was. genocide allegations of a u.n. launches a probe into reports of hundreds of kurdish civilians massacred in syria by al-qaeda affiliated radical groups. muscles disappointed with president obama's decision to cancel his one on one with president putin over russia giving asylum to n.s.a. leaker edward snowden. and the u.k. universities become increasingly out of reach as for intuition these mean bright brits are from poor families are giving up on getting to graduate.

a very good morning to you live from moscow this is r t you with me tom would say let's take a look at the bulletin the sound. there when investigating the horrifying reports that four hundred and fifty kurdish civilians have been killed in syria by radical militants the human rights commissioner's office told r.t. that no armed group should be immune from prosecution al qaeda linked fighters alleged attack kurdish villages and killing hundreds of locals including children argues that you're not going to developments in the region. according to various reports at least four hundred fifty people have been killed by the owners or 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 notes 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 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 such report of the un security council to condemn all these terrorist attacks we've seen some of its members refusing to condemn terrorist attacks in syria justifying it with the fact that the people behind them are fighting against the outdated regime this stance is totally unacceptable terrorism should be treated without double standards in fact we have spoken to a number of a number of people whose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. surrounded by these started going from door to door. if there were any. and took women and children hostage the rebels came into the house of my cousin she was at home so the murder took the women and children and. one of the reasons why people are saying that kurds come under such harsh attacks from the news or front. groups such as the others are front is because they have been quite successful in pushing the extremists out of this region where unfortunately al-qaeda is also dreaming of establishing its own state of waiting for syria to essentially 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 the country in this state and in a 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 encouragement from

russia to for the international community to pay closer attention and step up peaceful efforts in the region. clashes between different armed groups have been escalating in syria with kurdish fighters struggling to stand against islamic militants pressing for more control in the north of the country now there have been several reports of curtis of billions have been killed abducted or forced to leave their homes all the information is how to verify with violence raging in the region a kurdish journalist. so help us to put together the timeline of the conflict as we can look at it right now according to him islam as launcher they're sold on the nineteenth of july trying to plant a bomb in a kurdish school and kidnapping local civilians now the next day many houses across the kurdish enclave were blown up and one of the villages are destroyed completely around five hundred kurds were kidnapped while a radical cleric declared from

a local mall that there is killing kurdish civilians the will go to heaven also encouraging people to loot and to destroy kurdish homes violence continued in early august all. fighters murdered seventy kurds and abducted three hundred and fifteen german journalist a caring aloof elder who's been following the report says kurdish villages are targeted because of their natural resources. actually what is behind all this fighting is it's a struggle about control struggle about control of certain areas we know that in the area of fighting in the north and in the east of the country we have. fields and. at least two of the very big oil fields under the control of the kurdish defense movement and they have been threatened openly by you know western diplomats if they don't give the control of these oil fields towards the free syrian army. they have a problem so i think it's

a fight about control of both about resources of the various groups because the kurds are not going to deliver to their request. artie's marina joshie speak to an f.s.a. spaceman about the disturbing reports of al-qaeda linked syrian rebels murdering kurdish civilians explained why it's to be expected regarding the syrian matrons populated mostly with kurds in the event that the conflicts are normal phenomenon simply because the syrian regime stands behind it to weaken the opposition and divide it and make it find with each other in the regime is awaiting any chance to make confrontation between the opposition and radicals in terrorist. organization a response you know already killings and the arsenic cleansing in new york country . there is no ethnic cleansing and the f.s.a. its mission is not to massacre nor ethnically cleanse the f.s.a.

was established to defend civilians in villages and cities it's the regime which is practicing ethnic cleansing against syrians and killing and destroying them. will be keeping a close eye on what's emerging from syria's kurdish enclave given your details on as well as online. well russia says it's disappointed that president obama won't talk to president putin face to face even through both will be in some petersburg for the g. twenty summit next month and washington says that russia's granting asylum to n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden was a factor in that decision more on that this development now with our friends joining us live now lizzie so no face to face meeting with the between the russian added the you as a leader is this. tell us how did that all came about. well to have it was certainly hinted at when all of this discussion was going on initially

whatever snowden was still at sheremetyevo airport before he had gotten his papers the state department and the white house had issued statements saying they would both be very disappointed if he were granted asylum in russia if you were even allowed to leave the airport while his paperwork was being processed when it was then announced to the media in the world on august first that he would be allowed to live in russia for twelve months allowed to work and stay here the u.s. government responded swiftly and that's when the white house said that while the president will be attending the g twenty there will be no face to face meeting with president putin and the planned trip to moscow would be scrapped and so for its part the white house the white house says that snowden is obviously a factor in this and we've got some words here from president obama let's hear what

he has to say there's 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 or. so instead of coming to moscow president obama is going to go straight from st petersburg to sweden instead of instead of coming here for those talks because it almost sounds like a little bit of a punishment how small school reacting to all of this. well the president's one of one of his aides one of his spokespeople your cough says the kremlin is deeply disappointed about this obviously but it is clear that that is so didn't related and it shows a cording to him that the u.s. is not ready to operate with russia on an equal footing and he points to obviously some cases where the united states was not cooperative in extradition

requests on behalf of the russian government to people very much stand out in these cases one is a cloud of he was a former soviet army officer who then joined up with the militant movement in chechnya in the early ninety's. wanting connection with crimes committed by insurgents and terrorists he sought asylum in the u.s. and was granted it even against the advice of the department of homeland security and the extradition requests for him have been denied they are greatly frustrating the kremlin then there is as. of he is suspected of abduction and extortion he's been in two thousand when he was placed on domestic and international are wanted lists and he was granted asylum by the u.s. and became a permanent resident in two thousand and two extradition requests have been dying denied twice for him so president putin did speak out essentially

feeling that russia was put in between a rock and a hard place when it came to snowden unexpectedly arriving in the country let's listen to what he has to say. we should. we didn't invite it would snowden and russia was in his final destination anyway he was in transit but as soon as he began his journey route was revealed to us partners effectively blocked him to taking any further flights they even made other countries are afraid of taking a move. despite all of this the kremlin does say the offer does still stand for up to ten talks here and with moscow of course in light of everything that's happened recently that does not at all seem likely. lose the france they are giving us an update on that story now and the u.s. president. snubbing putin over the snowden situation comes despite a washington not extraditing some of russia's most wanted man either geo political analyst eric draitser says

a cancellation is just damage control to save face at home the notion of putin as bringing the foreign policy trajectory back to the cold war is part of the us propaganda machine you see the decision to grant temporary asylum to snowden was not merely a political one it was one that was made out of sheer necessity by putin the russian government because frankly they couldn't have allowed the mellow drama to continue on in that airport and so what we're seeing as it's being reported in the media is that this is kind of a tit for tat harkening back to the cold war but i think that what we're seeing is actually practical politics this is really face saving on the part of obama so that he can play kate not only the conservatives on his right who vehemently attacked putin the russian government at every turn while at the same time attempting to portray himself as consistent on the issue on the russian side of course as i

mentioned the government really had little option but to grant the temporary asylum . there are further revelations from edward snowden about german spy agencies working with the n.s.a. team now we've got the details on our dot com along with a timeline of everything that's happened with the whistleblower. british students feeling the burn from the three full tuition fee hikes and huge loans of flight frightening offer more and more people from ever going to university and it's many days from poor families who are missing out now explains. london twenty ten young people furious at the government's plans to triple the tuition fees capped and nine thousand pounds a year for the new batch of incoming students the impact could be even more palpable because the numbers of students from the recession or backgrounds coming to university are increasing slowly. sort of the governments of denies it this is

the problem it's pretty dire situation in the u.k. particularly around the issue of choice you know if you have to choose to take a contract or you choose to be unemployed but really there isn't there isn't really a positive solution either way for james walkley the choice was to drop out he'd been in university for a year but decided to stop and try to find work instead of folks honestly working for a living for a change them rather than just getting by day to day on one of the syrians or moneys or whatever what is available students are because i do come from what i consider i deprived background i also feel that it's doesn't take a genius to work out just by looking at the phrase that the universe as it is now is verging on a death trap for most james dreams were put on hold at the spotlight is by no means unique in two thousand and twelve overall entry rates in england drop thirteen percent with the universities and colleges admissions service directly associating it to the rise of the cost of the degree we quarters of colleges and universities

in england it could be charging at the top level fee of nine thousand pounds a year for at least one course in one in fourteen and around twenty seven percent could be charging at that level for all of its courses and all this despite wales by ministers in the passive levels will only be seen for exceptional circumstances where the fees and now high. so that could very well be the normal. students. bring forces take on this huge debt the government says doesn't affect sort of the rest of their income but that's not true if you're trying to say for a mortgage things you need to live it will have an effect on it will have an effect on their use of the government keeps threatening to change the terms and conditions of those loans in response to r t the government's so there will be no change to the terms of interest rates charged to graduates with existing student loans taken before two thousand and twelve which is called confort for someone like naomi with twenty five thousand pounds of debt hanging over her head saying is like

a full time job that's when i started coming out of my. monthly salary my fees were three thousand two hundred. page here and now obviously it's gone up to nine thousand per year and i still find the impact heart and i want to. spencer bellwether for not going to uni says all this financial insecurity is making young people more open to considering other options than going to university printed fields is a really valuable way forward you're learning a sector you're getting a job getting a qualification and hopefully a full time job at the end of it we're not into uni atoll it's just about understanding the options that are available and having a real choice is really all the james is asking for feel a lot of negativity toward the government for fact that education is being massively restricted to people who from financially well off backgrounds just are still your r.t.

london. when there's a coup not a coup now the us government spokesperson answers in riddles when questioned over the status of egyptian military maneuvering which are said war see we've got that story online. while a gigantic google password floor puts millions of users their blue. risk all of that and more all at our team dot com. live right on the scene in the first street if you live and i think the jury. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. live. today in the live in la. rather prime minister dedrick in greece is in the united states on

a mission to restore his country's credibility and thomas mars will meet president obama later on thursday to show the economy and foreign policy the white house earlier praised to athens full working very hard in challenging conditions but the greek people seem to be growing tired of unfulfilled promises of recovery as he got was going off reports. for millions of europeans it's impossible to imagine a life without things like refrigerators a.c.'s television computers and electricity in general but no matter how difficult it may be the reality is every month more of those living in the cradle of european civilization are being forced into the dark. for two years now christina hasn't been able to pay her electricity bills she can't find work and no work in her brother two daughters or their husbands. as the bills began piling up i had to make my priorities and this is where the food comes first i want to pay the bills and i want to be a case of the state but the state hasn't been ok with us with one in four greek

strongly unemployed christine is far from the only person who's electricity has been called off and that's where these guys come in young radical and very determined activists from the i don't see movement illegally reconnect power to as many as two hundred homes per month for free. the vast majority of the society is to be. sunk into poverty only a few of them few families across the world to have the ninety nine percent of the . well that's not something that. we want to bear. the reconnect the two homes or disconnect power from me making them feel for motorists or sometimes the talk of the underground today the i don't pay movement has over ten thousand members across greece and is gaining supporters despite being target. by more than one hundred unborn morsi. no respecter you know we

say that thousands of people. know militated it will no electricity water this winter we will warn them because it. is very big. greece's government continues to promise economic miracles despite the country's status having been recently downgraded to emerging market. but the greeks are tired of empty promises and now more and more digging matters into their own hands even if that means breaking more you want to spin off things greece. while hard present europeans continue counting their pennies as governments press on with austerity as one such as those like you that's far from feeling the pinch in fact the bank is still enjoying big bonuses and salaries as artie's business present ok to fill them with the details. the underlying problem that kickstarted

the ongoing european debt crisis is greedy bankers being paid exessive amounts to take unnecessary risks is still a problem now the latest data from the european bank your thora t. is likely to yuri a the average e.u. citizen struggling to make ends meet in these times of tough budget cuts the figures reveal that the bank is at the ferry heart of the crisis three thousand of them are taking home more than one million euros a year in pay and bonuses but most of that cash is being dished out in london's financial center accounting for three quarters of the seven figure salaries in the e.u. germany came in second with one hundred seventy bankers receiving one million years or more and france came in. with one hundred and sixty two so as you can see there's a huge difference between london and the rest of the e.u.

. but the biggest disparity of all is between the haves and the have nots as the rich continue to get richer and the poor even poor up on the very people that created the financial storm which brought on this era of austerity continue to pick up fat salaries for their efforts. a round up of some more world news and now thousands of people turned out in bangkok on wednesday against a political amnesty bill debated by parliament they believe it could help explain the types i'm sure i want to return home as a free man he went into exile in two thousand and six or avoided through a jail sentence for corruption sparking years of division between the establishment and his supporters who are mostly urban and rural work. violence along the border which splits kashmir or sparked protests in when on wednesday the all india anti tariff want to stage a demonstration against pakistan's intelligence agency after five soldiers were

killed in an army on price of salt india's government accuses pakistani troops of being involved in the attack the two countries are supposed to resume peace talks soon over the disputed kashmir region. a busy tsonga london suburb has found itself submerged after a water main burst leaving its streets under a major of water the flooding damage over fifty buildings and condos vehicles in her own hill residents were urged to stay inside often fighters try to tackle the to mooch. a double bombing has left three civilians dead including two children just south of afghanistan's capital one more way injured in the explosion in kabul the second of the two blasts struck a group which together after a roadside bomb had gone off nearby no one's yet admitted to the attack.

muslims all worldwide have been the fasting from sunrise or to sunset for months and now they've got quite the celebrating feast coming up millions across russia will be joined joining the festivities as well the holiday is known as a buyer i am here now it is time barton is at a moscow which all be most closed end of ramadan focus we have him joining us live right now tom as the month of fasting draws a to a close how will the limbs be marking it here. crowds have gathered here at this mosque in the russian capital to mark the end of ramadan the month of sacred feasting observed by muslims around the world it's estimated there are twenty million muslims in russia at least two million of those in the russian capital and as many as two million more if you count migrant workers here in the russian capital many of whom are muslim the crowds here far too big for

the mosque or the ten to the extra buildings set up next door and have spilled into the streets but despite the calm scenes here there are problems with russia's muslims and the russian state recently in an interview given on the first of march moscow mayor surrogates so beyond and said that beyond the four official mosques in the russian capital no more of those mosques would be built and that the number of economic migrants coming to the russian capital was excessive and dangerous many of whom are muslims in response to the council of mufti's of russia responded that they did not agree with surrogates of yarn in. their thirty's or time but today giving us some insight on what's happening there at one of russia's malls at the end of ramadan for the celebrating eight. five people in a south of setia. recalling the war of august of two thousand and eight five years

ago the georgian military started the assault on the south or city and capital which killed between fifteen hundred and two thousand civilians now hours later russia in after five days of fighting georgian troops were forced out of the region . in the capital. main square for a visual to remember the victims of. the conflict rather sergio was recognized as independent states by russia which triggered outrage in georgia which cut off diplomatic relations with moscow and five years on and the two seems to be looking to restore tides and learn more about the south ossetian tragedy in a special r t program at eight thirty g.m.t. . ride and that's today all washington team addicts behind the next the big financial

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good afternoon and welcome the prime interest i'm perry and boring and i'm bob english let's get to today's headline. benny and freddie are toast or are they president obama has outlined an exit strategy for the mortgage giants that by eighty percent of all new u.s. mortgage it while there's been talk in congress of an insurance giant alternative a code is there not to mention the most important player in the housing market the federal reserve is purchasing forty billion dollars a month of mortgage backed securities. he also said no more valves for fannie and freddie now we could agree more in the bail out front but there is

a problem with getting rid of the existing system fannie and freddie are actually profitable no they recently remitted sixty six billion to the treasury which provoked a lawsuit so no shareholders one of the proverbial pie and this could drag on for years so as along as the g.s.t. is remain profitable it's going to be tough to shutter them in other words we need another financial crisis to get a new scheme in place that will inevitably contain a similar moral hazard sounds like a giant shell game i'll dig into the fine print of obama's housing plan in just a bit and continuing our coverage of smart money getting out at the top blackstone group is the latest it's one of the largest real estate players in the u.s. and they've snapped up thousands of residential and commercial properties door in the town turn well now they've hired j.p. morgan and morgan it stanley they'll be flipping the units and private sales and through i.p.o. that means bad holder gets to once again be the public either.