war torn from his parents' arms a russian couple wages a legal battle with u.s. social services after their five month old baby was seized following a visit to a doctor. iraq's shia dominated government revokes the licenses of tanti channels most of which absolutely align financial backers a move that's been seen by many as a crackdown on dissent. and greece writes off fifteen thousand state jobs to meet the terms of a crucial bailout while france turns its iron germany over chancellor merkel's quote selfish dry for block wide a staring. a.t.m.

in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina joshie a russian couple living in the u.s. are battling to get back their five month old baby boy who was seized by child protection services the authorities stepped in when alex and anamika live sought a second opinion after their child was diagnosed with a heart murmur and was ordered to undergo immediate surgery michael sean thomas managed to catch up with the boy's parents. been shocked when they walked in the door and just they all of them in saying it's just let us see your son if he's ok and i said i'm holding him in my arms he is so ok you can take a look and they're saying give me your child and that's when they took away no paper and not so ever they've been providing and they just walked off the door was any reason given behind the nine eleven call from the hospital after you took your own child to another hospital or second to opinion i mean have they given you any reason whatsoever. they say that his and them

urgency that he's almost dying then the needs medical treatment and that he needs that needs to get back to the hospital immediately. i do believe this. no he was fine he was laughing he was eating he was a normal child normal baby to go home and he was released from the from the other hospital that we took him to the doctor released to be do statements so the parents are basically good to go home with their baby and the b.b.c. from their arms very interesting now taking a step back facebook and social networks they are a way for you to get support and you said facebook shut down the page that you set up to get support for your case did they give you any reason why they closed down this page no i think it has everything to do with the government we got

a lot of support we got a lot of prayers a lot of people who were there you know just praying for us and all all site in the first facebook page a blog called facebook basically my sister in law called facebook no answer every question as she was asking them there was no answer coming back we opened a second facebook page for support same thing happen again your child hasn't been a lot of home in four days what's going through your mind it kills me i don't have my baby of me at nighttime i just visiting him like been visiting him three times today for an hour and you're leaving at seven o'clock of again the hard going home your baby's not the few you're just feeling empty there's some missing something in your in we're just waiting for tomorrow stay just to you know like coming in this court hearing good news taking your baby going home or going to a different hospital. now the parents are now facing torturous court proceedings

and according to their lawyer it will take time effort and patience to bring the child back home. history says that c.p.s. will win this case if the initials. judge judges will tend to err on the side of caution i hope that when all of the evidence is put forth and the facts are shown it will be very clear that these are wonderful parents who have taken every measure to care for their son have done everything appropriately and have done nothing more than just like one particular doctor and wanted to have their son cared by someone who they had faith and confidence in. while it's unfortunately just the latest in a string of recent incidents involving russian couples abroad earlier this month an infant girl was taken away from her parents by new zealand child welfare officers after a hospital x. ray revealed an ankle fracture the incident has been successfully resolved and the child has been returned but a couple in norway was less fortunate social workers decided to separate

a russian citizen and her with wendy and husband from their three daughters the youngest just three years old and that's because the parents were deemed to be treating their children to strictly the battle to get the girls back is still ongoing. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world seeing from the streets of canada. trying to go for a shot through the day. ten t.v. channels including the qatar based network al jazeera have lost the right to report inside iraq the selye government has revoked their licenses for allegedly inciting sectarian unrest tensions have been heating up in the country since the deadly

military raid on a sunni protest camp that led to over one hundred seventy das in a series of clashes in the space of one week derek and hansen from bassa west iraq aid organizations as the protests are deeper than just into religious classes. after ten years of occupation because we can see that this still an occupation there is still no basic services people are randomly arrested they are locked up without charges they are your church women children and men are being raped that's why the protest started by the way and so this talk about sick darian is this is totally wrong that these are not sick tarion protests these are protests against a situation that is untenable for a forty iraqi people. that there is poverty there is unemployment there is no health care that there is good education system has collapsed the media has been

very weak until now in covering these protests have we seen images on television about the millions who were in the streets and in ramadi fallujah. mosul no we haven't because this acute the forces didn't want them to go to these places. iraq's military is also struggling to keep control over the north of the country wirth faces harsh resistance from the local kurdish minority in while neighboring turkey appears to be on the pass to resolving its own conflict with the kurds with peace talks underway however as more if it also now reports the stressed on both sides means the negotiations could crumble at any moment. three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. k. real a movement trying to turkey's military for the rights of kurds and in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died. youngest son among them

is angry that his boys are considered terrorists in the country where he lives and . no one would go into the mountains without a reason they would voluntarily sacrifice a warm and comfortable life for a disturbing existence on the run up in a harsh medicine this environment turkey treats the kids with no respect we had to stand out his second son was arrested in germany over links to the p.k. k. the third is the only one still fighting. the war the q m i'm proud of him but i would love to have him back home. a milestone agreement between the turkish government and the p.k. k. includes a cease fire fighters would have to lay down arms and give up their struggle but that want to necessary mean families are united they can do mountains in iraqi kurdistan away pick a fight as a base to form a great natural fortress and it's totally in the girl's hands no one can say exactly where in these mountains the fighters a high don't know how many are and it is to these safe haven that those of them now

fighting in turkey will most likely withdraw too if the peace process lives up to expectation. turkey's prime minister who has been personally negotiating with jailed kurdish leader or john says it would be sabotage if those retreating take their weapons with them but one format became seargent and current kurdish national congress member believes this is exactly what will happen but as. always called for a kurd fighters they have more weapons and they'll never give them up easily or ever leave them on turkish territory as. the reason is not only get real principles a member of the only pro kurdish party in the turkish parliament told me that while every side types for the past they're preparing for the worst from the other side actually there is no food cross from cody site to government. because we have very bad experiences since establishments of torture public up to now

a massacre on rights violations the denial and i may say that many other bad things have happened to us but even if p.k. k. fighters did we draw an armed they could easily requip themselves if it was needed but this was tried before. and the through into iraq they came back because you know they had already. forced the ruling a k party which is the driving force of talks with the p k k and all john wants everyone to show just a little more optimism an issue which has been the result of losing over thirty thousand lives in this country will come to it and i think that is more important than how it is handled who it is who is who is going to brief i think those many do actually share some hope although perhaps even more worry that in these details lies the devil reef notion r.t.

from turkey. how the strike is gaining momentum in guantanamo bay prison was one hundred inmates now confirmed as having joined the protest an attorney of one of the prisoners tells his client story and says the situation in the camp is deteriorating. and i swooned relax the parties that oversaw the country's financial disaster in two thousand and eight we'll hear about why the islanders are apparently so forgiving and what they're being offered. fifteen thousand civil service jobs have been legislated away by the greek parliament in a late night vote the layoffs are set to begin immediately together with an extension on taxes it's all part of an effort to push through an i.m.f. mandated history in return for bailout cash protesters made their feelings clear outside parliament as lawmakers gathered for the vote while drastic cuts take hold throughout the eurozone germany's feeling backlash france had alleged that

chancellor angela merkel quote obsession with spending cuts are leading you were to ruin a document published by francois long's ruling party accuses germany of selfishly forcing block widest ery investment eyes or patrick young says there is a growing rift between the euro zone's two leading economies. they sure is tearing up part the fundamental fabric of the european union at the moment and that is the between the northern european nations led by germany who are seen to be fiscally signed and pragmatic and sensible of what their economy and then you have the best of all of them tend to come closer to the mediterranean and they're led effectively by from some in france likes to think that it's still a first world economy but the difficult years their numbers really aren't dramatically better than some of the feeling economies of the mediterranean such as say if the leader or spain the french are left in a situation where they're desperate to do anything and basically move us back to

the one june sixteenth or seventy's level of the last ticket they want to in at least the economy by spending lots of money that france doesn't however they're hoping germany is going to give them and mrs merkel says no iceland has seen their return to power of two formally disgraced political parties that were in power when the country's banking sector collapsed in two thousand and eight the return of the euro skeptic coalition led by the independence party is seen as a rejection of the outgoing government's drive to join the e.u. robert oulds director of the group think tank believes other debt ridden nations would benefit from following iceland's example. there was a bit of a wobble in terms of icelandic public opinion after the two thousand and eight financial crisis where of course icelandic banks one after the other fell like dominoes but of course since then because it's outside of the e.u. it has its own currency it's not in the euro of course it then what and managed to

run its own economy as it saw fit and it's recovered it's still got problems but of course the economy's growing and unemployment is falling which is far removed from the situation in southern europe or in the eurozone where unemployment is continuing to rise and the economies are continually continually contracting so we asked and gives a wonderful example to those countries such as cite bursal greece or spain or italy that they ease life else so i think the exciting the single currency can actually help the euro and its current structure is not working and there needs to be a change of course and little old iceland can do it other countries can do it as well. and coming out party reports from the country in the eye of europe's economic storm. for more greeks are giving up on the big city and moving to live and work back in the countryside to find out why join me told boston on our team in a few minutes. and finding iraq's new year

a chemical arms site and damascus amid allegations that president assad forces used chemical on the rebels called washington to intervene in the country's conflict. desperation is growing in guantanamo bay detention camp where more inmates are refusing food in a bid to draw attention to mistreatment and rights abuses according to the u.s. military the total number of hunger strikers has reached one hundred but the tourney's insist the are understating the figure at least five detainees have been hospitalized and twenty are being force fed medics fear that several protesters could die before the protest and carlos warner a federal public defender who's representing a guantanamo prisoner thinks it's time the government stepped in. he's in terrible condition and i talked to him on friday by telephone he indicated that they were using a large tube in his nose a size ten instead of a size eight anyone who could be fed is and who's lost at this point to more

or more of his body weight is in a very dire position you have the military advisor in the press saying that there are going to be multiple deaths because of this and that's just that's the fact that's what happens when you have hopelessness and that's when what happens when you have this terrible situation that's being aggravated by the military now the military is not has fault here they need to negotiate an end and not just try to exert their will on these hopeless men but ultimately the moves have happened in washington it is you here is with the president again president obama pick up the ball and this right the military has come around and it's a meeting that they can't get a full scale strike to duration and scope of which we've never seen the president has to intervene yesterday that the correspondents dinner making jokes while men are dying in one spot and all we have and he has some attention. and he has been speaking to several other lawyers representing guantanamo inmates for the air

stories so had to r.t. dot com and also there today united states homeland security proves it's tough for them the army personnel reportedly a thousand more bullets per person than soldiers. and scientists and to create a new breed of foreign less cow claiming this will make the world safer or find out more on our t. dot com. right. now syrian rebels and government forces have been firing in damascus near a complex linked to the country's chemical weapons program this comes

a day after american and bahrain accused of resorting to chemical weapons something washington considers the red line reports can be confirmed though as the u.n. said there was no solid proof republican senators have nevertheless urged obama to weigh in on the conflict in syria calling for a strong on air bases with deploying troops. well online today at r.t. dot com we're asking our viewers what those alleged chemical attacks could mean let's now take a look at the site word that we have so far so more than a half of you think it's all part of a u.s. undercover plot to justify an invasion well twenty one percent says rebels are using such reports to get western help to oust asad about seven percent and think the reports will hardly change anything and just six percent believe president assad has crossed the red line this time so you can also let us know what you think on the issue by going to r.t.

dot com and leaving your vote there. now civil war in syria is a on a global dimension the canadian government says dozens of its citizens are fired in syria and could pose a risk if their country's security when they return home. are concerns voiced by british and dutch government which both recently were cyber turning fires as a threat this comes almost a week after two foreign born canadian muslims were charged with plotting to try to do rail passenger train. gunmen have surrounded the foreign ministry in libya's capital tripoli demanding no senior posts in the new administration be given to members of the former regime of colonel gadhafi officials said up to two hundred militants are outside and negotiations with the group have begun armed factions tried unsuccessfully to storm the interior ministry and the state news agency on sunday. a small bomb exploded near

a police car in bahrain nationalist already there arrested twenty two anti-government activists no one was hurt in the blast the activists are said to have been detained individually and in groups over the past week some of them now face terrorism charges for participating in anti-government protests and throwing rocks at police during demonstrations. yellower of factory that collapsed in bangladesh killing more than three hundred seventy people has been arrested on the indian border and taken to the capital dhaka at the side rescuers spent hours trying to save a woman trapped under the rubble before a fire broke out apparently killing her and leaving fire fargas in tears some two thousand four hundred people have so far been dragged along from the rubble five days after the building caved. that will slash and burn economic policies of the great governments are hitting home hard but the tough economy times are in

felt equally across the country as artist on barton reports that people are being forced from big cities to greener pastures where prices are cheaper. the young on the sea theodora says in his forty's but while he used to make his living at a newspaper in greece's second city thessaloniki he's now returned to his roots on the northern greek coast this is theodorus his fresh fish shop he took it over when his uncle retired two years ago and now theodorus is making a go of it himself far away from the big city his decision is part of the trend greeks unable to make ends meet in the cities looking to areas with smaller economies and costs. the company i work for qatar salaries so i decided to come here to find a better life for my children and me. cost us also gave up a life in athens to open a guest house in the hills of northern greece the life of

a city advertising manager was good he says but people should think before writing off the world outside. and that there you go there are many opportunities for you to make your life better in a small town rather than in athens. and the potential reverse brain drain from cities back to the regions could hold hidden benefits being educated and hip in the experience of living in the areas and all the experience of the money gives living in in the city lives i mean these are these people be. my pill come in to do the countryside to develop not that everyone baelish is the prospect demetrius moved away when he was eighteen and is now a freshly out of work t.v. director he finds adjusting to life back here difficult he wanted to stay in the capital and if the. i was forced to come back here because of the high rates of unemployment in athens it was

a matter of survival for me for these three greeks as for increasing multitudes of others this move choice or not is a path away from unsustainable living in cities hit by economic crisis here at least if they have little else new arrivals or old home camas of the scenery of the sea tom bottom r.t. and coming up shortly the latest edition of crossed up don't go away.

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and those red lines with allegations damascus has use some kind of chemical weapons to the u.s. nato and the gulf countries may up the ante to break the deadlock in this conflict if that comes one of the possible outcomes. hello and welcome to crossfire for all things considered i'm peter lavelle syria and those red lines with allegations damascus has used some kind of chemical

weapons in this ongoing civil war there is a growing possibility the u.s. nato and the gulf countries may up the ante to break the deadlock in this conflict if that comes to pass what are the possible outcomes and are any of them better than the status quo. if you cross talk syria i'm joined by my guests in washington mark jacobson he's a senior transatlantic fellow at the german marshall fund of the united states and we also have john glaser he is an editor at antiwar dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it ok john i'd like to start with you you wrote in your blog why obama's chemical weapons redline.