un special envoy to syria kofi annan urges the security council to speak with one voice to support his peace mission as russia calls on western powers to press the syrian opposition from the dish it. on your march in riga commemorating those in force on hitler's side draws condemnation from both inside the country and abroad gets backing from that given leadership. and the u.s. identifies the soldiers to spread the killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan and afghan investigation claims he wasn't working alone.

on air and online twenty four hours a day you're watching r.t. the un special envoy kofi annan has urged the blocks most powerful body to act cautiously on the syrian crisis and support his peace mission are proud of his meeting with the security council russia said it was using its contacts and syrian regime to get them to cooperate with their efforts and also called on western powers to do the same with the opposition parties the 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 an impended humanitarian assistance for all those in need in syria he said if the syrian conflict is not handled properly and handled quickly and 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 again give credibility to the international community but it will also help establish peace in syria and help this process just last week and 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 and ceasefire has not been established yet he is making all the efforts that could possibly be made

russia has called on all security council members to support kofi annan efforts in syria and to not undermine it because the sluice have a feeling that every time we manage to achieve some positive change in the students of damascus there's an immediate counterweight reaction and any steps forward are dismissed i hope this will be the case of how countries in the middle east and some western states treat the mission of kofi anon. we see that their efforts are being made continually on on the international level at this point if mr arnaout and i gets the support he is asking for from the security council media eventually will see 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 where rope lines deputy editor of online magazine spiked believes the position of some international players may create serious hurdles finance diplomatic efforts it's

very difficult to see how far kofi annan because america britain and france have been very clear that they want a regime change in syria not really prepared to settle for anything less than part of the result of the syrian government doesn't want to be replaced so there is a basic people are not situation we rushed through trying to seem to be hoping for some kind of in between so the solution is not on the ground and so on and so forth and not you but that may be a step forward but fundamentally the attitude of the major western governments. is to go much much further in terms of replacing the assad regime and i just don't see there's much room for compromise on the. and i would like to know whether you think that mission to syria will bear fruit because to vote on our web

site or out of currently in the majority of us saying the mission will fail as the u.s. and its allies want to see our side out ready to compromise almost a third believe it's too late for a diplomatic solution fourteen percent think it will madison patient the ceasefire all right and just thought the centerpiece so far to trace a mission will be difficult to see an opposition is too fragmented altie dot com is where you can get into if you will force. it happens every year provokes the wrath of those who remember the nazi atrocities there were thousand latvians of hell that i know not commemorating those who fought for access to visions or going is condemned by many that abroad as a misguided inspiration for young we're not says. greece reports there's been decades of change since the world where nazi germany culminated despite the bloody legacy to some quarters of europe you still have an audience.

the jews are crying about the holocaust with forty nine hundred forty one they work for the bolsheviks and killed me i think they received it would be deserved. this is one thousand five hundred people gathered just fishy commemorate those who fought alongside his armies and joined the waffen s.s. deleting stoking fears of a neo nazi resurgence in latvia. we cannot be silent when the people on the ring the memory of the now deceased of the birth and they are marching in the streets of a member of the european union those in the crowd defend their start saying the so-called legionnaires were fighting for liberty at a time when tyranny they slapped fear from all directions it was a military force formed in one thousand nine hundred forty three from volunteers

and members of the disbanded latvian are still retained lease responsible for the mass killing of jews this image of these youths lining the streets to welcome in veterans commemorating legionnaires day is one that has become commonplace it's also something that's increasingly warring observers if it may represent a rise of the far right those same commentators are asking why this message is being supported at the very top of the country's leadership. love being president andres birds inch has argued it is foolish to assume that what s.s. veterans are criminals say may deserve the public's respect people who are in charge in positions of authority should not be setting examples where young people start to believe that a buffet s s is something that you should wish to follow echoing such sentiment and the fascist groups govern it by in a protest to be annual march the rise in far right rhetoric is not unique. with

a continent which by financial crisis ultra nationalists and has been growing throughout europe you've got a fascist right people who are proud of being sort of effort veterans or whatever and you've got the flashlight the people who like probably marine le pen in france are actually coming from that kind of million i mean from that kind of position it's a growth most apparent in marches that celebrate those who others struggle to get them accompanied by personal messages such as this one made at a latvian t.v. station they stand as a striking image of europe's lingering past. that could have an increasing impact on its future to greece r.t. reader and that view. through wind rain and snow it's always the season for protest. in the brought me here was that feeling that something was incredibly

wrong with society and the system in general everything that we you know are you know should be natural be against human beings maybe any symbolic tents left in washington but occupy wall street protesters say it's just the end of one chapter the beginning of the next. customer allies police in kurdistan make way for a new security system any day that private firms will defend their private interests in the forty's rather than the public. the u.s. has identified the soldier accused of killing sixteen civilians in afghanistan staff sergeant robert bales the suspect was flown from kuwait to an american military prison when charges have been brought against him so far. afghan president claims he was not acting alone and up to twenty other u.s. troops may have taken part in the massacre of international affairs commentator repros of the a cold blooded killing of civilians by american forces it's history repeating

itself. we have reason to believe you know received notice right all we have to recall is seven years ago in iraq in the city will be there twenty perhaps iraqi civilians are killed by the u.s. servicemen none of them were prosecuted for their crimes the leader of the group was simply charging a barrel with some of the one broken in writing. you know which is certainly the comments are you know punishment but there is a difference between so-called lateral damage and argument here and the sort of turmoil in the public will know when you're going to espouse somebody who are interested in the search for houses in the in the knowledge that wherever there were people around it often people in the sixteenth or the afghan government state somebody you know more people go into one of nine children three women and so forth and this suggests first of all that one person could hardly have perpetrated the crime of this on and second of all this is not one of them this is not

a soldier in the ground it's very near you know that you've got a truck and this is a very deliberate action and then for us to drive and we're very there's i mean for now some innocent journalists it seems military contracts are kind of getting herself but is the u.s. military's trying to shift the blame in the wake of the shooting rampage focusing on the mental state of staff sergeant robert bales instead of its own foreign policy. there are raging debates about puns to a massacre has been taken apart into to 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 pride to shift the blame onto the psychological and mental state of our particular individual on the other side white house and the pants again trying to present these yet another mccarver incident as just an exception that does not

represent the value of the united states armed forces well the truth is somewhere in between it's totally integrated simple to portray all 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 presume the latest case of this mass murder as an exception. r.t.a. dot com we've got plenty more on that story just log on to check out all the latest also online for us could sense hope benedict the sixteenth all is his own individual cologne i mean fragrant from the steps of the dominance thing on the spur of the secrets of the red sox. titanic effort to film director james cameron is attempting to break a world record in submarine diving right now where the challenge is taking place at

r.t. dot com. it's been six months since the occupy movement set up camp in the united states from new york and washington all the way to open them kind of for their protest has shed light on issues from wealth inequality so police brutality christine for looks at the movement through the eyes of a man who's been on the front lines since the very beginning. every gallus of free will spread till they get the global the state should befall examination the soulfire media saturation we first met joel northam in the early stages of the occupy wall street movement oben out here since the october second i'm angry a little bit just the whole. government corruption all by ourselves really incestuous relationship that they got off the. bike it's time it's responsible for

multiple atrocities all why a former children's mental health counselor position was cut and he was left without a job and instead found a place and a curse that's just here it's just. the school supplement that we test them directed to protect us from the outside conditions and those conditions not all thanks to mother nature every night or something there's always some fights there's always a some kind of drama happening a lot of ice where the police have been telling my jockeys and drug dealers they want to go to hang out or to mix there's a. big fear since where one of the longest lasting occupations ended up becoming a microcosm of society itself with similar issues from cleanliness to crime. still joel and many others here remain undeterred or today is january third two

thousand and twelve. year the revolution is about to call it. it is close to. maybe twenty six twenty seven degrees outside but it wasn't the cold but these a vixen notices that were posted on the occupiers tents setting off a firestorm of both anger and support and the construction of this tent a dream that. most people did end up leaving joel included i guess the thing that maybe stop libya was the raid. that was i mean that was i mean they have infrared helicopters flying around at night you know having like the all formal vision on the tents 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 nick pearson 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 in

a longer story many more still yet to be read the dirty work for them the desire for radical change and a new found belief that it can actually be achieved is strong enough not to be subdued in the brought it here was that feeling that something was incredibly wrong with society in the system in general and everything that we you know are you know should be naturally against that human beings and. i forgot found that there was actually something that we can do about it in washington christine frizz now our team. but still to come here r t the next stop in our close up series on you catherine burke gets off the beaten path the highlights of a russian village from a small population it was resources with one very big name. to blow the 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 the central asian republics of kurdistan but amid accusations of police brutality and violence a task of maintaining peace taken over by secret was found in the cities where the country's citizens should say as some of the reports their fate is serving people's interests. perfecting the blows and kids in this case downtown this young man a constant reminder of the violence that apparently did to this town street college kids for the past decade. even made the punchlines track to the heart of the country's security problems two years ago during the last curtis revolution the police opened fire at protesters. almost seventy brick killed forcing the president to step down and since then the country's north origins have effectively replaced the police with a cohort of vigilante groups will move here move i told you the movement of drugs

iniki or people's guards counts tens of thousands here the good one is really this man patrol the streets at night and just a phone call away during the day organized in small cells there more while and is a limb energy bill and increasingly they're being trained by the very same security forces best supposed to be feeling for. terry or ministry in the ministry of defense train or volunteers and in time of need police me or me are demoralized 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 people's hearts all candidates in the corridors elections extolling the virtues of democracy and the rule of law but to make sure the base for graphic values work in their favor many of them chose to rely on natural rather than political. the country's former interior minister

sas reviling get regular police allows thing out there it is an excuse to maintain their own private armies and keys the public discontent pulls over it once again. under the pretext of the police and the moralized the new authorities are creating their own security your primary goal is not to protect. but rather to protect the private interests of the bosses. this expression of the revolution has also led to a rise in the number of private security agencies here in the central character trained to hit targets. during the last the revolution protesters raided several depots and many of their weapons are still at large. it's true that our business grows in times of use to be really tired of all these revolutions but we need a stable economic development evolution. and this revolutionary fatigue plays well into the new yorker if hands they may have been brought to power by the popular

uprising is with thousands of well trained guards on their back a man i sure hope not to leave the office in a similar fashion it's not going to artsy you could just. take a look now at some other news from around the world. hundreds of egyptian protesters have rallied in cairo against the country's military rulers who were outraged at a recent court ruling that cleared the military doctor of charges that he faced a genetic test tony's very heavily female activist and founder of the lawsuit against the doctor was one of seven women subjected to the procedure. the supreme council of the forces justified the tests as it went to protect me from rape allegations. george clooney has been arrested at a protest outside the sudanese embassy in washington the actor who was released on bail so if his main goal is to raise awareness of the situation on the border

beaches to see. the history of this instant of provoking a crisis renting aid from those in need. that's on us discover more of the world's biggest country in our russia close up series. yes we wrap up our journey to the city catherine we're situated in the year all mountains here is famous for its precious stones and metal in the street today there we head to a remote village where tom barton finds out about the harsh realities of life. you could turn berg 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 ditch 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 the road but they had a problem. with. this term wish in your village they had to have permission so they've lived through it through the local paper when the permission was granted their name to newspapering thinks. straight line or is one of only two people who have lived here all their life the other is cleaner after her husband died she continued to live here alone every winter there snowed in so what if they need help. and it was

when if you don't get help if something happens you're on the road and if you can't get through the phone no one will come. said larner with her two horses is essentially the taxi service the twenty one year old son lives here too and for the moment he's content working on the 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 he while 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 that are but newspaper is incredibly small too small i wondered to survive i was surprised to find it was the leader just agreed with me but for him the

village has a future it's a hold on it's a nice quiet place and that's why it's a resident con here we don't need new clothes for some houses. so it looks like far from dying out alina's granddaughter could be joined by many more visitors i wouldn't hold out for the road though some bottom r.t. . just a few minutes will be travelling to another year or how they sit in perth we saw the adventure.

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profits of the soviet union. philby's choice on parties. close enough she was used to. screech where the floor mine floors are made and can be tested to the limit. not only are she goes to the. blacksmithing was developed from a craft into an industry. where rough logs turn into words of beauty. and where a village called newspaper hi jim it keeps horses well to. russia .

where the end of the core war and the going away of the soviet union many people thought that nuclear weapons disappeared. the risk is not zero that something might be going off by mistake especially of sounds a little nuclear weapons on hair trigger alert. but most of the victims to use it. all. you know if you keep spending a trillion dollars a year on weapons of eventually you're going to blow everybody up you can't you know people are dying from these weapons but until we actually see it people don't wake up to get nuclear weapons or a bill. that represents all the firepower of the second world war and disciplined sound is the equivalent. of the world's nuclear arsenal

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