breaking news here on r t brock obama cancels a scheduled want to one with a lot of reporting and tension over russia granting asylum to fugitive n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden. the united nations tells r t it's investigating reports that kurdish civilians have been massacred by rebels in syria this is al qaeda linked groups their push to create a breakaway islamic state. the japanese government is forced to step in and help the operator of the crippled fukushima power plant contain a recently revealed massive leak of radioactive water.

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program while we begin it with breaking news how barack obama has canceled a one to one with russia's president vladimir putin that was scheduled for next month the white house claims the decision was prompted by moscow granting temporary refuge to the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden well let's now bring in our correspondent your piskun often has more on this igor what sort of reaction can we now expect from moscow well since the speculation about president obama canceling his one on one meeting with vladimir putin somewhere around the upcoming g twenty summit in st petersburg began on the scene as russia granted temporary asylum to edward snowden the new it's unlikely that it's going to be a surprise to officials in moscow but it's also very clear that it's going to be greeted with applause because moscow is stance on this whole situ. around mr

snowden it was very clear from the beginning first of all he was never invited to come here was own personal decision the conditions for him to stay here by president putin and were that he had to stop farming washington's image which he agreed to also the u.s. has been asking moscow to extradite him but there is no extradition agreement in fact throughout the whole time russia has been really trying to do and to deal with this whole situation strictly by the book and the whole procedure around him getting this temporary asylum was also in you know full compliance with international laws so. it's definitely is that it's not going to be greeted with applause and that it's not going to come as a surprise but it's not the news that president obama is not going to have a separate summit with vladimir putin that's definitely not going to help improve the already difficult relationship either already or thank you very much for

a talking to us about this and bring us this update and that was you gorp is going off will be giving you more reaction and information on this as we get it stay with our team for that and now let's turn to. some other stories that we are following for you here today the united nations has launched an investigation into the reported slaughter of kurdish civilians by al-qaeda affiliated groups and syria comes from a comment made by the u.n. to our team four hundred fifty courage most of them women and children who were allegedly killed and the north east of the country were to go 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 and 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 issued this in fact to 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 said when he urged the international community to come together and solve this issue a stand 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 us and it's not the first report of the un security council 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 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 by these started going from door to door entering every house if there were any men. and took women and children hostage on 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 front. groups such as they are as your friend 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 in the states and in that region where peace would prevail so definitely the situation 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 peace back to gather 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 meanwhile the rebels most of them from the sunni muslim majority are in control of a large swathe of northern provinces stretching to the iraqi 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 linked fighters who kurds claim are trying

to carry out an ethnic cleansing and this comes amid reports of an independent state about to be declared in northern syria but according to german reporter and writer this closely following the syrian conflict allegations of a kurdish genocide are likely to be met with international silence. i don't expect any international reaction except to protest a right no i don't think so because they are international interests especially the international the geopolitical interests of turkey was a very important nato member we shouldn't forget that nato troops also german troops are now at the turkish syrian border with patriot rocket systems heading against syria so we have turkey on this site and it's a long turkey place this important role in this conflict i don't think that there will be any serious international reaction a former member stated that the leader of the. king 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. now let's go back to our breaking news story out of washington is decision to cancel obama's one to one meeting with russia's president live more important that was scheduled for next month while we can bring in our washington correspondent who's following the story for us so how did washington explain of this decision. well moreno washington has been thinking for a while on how to best punish russia for snowden there were rumors that president obama might not go to the g. twenty summit in st petersburg last night he confirmed that he is going this morning we learned that while he's going to russia for this summit he has scrapped

the bilateral summit with the russian president and here's what he his president obama's advisor said on this will still work with russia on issues where we can find common ground but it was the unanimous view of the president and his national security team that a summit did not make sense in the current environment so we're hitting new lows here so what seems to be one of the main reasons then for the fallout is that the americas stands on the treatment of whistleblowers. well it is it is it is because of snowden and as much as they like to attack snowden his revelations has put the white house on the defensive i mean after all more than fifty five percent of americans think snowden is a whistleblower and not a traitor and this tuesday once again at a late night show with jay leno president obama tried to to defend this surveillance state by saying that the government is not doing domestic spying. he

is not spying on americans and snowden has revealed that the n.s.a. has all the programs for domestic spying they're just not labeled for domestic spying but the program's certainly allowed to do that and the president went on to say that the powers that there is about whether or not the government has abused those powers on the other hand how would people know that when the programs are shrouded in secrecy then the conversation went on to edward snowden himself and it's very obvious to everyone the fact that. the fact that. we are having this conversation is because if edward snowden's revelations the president suggested that snowden should've done it differently should have he said you know you can come forward and i quote him here come to the appropriate individuals and say look i've got a problem with what's going on here i'm not sure it's being done properly so you can imagine going to that big government machine and saying i've got

a problem here and people have done it before including some and it's a officials we remember thomas drake he tried to go through official channels and it up fired and was investigated for a violation of the espionage act and also just right in front of him edward snowden has the example of bradley manning i mean who is who who risks getting a sentence of more than one hundred years in prison oregon and thanks for all following the situation for us from washington and explaining it to us going to you can we are. well you're watching r t coming to you live from the russian capital let's now turn to some other stories that we're following for you today and the japanese prime minister has ordered the government to step in and help contain ongoing radiation leaks from the fukushima power plant tepco the company that runs the facility that was crippled in the twenty eleven tsunami and earthquake has been unable to prevent contaminated groundwater from breaching

a barrier and pouring into the ocean nuclear energy expert malcolm grimston says japan's energy sector is in a state of chaos it's now having to import even more liquid natural gas to take the place of its nuclear output that's expensive greenhouse gas emissions are going through the roof in spades breaching all of its own greenhouse gas targets because of course nuclear power doesn't contribute to climate change but the alternatives do and they're also facing power shortages they've had to reduce power use very dramatic dramatically over things such as conditioning now that in itself has health effects and so there is a vigorous debate about bringing back online some of the existing nuclear power stations but japan is an island without it so natural resources and the g. has always been a massive challenge for japan quite apart from what i think is very clear is that the regulator restructure and some of its major companies to be were not up to the job and indeed in some cases i think what quite clearly behaving dishonestly. and

still to come here in our team is such a ready for the world now that is exactly six months left before the olympics kick off our correspondent heads to the russian city that's poised to become the world's winter sports capital and gives a brand new event is a once over. do

we speak your language as anybody will or not a new. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. it will turn it into angles stories. here. altie spanish to find out more visit actuality. welcome back here with r.t. to iran now where the new president has been setting out his terms for future negotiations with the west on iran's nuclear program a song rouhani proposed direct talks with washington at his first news conference since being sworn in artie's lazy 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 speak of student loans or speak to them through the language of respect not through 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 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 was spoke to hillary mann leverett 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 were they can meet in the middle of 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 that lift at least some of it sanctions that it has imposed on the islamic republic enforced or tried to coerce countries from around the world to impose on the islamic republic of iran 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 president obama simply does not have the power to lift those sanctions without the acquiescence of congress there are three name 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 so 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 are there about iran's domestic politics that's going to be a very difficult not to crack. the u.k.'s health services under a fire from a government sponsored report which is called for a 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 boy who 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. what to do next basically i just seem to fall between the 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 care trying to get answers after the surgery merely added insult to injury a court of complaint in three ospital and claimed the said last medical file was it

was just. a play on are still going on to wall the questions are always asking lorraine isn't the only patient to receive substandard care from the national health service over recent years john i 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. call such incidents never events blunders deemed so serious that they should never happen but 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. 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 twelve patients so it's probably quite aggressive but remember so well and a chest staff talk about being nervous stretched hospital managers are 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 research report everything the. us is one of the lowest in terms of patients we're paying too much or too little or the rain is adjusting to life as an amputee she now has to rely on her husband to care for her it was a run to shock. i think something larissa locked into so view

a weapon into where the people but when it actually happens to you. and you feel down you feel lying we open it and it was just a mixture of all those rolled into a wall 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. well you know as head to our web site for us some more fascinating stories you want to see on air including the journalist who broke the story and word snowden's anis a leak says he's got tens of thousands more documents to reveal from the agency's closet and. the russian football coopt it's been shocking the world with its relentless banning is making a sharp budget u. turn find out why the purse train has been pulled on line.

it's exactly six months till the olympic flame is lit and 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 i would very own martin andrews headed there to check up on the preparations. ok. but i think it's best to leave it to the professionals when they arrive next year insults you for the winter olympics twenty fourteen the countdown 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 at the skating palace. it's the first time since 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 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 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 is or 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. 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 a new soul ready various competition has 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 there and the rosa khutor resorts will host the bio fun and ski center and there will be a free star 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 a 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 venues. the winter olympics is only the beginning for the whole area after the main event early next year saatchi will set about hosting twenty two international sports events ranging from the grand prix of figure skating to the formula one next november. the olympic sign here at the newly built ports 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 salty and the surrounding area the final preparations we put into place and what promises to be or the greatest sporting events held and off to my trip here i can confidently say that the winter olympics twenty fourteen will be one to remember martha denver is party. and one reason for some tension around the olympics in sochi was moscow adopting a law banning propaganda of homosexuality to minors and one of his recent comments the u.s. president lashed out at russia saying he has no patience for countries that intimidate gays lesbians and trans gender but does their legislation really involve any intimidation of gay minorities r.t. breaks down the mists that are being hyped in the international media at r.t. dot com and there we have a special section on gay rights in russia so that you can separate the facts from

fiction. i reminder of our breaking news here on r.t.l. barak obama has canceled a one to one with president vladimir putin that was scheduled for next month the white house claims the decision was prompted by russia granting temporary refuge to the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden obama is still planning to attend the g. twenty economic summit in st petersburg in september and there has been no comment on this so far from moscow we'll bring you more details on this next hour so do stay with us for that if you can. and up next hour we take you to south a city as it continues to rebuild five years after it came under attack from the georgian army.

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project free medio dadar t.v. dot com. news my name is natalia peter. yarrow i'm russian my husband loves us a if is a said he and. we came here to south his thirtieth from russia with who he is it's been four years since we moved here i don't regret a. week . force anyway the city of sin fall was devastated by the two thousand and eight con what would i do there was debris everywhere you looked there were burnt trees and.

it was a horrible sight. i'm already thinking of settling down here. it's an heiress divide you can not enjoy it must be the climate is definitely. i love a certain tube or its hospitality or its mountains board's proud people.