save us from genocide courage call in the e.u. and the world for protection as the un launches a probe into reports that hundreds of kurdish civilians were massacred in syria by al qaida affiliated radical groups. no tete a tete moscow is 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 u.k. universities becoming increasingly out of reach soaring to asian fees when bright brits from poor families are giving up on getting to graduation.

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital joshua welcome to the program amid mounting disturbing reports of civilian kurds targeted by militants in syria the ass nigga is crying 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 acid and cleansing our days are 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 are saying a lot of women children and the elderly and the in this statement the kurds 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 are 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. 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 the situation of course they said that they would always be concerned with such reports of attacks we have also spoken to

people whose relatives were in these northeastern part of syria of course their letters 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 least of two hundred people have been certainly taken hostage by the fighters of al qaeda affiliated groups who are saying that as soon as are all done is over and that is right now they are starting to work on these devilish image of the al qaida state in the region their imports that people are being kidnapped and killed develop this as they sound it cannot be independently verified to get you to the dangers associated with and sensually the chaos that is happening in northeastern syria right now and 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 with only information about attacks are

kurds hard to verify we turn to kurdish journalist bars on to help us to put together the timeline of the conflict well according to him islamists launched their assault on the nineteenth of july trying to plant a bomb at a kurdish school and kidnapping local civilians the next day many houses across the kurdish enclaves were blown up one of the villages destroyed completely around five hundred kurds were kidnapped while a radical cleric declared from a local mosque those killing kurdish civilians will go to heaven also encouraging people to loot and destroy kurdish homes the violence continued in early august. linked fighters murdered seventy kurds and abducted three hundred fifty middle east political risk analysts and kurdish bloggers says there was attack and kurds are getting their arms from the syrian opposition which is supported by the u.s. and its allies. the front which has. been

attacking civilians and i've been terrorizing the kurdish neighborhood in the region trying to grab and specifically the oil rich places and all of these groups are being. supported and being logistically supported by the opposition in syria. given all the. support for the opposition. support is coming from. the support you know friday and something some sense if you look at the state department was asked to clarify the position of the kurdish civilians being killed by. the. supplied by you saw that supported by your source for the syrian opposition is making its way to. the groups and the state department must say so i think in the next few days i doubt you'll see any movement. from friends after the massacre proves true that it's

a natural event to be expected during times of war according to the free syrian army spokesman who might challenge the earlier. regarding the syrian regime 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 the your country . there is no ethnic cleansing and the f.s.a. is mission is not to massacre nor ethnically cleanse the f.s.a. it 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. well we'll be keeping a close eye on what's emerging from syria's kurdish enclaves and give you the

details on air and online. russia's saddened that president obama won't talk to president putin a while one even though both will be in same pit as work for the g. twenty summit next month washington says that russia granting asylum to n.s.a. blow whistleblower edward snowden was a factor in that decision and here's more from our 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 the edward snowden affair that has been shelved president obama sheds 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 thank you and a cold war mentality of 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 people continue want to 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 cannot going at it starts and should you know i'm not sure but 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 his route was revealed and our u.s. partners effectively blocked him from taking any further flights they even made other countries afraid of taking him in. the president's spokesman you're you a check off 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. of 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 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. while the u.s. president's not been put in over the snowden situation comes despite washington not extraditing some of russia's most want to manny's or geo political analyst eric draitser says obama 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 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 there 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. afterwards snowden's father hopes that this move by the u.s. won't distract the public from the spying programs is sun revealed so every the rest of what lon snowden has to say in his statement on r.t. dot com. british students feeling the burn from threefold to ration

fee hikes and huge loans are scaring off more and more people from ever going to university and it's mainly those from poor families who are missing out is this are still you know explains. london twenty ten young people furious at the government's plans to triple the twisted fees cap to 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 who are backgrounds coming to diversity are increasing slowly. sort of the governments are denies that this is a problem it's pretty dire situation in the u.k. particularly around the issue of choice. and you can choose to take contact or you choose to be an employee but really the reason 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 a lot of folks honestly working for a living for a change them rather than this getting by dates than one of the students or monies

or whatever what is available to students now because i do come from what i would consider a deprived background i also feel that if these doesn't take a genius to work out just by looking at the fees that the universe is now is. going to travel most james dreams were put on hold at the splice 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 callers receive universities in england it could be charging at the top level fee of one 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 that level only be seen for exceptional circumstances with the fees and now hard so that could very well be the. students you know

big forces take on 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 use of the government keeps threatening to change the terms and conditions of those loans in response to your t. 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 so soon is like a full time job that's when i started coming out of my. month he says salary my fees for three thousand two hundred. page here and now face to face going up to nine thousand pages i still find them packed. up and i want to write spencer melba for not going to uni says all this financial insecurity is making

young people more open to considering other options that go into university or into it 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 going to uni it so 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 a fact that education has been marsalis strictly for people who are far less financially well off backgrounds does or sylvia r.t. london. well more stories ahead for you including one answer to greece's money troubles thousands of defined activists across greece refused to pay via sturdy surcharge on the early tricity bills and reconnect in debt of people's power to their homes we're reporting that shortly.

this is. just plain sight my colleagues and i will never shake mr secretary as hands i consider him a war criminal. 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 realized everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tarred as

a big picture. welcome back this is r.t. now the number of people out of work in greece has hit a new record figures from a released on thursday say that twenty seven point six percent are unemployed and that's more than double europe's average the greek prime minister is now in the united states on a mission to restore his indebted countries credibility the white house earlier praised athens for working very hard in challenging conditions but citizens seem to be growing tired of unfulfilled promises of recovery as a group is going on now reports. for millions of europeans it's impossible to imagine a life without things like refrigerators a seize 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 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 ok with the state but the state hasn't been ok with us with one in four greeks currently 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. vast majority of the society is to be . sunk into poverty only a few of them for families across the world to have the ninety nine percent of the . well that's not something that. we want to bear.

the reconnect bilges city to homes or disconnects power from making them free 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 targeted by more than a hundred more seats. but he spake to. say that the thousands of people with no relief they said it will pull could no electricity water so this winter we will warn them because of. his. 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 the law you want to spin off things greece. while hard pressed europeans continue counting the panics as governments press on the way the stary there is one sector of society that's far from feeling the pinch in fact bankers are still enjoying big bonuses and salaries here's artie's business presenter kate hill him with the details. the underlying problem that kickstarted the ongoing european debt crisis is 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 your e a the average e.u. citizens 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. now 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 or 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. when it what is a coup not a coup the u.s. government spokesperson answers in riddles when questioned over the status of egyptian military maneuvering which ousted mohamed morsi we've got that story online for you. also while

a gigantic google password flaw puts millions of users at risk all of that and more at our to do check it out. right see. first rick. and i would think that you're. on our reporters. and. now muslims worldwide have been fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month and now they've got quite the celebratory feast coming up millions across russia will be joining the aid festivities as well the holiday is known as kurbaan by rum here or here is what's been happening at one of the mosques in the russian capital

a huge crowd gathered there for prayers to mark the end of the holy month of ramadan and have now left. 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 worshipers forgive each other for saying sit down wrong and all that will be followed by a huge feast at sundown. around that of some a more world news now an explosion at a cemetery in eastern afghanistan has killed seven women and seven children according to police two more women and one child were also wounded in the blast all were reportedly from the same family which had gathered at a grave site there. it is asian has yet claimed being behind the attack. thousands of people turned out in bangkok on wednesday against the political amnesty bill debated by parliament they believe it could help experience extreme near taksim shinawatra returned 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 these two and his supporters who are mostly urban and the rural poor. the violence along the border which splits kashmir sparked protests on wednesday the demonstration was against pakistan's intelligence agency after five soldiers were killed in an army outpost assault and the us government accuses pakistani troops of being involved in the attack the two countries are supposed to resume peace talks and over the disputed kashmir region. in a busy south london suburb has found itself submerged after a mains pipe burst leaving its streets under a meter of water flooding damage there were fifty buildings and many more vehicles in here and a hill residents were urged to stay inside while firefighters try to tackle the delusion. people in south a city recalling the war of august two thousand and eight five years ago the

georgian military started the year assault on the south the city in capital which killed between fifteen hundred and two thousand civilians hours later russia moved in after five days of fighting georgian troops were forced out of the region thousands gathered in south of syria's capital ten balls main square for a vigil to remember the victims of war. well learn more about the savage city in tragedy in a special r.t. program in just a few. 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 destroy information on the internet then you are only going to get burnt yourself but that's just my opinion.

five years on the world has almost forgotten about that for just five days of watching this relatively few casualties and yet the 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 into a crowd scenes. 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 resat 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. 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 had to watch each other. that he had the same feelings.

that was our primary goal and that it could be achieved. it 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 while it was only adjusting to his new role really had already built up the most. generous. forms including the army within

a day georgia to join nato there was just one technicality. really made a decision to do. i believe that. agreement . when we will do anything to improve end to violence. so just to put all our efforts together to look after our country. to stop violence what did it take to make future better. let's forget all our negative experience in the bust and think about the future.