kurds in syria call in the world powers for protection as the united nations probes reports of hundreds of kurdish civilians massacred by al qaida linked rebel forces . while the cia warns the collapse of the us of government could make syria al-qaeda haven with a potential to create chaos across the region. and no tete a tete moscow is disappointed with president obama's decision to cancel a summit with one more prudent after russia gave asylum to n.s.a. leaker edward snowden.

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program. kurds in syria are calling out for international help to prevent a genocide against their people that follows reports of mass murderers and kidnappings of civilians by rebel forces. has the details 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 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 a lot of women children and the elderly in this statement because they are saying that these practices are fully alike with ethnic cleansing and genocide and of course they're accusing the cell a few groups in the groups such as the a loser front operating in this region now russia for a for a very long time 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 unconfirmed reports that around four hundred fifty people were killed in cold blood by the fighters of the front 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 you have 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. due to the chaos that is happening in northeastern syria right now we have also spoken to people whose relatives were in these northeastern part of syria for talking about being killed or women and children and the elderly being taken hostage at least two hundred people have been taken hostage by the fighters they believe the groups who are

saying that's a soon as are all done is over and that is right now they are starting to work on these. state in the region. clashes between armed factions have been escalating in syria with kurdish fighters forced to stand their ground against islamist militants pressing for greater control in the country's north with conflicting reports making specific information hard to verify we turn to a kurdish journalist barzani i so to help us put together a timeline of the conflict well according to him as a launch the or assault 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 village destroyed completely and around five hundred kurds were kidnapped meanwhile a radical cleric declared from a local mosque that those killing kurdish civilians would be rewarded in heaven and also encouraged people to loot and destroy kurdish homes violence continued into

early august with seventy kurds murdered and three hundred fifty abducted by al-qaeda linked fighters and those terrorists are getting their arms from the syrian opposition which is supported by the west as we've been hearing from mideast analyst and kurdish blogger. the front which is a pretty group have been attacking civilians and have been terrorizing the kurdish neighborhood in the region and they're trying to grab and pacifically the oil rich places and those are these groups are being. supported and being logistically supported by the middle position in syria and they get an older woman from. the western support for the opposition from turkey will do just that will support it's going from say stuff that the support you know something some sense if you look at it state department was asked to clarify the position of the kurdish civilians

being killed by. whether the. service supplied by you or the support supplied by yourself or the syrian opposition is making its way through to the had to be to groups on the state department pretty much to say so i think in the next few days i doubt you'll see any movement. from friends. while staying with syria while the obama administration remains undecided on whether to sand weapons to the rebels the cia second in command has warned out the spread of extremism in the country as posing an ever greater threat to u.s. national security deputy director. says that if the government collapses with its massive chemical arsenal the country could become a haven for al qaeda terrorists according to morell more foreign fighters are joining the conflict in syria each month than ever and here in iraq at the high end of the war there and he also claimed that given the constant and flow of arms syria

could become the next libya where the potential for conflict to spill over into jordan lebanon and iraq lawrence kay freeman out of fear of the executive intelligence review says the warnings long overdue. we get more involved in this war this all of the major international security danger force united states and you can watch portions of the world and that. which has been behind and supporting. al qaeda related groups is actually pursuing a very dangerous disruptive policy so these statements today are welcome and we should reverse our policy immediately and not pursue arming the rebels and pursue the overthrow of the president bashir assad america isn't prepared to build relations with russia on an equal footing and that's how the kremlin reacted to

washington's decision to call off barack obama's one to one talks with president vladimir putin the u.s. says it has little to discuss with russia on such a high level after a citing moscow's granting asylum to n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden as one of the main reasons for abandoning the talks well for more on this let's now talk to our correspondent lindsay friends hi there lindsey so it seems like snowden's asylum is deepening the diplomatic rift between the two countries what more can you tell us. well washington did say that it would react negatively indeed if edward snowden work given asylum and this cancelling of the meeting between the two leaders seems to be a product of that now the white house cites a lack of recent progress in our bilateral agenda although the most interesting reason came from president obama himself. 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. in light of a statement like this president putin has pointed out he doesn't feel that the united states is interested in being a partner on equal footing he points out that moscow did not want to take on this problem with snowden it was snowden who knocked on russia's door asking for help and essentially moscow felt its hands were tied. and should be sure to do it but if we didn't invite edward snowden and 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. partner is effectively blocked him from taking any further flights they even made other countries afraid of taking him in. it's also worth pointing out a few points with regard to extradition between the united states and russia russia

has pushed for an extradition treaty many times and been denied not only that russia has been denied numerous extradition requests or even just returned requests of its citizens and wanted in some cases for terrorist acts in russia as not only that but they were not just on domestic wanted list there are international wanted lists and russia was denied a return of these citizens who were then given asylum and in some cases even residency. in the united states so it will be definitely interesting to keep a close eye on how these talks that they g twenty summit go forward with all of this diplomatic tension it's certainly drawing attention away from what edward snowden did and putting it more on the dynamic at play between the two countries. all right lizzie thanks very much for this big lindsey france there. and geopolitical alistair dried tourists as 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 u.s. propaganda machine you see the 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 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 . while the snowden case is forcing the white house into mentioning the cold war the whistleblowers father has come out was some fresh comments he hopes that the move by the west won't distract the public from the massive spy programs his son revealed so check out the rest of what one snowden had to say in his statement at r.t. dot com. and just sad for you greece's downward spiral as a greek prime minister goes cap in hand to the u.s. for help raise debt ridden country we report on how some activist and asons are taking direct action to solve people's problems all that's coming up shortly here in r.t. . and

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welcome back here with our team america is offering a helping hand to greece as a struggle to emerge from a six year recession the greek prime minister is now in washington hoping to restore his country's credibility after unemployment hit a record twenty seven point six percent in may a while people all over greece are struggling to pay for daily essentials a group of activists is taking matters into its own hands as are thousands of workers can offer reports. for millions of europeans it's impossible to imagine a life without things like refrigerators ac'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. for 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 strongly unemployed christine is far from the only person who's electricity has been called off and that's where these guys come in and 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. 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. reconnect the two homes or disconnect power from luke so it's making them free for motorists or sometimes we target 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 one hundred on going more seats no but expected to win you know we say that thousands of people with no relief they said it will be no electricity to seal water so this winter we will warn them because it. is a very big. greece's government continues to. economic miracles despite the country's status having been recently downgraded. it. but the greeks are tired of empty promises. breaking. the law of. greece. and why europeans cut back on luxuries and governments tighten their budgets there is one sector of society that's not feeling the pinch for bankers times have never been better as a business present ok to kill them explains 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 your e.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. 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 is 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. and more stories now from around the world and we start in iraq where a double attack has killed thirteen people north of the capital baghdad officials say gunmen stormed the home of a police officer in the city of to crete killing him and four other members of his family a car bomb then ripped through a crowd of bystanders gathered at the scene of the attack killing another eight people and wounding thirty more iraq's security situation is rapidly worsening with the u.n. saying more than a thousand people were killed in the country just last month alone. syrian rebels say president assad's convoy was shelled on route to eve celebrations in damascus but state t.v. footage was later broadcast showing the leader on skis during prayers at

a mosque seventy mortars allegedly targeted the convoy after insurgents received information on his movements here is information ministry denies the attack ever took place. and in afghanistan an explosion has killed at least ten women at a cemetery in the east of the country it's common for muslims to remember a late relatives during need which marks the end of ramadan the violence comes just days after washington issued a worldwide travel alert warning its citizens of potential terrorist attacks in the middle east and north africa. muslims worldwide have been fasting from sunrise to sunset for a month and now they've got quite a celebratory feast coming up millions across russia will be joining the aids festivities as well as the holiday is known as the wrong here all here's what's happened at one of the mosques in the russian capital a huge crowd gathered there this morning for prayers to mark the end of the holy

month of ramadan and there are an estimated twenty million muslims across russia and abrasions 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 that will be followed by a huge feast at sundown. britain's education system is an opera or after a second for profit institution was granted university status some argue the move opens the floodgates to private firms hoping to capitalize on tuition fees which traveled across the u.k. last year meanwhile more and more young people are finding it impossible to afford higher education as artists are cilia reports. in london twenty ten young people furious at the government's plans to triple the captive 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 diversity 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 have to choose to take contracts 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 students or monies or whatever monies 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 fees that the universe as it is now is roger going to a debt trap for most james dreams were put on hold at the splice is by no means unique in two thousand and twelve overall rates in england dropped thirteen percent

but 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 fee of one thousand pounds a year for at least one course in twenty fourteen and around twenty seven percent could be charging about the level for all of its courses and all this despite claims by ministers in the. half of what level will only be seen for exceptional circumstances with the fees that now hike so that could very well be the norm. students. being for to 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 how it will happen effect on the use of the government keeps threatening to change the terms and conditions of those loans in response to our t.v. the government so 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 called confort for someone like me with twenty five thousand pounds of debt hanging over my head so soon 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 hard and i want to. spencer melba for not going to uni says all this financial insecurity is making young people more open to considering other options than going to university printers shit 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 negativity toward the government for a fact that education is being marsalis strictly for people who are far less financially well off backgrounds just are still the r.t.e. london. when is a coup not a coup the us government spokesperson answers in riddles when questioned over the status of gyptian military maneuvering which house of mohamed morsi and we've got that story online. while a gigantic google password flaw puts millions of users at risk all of that and more at r.t. dot com. right on the same. search tree. and i think that you're. on our reporters were there.

to be in the. south the syrians are recalling a war that devastated their home when five years ago in august two thousand and eight the georgian military began its assault on the south the syrian capital killing up to thousand up to two thousand civilians hours later russian forces moved in and after five days of fighting the georgian troops were forced out of the republic thousands have been gathering on the main square of south the city's capital to involve for a vigil to remember the victims of the war later today r.t. will be taking a closer look at how that conflict unfolded in our special report that's at fourteen thirty g.m.t. . up next we bring you some climate change conspiracy theories in world aren'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 words 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. hello and welcome to worlds apart it's hard to find

a field of science that is more prone to conspiracy theories and name calling than climate change if you doubt it's human overreach and your cold if you nihilist if you embrace it you are an alarmist on both counts this back to each other often the fairest motives that's all these fuming and driving have any practical value to discuss that i'm now joined by lord christopher monckton a prominent climate change skeptics lord monckton thank you very much for your time now as far as i understand you don't actually dispute climate change what you are skeptical of in his day is the cause of it and whether or not it is manmade or not i honestly haven't derived any particular opinion but what i content to stand is why these debate matters in the first place because regardless of which position you take it doesn't preclude all of the measures that should be taken to protect the environment. trying to limit deforestation protecting the oceans trying to limit c o two emissions and if you implement all those measures it would be a

a win win for all whether your denial is to or an alarmist. well let me hit back a little bit at that i think we have to draw a distinction between real environmentalists problems such as deforestation pollution etc and the bogus but profitable ones like imagining that adding carbon dioxide back to the atmosphere it came from originally is somehow going to do harm because actually it isn't going to do harm and even if it were going to do as much harm as the let's call them the climate extremists say that it will then it would still be between ten and one hundred times cheaper to let the warming happen and pay the cost of adapting to it even if the cost of adapting to it is as great as they say an evening.