thousands of pro-gun activists in the u.s. are gathering nationwide as america sees protests against plans to curb weapon ownership. the death of a palestinian prisoner in an israeli jail a threatens to fuel further anger across the west bank or week long protests against conditions in israeli because all of these have already led to violent clashes. britain loses its cherished top credit rating for the first time in decades with a downgrade branded a catastrophic government failure. and it shifted in britain's fashion world as more and more designers bucked the trend of using flawless models opting instead for the ordinary imperfections of everyday people.

world news and analysis live from our moscow headquarters i'm going to seek out an oven you're watching our t.v. well thousands of pro-gun activists across the u.s. are taking part in a day over assistance against president obama's tighter gun laws agenda calling his plans unconstitutional as our team is going to feature can report it's not just words they're ready to use to protect their right to bear arms. part of america now favor some form of gun control especially in the wake of tragic mass shootings. while the other is getting ready to fight against any significant regulations they're preparing for what they call the invasion of feds by arming themselves to the teeth were it we actually got to that or reading them what they're up to now that you know we're out of that and we're just and i would be really qualified right. or yes it is the basis of. a police chief in pennsylvania mark

kessler is training private citizens to become snipers and resist what they call a tyrannical government if need be trust me when i tell you this i mean i will take my uniform off and i will stand with freedom before i stand with the ironical folks absolutely not i will not in any way shape or form support anything that goes against the constitution or the second amendment sheriff associations from eleven states said they would ignore any law passed in washington that would significantly regulate guns we won't enforce federal regulations or federal laws were not required so there's a separation of powers in and we won't there is a tradition in american thought. of states doing what they want despite what the federal government says of course that led to the civil war well now we see a revival of the same kind of philosophy well we don't like what washington says so we're going to do our own thing we have the right to do it well no they don't they're part of this country whether they like it or not and and federal laws will

be enforced. the obama administration says they're not going to take away people's guns they just want to ban certain types of assault rifles which are more appropriate for them for civilian defense but which have become the weapon of choice used in mass shootings in america the administration also wants to enforce background checks on all gun sales currently forty percent of weapons in the u.s. are sold without any background check but gun rights advocates see it as the first step towards disarming the nation there will be more bad like believing that our belts we are in the future ok the people who got to do that would do that while people like jim are gearing up for the second coming of hitler supporters of gun control points to staggering statistics the gun murder rate in the us is almost twenty times higher than in the next twenty two which is nations combined that's unimaginable in any other industrial democracy that an argument

would be made in favor of owning guns for the purposes of overthrowing the government and made by a high court solution. making democracy stronger. by guns which are most likely to curio america's split over priorities according to the pew research center currently fifty percent of americans say controlling gun ownership is the more important priority while forty six percent say it is to protect the right of americans to own guns people choose different ways to stand up for liberty as they see it one owner of a pizza shop in virginia beach offers a fifteen percent. discount to those who come in with guns all they have to do is show me that they're carrying a weapon. or they can show me their concealed weapons permit and then get their discount miscellany says eighty percent of his customers have brought guns into the pizza shop since he introduced the deal one even came in with an a k forty seven

one question of why is this when people here talk about protecting their freedoms with weapons that are designed for war to these people have such little trust in their democratic system to the point when they think of boat is not enough to secure their rights and that they need a stack of deadly weapons at home to do that in washington. or guns have certainly sparked heated debate in the united states but some places have taken safety precautions the extreme on line we have the story of a ten year old boy who was suspended from school over a twenty gun that was found in his backpack. it's.

in mali a joint force of french and african troops have sustained their heaviest casualties yet in their military campaign against islam as rebels thirteen chatty and soldiers were killed in the fighting in the north meanwhile the u.s. has appointed one hundred troops in neighboring needs there in order to assist the french led forces with intelligence support the french have intervened and their former african colony last month that are to stop an offensive by islamist rebels going out leaving a deadly go well of war the operation has won france's president a peace prize from the u.n. cultural agency nasco quote has a valuable contribution to stability in mali social justice activist rosie mangia says the award could encourage further foreign intervention in africa. so what is this reward actually encouraging it presumably encouraging others to follow the example of the french over invading africa or the occupied territories in africa

it's an invasion on behalf of nato or the u.s. and its african troops and is aimed at least i can only conclude interests of empire if you please fronts the problem here is that this is a political crisis it can be resolved only by political means by sending in the warriors the troops the planes and the bone means actually doesn't resolve the problem as we can see it's actually exacerbate it and they've claimed that they've been going to to come into mali by but it has been an illegitimate government and it's outrageous that the u.n. should do so should such or such a policy i guess that unesco feels that this is what what needs to be rewarded. a palestinian prisoner has died in an israeli jail with one palestinian official demanding an international probe charging that the man was actually killed during questioning the incident is certainly likely to further stoke tensions in the west

bank an area that has seen a week of violent protests against conditions for palestinians and israeli put presence there are going to claim many are detained there without charge or prospect of trial earlier fierce crashes broke out during the march in support of several hunger striking prisoners when israeli forces used tear gas and rubber bullets to control stone throwing protesters i did hear ration and conditions for detainees what has been on hunger strike for more than two hundred days now has led to widespread calls for their release and while the un chief has called on tell the policy analyst harney mahmoud says the current international pressure on israel is not enough. median solution that comes up to everybody's mind right now is just an immediate release of palestinian prisoners you don't have to go through. a process in order to get a fair trial it was anything let alone most of the prisoners were actually released

and glance to leave deal last year and they were. kidnapped one more time and put in prison again so the whole thing is unfair. to house and prisoners on the other hand i really wish as every other palestinian which is not just more involvement of the international community human rights organization international organization just put more pressure on israel and especially the legal system because it's just very unfair. bly a lot of injustice were the palestinian as we are constantly seen as a lower class or people who don't really deserve any of the rights people enjoy in the world. treatment of palestinian prisoners isn't the only issue tel aviv has courted controversy on these days later this hour we reported on our following a u.s. israeli company to drop or boil on land on internationally internationally considered to be part of syria also in syria and. the main rebel group pulls out of the

international meetings aimed at helping to end the bloody civil war we'll look at what's next for the peace process. well in the fashion industry everything seems to revolve around women being tall and slim and of course men toned and muscular but the people buying the clothes being advertised often don't meet those standards insults and it seems that some designers are starting to realize that you don't need to look perfect in order to hit the catwalk or destroy boyko reports. very very kind to model i say means being large small i don't think there's anything because every comic she can think of that's what we supply meets robin he's a successful fashion model he works for a london agency i'll be representing over a thousand models aged eighteen to one hundred in the most diverse shapes and sizes it's really important to have character faces in the industry and i think you know

there's enough good looking people around everybody i'm nothing you know kind of people with quirky you know expressive faces get from a work fashion and advertising is changing to make room for models who look more like real people do you think now there's a strong the demands of people are unusual models because people are so bored of looking at the you know six foot to have a chisel and all of that looks exactly what you know people's body some places and . we should look at them and really embrace them really katie green found out all about the pressures of the fashion industry when she was chosen to be the face of wonderbra and signed to a major modeling agency for me being and then they told me in. continues to stand now as far as the ten and the size twelve i wouldn't just been a bag of bones you know one perfectly healthy as it is and they wants me to lose two stone and go to a size eight i cooled my parents off the moods and just in floods of tears saying that i confronted but it's been a model five years and she's not only working as

a successful plus size model but it's also campaigning to ban underweight models from cat talks and fashion spreads its own approaches the functions are those expressions of big campaigns that also somebody who looks so small and none of us normal growth can have a big what they made here is a very sort of fantasy related industry it's all based on airbrushing and nothing in these magazines is real the majority of british women now measure in a size fourteen or above design a sample size that a skinny model whereas down the catwalk is a minuscule size zero the difference is huge big brands of beginning to realize that consumers want to see models that they can identify with major fashion design as a tapping into the changes and introducing larger sizes raised differently some type of shake up going on in the industry enough to get that you know in the future you are different you see that this becomes more the norm and we probably won't call it

was any more it will be just be fashion it's a profit at the end of the day businesses want to make money so if there's a market there where you haven't actually tapped into a new you've got to do is create a bigger size the numbers show business men business women everywhere when they do that model is over you know who's one of my models sees the new model is done for you my job combines levi days on telling time these classes so there's no obvious a closing down there so you know he's a supermodel for the most halls of u.k. women now officially plus size and individuality suddenly on friends it seems that the fashion industry is finally waking up to reality. ought to see london. about after a short break they want us. well the british are selling all. the time to write for. the rally.

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them is the captain of and you're watching r t well the u.k. has been stripped of its aaa crown any huge jolt to the british government moody's rating agency says there are many years of trouble ahead for the country due to its growing debt the opposition has dubbed the move a catastrophic failure by the british finance eve but he remains adamant that he has a sturdy policy will not change well professor rodney shakespeare says the strategy is completely ignoring the plight of the people. facts of the matter is the rating agencies rank your hours for one off parts of a global feat which thinks it can suck you off from the occupation and full of the time not so with whether or not people have jobs whether or not living

standards are declining they claim that the independents have something to observations they did not notice the great trap just coming in two thousand and eight and the reason why they didn't use is that they assume that the whole system is working well and only has ups downs and they can't see this become profoundly corrupted because we got out of hand and it's going downhill great exegesis in bed with the global elite and with the existing government in a gigantic conspiracy against the bulk of the people. but out of power america high variance they think herbert present a madcap yet morbid way for europeans to escape their growing economic hardship. suicide by roller coaster of course is a european who's invented this aesthetic death machine and that looks like the solution to the economic crisis across europe well it's bankers system. so this is

different than police assisted suicide or people run out into a hail of bullets hoping to get killed because they have lost all hope here it's banker assisted suicide so you let your braggers perform the glock rollercoaster of financial appox you talks to death machine and with the hope that you won't survive because you'd rather not live in a world where barclays bank runs your government like so many topics on the strength. of. syria's main opposition group the syrian national coalition says it is pulling out of a series of international gatherings looking to resolve the deadly civil conflict the group will skip the friends of syria meeting in rome as well as scheduled talks in russia and the u.s. over what it sees as a lack of international condemnation of the ocelot government now the rebels accuse them ask us of well to pull civilian killings although some similar accusations

against them opposition militias are widely suspected of being behind a devastating bomb blast in damascus on thursday that is thought to have killed about one hundred people now syrian problem for america best part of western powers using their grip on the rebels that the opposition is not interested in talks. to the use of this sort of contribute to a political solution rather than they are going to be heavily armed in order to defeat the syrian government and they do not want to have any dialogue with the syrian government because all their strategy based in a sense on the syrian government falling and them coming as a substitute they do not have a lot of on the ground. also that it is for the rebels rather than the political elite that are called the national council to see the national commission so all they are interested in is for the government to fall very normal that the western societies of western countries have invested

a lot of anything both in money and time and so on in organizing them and they think that they could probably make a stand here with regards to what they see is the policy this is a bit funny because now if the choose to get out of this sort of international friends of syria meeting then the western community is really would have no leverage whatsoever in the syrian crisis where some countries could be trying to capitalize on the syria crisis while damascus is busy fighting a war at home israel has given a u.s. company a license for oil exploration in the golan heights that is rare and are next from syria but internationally still considered to be its territory artie's policy or have the details. off to israel decided last year to allow for oil and gas exploration in the golan genie energy was awarded the license to drill but the new jersey based company still needs further work permits for drilling to commence and this is a process that could still take several years the company is headed by none other

than the golan heights residents and a former i.d.f. general and it could cabinet minister the company's shareholders reportedly also include rupert murdoch and one of the company's advisors is former u.s. vice president dick cheney geological tastes have indicated the potential for oil and foreign oil discovery in the golan heights which israel captured from syria back in the one nine hundred sixty seven six day war in one nine hundred eighty israel and mixed the area in a move that is not recognized internationally the strategic area has seen exciting extensive israeli settlement construction it is also the signs of a major israeli wind turbine the project the golan studies has has been at the heart of previous talks between israeli and syrian leaders damascus is demanding its full return and there is concern that as the syrian revolt threatens the president bashar assad's rule israel is digging in its heels on the golan heights

it was also an observation that on the eve of almost every high level visits to israel by american officials the israeli government has without fail angered the americans by coming up for example with announcements of settlement expansion in the west bank president obama is due to visit israel at the end of march and no doubt the state department is likely to criticize this permit as they do not recognize the area as being part of israel. well french movie star gerard depor do is now a fully fledged russian citizen is formally taking up residence in the capital of russia's republic of mordovia telling r.t. exclusively at why there are words to be job growth is our own. fault ours citizen or tax fugitive head over to our website for more on the monsoor different views ambitions in his new homeland after he quit france complaining of high tax rates they're. also online in u.s.

scientists develop a non-organic as obvious cell that not only copies of living prototype but even outperforms it other details for you at r.t. that probably. a long line but off limits could become the first western nation to introduce websites or ship as it aims to outlaw internet pornography well the government claims the move is necessary to protect children but is already being challenged by free speech activists those came from the u.k. pirate parties or the ban could be use for an all out clampdown on web freedom we see another area of the world where freedoms are being eroded asuncion of these programs or such so you have to get and the lack of technical knowledge of the whole debacle and pollute our politicians down to the real objection to this whole proposal is that there is no magic switch that we can push that will actually do

what's being proposed is actually using the same kind of technology which is indistinguishable from only coins still stream somebody built systems used in news around the world i'm going to call it a highly volatile reinstalling but once you do you can be use for any purpose we often hear governments creasing internet freedom abroad so for example in the context of the arab spring but of. let's get a check of some international headlines though. and on to spain the live pictures you're seeing there as thousands gathered in madrid for the latest show of discontent over austerity cuts and this ambling of spain's economic crisis the government has introduced several rounds of austerity measures as of struggles to reduce its budget deficit spain also has one of the highest jobless rates in europe with one in four people currently out of work. in yemen

at least three protesters have been killed more than ten wounded during clashes between southern separatists and police in the city of aden but this comes days after four people were killed during a demonstration as the country marks the one year anniversary of has been selection that rally was disrupted by southern yemeni activists who are fighting for independence from the north. six underground tanks storing nuclear waste are leaking in washington this is the governor there says the report is disturbing but it's just that there is no immediate help with humans the site is considered to be the most contaminated nuclear area in america. meanwhile at least two people have been killed as heavy floods we have across australia as northern coast evacuation order has been issued for residents saying the bad weather is likely to last and to put lives at risk the country has been frequently hit by

severe weather during the summer season with swings between heat waves and rainfall . where recent study has shown that three d. printers could recreate parts of the human body by using injectable jael made of living cells the discovery that certainly stimulates the imagination could technology eventually be used to clone human beings what about reason when someone from the past well arty's or laurie harshness has hit the streets of the big apple to find out a new yorkers would actually like to bring back to life. who would you three d. print from history this week let's talk about that i mean reported for use on the life of your character oh yeah like super mario or. where elmo yeah oh my god i heard you were my best friend oh someone you know that's

a good idea but you douglas. want you to king. and malcolm x. do you think that they would appreciate where society is today to be honest with you they would be a little disappointed abraham lincoln yeah because the president right is that we're everybody says no no one said that yet i mean lincoln's pretty hot great now you know people like lincoln him walking around his beard be good yeah yeah and he'd be like what the how did you do with this country wow i've been dead boy that i guess the purpose of these questions is to see you know the past would deal with the present yet that. finally what do you how do you think they would deal with that i mean how would vote sir deal with music they're going you know reproductions of like that would be amazing to see what he would do he would probably lay off the audits you don't know the bottom line is three d. printing technology is developing extremely fast so let's just hope that people in

control of it use it for the good of humanity. i'll be back in just a short bit but for now that kind of a reporter asked coming up. all those north korean scamps added again another nuclear test in north korea has made all the headlines trust me nuclear missiles are something worth being concerned over but haven't we heard this song and dance before all the way back in two thousand and two the north koreans calling for the b.b.c. rule that they.