i am thankful i was carrying was that. save us all from genocide the kurds are calling the e.u. and the world for protection as we knew one launch is appropriate reports that hundreds of kurdish civilians were massacred in syria by al-qaeda affiliated radical groups. urges attacked or moscow's disappointed with the president obama's decision to cancel his one on one with present region over russia's giving asylum to n.s.a. leaker edward snowden. and u.k. universities become increasingly out of reach and so we have to issue these mean bright brits from for a families are giving up on getting to graduation. if

you've just joined us wherever you are in the world are you watching are to you with me tongue would say it's twelve pm here in the russian capital let's take a look at the nice. amid mounting disturbing reports of civilian kurds targeted by militants in syria the ethnic group is quien for help the kurdish democratic union party has filed an appeal to the e.u. about their plight the u.n. is also investigating the allegations of ethnic cleansing charges that it is following the situation in the region. the kurdish democratic union has officially turned to the international community asking them to pay close attention and to rescue them from the fighting that is happening in this region and essentially asking the likes of the un to help to save kurds who are being among the syrians who are killed on the basis of their regional and secretary and identity among them they're saying there are a lot of women children and the elderly and the in this statement because they are saying that these practices are fully alike with ethnic cleansing and genocide and

of course when they are talking about those who are committing these horrendous crimes they're accusing the cell a few groups in the groups such as the a loser front operating in this region now we do know. of course that russia for a for a very long time was that was telling the world essentially to pay closer attention to what's happening in this region and. has just reiterated that statement in response to the reports which which are still unconfirmed that around four hundred fifty people were killed in cold blood by the fighters of the front organization this point in response to our t's official requests to the united nations security services saying that they are investigating the matter on the ground there are people working there right now and of course they're extremely concerned with this matter because should these allegations in fact find any evidence of actually being true these will amount to war crimes the u.s.

has also expressed their concern with this situation of course they said that they would always be concerned with any such reports of attacks we have also spoken to people whose relatives were in these northeastern part of syria of course there are talking about men being killed women and children and the elderly being taken hostage as a fact the hostage taking situation is something that has been going on for quite some time in northeastern syria especially with the kurdish community. two hundred people have been certainly taken hostage by the fighters of al qaeda affiliated groups who are saying that as as soon. ramadan is over and that is right now they are starting to work on these double shipment of the al qaeda state in the region their ports that people are being kidnapped and killed in the horrendous as they sound it cannot be independently verified due to the dangers of so you're there with and eventually became a. happening in north eastern syria right now. now clashes between different armed groups have been escalating in syria with the kurdish fighters

a struggling to stand against islamic militants pressing for more control in the north of the country now with all the information about attacks on kurds are hard to verify we turn to kurdish a journalist to help us to put together the timeline of the conflict let's take a look at that now now according to him islam is one of this old on the nineteenth of july trying to plant a bomb in a kurdish school and kidnapping local civilians the next day many houses across the kurdish enclave were blown up one of the villages destroyed completely around five hundred kurds were kidnapped while a radical cleric declared from a local mosque there is killing kurdish civilians will go to heaven also encouraging people to loot and destroy could homes the violence continued in early august al-qaeda linked fighters murdered seventy kurds and abducted three hundred and fifty german journalists karen and luke felt 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. 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 if the massacre proves is true then it's a natural event to be expected during war times of war this is according to a free syrian army spokesman who was challenged on the claims by r.t.

as marina just. regarding the syrian media is populated mostly with kurds in the event that the conflicts there 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 and the regime is awaiting any chance to make confrontation between the opposition and radicals and 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. we'll be keeping a close eye on what's emerging from serious kurdish enclave and to give you the details on it and on why. russia's saddened that president

obama won't talk to president putin one on one even though both will be in st petersburg for the g. twenty summit next month washington says said russia granting asylum to n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden was a factor in that decision here's more from marty's losing friends moscow has expressed its disappointment that president obama has decided to cancel his face to face meeting with president putin on the heels of the g twenty summit in st petersburg originally president obama had planned to fly to moscow for that meeting but in light of. that has been shelved president obama shed some light on his reasons for this 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 think that in a cold war mentality president obama will continue his meetings as usual at the g. twenty summit just with no face to face meetings with president putin at that time and instead of continuing to moscow feel welcome and he wants sweden president

putin has maintained his same stance through the entire edward snowden debacle stating that russia did not ask for this problem into one of the united states and citizens can knocking at its door should not much to do to put these people if we didn't invite edward snowden in russia was in his final destination anyway he was in transit but as soon as he began his journey is route was revealed and our u.s. partners effectively blocked him from taking any further flights they even made other countries afraid of taking a min. the president's spokesman you're you're shocked cough has pointed out that russia has sought an extradition treaty with united states for some time but that has been repeatedly pushed off the table and in fact russia has request extradition of its own citizens back to russia repeatedly one that stands out is in the us after my dog a soviet army officer who joined with the militant movement in chechnya in the one nine hundred ninety s.

and he is wanted in connection with terrorist acts i he's been sheltered in the united states offered asylum and extradition requests by russia have been repeatedly denied in that case and these are just some of the instances the kremlin is pointing out to reiterate its stance on the fact that it sheltered edward snowden the u.s. president's not been for the student situation comes despite washington not extraditing some of russia's most wanted man i them your political analyst eric draitser says obama's 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 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 in 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 put in government really had little option but to grant the temporary asylum i do a snowden's father hates that this move by the u.s. will want to strengthen the public from the spying programs his son revealed to the rest of what long a snowden has to say in his statement on r.t. dot com. british students feeling the burn from three full tuition fee hikes and huge lanes scaring off

a lot more and more people from going to university and its waning days from poor families missing out. 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 but because the numbers of students from the backgrounds coming to university are increasing slowly. sort of the government sort of denies that this is a problem it's pretty dire situation in the u.k. and particularly around the issue of choice you know. you have to choose to take on that so 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 dates than whatever the syrians are money's or whatever what is available to students 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 fees that the universe as it is now is verging on a death trap for most james dreams were put on hold and display is by no means unique in two thousand and twelve overall entry rates in england dropped thirteen percent with the universities and colleges admissions service directly associating it to the rise in the cost of the degree we quarters of colleges and universities in england it could be charging at the top level of nine thousand pounds a year for at least one course in twenty fourteen and around twenty seven percent could be charging at that level for all of its courses and all this despite claims by ministers in the past the levels will only be seen for exceptional circumstances with the fees it now hard so that could very well be the norm. students. being forces take on this huge debt that 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 what happen effect on the areas. and the government keeps threatening to change the terms and conditions of those loans in response to your t.v. the government said there will be no change to the terms of interest rates charged to graduates with existing student loans taken out before two thousand and twelve which is cold comfort for someone like naomi with twenty five thousand pounds of debt hanging over her head says sounds like a full time job that's when i started coming out of my. month he said salary my fees were three thousand two hundred and pay here and now fifty has gone up to nine thousand pay and i still find them pack. up and i want to get spencer melman for not going to uni says all this financial insecurity is making young people more open to considering other options than going to university

apprenticeships 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 acho 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 negative it's all the government for a fact that education is being marsalis strictly for people who are far less financially well off backgrounds duster sylvia r.t.e. london. imo stories ahead for you here on r t including one answer to greece's money troubles of thousands of defined activists across the east if used to pay the austerity surcharge on the lichtenstein bills and recommit to indebted people's power to their homes we report on that shortly after this break.

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project free medio dot to r t dot com. i. thank you for shining in here on our team now the prime minister of dead rate increases in the united states on a mission to restore his country's credibility and told us tomorrow swarmy president obama late on thursday to talk economy and foreign policy the white house earlier praise athens for working very hard in challenging conditions but the greek people seem to be growing tired of unfulfilled promises of recovery as he got the skin 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 the european civilisation are being forced into the dark. forward two years now christina hasn't been able to pay her

electricity bills she can't find work and no work and her brother two daughters or their husbands. as the bills begin 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 greeks truly 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 a month for free and 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 their. wealth that's not something that. we want to bear. the reconnect. or disconnect power from

you making them feel for motorists will sometimes be told to go underground to d.d. i don't pay movement has over ten thousand members across the city is gaining supporters despite being targeted by more than one hundred unbelievable seats no but expected to win you know we say that thousands of people with no relief they said it will cool no electricity to feel water so this winter we will warn them because it's a very big. greece's government continues to promise you. despite the claims. recently. that. the greeks or di ramsay promises. breaking. things. while hard pressed europeans continue counting the pennies governments

press on with austerity and there's one sector of society that's far from feeling the pinch in fact bankers are still enjoying big bonuses and salaries here's our business presenter katie build them with the details the underlying problem that cake started the european debt crisis greedy bankers being paid excessive 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 poorer and the very people that created the financial storm which brought on this era of austerity continue to pick up fat salaries for their efforts. what is a coup not a coup the u.s. government spokesperson on says in riddles when questioned over the status of egyptian military maneuvering which also did mohamed morsi we've got that story online also while you're online you can also check out against a google password lol put millions of uses add with all of that and other stories they are com you can also check out the whole day with questions that you

may want to tell us what you think about dot com. right see. first street. and i think the true. on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the polls. why muslims worldwide have been fostering from sunrise to sunset for a month and not have god quite the celebratory feast coming up millions across russia will be joining the festivities as well the holiday is known as a room here has been happening at one of the mosques in the russian capital a huge crowd together before prayers to mark the end of the holy month of ramadan

and have now laughed and there are an estimated twenty million muslims across russia and celebrations are taking place nationwide traditionally people exchange cards while children get gifts with money and food also given to the poor worshippers forgive each other for things they've done wrong and all of that will be followed by a huge feast at sundown. by wishing all of us have peace there but for now a roundup of some more of our world news texas police confirm that four died and three more which injured in a shooting rampage on wednesday night the attacker is said to have opened fire twice once in the city of a de soto and then in dallas it's believe the suspect for a shot did his ex partner and three others before moving on to the second crime scene other reports say the deaths may be linked to a murder investigation in southwest dallas. thousands of

people turned out in bangkok and went straight into a political amnesty bill defeated by the parliament and they believe it could help explain the attacks and should i want to return home as a free man he went into exile in two thousand and six to avoid a two year jail sentence for corruption sparking years of division between the establishment and his supporters who are mostly urban and rural poor. violence along the border over kashmir the spot protests on wednesday the demonstration was against the assistance intelligence agency. killed in an army on india's government accuses pakistani troops of being involved in the attack the two countries are pursuing resume peace talks soon over the disputed kashmir region. a business of london suburb has found itself submerged mains a pipe burst leaving its streets and

a meter of water flooding damage over fifty buildings and many more vehicles and her and he'll residents were to say inside while firefighters try to tackle it in lives of people in south a city a recording the wall of august two thousand and five years ago it will generate a tree started the assault on the south of city and capital has killed between fifteen hundred and two thousand civilians i was later russia moved up to five days of fighting georgian troops were forced out of the region thousands gathered in a softer said she is the capital see here involves a main square for a vigil to remember the victims of the war learn more about the south the surge in tragedy in a special hour t.v. program in a few minutes next up act of war do stay with us for that you're watching r.t. . everyone

respects a promise written in stone promises written on the internet well they're a bit more flexible and a lot easier to erase obama made a lot of promises as a candidate on his site change dot gov including some about protecting whistleblowers and obama said that we need to empower federal employees as watchdogs and that he would strengthen whistleblower laws to protect federal workers who expose waste fraud and abuse of authority and government but strangely and possibly coincidentally two days after the first revelation of government spying by stoughton these promises of the change dot gov site were taken down if this is not just some odd coincidence and they consciously chose to hide obama's campaign promises that this is political cowardice at its worst and what is even worse is that they didn't think that this would get exposed almost immediately if you try to conduct some sort of medieval book burning to distort information on the

internet then you are only going to get burnt yourself but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't i'm tom part of the big picture. god years on the world has almost forgotten about that for just five days of fighting it's relatively few casualties and war had all the hallmarks of the bloodiest conflicts in human history political posturing backstage scuffles

dramatic a fact all leading to profound finale it was an act of war with real people drawn to crowd scenes it. was. that if you get the. world. international politics always involves a fair share of scripting and staging smiling while scheming and keeping up appearances while tensions simmer beneath by summer of two thousand and eight relations between russia and georgia had already been strained yet with

a new leader in the kremlin there weren't a reset was trendy in diplomatic circles. i can still remember the moment when i stood up to meet him in my office. the room with a shining smile. i told him i'd like to find a way to ease relations between our countries to improve them. take into consideration the distinct feelings that georgian and russian people have always had to watch each other. that he had the same feelings. that was our primary goal and that it could be achieved. that was the end of our discussion. i was on a visit to the white house presidential administration. the first words that george

w. bush my future colleague said to me about him. he said. there's a good guy. that was the first thing i heard from him. but there were differences too. was only adjusting to his new role really had already built. the most. generous. forms including of the army within a day georgia to join nato there was just one technicality. and. really made a decision to do. i believe that the peace. agreement.