foreign policy friction looms over the french president's made a visit to moscow for high level talks on debate. the rand syria and even mali points of contention between france and russia will be easy to detail be sorted out today i'm trying thomas in moscow coming up i've got the details. of the sixteenth is set to end his papacy with his successor inheriting a catholic church rife with sexual abuse and corruption allegations. as the saying goes you should know your enemy but both israeli and palestinian press restrictions are making journalists work and it's increasingly difficult. around the world and around the clock this is. tough talks are expected in moscow

later on thursday as president vladimir putin hosts french leader francois hollande divisions over syria and iran in the key points of foreign policy discord. thomas is covering all the ones made a visit to the russian capital. certainly an interesting day today as talks between francois hollande and bloody miller putin commence lots of items on the table for discussion including international trade relations and 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 alliance 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 are assad must go to prison 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 to 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 the pointing to the. they're saying we don't want these things to happen in syria as well so these are the topics up for the 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 well as france continues to support the syrian rebels some analysts say there is no solution to the conflict has no muslim militants feel they can fight on with foreign backing this is just so called free of politic we know this from centuries ago international politics is the way.

things happen it's not about the people so and if they really wanted to help the syrian people they should have. sought a political settlement from the beginning now we're entering almost a third year of the conflict she then continued to fuel this conflict by bringing weapons and money to certain part of the opposition it's just getting worse and worse there are options to buy political settlements and bring some parts of the opposition that is willing to find a solution and discuss with the regime and gets the syria out of this conundrum but unfortunately important there are some players on the international scene who say one thing and do something different if really really interested in finding a solution and stopping the bloodshed the first thing to do is just stop funding and stop bringing weapons to the armed groups and that way they would be obliged to

sit at the table if this is not this isn't made by the international players i don't see how it's going to stop. pope benedict the sixteenth is set to retire late on thursday becoming the first pope to abdicate in six centuries so he wants to exit public life and remain hidden to the world he leaves his successor to be named next month to redeem the church's reputation on a string of child abuse and corruption allegations artie's nicholas cripples. 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 there 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 have been that 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 it ended at the sixteenth has decided to resign and of course you have to remember the badly 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 accusation 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 divorce they choose to have their full 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 is 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 victoria he has not the temperament of a government so there was a lack of leadership which culminated in the great scandals of but the leaks far from the splendor of the sistine chapel a closer look at the recent events in the vatican to highlight disillusionment and frustration with the church once all about the distance myself from the church when i became an adult when i started talking about what had been talking with specially after all the scandals broke out in the catholic church i realize that it doesn't represent my spirituality 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'd be. considered sacred she went. to great assets well everybody now you see that it would be to be. the problem of the media they're really working on lisa's hearing 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 scandal with a girl who disappeared in the vatican twenty years ago and they say they found the remains. police are leading the investigation but instead of helping them. and on top of all those cases of pedophilia 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 healed day with the scandals the vatican other stayed silent all rebuffed all accusations 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 really splitting through but there. could be strong we come to reform because. the power in this. 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 scandal 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. where leading british secular campaigner keith porteous wood says catholic leaders will have to change their approach to dealing with scandals that surround the vatican if they want to win back public support. i'm certainly aware of two major issues over child abuse that are going to come up and are going to be very very hard for the vatican to swallow because it's not just that there are the child abuse bad though that is issues it's actually that the the finger of blame is going to be pointing at the vatican for having obstructed justice in all the secret files where it released so

that's going to look very bad and i think people are going to get less and less tolerance about that and the vatican has shown no real sign of actually coming to terms with this and putting its hands up and really atoning for its past sins and being much more open and and dealing more properly with victims and actually getting the people who perpetrated these crimes. turned over to the police the outgoing pope has packed the college of cardinals with people who are as if not more conservative than he has so it's going to be pretty hard but if they've got any sense they're actually look and see that the vast majority of catholics don't actually agree with all their positions on on these sensitive social issues and i think they need to actually look at their own congregation and start taking some signs from that and be much more sensible over issues like contraception homosexuality abortion all those kind of things and actually be open to.

secular justice on matters like child abuse and money laundering. the economic troubles of british families is beginning to take its toll on the health of children and school people's diets suffering from the penny pinching up on up comedy reports banks will. also coming up with a test about it once in the case of u.s. army private bradley manning accused of highly sensitive leaks as washington someones and maybe seal to prove he's an agent on kind. wealthy british soil some time right.

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into gaza in response to recent rocket fire from the strip the first since november's conflict and those tensions rise some journalists in the region are finding their work and at times lively it's affected by the ongoing standoff artie's porous layer investigates now how those trying to spread light on the situation 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 in hebrew for leading israeli newspaper it was the last major story some rami would write for the hebrew press a month later gaza's ruling 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 hear our 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. the 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 war crimes in gaza therefore there has to have seen the attackers coming from both sides of the border israeli journalist two are banned from working in gaza but ironically it's not hamas but tel aviv that stops them deeming it too dangerous for them to report from their very scary place for israeli some may mask people came to my palestinian cameramen in gaza they gave him twenty five thousand dollars and we told him that the next time 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 did regular work in gaza but after his government made it illegal six years ago his station employed gaza based palestinian journalists now because of hamas is 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 are those hamas sanctions not particularly promising in one of the recent human rights watch report that accuses a mass of harassing assaulting and arbitrarily detaining journalists israel too has come under fire for deliberately targeting reporters and media houses affiliated to harm us june of last one gaza israel felt 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 and engages israeli audiences. because you spend so much time in palestinian areas with few israelis day 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 t.v. tell of its. products take a look at some other news from around the world the south the leader of italy's five star movement which came third the country's general election has ruled out a coalition of the center left describing the head of the democratic party. sonny as a dead man talking former comedian claimed he would not support any new government or for political parties anticipate or participate in the elections with none of

them gaining enough seats to govern leaving the country in a political deadlock italian public demonstration a strong anti austerity sentiment during the election even 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 and. bugger imposed during the twenty seven uprising that brought down the market of his regime the plans were announced by the prime minister as tripoli desperately seeks to rearm its military which has been struggling to take control of a country since the fall of gadhafi 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 country grains farmers through objects security forces responded with tear gas in an attempt this worse the angry crowds of protesters say

due to rising costs of production and making a loss because of the fixed price because he said other government. it appears that the diets and health of children could be the latest victims of shrinking a 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 an attempt to save money artie's andrew farmer investigates a 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 get away from not the lunch box of a child at school you are likely to find this junk food it is the cheapest option of like nutritional value to talk more about he says 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 certainly is because the

problem about food like banters although it might fill you up it doesn't do you any good so there's about thirty thousand calories or you just the book in the park in the first that some person some of the things the child has that for the month as opposed to having a healthy nutritious mom's going to truly struggle to do well is a field that if you define them a book by the method to make is being a problem bigger than the capacity to solve it that's what we have you keep an obesity epidemic so it's incredibly important even if farms are feeling the pinch to try to forgive the child and stuff like that so much time and a few weeks of time when you really are just going to struggle to do it in a decent performance in 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 i helped a lot because it meant our child was guaranteed for the right kinds of vitamins the right kind of benefit of the right kind of food if they were having a school lunch and actually school lunch is the healthy option it is better than the privileged one fortunately over the last few years the standards have been

brought back on a number of 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 out there because we're at a school here in london and right next to the school is a takeaway restaurant that's right when the road is temptation the wrong kind of traditional for the bottom row with the unification trying to israel of course but the reality is that too many kids are eating the wrong kinds of food too often and it's very difficult to resist on every street corner. you have to sell imports of the free from food so we need more coherent from 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 we won't know exactly what action movie taken for a little bit more time but what we do know is that many kids will not be facing an appetising lunch in many schools andrew farmer. blunder on our website

right now what the next limo russia's president could look like a contest to find that design is in full swing with suggestions ranging from extravagant vehicles to more traditional soviet style examples of your great authority dot com. also the u.s. has officially labeled an environmental activist group struggling to protect whales in the pacific as pirates i doubt what that now means with the way it's online. and washington is looking to summon up 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 very falling out a geisha is that manning's leaks directly jeopardize american security and the list of witnesses will include a navy seal from the raid that killed osama bin laden who is likely to attempt to prove al qaeda benefited from the release of the secret info journalist says it's

purely an 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 and 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 making certain that 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 in weapons smuggling like like the black wire executives or you can have bankers

that engage in financial fraud and they are pursued as jealously as whistleblowers and just a couple minutes next car is a shed light on the murky world of big finance concert ports is next. 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.