long. tonight pushing for peace special envoy kofi annan is in moscow to talk peace in syria as the e.u. weighs in with more sanctions despite the process to secure a cease fire but also. the military can do no wrong it seems and that's that's the real tragedy there are doubts over whether an american soldier charged with executing afghan civilians will seek justice as his lawyer warns of a long legal battle. no to war with the rather than say protesters in britain and tell of eve with warnings an attack on the islamic state would spell disaster for pressure to rand's nuclear program full report on that coming up to.

welcome this is r.t. live from moscow my name's kevin oh it's nine pm here now in our top story bringing peace to syria is up for debate in moscow with the u.n. arab league special envoy due to meet the russian president this very weekend to meet with various expected to say how ending the violence is impossible unless the syrian opposition stops being supported militarily politically from outside called him as visit to the russian capital comes after his team talks and to ask is about implementing his six point peace plan that includes a cease fire on the sides humanitarian access to stricken areas and the start of political dialogue serious for a based opposition dismissed the plan but he got you none of us backing from the

u.n. security council even so the e.u. is tightening the sanctions screws. president decides middle east expert maybe there's a royal believe some foreign powers are playing a dangerous diplomatic game right now. but you know it states well paid lip service to anything that talks about peace when it comes to action that's a totally different story seems to me european union power situation britain and france they all talk about peace democracy and humanitarian it isn't but as we all well know albeit d.n.r. they never got involved in syria because of democratic values or in humanitarian interests which is why they support the syrian national army if he wanted peace they would have asked for the syrian national council which is a portion of the opposition to speak to the syrian regime what did they have they'll pay lip service but i don't think it will be genuine. the american soldier accused of a village massacre in afghanistan's officially been charged with twenty nine counts

of murder attempted murder and assault if convicted stuff sergeant robert bales could face the death penalty now but his lawyers say he remembers nothing of the killings while legal experts are warning of a long and complicated legal process ahead that could provoke further rangar among afghans following what's been seen as the worst atrocities by an american in the decade long war glazer from antiwar dot com told us clearing the military of wrongdoing is deeply rooted in us society. throughout the media we've heard the justifications for bill's apparent rampage and you know they go through things like he might have had a concussion he was having trouble with. or was stressed from being around a while but you know people that are outside outside of the u.s. military to commit these kinds of crimes simply don't receive that kind of sympathy it was up there in the new york times about how he's you know he's

a true good man but he has problems and so on and so forth there's an extended effort to try and paint him. as a generally good man who whose crime can be excused what does it say about a society that idolizes and fairness rises. a commitment to kill on the orders of politicians in washington that's that's not that's a strange thing to admire except it's widespread throughout this culture and there are many atrocities that have been committed comparable to this one in the past in iraq and afghanistan is that get papered over after the controversy settles and the dust settles. these soldiers in their military trials kind of get off easy the military can do no wrong it seems and that's that's the real tragedy. interesting before a listing of the military robert bales was in the finance industry but he left under a cloud that's something the kaiser report on this channel gets its teeth into but

later on today. staff sergeant robert bales was previously a stockbroker from one thousand nine hundred six to two thousand and he enlisted in the army shortly after federal financial regulators found he engaged in fraud breach if you share your duty churning unauthorized trading and unsuitable investments the perfect training to become a slaughtering out of control maniac with a gun in afghanistan. would bring a broker is all about slaughtering people now we don't call it forgetfulness the term in the industry is called selective amnesia so you want to be able to selectively amnesia about certain things that would somehow impact the bottom line but gives you more money of course you remember all details but the ones our insider trading so let me remember. as washington reels from the aftereffects of

a soldier's deadly rampage americans are arming themselves with their increasing great new guns and ammunition hitting the shelves creating an addiction to fire that sort of the name of freedom you see cuffing off reports next from virginia where gun laws are about to get a whole lot more lenient. just across the river from the nation's capital virginia a slice of traditional america green spaces and triangle farmlands offer a refuge from urban life a place where red white and blue is display of pride but here at the symbol of liberty isn't just a flag it's this. it definitely is a sign of freedom you know the old one and until now one was all you could buy in virginia every thirty days the law was supposed to curb gun trafficking but many here felt it curbed freedom instead it's not anyone's business how many guns they own or how i buy them or buy them from really we have the second amendment for a reason. purge and you repeal the one handgun permit law in february and come

summertime the right to bear arms will mean the right to buy as many of these. as you want but there are so many different makes models and brands but you know got to have a it's a victory but for much of the world's this kind of freedom may seem bizarre to young man apparently dressed in a long black trench coats open fire across the globe guns are associated with tragedies. or bloodshed and battlefields of war. but for gun owners like jim hansen and guns belong in the hands of american citizens the safest person in the world is someone who is legally carrying a firearm america is a country that was founded with a basic understanding that guns are a bad thing in this world there's two kinds of people my friend. comes. as the most heavily armed nation in the world there are few diggers to be found in

america as of two thousand and seven there were an estimated two hundred ninety four million guns in this country that's nearly enough to arm every man woman and child. that's your poker but your true and in virginia gun shops like this one people just can't seem to get enough whether it's handguns assault rifles or shotguns sales are better than ever they are booming they are definitely through the roof or a nerd. and in of these were guns mean freedom that trend isn't likely to change in our society is a polite society you know we are here because of guns as bad as i may sound we've defended ourselves and we are of the free nation and we are because of the. thirty years after each from gun control movement americans are returning to their roots and raising the idea of winning in firing firearms like these with zeal and seen since the days of muskets and malicious for many freedom is symbolized by the

barrel of a gun it's the marker see locked and loaded party on lucic nothing else in virginia . still ahead here tonight we get the word on why polluting the planet no longer seems to be packing heat. big oil companies don't want to hear their money it's a lobbyist thought here. but we can't hear about so much how we have it produced. if you from new york on how to stop climate change from slipping off the radio is not had so much about it plus also the curb its high tech verses and made as we explore renowned russian jewelry hard to see which method shines the brightest we'll let you decide. next the antiwar activists of the day of action in key british cities to warn the authorities against a potential attack on iraq and similar rallies expected in the capital of israel which is leading calls to strike over to rome's nuclear program campaigners fear

the motive pressure could escalate into all out war if it all goes very badly wrong the effects of which would reverberate globally where there's no british m.p. jeremy called would also member of the stop the war coalition which organized the u.k. protests jeremy very good evening chief thanks for being on artie's prescience if we witness these protests we've seen other recent ones too in britain and the u.s. the u.k. at the moment saying it wouldn't back in israeli strike on iran the u.s. is also saying. well there's no there is still room for diplomacy so why are you so worried. because the rhetoric that's building up in the us because of the breakdown of the relations between britain and iran and because of the deployment of naval forces from most western countries in the gulf at the present time and the danger comes from that and the instant rebuttal of most western governments of everything the international atomic energy authority says what we came to point out is that there is a serious danger of conflict with iran we need to plough mysie we need dialogue but

above all we need an aspiration of peace and understanding in the region not another war because of our growing to this western powers saying iran is concealing the development of a nuclear bomb israel insisting an attack on a country is the only way to foil such plans i've given the hostile relations between the two states that there is a carnival are good our lord say it is channels not saying it but some people argue that surely israel has a right to take measures to protect itself. israel has two hundred nuclear warheads has a delivery system has a research reactor and certainly has the capability of palming with nuclear weapons iran or indeed any other country in the region israel is also not a signatory to the nuclear nonproliferation treaty iran use and remains the last n.p.t. review conference agreed on a nuclear weapons free middle east in determination to achieve that that would mean some kind of debate over conference that involves israel i think the way forward

has to be deescalating the tension denuclearizing the region otherwise is somebody somewhere is going to develop a nuclear weapon i didn't leave iran has a nuclear weapon i'm not even sure iran wants to develop a nuclear weapon but isolating iran allowing israel to continue with these threats and also allowing the assassinations to go on of nuclear scientists in iran when iran has a legal right. to develop civilian nuclear power seems to me a very very dangerous development indeed i mean echoing on what you're saying the intelligence agencies in the us and israel are thought to agree that there is not enough proof right now to determine if iran is building a nuclear bomb you're saying everything should be can't people should be talking in this great sentiments great what you want but it's not happening how do you get it how. well i think it's happening to some extent in the international atomic energy authority is doing its best they are trying to inspect as far as they can and they

are keeping an open dialogue with the iranian regime maybe we need some other grouping of nations come in try and promote some kind of dialogue between all sections of iranian society and the western governments because this is becoming a standoff between the european union and the iran between the u.s. and iran maybe some nonaligned nations from another constant might be a helpful way forward in bringing about the dialogue that is so far and so necessary think of the consequences for the western economies the whole world's economies of war with iran think of the incalculable loss of people all over that region if we let slip dogs of war we will all live if we do live to regret it if the war you say that what would the very worst case scenario be if the worst were if the dialogue broke looking out of every hand months or years hence my view is if israel still goes ahead and attacks we send strikes back what reaction would there

be from britain and the us what they stand aside. i don't think they i don't think they would they have formidable force in the region there is a u.s. base in bahrain there are a british troops in the whole region there is a russian base in syria there is a huge the agree of armaments all over the region and the grange of them is it gets sucked into a war of attrition or alleged peacekeeping in the dangers of course the effect on the world economy on all prices would be absolutely catastrophic and i just think we have to start to try and understand the nature we rein in society not condoning the human rights abuses but understand the nature of society and understand the need for dialogue that will hopefully hopefully bring about a deescalation of this crisis and a peaceful future british m.p. jeremy corbyn also a member of stop war coalition functioning on the line from london tonight. there's no rest for bangor in

a sturdy hit greasers another protest against budget cuts has ended up in clashes with police become trees been relying on international bailout loans most since may twenty ten in exchange for those harsh public spending curbs belt tightening has been met with public fury and continuing protests it's a feeling shared by young people in spain through their the youth jobless rate now heading for fifty percent because of its severe economic problems there's no full picture for most artists or a first report it countries tend to make their voices heard more and more now. using quite this is part of a lost generation with unemployment at an all time high with more than forty nine percent to sixteen to twenty four year olds now out of work it's spain it is particularly tough we come here to day one of the universities in spain to speak to some of the students there it's really high unemployment biggest he was like the student at this time in the country. why it's hard i truly because you know the

the future you can. expect employment grades are already this high and the. schools are becoming a private business it's hard to tell if you're going to find a job when you when you finish studying if you can actually do some college studies because if you have to pay really high price for them you are not even going to be able to go to college at all think of those. people who suffer or are we are children and i think their government have to think that indication is their most important thing because because of us will be we will create a future so they have to spend money they have to spend money in indication what i would like to see would be people massively going out of the street and protesting big things change people have that power and it will lead them to realize. increasingly that i think that he was being students have been doing taking to the

streets to protest the measures being brought in by the government this is not just students that is suffering in the last four years three million jobs. disappeared. and now we're expecting at least four hundred thousand. more jobs to disappear in the coming months we join some of the country's student unions as they plan for their next peaceful protests they tell us that the new government's approach to managing the demonstrations is anything but peaceful the government there will be elections on the twentieth of november one month after that they were standing over a million euros on tear gas and other equipment to repress their own citizens on the street one million euros of the budget of a counter that this has already a really bad economy on weapons to use against our own citizens what they can here to complain about what we are doing to them that's what the new government of spain

is doing right now seemingly hardline approach of the new spanish government in managing these protests. treif to be a real problem when hundreds of thousands of disenchanted east it's turned into not a case of the mistakes of the past each is their. thing. but you know if you're watching us we keeping tabs on europe's debt the lamb is with coverage and then this is a remote website as well extensive coverage there are other stories and pictures as well for you like these tonight about the satellite shock of the call a good for the space station crew nearly got hit by a high speed fragment that you get into a skate casuals but all is well everything passed off ok to find out how they georgetown the dead three also they kept a brave face despite the slip ups in catholic sands are receiving their medals to music for the tories comedy movie board instead of the national anthem organizers said the downloaded the wrong one thinks so too much embarrassment all round there

are more about that at all to talk on as well. tommy lives. on the run its intentions. will move into the fall. to thousands of nuclear security summit. on r.t. . most scientists agree that global warming has a daily impact on cities around the world get the main news outlets a paper gone cold about discussing it now maybe out of the headlines but laurie half and people in new york it's something that still burns their conscience. this year the u.s. saw its fourth warmest winter on record and europe saw a record breaking cold why is no one talking about the perils of climate change any more this week let's talk about that do you think it's still a threat to the planet yes over here especially what traffic.

yeah we use a lot of cars we like to pollute the earth here in the u.s. definitely you know what can you do i mean the individual. person we can stop using plastic bags and we will turn your lights off we already knew that we really don't feel like that makes a big difference well no we do yes we do as much as we can but you know it's time for the government head's world why do you think the world still cares about it because it doesn't seem to be in the headlines as frequently absolutely not so why is that i don't know. for government to figure out but they don't want to give us an affirmation for us to make their own decisions and i think it's something that people know i mean everyone a lot of people watch you know watch al gore and listen to him and can't remember the name of the movie. when it all we heard about it was. being interest me forgot the dave you know we forgot why do you think the media has got to talk about

it because it clearly wasn't common sense that stops them. because they found something else to talk about i do believe people are working on it and when you talk my son who's in college and his friends i think there is a lot more concern than we have so yeah it's i guess it's a can't really gauge everything but what the media is talking about right right we're going to have snow in june at this point so you believe it's still yes absolutely so why isn't the media talking about it anymore big business big big big oil companies don't want to hear that from your money to lobbyists there don't want to hear it so it's good but we don't hear about it so much. are we headed for doom . i don't know if you had with sarah for twenty first time it's well the bottom line is although there are people who are still concerned about the effects of climate change but mainstream media is clearly not among them. if you head to global warming drift to the back of politicians minds again know

more about the environment to come from this channel barack obama's fast track controversial cross country oil pipeline of the states we're talking about it before for but could we have a low to show an extra. thirteen states in the midwest where the company believes that we will see increased prices and we will see increased profits so then do you think that the president is going to win any political points of this move because on one hand i guess you could say well he's trying to. know the people that really want the pipeline to go through that i can give you half an hour but they're going to say that's not enough and of course you know people like yourself have been advocating against it the whole time this is a bit of a slap in the face where the oil lobby is the most powerful lobby in america and what we're seeing right now is a political poorly to please the oil industry so whether or not this translates into american votes you know i'm careful i've been down the ground talking people in texas and oklahoma they are extremely upset environmentalists across the country

are extremely upset and. the answer is very very powerful and since they weren't we . small world views in brief teenagers been shot dead and twenty five people heard of more clashes between police and football supporters of egypt portside friends rioted after their club was suspended for two years over fears violence of much of its stadium last month when seventy three people died troops fired tear gas and live rounds into the air in an effort to clear the area of witnesses they found slit fires blocked major roads and tried to take over the sewers canals made administrative buildings. also making the headlines this hour a crash involving a bus and a lorry near birmingham england that's left one person dead and about forty injured witnesses say there were four b. conditions at the time according to local reports the bus had stopped on the m five motorway after breaking police say it's not yet clear what caused the accident the

. clashes in northwest pakistan of left five army soldiers and twelve taliban killed the fighting took place near a town known to be a militant hub a military operation targeted insurgents who kidnapped two army soldiers a few days ago and later decapitated the. high end jewelry never goes out of fashion with robust sales despite the financial squeeze on the city indeed its never lost its sparkle is the production powerhouse of koster a bar in central russia whose factories are thriving and its traditional craftsmanship that wedding rings road mass produced alternatives it seems is out its paper all of of for you. there's gold in them hills not just gold diamonds rubies and just about any other precious and semiprecious stone you can imagine that's because in the city of cost to them after the north of moscow lies the beating heart of russia's jewelry industry. it's difficult to get exact

figures but we can say with a degree of confidence that every fourth product in russia is one of ours despite this being a tough time economically for a lot of businesses the de'monte company a looking to branch out the vast majority of russia's jewelry comes from this region with over four million pieces a year coming off the production lines of this factory alone all those that have the challenge the dominance of mass production. just down the road from the major factories it occurs in a sales guy a school for metal treatment and teaching students how to craft a spoke jewellery for one hundred fifty years however despite the history the rise of the factories has caused some concern the problem here is that some graduates find it hard to work on new equipment installed at these factories but they can do everything from aids that was their hands students come from far afield to attend the school samuel show me love is from israel he's following in his uncle's

footsteps by studying here and has high hopes for the future. earrings that i make are valued very highly i can't think of a factory that can do things like they're maybe tiffany i mean this is the level i am aspiring to. perhaps the inspiration for the students is the success of local independent gauri blastoff working from home alongside his wife tatiana the couple that produced some stunningly beautiful pieces drawing inspiration from a multitude of sources. i turn to history to literature and my previous experience with some of the pieces containing thousands of stones and taking more than its. six months to complete they don't come cheap but the source after the fact president meet the made beer is among those who has purchased their work gori says there will always be room above the factories the individual craftsmen to produce

and sell their wares here the english to which i think traditional crowd of production can co-exist because they are two different things it's like juxtaposing you talk of the imprinting you photography is about equipment p.t. is more about brains and. this is the difference with jewelry as well and. with so much jewelry being made here is certainly the king of bling of russia's regions the trial of the arctic. is now coming up at eight pm g.m.t. your backstage pass to moscow circus is in a close have been canned it was some of the four legged celebrities to not talk about martin andrews here. one of the stars of the show a very large animal but i will admit quite wary about meeting of the last african. times this is no creature i would like to get in the way of. being years

old i just. i feel quite safe standing here he doesn't like me. was the last thing he said adding to our studios in washington d.c. for the next ninety minutes as mentioned be alone a show to come go before that in just a few minutes the latest capital account to you watching our team from moscow i'm kevin zero in headlines coming up after this quick break.

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