developing story it's not an r t barack obama cancels a show july one to one with putin after russia granted asylum to n.s.a. leaker edward snowden moscow says washington is still unwilling to build relations on an equal basis we look at that story in detail this half hour also ahead. the united nations tells r.t. it's investigating reports that kurdish civilians have been massacred in by rebels in syria this is al qaeda linked groups the push to create a breakaway islamic state. and the japanese government is forced to step in now to try to help the operator of the crippled fukushima power plant contain the recently revealed massive leak of radioactive water.

for a good evening from moscow it's one minute past eleven here in our top story from aarti international with me kevin now in the u.s. president barack obama's canceled a one to one with his russian counterpart vladimir putin that was should yield for next month the decision prompted by moscow giving temporary refuge to the whistleblower edward snowden was met with disappointment in the kremlin fears artie's going to she can with the details from washington and from moscow side of it hugo piskun off. 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 advisor 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. 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 in the 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 tac 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 not now well we've heard from presidential aides you do for a call for who has said that by canceling these meetings that washington is showing that it doesn't want to have a balanced religion should 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 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 clinton he was never invited to come 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 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 snowden 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. had he stayed in the u.s. after all the example of bradley manning was was there for him and the their 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. washington and moscow correspondent john laughlin's director of studies at the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris he says a bar must move was a forced reaction 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 friendship 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 or is of absolutely no significance at all talks to from our to

contribute russian returns you believe the consequence of barack obama's decision could stretch far beyond russia u.s. relations. when we hear about an american president refusing to meet with his superpower counterpart from moscow at the center's st petersburg summit with seeing president obama risk peace in so many different conflicts around the world we are 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 all those press spokespeople in the state department or in the white house. now the big story next now we're following tonight the 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 u.n. to us at r.t. maybe up to four hundred fifty kurds most of the women and children have allegedly been 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 that 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 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 a 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 the ongoing civil wars created deep splits of the country raising concerns over whether syria can ever be peace but together again after so much of what's going on here well some of them up so it pans out the syrian government keeping its grip on the larger of the countries south of the yellow which is the heartland of president assad's minority alawite sect the rebels most of them the sunni muslim majority are in control of

a large swathe of northern provinces to see with them over the stretch into the iraqi border in the east there are many al qaeda affiliated groups among the ranks of the opposition in a minute with syria's kurdish minority scattered along the country's northern border most of their own clothes have become the targets of deadly attacks of mass kidnappings by al qaeda linked fighters who kurds claim are trying to carry out ethnic cleansing and this comes amid reports are you seeing a block there of an independent al-qaeda state about to be declared in northern syria i spoke to german journalist current look at feld who says the kurds are big punished she thinks for not taking sides in this conflict but it's definitely an attack against the kurds against kurdish civilians and they have taken a very different position in this war inside syria they did not want to enter the side of the fighting they tried to stay outside there are definitely groups from the free syrian army and islamist fighters who are pushing the kurds to

sides. 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 turkey is very very it about the strength of the kurdish movement inside syrian territory and they want to provoke them maybe definitely they are supporting these groups who are attacking the kurdish groups inside syria. the japanese prime minister has ordered the government to step in now and try to help contain ongoing radiation leaks from the fukushima power plant tepco the company that runs the facility was crippled back in twenty eleven by that earthquake and following tsunami has been unable lately to prevent contaminated groundwater from breaching a barrier that installed from then pouring into the ocean nuclear energy expert malcolm grimston 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'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 found 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 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 plan. well represent a major threat for decades i don't think that's the case but in bringing the area back to family income time and ground at the moment there's simply not enough knowledge to know how big the tarski that's a load to be starting to design some of the response to. your still a real mess there we're keeping you updated on the fukushima crisis online and also on air you can also keep abreast of it r.t. dot com twenty four seventh's more analysis and get up to speed on the full time on both ends of the tories. coming up with me kevin how it is so cheap ready for the world but the big question we try to bring you some answers now that is exactly six months left before those winter olympics kick off a correspondent heads to the russian city that's poised to become the world's winter sports capital and gives the brand new venue a one. world

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t. arabic to find out more visit our big. dog called. again the u.k.'s health services under five from a government sponsored report which is called a sweeping changes to the system the probe was ordered by london after a series of malpractise scandals of various regional hospitals and the new n.h.s. plans medical staff could be prosecuted for reckless or willful neglect of patients now. that's 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 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 a quarter of complaints in three ospital and claimed the. medical files it was just. play on are still going 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 about how 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.

calls 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 having quite a best effect from them also while n.h.s. staff talk about being overstretched hospital managers blaming the problems on squeezed budgets a senior n.h.s.

official recently said that they're about to run out of cash in a very serious fashion all the countries in europe by and large spend a lot more money on health care than we did a recent report by recent the. us as one of the lowest in terms of patients we're paying too much for too little care the rain is adjusting to life as an amputee she now has to rely on her husband to care for her it was a run to shock. i think something larissa locked into so happen to other 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 rolled into a wall and it was just totally devastating thing she now says that she can only hope that no more patients have to go through what she did. r.t. london international brief for your region first of all may be entering

a dangerous new phase in this political crisis you're looking at live pictures from a nasa city that's the cold most account they have been up for weeks you know they are going tonight the country's interim government says internationally for the stories all of the standoff with the muslim brotherhood have failed the new leadership is running out of patience goes on to say calling on supporters of former president morsi to disperse their protest camps and have continued in the egyptian capital for five weeks as well with the same again tonight there are over two hundred fifty people have been killed in the country since the military toppled egypt's first democratically elected leader. and. to spilling onto the streets with tens of thousands calling for the resignation of the islamist led leadership the unrest has stalled efforts to draft a new constitution there the assembly charged with that task has been suspended indeed until the launch of negotiations between the government and opposition and the mass protests were sparked by the assassination of a prominent secular opposition figure two weeks ago. almost a thousand people been affected by delays at kenya's main airports in the capital

nairobi after a massive fire ripped through the building there are plans now to open the domestic terminal which escape the flames to handle international flights authorities been criticized for the slow response to the blaze which is raging for hours before being contained apparently no casualties been reported though and terrorism has been ruled out as a possible cause. it's exactly six months to the olympic flame is lit in sochi for those twenty fourteen winter games critics have long been there though to question if the resort city has got what it takes to become the capital of winter sports for two weeks that is very modern andrews headed there to check up on the preparations for himself. 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 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 and underground passages 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 since twelve thousand people and as you can see well it's an impressive stadium it's a new soul ready various competitions i mean states here over the past few months and during the olympics 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 the main event early next year such 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 nearly built 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 salt she was moscow adopting a law banning propaganda of homosexuality to minors in one of his recent comments

and the u.s. president lashed out at russia over it saying he has quote no patience for countries that intimidate gays lesbians and transgendered people but does the legislation really involve any intimidation of minorities as a question if you look at it further we break down the myths that are being hyped in the international media on our website r t v dot com if you want to check that i understand a bit more special section on gay rights in russia so you can separate fact from fiction and make your own mind up on the. next square off over u.s. military maneuvering in the the pacific. legislation across top and right after this break i'll see with more news hopefully thirty five minutes from now. there's a media lead us so we lead the media by the sea pushes secure the place your party

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hello and welcome across or all things considered i'm peter lavelle rising china and a pivoting america according to a recent white paper china's military establishment is carefully watching and becoming very concerned over washington strategic planning in the pacific ocean the americans say their pivot is a natural reallocation of resources the chinese see it as a regional policy of containment.

across the chinese defense concerns i'm joined by in washington he is a professor of strategy and globalization at the university of maryland and c. odd also in washington we have matthew venza he is an associate editor of the china channel at the atlantic and in boston we cross to john walsh he is a contributor to counterpunch and antiwar dot com as well as a founding member of come home america gentlemen cross that means you can jump in anytime you want john if i go to you first in boston do you think that the chinese feel like this is a policy of containment we had containment during the cold war of the soviet union we have containment of iran now so china's next. well i think there's little doubt about that because the united states secretary john kerry secretary of state says and others say that we the united states is sending sixty percent of a vast military armada to to the to the east asia

the western pacific now they say the excuse given is there's more economic activity there so the u.s. needs to send troops well down the street here this is salem a small that is a lot of economic activity do we need to send troops it is it is just an absurdity it's a nonsense as far as keeping the seas open there are no want to start and to close the seas china needs open seas for its development so that doesn't make sense i think that this is yet another attempt by the united states to maintain its. status in the world and i think there's a bit of panic going on here in the united states foreign policy establishment because if they cannot break china up.