foreign policy friction looms over the french president's maiden visit to moscow for high level talks sunday bait. sixteenth is set to end this papacy with his success inheriting a catholic church rife with sexual abuse and corruption allegations. and as the saying goes you should know your enemy but both israeli and palestinian press restrictions are making journalists work and lives increasingly difficult. to. live from our studios here in moscow this is carried on. for talks are expected in moscow later on thursday as president that he met putin hosts french leader francois alone divisions over syria and iran remain the key

points of foreign policy discord let's get the latest now from our sean thomas who's covering all the ins made a visit to the russian capital sean was expected to come out of the friendship president's visit. well carrie is certainly an interesting day today as talks between francois hollande and bloody middle putin commence lots of items on the table for discussion including international trade relations an improving relations between the two countries but the main focus for russia are the international issues specifically syria iran and even mali now while this is president first visit to moscow it's not the first time the two leaders have met they did clash this past summer specifically over the topic of syria holanda saying bashar al assad must go of lead to meet a person saying that that is not a precondition for success to happen in syria and that it has to move forward

through diplomatic talks and a multilateral talks with all sides and all parties involved something that the west is not really backing now on the subject of iran. is siding with the e.u. and tough sanctions against iran aimed specifically at eliminating their nuclear program. coming out recently saying that this is not the way to go sanctions don't really target the people that need to be targeted in order to make this happen rather he says that the nuclear program in iran should be allowed to continue as long as it's only for peaceful purposes but there should be strong oversight by the i.a.e.a. now on the subject of mali some place where the two countries actually do agree russia does support the u.n. mission there in france is led mission in northern mali but he does say that the destabilization in mali is a direct result of the failed policies towards libya and syria in fact if you point

to what happened in libya the west did get involved there was military intervention there was the stabilization of the government moammar gadhafi was taken out of power and look nothing is better there the situation now. so pointing to failure they're saying we don't want these things to happen in syria as well so these are the topics up for discussion on the table on thursday also if you remember back in january some tension between the two countries gerard depardieu a famed actor leaving france for russian citizenship been given a passport by putin himself because of poland's high tax proposals in that country so some tensions already there making it even just a bit more interesting here in moscow today. ok. thanks for that. pope benedict the sixteenth is set to retire later on thursday becoming the first

pope to abdicate in six centuries saying he wants to exit the public life and remain hidden to the world he leaves his success it to be named next month to redeem the church's reputation but in a string of child abuse and corruption allegations are going to go to school reports that. he has received a rather walled warm standoff from the people as on thursday people have poured out onto the streets by the vatican on to st peter's square when the pope did his last drive by in the pope mobile of course a lot of people came to see that thousands upon thousands and then of course it's also it was also the when the cardinals have arrived in rome in order to prepare for the selection of the new pope and that is going to happen actually rather soon because unlike in previous times cardinals do not have to wait for certain period of humility after the recent poll but has died basically that was one of the major changes that happened at the sixteenth has put forth before stepping down but first you have to understand that this entire situation is not something that catholics

are used to the last time this happened was six hundred years ago a lot of people are wondering exactly why advantage at the sixteenth was the side to resign and of course you have to remember the vatileaks scandals the recent scandals involving sex abuse committed by the catholic priests of course there are also accusations of the fact that the church was led by a man who is over eighty years old and of course a lot of people in vatican are about the same age as the pope that again there is occupation saying that people in this particular steer in the vatican really have been behind the times and they haven't been quite keeping out of with the changing world a lot of the experts that we have spoken to said that the catholic church now has completely lighted over the fact that there is a lot of a lot of a lot of people who do consider themselves christian but at the same time we choose to go through the voice they choose to have their own sex and of course you have you have to understand that there are also a lot of gays out there who do consider themselves christians and catholics all of these are rather burning issues for the catholic church to consider

a lot of experts again when we spoke to them said that this is something the cardinals will have to keep in mind when choosing the new pope no more exactly what kind of legacy pope benedict the sixteenth least i will kind of issues the church has to deal with here's my report it's the law is doing the job for pope. and at the sixteenth come friday he'll retire to seclusion and prayer while in the vatican there is a feeling the real work is only just beginning it's not just about selecting a new bishop of rome some say but the very future of the catholic church the catholic church is undergoing a very important crisis it is a crisis at two levels it is a government crisis entities a crisis of the believers. in the last year or so the world was focused on the government crisis and devout the coming to korea pope benedict was a pope who is a great intellectual i think you're a theologian but he has not

a strong hand to lead the korea he has not the temperament of a government so there was a lack of leadership which culminated in the great scandals of but the leeks far from the splendor of the sistine chapel a closer look at the recent events in the vatican to highlight his lumens and frustration with the church once all about the law he joined distanced myself from the church when i became an adult when i started talking about what had been talking with a missionary after all this again was brokered in the catholic church and of course i realize that it doesn't represent my so here to our teachers benedict the sixteenth may have been the first pope with a twitter account but many argue this measure alone was not strong enough in appealing to the masses and there will be no more tweets once pope benedict the sixteenth steps down now this is the age of transparency the age of the people the churches should be properly screened they be. considered sacred she went.

to great assets in the rebbe and now you see that they will be to be. the problem of the media they're really working on the shift he's really doing to change many things about the church for people a gabrielli of this inability to face up to and much less to punish those who may be responses. for tainting the image of the church is the deciding factor in abandoning catholicism. there's another school girl who disappeared in the vatican twenty years ago and they say they found the remains. police are leading the investigation here but instead of helping them. and on top of all those cases of. this is just disgusting the list of controversial events involving catholic priests or vatican officials reads like a tabloid reports of sex abuse pedophilia accusations alleged large scale corruption and possible ties with the mafia while the media especially in italy has

been having a field day with the scandals the vatican other state silent. but those things may be looking rather grim for the seat of st peter's at a first glance there's still a chance the catholic church can make a comeback. with the church would be splitting. but there. could be strong with a come to reform because. the power. of the church is the spiritual but in spite of that reality relations have left me wondering if the holy see has been blind the world is rapidly changing and that the catholic church has failed to keep pace sure it has seen a fair number of ups and downs as well as in two thousand year long history but

there is opinion that perhaps taking an unpleasant development sweeping it under the carpet and filling it with people going for secrecy is a tradition better left in the past in rome. even the rens a director of a group called the survivors network of those abused by priests doubts the new pope will bring much change to the vatican. i will say that clearly the sexual abuse crisis during his in entire pontificate has probably weighed heavy on his mind he said some nice words but there hasn't been a lot of really true action we've heard apologies but what is the real action we've had we know of many many bishops who have covered up these crimes in not only it covered it up but they tried to cover their tracks he told he require that all of us cases go through him so he's well aware of all of these abuse cases and yet he's done nothing to stop it or nothing to stop the bishops from covering it up with the

next pope i have i don't have a lot of hope these cardinals were all appointed by pope benedict and his predecessor john paul the second and they're just the same they're they're all cookie cutter guys and they're going to do the same thing that those two have done but what could be done is one they could be open and honest and reveal all the personnel files of all the credibly accused priests they could publish on their website the names. of all the credibly accused priests not just those that are living but also those or dead. economic troubles of british families is beginning to take its toll on the health of children school people's diets suffering from the . family report. also coming up the latest developments in the case of us only private bradley manning accused of highly sensitive leaks as washington summons a navy seal to prove his own legs actions aided al qaeda.

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response to recent rocket fire from the strip the first since november conflict as tensions rise some journalists in the region are finding their work and at times livelihoods affected by the ongoing standoff. there investigates how those trying to spread light on the situation are coming under pressure from both sides of the divide. november last year israel and gaza are at war and in the middle of it a gaza journalist reporting he'd be for you to an israeli newspaper it was the last major story some rami would write for the hebrew priests a month later gaza's reeling hamas party banned palestinian journalists from working with his radio media accusing it of being hostile tel aviv refuses to recognize hamas and regards it as a terrorist organization and a magnet for mother i do not understand this decision unfortunately i feel that our struggle will have less meaning if we do not speak to the israeli media and make them here on message sami feels he's on

a personal crusade to help both sides better understand each other when his nine year old daughter was hit by an israeli missile it was his israeli editors who arranged for her to be bought across the border and treated and it was in the newspapers that he published his anger and anguish over israel's bombardment of gaza israeli to how to me and israel is using the media in its war against us in this war journalists are under attack they want to kill all our words and reports that prove that there were no crimes in gaza is that their father has a half in the attack is coming from both sides of the border israeli journalists today are banned from working on gaza but ironically it's not hamas but tel aviv that stops them deeming it too dangerous for them to report from there in a very scary place for israeli of some a masked people came to my palestinian cameramen in gaza they gave him twenty five thousand dollars and we told him that the next time that the jewish is going to enter gaza please tell us where it's going to be a route with

a car we're going to kidnap both of you and take you take him and it really is you know had him oh is among a handful of israeli journalists who'd regularly work in gaza but after his government made it illegal six years ago his station employed gaza based palestinian journalists now because of hamas ruling even that has become impossible . very problematic decision of hamas for a lot of other decisions that the hamas made i think that the problem of normalization in. connecting trying working with the israeli media the result is that the only reports leaving gaza but are those hamas sanctions not particularly promising in one of the recent human rights watch report that accuses hamas of harassing assaulting an arbitrarily detaining journalists israel too has come under fire for deliberately targeting reporters and media houses affiliated to harm us during the last one gaza israel fell twenty places in the two thousand and

thirteen world press freedom index due to the actions of its army in the palestinian territories these two journalists are where sami because he speaks of minds he engages his radio audiences. because you spend so much time in palestinian areas with few israelis days to trade the media blackout does little to shed light on the fate and future of ordinary gazans it also perpetuate stereotypes on both sides of the border that have done nothing but breed mistrust and hatred policy on our team television. take a look at some other news from around the world the leader of italy's five star movement which came third in the country's general election has ruled out a coalition with the center left describing there at the democratic party yeah we are sunny as a dead man talking to former canadian better grillo claimed he would not support any new government of all political parties participated in the election race with none of them gaining enough seats to govern even a country in

a political deadlock italian public demonstrating a strong until sturdy sentiment during the election leaving a prime minister monti's party with a minority of votes in both the lower house and the senate. libyan government is set to urge the u.n. to lift an arms embargo imposed during the twenty seven uprising that brought down market offers regime plans were announced by the prime minister as tripoli desperately seeks to rearm its military which has been struggling to take control of the country since the fall of gadhafi and militias containing many former rebels hold much of the power on the ground across libya's vast territories. and in colombia striking coffee growers have clashed with police and blocked roads demanding a fair return for their coffee grains almost threw objects at security forces responded with tear gas and intent to disperse the angry crowds protest to say due to rising costs of production and making

a loss because of the fixed price because he said the government. it appears that the diets and health of children could be the latest victims of shrinking family budgets during these tough economic times a recent survey released in the u.k. shows that many struggling parents are resorting to giving their children cheap junk food in attempt to save money or tease under former investigates worrying trend. my many households in the u.k. are feeling the pinch and i haven't but it's starting to have an impact on children's health because a survey this week says that if you do you open up the lunch box of a child at school you are likely to find this junk food it is a cheap option of like nutritional value to talk more about this is brian back in the royal college of pediatrics and child health thanks for joining us the results of this from the children's future us it's alarming isn't it it certainly is because the problem about things like banters although it might fill you up it

doesn't do you any good so there's a perfect in calories or you just look up and do a packet of biscuits and person some of the things the child has that for the month as opposed to having healthy nutritious moms are going to truly struggle to do well is a field well if you define them a book on the map today make is being a problem bigger than the capacity to solve it that's what we have here an obesity epidemic so it's incredibly important even if farmers are feeling the pinch to try to forgive the children stuff like this so much time and if you eat something like this you really are just going to struggle to do a decent performance at school and you believe that the government is doing enough to address this problem but i think over the last few years we saw the introduction of nutritional standards in schools in england and helped a lot because it meant a child was guaranteed for the right kinds of vitamins the right kind of benefit of the right kind of food if they were having the school lunch and actually school lunch is the healthy option it is better than the large the unfortunately over the

last few years the standards have been brought back up and a lot of the new schools the academy schools are not covered by those need to make sure that all schools have that and they're also planning issues on that because we're at a school here in london and right next to the school is a take away restaurant that's right i mean the road is temptation the wrong kind of television for the bottom row with the unification trade is real of course but the reality is that to make is to retain the wrong kinds of food too often it's very difficult to resist on every street corner. you have christmas selling for the first drum for it so we've called here coach who felt it's ok brian thank you for your time well the department of education has commissioned a report into trying to improve standards in schools it is currently digesting the information from that report and we won't know exactly what action will be taken for a little bit more time but what we do know is that many kids will not be facing an advertising lunch in many schools andrew farmer. blunder on our website right now what the next limo of russia's president could look like

a contest to find the perfect design is in full swing suggestions ranging from extravagant vehicles to more traditional soviet style examples of your pick up r t v dot com. also the u.s. has officially labeled an environmental activist group struggling to protect whales in the pacific as pirates with out what that now means for the so-called antibody response. washington is looking to summon the more than one hundred forty witnesses to the trial of army private bradley manning accused of leaking classified u.s. data the prosecution plans are aimed at verifying allegations that manning's leaks directly jeopardized american security this to witnesses will include a navy seal from the raid that killed osama bin laden who's likely to attempt to prove either benefited from the release of the secret information or journalist

kevin stone says it's the only attempt to shift focus. the fear here i think is that you would be sensationalizing the proceedings and it would not it would make it nearly impossible for manning to have a fair trial it just because we'd now be talking about terrorism terrorism and terrorism will get away from the fact that he is charged with the offense of releasing the information and they don't have to show that terrorists received it this will continue the obama administration has ushered in this era of pursuing whistleblowers and maybe they are prosecuted and they go after them zealously in a manner that they do not go after other individuals that's been the thing i think is the most particularly striking is you can have private contractors you can gauge and weapons smuggling like like the blackwater executives or you can have bankers that engage in financial fraud and they are pursued as jealously as whistleblowers

coming up shortly i mean monson that cycles and mainstream media propaganda in breaking the set. i've got a lot of messages from our t.v. yours who are very concerned about drones living under skynet is not the american way and many are concerned about their safety and privacy congressman ted poe has introduced a bill that may address some people's concerns about drones this bill is the preserving american privacy act which clarifies how the government can use these drones so basically the act adds bureaucracy to drone usage in order to restrict it in theory protecting people's privacy. the thing is that one side is arguing for

drone usage and the other side for bureaucratic restricted drone usage but what about not using drones to spy on americans ever no drones should be used on american territory period and overseas they seem to breed more terrorists than they kill saying that there are only two sides to this issue for drones and well kind for drones is absurd congressman paul if you would please be so kind as to change the name of your legislation to the drones are an acceptable form of tyranny act i would be very grateful to you sir but that's just my opinion.

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