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live with me welcome to the program israel's prime minister is due in russia for talks with president putin at the latest in a string of international meetings focusing on the syrian crisis it comes in the wake of. the syrian capital earlier this month. with the. the biggest problems between russia in israel right now relating to syria are moscow's shipments of the hundred air defense systems to. which is doing under arms deal signed a long time ago and the jewel recent airstrikes over a syrian territory allegedly conducted by israel which it still hasn't officially confirmed but hasn't the ass three hundred systems could only be used for defense

purposes and to their ship and don't violate international agreements then clearly an air strike of a country of another state sovereign territory definitely does but what we're seeing here now and benjamin the net and the apples visit to sochi clearly illustrates that these stumbling blocks are currently being set aside for a greater cause and that is finding ways to finally establish peace in syria these really prime minister is that feeling of the not the first official to come to russia to discuss syria recently first it was john kerry u.s. secretary of state who came to moscow then british prime minister david cameron the fool came here to sort she and then went on to the u.s. to speak with american officials now it's benjamin netanyahu we're also expecting. u.n. secretary general ban ki moon to come here to sort you also to discuss syria as well

and all of this perhaps shows that we are witnessing a change of the approach by many countries since most questions since the beginning of the problem were clearly standing on the side of the rebels while what we're seeing now are efforts to get both the syrian authorities and the opposition to finally sit down at the negotiation table and. discuss ways to establish peace in the country which russia has been calling for basically since the beginning of the conflict in syria. going to. i spoke to them just a bit earlier in the program where israelis are one of the countries with most to gain from a fast resolution to the syrian conflict it's already being affected by the spillover from the crisis but some believe it only has itself to blame as it is middle east correspondent paula slayer explains. it's a new offer and stand here so that they have to think not one or two as they have

to think one hundred times a day you know what to do with. armed men that have been given the green light to fire into israel retaliated by damascus for televisa tack last week israeli officials have still not gone on record admitting they carried out two airstrikes in forty eight hours but most people here are certain they did and damascus is certain of it it didn't mince its words calling israel's actions a declaration of war the criticism echoes in israel as well our citizens took to the streets to protest and while divided over the support of the side they are clear on one thing israel's actions are wrong jobbers sol is a twenty four year old university student despite being some two hundred fifty kilometers from syria his heart is with its people. israel gives itself permission to attack other countries but does not accept any other country doing the same or whether this strike cannot be legitimate and israel should be judged in

international courts. but far from being judged israeli support the actions of the government would be very frank i don't think that if we would. do. for you we. remember even. i think. it's a very small element on a very long. problematic relationship between israel and syria but it might just catch up with the israelis assad says he's borders are open for palestinians wishing to take military action against. the jewish state a sure sign some say that tel aviv has shot itself in the foot. has lost it i think . never had. under tactics no official israeli policy is to prevent the.

i wonder if this is love. i doubt it very much and some in israel fear the violence one stop at the border after they finish from getting. go ahead to haifa. and to move to the view of them as what was once israel's most peaceful border threatens to become its newest battlefront paula c.r.t. tel aviv. and in the meantime a video purporting to show syrian rebels mutilating bodies has led human rights watch to condemn them for descending into sectarian violence and revenge killings of the footage allegedly shows the founder of a rebel brigade cutting open the chest of a dead soldier and biting the exposed hard and a man is reportedly heard swearing to eat the hearts and lives of the soldiers of bashar about the dog more than just having video and the reaction from human rights activists to log onto our website obscene dot com.

thanks so much for joining us this morning here on r t it's now a just off the nine here in moscow the u.s. justice department has admitted to spying on associated press reporters a.p. condemned the sweepings phone surveillance as an invasion of privacy and a threat to the freedom of the press. has more on the story and of course its implications. the u.s. justice department secretly obtained two months of telephone records targeting a.p. reporters and editors work and personal phone numbers a few believes more than one hundred of its journalists may have been caught up in

this surveillance week the a.p. boss called it a massive and unprecedented intrusion into how news organizations operate the justice department acknowledged having spied on a.p. journalists but would not say why it sought the records they cited an ongoing investigation a peace process and said the government stalked and obtained information far beyond anything that could be justified by any specific investigation now the guess is that the investigation had to do with a.p. is reporting on a cia operation in yemen last year and the government's possible hundred fleet the administration's unprecedented weeks has had an enormous chilling effect on investigative journalism a number of journalists with major news organizations here told me that isn't it's never been as hard for them to do their job as it is now because sources that they had previously communicated with now either don't return their calls or say out front that they'd rather not talk they can go to jail the obama. has brought up more cases against whistleblowers than all previous presidents combined now as the

news of emerged that the justice department has secretly cast this wife's a veil is that journalists looking for we still don't know what the white house says it knows nothing about this and refers to the justice department and the justice department having acknowledged the phone taps came up with what some saw as as an orwellian response they said that they value the freedom of the press and that they're seeking to strike the right balance between the public interest in the free flow of information and the public interest in the fair and effective administration of our criminal laws that's according to their statement well it's not clear wouldn't mind dozens of a.p. jordan their story their sources have committed to be caught up in this kind of a surveillance sweep but this is sending a chilling effect far beyond the associated press. to all journalists that their records can be intercepted and sifted through like this and also made some wish us authorities had to use some of that surveillance bigger to keep an eye on someone like tom or a lot of the boston bomber after all those red flags well or could it be that

journalists are seen as more dangerous to national security these days and in the meantime the white house insists it was in the dog regarding the surveillance of a.p. done let's say the case fits into the general trend of current government policies since nine eleven particularly we've seen the rapid expansion of a police state in this country it is the infrastructure of the police state is already in place so the restricting of the flow of information by the government and its various mouthpieces this is part of this creeping police state and what i what i want to stress is that the effectiveness of the obama administration in persecuting whistleblowers shows not only the fact that obama himself is no different from any candidate that our president that came before him but also the fact that this is a comprehensive plan to shut out dissent in the united states we also spoke to

activists. who believe spying on ip reveals the u.s. government's hypocrisy when it comes to the freedom of the press it flies in the face of everything obama campaigned on about protecting protecting the press protecting whistleblowers this is this is very hypocritical all around the world all the sudden the u.s. top starts trying that freedom of the press whenever they're trying to bring down destabilize the government in venezuela they don't like hugo chavez because he's defending the people so all the sudden they're talking about freedom of the press in venezuela but yet in bahrain there is a government that's in there is loyal to the u.s. government that it takes orders from wall street and all the sudden they look the other way while suppression. it's good to have you with us here on r t today still ahead for you in the program. libya's restive city of benghazi once again putting the country's internal security into question. we take a look at why violence is still the order of the day in libya almost two years since the western backed revolution ousted. community in northern england is forced

to plug itself into the world wide web after broadband providers said it wasn't worth their while to provide internet access a report on that and more after the break. it was built. fuel for its factories. coke for its steel. and heat for its people. join me. to meet the men who spend their lives underground and work in one of the world's most dangerous professions. coal.

hunger strike despair pushed to the limits. of the one hundred guantanamo detainees are screaming for justice. where is the end for. good morning from moscow this is artie live with me rule re sushi i saw you space capsule has now successfully touched down on the step of bringing home the thirty fifth expedition under the command of canadian chris hadfield while in orbit the

team leader released a series of videos showing how everyday life takes us on a well a whole new set of dimensions in space ati's sean thomas reports from the mission control right the in moscow. the crew of. zero seven m. has returned to earth safely landing in kazakhstan at just after six thirty in the morning moscow time and this is an incredibly experienced crew with russian cosmonaut. this is his second flight chris hadfield from canada this is his third spaceflight and thomas marshburn the united states astronaut this is his second between them seven space flights with this incredibly experienced crew now it's always a great moment here at mission control. when that capsule lands and they can breathe a sigh of relief knowing that they have accomplished a mission and done something pretty special now on this particular mission just a couple of days ago showing that nothing is ever routine when it comes to space travel thomas marshburn had to do an emergency spacewalk to help fix what was

detected a coolant leak at the international space station that was a last minute decision that they decided to send him out just days before he was scheduled to depart the international space station chris hadfield from canada has actually in particular gotten a lot of media attention he is arguably the most savvy social media astronaut in the history of space travel having almost nine hundred thousand twitter followers now one of the things that he became known for is conducting in experiments in space connecting to regular people one of the experiments was showing people what it's like to cry in space what happens to tears with no gravity i mean they can't fall down so he simulated the conditions in space and produced a dramatic video one other thing he produced the video what happens when you bring out a wash towel in the space and shows what happens to the water and all sorts of interesting things with the surface tension and where does the water go if it doesn't actually fall to the ground chris hadfield is also in the process or has just completed

recording the first commercial album in spaces so these are some of the things that they've accomplished on this particular mission but as of now the crew. zero seven am back on earth safely and everyone can know that a job was well done and mission accomplished. a lot more for you on. the number of. details on that story. more.

of the. the western support for the revolution is now.

it's been over two years now since the western backed war of aggression and regime change was launched against the gym idea the former political system in a north african state of libya i believe that these are recent attacks that have taken place in benghazi in the eastern region of the country which is the cradle of the counter revolution against gadhafi is a manifestation of this disintegration now within the political and economic system inside the country regard to the loss of us and potential loss of british and other european personnel there are political costs associated with such loss or potential losses and this is why they have downscaling their diplomatic staff in these countries we've seen the targeting of police stations and other security apparatus inside the country and the u.s. knows as well as the european countries are quite aware of the fact that if they do

lose any more personnel inside of libya because our political ally destabilization inside their own countries are straight to france to open up the world update now. on celebrations after winning the football league title well mocked by clashes in the french capital fighting broke out after around fifteen thousand fans waited for an hour for the players to turn up in the city center but when the team only appeared. to make a victory speech supporters frustration boiled over into violence have a look right there riot police called to the streets using the tear gas to disperse the riot. the largest city mass protests against a ledge to vote for several different political parties that demanding a rerun of the latest election results suggest sheriff who was ousted by a military coup a decade ago to the post of prime minister he has already given

a speech saying he wants good relations with the u.s. . drone strikes in his country. police have identified a man they suspect opened fire on a mother's day parade in new orleans he is a nineteen year old scot who has a criminal record which includes well the possession of drugs and resisting arrest nineteen people were wounded during the mass shooting at sunday's parade of children as young as ten among. three hundred textile factories near the capital is reportedly been shut down because of protests by the collapse of a factory building last month and the owners decided to close down because of almost daily riots by workers employed demands include salary bonuses as well as the death penalty for the owner of the run up factory which collapsed last month. and rescue operations at the site to jordan to a close with over eight thousand bodies recovered. now many of the factories

affected by the collapse and resulting protests were making goods for foreign retailers and coming up at seven thirty g.m.t. financial gurus max keiser and stacy herbert compared the value of cheap clothes and human lives as seen by western businessmen. the deadly factory collapse in bangladesh more than two weeks ago has led to calls for retailers to change the way they do business overseas but a new poll in interviews with shoppers at stores whose garments were manufactured at the ruined factory show that pressure for changes on likely to come from americans few of whom have heard much about the collapse most of whom care more about prices than safe labor conditions right well like the cigarette companies you know they put the pictures of people's cancer ridden longs on the packages to try to advertise to them what happens when they smoke cigarettes i think prime arc should have photos of people factory workers crushed at the factory dead their

limbs akimbo with their arms and legs and skulls crushed so big that's the price for the cheap clothes at prime market it's not just crime arc it's every single clothing and shoe manufacturer in the world pretty much uses these sort of factories in these sort of conditions and it's either they say it's the consumer or they say it's just the consumer that doesn't want to pay the extra five six seven cents that it would require to build safety measures into these factories but it's also the investor the investor wants its highest profit margin that's possible to extract as much equity so it all goes back to the banks in the central banks and their central and their policies that people like paul krugman supports of paul krugman by supporting the bank of england in the federal reserve bank's ultra low interest rates is supporting wal-mart's ability to squeeze the economy to the point where a factory workers have to die so that big fat obese american travel guides get a deal on a t. shirt. or before we get to an all too

special documentary for now the u.k. governments are moving to a system which will eventually see most benefits claimed via the internet news for many in the rural areas who want even close to being online to serve as that one community in northern england which has been forced to plug itself in. the rolling hills unveils a delicate english countryside eight but what lancashire in the north of england has in secluded d.c. it lacks in malls and in a city despite major provided bt reporting a feast in profits local communities like these haven't felt the benefits and have had to dig deep into their own pockets and land to try to get connected. we have on camera a bt executive. power which is one of the. hard poised over in the distance to survey english area and say just look at this for city of fulfill

a sure it is just no economically viable for them to come out the way to connect up the three or. four as they say are concerned the homes in the countryside will have to carry on with the old copper was through the telephone because you know economically viable or no economically vogl. really work on only trade coffee and cake that's the project called broadband to the rural north all the short might be in the early stages still but it could be set to make this quiet local setting a cool able internet hotspots they have a fading into the ground the fiber optic cable that provides b. and that connected now all of it has taken years and passable planning and as you can see behind me a lot of hard work from the wall and to vote for the best part about it is that once it's all up and running this area is going to how much faster internet

connection than the u.k. average brand to do it yourselves zeal might need to be rolled out elsewhere despite promises to bring super fast broadband to rural areas there are still more than five million people across the way without access to basic broadband in the long run. hopefully going to completely revel i should revolutionize the communities. in the meantime everyone is working very hard to get it going but we are crunching up with lack of money really to be able to buy the materials for people to put things in it's unlikely bt will be daunted by this local competition yet but the project is attracting high level attention. the government is actually now seriously looking at can this be an example as i said for other areas and hopefully now they've actually seen

a bill or not the funding on the ground regime to allow smaller groups like this to access the major problems that we're rolling out across the country back in the fields and it's all hands on deck as volunteers look to get the community here connected. and we're going to hopefully future for those. so that we won't need to come back and do it again during lunch and probably here i thank you very much for that very close indeed and actually just going to go around and talk to one of the other people volunteering that you've been involved in this quite heavily is just what else does it mean because obviously it's providing the internet connection but it's also a way of bringing the community together isn't it really is yes i want to me now if you can see here are people who've never met each other before find themselves working in so cold for you. sarah for her a lancashire in the north of england. thanks for joining us here at c it's about

time to get down and dirty coming up a look at one of the world's most dangerous professions of coal after the break. the illusion of safety trumping your right seems to be the main political theme of post nine eleven america and no one is pushing the keep you safe at any cost and lot more than new york billionaire mayor michael bloomberg who recently had to defend his stop and frisk strategy after giving a speech to police brass stop and frisk is the practice of just being able to search anyone in new york at any time for any reason with your hands this gestapo style practice has been in place since two thousand and two but thankfully was finally recently found to be unconstitutional by

a federal judge you know the fourth amendment all the talk about no unlawful search and seizure seems pretty clear to me why did this take so long to figure out bloomberg despite that silly constitution thing stands firm with this policy to occur and if you end street stops looking for guns they will be more guns on the street and more people will be killed it's just that sample well to that i would say if you stop nazi style first kings of random innocent people there will be more freedom on the streets it's just that simple but that's just my opinion. is the of the soviet union a time of massive change stalin dreams of the molten industrial nation and he wants

to fast but to do it he needs few. lenin ones the coal is the bread industry and during the soviet union the miner was held up as a shining example of what a worker should be tireless ready to sacrifice himself for his country and the hardest workers of all were here and siberians cruz boss region taking the coal that would make everything from steel. to record. to contain more than seven hundred billion tons of coal and the mines employ more than one hundred thousand people i want to meet these men and find out just what it takes to work.