thank. you. for us agrees to russia's push for dialogue on syria but fails to retreat on possibly giving arms to the rebels. in the war. while crags at the heart of europe as france is jack so sorry to you all in britain the queen gets a playwright subjects' for the tide to. some choice our roles in a violent wave of islamist unrest are leaving nearby states hammering out plans to contain one thing the taliban eyes ation of the region.

we're watching our da live from moscow it's eight o'clock here and you're here with me tom what's a good to have you with us this morning the chatham between russia and the u.s. over hard to achieve peace in syria seems to be narrowing with both sides saying they'll try to bring all wearing factions to the table the un usual show of solidarity came despite the u.s. not giving up its plans to arm the syrian rebels at some point in the future. he's been following the first visit of secretary of state john kerry to moscow. after a very lengthy meeting between the russian president the russian foreign minister and the u.s. state secretary hardly anybody in the press room expected that there would be somewhat of a backing down from the very harsh rhetoric which we heard from washington and moscow on the syrian conflict lately in fact at one point of the press conference john kerry even said that there is a common perception that russia and the united states have been on a different page about syria and they were here to show to everyone that they were

on the same page in fact the main bottom line of the meeting and that was voice of the press conference was that the u.s. and russia have decided to call an international conference probably by the end of this month to have both of the members of the syrian government and the syrian opposition at the same negotiation table to find something of a peaceful solution to the ongoing conflict in the country now an interesting twist to the press conference happened when after the the initiative was voiced one of the reporters said why should the syrian people believe that this is the time this conference would actually change things and russian foreign minister came up with a very interesting answer to that you can still sort of look at this stage we have a task to convince all sides of the syrian conflict to sit down at the negotiation table after the geneva communiqué was adopted last june to damascus expressed their willingness to work according to this plan solution afterwards the government

established a committee which is responsible for dialogue with all syrians and yesterday the foreign minister of syria confirmed that they are committed to dialogue on the basis of the communique of the limit but these are just words in order for the words to become actions and we need to hear from the opposition as well so far we haven't heard a word from the opposition to the will which would confirm its commitment to the geneva communiqué but the press conference took an even more interesting twist when john kerry was asked a question by a journalist. about the proposed legislation in the u.s. congress to support the syrian rebels with weapons and even military training john kerry's own sister jested that despite the whole disclosing all positions on syria between russian ited states there's still a loophole remaining in the u.s. stance there is some sentiment both in the house and senate to provide arms to the opposition. i think that ultimately that will be

determined to some degree by the state of the evidence with respect to chemical weapons and what steps have been taken so despite the positions of the of russia and the united states closing in on syria as it was repeatedly said at the press conference still there is a feeling that they may be going in circles somewhat particular because of the statements by john kerry about the chemical weapons and about the possible supply of weapons to the syrian troops if we remember last year when the geneva communiqué was signed everyone was hopeful back then that this would bring the opposition on the syrian government to the same negotiation table and that a peaceful solution will be found this did not happen of course we'll have to wait and see whether this will be the case this time but definitely the initiative to call an international conference at the end of this month was voiced by the sides the question is whether this initiative will of course become a reality u.s. based journalist go ahead move c.-a has been writing on the syrian conflict he told

us that america's obsession with the issue of unproven use of chemical weapons by the assad regime so just so washington is ready to take action in syria. it through deja vu situation made. the didgeridoo of your ark of the weapon of mass destruction doesn't fly too well with the international community obama told about a place on hans well he was going to act on the situation in syria and he mad analogy between his action against osama bin rather and so that is some kind of vague threat to. him if you know we basically said ok we will act on the chemical weapon issue we just think you know time and we want to be sure that we are right for u.n. peacekeepers have been abducted by rebel fighters in the israeli occupied golan

heights r.t. contributor absent red hans he believes the incident is the latest among many which make it harder for the u.s. to justify the favoritism towards the rebels if only the united states people realize that presumably john kerry will have to be telling mr putin you see the martyrs of yarmuk order they call themselves even as they kidnap twenty one un observers in march and as they have kidnapped for more filipinos i've been to the golan heights and the broken churches that i saw still today in the golan heights on the syrian side and the green fields on the other side but but i think the key here is the american public needs to know that their government is supporting the defacto supporters or at least those very close to those who would have supported the nine eleven attacks and what we want now really is the american people to start writing to their congressman and say the united states must stop supporting these

rebels because this is not going to benefit anyone in the middle east or the united states. and a couple of hours an hour examines the many unanswered questions that's right now by the syrian drawn out conflict is what's coming up at seven thirty g.m.t. . i disagree that there's any solution in which assad is going to remain in power that's simply not going to happen we need to be thinking about a post assad syria here's where i think actually russia has an important role to weigh to play they have been trying to do that and the americans have been saying no because obama i know what one of the one of the first obama lines is assad had to go and knowledgeable administrator say look up there through us he's not going the only possible solution i agree from the beginning that's right he was proposing that let's sit down. there all the players as you are including all the regional players betting that links hate iran says well is that in addition to them i guess

that means that you know. we receive them. france and germany are more divided than ever over how to escape the financial crisis and golfing the european union as finance ministers met in berlin of france rejected the slash and burn policy of a stereotype saying public spending cuts needs to happen more slowly but germany where jobless a-levels are at their lowest in nearly two decades is giving its neighbor no room to maneuver saying fiscal discipline is still the way forward across the english channel though as the british tighten their belts another notch the royal family is about to get a five a million pound pay rise as polly boyko reports from london. prime ministers first priority will be to reduce the deficit and restore economic stability this year

thirty six point one million pounds from the u.k. taxpayer will go towards the queen and her residence says her royal chefs and footman cost an estimated ten million pounds a year thirty six million is divided into money which runs the royal household of the queen in the group of edinburgh most of it goes on salaries also on the upkeep of royal palaces such as buckingham palace and windsor castle and all royal trouble at home and abroad the british monarchy has become synonymous with the image of britain because it is the world's most high profile money keep the queen of eighty seven and a consul the duke of edinburgh at ninety one are remarkable examples of public service and of national unity but the cost to the public purse rises

steadily as austerity sets in the five million pound increase in the queen's expenses from the state represents a fifteen percent rise in vital services are being lost while the queen gets to speak iraq. i think it's very unfair to give. she is personally one of the wealthiest people in britain where the personal wealth of in excess of three hundred million pounds the royal family has over seven hundred servants six palaces they can quite clearly afford themselves to cover any increased costs they shouldn't be begging for the state it's a royal spectacle such as the daily changing of the guards at buckingham palace the drawers are terrorists from around the globe but in these times of austerity some of beginning to question why the women says haven't tighten their belts along with the rest of the queen's subjects last month the guardian poll found that eighty eight percent of brits were happy with the pay rise think this should give more to

the poor not to get too much money the future of not overly impressed to be honest i'm sure she's got more than enough money to survive when she. brings in quite a bit on the toys some whatever but where does it go away where does it that the people that i miss because i work i'm ok where. they're being kept but where does it our progress government money elsewhere in europe the royal city had to reign in the best spending in the face of public opinion the spanish royal family's budget has been reduced for a third year in a row the british monarchy actually stands out around the world it's completely different to almost every other modern that you can think of in the sense that they are still surrounded by so much home and circumstance or the marching bands and the the the horse is why the long side the prince of carriages the published figures suggest that the royal family the queen and everybody else toss around something

close to forty million pounds a year but doesn't take into account all the extra security all the police work that that's involved in protecting her and the rest of the family and it doesn't take into account the money that some loss to the exchequer because she and prince charles in particular get lots of tax privileges that the rest of us aren't into. and while the government has pushed through budget cuts to the national health service and slashed welfare as part of an unprecedented austerity drive there are those that say that prime minister david cameron's promise that britain is all of it together doesn't include the queen of england. r.t. in london. later on wednesday the queen will lay out the government's agenda for the next year in her annual address to the british parliament and her speech which is drawn up by the coalition government which is expected to announce a sweeping new measures to control immigration to the u.k. the will also be a promise to slap lines of thousands of pounds on landlords who don't check whether

people staying in their properties are allowed to be in the country and bosses who use illegal labor will also face financial penalties as on the back of the success of the anti immigration u.k. independence party in the last week's local elections which secured around twenty five percent of the vote. by coming up here largely when life in prison is the only life you can afford some courts in ohio are jailing the homeless and people with disabilities because they can't afford to pay small fines the details in a few minutes. with international forces packing up in afghanistan the region's big powerhouses china and india are getting very worried about the spread of radical as radicalism so much so that the two sides who usually don't see eye to eye are brainstorming go over how to contain afghanistan's especially virulent brand of extremism you can experience what the

region's players to fia. the u.s. prepares to withdraw the bulk of its forces from afghanistan by the end of two thousand and fourteen karzai stepping down with the elections coming up also in two thousand and fourteen what's next the possibility of a power vacuum in afghanistan and the question what demons can emerge from that vacuum is of great concern to the whole region vacuuming of gunnison seems to be nobody's interest here's a brief and very rough breakdown of what players regional and non regional are trying to achieve in afghanistan you ren despite the rivalry with the us has forty years support of the karzai government because having a completely chaotic and unstable afghanistan is a neighbor is obviously not good for them washington is of course interested in keeping the more or less centralized structure of the government in afghanistan for that the us is even ready to engage the taliban in talks and maybe see them as part of the government in the future that's right having fought the taliban for over ten years the u.s. is now talking about a political solution pakistan is the middleman here last month in brussels sector

of state john kerry met with president karzai and pakistan's army commander the message that they want pakistan to deliver to the taliban is that the allies are ready for talks on leave the taliban make a big public break with global jihad is the telephone have a strong pakistan although the pakistani government denies having much influence on them but pakistan's motives have been mixed to say the least on the one hand the help that you western the allies and pakistan it suffered greatly from the extremism that spilled over the border after the u.s. invasion in of ghana's then on the other hand they were accused of helping the taliban to keep leverage with them in case they get in power also as a hedge against indian influence so they have that rivalry going so as far as pakistan's interests it's been complicated russia possibly the greatest threat to russia faces now from afghanistan is the flow of afghan havering that kills

thousands of russians every year so russia has a state it has stated a clear interesting afghanistan that would be under control of a responsible government not plagued with corruption a government that would help end this drug plea. but what if global powers are on able to avoid a power vacuum in of gamestation what could happen then if you'd ever comes to the stage where we have to deploy our forces or support somewhere if we have to be the only problem is in the past in the one nine hundred ninety s. after the scene we've drawn this kind of external proxies let me just say we can. all come one thousand nine hundred ninety six so we want to avoid that kind of civil war like situation now as far as the taliban the talks with them stalled last year after the failure to agree on the terms for the release of five afghan insurgent commanders held at guantanamo it's not really clear how far those talks will go because the taliban are not homogenous either part of them seems to think

that once nato pulls out they'll be able to take over anyway so why negotiate in washington i'm going to. across in bangladesh it's been detained for inciting the lesson wrestler to thirty eight deaths and hundreds of injuries policy police and more than two hundred thousand hard line islamists they have been mined in running battles for days over violent demands to make blasphemy a crime punishable by death commonwealth. come camp marcus says it signals the gradual taliban talibanization of bangladesh. there's always been a movement actually in terms of allegiance or some common ground if you like between the groups in bangladesh and those in the stone and done stuff for to understand but we tend to see that they have their own indigenous qualities as well but there's no question about it or is inspirational. for if you like taliban they

say sure of this and this is something we should keep an eye on. after the. attacks or for two thousand the ones from britain two thousand and one the nationalist party certainly opposed to violence you should be the use of pakistan as a means of attack on the storm so for us first. there is a possibility that in future this might. find some kind of means but it remains to be seen whether that will develop and i'm optimistic that it won't be quite as extreme in that sense but the signs are definitely there for potential. after pouring millions of pounds into its drug program a strike in afghanistan has been tearing the first time by british pilots. a base in the english countryside but as far as reports the unmanned milestone is no

guarantee future. well the world's military drones used to be directed from a small u.s. base in the vase a bit no more after the cake carried out its first drone strike in afghanistan launched from u.k. soil in an area based in lincolnshire not many of the so details have been released about the drone strike in many likely to be given the level of secrecy surrounding the ministry of defense have confirmed that one of their reproduction is controlled by pilots from thirteen squadron at aria boarding to an. fired a weapon supporting u.k. three only ground in afghanistan now this is cause huge concern among and he drank champagne is at a recent protest here in the u.k. the organizers had said that they see this is a sign that there will be further civilian casualties as a result of drone use and also the politicians would make it easier for them to be

able to carry out military intervention now certainly many have seen this is a sign that this use in control of advanced train technology has now spread far beyond the u.s. indeed person alone has invested more than three billion dollars that's about thirty billion pounds in drawing developments and there are plans to further expand is throwing arsenal now the control the sea surrounding these situations is highlighted again as the beginning of this year when the u.n. launched an investigation looking at the extent of civilian casualties. at the legality surrounding drone use now research team for the london university are assisting them in that investigation and their findings are going to be presented to the un general assembly in the also and based on what they find they could then recommend that further action be taken as we're seeing this increase during usage with the u.k. having launched its first strike is proving ever more important to many campaign is

that the legality and the question's a video nice and now it just properly in a clear and apron arena. well drone operations have been notoriously for years largely has been hearing how those are piloting them simply don't realize how deeply they affect to the people below them dr but i've met is renowned as one of the world's leading authorities on contemporary islam yes some of what you'll hear at six thirty pm g.m.t. . jones had just started the problem as i see it is with it's one sided there's one side of the debate which is how americans see the usefulness of joins what they're not seeing is the impact drones are having across the world on local tribes know communities where entire communities are shocked so you may have one or two or three intended targets being killed the bad guys but then you

have one hundred two hundred three hundred completely innocent people being killed so they're being killed by the drones they're being killed by their own armies their own central government always looking for terrorists and they're being blown up by this was almost themselves in their own societies there's violence young children are not able to sleep at night because they complain about the drawing this is buzzing overhead all the time then you're all take their anxious now what that is doing is that creates hundreds of enemies. lined right now belgium's a toxic played it derailed in four days ago but may have much more serious consequences and for as now a massive evacuation of the area is under way as we report it out. israel's a land grab rolls on but this time within its own borders stop to forty thousand one villages to be displaced from their homes and the government's forcible rape.

big out of a job does disabled all homeless apparently folds up you was calls they are no excuse to prevent being jailed for failing to pay even the smallest debt on time an american civil liberties union report has revealed is a fairly cold one practice in the state of ohio despite claims that it violates the constitution investigates. a midwestern us state. internationally recognized for being the battleground where america's next

president is decided let's talk about the importance of ohio and in the battle for ohio state eighteen electoral votes mean so much elbows paid a lot of attention ohio ohio. you're probably going to decide the next president of the united states for the past thirty six years no candidate has entered the white house without winning this swing state while ohio undoubtedly wields an enormous influence in the arena of u.s. presidential politics the state is currently garnering headlines for its presence specifically the medieval type punishment being imposed on countless citizens who are drowning in debt. according to a report released by the a.c.l.u. of ohio thousands of citizens are illegally being locked behind bars because they are too poor to pay their debt and we saw some really troubling numbers one case that we looked at out of mansfield ohio there is

a gentleman and his crime against the community was he let his dog walk in his mobile home park without a leash he was fined thirty dollars and he ended up being found in contempt of court and was sent to jail for not paying for a thirty dollars fine i hope and what we're doing is going to change that fifty five year old jack jolley was incarcerated three times for failing to pay nine hundred dollars in fines every ninety days you had a jail date. and if you weren't working well you're going to jail. i didn't have a problem while i was working paying on my fines that they set me up on a payment program which was reasonable for me but upon losing my job i have no income debt prisons violate the u.s. and ohio constitutions according to the a.c.l.u. most of the defendants weren't given hearings before being jailed for outstanding fines if the court a taken any time to ask whether or not they couldn't afford to pay that they would

see that these are people who just simply cannot pay they were individuals who are homeless many who haven't worked for months if not years people who are disabled people who are taking care of disabled family members these are people who are working and just don't feel like spending the money these are people who literally have no money people like dante stiles who is unemployed and says he often has to choose between feeding his two children or paying his fines a far more so back and forth back and forth in court back before of constancio two days here fifteen days here and while the cash strapped citizens are in carson. read in debtors' prisons. there are fines keep growing like credit card interest it's described as a vicious circle it was seven hundred thirty three thirty seven dollars ok at the eleven days when i went back to court at the core course and pernod the public defended it went up actually two hundred dollars more than one point eight million

ohioans reportedly live in poverty and more than four hundred thousand are unemployed i want to get it behind me dolly lost his job last year after missing work for a ten day sentence in debtors prison i had just started the job i was probably there not quite a month. i was expecting a paycheck so i'd gone in early to get a paycheck so i could go in and pay on my fine and my release was terminated from my job dollie has received a fifty dollars credit for each of the sixteen days he was illegally imprisoned but most like styles have not and the state revered for predicting america's presidents has garnered a new reputation for how it punishes the poor. artsy ohio. most of the world headlines are for you now have any armed gunmen have stormed a police station and jail in northwest nigeria killing at least fifty five people

the rage reportedly saw one hundred five inmates escape from the prison in borno state there is a known stronghold of the slum is the act of boko haram which has waged an intense deadly campaign of violence against the government. the world trade organization is next chief has been revealed and he'll be the first latin american to take charge brazil has confirmed that it's candid beto us of it all b. to mexico's former trade minister in the race for the job. is expected to officially announce next wednesday as to who won the group from september. a cargo ships crashing to a control tower when they told the import of get along three people are known to have died while several others are missing fourteen people in the building at the time of the collision which caused the tower to point to collapse into the water rescues underway it's still not clear whether human error or technical fault caused the tragedy. coming up every month to take say at the mainstream

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