thousands of second amendment activists in the u.s. gather nationwide as america sees protests against plans to curb gun ownership. the death of a palestinian prisoner at an israeli jail threatens to fuel more anger across the west bank where week long protests against conditions in israeli prisons already led to violent clashes with the police. britain losing its cherished top credit rating for the first time in decades with a downgrade granted a catastrophic failure for the government. and a shift in britain's fashion world as more designers bucked the trend of using flawless models opting instead to ordinary imperfections of everyday people.

two am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story this hour thousands of second amendment activists across the u.s. are taking part in a so-called day of resistance against president obama's tighter gun control measures calling his plans unconstitutional so he's got it she reports it's not just words they say they're ready to use to protect their right to bear arms. part of america now favors 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. and we actually got two that are already there are put out there and we're now out of that ambushes and i would be really qualified right. again that is the basis of. a police chief in pennsylvania mark

kessler is training private citizens to become snipers and resist what they call it 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 war then 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 she believes a belt or 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 richest 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 the high court the solution. making democracy stronger. by guns because i want to strike 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 they can get the 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. guns have been sparking debate in the u.s. and some places have taken safety precautions to the other extreme online the story of a ten year old boy suspended from school over a toy gun found in his backpack. palestinian

prisoners died in an israeli jail with one palestinian official calling for an international probe saying the man was killed during questioning incidents likely to further stoke tensions in the west bank which is already seen a week of violent clashes palestinians are protesting prison conditions at administrative detention a controversial israeli military practice allowing authorities to detain people indefinitely earlier fierce clashes broke out during a march in support of several hunger striking prisoners israeli soldiers used tear gas and rubber bullets on demonstrators who hurled stones and burning tires deteriorating conditions for detainees who put on a hunger strike for more than two hundred days now has led to widespread calls for their release while the u.n. chief has urged israel to act policy analyst honey mahmoud says the current international pressure on the government isn't enough. immediate solution that comes up to everybody's mind right now is just an immediate release of palestinian prisoners they don't have to go through humiliating a process in order to get

a fair trial if there was anything let alone most of the prisoners were actually released and. deal last year and they were. kidnapped one more time and put in prison again so the whole thing is unfair for any of the prisoners so on the other hand i really wish as every other palestinian which is 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 just very unfair. bly a lot of injustice the word 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 not the only issue israel is courting controversy on later this hour a look at how the countries allowed a u.s. company to drill for oil on land internationally considered part of syria plus in

syria itself the main rebel group pulling out of key international meetings aimed at helping and the bloody civil war we take a look at what could be next for the peace process. but before we get to that in mali a joint force of french and african troops have sustained their heaviest casualties yet in the military campaign against islamist rebels thirteen chaddy and soldiers were also killed in fighting in the north meanwhile the u.s. has deployed one hundred troops to neighboring the share in order to assist french led forces with intelligence support the french intervened in their former african colony last month to a halt in offensive by islamist rebels who are now waging a deadly guerrilla war the operation is one france's president a peace prize from the u.n. cultural agency unesco for his valuable contribution to stability in mali and social justice activists for as manji things the award could encourage further foreign intervention on the continent. so what is this reward actually encouraging

it presumably encouraging others to follow the example of the french over invading africa of occupied territories in africa it's an invasion on behalf of nato and the u.s. and its africa of the troops and is aimed at the economic and political interests of empire and particularly of france the problem here is that this is a political crisis in money and 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 and as we can see it's actually exacerbate it and they've claimed that they have been invited to come into mali and buy a government but it is being an illegitimate government and it's outrageous that the u.n. should be censured such or such a policy i guess that unesco feels that this is what some what needs to be rewarded the u.k. has been stripped of its prized aaa crown when the huge jolt to the british government

ratings agency moody's says there is many years of trouble ahead for the country because of its growing debt the opposition has dubbed the move a catastrophic failure by the british finance chief but he remains adamant that his austerity policy will not change professor rodney shakespeare though says strategy is ignoring the plight of the british people. the fact of the matter is the rating agencies thank you and i was from. a global feat which thinks it can suck you off from the occupation and over time not so with whether one off 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 classes coming two thousand and eight and the reason why they didn't use is that they assume that the whole system is working and he has ops the hounds and they can't

see this become the family profit things we got out hand and it's going down hill ratings agencies are in bed with the global elite and with the existing gotten its in a gigantic conspiracy against the bulk of the p. . and l. more than our max kaiser and stacy herbert take a madcap yet morbid look at europeans looking 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 so it's banker assisted suicide so this is different police assisted suicide or people run out into a hail of bullets hoping to get killed because they have lost all hope their expander assisted suicide so you let your bankers perform the glock rollercoaster of financial a poxy cox's 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 puppets on a string. you can make a metaphor out of anything would be back after a short break stay with us here on our team. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realized everything you thought you

don't know i'm tom it was a big. critic three. three. three. three. three. three. video for your media projects. tom. thanks for staying with us here on r t thirteen minutes past the hour now syria's main opposition group the syrian national coalition says it's pulling out of a series of international gatherings aimed at resolving the deadly civil conflict

there group will skip the friends of syria meeting in a rome as well as scheduled talks in russia and the u.s. or what it sees as a lack of international condemnation of the assad government rebels accused mascot's of multiple civilian deaths although some pin similar accusations on them opposition militias are widely suspected of being behind a devastating bomb blast in damascus thursday that's thought to have killed about one hundred syrian pro-reform activists tomorrow cough says the western powers could be losing their influence on the rebels and that the opposition may not be interested in talks. we are being told now is that they should have a 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 is based in a sense on the syrian government falling and them coming as a substitute they do not have a lot of quality on the ground he also that he 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 form they know that the western society the western countries have invested a lot in them 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 communities really would have no leverage whatsoever in the syrian crisis while damascus is fighting a war at home next door israel has given a u.s. company a license for oil exploration in the golan heights as a land to annex from syria but internationally considered its territory artie's possibly or has 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 advisers is former u.s. vice president dick cheney geological terrorists have indicated the potential for oil and foreign oil discovery in the golan heights which is all 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 in the strategic area has seen explain extensive israeli settlement construction it is also the signs of a major israeli wind turbine project the golan stein's 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 which in years now for edge movie stars gerard depardieu is now a fully fledged russian citizen is formally taking up residence in the capital of russia's republic of more telling are to exclusively why there. zar citizen or tax few digits fugitive head over to our website for more deployed news ambitions in his new homeland after he quit france complaining of high taxes.

also online u.s. scientists developing an organic quote unquote zombies cell that not only copies its living prototype but even out performs it all the details a click away at r.t. dot com. and the fashion industry everything revolves around tall and slim ladies intone muscular men but the people buying the clothes being advertised often don't meet these high standards and it seems some designers are starting to realize you don't need to look perfect to strut it on the catwalk artie's polly boyko reports. i'll try to model i say character means five dollars small i don't think there's anything because every kind of carrots you 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 mortals aged eighteen to one hundred in the most diverse shapes and

sizes it's really important to have current surprises in the industry and i think you know there's enough good looking people around. me why i'm nothing you know kind of people with quirky you know expressive eyes has got far more work than you are fashion and advertising is changing to make room for models who look more like real people do you think now there's a strong lead to model people on your models because people sideboard of looking at the normal you know six foot to have a person all of that looks exactly right you know people's body shapes and faces and. so we should look at them and i 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 they asked me for me thing and then they told me i needed to lose to star and now i'm five foot ten and the size twelve i wouldn't it's been about the bones you know i'm perfectly healthy as it is and they wants me to lose too so that's a size eight i called my parents off limits and just in floods of tears saying that

i think i'm too fat to be a model five years on she's not only working as a successful plus size model but is also campaigning to ban underweight models from catwalks and fashion spreads it's all persons the function of the side of this person is a big campaigns that also somebody who looks so small and none of us know more about is going to have a baby not that 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 measuring the size. fourteen or above design a sample size the skinny model was down the catwalk is a minuscule size zero the difference is huge big brands of beginning to realize that consume is one to see models that they can identify with major fashion design is a tapping into the changes and introducing largest size says it is definitely some type of shake up going on in the industry enough big that you know in the future

you will see that this becomes more the norm and we probably won't call it flies anymore it could be just be fashion it's a plus at the end of the day businesses want to make money so if there's a market they way you haven't actually tapped into a new you could do is create a bigger size the numbers show business men business women never know when they do that when they see mother was over you know who's one of my mother who sees the new mothers come for you maija to come by and leave by days on calvin klein and these classes so there's no obviously mosier done that so you know he's a supermodel for the mess hall of u.k. women now officially plus size and individuality suddenly on trend it seems that the fashion industry is finally waking up to reality. i see london so you go about some other stories making global headlines this hour thousands gathered in madrid for the latest show of discontent over austerity cuts in the handling of spain's economic slump the government's introduced several

rounds of energy crisis measures as it struggles to reduce its budget deficit spain's also got one of the highest jobless rates in europe with one in four currently out of work. and arab militias killed more than fifty people in sudan's darfur region according to the city residents eyewitnesses report our men are rushed to the city on jeeps burning homes and shooting people clashes in the region resumed a few months ago when a peace treaty between the government and rebels was violated the conflict that's claimed hundreds of thousands of lives left more than a million people displaced has been going on for more than a decade now. iran has announced its discovered more uranium deposits are also identified sites for sixteen new nuclear power stations this days before a new round of talks set to start between tehran and the west over the country's nuclear program tough international sanctions have been imposed over iran's atomic ambitions with a ban also in place on imports of nuclear material tehran and says his nuclear

program is for peaceful purposes. on the line but off limits iceland could become the first western nation to introduce web censorship as it tries to outlaw internet porn the government claims the move is necessary to protect children but is already being challenged by free speech activists loz kaye from the u.k. pirate party says the ban could be used for an all out crackdown on web freedom. we seeing another area of the world where freedoms are being eroded a century these proposals show yet again the lack of technical knowledge of the heart of our kind of hold our politicians and the real objection to this whole proposal that there is no magic switch that we can push that will actually do what being proposed is actually using the same kind of technology which is indistinguishable from the kinds of filtering the bible systems used in news around

the world now the clinton highly evolved for installing this but once you do it can be used for any purpose we often hear governments praising internet freedom abroad so for example in the context of the arab spring but are unable to all know about home. vialli in the news block any set out is shown that three d. printers could recreate parts of a human body by using injectable gel made of actual living cells it's a discovery about certainly capturing the imagination but could the technology eventual be used to clone human beings what about even bringing people back from the dead or he's already horrified of his history to the big apple to find out who new yorkers would like to resurrect. who would you three d. print from history this week let's talk about that i mean reporter bring so in the

life of a character oh yeah like super mario or. where elmo yeah i got it thirty were my best friends oh someone you know that's a good idea to frederick douglass. want you to king. and malcolm x. do you think that they would appreciate where society is today to be honest with you there would be a little disappointed abraham lincoln you have the classic president right is that we're everybody says no no one said that yes i mean lincoln's pretty hot great nell you know people like lincoln maybe he him walking around his beard would be good yeah yeah and he'd be like what the how did you do it this country while i've been dead wood and i guess the purpose of these questions is to see you know how the past would deal with the president yeah definitely what do you how do you think

they would deal with that i mean how would mozart deal with music say of wearing you know reproductions of like that that would be amazing to see what he would do he would probably lay off the auto and you don't know the bottom line is three d. printing technology is developing extremely fast so let's just hope the people in control of it use it for the good of humanity. and with the start of the two thousand and fourteen winter olympics less than a year away technology update takes a look now at some of the gadgets and gimmickry being used behind the scenes in the preparations for the sochi games that's coming away after a short break stay with us.

if you have a business than you need customers right this is perhaps the simplest law of capitalism but if your business is making juvenile prisons how are you going to attract more customers by bribing judges into condemning innocent children so you'll have all of the captives i mean customers that you need to charge mark silva jr from pennsylvania has been sentenced to twenty years in prison for illegally accepting money from a juvenile prison developer the pennsylvania supreme court determined that he may have unlawfully convicted up to five thousand youths some of whom were as young as ten years old for crimes they didn't commit this is obviously sickening a total exploitation of power but the thing we need to think about is the fact that the us has by far the world's largest prison population and a booming prison industry it leads me to believe that may be this one scumbag judge

from pennsylvania isn't the only one out there abusing his power if you see a prison full of kids near you you better make sure that they're actually baby guilty of something but that's just my opinion. well into the future of the fish as world class athletes to sit down sochi brand new a list because venues are kept safe by high tech sensors behind the scenes congestions battling infrastructure digs deep and builds hype to get thousands where they need to be it's building bluebook fueled by clean energy the research is pretty new life into gold medal dream race is a. shia day year. on the. eve of.

oh and welcome to technology update while the sun and palm trees may not immediately scream winter olympics the clock behind me shows that time is ticking as russia sochi transforms itself from a sunny summertime resort into a cutting edge winter sports complex all over russia in fact the final countdown is on not so little reminders were placed in a smattering of the country cities announcing that the next winter olympics are fast approaching and that it's time for the final push. and adding fuel to the nation's olympics matt.