u.n. special envoy to syria kofi annan is the security council to speak with one voice to support his peace mission as russia calls on western powers to press the syrian opposition to cooperate that. the new march in riga commemorating events and falls on its list site draws condemnation inside the country and the war against backing from the left in leadership. and the u.s. identifies the soldier suspected of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan in an afghan investigation means he wasn't working alone.

you know without a very warm welcome to today on carrie johnson u.n. special envoy kofi annan has urged the books most powerful body to act cautiously on the syrian crisis and support his peace mission prior to his brief with the security council russia said it was using its contacts with the syrian regime to get him to cooperate with iran's efforts but also called on the western powers to do the same with the opposition parties report no i was the very latest now from new york. special envoy kofi annan said that he will be sending his team to damascus as early as this weekend to begin to scuffing plans his plans to deploy international monitors there he said the first objective is to of course stop all the violence and bloodshed taking place in syria and to establish. humanitarian

assistance for all those in need in syria he said if the syrian conflict is not handled properly and handled quickly the end results could be disastrous for the entire region kofi annan the u.n. arab league special envoy to syria also pleaded with u.n. security council members to finally break their deadlock and come to a consensus and speak with one voice he said that will not only. give credibility to the international community but it will also help establish peace in syria and help his process a process that he said is very difficult very challenging but one that he is committed to now just last weekend he did travel to syria he met with syrian president bashar al assad he also did meet with members of the opposition group he said that while there are clearly are differing opinions a ceasefire has not been established yet he is making all the efforts that could

possibly be made but once again underscoring the fact that the security council must unite and speak with one voice russia has called on all security council members to support kofi annan in syria and do not undermine it's going to do this. every time we have a feeling that we managed to achieve some positive change in the students of damascus. counter-weight reaction and any steps forward are dismissed. i hope this will happen with the attitude of countries in the middle east and some western states to the mission of un arab league envoy kofi annan are and it was very strange that two days after is your first visit to damascus the opposition syrian national council claimed the mission had already failed so i think it's irresponsible we see that their efforts are being made continually on on the international level at this point if mr arnaout i get the support he is asking

for from the security council maybe eventually we'll see some some peace process coming to syria but at this point there is going to be a mission heading to damascus this weekend to continue. a plan. but rob lyons a deputy editor of online magazine spites believes the position of some international players may create serious hurdles for about their fanatic efforts. because america. is very clear that they want to do regime change in syria but not . settle for anything less than that and as a result the syrian government doesn't want to be replaced so there is a basic. situation. and trying to seem to be hoping for some kind of between sort of solution those monitors on the ground and so on and so forth. that maybe

a step forward but. clearly the. attitude of major western governments. is to go much much further in terms of replacing the assad regime just to go to prison through the compromise of law. and we would like to know what you think about the situation in syria head to r.t. dot com to cost your life we're asking today here on new supporting the biggest battle in the country for a moment out of the fifty one percent say it's world superpower and they demand for natural resources almost a third believe its propaganda anything media outlets. sent serious hundred in the fall slightly fewer say it's a fight between freedom loving people one for the price of government. claims he can get out your voice. it happens every year provokes the wrath of those who remember the nazi atrocities every thousand latvians have held their annual march when writing those who fought for it was an

s.s. deficients gatherings condemned by many but i think that on the broad as misguided inspiration for young women since what seems to agree supports there's been decades of change since the world where nazi germany donated despite the bloody legacy to some courses of europe that you still have an audience. here with the jews are crying about the holocaust between one thousand four hundred forty one the war for the bolsheviks who killed me i think they received it would be deserved. this is one thousand five hundred people gathered to officially commemorate those who fought alongside his armies and joins the waffen s.s. meeting stoking fears of a neo nazi resurgence in latvia. we can not be silent when the people

all knowing the memory of the nads east of the birth and this are marching in the streets of a member of the european union posed in the crowd to spend their start saying the so-called legionnaires were fighting for liberty at a time when tyranny faced latvia from all directions it was a military force formed in one thousand nine hundred forty three volunteers and members of the disbanded latvian siri police responsible for the mass killing of jews concerns have been raised about these public displays particularly on the message is being heard by today's youth this image of that is youth lining the streets to welcome in veterans commemorating legionnaires day is one that has become commonplace it's also something that increasingly warring observers if it may represent a rise of the far right oh sane commentators are asking why this message is being supported at the very top of the country's leadership. lovely in president andres

but as inch has argued it is foolish to assume that often s.s. veterans are criminals saying they deserve the public's respect is a start that has many opponents worried by the direction the country is headed people who are in charge in certain positions will thirty should not be setting examples where young people start to believe that a buff n s s is something that you should wish to follow you know the fact that there are also neo nazis groups who use these marches as opportunities to promote their xenophobe are so xenophobia there and she semitism and so forth is also not correct a feeling such sentiment anti fascist groups governing by in a protest to be annual march the recognition of the latvian s.s. units has been slammed by the european commission against racism and intolerance but no action ever been taken to stop the parade if any government wants to endorse

these kind of actions and i think there's cause for concern. there's a right if you want for freedom of speech but one doesn't have to welcome it so if the government you fall from supportive of any way of anything here and i think it's appropriate for europe to make some intervention the rise in far right rhetoric is not unique to let via the continent which by financial crisis ultra nationalists and has been growing throughout europe you've got what i would call two groups you've got the fascist right people who are proud of being sort of etc or whatever and you've got the fascist light of people who like probably marine le pen in france are actually coming from that kind of million coming from that kind of position we're kind of toning down their policies because it puts off some of the voters but in many senses are just as dangerous as the growth most apparent in march is that celebrate those who others strong be them. probably by personal

messages such as this will made it a latvian t.v. station they stand as a striking image of europe's lingering past. but could have an increasing impact of its future degrees r.t. riga latvia. well coming up this hour through wind rain and snow it's always the season for protests. this is become my full time job you know i mean a full time job you don't get paid for course but you know if you love something enough the final say on march will. be only symbolic tents left washington occupy wall street protesters say it's just the end of one chapter and the beginning of the next. demoralised police in kurdistan make way for a new security system many fear that private firms will defend them private interests and the authorities rather than the public.

the u.s. has identified the soldier accused of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan a staff sergeant robert bales. the suspect was flown from kuwait to an american military prison then charges have been brought against him so however an afghan probe claims he was not acting alone and up to twenty other u.s. troops may have taken part in a massacre international affairs commentator rosoff news the cold blooded killing of civilians by american forces is just history repeating itself. and we have reason to believe you know received notice right all we have to recall is seven years ago in iraq in the city of teeth there twenty four hours iraqi civilians were killed by the u.s. servicemen not reform were prosecuted for their crimes the leader of the group was simply charged with dereliction of duty and broken right in. your region since hardly a man sort of you know probably from the bones of everything so-called collateral damage and targeted help them to sort of thermal and the particle killing medicare

style somebody where the several houses in the village were a factor were people around it often people in the same state the afghan government state seventeen or more people who are the seventh of nine children three women and so forth and suggests first aboard one person garnering a perpetrator that prime minister on and second of all that's not collaborate with him this is not the soldier on the ground it's screening machine brother jack and this is a very grim reaper you know action and for us to try to be very against anything now since disingenuous but it seems that might actually contribute to your getting yourself believes that the u.s. military is trying to shift blame in the wake of the shooting rampage pricing on the battle state of stuff such as what bales instead of its own foreign policy. they're raging debates about plans to a monster has been taken apart into two extremes first the shrinks both civilians

and military alike claimed that it has nothing to do with the war or the policy in afghanistan and try to shift the blame on to the psychological and mental state of our particular individual on the other side if their private house and the parents again trying to present the see it another mccarver incident as just an exception that does not represent value all of the united states armed forces well the truth you sound where in between it's totally inadmissible to portray old the victims of p.t.s.d. as a potential mass killer psychos who are looking for any opportunity to kill innocent civilians likewise it would be totally misleading to present the latest case of this mass murder as an exception. but i thought he dot com we've plenty more on that story just log on to check out the latest also online sacred

sense pope benedict sixteen thought it is an individual cloning but only in fragrant footsteps of madonna and sting. the secrets of the room on our website. plus titanic can put you on director james cameron is attempting to break all records something. that the challenge is taking place. it's been six months since the occupy movement set up camp in the united states from new york and washington on the way to oakland in california the protest has shed light on issues from wealth inequality to police brutality parties christine for south looks at the movement through the eyes of a man who's been on the front lines since the very beginning. ever gets

a free will but they'll be it's a global the state ship before its obligation is sold by a media saturation we first met joe northam in the early stages of the occupy wall street movement and out here since october second not a greedy little bit just a whole. hell of a corruption the fault lies mostly really incestuous relationship that they got up there. like it started it was possible for multiple atrocity world wide a former children's mental health counselor jules position was cut and he was left without a job and instead found a place and a purpose here still this is income like a full time job you know i mean a full time job you don't get paid for course but you know if you love something or not that's how. you know you just stay on the hospital and stay he did. as the air cooled. and rain and snow and freezing temperatures came.

this is will supplement that we just wrecked it to protect us from the outside conditions and those conditions not all thanks to mother nature every night or something and there's always some fights there's always to some kind of drama happening there's a lot of a lot of ice where the police have been telling the junkies and drugs they want to get us to hang out go to macpherson. macpherson square one of the longest lasting occupations and it up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from family ness to crime still joel and many others here remain undeterred or today is january the third two thousand and twelve. year the revolution as i'd call it. it is close to. maybe twenty six twenty seven degrees outside but it wasn't the cold but these addiction notices that were posted on the occupiers tents setting off

a firestorm. both anger and support and the construction of this tent of dreams. most people did end up leaving joel included something that maybe stopped would be there was the raid. that was i mean that was i mean they have infrared helicopters flying around at night you know having like little thermal vision on the chance to make sure the people are in the tent sleeping but even police crackdowns have not meant the end of occupy wall street and this is an experience where today nearly six months after the occupy wall street movement began a few tense remain but it's largely symbolic though and the others say the occupation aspect of this movement is simply one chapter on a longer story many more still yet to be written dirty work for them the desire for radical change and a newfound belief that it can actually be achieved is strong enough not to be subdued in the brought me here was that feeling that something was incredibly was

with society in the system in general and everything that we you know are you know should be naturally against as human beings and. i forgot found that there was actually something that we can do about it in washington christine frizz now r.t. but i still to come here not see the next star in our close up series only remembered off the beaten path the highlights of machine village and small population limited resources boom very unique name. with two bloody uprisings in just seven years both of which resulted in leaders being toppled from power it's no surprise that security has become a major concern in central asian republics. but amid accusations of police brutality and the hunts the task of maintaining peace has been taken over secrets flooding the country cities. of some of the reports that are just serving people's interests. reflecting their blows and kicks in this case downtown this young man

a constant reminder of violence that apparently of kyrgyzstan street color ticks for the past decade and this is who should be serving in the police the punchlines track to the heart of the country's security problems two years ago during the last curtis revolution the police opened fire if protesters. almost seventy were killed forcing the president to step down and since then the country's north or each is have effectively replaced the police with a cohort of the july and two groups move here move i told you the movement of drugs iniki or people's guards counts terms of thousands youth group one is really this man patrolled the streets at night and just if one call away during the day organized in small cells their mobile and easily manageable and increasingly they're being trained by the very same security forces they're supposed to be feeling for. the interior ministry in the ministry of defense whole train or

volunteers and in time of need when police in the or me or the world lies we are ready to defend our country the new security arrangement was in full display during the recent presidential elections in addition to observer and regular police each polling station had a group of heavily built man who called themselves the people's guards all candidates in the elections extolling the virtues of democracy and the rule of law but to make sure that these progressive values work in their favor many of them chose to rely on the actual rather than political muscle of the country's former interior minister sas reviling the regular police allows thing out there it is an excuse to maintain their own private armies and he's the public discontent boils over once again. under the pretext of police and he moralized the new authorities are creating their own security units the primary goal is not to protect the law for all. but rather to protect private interests of the boss. this expression of

the revolution has also led to a rise in the number of private security agencies here in the center of the scare cards train weekly to hit targets. during the last reclusion protesters raided several depots and many of their weapons as to look large. it's true that our business grows in times of instability but we are really tired of all these revolutions and what we need is stable economic development and evolution. and this revolutionary fatigue plays well into the near thirtieth hand they may have been brought to power by the popular uprising it with thousands of well trained guards under their command i sure hope not to leave the office in a similar fashion it's not going to artsy could. take a look at some other news from around the world now the south hundreds of egyptian protesters have rallied in cairo the country's military rulers they were outraged

at the recent court ruling that cleared military doctor of charges that forced so-called unity tests female detainees. for him young female activists to follow them go suit against a doctor was one of seven women subjected to the procedure members of the ruling supreme council the armed forces justified the tests or something to protect the army rape allegations. of a wordstar george clooney has been arrested at a protest outside the sudanese embassy in washington. who was released after paying a fine said his main goal was to raise awareness of the situation the border between saddam and south support the instructors accuse the sudanese president of a military process preventing food and aid from each of those of meat. but time to discover more of the world's biggest country down in russia.

this week wrap up our journey to the city of you catherine burke situated in the euro mountains the air is a famous for its precious stones and little industry today there we head to a remote village tom barton finds out about the harsh realities of. you cut ehrenberg is one of russia's biggest cities but a few hours away it's a different world where we were going even tarmac would be a luxury that's it the end of the road from here to the village it's just forest time for me to dip this and go even further off the beaten track. eventually we saw it welcome to the village of newspaper population ten people two horses two cows no running water no electricity and one

rather strange name it was founded in one nine hundred twenty four by a group of collective farm workers who wanted to branch out on their own but they had a problem. to step missing your village they had to have permission so they applied for it through the local paper when the permission was granted they named newspapering things. spread larner is one of only two people to have lived here all their life the other is clean up after her husband died she continued to live here alone every winter there snowed in so what if they need help. because when if you don't get help if something happens your only road if you can't get through the phone no one will come. svetlana with her two horses is essentially the village taxi service for twenty one year old son lives here too and for the moment is

content working on a local logging site. he doesn't want to leave in the town he likes it here but i'm not sure if he'll stay here that long it might be fun for humor he's still young but i think he might get bored of it when the cows can roam freely. doors don't need to be locked in fact apart from tending the livestock the only law and order necessary here is to stop the dogs fatting but newspaper is incredibly small too small and i wondered to survive i was surprised to find it was cool enough and disagreed with me but. the village has a future it needs to hold on it's a nice quiet place and that's why i said to residents come here we even need new cloths for some houses so it looks like far from dying out gleaners granddaughter could be joined by many more visitors i wouldn't hold out for the road though tom

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