five am in moscow why matter has a good to have you with us here on r.t. our top story thousands of second amendment activists across the u.s. taking part in a so-called day of resistance against president obama stricter gun control measures calling his plan as unconstitutional as artie's gaieties she takes a look it's not just words 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 were mobile i think we actually got to that or thirty minutes of what i thought of but now that you know we're out of that of course it and i would be really qualified right. again 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 until several 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 got to answer that would happen 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 and the 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 they can get a 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 are been sparking debate in the u.s. and some places have taken the safety precautions to the other extreme online the story of a ten year old school boy suspended from class over a toy gun found in his backpack check it out on our website.

a palestinian prisoners died in an israeli jail with one palestinian official calling for an international probe saying the man was killed during questioning and it's and it's likely to further stoke tensions in the west bank which has already seen a week of violent clashes palestinians are protesting prison conditions at administrative detention a controversial israeli military practice a lot and 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 spiriting conditions for detainees who get on a hunger strike for more than two hundred days now as well as a widespread calls for their release of u.n. chief has urged israel to act policy analysts jaime mahmoud says the current international pressure on the government is not enough. the 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 humiliating and process in order to get a fair trial if there was anything let alone most of the prisoners were actually released and. to leave deal last year and they were a kid now one more time until imprisoned again so the whole thing is unfair. and prisoners 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's very unfair to equate that lie a lot of injustice where the palestinian as we are constantly seen as a lower class or people who don't really deserve any rights people enjoy in the world treatment of palestinian prisoners not the only issue israel's courting controversy yaba and later this hour report on how the countries allowed a u.s.

company to drill for oil on land internationally considered part of syria. 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 soldiers from chad killed in the fighting in the north meanwhile the u.s. has deployed one hundred troops to neighboring new share in order to assist french led forces with intelligence support the french intervened in their former african colony last month the stop an offensive by islamist rebels who are now waging a deadly guerrilla war operations one of france's president a peace prize from the u.n. cultural arm unesco for his valuable contribution to stability in mali social activist pharaoh's manji though says the award could encourage further foreign intervention in 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 us and its african troops and is aimed at the economic and political interests of empire particularly all fronts 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 only 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 aaa crown and a huge jolt to the british government ratings agency moody's says there is many years of trouble ahead for the country due to its growing debt the opposition's

called the move a catastrophic failure by the british finance chief who remains adamant that his austerity plans won't change professor rodney shakespeare though says a strategy ignores the plight of the british people. back to the matter is the rating agencies rank your form of a global elite which thinks it can suck up from the nation and over time it's not so with whether or not people have jobs whether or not living standards are declining they claim that the independents have something to add to the observations they did not notice a great 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 he has ups downs and they can't see this become a family profit things we got out of hand and it's going downhill. in bed

with the global elite and with the existing gotten us in a gigantic conspiracy against the bulk of the people. and still ahead syria's main rebel group polls out of key international meetings aimed at helping end the bloody civil war after the break we'll look at what's next for the peace process. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so silly you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you don't know i'm tom welcome to the big picture.

could you take three. three. three. three. three. video for your media project a free media. for staying with us here on r t twelve 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 to resolving 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 assad regime rebels accused a man. because of multiple civilian killings there was some in a similar accusations on them opposition militias are widely suspected of being behind it devastated devastating bomb blast in damascus thursday thought to have killed about one hundred people syrian pro-reform activist amar what cafaro says the western governments could be losing their influence on the rebels that the opposition may not be interested in the talks they are being told now is that they should have a sort of contribute to a political solution to all that then they are going to be heavily armed in order to defeat the syrian government and they do not want to have any diet over the syrian government because only a strategy based in a sense on the syrian government falling and them coming in as a substitute they do not have a lot of on the ground the also the at least for the rebels rather than the political elite that are called the national council which is sort of the national

commission so all they are interested in is for the government to feel 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 at it with regards to what they see is the policy this is a bit funny because now if he chooses to get out of these sort of the international friends of syria meeting then the western communities really will have no leverage whatsoever in the syrian crisis while damascus fights a war at home next door israel is given a u.s. company a license for oil exploration in the golan heights that's land x. from syria but internationally still considered its territory artie's possibly or has the latest from tel aviv. after israel decided last year to a null for oil and gas exploration in the go allowed 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 to 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 the strategic area has seen exciting extensive israeli settlement construction it is also the science 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 visit to israel by american officials the israeli government has without fail angered the americans by coming up for example with announcements of state on the 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 for a movie star gerard depardieu you know a fully fledged russian citizen formally turning up residence in the capital of russia's republic of mordovia telling our exclusively why are you very. it was to be. our citizen or a tax fugitive head over to our website for more amasia depart news ambitions in his new homeland after he quit france complaining of high taxes. also

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thanks for staying with us in the fashion world everything revolves around the tall and slim women in the tone muscular guys but the people buying and wearing the clothes are often being advertised don't meet those lofty standards and it seems some designers are starting to realize that you don't need to look perfect just struck the catwalk artie's polly boyko reports. to model agency it's a means of being knowledge small and i think is anything about the hasn't got every kind of couse 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 models 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 prices get far more work coming to our 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 demand so people are using models because people so bored of looking at the normal you know six foot to have a chiseled person or to go out it looks exactly right you know people's body saves some places and amazes and we should look at them and i'm 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 new for me for me and then though so many of it's nice to say now i'm five foot ten and

a size twelve. i wouldn't it's been about the bones you know i'm perfectly healthy as it is and they want me to lose too so that's a size weight i cood my parents off limits and just in floods of tears so i confronted fats bimodal 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 its all persons the functions are those expressions of a big campaign that also somebody who looks so small and none of us normal growth can have a big what they're made here is a very sort of fun to see related industry it's all based on air brushing 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 was down the catwalk is a minuscule size zero the difference is huge big brands are beginning to realize that consumers want to see models that they can identify with major fashion design

is a tapping into the changes and introducing largest sizes is definitely some type of shake up going on in the industry enough big you know in the future you would see that this becomes more the norm and we probably won't call it anymore it will be just the 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. you know who's one of my models she's the only model is done for you my joke i'm paid levi days on calvin klein these classes so you know of a safe haven 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 trend it seems that the fashion industry is finally waking up to reality. i see london turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe.

thousands gathered in madrid for the latest show of discontent over austerity cuts and the handling of spain's economic slump the government's introduced several rounds of anti-crisis measures as it struggles to reduce its budget deficit spain's also has 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 local residents eyewitnesses say our men drove through the city in 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 and left more than a million people homeless has been going on for ten years now. iran's announces discover more uranium deposits and also identified sites for sixteen new nuclear power stations this comes just days before a new round of talks is set to start between tehran and the west or the country's

controversial nuclear program tough international sanctions have been imposed over iran's atomic ambitions with a ban also in place on imports of nuclear material but terence's its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. more than a thousand anti-fascist activists marched in the german town aforetime in protest over a neo nazi vigil happening there they were gathered to commemorate the anniversary of britain's bombing of the german town in the second world war that killed more than seventeen thousand hundreds of police were deployed to the site of the vigil to quell and you violence on line but off limits isolating could become the first western country to introduce web censorship is 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 freedoms.

we think 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 culture pose 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 a kind of filtering the bible systems used in news around the world now there's a clear to highly vulnerable for installing it but once we 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 on about at home. or even a study has shown that three d. printers could recreate parts of a human body using injectable gel made of living cells it's

a discovery that certainly captured the imagination could this technology eventually be used to clone humans and what about bringing back someone from the past are things laurie harford has to hit the streets of 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 reported for you so in the life of your character oh yeah like super mario or. there elmo you had that i got it thirty were my best friends oh someone you know that's a good idea for two douglas. luther king. and malcolm x. do you think that they would appreciate where society is today to be honest with

true there would be a little disappointed abraham lincoln yeah the classic president right is that we're everybody says no no and said that yes i mean lincoln's pretty hot great no 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 it this country while i've been dad lloyd and i guess the purpose of these courses 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 deal with music sampling you know reproductions of like that that would be amazing to see what he would do it 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.