the syrian army allegedly discovered a lab that used by rebels to produce and store toxic chemical substances there's reports coming from state television. fugitive n.s.a. leaker edward snowden all six of russia for asylum as he struggles to put an end to his legal limbo in a moscow airport transit zone sparking american outrage towards the kremlin. and a criminal probe for an ex-president egypt's former leader is investigated for allegedly spying killing and wrecking the economy even as his backers continue to test for his return.

with a look back at the past seven days top stories and the latest developments this is the weekly on. syrian state t.v. says the military has found a chemical laboratory producing poisonous materials for rebel forces sources claim there was a plan to stop shells with these substances an attack damascus a middle east correspondent has the details. the syrian army has found chemical materials in the town of jobar which is on the outskirts of the capital city of damascus initial reports say that the syrian army seized a factory that was occupied by a group of foreign backed militants and that chemical materials were found inside their factory now we do see canisters we do see white packages that they have uncovered and it does seem as if they were producing chemicals in the laboratory it says poison chemical substances made in saudi arabia so we do see that they sell

the factories are also involved we're also receiving reports of the rebels were planning to stop artillery shells with the chemical weapons that they were producing here and use them to attack damascus this comes on the same day as heavy clashes are being reported near the capital on sunday on the seventh of july armed rebels were found in position of some two hundred eighty barrels of chemical substances at the time of the syrian ambassador to the united nations say that the quantity found was enough to destroy a whole city if not the entire country be use of chemical weapons has always been a red line for washington and its allies they've always constantly pointed fingers at the syrian government and accused of using chemical weapons saying that if the if it was in the pacific head this would be the red line that they would not tolerate but back in march there was an attack in the second largest city in damascus and it was later found that the deadly sarin nerve gas had been used in

that attack moscow conducted its own investigation and concluded that the syrian rebels were actually to blame for the use of the gas and russia gave samples and documents relating to those to the united nations last week russia's united nations ambassador said that with some claims appear to be aimed at undermining investigations into the chemical attack he said this when he explained the findings the results of the analysis clearly indicate that the ordinance used in common assault was not industrial manufacturing and was filled with saddam. of the site in technical specifications prove that it was not industrial manufactured either the project allen volved is not a standard one for chemical use and therefore there is evidence you seem to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in khan it's very important to make the point that the united states claims that regina is using chemical weapons that these claims are without any kind of proof and of

course the whole argument over the use of chemical weapons were means a hot potato but without that kind of the u.s. and its western allies are going to have a hard time to think anything that they came. defense consultant moeen rufe says it's now crucial to find out where the rebels are getting the chemicals from the marriage at any point to the military that spirit military health. care all of that they should not do. that then we should know what the will route and the time we have to cut through that. or to feed all the raw eleven needs. at the. well you know like iraq at all. it going after one man and destroying the whole nation like the old will be a meter reader. security will not react to write it it

when be back to iraq so i'm sure we want. a bit. meanwhile anonymous u.s. officials claim israel attacked syria's port city of latakia nine days ago the strike allegedly targeted a russian made anti ship missile battery which syria received two years ago israel's prime minister refused to confirm or deny televisa involvement or saying he will not allow weapons to reach has been militants in lebanon will be the fourth and confirmed israeli strike on syria within the last several months let's now trace back some of those air raids a military compound just outside damascus was bombed from the air on january thirty first and the second similar operation reportedly took place on the third of may rockets struck a warehouse at damascus international airport and legibly containing surface to first surface to air missiles well just two days later massive blasts that were

described as earthquake like shook the same military base that was targeted in january while on all occasions the attacks were justified as operations to wipe out iranian missiles bound for has been our amir autumn senior correspondent at israel's had its newspaper told my colleague rory sushi this month reported raid had the same intention. israel's defensive agenda of not clashing with syria but when a terrorist organization such as his beloved tries to get its hands on such a sophisticated missiles we have no current confirmation of direct hezbollah involvement we also know that these russian weapons were actually sold to syria more than two years ago now if indeed israel is involved in these airstrikes what's tell of eve's motivation here israel does not go out and preempt syrian missiles and it does so only when syria seems to be on the verge of transporting transferring those missiles to hezbollah so rather than wait until these missiles

reach beirut or side of israel probably decided to preempt and hit the suburbs. egyptian prosecutors are investigating the country's owl's to president mohamed morsi for allegedly spying killing protesters and ruining the economy he was deposed by the military early last week and prosecutors are now cracking down heavily on members of his muslim brotherhood party or to build true is in carter's tell his square let's get the latest on the situation from bill so things are on the way now with the interim government being formed so where does that then leave those who used to run the country. well the latest news at the moment is that egypt's prosecuted general this is from judicial sources has actually frozen the assets of fourteen leading is the most figures who are behind mohamed morsi including the most imbruglia heads supreme guy

mohammed by the seat of power behind the throne people call him here so shocked and also the head of the mission brotherhood speed even justice party sided company this comes you know after of course the reports all the rest so many of the leaders and of course after these recent reports of the charges laid against the former president himself meanwhile the most brotherhood for their part maintains they were steadfast they want president the former president on but mostly to come back and they will not move from the city in a mosque in central cairo and that the university of to cairo until he is reinstated they've actually called the escalation tomorrow against the military which people are fearing may turn violent as they you know as they have also cations either with the security forces or with their local residents people who oppose them is a brotherhood there's a lot of and a brotherhood sentiment now here in egypt following the deposed for the toppling of mohamed morsi so expect tomorrow to be an interesting day as well meanwhile we're

seeing significant developments here in the interim government because a lot of appointments an ounce today one of them a significant ones is the vice president for foreign affairs and mohamed el baradei he is a leading opposition figure and once had what was the. what was the largest coalition of opposition forces the national salvation front he was supposed to be vice president his full title there was in controversy here with the leading is the most parties like the nor party so we've seeing some fractions there in the new interim government meanwhile another leading a point we've had today is that the foreign minister and this. former egyptian ambassador to the u.s. the bill for me he was a barack era ambassador and is very well regarded in washington in america to these two appointments mohamed el baradei and the bill for me could be seen to be a nod towards the west as they both have very good relations with america meanwhile america for their part have announced that they will have an envoy coming to you.

to egypt the first. leader to come from america to egypt since the ouster of mohamed morsi this is reportedly to be a leading member of the state department bill burns he is due to come in the coming coming months america is taking a very cautious. looking cautiously egypt at the moment they haven't announced the last two weeks as a clue neither have they confirmed that it neither confirm that it isn't it's obviously very important that definition because that would affect u.s. assistance to egypt including military assistance they've been very cautious about that with these new appointments maybe that could show that the military is you know reassuring america that egypt is in knowing we don't know exactly yet what's going to happen but definitely you know america appeared to be extending a hand out to the new interim government so we had yet to see what's going to happen with the people who are determined to support the deposed leader whether that involves clashes in the future and also to see how this interim government

continues in the next few months live in cairo thanks very much indeed for that update on r.t. . well more than three weeks after arriving the world finally got sight of n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. this week when he surfaced from his hideout in a moscow airport transit zone he met human rights activists that showed a terrier and asked for their help in requesting temporary political asylum in russia. has been closely watching the snowden saga. immigration officials say they have not received an official request from edward snowden regarding his political asylum in russia but that request has been filed on friday evening so perhaps due to the fact that it's a weekend in russia right now of the people it simply hasn't hasn't been properly process just yet russia's conditions by that snowden has to stop his anti american . something which snowden promised he will no longer do three latin american countries said they were willing to take him on now he does not have any people

want to travel with his american passport has been the knowledge he doesn't have any other people work he cannot even buy a ticket and he does need some something in order for him to move to another country so that a safe passage could be provided in that he is relying on russia snowden himself has explained the situation that he was living in during the meeting with human rights activists a little every one month ago a. family home in paradise and i lived in great comfort. i also had the capability without any warrant of law just search or see and read your communications anyone's communications at any time there is the power to change people's speeds it is also a serious violation of the war so finding himself in such circumstances it seems that what he was doing came into conflict with snowden's own personal believes and he has explained that in an interview to the guardian newspaper the interview that started it all with the second part of which came out just very recently i

increasingly was exposed to true information that had not been propagandized in the media. that we were actually involved in misleading the public and i was actually a victim that i grew up with the understanding that the world i lived in was one where people enjoyed a sort of freedom to communicate with them talk to each other and privacy without of being under threat of being measured or analyzed or or or sort of judged by these shadowy figures or systems so really the ball is in russia's court at this point and it's all up to moscow to decide whether or not to grant edward snowden a status of an aside the and for how long they're willing to do that. german chancellor angela merkel has called for an international data protection or covering the whole european union in an annual t.v. interview she also said she's expecting assurances from the u.s. that it will respect german legislation in the future germany's been one of the top

targets for n.s.a. surveillance but geopolitical analyst william engdahl believes that america's spying was nothing new to officials in but. i think the politicians are feigning surprise anglo-american and others about the level of involvement between german intelligence agencies and the n.s.a. . they're not naive germany knows that the united states has a. lot grip control over anything sensitive that happens in germany and has since the end of world war two german cyber intelligence are or are not amateurs they may not have the skills of the russians and the trying to use in that regard but they're not amateurs so i think the politicians are pretending to be shocked in order that their voters not overreact if germany starts becoming. too close to russia to china in terms of trade agreements in terms of economic agreements so they can preempt that energy especially they can preempt that

intervene at the rock point at the key time it's an enormous weapon it's an enormous advantage. well all of that leaked information from edward snowden is building up a picture of how america's global surveillance operations are structured let's have a look at what we know so far well first off there's the futuristically named nucleon system and this is what this is into your phone calls where ever they may be directed it's thought that if it catches a suspicious keyword you'll be flagged and then subjected to further scrutiny then there's the cryptically titled pin well system this program is set to trawl for suspicious activity through videos on the web whether that's your live skype call with your friends or family or a you tube video that's been up loaded well up next who you phoned where you phone from and when you called is all stored by what's known as main way now the system is reportedly capable of building a facebook like friends list to profile you just from your calling habits and last

really we now know of marina she is a program in charge of recording your online life this is said to be able to catch store and record your sent e-mails before they even reach the recipient well these are just four of some of the systems that make up america's surveillance network the ones of course we do know about and the revelations from snowden continue to pile up it appears microsoft has been working hand in glove with u.s. intelligence helping them to access personal communications and data that's according to britain's guardian newspaper which has access to secret documents provided by snowden ray mcgovern he's a retired cia officer he believes the internet and telecom giants which teamed up with the government just don't care about breaking the law. what's happened here is the u.s. companies have become joined in a way with the united states government in such a way that you have the corporations the government barges the media and the

congress and judiciary all pretty much joining in a complicit attempt to circumvent the constitution of the united states there is zero concern on the part of the communications companies to violate the law but they know that they'll be protected even it if it's as post facto so skype of course is where we're communicating my readings to the n.s.a. people all watching us by simulcast i just learned from this latest revelation that not only can they intercept our voice but they share images so hello to all the n.s.a. monitors out there. and check out the timeline of the snowden sign or not he don't come to follow or his revelations attempts to escape us prosecution and the international tension caused by his leaks. also one guardian journalist says the information snowden still has can do more damage to america than anyone ever has

before read all about it at all to dot com. to the head feed the violence breaks out in belfast shortly report on the latest trouble to flare up in northern on and capital which is seen the second night of sectarian violence in iraq. i'm not used to the tundra to freedom i am my dear. in second grade i ran away from the boarding school with two my friends. he'll be around to the tundra. the tundra is just an escape doze a crack at my i don't know how people can live there to get in there no tv's in the

tenth how can i send my child to a boarding school i won't be able to sleep at night after that. they enter a life without knowledge of how to do basic things they don't get that in school. mission free credit take three months for charges free. range month free. free. free. download free broadcast quality video for your media projects free media oh don carty dot com. weekly continues here in our neighborhood watch volunteer george zimmerman has been found not guilty of murdering black teenager trayvon martin the verdict which has cause fury across the u.s. demonstrators out. they said it we live in

a place called the united states of america would always grammar rise it was not a place to cut not the african american because we've been slaughtered we've been workable since we. didn't have a big sisters we're always killing we don't know the color kill. demonstrating outside the courthouse child to justice for trayvon and call for a nationwide protest over what they consider to be racial injustice similar protests took place in other u.s. cities including new york chicago and los angeles zimmerman faces life in prison for shooting seventeen year old martin separately last year something he claimed force in self-defense and even though it turned out the teenager was unarmed as a moment was still not charged for over two months cases become cause for a fist debate about racism and the country it's a journalist george map explains why so many people try to skirt around the issue

of race absolutely and my opinion was a racial case i think there is actually no doubt i think if george zimmerman would be black and he killed trayvon martin would have been white i absolutely positively think that he would you know george zimmerman would've been arrested right away and he would have been found guilty of actually i don't think anybody can know what it is like to be black in america less experienced it once you've been you know pulled over d.w.b. travel class it's happened to me it's happened to most black males unfortunately you know they have to stop and frisk in america you know george zimmerman like i said he's worked around free but the guy that killed trayvon martin and the thing is that this was a man that should have stayed in this beautiful as according to the police he you know he you know disregarded what the police told him to do and he went in follows trayvon martin and now do you know that unarmed teenager is dead in trayvon you know in the george zimmerman is free with the gun that he killed him with you know you know it was definitely you know not just. so a case which divided the united states has reached

a controversial conclusion and here's what you have to say about this we're on our website at the moment in our on line poll what you make of this trial well we can see that we have a tie this hour thirty six percent of you who've gone to the website see no problem with the decision since zimmerman is entitled to self-defense the same amount they also think that the neighborhood watch workout racially profile the teenager before the deadly fight and twenty one percent think so far well we don't think much about it we don't really care and did not follow the case and then the minority seven percent small amount so far say well they're not too sure because there really isn't enough evidence here going to r.t. dot com right now have your say.

a second night of violence has hit the capital of northern ireland with pro british lawless once again clashing with police hundreds of additional officers were deployed from across the u.k. dozens were injured over thirty arrests were made the trouble flared as protestant marches found their traditional route shortened to keep it from passing through a sectarian flashpoint. reports from belfast. a tinderbox of tensions once again ignited police on the front line feeling the heat at belfast's most recent riots or the thousand police officers from across the u.k. drafted in to assist northern ireland's police force angus surrounding the raids. into a second night rioting. the scene of the disturbance once again here and the loyalists

would fail wait barely more than a stone's throw from the republican arguing district police hadn't forced a controversial ruling from the parades commission but the much could not pass the arduin shops on its return rate sparking the latest on rest but was the first night's riots who waged by sea taking part in the parade these rioters were younger and smaller in number seems like these the flare up over the decision to restrict the flying of the union flag winter but then protests occurred almost daily and the cost of policing they estimated to run into the tens of millions of pounds these riots taking place in a loyalist streets the rioters waging this fight. forty i mean having children is do you want to see happen for younger people yeah i want all the stuff . i don't want but. that's obviously.

something. i need rounds of both parties to seem to be held in. lead by american diplomat for. the questions many will want to see addressed they surrounding cultural expression the flags parades still marks some of the most inflammatory issues tween northern ireland's protestant and catholic communities scratch below the surface of all the island's peace plan and it's clear to think that the sectarian divisions remain in the big question for me to be all things given the events everything that is going to make me up coming home. headed by members of the community all the more crucial. come up twenty six minutes past the russian capital time now for some other news from around the world a deadly wave of ramadan attacks is continuing in iraq. in the most recent reports suggest up to fifteen people have been killed in

a fresh wave of bombings while earlier today in the northern city of mosul attacks left six more dead including a local politician and his son. dozens of protests rocked bahrain as anger continues over the country's treatment of political prisoners iraq's broke out after a leading female activist accused guards of physical and psychological torture one in prison all rich state has been struggling to quell unrest since two thousand and eleven the protest movement is not being put off by the severe crackdown on activists which has seen hundreds in prison. well to the break here naughty we follow the extraordinary story of growing up against the elements it's the children of the tundra more news for you in just over often and.

many in latin america are furious with the forced grounding of bolivia's president evo morales is playing in austria and even twelve nations in latin america are coming together to discuss the consequences of the event the plane was forced to the ground while flying over the e.u. because it was believed that that sneaky snowden was hiding on board trying to get to asylum in bolivia and beyond some might say that this is no big deal so president of some contras since he had a delayed flight for a few hours things happen man plus you've got to get that student guy at all costs right well one is delayed flight is another man's imperial skyjacking you see the countries of latin america have a common history as being on the bad end of brutal western european imperialism and when the president of a former colony could just be abducted at the will of the you would have his plane searched it sure makes you feel like you're still under the lash of foreign control doesn't it do any of you think for a moment that any e.u.

officials who are so willing to groan morality would dare to do the same thing air force one i don't think so morose clearly was treated like some sort of second class president and despite this insult they didn't even catch oden this is what i call a double fail but that's just my opinion. a child born in the tundra is always nomadic by nature as an early age she knows that life is perpetual motion. for nine months every year and its children are taken from their homes in the tundra to special boarding schools and each time all they want is to go home again as soon as they can. some can't wait for the holidays and

head for the tundra. that at the represents the third generation of a new nets deliberating family he too went to a boarding school before graduating as a vet. back home in the tundra he found a wife and now has three children he's taking his eldest son daniel and his nephew from the boarding school to visit their grandfather for a short summer break before reindeer as day the main annual festival.