clashes between the army and opposition militants they're running for several days now she's on a boyko visit and syria explains the shifting dynamics of the fighting. art he was one of the few if not the only four in the crew that was able to travel to the last in three months ago and from what we've seen there i can tell you that he's a very peculiar case for this whole syrian struggle no where you can see the kind of virgins of the genuine democratic movement and pure criminal activity so that in the s. and on one hand aleppo is home to a major university so a lot of people you meet there are liberally minded intellectuals they oftentimes disagree with the policies of bashar assad many of them call on him to step down but at the same time they strongly object the use of kalashnikovs who are any political games they don't want that democracy to be delivered through these very bloody conflicts through this very bloody struggle on the other hand aleppo is home to many militia groups this is probably because it's far more closer to the north and to the turkish border that is used to supp

and as a sign of boyko reports the muslim holy month of ramadan is unlikely to bring peace and unity. it's a call for prayer that at times sounds like a mother's wail and it all there's like a sinister cry in a horror movie plumes of smoke are now competing with men there it's on the damascus skyline and few expect things to get any better in the coming months saturday is the first day of ramadan for many syrian muslims but not for all their fellow riches and the rebels that seem to disagree on just about everything also differ on the holy month is supposed to begin the start of ramadan is determined by the side of the new moon which varies from country to country to the weather so in syria as well as in iran or amman it fell on saturday the rebels do decided to start fasting a day earlier in line with political allies like saudi arabia and turkey mixing religion and politics is becoming increasingly common seventeen month long struggle . we have something like. rights if you have to fire you we don't care about. when we die we will go through a law to heaven. and they come for secess

country's constitution the any cool rules inside the currency union may prove its downfall searches exxon boyko now reports. not taking from others and not giving your own that's what made them there's this company grow from a small soap shop a century ago into a multi-million euro business now a days to him iranian company is of course different from running a country or union of countries but all require fiscal discipline. if you. before we do anything this should be unified school and economic policy it is not acceptable that spain subsidizes things that are not subsidized in germany. trading all across europe mr is in favor of keeping the euro what he doesn't agree with is that common currency should necessarily mean deliberate responsibility in mind often forget the land i think countries like greece use the euro in quite opportunist ways they used to pay eight or nine percent interest rates before joining the euro but after they came on board they got access to low rates that germany or france enjoyed that encouraged exuberance spending and they have to deal with it he said to many expert

recovery but many europeans aren't convinced and bracing themselves for an economic doomsday oksana boyko reports. it seems like a place where the grass is always green and where every cloud has a silver lining but even in these ideal exciting in western australia there are fears of an economic boom as the. last few years has been converting his house into a fully self-sufficient residence and his reasons are purely economic. to those on economists who got the worst case scenario preparing for is the total collapse of the economy there would be problems with food electricity water supply so i want to make sure we could waste this time when money will be worthless. solar panels wind turbine and emergency generator he's now producing more than two thirds of the power he needs the cows in the garden should provide a backup if supermarkets go. and in case a fuel shortages there is also a radial turn in chief. while this scenario may seem to apocalyptic we hill billies the euro collapse and the ensuing social upheaval is a matter of when rather than if the political politicians keep talking ab

commercial hub after regime troops flushed out rebels from damascus for a week ago parties oksana boyko now reports the does is slowly settling in the capital. it doesn't take much to set syrians off these days on ash and on a very tight budget residents of damascus are now trying to reclaim the basics they used to take for granted. the rising may have started with political protests but now they're starting to morph into riots economically life is getting harder for ordinary syrians but the rebels targeting supply trucks the price of a gallon of gas has risen four fold in the last few months so when a pro-government and your attempting to distribute fuel at prewar prices it found itself overwhelmed by the demand because of all of these. special circumstances that happened lately people maybe get more nervous of course people had similar difficulties to get their supplies no no no it's everything is getting better life is slowly returning to the capital as are the thousands of people who fled the turmoil there in the past weeks but what they find in the neighborhoods is unlikely to inst

efforts artie's oksana boyko reports. one week has passed since the united nations has issued a new mandate for its observer mission in syria beach and this theoretically should help calm tensions in this country but if anything violence in syria has only intensified over the past week the clashes between the army and the rebel still continue in the northern city of aleppo with the death toll believed to be in the hundreds and the enormous damage to the city's infrastructure now before the syrian uprising began aleppo was considered the best case for the burgeoning economic and political ties between syria and its northern neighbor turkey but ever since are there on and bashar assad stopped calling each other france turkey has played a very active and some would say a very distractive role in the syrian affairs turkish territory is being actively used to smuggle weapons for the free syrian army and on the top of that's reuters news agency has revealed that turkey alongside saudi arabia and qatar has sat at a secret milita

close eye on the developments in syria with crews reporting from the heart of the country from the boyko isn't damascus bringing you the latest updates and pictures via twitter country says people are beginning to return after last week's rebel assault on the city with damage to the infrastructure across the country now estimated at eleven billion dollars. and still ahead for you on our sea a grim discovery hundreds of five month old fetus is are found dumped in a russian forest hills they may have been used for any legal risk. a new wave of crime downs and protests has taken place in the united arab emirates and i knew arrests have been reported was almost forty people now in custody now six of its were detained for allegedly opposing the constitution as well as the country's ruling system this follows similar developments in saudi arabia in bahrain but this one incident from the west is deafening. says hussein up dollars from americans for democracy and human rights in bahrain. uprising in bahrain has shown. a clear the standard in the u.s. foreign policy toward the country is going th

analysis and firsthand impressions from the conflict zone are also on our two twitter feeds are oksana boyko is in the syrian capital of damascus last containing sacred islamic relics was targeted by rebel finders and continue to follow her latest pictures and tweets out of the void underscore r t. a senior iraqi official has put the blame for monday's terror blitz which killed one hundred sixteen people squarely on. the nationwide offensive spanning at least thirteen cities and it with two more bombings during the night well the attacks range from bombings to shootings and primarily targeted iraq's government and security forces are you going to if you can now with details. the self-appointed leader of the iraqi branch of al qaida abu barker all baghdadi has announced the resurgence of terror in the country and clearly indicated there is more to come moreover he dedicated more than half of his online speech to the uprising in syria they happen to be staunch supporters of the rebels their various organizations are pointing at the expansion of terrorist networks in syria which effectively fue

assault this as two more senior syrian officials have defected from the government here's archies oksana boyko. over the past few days aleppo has been at the center of a matter major military operation we know that the army the syrian army used tanks used fighter jets military helicopters to strike its targets the free syrian army has also. enlisted a lot of support for it's a parade in that they're calling it the battle for aleppo and there are some reports that on the eve of this battle they received major reinforcements and new supplies to all the military equipment all these supplies of arms from turkey and saudi arabia. but you could be sure and remember well what theory are for your review also lord i mean for instance before and through the thoughts running through their local people who we were before through your. e-mail who had an inner peace in the. fort what do you talk about syria what's important to keep in mind is this sequence of events it is true that the syrian army is employing having artillery in the city but they are conducting dive military operations in response to terro

their offensive some states are calling for humanitarian corridors to be set up but as archie's oksana boyko reports from syria there are fears of will simply open the doors to more bloodshed. the efforts to put an end to violence in syria or on the country to stoke tensions in this country that depends on your worldview or worse still continuing just a few days ago the arab league has called for an emergency meeting of the un general assembly to discuss this meant off humanitarian corridors now in theory the square there should alleviate human suffering and allow for the safe passage of humanitarian workers and refugees but in practice when you look at the map of syria it is surrounded by the countries that are being used to smuggle weapons for the free syrian army we are talking about turkey lebanon on iraq possibly even jordan just a few days ago the reuters news agency published a story quoting an f.s.a. officer who was boasting about new deliveries all rocket propelled grenades katyusha rockets and missiles on the top of that refugee camps on the border with these countries are being us

their homeland took shelter in neighboring syria but now they're returning home as artie's oksana boyko reports from damascus. fled their home countries in search of peace only to be ambushed by war in the place they thought was safe syria has long been counted among the most welcoming countries in the region for refugees with almost one hundred thousand of them registered here permanently given before their weiland broke out in syria the residents of the nap neighborhood were all well familiar with the ugly realities of war or the past decade this area has become home thousands of war refugees from somalia afghanistan pakistan but the largest community here iraqis who sought to escape the earth waged war in that country and now have to flee yet again at this bus station iraqi destinations have never been in such high demand as now after several dozen residents of this area were shot or be had it in the past two weeks many are scrambling to leave the mohammed who arrived here with his family in two thousand and three is also packing i've never come across such securities in syria and su

people who drive the economy aren't happy about giving bailouts jar the nation's as well arty's oksana boyko report it's a job interview with you political implications and here is this family has been running these greek restaurant for almost three decades ever since they immigrated to germany hard work and self-reliance made it is success but now they are under increasing pressure to share the fruits of their labor. the problem is that in greece that. they come here and like the money in the street but we're also working very hard. working from the morning till night every day they get a dozen of calls from their greek can patch or requests for money jobs of both some like a small attack is just walking in a restaurant owner himself he lost his business last year and ever since has been out of permanent work like about twenty two percent of greeks there is the second world war and destroy. our country from troops so they'll be million of people is the german. not to help but to pay while references to the countries nats of past have appeared more than once in the great coverage of the bail

return of traffic jams and what she says is actually encouraging after days of empty roads paula oksana boyko underscore c. egypt is allowing palestinians free entry to its territory in a landmark move ending part of a long time blockade on gaza it was imposed by a zero with the help of egypt five years ago after how must take control of the palestinian territory but with the president from the muslim brotherhood now leading egypt the move was widely seen as a friendly gesture to hamas an offshoot of the brotherhood which operates independently middle east correspondent policy. cairo is allowing palestinians a free entry into egypt effectively ending a five year blockade on the gaza strip what this means is that palestinians can now leave gaza with the same law applying to palestinians in the west bank and jerusalem this unprecedented move effectively lifts travel restrictions that have been imposed on gazans for the past five years they've been penned into this tiny mediterranean coastal city by a blockade imposed by israel but also assisted by the egyptian authorities egypt's interest was b

stockpiles that insisted they are secure but never be used in the current internal conflicts she's a ton of boyko brings us the details from damascus. and monday's news conference here in damascus foreign ministry spokesman didn't mean that syrian possesses chemical weapons something that nonproliferation experts have suggested all along and that the syrian authorities have a number straightforwardly deny damascus has never signed the chemical weapons convention so technically it's a. chemical stockpiles is not a while ration of any international treaty which all of that syrian officials have long suggested that they need some sort of deterrent against israel's similarly non admitted nuclear weapons program in terms of keep abilities syria is believed to be seen as nervous agents and mustard gas as well as missile capabilities to do leave very doosra burns those chemicals are believed to be produced five facilities. around the country including two locations in han's and home of those c.d.'s as you probably will have seen major fighting between the opposition forces and the army. several israeli

that there are more tongues than tuxes in the syrian capital for her first hundred pounds at oksana boyko underscore. social networks like facebook and twitter see many users posting their entire lives online sharing stories and pictures with friends but it seems even the strictest online privacy settings are no match for the spying eyes of governments around the world from new york i was he's very important i explain. in the land of social media users tweet tag. friend upload and share information at any given moment in the land of the free what americans post online can and will be used against them. according to twitter of the nearly twelve hundred government requests for user data filed in the first half of this year nearly eighty percent came from the us government the micro message company says it complied with seventy five percent of user data washington requested social media in general twitter and facebook being prime examples of that are a part of an ever increasingly invasive police state in the united states it's it's not just about surveillance and about tracking and monitori

make a very volatile a very bloody very unstable situation in this region far worse i do use oksana boyko reporting the wall of meantime the u.s. was also allegedly involved in setting up a secret weapons hub in order to smuggle weapons for the syrian rebels dr ali mohammed the editor in chief of the syria tribune says that her turkey on the gulf states are acting far beyond international law the u.s. seems to have finally understood that it will not have a clean clean clear success in syria and if it decides to intervene it will ruin the whole country on the way and that's why it's leaving the dirty work to do its local proxies so dearie turkey seemed to to like the idea of a middle east controlled by the muslim brotherhood which they can control easily thinking that this is their battle it seems gives them the privileged. that's what they think nothing allows them to do so this is against international law this is against every concept of neighboring countries so they think it's ok for them and they think they will get away with it and that's why they act this way and the question is ar

idea could be derailed by germany's top court which is deciding whether it's actually constitutional boyko reports on the wider discontent among germans over having to prop up those who can't keep their own houses in order . not taking from others and not giving your that's what made them their company grow from a small soap shop a century ago into a multi-million euro business nowadays to him running a company is of course different from running a country or union of countries but all require fiscal discipline and i think it is before we do anything this should be unified school and economic policy it is not acceptable that spain subsidizes things that are not subsidized in germany and it does it explain the trading all across europe mr is in favor of keeping the euro what he doesn't agree with is that common currency should necessarily mean diluted responsibility in mind often forget the land i think countries like spain or greece use the euro in quite opportunist ways they used to pay eight or nine percent interest rates before joining the euro but after they came on board they got acce

assad for the civil conflict the standoff is getting more violent on both sides and authorities oksana boyko reports now seeing more and more youngsters getting involved. young minds burning hearts bad blood while the syrian conflict often comes across as a power struggle of grown man on the ground many of those who fight and die are in their late teens early twenty's. this group of f.s.a. snipers operates in a deserted town forty kilometers southwest of homes twice a day to god to shell a syrian army checkpoint nearby omar's twenty three he left his family in dubai to join the uprising. to support the young fighters and to feel their pain and to experience what very experiencing on the ground and to help with the operation. while their weapons are becoming more sophisticated if you are good at handling them most say they want to become martyrs and their dads help recruit their younger brothers. but those they're aiming at are not much older but a military hospital in damascus a week long supply of coffins has been used in the past in forty eight hours while the syrian authorities do you kno

party as one of the few international broadcasters still covering events from inside syria is oksana boyko with the latest. over the past few days has been. at the center of a major military operation know that the army the syrian army used tanks used fighter jets military helicopters to strike its targets the free syrian army has also. enlisted a lot of support for it's a parade. they're calling it a good battle and there are some reports on the eve of this battle they receive major reinforcements and supplies the military equipment you supplies with arms from turkey and saudi arabia when you talk about syria what's important to keep in mind is this sequence of events it is true that the syrian army is employing having artillery in this city but they are conducting drive military operations in response to terror attacks that have been happening in this city that have been happening in aleppo for several months and many residents of aleppo are telling us that they don't understand why the it took the government so long to conduct those military operations because they've been suffering fro

. >> susan boyko, remember her? rose to stardom after showing her a great voice, her neighbors are not thrilled with her vocals. >> it turns out she does a lot of rehearsing and at all hours of the day and night. this is according to her neighbors and they say she has a loud voice and it is blaring and blasting them out of their homes. thre was a quote they say she is so loud they can hear her over the telly. it is too much. >> this is a well man simon -- a woman, simon cowell, has the voice of an angel. but her neighbors say it sounds like an animal in pain. they have had enough of it. so they filed a lawsuit. the cops are getting involved. it is getting ugly in that neighborhood. >> we should also say she denies all of this. she says she has another property and that is where she rehearses. folks cannot get enough of the parody of "call me." >> here is another one. the cookie monster has a version. ♪ ♪ i just met to and this is crazy, but you have cookie >> that is the cookie monster doing his impression of that s