if you care about humans in the world this is why you should care only on the dot com. a developing story it's not an artsy barack obama council's a shed jewel one to one with enough to russia granted asylum to n.s.a. leaker edward snowden moscow says washington's still unwilling to build relations on an equal basis. 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. also headlining to the japanese governments now forced to step in to help the operator of the crippled fukushima power plant contain a recently revealed massive leak of radioactive water.

could even tell no one in now on the button this is kevin zero in broadcasting from moscow and you're watching r.t. international good to have you with us our top story than the big one tonight u.s. president barack obama has canceled a one to one with his russian counterpart vladimir putin that was shed jeweled for next month the decision prompted by moscow giving temporary refuge the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden was met with disappointment in the kremlin is r.t. with the details from washington and for the moscow side of it it cannot. washington has been thinking for a while on how to best punish moscow for snowden this morning we learned that while he's going to russia for the g. twenty the white house is scrapped the bilateral summit with the russian president and here's president obama's advice or here's what he said will still work with washer 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 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. major breaks in the relationship even though still help us supplying our troops in afghanistan they're still helping us on counterterrorism work they were helpful after the boston bombing 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 and 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 they want to bring in the eagle has come off no 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 aide. who said that by canceling 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 the u.s. has been ignoring russia's request to extradite over twenty people include. suspected terrorists while concerning edward snowden moscow 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 two states got it back to you in washington as you go was saying there are no surprises really. 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 you know we don't have a domestic spying program snowden as we remember has revealed that the n.s.a. has all the 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 the president suggested that's notan should have done it differently people have done it before including some n.s.a. officials will remember thomas drake 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 snowden perfectly knew what what he was for. had he stayed in the u.s. after all the example of bradley manning was was there for him and the the reaction of the u.s. congress has been very interesting for the past few weeks we've seen a number of lawmakers coming 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. washington or moscow correspondent there we got more thoughts too from r.t. contributor afshin rattansi who believes the consequence of barack obama's decision could stretch know far beyond russia u.s. relations when we hear about an american president refusing to meet with his superpower counterpart from moscow at the same to st petersburg summit we're seeing president obama risk peace in so many different conflicts around the world we're seeing him risk stability in the world and it's a dangerous precedent it's not actually some kind of joke the way the state department john kerry may think it is for those press spokespeople in the state department or in the white house. but john laughlin director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris told me the bombers movies come as no surprise 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 out 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. with moscow than his predecessors there is a drifting apart i think things are going badly in a way i think the americans are being very infant tile and silly about this russia and america don't have an extradition treaty so whether or not. snowden was granted asylum in russia is of absolutely no significance at all. united nations has launched an investigation into the reported slaughter of kurdish civilians by al-qaeda affiliated groups in syria it's 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 were allegedly killed in the northeast of the country. brings 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 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 said when he urged the international community to come together and solve this issue a stand in syria we believe that it is 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 such 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. 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 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 descent are 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 the country in this state and in a region where peace will prevail so definitely the situation it doesn't seem to get any better only seems to get worse and of course there has been encouragement from russia too for the international community to pay closer attention and step up peaceful efforts in the region. reporting on this story for us will be ongoing civil was created deep splits within the country raising concerns over whether syria can ever be peace back together again after so much of what's going on there that so it pans out on the map showing the syrian government keeping its grip on a large area of the country so if you signal in yellow the which is the heartland of president assad's minority alawite sect meantime the rebels most of them from

the shia muslim majority are in control of a large swathe of northern provinces that are the most of the stretching from the iraq border in the east and there are many al qaeda affiliated groups among the ranks of the opposition with syria's kurdish minority scattered among the country's northern borders you can see there in the pink most of their own claims have become targets of deadly attacks mass kidnappings by al qaeda linked fighters who kurds claim are trying to corrode ethnic cleansing this all comes amid reports to have an independent state about to be declared in northern syria as you can see in the black i spoke to german journalist current look at who says the kurds are being punished for not taking sides in the conflict. but it's 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 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 war so. behind these groups as we know are turkey and i think the turks are trying to. push the turks the kurds also into the fighting because he 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. coming up on r.t. is ready for the world that's the question now exactly six months ago indeed before those are lympics pick off the winter olympics are a correspondent heads to the russian city that's poised to become the world's winter sports capital gives the brand new venues a once over forests he left no stone unturned.

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a little turn to angles the stories. you hear. the spanish find out more visit actuality that. japanese prime ministers want the government now to step in and try to help contain ongoing radiation leaks from the fukushima power plant tepco the company that runs a facility it was crippled back in the twenty eleven earthquake and following tsunami has been unable lately to prevent contaminated groundwater from breaching a barrier and then pouring into the ocean nuclear energy expert know congress to told us japan's energy sector is in the state of chaos right now. 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's 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 air 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 you 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 really 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. but keep you

updated on the fukushima crisis on air and online you can also head to our team dot com for more news analysis and get pissed because i'm a full time out of events that are notorious lot of pictures and information to catch up with. you case health services under fire from a government sponsored report which has called for sweeping changes to the system the probe was ordered by london after a series of malpractise scandals at hospitals and the new n.h.s. plans medical staff could be prosecuted for reckless or willful neglect of patients outies poly boy cure 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

a lot 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 care trying to get answers after the surgery merely added insult to injury complaint and the ospital and claimed the said the last medical file was it was just. plain i still didn't get 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've not been able to deliver the care that we want to swap patients it's having quite a best effect remember so well and a chest staff talk about being overstretched 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 do the reason report why reason the. us is one of the terms of patients is we're paying too much or too little 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 during i think something larissa locked into so happen in two of the people but when it actually happens to you personally 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 but r.t. london. somewhat world news a brief tonight leadership may be entering

a dangerous new phase in this political crisis the country's interim government says international efforts to resolve the standoff with the muslim brotherhood have failed you leadership is running out of patience and calling on supporters of former president morsi now to disperse their protest camps of continued in the capital cairo five weeks over two hundred fifty people have been killed in the country since the military toppled egypt's first democratically elected leader. and the government anger in chief mishear has spilled into the streets with tens of thousands calling for the resignation of years of misled leadership there the unrest has stalled efforts than to draft a new constitution the assembly charged with the terms because been suspended until the motion to go see oceans between the government and opposition the mass protests were sparked by the assassination of a prominent secular opposition figure two weeks ago. africa's facing majorette delays still after a huge fire ripped through kenya's international airport in the capital nairobi intense heat drove firefighters who battled the flames for hours before then

finally managing to contain the blaze you're thora to say thankfully no casualties reported because of the fire still on the road there are plans to open the airport's domestic terminal which escape the flames to try to handle so most international flights. is actually six months till the limpid flame is lit in sochi for the twenty fourteen winter games critics have long been there to question if the resort city's got the what it takes to become the capital of winter sports for two weeks a very modern andrews' headed up there then to check 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 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 such and ready well the proof as they say is putting. the finishing touches are being added now and the amount of work that has been done in the city is huge for the whole area is being improved and made more comfortable . with new pedestrian zones and underground passes 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 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 mountain cluster 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. main events early next year sorts 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 sign here at the new build airport 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 will be put into place in 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 martin and various r.t. sochi. looking good so far than of course one reason for some of the tension around the olympics in sochi was moscow adopting the law banning propaganda of homosexuality or minors in one of his recent comments indeed the us president lashed out at russia over it saying he's got no patience for a country that intimidate gays lesbians and transgenders but does the legislation

really involve any intimidation of gave minorities the tiebreaks the myth that are being hyped up in some international media if you want to check it out you are interested to find out more take a look at our web site r t dot com we've got a special section there on gay rights in russia and if you can separate the facts from fiction yourself make the room wind up. having stay with us good program coming up we take the south a set here is it continues to rebuild five years now after it came under attack from the georgian army that's after this break.

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pushed me away the city of sinful was devastated by the two thousand and eight conflict. there was debris everywhere you looked there were burnt trees. it was a horrible sight. i'm already thinking of settling down here. the thin air is divine you can not enjoy it the climate is definitely. i love this idea for its hospitality for its mountains group for its proud people.

who think he. will push my work around the clock on the evidence from the seventh of august until the eleventh. five days without a break we were terrified. we also calls on the phone we carried the injured under fire and that was all right. but when they started shooting machine guns and mortars it was more difficult. the georgians were already there at the hospital they started attacking. they fired grad multiple rocket so that left a huge hole in the building we ran through the hole and saw george and ahmed car outside. i crawled in and took a machine gun we carried machine guns with us when we went on coals.