if you're away from your television well it just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch your tree anytime anywhere. international journalists including n l c news crew come under rubble fire while covering the conflict in syria. the last human rights groups quiet flower after the white house allows the military to keep detaining terror suspects indefinitely without charge or trial. on those on t.v. you sentiment of rises to new levels of course with the british and the country's prime minister promises to get on board with the movement before the next election .

you saw russia and around the world this is all she was me frank for joining us several international journalists including an aussie arabic news crew how to try a close brush with death while covering the conflict in syria they came under rebel sniper fire as they accompanied the military on a counter insurgency sweep one of our colleagues come out sucker was injured while running for cover and he is his account. we arrived at the damascus suburb early in the morning to report on the syrian army operation we were moving from street to street and when we reached the dock my colleagues and i got caught in crossfire we tried to escape running one after another fearing that armed rebels would notice us a syrian army soldier accompanied us the entire time he constantly kept his on the situation and helped us to escape the gunfire the rebels were firing on us my colleagues and i were wearing bulletproof vests with the word press song them that

the firing was very intense and it was difficult to find shelter i ran and fell down i hurt my arms but the syrian army doctors gave me first aid on the scene so i could continue to do my job there were many other correspondents there with me including iranians and syrians one of the syrian cameraman was also slightly wounded like me. meanwhile a car bomb blast has ripped through a petrol station packed with people in the syrian capital at least eleven have been killed and dozens injured u.s. war correspondent ross baker says such a tongue set typical of the western box opposition trying to bring down assad. there's going to be a lot of in the way of covert operations sponsored by outside parties that have a stake in haste feeling some sort of a resolution of the situation on the surface that western countries and including my own have stepped up their involvement and want to get assad out as fast as

possible and these are the sorts of things that we've seen historically going all the way back to the goo in guatemala in the one nine hundred fifty s. of iran and so forth these sorts of provocations are very very common i think we're going to see them increase until something or other is resolved there a pretty clearly i think the western countries don't want any kind of halfway measures they want him out entirely and i think he is not going to do that until the last possible moment. us human rights groups are venting their anger at big government of president obama extended the military's authority definitely detain terror suspects including americans without charge or trial and i'll show difference authorization twenty thirteen also allows for the notorious gang tunnel bay military prison to remain open despite the president's own pledge to shut down the facility years ago activists say the angst means obama has failed the first test of his second term even before inauguration day and a veteran congressman dennis kucinich things they moved part of the tent and say

that undermines democracy. there are great human rights concerns here. that people could be held indefinitely violates a constitutional privilege that people have we have a constitutional challenge here where not only the national. defense authorization act but the patriot act and other legislation have gradually moved america away from a robust. freedom to a more limited freedom. that is based on proscriptions by the government. this is more than problematic because what has always amazed made america america is is the fact that we follow our constitution and we protect our constitution and we protect people against unreasonable search and seizure we protect people against

being seized without a right to. know the charges against them or a right to an attorney or a right to a trial we have in the past condemned government being involved in spying now we have a much broader. spy network this is something that is profoundly anti-democratic i have repeatedly taken exception to it as a member of congress and the us below that haven't got things they find roni how washington is pushing this squeeze on freedoms while trying to teach other countries a lesson in human rights. currently in the us courts there's been in fact a case moving it on appeal right now the government has appealed it but a judge earlier and in two thousand and twelve had actually enjoined it so it is used in conjunction making it so that provision of this provision for indefinite detention was actually not something that the government could use now the obama

administration is defending that in the courts i think a lot of people in the united states know as much about what just happened given that happened during the holidays it's fair to say that the united states should probably not be lecturing other countries about how they protect human rights or how they protect civil liberties especially one there are many policies in the united states that they are not able to you know they're not really good policies on their own they're not protecting civil liberties of the united states citizens and they're they're not protecting the human rights of united states citizens. feeling is hardening in britain where a majority of citizens feel that the country would be better off outside the troubled union prime minister david cameron has evolved to adopt a clear euro skeptic position to remain in tune with the people and my colleague bill dolan to spoke on this issue to you boy in london the e.u.

is popularity at a very very low amongst the british public at the moment we've just had a poll that asked respondents to grade institutions like in school and the european union got an average grade of a d. plus from the british public that's not very very high now on a more serious note this recent poll it's really marked a tipping point because for the first time in decades the number of people that say that they would vote for britain leaving the european union is the majority of the british public so it's really turning britain turning into a nation of real euro skeptics at the moment and it's not just the results of one poll we've seen things like for example british support for political parties and to european ones like the u.k. independence party it's at an all time high so lots of bad news for pro europeans at the moment so what is the main grudge that many people are holding against.

well the british public has always been very divided over membership anyway but the past year has been particularly difficult we've seen you know the chronic financial crisis in the eurozone with a real loss of confidence that but also the same time at home they have crippling austerity measures so there's a growing resentment towards the vast sums of money that leaves the british treasury and come straight from the u.k. budget goes straight to brussels every year when very terrible project cuts. it's not just the money there's also the aspect of the control of north that comes from work brussels that many people want to see returned back to westminster so this. goes to the top of the u.k. doesn't it right at the top of political levels. well indeed david cameron the prime minister has just said that the conservative party is going to be going into the next general election in twenty fifteen as a euro skeptic party is an anti european political party that really shows that you

know the government's banking on the fact that the british public is are you going to get more fed up with british membership in and that they're really confident that that's going to happen what about brussels and how is it responding to the way that britain is giving the cold shoulder transition well it can't be too pleasant listening to all this negativity about yourself and of course there are reports flying around now that certain senior members of the european parliament want to offer britain a junior membership status associate membership and it would in fact be a bit of a demotion whereby britain since its grumbling so much over its membership in the european union it would have much less influence over issues within the european union itself so it's got all the hallmarks of a relationship going quite sour and now it's either going to be a question of who dumps who fausto salvagable but with public opinion turning

towards britain getting out it's going to be harder and harder to stay in. and more stories ahead for you this hour including taming tibet separatist sentiment and inhuman look at chinese plans to solve problems out by pumping money and as it tries to integrate one of its most rested regions into the rest of the country. not struggling to deliver its one of its seven mothers says his victory in the presidential race but how socialist francois hollande really want i would a french people would find out interest of him but that's. something. the law is beneath. thousands of meters of. drawing.

the law. that is a use for many. but dangerous even to those who keep it at a distance. choose your language. of choice make it with no inferential going to say there is still some honest. truth as good as the consensus you got to. choose the opinions that degrade to. choose the stories that imply life choose be access to. this is our sea welcome back for years people in tibet have protested chinese rule

over their land often taking drastic measures to do so with twenty eight self-immolation as reported last november alone but since blood to muster asians four years ago big dreams been trying to integrate tibet into the rest of the country boosting subsidies and investment trying is now pumping almost fifty billion dollars into the region to win the support of the population. now reports. of the communist party of china a slogan so widespread in tibet it's even displayed on taxis here everything is an ambiguous mix of modern technology and tradition communism and religion. double israel six his son is a buddhist monk but ten years ago this elderly man joined the communists bang or do i need the party is breathing new life into our nation and me my digital in the capital where shops and businesses sit beneath the monastery's on the hills this is

quite a normal scene for us so every day believers gather in the city center to pray right outside what is traditions are very strong here but at the same time chinese national red flags are hanging almost on every poor in every building as a constant reminder which country tibet is a part of. for decades china has been accused of occupying tibet and destroying its culture human rights organizations report numerous abuses there on a daily basis some are even willing to go to the most extreme measures in protest in almost all instances protests are put down through violence so chinese security personnel will come in and more use violence to to basically stop those protests we've documented cases where the chinese state news lethal force against tibetans in one town fifteen people were shot legal authorities denial of geishas of human

rights violations claiming the so often malaysians are organized from abroad accusing the worst of a full scale media assault on china united states has been using to bat for. six decades now and since the truman administration co-opted to fight communism and they will continue this. because their modus operandi these days seems to be human rights violations over the years china's spent over sixty billion u.s. dollars to build schools roads and water supplies as well as developing industries from beer factories to cultural workshops. outside the capital in one of tibet's most ancient temples when we ask the monk what he thinks of the exile of their spiritual leader the dalai lama he surprisingly said he didn't hear. the government supplies clothes food and other necessities not the dalai lama i couldn't care less where he was assessing tibet is

not easy even on the ground it's hard to see what's true and what's being deliberately shown to foreigners but what's crucial for the next generation of tibetans is that the mix of ancient traditions and beijing's billions can pay off. spin off r.t. to bet. and let's now take a look at some other news from around the world that is our lives lead travis has suffered it was spirit failure following a council breach and cuba that's according to one of the country's top officials and it was only reporters that he was suffering complications caused by a lung infection and as well as vice president has tried that travis is fully conscious and under the constitution the socialist president is due to be sworn in for a third term and actually. a suicide bomb attack south of the iraqi capital has killed at least twenty seven scheid programs they were on their way from the holy city of karbala where turns out thousands had been attending an annual rituals

of mourning that was almost two weeks of sunni protests against the current share prime minister nuri al maliki the latest violence highlights the continuing sectarian tensions that threaten to further divide the country. and the protest march in the chilean capital commemorating the controversial death of portray indian turned violent with about a dozen people arrested the twenty two year old was shot dead by police in two thousand and eight during a lunch just between the south of the country but indians were present about five percent of travelers population and have clashed sporadically with their authority as the year. israel has announced it's going to build a new bahrain along the occupied golan heights the reason it says it is to protect its citizens from the ongoing violence in syria as the jury state has completed the bulk of the work on a fence separating itself from egypt aimed at rooting out illegal migration and

earlier my colleague spoke to activist jamal dreamer who believes these actions have nothing to do with the safety. israel has. to recalculate what they are doing in the middle east israel dealing with the middle east or dominating power on the try all the time to build war walls around then themselves claiming that the people is hating them and they are targeting them israel has been harmed the whole region and the area around desert they are building the wall around the palestinian areas the claim that it's for security but at the end that one of the worst apartheid systems and get was around the palestinian people that look people have seen it in forty percent of their land they build world around gods and they turn god's into a jail the biggest prison in the word commune we know how they differ state that if you wish and got them they are still occupying syria and they are building a wall on the occupied land so they want to keep this land that to keep them physically fired. it's not the solution that you keep building walls you need to do

peace with the region you have to write to the people israel can't build its future on the expense of the people of the region and at the end building walls to protect the to protect themselves. is not going to protect israelis people's rights and they will keep claiming the rights israel's merged visible wall is its barrier separating israel from the palestinians while it's also of course building settlements in the area how do you see that situation develop if you think there could be any compromise over this very contentious issue you know you see that you see what how the artist collating even the building the settlements in the west bank and the building when it in a way that to control the palestinian people and this is leading it and pushing it for the explosion we witness in the settlers is attacking the palestinians every day and many villages this is north of the jordan valley is evacuated now by now by the israeli. attack on the people in the south of settlers attacking the people in

the middle areas so they are russian war on the palestinian people and they want the walls at the end to to bring peace to them stealing the people's land looking them in. their life is not going to bring peace in any way must realize that their years change and they must they must understand this change the need for them to conciliate with the people deal with the people i don't we don't consider yourself as part of your job or do you want to isolate yourself and look yourself within the walls from the region you can't do that it's been just over seven months since french well it has invested their hopes for a change in socialist france on land trusting him to steer the country out of the storm the economic waters but as ours has an exit russia found out less than a year in office it appears the president has already lost a lot of the momentum that swept into power. the debate on whether gay marriage

should be allowed has split french society for years with protests about the issue often ending in violence with francois hollande coming to power the gay community breathed a sigh of relief but it may have been too soon activists say the new law which is going through parliament in january is not exactly what they've been dreaming of but we are. very happy that dress low has been introduced by the government to open marriage to same sex couples and adoption and supposedly. medically assisted procreation but we're still very concerned because. people are against same sex marriage same sex equality are getting very strong including in the parliament. in the mayor's were obliged to officially register gay couples marital status and that's where me and you revolted including francois labelle the mayor of central

paris. allowing same sex marriages in france and moreover permitting them to adopt children will destroy the foundations of our family institution if we allow this now the next step will be allowing paedophilia and incest. so it seems in this scenario no side is completely happy which puts the french president and his electoral promise under serious pressure from bringing the french troops back from afghanistan to creating more jobs in france and preventing the country from going into austerity during his campaign to become a normal president francois hollande had made many promises some of which now experts say may backfire against the french leader and if the gay marriage law wasn't divisive enough all on splurged to impose a seventy five percent tax on the wealthy may become another sticking point several million years have already decided to take their businesses out of france that's called a lot of problems and it does divide the country because

a lot of people realize that the rich aren't going so far as financial problems everybody's going to have to pay france's national programs including socialist voters which of course frost all along when he was being elected gave the impression that. this wouldn't happen the latest polls suggest. he has dropped by twenty percent winning the election we proved to be the far easier challenge than what awaits the french president now with the economic producers for twenty thirteen in france looking far from optimistic he could face an uphill joran. and they. all see reporting from barrett's. francois hollande the controversial law trade times has sent many wealthy french to seek financial haven elsewhere and on our website we'll get father reaction to the news that the roundup of here has been granted russian citizenship but led to a preacher without saying how they stayed at his request was planned.

and also that dramatic twist in the case of the violent gang rape that sparked opt for. as it emerges the month believed to be the most a brutal abuse it could escape severe punishment if found guilty why. later today also he talks to william binney a u.s. national security agency whistleblower about the ways that american government is spying on its citizens but here's a preview f.b.i. has access to the data collected which is basically the e-mails of virtually everybody in the country. and they have at the f.b.i. has access to it all the congressional members are on on the surveillance to it's not no one's excluded they're all included so yes this can happen to to anyone if they become a target for whatever reason. if they were targeted by the government the government can go in with the f.b.i.

or other agencies of the government can go into their database pull all that they have collected over them on them over the years and reanalyze it also retroactively analyze everything they've done over the last ten years at least working one part well i'm sure i i i believe i've been on it for quite a few years. so i keep telling them everything i think of them in my e-mail so that they when they read it they'll understand what i think of them. on the way join is for a trip to russia. to discover natural. caves. ron

paul has rejected the national rifle association safety plan and by safety plan the n.r.a. proposes basically turning every school in america into a prison camp so on this one ron paul i'm with you in the wake of the tragic events at sandy hook elementary and every vice president wayne la pierre called on congress to immediately appropriate whatever is necessary to put armed police officers in every school so yeah what is the solution to isolated incidents of extreme violence make every child live their entire school life at gun point before putting armed guards in schools maybe we should take a look at the fact that more than twenty five percent of american kids are on medication and that's just the kids altering their mental state legally mom is working two jobs so she isn't around dad is a wall and the t.v. who's the new parent shows kids nothing but images glorify violence revenge and

torture when someone is getting harassed every day at school and maybe getting harassed at home they feel totally alone and they see no future and no escape from the hell that they're in they are going to take drastic measures to get out of it you know in the fifty's sixty's and seventy's there were still plenty of guns and there were no armed officers in schools but there were no shootings society changed and school violence erupted societies what needs to change to call them things back down but that's just my opinion.

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you. are small and ancient russian merchant city sits at the confluence of three rivers. it's not quite europe but it's not a nation either. native of congo or he heads off to work each day at the same time. constant in has been conducting independent research for ten years now his profession is out of the ordinary for most people but it's quite natural for those living in the you'll see it mixes danger with excitement. the city's protected reserve early morning enjoys a few precious moments before being plunged into darkness. i constantine how are things at the site everything is alright no problem i'll give you the keys a group of scientists is arriving today and we should check everything carefully ok then. ok. another day begins in this

beautiful. countryside. every day people working at the site after walked ten kilometers back and forth for all passers by it's obligatory to strike first singing stone the more beautiful the seldom masks the more likely a wish is to come true. on the one hand everything seems to have stopped dead here on the other hand a specialist can always see how the cave has changed over time the place is a living organism and an underground paradise for geologists and researches lying beneath the banks of the silver river and at the depths of the ice mountain hides the pearl of congo. yes the congo ice cave has captured the interest of many scientists and it's no wonder.