syrian rebels of u.n. peacekeepers in the golan heights and say its own safety. comes as america's top diplomat visits russia in an attempt to bridge the divide over syria with moscow accusing the u.s. of inciting bloodshed with its plans to rebels. and the u.k. admits that radioactive materials have gone missing in the country and dozens of locations. could fall into the wrong hands. the. growing economic and political clout to the middle.

international news live from our studio here in moscow this is. syrian rebels have abducted four u.n. peacekeepers patrolling the separation zone between syria and israel members of the . brigade posted this picture online they're holding the peace keepers for their own safety after clashes in the area it's the second time in two months that unarmed military observers have been taken captive by the rebels steinberg editor of executive intelligence review magazine says it sends a warning signal to the rebels foreign backers. 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 and these are the dominant fighting forces

inside syria at this point that'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. military action in support of the rebels well the u.s. is considering the opposition regardless of their tactics a bit is being circulated around congress the idea was staunchly opposed by russia who has repeatedly warned against pouring weapons into the conflict it's just one of the differences the usa could use stages trying to bridge during talks with the russian leadership current in moscow but he likes he has cesky is following the negotiations. it is understood that kerry came here to moscow to see russia supported resulting the syrian conflict indeed he already set up to meeting the russian president that russia and the united states have a similar viewpoint on the syrian conflict but experts are at a dismay as to how exactly he may get that support because there are fundamental

differences in how both washington and moscow see the resolution of the syrian conflict at the moment in particular russia has been strongly coming up against the militarization of the syrian rebels something which is now being discussed across the atlantic and russia has been saying that this is never contributing to a peaceful resolution of the war in the region another sticking point here another bone of contention is the use of chemical weapon chemical weapons in syria which is allegedly used by the government troops russia says that this has never been proved and the fact which never been proved did not serve as an excuse for a possible military intervention or anything of the sort it is really hard to say whether kerry has been trying to relay official washington's position here in moscow or try to lower beef the the initiative which is now being discussed the united states to provide military support for the syrian rebels but we are expecting more comments from the u.s.

state secretary after he meets the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov. the u.s. is mulling whether to on the syrian rebels that's despite claims by a senior u.n. investigator that the opposition might have used chemical weapons during the conflict correspondent in washington going to check on the details. the white house has basically brushed off the latest findings of you one human rights commission which said that the syrian rebels may have used the deadly sarin nerve gas here is a leading un investigators saying she was quote stupefied by the evidence chemical weapons were used in particular. and what was. what appear. to our investigation that was used by openings by the rebels and we have no no indication at toul the government authority of the syrian government has used chemical weapons

that i was evicted that. first the first indication we got they were about the use of never been gassed by the opening to that the white house said we find it highly likely that chemical weapons if they were in fact used in syria and they are certainly evidence that they were the our side was responsible end of quote so it seems that the white house is this missive of evidence that could suggest the use of chemical weapons by the rebels over dirty dot com are asking you what would happen if evidence of chemical weapon usage incriminates opposition fighters were let's see you've been voting so far nearly a whole off of you so far believe that this would trigger intensified calls for military intervention we can see there just over a third saying that the revelation will have no influence on the calls to the president so that thirteen percent think that the opposition backers are going to reconsider financial support for the rebels and the rest there eight percent think

that it'll be a more balanced approach to the conflict have your say on our web site or to dot com it's on the home page or online poll. britain is under pressure to put tighter controls on its radioactive materials off to it's emerged that hazardous substances have gone missing in numerous locations over the last decade manufacturing industries nuclear reactors and even schools are implicated in a list obtained by all to you from the health and safety authority some of the materials a volatile enough to be sought by terrorists sarah first reports. this is universities . have been using radioactive and often very dangerous materials had 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 it is that this isn't just one or two incidents this is happened more than thirty times over the last decade and you see things like depleted uranium you've got cesium one three seven one of the incidents we saw at the royal free hospital names and balance that incident it was cesium one three seven that had gone missing and that being used for treatment of a cancer patient and if you look at what it actually said describing that material if it had 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 here and you've got a veritable he's too big names in british industry rules were 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 have been prosecuted many of the instance on here have actually seen these involved in the culprits get away with little more than a written warning consultant explains how easy it would be for terrorists to use some of the leaked materials. well if you take one one substance for example was cesium and yet those two materials what you need to do there 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 fine but a 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

a tower block or say in a city like moscow to actually burn it on the metro system on the tube system and let the trains realm 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. do you live in moscow is to have for this hour a novel way to use cutlery the young prisoner shows that a spoon is more than just an eating utensil just a few moments find out how he borrowed his way out of jail. that's still to come but first china is hosting the leaders of both palestine and israel as the asian giant looks to boost its influence in the middle east for israel beijing is its largest trading partner in asia and prime minister benjamin netanyahu wants to do more business but diplomatically beijing leans very much towards israel's arch rival palestine

a day before netanyahu the rival palestinian leader mahmoud abbas was given full state on its meeting in beijing present. of a four point peace plan calling for an end to the gaza blockade and the restoration of palestinian rights reports now on the rush to the east. the israeli prime 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 intrench relations in the fields of economy trade and science and also develop political trust for some time we have witnessed how 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 investor buy they don't invest in this room. i think they 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 us 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 and 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 in the 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 where did countries go they ask china for help and 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 toward 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. is historically will please to build bridges in the middle east that's the view. from the israel chamber of commerce. china ees regaining her position as a major international player in that goal for the middle east china has a unique position in the fact that on the one hand it has very good in the relations with the policy means that all the our board including iran for itself in the same thought they have in the past twenty years developed very good relations with israel as well so that puts them in an interesting position to talk to everyone moreover china is very well known to be against conflicts against violence against the use of weapon bringing somebody into the middle east who is supporting finding solutions without using violence even if they actually take action not only

by statements what also by pushing the palestinians the blind leading lebanon the hamas in the south and so on to lower the flames to use less and less violence that can be very useful for everyone will be back with more international news short if we off to this short break alte life in moscow. every detail. every piece of metal. and every one of those who will step on the red square on the ninth of may are ready. for the victory day parade. want the live coverage

on our t.v. . he continues here on an alleged assassin has escaped from a detention center in reportedly with the help of a spoon well that's going to details of exactly what happened is. 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 just last year a very high profile almost hollywood escape from a prison a 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 one thousand nine hundred eighty two alcatraz and what were the the tools of choice there to escape of course the humble spoon. another extraordinary story for you just as scientists claim they're close to creating a vaccine for hiv it appears there could be another disaster on its way because the story of a superbug spreading across the globe which many say is drug resistant had called for more details on the infection some fear could be even worse than. online at the moment hackers. dot com threatens to sue new zealand's foreign intelligence agency for spying on him but the government undeterred and is pushing

for even greater powers to snoop on his residence. stay ninety one of the guantanamo bay hunger strike one hundred inmates are refusing food in protest against inhumane treatment at the hands of the u.s. military twenty four of being force fed a procedure that lawyers have condemned as brutal they dream to represent seventeen guantanamo inmates told us what is motivating them. as you would imagine. we. can manage. all of. if forty five pounds and sixty pounds and it's really a horrifying situation then shouldn't have to do it just to get it and. of the american public that they should have to do this in order to cry out for their release the commander of the joint detention group whose effect warden of the.

prison for the detainees has refused to talk to the family until they stop their hunger strike i actually say that it's sort of a macho pose on charges used just not showing but first he could have saw 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 are yet after three months he has not been willing to discuss the matter better after all this rape i'm afraid that some men may die it would because the military just isn't paying attention to what is trying to do is break the hunger strike by any means possible however little analyses been following the strike from the outset and we've got the full time line on our website for you there you can find out just how much tax peasant shelling out to keep going to the running and why the scandal ridden facility is

still in business. look at some other stories making headlines around the world at this stage of the day. people are being killed in a wave of attacks ahead of the country's general election the latest target was a pakistan people's party rally. and dozens more were injured on tuesday an explosion killed at least ten at a gathering of approach in the district near afghanistan all in all over one hundred candidates and party workers have now died claim responsibility for most of the time. libya's defense minister has withdrawn his resignation after saying he would quit in protest against an ongoing siege of state ministries. accuse the armed mob surrounding two ministries in tripoli of assaulting the country's democracy protesters remain in place even though he authorities have given in their name to. officials from government posts.

a volcanic eruption in the philippines has killed at least five people and injured seven others a group of german climbers and their guide were hit by forming rocks after ash blast. the most active in the southeast asian nation erupting roughly once a decade. gearing up for its may the 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 tanks and dozens of warplanes are involved in the preparations the troops were greeted by world war two veterans and crowds of spectators cadets from military schools took part in the rehearsal march on the square and then celebrations will be on thursday when russia marks the sixty eighth anniversary of the soviet union's victory over nazi germany. frugal times in europe of course a surge of public interest in how governments spending taxpayers' money and who is

pulling the strings behind the big decisions some enterprising german tour guides are now offering visitors to blend in the chance to catch a behind the scenes glimpse of how businesses lobby the government. reports 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 ice. is 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 don't 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 so active take the tour and you're going to see where germany's auto giants make their presence felt and how they made sure the countries 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 to 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 in highly selective private clubs these are clips. 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 more and. germans i want to find out exactly who's pulling the strings behind some of the major decisions they get taken in paul and peter all of a. if you're most coming out we go beyond the mainstream financial headlines employment. that's off the short break but with more news and. 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 han and han 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 it 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 it 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.

it's technology innovations all the developments around russia we. covered. yeah social interests of the us are filter severely obese along with other civilian news. so you know you. really really wouldn't you know he was anything but you

know who it was or the horse or. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images cobalt has been seeing from the streets of canada. china operations are all day. good afternoon to welcome to prime interest i'm harry and boring here and a washington d.c. and here's the headlines that we're tracking today. when it comes to currency devaluation the words of a central banker or gold or tungsten rather this morning the head of the european

central bank mario draghi said there are things historic rate cut to happen percent was just the beginning the euro fell sharply and speaking of market plunges today is the three year anniversary of the flash crash the day of infamy when a high frequency trading algorithms gummed up the works at the new york stock exchange and a single day the dow crashed into the red by one thousand points we'll talk about the reading of social security later with roy. also jamie diamond just facing headwinds a shareholder advisory firm has suggested that he be stripped from his role as the chairman of the j.p. morgan board the bank is facing a slew of regulatory investigations everything from failing to detect bernie made off suspicious trading to bilking states for millions in extra energy fees to bankers resident swap experts of like the masters is also under fire masters who is most famous for inventing credit default swaps is accused of lying under oath to regulators about this energy scheme one of j.p.

morgan's most famous investors buffett isn't discouraged he says he's one hundred percent for jamie we'll see how mr dimon holds up in our bankers cut do what the bottom of the show. and at the annual shareholders meeting for berkshire hathaway buffett promise burning or he praised calling four and a half years of near zero interest rates and two trillion dollars in bond purchases smart policy bizarrely distant leverage calling it heroin and catnip mr buffett where do you think comes from. not optimistic on gold or big going saying all of our forty nine billion dollars. we haven't moved any of it to big callings but the sage of omaha did report a substantial profits from derivatives when he used to call financial weapons of mass destruction well maybe he would be amenable to that point option all right let's get to what's in your interest.