the iraqi. kurdish civilians fall victim to the war in syria as al qaida linked groups push to expand their control to set up an islamic state also. we were talking in iraq but not to look at them as humans are preferred not to speak with them we talk to obama went on a more god about his disturbing day job at the notorious jail which led him to quit and convert to islam. and anguish instead of age major medical gaffe said britain's government funded hospitals leave hundreds of patients suffering we examine the problems plaguing the n.h.s. and meet some of the victims.

good morning we're live from moscow you with me on wednesday and with us here at r.t. let's take a look at the news this morning. now any further delays in starting an international peace conference on syria could prove fatal according to russian foreign minister sergei lavrov this comes as of the number of civilian fatalities arises in the war torn country amid a disturbing report of four hundred fifty kurds are being killed by militants in north eastern syria now according to iranian news channel hundreds of women and children were massacred in a kurdish area in which it came under attack by al qaeda linked fighters a week ago jihadist captured two hundred civilians from two kurdish villages in aleppo syria's kurds are raising the alarm over ethnic cleansing by al-qaeda linked groups it comes amid reports the militants are about to announce an independent islamic state in northern syria our correspondent in the region is following

developments. absolutely horrifying reports coming from the north eastern part of syria we are getting reports that four hundred fifty people most of them women and elderly and at least two hundred twenty children have been killed by fighters the awful news of runs unfortunately at this point we cannot get any different confirmation of this having actually taken place and again we're working on finding any resources or any clues that will point to whether or not something like this is actually happened however this is an incident to which the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has alluded and he said that of course this is also another sign that a political solution towards the crisis in syria is absolutely needed as soon as possible there also have been reports coming in that a several kurds have been set on fire by all of the all news there front there is a video circulating the internet which shows just that unfortunately the video is too graphic for us to show at the moment yes this situation in northeastern syria

of course is escalating largely because this is a place where kurds have been successful somewhat in pushing the extremist groups out the groups which are affiliated with al qaida qaida whoever does invision their own state and this is a very part of the region hence the fighting we're hearing of course reports about several hundred people being kidnapped and being held hostage most of them are women and children i actually have now with me a journalist from sun is so whose relatives are in the region as i understand and you have also heard from them so you obviously have heard what is happening there what can you tell us about the details of what is happening to the kurds who are there and who are trying to battle the. the extremists we confirmed that seem to see being encouraged to see you know most of them the woman and two children they were killed. also are surrounded and as it is it is more than three hundred.

if the. people stealing them them kidnapping we are not trying to reach them we are not there to reach just to seize power to confound what happened exactly how they started to attack the kurds really just to be forced to thank you so much for joining us again basically what we're looking at a picture here is the courage for are on the receiving end of the confrontation that's happening between the extremists affiliated with al qaida operating in northeastern syria of course there are the kurds are coming under fire because they are there and it's just to remind you that east thinking and dreaming about establishing an al qaeda states in this very region. our team managed to talk to a relative of one of the kurdish victims who described what they people are going through in syria. another rebel force surrounded the village they started going from door to door entering every house if there were any men the kill

them and took women and children hostage the rebels came into the house of my cousin she was at home so they murdered him took the women and children and blew the house. meanwhile fears of an al qaeda attack a force the u.s. and the withdraw the embassy stop of from yemen one thousand u.s. diplomatic missions across the middle east and africa was shut down after a less interceptions of conversations between two al qaeda leaders with radical militant groups among the syrian rebels who all enjoy washington support something american political analyst call in cobell believes is a big mistake. our media kind of keeps it on the down low on the want to add a noun the other so whistle or even moderate democratic opposition which is the arrogance to anybody who is following this we are supporting al qaida just audience or mastery the people america should not be supporting these type of extremist

fighters we should not be violent and international law and we should not be working to support the gulf monarchies right now john mccain and benderman saltless already are dictating us foreign policy in the region kerry and that is outrageous when we get into the war on terror we get into a very confusing area that most americans have no idea about all they know is they're very spending millions of dollars funding all these routes which they have no knowledge about and just killing people in their kids over there to die. so i will be closely following the escalating tensions between different groups in syria and of the situation for civilians stay on m. and a line hunger strike. down a strike one ton i'm a bay has receded during the holy month of ramadan and attention has now turned to how the detainees are being treated the same we've heard accounts from several

prisoners who describe the data routine of invasive body searches which sometimes include sexual assault terry holbrooke's worked as a god at the prison camp he told us the instructions he was given. we were taught not to interact with them not to look at them as humans not to talk with them not to speak with them have nothing to do with them unless it was absolutely necessary important to work we were told to be very aggressive in searching growing. i don't think any of us as cards felt comfortable doing that as a result of such we didn't do that there were certain rules that we were given that many of us just didn't all of we didn't see on those as being a political logical or ethical in some circumstances and those were all such we didn't implement them and over a hundred sixty six remaining we've had to live in your obsession to find any shred of evidence to charge try and convict them and we've not been able to do that nor we've been able to falsify the evidence i would think of america being the great

nation that it is and having the wonderful legal system that it does can extend the courtesy of sending people home after ten years eleven years twelve years of captivity. maybe we need to have a good look in the mirror and take a look at ourselves. james e. is a former us army chaplain who works at guantanamo bay he was arrested and charged with aiding the enemy but had this and other charges dropped at a court martial but he claims the real reason he was put in prison to was for objects into prisoner abuse at the facility take a listen. basically after objecting to the horrible conditions the enormous amount of abuse that was going on there i was real roaded and accused of being a terrorist myself and that landed me in prison by the u.s. military i was very much aware of the qur'an being desecrated there were reports stories from prisoners how they were maybe subjected to being put in you know what

you might call this a turning circle where interrogators attempted to force them to you know make prostration like in the form of the muslim prayer in the center of that's a turning circle and then of course there was sexual humiliation being carried out on the part of female interrogators down in guantanamo. on the way for you profiting from what pollution we are reports on britain's ever growing the mechanics lab and he's making a pile of cash from the legal digital dumping. it seems that too many patients being treated by breaching state medical system i'm doing more pain than gain to happen hundreds of serious blunders that the national health service hospitals and the possible yes causing people severe disabilities or even killing them archie is probably boyko has examined the problem and got to meet some of the victims of n.h.s. medical negligence. it was meant to be

a routine operation to remove her varicose veins but after a surgical blunder lorraine previn suffered from complications that were left on treated she ended up having her leg amputated. you know when the market didn't want to do next basically just seemed to fall between. the gap thing that was going on this is the hospital where lorraine's routine operation went wrong and why she had to have her leg amputated as a result three years later and she's finally got an apology from grantham hospital but she's still fighting for compensation with the n.h.s. over the catalogue of errors that took place with her cat trying to get on says after the surgery merely added insult to injury a course of complaint in three ospital and claimed the said the. medical files it was just. play on are still going on says to all the questions are always asking

lorraine isn't the only patient to receive substandard care from the national health service over recent years has drawn a bow it was left with excruciating pain after a bladder operation only to discover three months later that doctors had left seven inch forceps inside her the n.h.s. schools such incidents never events blunders deemed so serious that they should never happen to freedom of information requests have revealed that over the past four years there have been seven hundred and sixty two such mistakes we measure patient satisfaction every every year i suspect at the moment it probably is pretty low i came into the n.h.s. in one nine hundred seventy seven and i was told i only had five years to last because it was on its knees every year that i spent in it it was the worst it ever been i think it's in a crisis i think it has to change its culture recent scandals have exposed higher than average death rates in failing high. spittles not just myself but my

colleagues also higher management you know we're just more stressed now and we have a lot of pressures to complete things on time and you know we're not being able to deliver the care that we want to do while patients have been quite a best effect from the left side while n.h.s. staff talk about being overstretched hospital managers blaming the problems on squeezed budgets a senior n.h.s. official recently said that they're about to run out of cash in a very serious fashion all the countries in europe by and large spend a lot more money on health care than we do reason report or reason the. us is one of the lowest in terms of patients we're paying too much for too little care the rain is adjusting to life as an amputee she now has to rely on her husband to care for her it was a rent a stroke. i think something larissa locked into so happen in two of the people but when it actually happens to you personally you feel down you feel lying

we open it and it was just a mixture of all those rolled into world and it was just a devastation thing she now says that she can only hope that no more patients have to go through what she did. r.t. london more news ahead as we report on the positive signals from iran's new president song approaching nuclear talks with the west we'll have more of that just after the break. wealthy british.

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iran's terms with the west over its nuclear program new iranian president hassan rouhani proposed direct talks with washington at his first news conference since being sworn into office the details now from our teens lindsey friends iran's new president hassan rouhani has called for dialogue with the west but warned the language of sanctions will not work he won june's a vote by promising to put an end to the country's international isolation over its nuclear energy program rouhani made his stance clear in his inaugural address. i see this kind of if you seek a suitable answer speak to ram through the language of respect not from the language of sanctions so iran's president has extended an olive branch and what have we seen from western countries so far new sanctions had to be imposed just a few days before the president was sworn in the u.s. house of representatives overwhelmingly passed new restrictions on iran's oil

sector and its mining and construction industries even though invited some western leaders didn't even attend the president's inauguration some say it was an opportunity missed to break the ice there is a new president what does that signal a new approach every action is sure to be analyzed and gesture evaluated. the possibility of direct talks between the united states and iran hasn't happened in over three decades although in september a new round of negotiations is expected between iran and the international community hillary and manna leverett runs a think tank which deals with energy issues and things washington would make the concessions that iran wants it's hard to see how they're they can meet in the middle that you issues or the islamic republic of iran that i think are ensconced in international law or that the united states recognizable its sovereign right and its the right to enrich uranium that's something that the united states has shown no evidence it is willing or able to do with the the obama administration and

congress the other piece that critically important for the islamic republic is for the united states to either lift at least some of it sanctions that it has imposed on the islamic republic and force or tried to coerce countries from around the world to impose on the islamic republic of iraq that too will be very very difficult for president obama to leverage because many most nearly sixty sixty five percent of the sanctions in holy on iraq are now are now legislated are now in u.s. law president obama simply does not have the power to lift those sanctions without the acquiescence of congress. the friends being called by the un don't call my america's engine blog agency gets investigated for spying and that mining about it and yet another national survey no scandal. and big brother catches one audacious bad red handed over it is on

a billion here do you tube channel go check it out the. right to see. first street. and i think the true. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. as technology gets better so all pile of absolutely love to go alone recycling this rubbish in the u.k. can turn the talk of profit some traders cashing in on shipping the problem abroad and legally exploiting soft roles on handling the hard way sorry for its reports. with the pace of technology ever changing yesterday's essential.

pile electronic waste known as a waste is the fastest expanding way stream in the u.k. but he's been investigating as the industry's growing. concerns around illegal trading so this is why they are electronic waste. you might be quite surprised by. the recycling companies that are able to extract precious metals like the copper. or an alum and human still as well as the native around one point five million tons of electronic waste cycling every year. and yet research just around a third is that is actually being recycled by reputable sites such as this one so where does the rest of it go. east.

in this country and i think. in the u.k. trade in treatment of the waste is regulated under the e.u. directive which came into force in two thousand and seven and it's a place to make sure that anything that's broken can not be exported to developing countries but industry insiders estimate that up to whole foods will computers discarded in the u.k. and illegal trade streams. broken. down. so few. places.

in the last few years the government body the environment agency has been slowly getting to grips with the problem and has made a number of successful prosecutions despite the costs of recycling but the cyclists are turning a profit as the cost of metal they extract from the goods is high but the growth of the illegal industry means there are concerns black market traders could reputable recyclers the market is wrong and it will affect. you know down the line in my affections and if people continue to do wrong and illegally you know the. legitimate merchants so yeah it does have a big impact and we're concerned about things going in the right line in the countries receiving the way young children are often involved in breaking down the equipment much of which contains harmful chemicals experts warn that the potential

consequences to health could be dire countries which are you know. differently not the have the capacity to deal with it our country. wants to have the financial have the infrastructure to. responsibility. to deal with. the poor countries. so more international news at this hour the u.n. is a warning bahrain of serious consequences if the country continues its violent crackdown on anti-government demonstrations it says nearly a cancer legal amendments infringe on fundamental human rights of any legislators have made a series of major changes to national anti terror laws ahead of a mass protest planned this month gatherings and sit ins in the capital are banned

and courts could strip convicted protesters of this citizenship. and to government anger into nature has broad terms of thousands onto the streets calling for the resignation of this lammas led government the country's constituent assembly has ground to a hold on till the government and the opposition open negotiations this recent spate of and restore sponsored by yet another assassination of a prominent opposition politician two weeks ago. i guess explosion has a killed at least eight people in argentina sources say up to a dozen people may have died in the massive apartment block blast caused by gas leak fifty more where injured in the ensuring for no which had many residents in the upper stories of the building fifteen others are still unaccounted for and firefighters one of the building may collapse at any time. a bomb blast at pakistani football ground has claimed seven lives and whom did two

dozen move many of the victims were teenage boys who died when the device exploded after a match police say the bomb was a remote control and strapped to a motorcycle outside the stadium attacks across the country have already killed almost thirty people this week. what are you as agencies are pushing the n.s.a.'s surveillance debtor use breaking the sad has the answers and analysis right after the break. more news today violence has once again flared up. these are the images world has been seeing from the streets of canada. for

a shelter all day. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month so food i should try it because you know how bad the less bad luck i got. i mean. i know that i'm. really not. in the old story so actually. it's. the worst year for the little thing going right out to the. radio guy for a minute. what you were about to give you never seen anything like this i'm telling. you guys i'm not a mind and this is great from the start so i just got back from a jam packed weekend in los angeles opportunity to attend and speak at

a revolutionary event called the media festival there i not only got to promote the show but i also got to talk about the importance of bridging art and activism on top of that i sat down with two awesome comedians and modern day philosophers joe rogan and duncan trussell for their epic podcasts as a crazy ride but now i'm back and i'm ready to break the set. a little bit more about their job or she or anything like that. it's no secret that we live in a fast paced consumer society when reproduce a gargantuan amount of waste every year a large majority of that garbage is plastic just take plastic bags for example humans use one trillion of them every year according to campaign reuse it that means every minute one million plastic bags are being discarded it's

a staggering statistic that compelled my next guest to work with plastic bags an artistic medium and for over fifteen years created various installations turning this hideous product. into something beautiful her fascination with the material letter to research more about plastic and how it's become an environmental epidemic one so large it prompted her to create an organization dedicated to raising awareness about the issue her name is diana cohen is a visual artist and the co-founder of the plastic pollution coalition and she joins me now. to thank you so much for coming on thank you for having me abbi so i saw your ted talk i was really inspired by it and i'm really thankful for you to come on and shed some light on this i think that many people do not realize how plastic doesn't ever go away and you talk about the process by which plastic breaks down share so i'm not a scientist i'm a visual artist so just to clarify from what i've come to learn about plastic in particular from working with it as material in my artwork plastic breaks down into

smaller bits photo degrades but that's about all it is and we now are guesstimating the amount of time that a plastic bottle or a plastic bag or a plastic cup will be with us on the earth it's something that's designed with an intention of intended obsolescence to be use single use disposable one time but in fact it will last potentially for hundreds and hundreds of years terrifying reality their use of coal in the great pacific garbage patch an island is a misnomer what is it really and how expansive are these plastic build the build ups everywhere. well what we've got happening in the oceans and this is pretty interesting if you look at the oceans on the globe there are eleven different gyres systems around the world and these are natural accumulations spinning kind of currents wind wave currents which cause things that end up in the ocean too to accumulate in a certain particular air.