a new front for you on peacekeepers that being held by c. one rebels in the golan heights comes as america's top diplomat visits russia in the times to bridge the divide of assyria with moscow accusing the your us of inciting bloodshed in the civil conflict. of the u.k. admits that radioactive materials have gone missing in the country in dozens of locations sparking fears that dangerous substances could fall into the wrong hands . and china hosts both the leaders of israel and palestine as beijing's growing economic and political clout spreads to the middle east.

international news live from moscow this is all she with me you know. and welcome to the program. israel is facing the prospect of syria based militants at talking across its northern border with the backing of bashar al assad's regime a police state an armed group reportedly says it's been given a green light from damascus to carry out raids on the golan heights which are over here is apparently part of syria's response to a series of israeli air strikes on its territory over the weekend syrian missiles are allegedly being pointed at israel ready to retaliate immediately in case of a not and we're just getting reports that syrian rebels from the yarmouk martyrs brigade are holding a group of u.n. peacekeepers in the golan heights the rebels say they're holding the peacekeepers for their own safety after clashes in the separation zone between syria and israel

and later in the program we'll be talking to dr steinberg editor of executive intelligence review magazine but that's later. now syria will dominate talks between the u.s. secretary of state and the russian leadership here in moscow that his sides are deeply polarized over how the syrian conflict should result and john kerry faces a real challenge to get russia's backing. explains. u.s. state secretary john kerry is in moscow to seek russia's support in resolving the syrian conflict but experts are at a dismay as to exactly how he's going to get that support given that the positions of most going to washington on the syrian conflict have been fundamentally different just twenty four hours before john kerry landed in moscow all the spokesperson on the russian foreign ministry alexander. that russia has been concerned with the militarization of the syrian rebels by the western countries the u.s. have been expressing their regret all along that the syrian conflict has been going on for more than two years now with so many people dead at the same time the

initiatives are which are now existing in washington wolf arming the syrian rebels and providing them with military training are creating something of a double standard situation in other particular point which will be discussed is the alleged use of chemical weapons by the government troops this is something of course russia is concerned yet again because from the russian standpoint it looks like the fact of the chemical weapons use it was not approved and it may be used as a pretext for a possible use of force in syria by the western forces by the u.s. in particular even despite that the investigation by the independent u.n. commission to just that that the chemical weapons were in fact used by these syrian rebels that this report is being ignored and this is causing serious concerns the growing tunneled a hunger strike drags in states into ninety day coming up later we hear from inmates in the us about the ailing health of prisoners and why their clients feel they have no choice but to put their very lives on the line. and

badly influence a new form of tourism unless they bail on how industry gets its way from the german government. they find out how the business lobby pushes its agenda later in the program. britain is under pressure to put tighter controls on its radioactive materials after it's emerged that hazardous substances have gone missing in numerous locations over the last decade and he factoring industries nuclear reactors and even schools are implicated in the list obtained by r.t. from the health and safety also received some of the materials are volatile enough

to be sold by terrorists half assed reports businesses university. had been using a radioactive and often very dangerous materials how did in some cases mislaid or even lost these materials now we've been going through the documentation did a good copy of it here with me now and what's incredible about that is that this isn't just one or two incidents this is happening more than thirty times over the last decade and you see things like depleted uranium you've got one three seven one of the incidents we saw at the what you were in hospital names and on balance the incident it was cesium one three five and it had gone missing and they're being used for treatment of a cancer patient and if you look at what it actually said describing that material it says that i have the potential to cause significant radiation into race to anyone handling it or even in directly coming into contact with it for a short period of time just going down the list and you've got

a veritable who's who of big names in british industry you've got rolls royce in darby that have been creating the reactors for britain's nucleus of was some of these incidents have been prosecuted well some of the firms are being prosecuted many all the incidents on here have actually seen those involved in the culprits get away with little more than a written warning. nuclear consultant john large explains how easy it would be for terrorists to use some of the leaks materials well if you take one one substance for example was cesium and yet those two materials what you need to do this if you was a terrorist you had evil intent then all you need to do is to ignite burn or detonate a conventional explosive packed near that material to disperse it as a foreign body part in the air and that makes it responsible it makes it comes

a contaminant so for example a scenario a scenario in a city would be to actually explode or burn this material at a high level say in the tower block or say in a city like moscow to actually burn it on the metro system on the tube system and let the train to be radioactive atmosphere around the metro system and that would be very very difficult to decontaminate and control because the gas would be pumped around by the trains going through the tunnels into each station. and let's now return to our top story this is ration about syria and i went out joined live by jeff steinberg over consecutive intelligence review magazine add mr steinberg very warm welcome to the program and start of a dose reports about the un peacekeepers being held by rebels this is not the first time the syrian opposition has held members of the un it will do you think of the of rebels tactics that. well the rebels are actually terrorists much of

the rebel force particularly in the north of syria is made up of people who are overtly associated with al qaida you have the almost refreshment and dozens of other store going is ations and of course a few weeks ago al qaeda in iraq announced a corporate merger if you will with the el nusra front and these are the dominant fighting forces inside syria at this point they're receiving massive amounts of financing and weapons from saudi arabia the u.a.e. and other persian gulf countries and. in the same way that president putin rightly criticizes the west for referring to chechen terrorists as rebels and freedom fighters the same is true in syria and now of course we have carla departed to be one of the u.n. investigators into the use of sarin gas saying that it's the rebels who use this

air and gas and not the syrian army so they're terrorists and therefore expect the worst kind of terrorist activities and disrespect for any international law or human rights and they're talking about rebels and that kind of signals. to the rebels such as the u.s. well it's a terrible embarrassment for the obama administration right at this moment and of course for people like senator john mccain and senator lindsey graham who've been demanding u.s. terrorist action in support and. yes hi can you hear me lou i'm here hello hello. all right let's not talk about both connection between a zero and syria. in the standoff with the syrian government and just how

much is a zero siding with the sunni muslim finds his waging a war against president assad now we're seeing a very nontraditional alliance that. well yes i think that there's even talk now about an alliance being referred to as four plus one saudi arabia the united arab emirates turkey and jordan aligned with israel in a military coalition a kind of a quasi are in nato that would be not only involved in regime change in syria but preparing later this year or early next for direct military action against iran over yet another claim of weapons of mass destruction that has no coherence with the reality of the actual evidence. is now facing the threat of putting at times from syrian territory could it have foreseen fresh developments when it was carrying out its talks inside syria. from sources that i have had

direct contact with inside israel actually inside the ministry of defense all of the actions that they are taking in syria right now a stance oblique directed against hezbollah weapon stockpiles are all in expectation that there will be a general regional war in which iran becomes the primary target the united states and other nato countries are joined in along with israel and so the israelis effectively are taking preventive or preemptive action against possible his ballade retaliation in the context of a larger war so the danger here in the middle east is very grave and of course a regional conflict in such a crucial part of the world could very easily get out of control and go much bigger

and worse than even that. china is hosting the leaders of both palestine and israel as the asian giant looks to boost its influence in the middle east for is a road beijing is its largest trading partner in asia and prime minister binyamin netanyahu wants to do more business there but diplomatically beijing is leading very much towards israel's are tribal palestine a day before netanyahu was a rival palestinian leader mahmoud abbas was given full state owners' meeting in beijing president season pino went on to offer a four point peace plan calling for an end to the gaza blockade and the restoration of palestinian rights on his policy of reports now on the rush to the east. these very quiet minister benjamin netanyahu and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas are currently in china they are there on a week long business trip but obviously they won't just be talking business they'll

be talking politics and they'll be trying to further cooperate and intrenched relations in the fields of economy trade and science and also develop political trust for some time we have witnessed a whole china is trying to influence the middle east and play a bigger role in this part of the world if you look at israeli chinese relations in one thousand nine hundred two the two countries began and established diplomatic relations and since then they have developed increasingly close commercial military and strategic links trade between the two countries currently stands at around ten billion dollars a year their investments in israel are at the beginning i believe they have a number of reasons why the inverse whereby they don't invest in this group. i think this think also in large political terms they think is really simple country they want to have a foothold here. but we also noticed that china else china

has always supported the arab side in the conflict at least burbling. but you notice that in the last in the recent past they have become a maybe a little bit more hesitant. maybe they want to get something back from the arab side what is particularly interesting when we look at the relationship between israel and china is that it seems to be coming on the back of a cooling of the relationship between israel and the united states there's no secret that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the american president barack obama do not like each other and obviously netanyahu is going to look around and search for new partners one of whom could easily become china if you take note of how china is getting more and more powerful of how the world is becoming more multi-polar when it is clear that there is no room for ignoring a world power such as china if you look at the euro crisis where did countries go

in terms of asking for help china if you look at the north korea crisis we did countries go they asked china for help now netanyahu is in china at a particularly sensitive time in terms of israeli syrian relations many people are asking why he did not cancel his trip to go there and in fact what wall the recent syrian israeli flare up will have in terms of the agenda that is being addressed there china has always had a firm position towards syria and it has always been on the side of negotiations never did it support the bloodshed from either side of the conflict so it will be interesting to see what comes out of if anything israeli chinese discussions over the situation in syria. and other bank was more news for you after a short break and some stories that's how waiting for you after the break a young prisoner shows that a spirit is more than just an easing utensil and just a few well let's find out how he borrowed his way out of.

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more news today violence is once again flared up. in these are the images cold world has been seeing from the streets of canada. the giant corporations are today . now an alleged assassin has escaped from a detention center in northern moscow reportedly with the help of a spoon and the left hand get the details of exactly what happened from us he's done but. according to prison sources thirty three year old pile of somehow managed to dig out of the top of the ceiling of his cell get out onto the roof of this notoriously high security prison over the fence and away he is not a petty criminal he is charged with a double murder and with illegal arms trafficking the guards at the prison service

say that it's most likely he really could only have used a spoon to dig out of that cell because this is the cells of regularly checked for other implements for that very purpose at the moment there is a manhunt underway to try and find mr pile of and also an investigation to look into possible negligence by guards this is obviously one man and one man and his food as it were they were perhaps seven other inmates in that cell so the prison service we don't know if they played a part just last year a very high profile almost hollywood escape from a prison remote prison in russia where accomplices hijacked a helicopter and managed to use that to lift the said inmate out of the prison he was later caught there are other examples as well across the world just last month a very notorious french armed robber took guards hostage inside a french prison and then used explosives to blow the doors off and then escape

himself and of course we can't end without mentioning nine hundred sixty two alcatraz and what were the the tools of choice there to escape of course the humble spoon. online at our feet are confluent now just as scientists claim they're close to creating a vaccine for a tribe be it appears they could be and not a disaster on its way to go the story of the superbug spreading across the globe which medics say is drug resistant to r.t. of continuity exiles on the infection some fear could be even worse than aids. and also that how could turns tycoon came dot com threatens to sue the new zealand's foreign intelligence agency for spying on him but the government's undeterred after spring for even greater powers to snoop on its citizens. it's day ninety one of the go on tunnel of a hunger strike one hundred inmates are refusing food in protest against inhumane

treatment at the hands of the u.s. military twenty four being force fed a procedure that lawyers have condemned as brutal and david arenas who represents seventeen guntown of inmates told us what's motivating them. to or being forced out energy as you would imagine the others who are. hungry are we find it difficult to. manage but it's difficult all of. considerable. twenty forty five pounds and sixty pounds and it's really a horrifying situation they shouldn't have to do this to get and kind of the american public and they shouldn't have to do this in order to cry out for their release the commander of the joint detention group he's effectively the warden of the. prison for the detainees has refused to talk to them until they stop their

hunger strike i have to say that it's sort of a macho pose on his parts he's just not going to blink first he could have solved his hunger strike within three or four days if he had sat down with them and talked with them about their concerns and found a pragmatic solution that's what his practice that's true yet after three months he has not been willing to discuss the matter ever after all this raid i'm afraid that some men may dodge it because the military just isn't paying attention what it's trying to do is break the hunger strike by any means possible however little. he's been following this trial from the outset and with good full time line on our website for you and there you can find out just how much taxpayers are shelling out to keep going tunnel running and here why this scandal ridden facility is still and this is a quick look now at some other stories making headlines around the globe in

pakistan more people have been killed in the wave of attacks ahead of the general election the latest on it was a pakistan people's party ronnie biggs died there and dozens more were injured earlier on tuesday an explosion killed at least ten at a gathering of a proton party in the hindu province of and you have got a stunning nor over one hundred country does and party workers have now died the taliban has claimed responsibility for most of that time. libya's defense minister has resigned in protest against an ongoing siege of state ministries calling it an assault on democracy armed robbers continue to surround to ministries in tripoli even though the authorities have given into their main demands that a bill be passed barring people who served in the former gadhafi regime from government posts several top politicians including the prime minister are likely to lose their jobs as a result of being able. to rupture in the philippines has killed at least five people and injured seven others a group of german climbers and their guide were hit by falling rocks after an ash

blast on mount my on the volcano is the most active in the south asian nation erupting roughly once in a decade. gearing up for its may be ninth victory day parade thousands of troops and vehicles are staging a rehearsal in the heart of the russian capital over eleven thousand soldiers along with one hundred tongues from dozens a world plays are involved in the preparations the troops were greeted on red square by world war two veterans and crowds of spectators goodell's from military schools took part in the house a large on the square the main celebrations will be on thursday when russia marks the sixty eighth anniversary of the soviet union's victory over nazi germany. for good times in europe have caused a surge of public interest in how governments are spending taxpayers' money and we splitting the strings behind the big decisions some enterprising german tour guides are now offering visitors to berlin the chance to catch a behind the scenes glimpse of how business is normally the government. reports now

on the murky relationship between commerce and politics. on the streets of berlin there's a new form of tourism grabbing attention sightseeing tours that show just how the political lobbying process works. everyone gather around their big green i just want to make sure everyone can hear within a couple of kilometers we take in how an issue goes from the desk of the lobby organization to the ear of a politician and it's opening. i didn't know how powerful the industry is it's interesting to see how they go about pushing their agenda but why are these people giving up their saturday afternoon to traipse around closed office buildings it's a topic that you get much information on. easily and i thought also think it's a topic that's very abstract but we manage to. make it more concrete we give

a lot of concrete examples on the door and we go to where the lobbyists are and i think that's what makes it attractive to take the tour and you going to see where germany's auto giants make their presence felt and how they made sure the country's highways famously have no speed limits and since this is germany of course the beer industry also has a say. brewery lobby were facing a drop off in sales so this is where they lobbied to be allowed lemonade tasting better to attract a younger crowd of. people with money have more of a say in politics than the normal man in the street was what i'm seeing is that political decisions are made by the rich one of the most interesting parts of the tour is getting to see where the closed door meetings take place and highly selective private clubs. but we all know these discussions take place this tour like to see just where they happened i had no idea that there was such a place as the china club but right here in the political center of the city the

popularity of tours like the one we've just seen shows that more and more germans are wanting to find out exactly who's pulling the strings behind some of the major decisions they get taken in parliament peter all of a r.t. . have the next states breaking the sat here watching our. and yet another step along the pointless anti gender crusade activists in sweden are pushing to promote a new gender neutral pronoun these activists want the term hen to replace the pronouns and haun which mean he and she respectively i think the logic of these bizarre gender neutral movements in the e.u. is that they really feel that it's awful to force someone into

a role that doesn't fit them you know i can kind of see this i remember back to when i was a boy in school and with me there was a kid what kind of only female friends and i certainly wasn't the sports a toy trucks kind of kid if you understand what i mean you know i could see this guy having all those male stereotypes shoved down his throat you know made his life at school really unpleasant but the whacko liberal answer to some tiny amount of people being pushed into gender roles they don't like is to force everyone else into a genderless world they don't like fantastic i guess gender neutrality advocates can speak swedish how they like and they're free to use this word hen but don't force everyone in the country to do things your way the overwhelming majority of the world is very happy with its gender thank you very much but that's just my opinion. and this is free cretaceous free storage which is free. range

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this up guys i'm having martin in the break in the set so i've got a lot of news to share with you all today first a very tragic update on the bangladesh garment factory collapse the last time i covered this the death toll hovered around three hundred people but since then countless more bodies have been pulled out of the rubble and just today the death toll climbed above the six hundred fifty and it's now thought to be the worst garment factory accident ever or rescue workers have managed to save two thousand four hundred of the garment poised to name the debris authorities still don't know how many additional bodies remain engineer of the building has been arrested along with eight others for criminal negligence in the investigation but that's not good enough we do use this event as the impetus for better labor standards worldwide to prevent this from ever happening again and now i'd like to turn to google the internet company has recently made a historic statement by changing its palestine home page label from power.