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A video has been posted online that shows Syrian rebels in Aleppo killing several men they accuse of being pro-government militiamen. The campaign group, Human Rights Watch, said the video seemed to show a war crime. It said neither side in the conflict had a monopoly of righteousness . Jim Muir reports from Beirut.

The video from Aleppo, filmed by activists with the rebel fighters, shows more than a dozen terrified captives were identified as members of shabiha, the notorious government militia. They were accused of killing 15 of the Free Syria Army fighters earlier. Their leader and several others are hustled into a courtyard by a large group of jubilant gunmen, put against the wall, and then, there's an intensive volume of fire with dozens of bullets being pumped into their slumped bodies. There've been many reports of abuses by armed rebels, but rarely documented like this.

Eight badminton players who try to lose their Olympics matches to get an easier draw in the next round have been disqualified from the games. The women from South Korea, China and Indonesia were booed off the court on Tuesday. The Badminton World Federation rejected an appeal as Rob Broomby reports.

The expelled South Korean and Indonesian competitors got the news less than an hour before their match. The Chinese double champions Wang Xiaoli and Yu Yang had decided not to appeal. Their Olympic Committee said earlier they opposed any behavior which contravened the spirit of the sport.  The Chinese were accused of trying to ensure an all-China final by losing a key match. London 2012 organizers called that unacceptable. A similar Indian challenge to Japan's team was rejected. The BWF has stood firm the reputation of the sport is at stake.

In other events, the swimmer Daniel Gyurta of Hungary won the men's 200m breaststroke gold medal in a world record time of 2:07.28. Ukraine have won their first ever Olympic gold medal in rowing, taking gold in the women's quadruple sculls. Earlier, the rowers Helen Glover and Heather Stanning won Britain's first gold medal.

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The Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned the visiting American Defense Secretary Leon Panetta that efforts to persuade Iran to stop developing nuclear weapons are not working. Mr Netanyahu said Iran believed the international community did not have the will to stop its nuclear program and that this must change because time was running out to resolve the issue peacefully.

In Russia, the trial of three women members of the protest group Pussy Riot has been briefly interrupted after one of them fell ill. The group's defense lawyer said that the woman, Mariya Alekhina, experienced a drop in her blood sugar levels. From Moscow, Daniel Sandford.

Pussy Riot's lawyer said that the journey from their prison cells to the courts takes three to four hours in each direction. With the court-sitting for 11 hours each day, that means the women barely have time to sleep in their cells before being brought back to court. Furthermore, they are not getting any proper meals. The prison service confirmed that the three women are only getting what they called dry rations. One of the defendants, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, complained they were barely conscious and had been up all night preparing statements for the court.

In an influential poll of film critics, the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Vertigo has for the first time replaced Orson Welles classic Citizen Kane as the best film ever made.  The poll by the British Film Institute's magazine Sight & Sound has been carried out every ten years since 1952. The magazine's editor Nick James explained why the Welles film is no longer No.1.

"At the time, the plot was seen as slightly ludicrous – you know, this policeman is meant to have vertigo at a certain moment in order for a crime to be committed – well, that's right, the fanciful . And it was seen as so at the time. But over time, with repeated viewings, because this film has such rich psychological layers of the investigation into the personalities involved. It's growing and growing in critical estimation."

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