it killed me i don't have to have everybody. 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 ten t.v. channels most of which have sunni aligned financial backers a move that's been seen by many as a crackdown on dissent. and greece winds off fifteen thousand state jobs to meet the terms of a crucial bailout while france turned its iran berman to over chancellor merkel's quote selfish drive for bloc why does.

is not am in the russian capital you're watching r t with me marina josh. 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 is the word he stepped in when. sought a second opinion after their child was diagnosed with a heart murmur and was ordered to undergo immediate surgery my colleague john thomas managed to catch up with the boy's parents. we 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 so 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 not so ever they've been providing and they just walked out of the door was any reason given behind the nine eleven call from the hospital after you took your

own child to another hospital for a second opinion i mean have they given you any reason whatsoever. they say that his and them urgency that he's almost dying their needs medical treatment and that he needs that needs to get out to the hospital immediately. or do you 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 we took him to the doctor released to be did a statement said the parents are basically good to go home with their b.b. in 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 open a second facebook page for support same thing happened again your child hasn't been a lot of home in four days what's going through your minds 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 you babies not the few you're just feeling empty there's some missing something in your and 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. well the parents are now facing torturous core proceedings and according to they are aware it will take time effort and patience to bring the child back home. history says that c.p.s. will win this case at the initial spot. just judges will tend to err on the side of caution i am hopeful 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 was 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 choose 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. showing for a nation to rule the day. now tend to be channels including the qatar based network al-jazeera have lost the right to report inside iraq the shia led government has revoked their licenses for allegedly inciting sectarian unrest tensions have been heating up in the country

since a deadly military raid on a sunni protest camp that led to over one hundred seventy deaths and serious class classes in the space of one week there of evidence from the s.o.s. iraq aid organization says the protests are deeper than just into religious classes . after ten years of occupation because we can see the distiller an occupation there is still no basic services people are randomly arrested they are locked up without charges they are door church women children and men are being raped that's why the protests started by the way and so this talk about sick tarion is this is 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 in in ramadi fallujah. mosul no we haven't because this security forces didn't want them to go to these places. now iraq's military is also struggling to keep control over the north of the country where it faces harsh resistance from the local kurdish minority meanwhile neighboring turkey appears to be on the pass to resolving its own conflict with the kurds with peace talks underway however as maria financial reports distrust on both sides means the negotiations could crumble at any moment. three of these men sons are in the ranks of the p.k. case real a movement trying to turkey's military for the rights of kurds in almost thirty years of armed struggle thousands on both sides have died google owns youngest son among them is angry that his boys are considered terrorists in the country where he

lives and it won't be 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 memes in this environment turkey treats the kurds with no respect we had to send out his second son was arrested in germany over links to the p.k. k. the third is the only one still fighting. for the kill 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 necessarily mean families are united they can do mountains in iraqi kurdistan where pick a fight as a base for a great natural fortress and it's totally in the girl's hands no one can say exactly where in these mountains they fight as a high don't know how many they 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 expectations 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 former p.k. cave insurgent and current kurdish nationalist member believes this is exactly what will happen but most of the large among. 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 give real principles a member of the only pro kurdish party in the turkish. element told me that while every side types for the past they are preparing for the best from the other side and actually there is no food trust from kurdish state government. because we have very bad experiences since establishments of treasure public up to now

a massacre from rights violations the denial and i may say that many other bad things have happened to us but even if big a case for it is did we draw an armed able to easily recreate themselves if it was needed but this was tried before. the true entry iraq they came back because you know they had already. force the ruling a k party which is the driving force of talks with p.k. k. and or john wants everyone to show just a little more optimistic on 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 are the many do actually share some help although perhaps even more worry that in these details lies the devil. from turkey. however

strike is gaining momentum in guantanamo bay prison with one hundred inmates now and us having joined the protest at attorney of one of the prisoners tells r t his client story and says the situation in the camp is deteriorating. and iceland relaxed the parties that oversaw the country's financial disaster in two thousand and eight we 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 and a late night vote the layoffs are set to get immediately together with an extension on taxes it's all part of an effort to push through e.u. and i.m.f. mandated of stary 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 is feeling the backlash france has alleged that

chancellor angela merkel's quote obsession with spending cuts are leading europe to ruin a document published by francois logs ruling party accuses germany of selfishly forcing block widest charity investment advisor patrick young says there is a growing rift between the euro zone's two leading economies. it sure is tearing up part the fundamental fabric of the european union at the moment and that is between the northern european nations led by germany who are seen to be fiscally signed and pragmatic and sensible of by their economies and then you have the rest all of them tend to come closer to the mediterranean and they're led affectively 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 village economies of the mediterranean such as say if they leave 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 and that lift the economy by spending lots of money that france doesn't however they're hoping germany's going to give them and mrs merkel says no iceland has seen the return to power of two formerly 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 panels party seen as a rejection of the outgoing government's drive to join the e.u. robert oulds director of the brewers group think tank believes other 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 felt 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 it been

banished on 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 part of a move from the situation in southern europe in the euro zone where unemployment is continuing to rise and the economies are continually continually contracting so we are asked and gives a wonderful example to those countries such as saw it burst or greece or spain or italy ease life outside the euro the exits in the single currency can actually help the euro and its current structure is not working and there needs to be a change of course in a little old austin can do it other countries can do it as well coming up r.t. reports from the country in the eye of europe's economic storm. more and 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 from boston on r.t. in a few minutes. and fighting erupts near a chemical arms side in the mask is

a middle of the president forces used chemical weapons and rebels and calls in washington to intervene in the country's conflict that's coming up very shortly here in r.t. . well . science technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got the huge you're covered. wealthy british style. is no time to write in the mornings when. the. markets find. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines join into gaza report on our.

welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to live from moscow desperation is growing in guantanamo bay detention camp were more in they are refusing food a bid to draw attention to mistreatment of rights abuses according to the u.s. military the total number of hunger strikers has reached one hundred but attorneys insist they are understand understating the figure well at least five trainees have

a hospital and twenty are being forced that medics fear that several protesters could die before the protest hands water a federal public the fan or who's representing a guantanamo prisoner saying it's time the government stepped in. he's in terrible condition i talked to him on friday by telephone he indicated that they are using a large tube in his nose a size ten instead of a size eight anyone who has been tube fed is and who's lost it 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 to happen in

washington it is you here is with the president again president obama must pick up the ball and this right the military has come around and it's a meeting that they can't get in a full scale strike duration and scope of which we've never seen the president has to intervene yesterday's at the correspondents dinner making jokes while men are dying in ones on the most we asked that he has some attention. and he has been speaking to several other all lawyers representing guantanamo inmates for their stories so i han't our website aren't you a call from war. and also they are the u.s. department of homeland security proves it's tough for the man the army its personnel reportedly use s. thousand more bullets pre-purchase and soldiers. plus scientists to create a new breed of foreign low scowled claiming this will make the world safer so find more on our website r t com.

syrian rebels and government forces have been fighting in damascus near a complex linked to the country's chemical weapons program this comes a day after american aberrate accused bashar asad of resorting to chemical weapons something washington considers a red line the reports could be confirmed oh as the u.n. said there was no solid proof republican senators have then nonetheless urged obama to weigh in on the conflict in syria calling for a strike on air bases without deploying troops. while we have been conducting a poll in our website so let's take a look at where the figures are see here on

a web site r t dot com so more than a it's all part of a u.s. under cover plot to justify invasion and just over a fifth says rebels are using such reports to get western help to oust president asad and seven percent of those who took part in our online poll saying the reports won't change anything and just six percent believe president assad really has crossed the red line this time so you can let us know what you think by logging onto our dot com and leaving your vote there. now civil war in syria is pulling citizens from war and more countries media governments as dozens of its citizens are five hundred closer to their country's security when their return home dad coast similar concerns voiced by the british and dutch governments which both

recently sided returning fire service as a threat now this comes almost a week after two foreign born canadian muslims were charged with plotting to the rail a passenger train. gunmen have surrounded the foreign ministry in libya's capital tripoli demanding that no senior posts in the new administration be given to members of a former regime of colonel gadhafi a government official has said up to two hundred militants are outside and go with a group have begun armed factions tried unsuccessfully to storm the interior ministry and the state news agency on sunday. bomb exploded near a police car involved rain after authorities there arrested twenty two men to government activists no one was hurt in the blast many activists were detained individually and in groups over the past week some of them now face terrorism charges for participating in anti regime protests and growing with rocks at police

during rallies. the owner of a factory collapsed in bangladesh killing more than three hundred seventy people has been arrested on the border and taken to the capital dhaka aside rescuers have suffered in disappointing setback after spending hours trying to save a woman trapped under the rubble fire broke out killing her some two thousand four hundred people have so far been pulled alive from the rubble five days after the building caved in. now slash and burn economic policies of the greek government are taking a heavy toll but the tough economic times aren't felt equally across the country as are reports many people are being forced from big cities to greener pastures where prices are lower. the young man and the sea theodorus is in his forty's but while he used to make his living at a newspaper in greece his second city thessalonica he's now returned to his roots

on the northern greek coast this is theodorus is fresh fish shop it took it over one 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 city's looking to areas with smaller economies and costs. the company i work for cut our salaries so i decided to come here to find a better life for my children and me it 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 a potential reverse brain drain from cities back to the regions could hold hidden

benefits being educated and hip with the experience of keeping work in the areas and all the experience of the bunny he gives living in in the city lives i mean these people be. my pill to do the countryside to develop not that everyone relishes 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. 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 comers have the scenery and

the sea tom bottom r.t. . well next on our team was take a look at the lives of syrian refugees who have found a new home in russia's southern republican i think that's in a way from the bombs in just a moment. most people in the western world would agree that having laws that officially creates second class citizens is totally unacceptable we can look at the way jews were treated in nazi germany or blackstar in apartheid in south africa and the slavery jim crow era in the usa as examples of legally dividing society by necessity i think most people he you with their modern sensibilities would find these practices me bob barrack and backwards but my question is that why is there to this day

officially sanctioned second class citizens in certain e.u. countries or to be more accurate i should say non-citizen residents of the two million people in latvia around three hundred thousand of them are considered citizen residents who can neither vote nor hold public office these non-citizens are russian speakers of various ethnic backgrounds whose children also by birth bearer of the non-citizen status not happy being on the bad side of apartheid the non-citizens have logically decided to vote for their own parliament because they can't elect or participate in the left field what even if the parliament has no power whatsoever it will be their chance to shine a light on the issue which the mainstream media has been keeping quiet for years you know you'd think that people would be outraged over segregation but what happens to russians and russian speakers is just not cool or hip or trendy or convenient enough for the mainstream media to take notice but that's just my opinion.

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