it was. russia slams washington for blocking a u.n. security council statement condemning bomb blast in damascus which killed dozens have an exclusive interview with the organization struggling peace envoy to syria. french president francois or none for pets to receive a u.n. peace award for sending his forces to mali even as fighting to maintain stability. and if you want to the u.k. coalition governments persistent backpedaling on its policies begs the question is it a sign of listening to the public or just a sign of weakness. international news and comment life for most cases all see with me hello and welcome to the

program. russia has happily criticized the u.s. for blocking a u.n. security council statement condemning a string of boma types in the syrian campus so the blasting belies of at least fifty three people and wounded hundreds while also damaging the russian embassy moscow says it's unacceptable for washington to seek excuses away calls especially after u.s. diplomatic missions have been targeted in other countries the deadliest car bomb explosion struck a business neighborhood of damascus where the age of president assad's ruling party is located it was also a school near the epicenter of the blast and many children are believed to be among the victims mainly thanks terry allen if this scale of the apparent act of terrorism yet again indicates need for additional. it was a very clear response to those who are arguing like myself and others the base should be a political settlement that this ugly stalemate should not be allowed to continue.

any longer saylor elements within the opposition should sit down and see what's going to be sorted out even at this late late stage because if this doesn't happen the war will expand as we're seeing into lebanon on and then anything's possible affectively the syrian rebel forces trying to topple the government have not had open public support which they wanted in terms of the nato strike promise of the united states going to back them and their effect of really trying to maintain their position during this ugly transitional period to see how they can keep the situation destabilized but it is not in the interests of the syrian people. the rebel free syrian army has claimed it launched assaults on has below bases in neighboring lebanon the latest sign the conflict in series pouring

across the borders of the country things surgeon said forty eight hour ultimatum demand for the lebanese group to enter the shelling of rebel held town in syria expired on thursday london based here in political activist danny markey says the potential strike between to islam is functions could have far reaching consequences the biggest problem in lebanon is that some of the western countries are really trying to pit one of the islamist movements against each other the sunni f.s.a. against the shia hizbullah it's essentially a policy of divide and conquer which is being instigated media wise by the way to create divisions that fractures within our syrian lebanese society and this is an issue which they're working on today by pitting the f.s.a. against hezbollah they create more division attention between syria and lebanon and we've seen with the recent conflict in tripoli in northern lebanon that the syria crisis is not necessarily in syria syria is the linchpin of the reason of the region and there is great tension both in syria and lebanon and there is great fear and anxiety that the struggle in syria could spill into lebanon i mean of course

understand that lebanon had their own civil war which is very lucky. so negative it's very scared at this moment of the syria crisis turning into a lebanese crisis and he has spoken exclusively to the main mediating the syrian conflict some bob comments for the opposition the u.n. peace envoy lakhdar brahimi is reluctance to make any concessions to the assad regime is one of the major roadblocks to peace and you can catch our full interview in just over an hour here and i see it has a preview of what brahimi have to say. seemed the only problem is in assad and he not stepping down. a lot of people who are opposed to all who are involved in this conflict in syria think that the president is a serious important part of the problem this is a fact and they repeated every day do you believe that's the problem doesn't matter

what i believe doesn't matter what you believe either when you're saying q. may be talking to the government but not the president directly. the problem is only in one man in bashar al assad himself the problem is that the opposition is saying every five minutes they don't want to talk about our last or this is the problem is he's future in his own hands at this point should it be in his own hands i'm talking about assad i don't want to talk about that. mostly wants to bring back the younger brother of a three year old who died in texas a month ago the investigation into the death of maxime guzman is still drug known russian officials blame the boy's adoptive mother she says the death was an accident while local police say it's too early to tell. if the need is for four weeks following the death of little maxime and no arrests have been made in texas

officials have disclosed very little while they say there are they are awaiting autopsy results now what police officials have said so far is that max was last seen alive playing outside with outside of his home with his two year old brother his youngest brother on the afternoon of january twenty first according to police his adoptive mother claims she went inside and when she came back outside max was on for a sponsor by that time police say that by the time police say they arrived at the home max was already being transported to the hospital where he was pronounced dead just one hour later now investigators say they question laura shot his adoptive mother at the hospital while deputies allegedly searched and photographed the whole alan and laura shatto adopted him and his younger brother carroll from russia in november his adoptive mother says that maxime's death was an accident moscow

officials however believe that it was at the hands of his adoptive parents that mocks lost his life we have information that. had been severely beaten. before birth or. possibly he had been. maybe cuba. american mother russian authorities say that they are waiting to see how the investigation turns out and to be fully informed about the proceedings and the outcome of the investigation but russian officials believe that if the probe finds that maxine was killed that those responsible should be brought to justice knox is the twentieth russian child to have died in the custody of an american adoptive family in the past seventeen years one of the most well known recent cases is the case surrounding d.-ma yakovlev which took place in two thousand and eight that young

boy was left in a car by his adoptive father for eight or nine hours the temperature inside that car was about thirty two degrees celcius as a result that little russian boy died when his father was tried in a court and his adoptive american father was found not guilty that case prompted moscow officials to adopt a new legislation that recently imposed a ban on american adoptions that move was harshly criticized for right now tensions clearly are escalating between moscow and washington over the way that russian adopted children are being looked after here in the united states is a government a sign of weakness or courage to admit mistakes while britain's prime minister david cameron is doing his best to make a virtue of the number of times he's back trying to implement says. looks now that he's often used. it can be hard to tell what goes on inside the mind of the prime

minister but say many decisions to be made on a daily basis is perhaps little wonder that sometimes they change their minds and from buses to badges healthcare to housing case goes caravans charities and circus animals petulant even pasties the list of this government's u. turns buried and long in fact there have been so many recently that some wonder if this is the most indecisive british government ever it's kind of difficult to get the data right and partly because people change what we call them so and you know after modifier to talk about you turn a low you stop turning you know everybody's where do you turn for up top are quine downs or part downs or whatever back then the words you turn carry negative connotations you turn if you want to i thank the ladies not for turning my the warmest thirteen might not have been for turning

this prime minister certainly is his coalition's clocks up to getting thirty five you turned say far roughly for every twenty nine days the coalition's been in power there's been a change of direction a u. turn if you like and i can pass rafferty two days from gordon brown and tony blair was much more on was less likely to change direction he was one of the himself and margaret thatcher you know use terms i took around four hundred days to go to change direction after tony blair's government go back to the coalition then when it comes to why do you think we have seen this government have so many say many more than previous government i think a lot of it is down to the fact that it is a coalition. that this is a very new thing actually in british politics it's very common and embarrassing for them do you think i think it's been difficult for the leadership point of view but i think it's something that. has been accepted going in and during the coalition

agreement there will have to be compromises when it comes to this government it's clear that what they say might not always be exactly the thing but is the fact that they clocked up so many you terms a sign that the government is listening or doesn't leave their pledges and promises sounding a little well false that's not good is not a good thing. thinking if you vote for a government in the aspects of what they say it's going to be good for you actually going to be it's not proper to say well i don't know why i think if it's an issue that obviously people are worried about that it were interested in something. but with the call it's a u. turn about turn climb down or back down when it comes to changing your mind in government many it's a case of you're damned if you day and. this government may well be recorded as being indecisive but he was recorded as being indecisive it would be

a check for the opposite for being mean so ultimately and this is something i often used to say you take your money you pays your money and takes your choice. or you're not decisive enough as to what david cameron thinks about who the coalition u. turns well he hasn't given us an answer yet perhaps he hasn't made up his mind so. london. coming up a return to torture. yet that's often what vehicle breaks teeth is there a car that stamps on a person with a shoe shattering the glasses and pushing them into his eyes human rights activists in egypt say police brutality is as bad as it was when the nation or the dictatorship visits a family whose son was allegedly tortured to death by security forces that's going to happen.

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police brutality and abuse has increased in detention centers and during them going demonstrations of his claim that since the second anniversary of the uprising last month authorities are reverting to the systematic torture tactics seen during the mubarak regime boettcher investigates. in his hometown of tanta the bill i'll give the point south where local youth have renamed their streets after his son mohammed a twenty eight year old activist allegedly tortured to death by security forces two weeks ago after protesting on to her a square you know with a hold on the first time i went to see mohammed in the hospital i didn't recognize him seriously his face was covered with wounds his skull fractured when i asked the doctors they told me this is mohammed the most as a doctor all i know that one would be although mohammed's injuries points to torture his mother sammy says the official forensic report maintains he died after

a car crash yet to be about the steps in what vehicle brakes teeth is there a car that stamps on a person with a shoe shattering the glasses and pushing them into his eyes what car only injures a person's head but not their legs yeah. right now egypt is witnessing unprecedented levels of police violence against protesters rights groups reporting with at least ten x. a judicial killings by security forces since president mohamed morsi to power the worst divide it's often a cause in places like this infamous security directorate behind me risking being for mohamed's balcony however the most worrying trend activists say is the targeting of children in an impoverished district of alexandria explains how her thirteen year old son abdel-rahman was detained for over two weeks for being a bystander at a demonstration the police use violence against children my son has cuts and bruises all over his body they hante young children because he keeps contre away

from them or. if anyone tries to contact their family or friends they would beat us . despite the scenes like these the interior minister denies security forces use violence against protesters and refutes that torture is systemic in the police force instead the government says it will arm low ranking police officers sparking fears of further abuses human rights organizations and advocates are extremely concerned by the increase in one violence between the supporters and the opposition to president morsi to the political cover for that president morsi the administration and the legislators are giving to the. violence exercised by the police force and the increased level of brutality. being exercised by the police force three were they concerned by the increase of weapons

back during egypt's revolution a key demand was police reform people here say there is no evidence of that and to that is crowds of thousands continue to push for change though many fear the worst is yet to come true for r t cairo. the french president will get a unesco peace prize for the operation in mali the un's cultural agency says france on land made a valuable contribution to peace and stability in africa but at the ted pan african newswire the as a key way believes given what's actually happened in mali differentially days there won't pass and to be voted for bringing peace. has not been an august that long his political career since being in office as president of france has been mart this intervention in mali something that was done you know latterly it was totally

unjustified there's been reports of gross human rights violations that have taken place since the french and invention in mali. well they've admitted to the defense ministry and terrorists that they killed hundreds of people assisting in its rants and the operational role is not turning out the way in which. had initially planned . developments in mali do not bode well for someone who is being offered such a prestigious award for peace so in mali coalition forces claim they once again retaken control of the key city this it is in a series of clashes between troops and islamist militants since its official liberation last month meanwhile in a separate militant attack at least one person died after a bombing at a military base in the city of kid down all those social problems claim that a military operation had been successful and was drawing to.

the u.n. nuclear watchdog says iran has begun installing advanced centrifuges at its main uranium enrichment plant the west is this could speed up any attempts to build a bomb despite tehran insisting it only needed for peaceful purposes it adds to the significance of talks with six world powers next week and the zing of crippling sanctions could be offered to iranian return for shutting down some of its. long is this hour as well israeli security forces attacked protesters marching in solidarity with palestinian prisoners in the west bank violence erupted when the demonstrators tried to approach an israeli military jail and were met with rubber bullets and tear gas the protests were launched a week ago in support of an inmate that has been on a hunger strike since august is you to be released next month. also twin explosions have killed at least twelve people and wounded more than fifty in the southern

indian city of hyderabad the bombs were planted in a crowded market on two bicycles and went on just a few minutes minutes apart police in all major cities have been put in the lead no militant group has yet claimed responsibility. and. britain could be heading towards power shortages according to the u.k.'s gas and energy regulate said a number of coal field power stations may have to close to two strict e.u. pollution regulations and richard at weddings never to editorial director said the international and aging and a j. agency says increasing energy poverty now looms for many already struggling to pay back. is really terrible for news to consumers so energy prices have gone up by a hundred sixty percent since two thousand and four we've got six million households in fuel poverty expected to rights and nine million within just three years according to some estimates bills could double again over the next decade business users should be very concerned so rather than power casual experts have

business users on special contracts where the power can be cut off for them before households actually get their power cuts off if you get a very cold winter this could be extremely worrying part of a certain period from the european commission so the reason why these power stations are closing this because european pollution controls is more to do with acid rain than climate change is a very small environmental problem the cost of this is going to go massive so talking about tens if not hundreds of billions of euros across the whole of the conservative party so they try to planes be the greenest governments have or there's obviously a strong supporter environmentalist and with a certain faction of the conservative party in the david cameron so it's mostly ideological but the problem is given the economy's hardly growing this is really the last thing the brits and they are. china says american accusations of hacking at scientifically and unreliable that's after a u.s. security company accused beijing of carrying out a sustained by times on a range of industries there are also suggestions that chinese manufacturer tech

products could carry spying devices but technology is brian duggan from the new america foundation says politics is playing a role of well here and called. the characteristic of these devices that allow that type of surveillance and monitoring is there a closed nature is the fact that no one can see into them no one can understand how they actually work inside their actually black boxes and so that is true of almost every single cell phone that we use no matter where it's manufactured so that is the capability. that any manufacturer has over any device that we use and the reason that we're talking about this today is because politically at this point we're scared of what china could could do with its power over its manufacturing the united states has through a combination of our surveillance laws has claimed the right not only does to inspect americans' data but also data stored by foreign citizens. the war between

the u.s. and china is explored on our website at r.t. dot com for you that's where we're asking for your thoughts on this subject and here's what those who voted think so far so the absolute majority actually believes it's just a p.r. stunts to prop up the latest cyber security act signed by the u.s. president sixteen percent of you believe that this scandal is down to spend slightly less think this is a preview of world war three yes opinions like that and a minority agree that washington is giving beijing a final warning so don't forget to go online and cast your vote. let's move on now in the caucuses a landslide has opened a door to the past russian scientists have unearthed the remains of a woolly mammoth and possibly not just one so the rare find is expected some light on the fate of the elephant like mammals that became extinct more than four

thousand years ago and am i call it carrie johnson spoke to the culture of defined . it was the same fear where they found it like many would have thought actually happen in russia's north caucasus now the discovery was made and week about is in about a region which is a very mountainous area and also home to outgross europe's highest peak now during the seasonal snow saw landslides occur and it's these landslides that can reveal what's been burry deep in the ground and that's exactly what happened local researches say that these are the remains of the south and mamma's now that animal lived in europe and central asia as some two and a half million years ago which was around the time b. ice age began they were huge animals four metres tall and also known for its curled tusks their laughter african homeland and migrated to eurasia and their last resort

is widely seen as what is now sells and russia we should also say that out of seven full mammal skeletons that were found in the world three were found in russia well what are they going to do with all these remains that well first of all research us will have to date and touch them but the most interesting part here is that they believe that there could be many more remains close by. the side have been finding pieces of bone vertebrae for many decades some of them used vertebrae and that gives you an idea how large it is one theory suggests that all mammals became extinct at the same time so we may have found an entire graveyard where they were all together before there so we'll wait and see what kind of prehistoric treasure troves the carcasses could be and i've lived in the carcasses and i've reported from the north caucasus and i can tell you it's a place that's really dripping in history which parts of which have been remained

untouched for thousands of years and who knows what it actually holds. now with the start of the twenty foreseen winter olympics less than a garraway technology update reveals the secrets behind a brand new tool which designed for the games that after the break you.

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