but nine pm from moscow breaking news on r.t. barack obama counsels show you a one to one with the amir peretz and after russia granted asylum to n.s.a. leaker edward snowden moscow says washington still unwilling to build relations on an equal basis like comment on this coming up. also this hour united nations tells r.t. it seemed best to gauge the 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. and the japanese government is now forced to step in and help the operator of the crippled fukushima power plant try to contain the recently revealed massive leak of radioactive water.

getting from moscow is kevin owen here this hour just after nine pm now on the breaking news as i mentioned from us tonight the big story u.s. president barack obama has canceled a one to one with his russian counterpart vladimir putin that was shed jule for next month the decision prompted by moscow giving temporary refuge to the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden was met with disappointment in the kremlin he is and he's going to teach you can with the details and from washington also to give his going off in moscow with the russian side of it. washington has been thinking for a while on how to best punish moscow for snowden there were rumors that president obama may not go to the g. twenty summit in the same pace of work last night he confirmed that he is go away this morning we learned that while he's going to russia for the g twenty the white house is scrapped that bilateral summit with the russian president and here's president obama said device or here's what he said will still work with washer on

issues where we can find common ground but he was the unanimous view of the president and his national security team that a summit did not make sense in the current environment so now as far as the current environment here is what we heard from the president last night a lot of what's been going on has been. a major break in the relationship even though still help us supplying our troops in afghanistan there's still helping us on counterterrorism work they were helpful after the boston bombing and in that investigation and so there's still a lot of business that we can do with them but there's been times where they slip back into cold war thinking you know that in a cold war mentality to russia's decision on snowden washington responded by scrapping the meeting with the russian president was to put attack moves like that it seems we are indeed slipping into a cold war thinking by the way there's very little doubt here that had the roles of

being the reverse then had it been a russian whistleblower seeking refuge here in the it was the u.s. would do the same as what russia has done i want to bring in an evil person off now in the newsroom here in moscow so therefore what is the reaction from moscow to what's out now what we've heard from presidential. by cancelling these meetings that washington is showing that it doesn't want to have a balanced relief i'm sure with moscow since it's been avoiding signing that extradition agreements between the states for the past ten years. has been ignoring russia's request to extradite over twenty people including suspected terrorists while concerning edward snowden moscow's stance on the whole situation was pretty clear from the start first of all according to president putin he was never invited to come here it was all it was his own personal decision then the main condition

for snowden to be able to stay here in russia was for him to stop harming washington's image and he agreed to that as well and clearly all the official services and all of those involved everyone tried to conduct this temporary asylum procedure strictly by the books and in full compliance with international laws and regulations so washington's reaction now definitely didn't come as a surprise since there was speculation about this earlier but it's sure not going to help improve relations between the to steve's going to back to washington as he go was saying there are no surprises really here well as much as the white house likes to attack snowden and russia he's revelations certainly have put the white house on the defensive the majority of americans say edward snowden is a whistleblower and not a traitor and this tuesday at a late night show with jay leno president obama tried once again to defend the

surveillance state by saying that there is no domestic spying program snowden as we remember has revealed that the n.s.a. has all those programs for domestic spying they're just not labeled for domestic spying but the programs in place certainly allowed to do that the president went on to say that the powers are there it's 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 one way or another there is no denying that the fact that we're even having this conversation is because of edward snowden's revelations the president suggested that snowden should have done it differently he said. you can console were to come to the appropriate individuals and say look i've got a problem with what's going on here i'm not sure whether it's being done properly and those are the president's words there so you can imagine going to that big government machine and saying i've got a problem here people have done it before including some n.s.a. officials will remember thomas straight for example he tried to go through official

channels and ended up fired and was investigated for a violation of the espionage act so i do which noted perfectly knew what what he was facing had he stayed in the u.s. after all the example of bradley manning was was there for him and the reaction of the u.s. congress has been very interesting for the past few weeks we've seen a number of lawmakers going forward with initiatives based on edward snowden's leaks but at the same time the same lawmakers would criticize and condemn edward snowden so it's the same as saying thank you for your leaks but we still want to punish you. got to kind of washington then and awfully wrong with the moscow side of it let's get some more reaction go live to john laughlin he's director of studies at the institute of democracy corp and parasite there john well take this bit by bit first of all are you surprised by america's move here not really i think obama in a sense felt i had to cancel this bilateral meeting because of the internal political

pressures and that's really what it's all tamil about but of course the there is a lot of background to this it's not just about snowden obama of course the president of the famous reset four of five years ago in other words of the restart of relations with russia has turned out to have been not much better really in terms of friendship with moscow than his predecessors because they were tied or because he just didn't want it so that's a difficult question to answer what i meant was that he there been a number of big policy differences which have been backing up now for some time i'm thinking of course many believe syria but also more symbolic things like gay rights and so on on these issues russia and the west have been drifting apart for a while and so the snowden affair if you like was the last straw that broke the camel's back more than just a blip or are we seeing long term problems here i'm hearing more and more now the word cold war coming in from the american side or it's something i heard it yesterday anyway from the president does it mention before cold war coming into it

i would trip think that there. very much and it's funny actually that obama should have used that word because of course it was the russians that putin and the other russian leaders who generally accuse the americans of having a cold war attitude now the insult has been returned so yes i think there is a drifting apart i think things are going badly and as i say it. no it's because of other issues as well and these are very important both political and philosophical issues in a way i think the americans are being very infant tile and silly about this i can understand the pressures but i think they're being it's entirely and simply because russia and america don't have an extradition treaty so whether or not. snowden was granted asylum in russia or is of absolutely no significance at all russia could never have extradited him whatever his status have been in russia because they don't have an extradition treaty and in fact russia generally doesn't extradite people to any countries at all so just make it as clear for viewers because the one

to one was off the g. twenty but the g. twenty is still happening and more closer to home on friday the still going to be the meeting between the americans and the russians the defense secretary the secretary of state they are still talking i'd like to be a fly on the wall of that meeting how strained is that meeting going to be i wonder . it's difficult to know i mean on the one hand there are these big ideological and political differences on the other and ultimately in an obama belong to the the the world political class you know statesman they see each other all the time it's true that these differences are substantial it's true that they at the relationship is deteriorating on the other hand i'm sure that they maintain more or less the ordeal relations on a personal level when they see the each other to when they see each other particularly when the meetings take place in private as they usually do so a slight embarrassment coming up there for the g. twenty when they all get together early september first week of september but you think they'll be able to get to the table and at least try to talk about talking and nothing else. well they will but i don't think anyone should underestimate the

extent of bad blood and it's been build i keep repeating it's been building up over time and i think they'll be lots more to come after we've got the saatchi olympics coming up in two thousand and forty and they've been calls today in britain as i'm sure you know for those games to be boycotted in calls in various countries so i think the pressure will be ratcheted up by by enemies of mr putin and by enemies of russia this notion of fair will will turn out to be relatively unimportant i think there's a lot more to come that just final thirty seconds while you're on the line just like to pick your brains about the snowden affair and how if you did america has affected obama's ratings what generally do americans think about snowden. well i think your reporter made the point just now that a lot of them regard him as an honorable man who has a whistleblower and not a traitor you know that nobody likes the idea that their e-mails and internet surfing is being trolled through by federal spy agencies and it's quite clear that snowden has done what he did because he felt that what was going on was wrong he

wasn't selling his secrets to a foreign country for personal gain or even selling them to a foreign country for any reason at all he was revealing them instead to the american people themselves so i think anybody who is reasonable about this will can only conclude that he has acted honorably and that's why i said earlier that i think there that obama's reaction to this was in front of i can understand it but i think that it's been brought on by a rather infant tile atmosphere in american political life john have a good evening thanks for the program john lott from the director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris thank you. the united nations has launched an investigation into the purported slaughter of kurdish civilians by al-qaeda affiliated groups in syria that's coming in according to a comment made by the un to us at r.t. maybe up to four hundred fifty kurds most of them women and children have allegedly

been killed in the north east of the country but he's running. tells you what we know. 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 regards 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 assured 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 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 they started going from door to door entering every house if there were any men they kill 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. groups such as

they are as your friend is because they have been. 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 descend to great 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 a country in this state and in a region where peace will prevail so definitely the situation doesn't seem to get any better only seems to get worse and of course there has been encouragement from russia to for the international community to pay closer attention and step up peaceful efforts in the region the ongoing civil wars created deep splits within the country raising concerns over whether syria can ever be peace back together again so much is going on where the syrian government's keeping its grip on a large area of the country see what comes out of them out there you can see that's the yellow there which is the heartland of president assad's minority alawite sect

meantime the rebels most of them from the sunni muslim majority are in control of a large swathe of northern provinces that the purple bit stretching to the iraqi border in the east and there are many al qaeda affiliated groups among the ranks of the opposition as well which is where it gets really complicated with syria's kurdish minority scattered along the country's northern border the eastern parts enjoying a large degree of independence but there are other enclaves become the targets of deadly attacks and mass kidnappings by al qaeda linked fighters coming in the black there as you can see who kurds claim are trying to carry out ethnic cleansing this all comes amid reports of an independent state maybe about to be declared in northern syria as well as what a german journalist current look of felt she told me kurds are being punished she thinks for taking a stand in the conflict. but definitely an attack against the kurds against kurdish civilians and they have been taking a very different position within this war inside syria they did not want to

enter either side of the fighting they try to stay outside and there are definitely groups from the free syrian army and islamist fighters who are pushing the kurds to fight because the kurds are not joining their side of the wall so. behind these groups as we know. and i think the turks are trying to. push the turks the kurds also into the fighting because turkey is very worried about the strength of the kurdish movement inside syrian territory and they want to provoke them maybe definitely they are supporting these armed groups who are attacking the kurdish groups inside syria. thanks for being with archie tonight you companies much pre-shared have still to come with me kevin and we ask is sochi ready for the world a question asked by many people in russia right now to exactly of course six months to go now time's flow so quickly before the olympics kick off we said our

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energy expert malcolm crist him says japan's energy sector right now 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 it space 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 add 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 its own 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 restrictor and some of its major companies clearly were not up to the job and indeed in some cases i think what quite clearly behaving dishonestly it

will take a long time to put this right decades i think is the right is the right sort of estimate that's a very different thing from saying that the plant will represent a major threat for decades i don't think that's the case but in bringing the area back to family incomes i mean a ground at the moment there's simply not enough knowledge to know how big the tarski let alone to be starting to design some of the response to it where of course we've got a close eye on this we keep me updated on the fukushima crisis on air and online you can always say to r.t. dot com for more news analysis get up to speed on the full timeline of the events there and the tourist. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of kenya that. giant corporations are ruled the day.

there's another world news in brief egypt may be entering a dangerous new phase in its political crisis the country's interim government says international efforts to resolve the standoff with the muslim brotherhood have failed egypt's new leadership is running out of patience and has called on supporters of former president morsi to disperse their protest camps over two hundred fifty people killed in the country since he was ousted more than a month ago also headlining tonight anti-government anger and chewed his ears spilled over onto the streets with tens of thousands calling for the resignation of years of misled leadership the unrest to store their focus to draft a new constitution and the assembly charged with that task has been suspended too until the launch of negotiations between the government and opposition the mass protests were sparked by the assassination of a problem of secular opposition figure two weeks ago in. africa facing major air traffic delays tonight after a huge fire ripped through the kenyan international airport in the capital nairobi intense heat drove about firefighters who battled the flames for hours before then

managing to contain the blaze there thought he said no casualties have been reported in the course of the fire is still on know there are plans to open the airports domestic terminal which escaped the flames thankfully to handle the international flights best they can. it's exactly six months to go now to the olympic flame is lit in sochi for those twenty fourteen winter games critics have long been there to to question if the resort city has got what it takes to become the capital of winter sports for a fortnight of ariel martin hundreds then headed there to check out the preparations for himself. ok i'm not too 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 at the 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 overspending is such ready. 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 the beautiful 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 says it's twelve thousand people and as you can see well it's an impressive stadium it's a new soul ready various competitions i've 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 mounting cost of course the pole yellow and the rosa khutor resorts will 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 passengers a day once they reach the mountains base via 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 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 olympic sign here i've been you to build airports represents what the entire occasion is for it links 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 or 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 danbury's party. one reason for some of the tension around the olympics in sochi was moscow adopting the law banning propaganda of homosexuality to minors now in one of his recent comments the u.s. president lashed out in a chat show in fact russia's saying that he has no patience for countries that intimidate gays lesbians and transgenders but does the legislation really involve

any intimidation of gay minorities that's the question a lot of people have got that question will break down the myths that are being hyped in some international media on our website r.t. dot com we've got a special section put together on gay rights here in russia so that you can make your own mind up to separate the facts from the fiction. coming up after the break prime interest looks at whether key financial information from the united states government's big league for the economic benefit of someone in particular the mystery deepens more now than after the break. this is the media leave us so we leave the media privacy potions to cure the other your party visible. where suze that no one is asking with the guests that you

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