the. united nations tells r.t. it's investigating reports that kurdish civilians have been massacred by rebels in syria this is all climbing groups they are poised to create a breakaway as monic state. london reaches for the scalpel as the case national health service comes under scrutiny following a series of malpractise scandals boss. were caught up in iraq but not look at them as humans are not to speak with. a former guard at one time of a prison revealed details of the mistreatment of detainees at the facility where the mass hunger strike there are expected to resume in full force.

this is coming to light from the russian capital on marina joshing welcome to the program now the united nations has launched an investigation into the reported slaughter of kurdish civilians by al-qaeda affiliated groups in syria that comes from a comment made by the un to r.t. four hundred fifty kurds most of them women and children were allegedly killed in the north east of the country and we're going to lose co has the details. according to various reports at least four hundred fifty people have been killed by the on their front in north eastern syria reports say that at least one hundred twenty of those are children now we have requested information from the united nations in regard to the situation we have received their response according to the united nations they their team is in the region investigating these reports which haven't

been confirmed as a few odds and should this in fact be confirmed to be true then the united nations are saying that this amounts to a war crime and that probably should provide some sort of stimulation to the international community to act quicker when it comes to syria and the situation which seems to be spiraling out of control and that is exactly what russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has said when he urged the international community to come together and solve this situation in syria we believe that in this action we were shocked by the reports of around four hundred fifty kurds massacred in the north of syria's including children just because the men were fighting against and it's not the first report of the un security council to condemn all these terrorist attacks we've seen some of its members refusing to condemn terrorist attacks in syria justifying it with the fact that the people behind them are fighting against the outdated regime of this stance is totally unacceptable terrorism should be treated without double standards in fact we have spoken to a number of

a number of people whose relatives are in the region they have described the carnage and horrifying details let's have a listen. that's another rebel force surrounded we started going from door to door entering every house if there were any men they killed them and took women and children hostage the rebels came into the house of my cousin she was at home so they murdered took the women and children and. one of the reasons why people are saying that kurds come under such harsh attacks from the owners or up front. groups such as they are as our front is because they have been. quite successful in pushing the extremists out of this region where unfortunately al qaeda is also dreaming of establishing its own state of waiting for syria to essentially disintegrate and also kurds are saying that they are not even if they are not trying to pursue the dream of their own state who today at least would love to live in the country and the state and in the region where peace would prevail so definitely the situation it doesn't seem to get any better only seems to get worse

and of course there has been encouraged from russia to for the international community to pay closer attention and step up peaceful efforts in the region while the ongoing civil war has created deep splits within the country raising concerns over whether syria can ever be pieced back together now the syrian government is keeping its grip on a large area of the country's south which is the heartland of president minority alawite sect you know while the rebels most of them from the sunni muslim majority are in control of a large swathe of northern provinces stretching to the rocky border in the east and there are many al-qaeda affiliated groups among the ranks of the opposition with serious kurdish minority scattered along the country's northern border the eastern parts enjoying a large degree of independence but there are other enclaves have become the targets of deadly attacks and mass kidnappings by al qaida linked fighters who kurds claim

are trying to carry out ethnic cleansing and this comes amid reports of an independent state about to be declared in northern syria but according to german journalist metal box and writer who's closely followed the syrian conflict allegations of a kurdish genocide are likely to be met with international silence. i don't expect any international reaction except. protests to write no i don't think so because they are international interests especially the international the geopolitical interests of turkey was a very important need to remember we shouldn't forget that nato troops also german troops are now at the trigger syrian border with patriot rocket systems heading against syria so we have turkey on this site and it's not turkey place this important really on i don't think that there will be any serious international reaction a former member stated that the leader of the north. or working

close with the cia and we have other information from the kurdish popular defense units who claim that the front is also organized and supported by the turkish intelligence and i think this is not a coincidence when we know how the kurds are treated in turkey itself how are closely following developments in the wake of those horrific attacks on kurds in syria stay with us for the latest on that. how the u.k. is health services under fire from our government sponsored report which is called for sweeping changes to the system the probe was ordered by a london after a series of malpractise scandals at hospitals under new n.h.s. plans medical staff could be prosecuted for reckless or willful neglect of patients are just bullyboy that examines the problem. 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 and didn't want to do next basically just seemed to fall between. the gap between everything 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 it's well patients' rights have been quite a best effect remember so well n.h.s. staff talk about being nervous stretched hospital managers of 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 did recent report by our recent run. as one of the terms of patients we're paying too much or 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. dying thing something larissa locked into so happen in two of the people but when it actually happens to you. 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 devastating it's nothing

she now says that she can only hope that no more patients have to go through what she did. r.t. london meanwhile in iran the new president has been setting out use terms for future and oceans where the west on the iran's nuclear program assad rouhani proposed direct talks with washington at his first news conference since being sworn in are just lines of france has the details. 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 your student loans or speak to them through the lungs of respect not through the language of sun actions 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 but does that signal a new approach every action is sure to be analyzed and gesture evaluated now with a new round of talks expected between iran and the international community we spoke to hillary mann leverett is who was a u.s. diplomat involved in negotiations with a country during george w. bush's administration she thinks washington won't change its tune. it's hard to see how they're they can meet in the middle the two key issues for the islamic republic of iran that i think are ensconced in international law or that the united states

recognizes both its sovereign right and its treaty 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 ease and lift at least some of its sanctions that it has imposed on the islamic republic and forced or tried to course 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 i think sixty sixty five percent of the sanctions imposed on iran are now are now legislated are now in u.s. law to president obama simply does not have the power to lift those sanctions without the acquiescence of congress there are three main areas that are problematic in washington the pro israel constituency is the neo conservative elements on the right and what i would call the liberal imperialists they don't care so much about the nuclear program but they are just set against the political

structure of the islamic republic and so many of the same sions have been pulled from washington are not just about the nuclear program that they're about iran's domestic politics that's going to be a very difficult not to crack. well still to come here in our teeth is such a ready for the world i'll correspond hand to the russian city that's poised to become the world's winter sports capital and gives a brand new venue and once over. the . pool. wealthy british style it's time to retire limericks with.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. now it's exactly six months till the olympic flame is let in sochi for the twenty fourteen winter games critics have long been there to question if the resorts and he's got what it takes to become the capital of winter sports for two weeks our very own mark man who is headed there to check up on the preparations. ok i'm not see bad but i think it's best to leave it to the professionals when they

arrive next year in tsotsi for the winter olympics twenty fourteen the calendar is getting lower the olympic park with its brand new arenas is almost ready and in february next year many of the world's top athletes will compete against each other right here have a skating palace. it's the first time since one nine hundred eighty that russia has hosted such an event and with an estimated three billion viewers russia will be in the spotlight once again when all the construction is finished such she will boast some of the best and technologically advanced sporting facilities in the world although with many cynics tells of corruption local opposition and concerns with overspending is such ready well the proof as they say is in the putting. the finishing touches are being added now and the amount of work that has been done in the city is huge the whole area is being improved and made more comfortable and beautiful with new pedestrian it was an underground passage being constructed the

city has got a completely new look now it's newly built and very beautiful and there cannot be any doubt that everything will be on time to host the olympics. slowly and surely each piece of the jigsaw is coming together another example is this next stadium. the ball sure i stone sits twelve thousand people as you can see well it's an impressive stadium it's unusual ready various competitions have been staged here over the past few months and during the olympics will be used for ice hockey and after that it can be transformed to more accommodate a plethora of other sporting activities ranging from basketball to boxing. the mountain cluster of course the pole yellow and the rosa who to resort to host the biathlon and ski center and there will be a freestyle ski and snowboarding park. the two parks are to be connected by a forty eight kilometer highway as well as a high speed train that will run every five minutes and transport tens of thousands

of the day once they reach the mountains placed by train passengers will take one of several new cable cars up to the ski resorts and olympic competition values. the winter olympics is only the beginning for the whole area after the main event early next year sort she will set about hosting twenty two international sports events ranging from the grand prix of figure skating to the formula one next november the olympics i'm here i've been newly built airports represents what the entire occasion is for us together and brings out the best in people and sporting events and politics aside as the whole world focuses its attention on saatchi and the surrounding area the final preparations we put into place and what promises to be for the greatest sporting events held ever and after my trip here i can confidently say that the winter olympics twenty fourteen will be one to remember martha denver is r.t.

. well one reason for some tension around the olympics in sochi was moscow adopting a law banning propaganda of homosexuality to minors in one of his latest comments the us president last out of russia saying he has no patience for countries that intimidate gays lesbians and transgenders to separate the facts from fiction on the issue you can head over to r.t. dot com where we launched a special section on gay rights in russia and my colleague also discussed the matter whether it is martin andrews who says there is no place for intolerance at the sochi olympics. there is nothing short of mass hysteria at the moment regarding the boycotting of the games which i probably don't think will happen regarding countries not turning up if you go back in history to the games that took place in moscow in one nine hundred eighty there were disruptions with that because of the soviet union with afghanistan i don't think it will go that further insult you know no tourist will be arrested for walking outside and you know being you know

it's not going to happen and i think people in the west should realize that i'm not there i'm not but i'm agreeing with that with the ruling and then you know what that says it's all very well and good for the west's what he preached views on this . this is r.t. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world the japanese prime minister ordered the government to help contain ongoing radiation leaks from fukushima tepco the company that runs the crippled power plant has been i'm able to prevent contaminated water from pouring into the ocean at a rate of three hundred tons a day it's estimated that cleanup operations at the facility could drag on for another forty years. anti-government anger in

tunisia has built into the streets with tens of thousands calling for the resignation of the islamist led government the unrest has stalled efforts to draft a new constitution you sam we charged with the task has been suspended until the launch of negotiations between the leadership and opposition this mass protest worst barred by the assassination of a prominent secular opposition figure two weeks ago. in southern yemen a u.s. drone strikes. killed seven suspected al qaeda militants this comes a day after america and britain evacuated their embassies due to warnings of an imminent terrorist attacks washington shut down over twenty of its diplomatic missions in the middle east a massive alert has been described by american officials as the most serious since nine eleven russia's emergencies ministry says the situation after severe

flooding in the country's far eastern moore region remains difficult but it's under control now more than a thousand people have been evacuated from the worst affected areas over the past two weeks over three hundred houses were submerged as the more river overflowed sending huge volumes of water into residential areas around sixteen thousand residents are under threat with more floods expected what a local dam is forced to release more water the floods are close to being the region's worst records began with water levels approaching seven either. the hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison which has receded during the holy muslim month of ramadan and is expected to flare back up with full force after the fast and on thursday dozens of detainees are still being painfully force fed and the facility with the lawyers calling on us george's to step in and and the controversial practice former guards terry holbrooke's shed some light on how the

inmates are treated. we were told 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 guards 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 the political logical or ethical in some circumstances and as was such we didn't implement them and over a hundred sixty six remaining we've had a living year of the find any shred of evidence to charge try and convict them and we've not been able to do that nor have we 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't 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 former guantanamo bay chaplain james yee ministered to the muslim and detainees before of being arrested in self and charged with aiding the enemy the case was eventually dropped and he was restored to military duty and claims he was targeted for a going against the mistreatment of and mates at a tourist facility. basically after objecting to the horrible conditions the enormous amount of abuse that was going on there then i was will wrote it 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 tiny 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 i have to our website for some fascinating stories you won't see on air including the journalist who broke the story on edward snowden's and says he's got tens of thousands more documents to reveal from the agency's closet. and the russian football club that's been shocking the world with its relentless planning is making a sharp budget find out why the purse strings has been pulled online. right from the scene. first for you and i think that you're.

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