of these arctic project once more underscores how rapidly the global markets are developing nowadays sukma was originally intended to ship pipeline gas to europe and liquefied natural gas to the united states by jury in the years the partners took to negotiate the world saw an influx of new allen for all the gulf countries them a shale gas revolution in the united states so the project naturally lost its export markets in addition the cost of this complex offshore project read very hard and the three partners found it impossible to even come to an investment decision this summer still some analysts say that the stuff with exit is

a positive sign as it signals of more pragmatic commercial thinking by gazprom but russia is not left without its high tech liquefied natural gas production gazprom to project is already exporting l.n.g. to asia and another russian gas producer not attack by the way together with one of stock months partners the tal is developing a vast elenchi project in the arctic that insula. was saying with the issue bradley way from or nation's capital says basically this does not mean that it's the end of the project but rather a shift in the strategy for gas from. it's important to note that gazprom in our view isn't exiting the project gazprom is indicating to investors into the government that due to the location the difficult conditions and the current tax regime that this product is difficult to proceed so i'm thing that we're seeing gas from exit per se i think we're seeing gazprom communicate publicly what it used to

how it used to project what should happen is really signalling is that many of the next generation projects shelf projects offshore projects or arctic projects are going to need a different tax structure whether it's lowering taxes or changing the set up or framework within which they are taxed so i think that this is an indicator for next generation projects across the board. for a secular what's going on in europe and the market is down there on basically new signs of recession looming in europe because unemployment in germany is growing for the fifth straight month of august and economic sentiment is going down in the month of august across the whole of the euro zone at the same time everyone's of course expecting what's going to happen at the jackson hole a summit of the central bankers tomorrow in wyoming usa move over to currencies and the euro continues to gain it's basically doing what it was doing on shoes day we saw a massive jump a little correction yesterday but now it's back up against the dollar and the

russian ruble continues to lose there's no change in the pace of there as you can see on the russian market another day of declines with the r.t.s. and mice dropping differently than my six supported a bit by the week. and ross now is still down point three percent despite the fact that it signed a new deal with norway starts world to develop gas projects in the arctic show. and that's what we have for you of course i will be back around fifty five fifty five minutes time with another update great see that. we got the headlines in just a moment here on our c. then we've got some inside oh well i should say eyewitness reports a deep from the heart of the conflict in syria for now though a quick break.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for lengthly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. of the world with a true science technology innovation called in these developments from around

russia we've got the future covered. on the road to recovery. for. syria. they were. called president assad's regime. and. he was also. pushing for something strongly

object to. continue in syria. lived in syria for a decade and witnessed what the people went through when the. united. well today we're joined by sister agnes mariam of the cross she's founded a christian community and i'm on a street in damascus she's been living there and working there for the last twelve years thank you very much a sister for joining us today my first question is you've been there for twelve years working in damascus in syria around different areas has there been a difference in your work throughout those years and in the recent months that we've seen uprising and violence of course we have been facing. reality evolving to get more and more of that as you can pick. you know it's

really in the central health it's so for us it was new because we were. put in sort of predation of the smallest pity since nineteen ninety four when we really. appreciate. the security team in syria you know its security of course it which is imposed somehow. by regime which is very strong good and sometimes it kind of. again but nevertheless the reality is that everybody was living in security now were when the events begin. to raise we were very happy. because we also wanted felt that the that is a need for

a chance but very very quickly. we got bad news. from. witnesses. in our day offices in homs. and also from damascus in daraa. where what to do is it messes with civilians. and you put it. positions you know. telling us stories that are expecting the contrary of what we were seeing on the television so we took position for a objective truth. real information and also for sunday that it is because lonely by scholarly you had to help opposition where you had. people detained so you were also helping the opposition

yes it's what we call opposition the civilian or push your position which is not under any party and that i'm not out of. you have you have always done today peaceful demonstration ok. so we had in our village to free to set free people also if there is a need of humanitarian help even we had a position meeting in our monastery and the first appeal for the day i logged and recourse against and was in our monastery and i'm sure very well aware of all the criticism that has been thrown your way what is your your relationship with the assad regime. you know i have normal relationships with. a religious entity and our of footy is religious it's not political.

it's not even civilian you know we had mainstream reports that came to syria and for in one way for a while i went with them on the scene you know but in a january. in december i asked to go to a position where the good were already implemented and so i could have an idea as an eyewitness and in the beginning we did not even know who were sourced people and we said said those people there were only identified. gangs you know who said we don't know who they are but they are spreading. these or the killings abducting and many kind you know of

metal rods. to destabilize a country and all saw to implement a kind of repression for a civil war for example they would kill. very targeted targeted for example they would kill a low it i have seen. in homs. if luck of blood. because in the day before. people you know source and i did then defied gangs have been beheading nine i know with people just because they were i know it i have seen this with my eyes and i talked to the population and the sunni population who do you think has has perpetrated this they didn't know they said they were wearing like soldiers but do you think that it's.