fortunately doesn't sound anything. to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only. cash for rebels the u.s. president pushes congress to cough of half a billion dollars in aid to syrian opposition fighters to help train them and provide the quitman. ukraine's president prepares to sign a trade deal with the e.u. the very same agreement which ignited the february revolution an armed conflict in the country's defined. us it just won't fly the long delay in opening a calamitous five billion dollar airport is blamed on a fake engineer given a key role in the project. harvey

you're watching. first for you the rebels engaged in war with the syrian president are in line for a half a billion dollar wouldn't fall from the u.s. president obama has asked congress to approve the money they'd also aims to counter the radical islamist group isis which is also fighting assad and terrorizing cities in neighboring iraq. takes a look at the possible dangers of washington's multitask. the obama administration is requesting for lawmakers to approve five hundred million dollars in spending for the purpose of arming the syrian opposition the white house claims that only appropriate vetted elements of the moderate opposition would receive direct training from the u.s. military and be equipped with american weapons and ammunition u.s. officials insist that the weapons would serve to empower the syrian people and help

them push back against the government as well as the militant extremist group isis which actually has been fighting to topple bashar assad since the civil war began more than three years ago however as recent events have shown american weapons may very well end up in its enemies hands just two weeks ago isis an all out assault on iraq's second largest city mosul causing a reported thirty thousand iraqi soldiers who were trained by the u.s. military to turn around and run as a result sunni extremists have seized stockpiles of american weapons and ammunition as well as u.s. humvees the bloodshed being unleashed in iraq by isis has arguably been strengthened by the fact that militants are fighting with u.s. weapons in afghanistan the taliban is now armed with u.s. made stinger missiles which according to reports were originally sent to libya when the obama administration was arming the opposition rising up against former leader moammar gadhafi for more than a decade the u.s. has been drowning the arab world in weapons arming locals to help them overthrow

governments not only how is it created absolute chaos and bloodshed it is arguably help to strengthen terrorist organizations because the weapons at least some of them are ending up in the hands of the enemy as for syria the devastating civil war has killed some one hundred fifty thousand people and the international community does agree that something should be done question is is sending weapons to one side of the conflict which includes terrorists the best solution reporting from washington d.c. marina. r t. washington's consistently changed its mind on how to help the rebels in syria it was over a year ago when the u.s. first approved direct non lethal aid in december twenty third teen it was suspended that was after american supplied equipment fell into the hands of islamic fighters although earlier this month the white house confirmed it has actually been sending lethal aid to the syrian opposition and to walk on pain abroad baucus says the u.s.

is split when it comes to taking sides in civil conflicts it shows the united states appears to have a schizophrenia foreign policy there they're seeing the demure unity in iraq behind the central government which is fighting what they call islamic extremists from ice or uses and at the same time they're funding these seemed armed groups in syria to take down an independent nationalist and sovereign government in syria what the u.s. is doing and has been doing this finally in money guns and more occupation tools in a region that it considers to be vital because it's resource rich that's about it inside syria there are ten million people in need of humanitarian assistance that's according to the latest u.n. assessments and represents almost half of the country's population auntie's maria financial reports from one city where people are now returning to their homes after the syrian army took it from armed rebels. this road in central syria used to be

beset by snipers and anyone driving here could be kidnapped thus when this last western area known as the moon was controlled by armed drug bills the toll your brother next to the syrian lebanese border is just eighty kilometers from the capital damascus but it is like a state within a state that has its own security forces the police and even the army you can see it's symbols of new authorities here everywhere graffiti or three stars that means free syrian army is controlling this area a syrian military cannot enter six months later return. remains well if if if. if if you know the syrian army expect town after months of fierce battles and numerous offensives officers say i can take off my flak jacket my dear friend. back then the breach of this border region was a significant blow to syria's security with weapons and fighters easily get in in.

well not anymore the town over here is now totally under the control of the syrian authorities and we actually can see it everywhere they're fishel syrian flags with two stars syrian officers everywhere and banners with newly elected president bashar al assad it's friday today and the officers tell us that all the shops are closed the restaurants a closed eye roll out see lots of people on the streets but there is another reason actually many residents fled this town and entire area of cologne in an attempt to escape from atrocities. at the city's mosque the heart of this predominantly muslim town friday prayers have just finished. most of these people who only returned to the town recently in the hearts of. my home was hit and destroyed thank god the army is now back to boot is also home to a big christian community

a different face he used to live in harmony here for years until islamic rule was imposed by the rebels many being religious zealots some linked to al-qaeda or free syrian mostly officially they were religious groups jihadi but in fact it was no religion or anything else their religion was money. well this young man shows us what used to be a jewelry shop it was looted and then set on fire. all told. but let me know already they were on motorbikes they call themselves the free syrian army they used to also take food coming to town from damascus they were also kidnapping people locals hope the dog days a gun for just a week after we left the town fighters attacked the army positions in the region again several are the areas across syria still remain house by rebels or jihadists it seems that despite the army's recent six hours it's still too early to say when

this diverse state in war will be over rich nationality from syria. the british monarchy has enjoyed wide public support for many decades but do you mere commoners actually know how much the crown is costing them according to the latest annual report almost thirty six million pounds were spent last year to support the royal family but there are some hidden price tags the most the public are completely unaware of as marina costs of a now explains. over eighty percent of brits believe the royal family brings in the significant amounts of revenue for the country each year some five hundred million pounds according to the case national tourism agency well those have been campaigning for the abolition of the monarchy believe that figure is incorrect and they're ready to show british taxpayers just how much of their money really goes towards funding liver oil is there a public group claims the estimated annual cost of the monarchy is almost three hundred million pounds which is around nine times the official figure published by

the royal household why this disparity apparently the official figure excludes a number of costs including security royal visits and lost revenue from the dutch cheese of line castor and cornwall if they were public figures are to be believed it would mean the british head of state is one of the most expensive government institutions in the world the important point is that the want to close is a lot more than many people think. but even if those figures were made public there's every chance that the majority of the british public would agree that they want it he was still with in fact a poll last year found that forty five percent of the british public strong support for the monarchy up from twenty seven percent in two thousand and six a survey released this month showed that prince william his grandmother and his father are all more popular than the country's top rated politicians remember the crowds. but more people are now saying that having the option to choose who

benefits from taxpayers' money is also important so there's also a principle of democracy about whether it's right that the head of state should be . ready to treat position rather than one's chosen by the people and there's also a question of the message it sends to the young people growing up in this country i would rather that the young people grow up in this country were told that no matter who you are no matter where you're born much of who your parents are you can rise to the highest office in the land and that would be the case is going to be have a really true moment even though most brits love their queen there's a growing number of those who would like to see their money go towards improving the country rather than the country's palaces marina costs of a reporter from london forty. well having a royal family doesn't come cheap more than eighty million pounds is spent on keeping them fed and properly maintained that's equal to two thousand pensions more than thirteen million pounds goes toward keeping the royal palaces spic and span not to provide four hundred forty students with scholarships and the money spent on

the families travel costs will that could feed more than three thousand three hundred homeless people who can graeme smith believes that the rolls are an insult to people suffering from a strategic. well the spending by the world family is going up even by their own official figures it's going up you know that they spend four million pounds. renovating a house for prince william. no the public does not owe these people a living it doesn't owe them a house and they need to start cutting by tens of millions not increasing their income and their wealth whilst we are cutting public services and public jobs government simply hands over. millions of pounds to the worlds in the world's then get to choose how they spend it and then report on how they've spent it themselves counting it in a lot of spin. and misinformation of course if you look to other countries in europe they have similar heads of state at fraction of the price so the republic of

ireland for example they get to choose their head of state does a similar ceremonial job and they cost less than ten million pounds every year so clearly you know having had to stay for three hundred million pounds it's a bit of a nonsense. in other news german specialists find a way to rescue chancellor angela merkel from the prying and their say by giving have an upgraded spy proof cell phone the chancellor's contacts however may not be too happy about that because they now have to pay two and a half thousand euros for a chance to get all the details on r.t. dot com and also there you will find this story home is home even if it's wet and cold. gray seals being returned back to the wild after several months of treatment at a wildlife center in st petersburg and you'll find all the video for that in our in motion section on our dot com.

now first show jewel for takeoff in twenty ten the opening of the third largest airport in germany has still not happened delays poor construction and corruption scandals have plagued the project from the very beginning peter all of the reports on what's or rather who is behind the airport com. at this time of year an airport should be bustling with holiday makers jetting off for their summer vacations not here though at. the airports two years behind schedule and the only people the construction workers still working on the project with costs spiraling out of control it's really become a comedy of errors the latest scandal involves the fire safety system moreover the man that designed it it's a merge they didn't have any qualifications to be in a position to do so what he did have though was a business card that said that he was an engineer turns out that wasn't worth the paper that it was written on but how does a man with no qualifications find himself in a very important position on

a multibillion euro project to find out more on this i'm joined by steve from the party of reason safe if i had a business card that said i was an astronaut would that mean i got to go into space quite likely for it was the space agency was run by the same people that are running this airport wouldn't surprise me at all what's going on here what's happening with this project right now cost overruns without end technical disasters political decisions being made and in my opinion it's probably due to the fact that government agencies bureaucrats are trying to make a huge project which should have been better left off to a private consortium to build as it was initially intended to be i mean we don't even know when this airports could open next year no sixteen seventeen maybe eighteen maybe never who knows but thank you very much there we go we don't know when it's going to open some estimates of put a final cost of around ten billion euro on finally getting this airport brandenburg

open it certainly hasn't gone smoothly here. you stay with us those are coming for you this hour the world turns a blind eye to thousands of african refugees how counted in the sinai and it's. melting plastic bags and drawing it in their mats this is the burns. israeli activist tries to drum up support for her campaign by putting the terror of human trafficking and torture up on the screen more details just ahead. i think that the pakistani military does realize that the ballot on have become a problem for pakistan but it is just too late the taliban have sunk deep roots in pakistan and now it's very difficult to beat the enemy. when it was previously your friend and your ph.

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back you're watching r.t. international next for fowls of african refugees the search for a better life. in torture camps set up by human traffickers in israel in the sinai peninsula on three thousand migrants per month come from eritrea alone many of them are kidnapped for ransom and tortured until their families pay if they don't human traffickers reportedly killed the hostages well then four thousand people are estimated to have been killed since two thousand and eight around a thousand are thought to be captivity right now last month the president of eritrea demanded an investigation but the international community has remained largely silent with israel in particular ignoring the problem on its own doorstep marianas to follow is a swedish eritrean activist to try to raise awareness about the victims of torture by putting their plight on the screen. and.

there were melting plastic bags and dropping it in their bags and this is. the bottom of the machine. and meron as the foreigners talk to a niece and now we are in there now she says that there's a big difference in the way that captives are treated. i have seen kids children that are two years old being tortured there were some kids that have to watch their mother being burned alive and they survived so these are the kind of people that i talk to the torture is it's not any other tortured like you see horror movie or something it's where people are tortured twenty four hours a day deprived deprived of food deprived how is there not more international

weirdness about what's happening in finite the amount of deaths the type of torture and the millions of dollars that have been made by these hostage takers who. also have to do is race you know we we have seen americans getting kidnapped in the sinai but it took only twenty four hours to release them last year not original woman was kidnapped in the same area and it took about a week for her to be released. we've seen last year also an israeli man being kidnapped and also took a few days for him to be released so this happens all quite often to westerners as well but they're out with a base and they don't get to experience the torture as the african so it has to do with with race ukraine is entering a trade agreement with the you the very deal that started events so the previous administration toppled at ultimately led to the ongoing bloody standoff in the country's east president petro poroshenko who signs the association pact in

brussels later on friday says he believes this is the way to carry out the will of the nation people demanding european future very clear every single region of ukraine. support one candidate demonstrate him react very different form we have read it for europe we are ready for peace but in eastern ukraine there appears to be little support for kiev the self-proclaimed republics have done yet going against with a population of over six million are refusing to recognize the new leaders and are openly critical of their european ambitions the week long cease fire that's been broken several times by the army and local militia expires today more than three hundred fifty people have been killed two hundred fifty seven of them civilians since kiev launched its military operation against the defined eastern war regions but president poroshenko is determined course for europe.

now let's see wireline ing with the e.u. appears so attractive for kiev and where the possible catch could lie or the deal will remove tariffs on almost all goods traded between ukraine and europe us if it meets e.u. standards which it doesn't at the moment and will have to spend about one hundred billion dollars in order to do so winning a place at the european table ukraine will no longer be russia's preferential partner at least five hundred billion dollars in trade global financial markets expert patrick young believes the association deal with the e.u. is a grave mistake. ukraine which last year was in a catastrophic position how that signed a free trade association this year is going to associate with the european union out the point when it's on the brink already of economic disaster this is a counter straw for move for the ukrainian economy the only winners either this or a few sadly deluded egos whether they're in brussels whether they're in washington

who believe some horror other they've achieved a great deal of political victory for the people of ukraine there are no jobs to be hired here there's only going to be job losses there is no economic growth to be hired by suddenly having western european goods dumped at little cost onto your marketplace this is a disaster it's a very very tragic day for the people of ukraine who want to improve their economic outlook. all those in ukraine supporting the association agreement with the e.u. have high hopes for the deal but not all of what pro european ukrainians are hoping for is actually on the table right now brussels is not going to rush through visa free travel with ukraine so far the freedom of earn points within the e.u. is only for member states and there's no actual guarantee of eventual membership and as for europeans who are still bearing the burden of austerity we're not really into expanding the union just now the blocks and energy commission awards at the

bailout for greece is peanuts compared to the billions that brussels would have to cough up to save ukraine's ailing economy the president of the european commission says the new is not ready to integrate a country like ukraine at this stage and that sentiment is also echoed by the foreign minister of europe's powerhouse germany and brussels is facing a huge battle to keep its old members at the moment rather than welcoming new ones hours artie's police are now explains less than a month ago a year a skeptic earthquake rocked the european parliamentary elections and tea parties claimed first place in britain france and denmark leaving the e.u.'s image battered and bruised now one man wants to give the european union project the ultimate make over by helping citizens form an emotional attachment to their let's face it the wind sling e.u. brand it's

a monumental task it's distant and boring our role is to make it fun so we can make you laugh and we can turn the european union into something you can actually talk about the inner then we've done our job at brand e.u. hate tongue in cheek post is talking about e.u. teams in the world cup or interspersed with more serious messages about the inception of the european union and the fall of the berlin wall they'll be translated into all twenty four. languages of member states but in the u.k. you kipps european election victory shows that to some voters brand new is past its sell by date the problem that the year. is that it's a product no one wants to boy in the sense that it is something of last century not this century it's a tough time to be launching a pro e.u. campaign the e.u. parliamentary vote reflected disenchantment with e.u. policies such as immigration austerity and over regulation across the member states

here in the u.k. the prime minister has even had to promise and in out e.u. referendum by twenty seventeen if he's reelected so for the brand new brand e.u. turning the club's image around is a matter of survival if we don't come together as a people of europe and we start seeing this separatism in scotland for example. we could see a potential break up of europe it's an independent campaign which means brussels isn't funding it nor do they have any influence over it but according to the man in charge of the rebranding project the european union are grateful for their help plenty boyko r.t. . ok just time to quickly run of some of the world stories for you will start with iraq where government forces of retaking control of the biology or refinery from

isis extremists that's despite conflicting reports that militant forces are poised to take the whole facility or production has remained largely unaffected by the current fighting however all commodities they've reached a nine month high in trading over the last week. elsewhere clashes between police and protesters continue in berlin despite earlier arrests hundreds formed blockades to prevent the eviction of refugees living in a former school only forty asylum seekers remain in the building that has been occupied now for more than eight. was hundreds of activists from multiple political parties flooded the streets of the catalan city of jerome in protest of the visit by the new spanish king there is widespread demand for a referendum on whether catalan should break away from spain and the protesters called for the king to be stripped of his prince of gibran

a title which was first boarded in ninety nine. a lack of trust in the world bank and the i.m.f. has led china to establish its very own rival global financial institution beijing is starting with one hundred billion dollars in capital and aims to overtake a similar project in the region which is highly influenced by japan so far twenty two countries have shown interest in the new land including some rich states in the middle east but china says it would go ahead with the ambitious project even if nobody else joined up one of the first tasks will be setting up a new version of the ancient silk road that connects the country to europe and china expert professor and li believes that beijing is right to fund its own projects. i think that this is just a further extension of what china's been doing china has come from pretty much a backwater country thirty years ago to now this world's second largest economy and

china has basically shown the world that if there is a will there is a way china has been somewhat frustrated with the world bank and the aging development bank in terms of. the funds coming out of these energies to support infrastructure projects so china i think basically decided that if they want anything done here they're just enough to fund it themselves and bring along a bunch of partners so i think that's the prime motivation it's largely to expand their trade and economic influence. about with more news at the top of that nice fade out here on our tape it's sophie and co.

the federal migration service of russia has recently received more than five thousand requests for political asylum from ukrainian citizens these requests come from refugees who are fleeing the conflict in the eastern part of ukraine in fact i personally know people who are from ukraine who are now essentially trapped in russia because their native regions are at war with the kiev government there is a classic mainstream media talking point about russian aggression and russian imperialism which gets repeated constantly in fact so often that is not even a question but if you stop to think about it if you were trapped in a region at war and you were going to escape odd foot where would you go into the heart of the aggressors in imperialists no you go in the direct opposite direction interestingly enough in both this conflict and the two thousand and eight war in georgia the overwhelming majority of refugees flee towards russia excluding some sort of bizarre stockholm syndrome it seems that for people in break way republics in ukraine and georgia russia is a safe haven.