tonight kurds in syria call on world powers for protection as the united nations probes reports of hundreds of kurdish civilians massacred by al-qaeda linked rebel forces. the cia warns the collapse of the assad government could make syria and al-qaeda haven pose an even greater threat to u.s. national security. and notated moscow lashes out at washington for not wanting to build relations on an equal footing after president obama's decision to cancel the summit with.

over again even from moscow if you just joined this kevin over here at r.t. this with us could have a company because in syria calling out for international help to prevent a genocide against the people it follows reports of mass murders in abductions of civilians by rebel forces. reports tonight. 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're 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 the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov has urged the international community to come together and solve this issue ation

in syria according to various reports at least four hundred fifty people have been killed by the on their front in north eastern syria reports say that at least one hundred twenty of those are children 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. cannot be independently verified 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 men being killed the women and children and the elderly being taken hostage at least two hundred people have been taken hostage by the fighters of al qaeda affiliated groups who are saying that as soon as all of them is over and that is right now they are starting to work on these stablish many

of the al qaeda state in the region. clashes between armed factions have been escalating in syria with was forced to stay on the ground because islam is militants pressing for critical of the country's north with conflicting reports making specific information to verify what we took to. put. again there are a timeline of the conflict according to him islamic extremists launched their assault on the nineteenth of july trying to plant a bomb in a kurdish school and then kidnapping local civilians the next day many houses across the kurdish shown close were blown up one village was destroyed completely in around five hundred kurds were kidnapped meantime a radical cleric declared from a local mosque that those killing kurdish civilians would be rewarded in heaven and also encouraged people to go and loot and destroy kurdish homes while the violence continued down into early august we believe with seventy kurds murdered and three hundred fifty abducted by al-qaeda linked fighters let's talk about this now further with edmund ghareeb piece at lecture at the american university in

washington edmund hi there thanks for your time but first of all why are the kurds being targeted here when they've been on the sideline of this why are the focus for these a read as actions that we think of happened. this is becoming a very complicated and complex war even a very complex war in the first place what we are seeing here is that the kurds are becoming concerned over the growing power of one front. and other radical organizations in that part of the world both sides are trying to control this is especially which is very close to the border of turkey which has its own problems with with the kurdish with its own kurdish minorities and is becoming very much concerned about the events in syria since it supports the opposition in syria and is very much concerned that the back human near the border

will also affect my could spill over into its own territory and inflame the situation further there are going it's already inflamed in turkish kurdistan so it's it's a very emotive sided complex. conflict that's going on if you're going to try and pinpoint at mit is there any particular faction one faction one group militant group that would have an axe to grind against the kurds who could have done this in other words and is it part of the opposition the syrian opposition or something different. this is still not very clear we still are not sure exactly what happened and nevertheless what we have seen in the last few days and the last few weeks is that there has been an escalation of the fighting between the north up front and some other syrian opposition groups with the kurdish groups represented by first by the union and democracy party but then other kurdish

groups including one kurdish group which was with the syrian free army has shifted its position and is now supporting the kurds because it's worried very much worried and concerned about the situation that's developing in the kurdish areas and about the fate of the kurdish population and other populations in the area now. we say because we don't know exactly who these people are who are involved many people have pinpointed aimed at the front and. and as a result of that i think this adds a new. element into the situation to make it much more complex much more dangerous and especially now that we hear the latest news that there is this area called bani which is besieged in a way by. a front and that people are asking for support this is also becoming even

more complicated because it's bringing an iraqi kurds as well there have already been couple of protests in the iraqi kurdistan asking the kurdish regional government there to help the kurds in syria and that kurdish regional government is also concerned partly because concerned about what's happening in syria but it's also concerned about its ties to turkey and so the situation is very fluid and complicated and very volatile and it's almost in itself isn't it. three days on if we first heard these reports four hundred fifty maybe up to phones and fifty would be children killed a still can't be confirmed yet those reports still keep coming out i don't know where they could avail get a proper handle on this hopefully soon hopefully it hasn't happened but the international community nonetheless are asking for international help now who is going to come to their aid who would be prepared to do that. unfortunately i don't

see anybody coming right now however the fact that first of all there are these disturbing reports. about the massacres there are some voices within the international community who are raising the alarm about what's going on there they're trying to get the united nations security council to take a stand i think that would be significant and i think it's important to have an investigation to find out really what has happened and then also to take at least try to take a stand tall pose any kind of ethnic attacks or massacres there is especially as a situation could be easily deteriorate you could see kurdish plight in also in this area and you could see this conflict spilling into the other side and turkey kurdish barracks might start pouring also across the border throughout their compatriots so it's a very very difficult real traditional embodiments real tinderbox as you saying

there is one final quick thirty seconds while you're on the line there from washington how does the media where you are being been covering the news of this possible massacre and we know the u.n. is looking into it but we've been covering it at length over the last three days bring our viewers what what we know as best we can what's being said your side of the pond. that hasn't been much coverage to bend somebody poured into some very brief reports talks about allegations about that encounter at that acts and of massacres but there hasn't been much coverage but i think if we probably it would be very worthwhile to take a little press from moral to get a better sense of how the western media and the american media especially is going to cover this story had no thanks so much i don't care of the from the american university in washington d.c. repression. will stay with syria while the obama administration remains undecided on whether to send weapons to the rebels the cia second in command swore that the

spread of extremism in the country is posing an even greater threat to the u.s. national security deputy director michael morrell says that if the assad government collapses with its massive chemical arsenal the country could become a haven for al qaeda terrorists he also claimed that given the constant inflow of syria could turn maybe into a next libya with the potential for conflict to spill over to georgian jordan lebanon and iraq lawrence freeman is an editor of the executive intelligence review he says the warnings long overdue here if we get more involved in this war this is a major national security danger to the united states and to large portions of the world and that the obama administration which has been behind supporting. al qaeda related groups is actually pursuing a very dangerous disrupt the 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. next a lot americans are willing to build relations with russia on an equal footing that's how the kremlin reacted to barack obama counseling is meeting with president vladimir putin the u.s. says it has little to discuss with russia on such a high level after moscow granted asylum to n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden for all this is a correspondent lizzie friends now. washington had stated that it would react negatively if edward snowden were given asylum by russia and this counseling at the meeting between the two leaders seems to be a product of that the white house cites a lack of recent progress in a bilateral agenda it's president obama himself who gives a very interesting explanation of the relationship between the two countries at this point there's still a lot of business that we can do with them but there's been times where they slip back into cold war thank you and

a cold war mentality the kremlin feels that washington is not interested in a partnership on equal footing in fact it came as a surprise to many russians when edward snowden knocked on their door. 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 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 him in following that global manhunt that had the united states pressuring many countries to get edward snowden back on his home soil it's worth pointing out something with regard to the extradition treaty that does not exist between russia and the united states it's something russia has pushed for many times but it has been denied furthermore russia has also requested extradition or even a return of its citizens who are on domestic and international wanted lists for in

some cases terrorist acts those requests were denied numerous times so as this situation with edward snowden has evolved it's definitely taken attention away from what's not and did and put more of an emphasis on the complicated dynamic between these two countries something that we will watch on fault at the g twenty summit and you france there will be a political analyst eric draitser told us russia and the u.s. are far more important issues to find common ground or at least try to the snowden story. now while the snowden case isn't forcing the white house into mentioning the cold war the whistleblowers father's come i was from fresh comments let's take a listen to he hopes that the move by the u.s. won't distract the public from the massive spy programs his sons reveal check out what the rest of what long snowden had to say in a statement i. don't call my website i'm just ahead for you to hear pricing the

wrongs of austerity cuts struck greeks a cut off from the power grid as unemployment leaves them barely able to pay for food what after the break that we report on those determined to help the country but even if it means breaking the law we've got the story ahead. wealthy british style is not. the time. for the. market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert run no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kaiser report on our.

i would rather as questions to people in positions of power instead of speaking on their behalf and that's why you can find life though larry king now right here on r.t. question more. other america is offering a helping hand to greece as it struggles to emerge from a six year recession the greek prime minister is now in washington hoping to restore his country's credibility after employment hit a record twenty seven point six percent in may but while people all over greece are struggling to try to pay the just the daily essential group of activists are taking matters into their own hands as he go pers can offer ports next. 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 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 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 ok 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 with electricity has been caught 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. reconnect city to homes or disconnect power from room making them free for motorists or sometimes they 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 suits no respect to do it you know we say that thousands of people with no relief hated it will no electricity feel water so this winter we will warn them because it. is very big. greece's government continues process to. economic miracles despite the country's status having been recently downgraded to emerging market. but the

greeks or di remember the promise is now more and more digging matters into their own hands even if that means breaking more you want to spin off things greece. more well many europeans are going to cut back on basics of the government to tighten the belt to this one sector of society however that's not treating the page for bankers times have never been better that's what k.p. probably most of our to use new business show venture capital told us the underlying problem that cake started the ongoing 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 a london 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. well stories now from across the globe in brief we start in iraq there a double attack is killed thirteen people north of the capital baghdad officials

say government stormed the home of a police officer in the city of to crete killing him and four other members of his family in 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 iraqi security situations rapidly worsening with the u.n. saying more than a thousand people were killed in the country just last month alone and more will do syrian rebels say president assad's convoy was shelled on route to celebrations in damascus but state television for the years later broadcast showing the leader unscathed during prayers at a mosque in seventeen meters allegedly targeted the convoy after insurgents received information about his movements syria's information ministry that denies the attack ever took place the news from afghanistan there and explosions killed fourteen members of the same family all women and children at a cemetery in the east of the country and it's common for muslims to remember late relatives during a raid which marks the end of ramadan and it's not clear who is behind that attack the violence coming just days after washington issued

a worldwide travel alert warning its citizens of potential terrorist attacks in the middle east and north africa. and across the border in pakistan a suicide bombers killed at least thirty eight in the restive city of quetta most of the victims of the blast which was caught on live t.v. or reported by police officers it happened as high ranking security personnel were preparing to hold prayers for another colleague who was gunned down while on duty. britain's education education system is an uproar after a second for profit institution was granted university status some argue the move opens the floodgates to private firms hoping to capitalize on chu ition fees which traveled across the u.k. last year incidentally meantime though more and more young people are finding it impossible to afford this higher education as terrorists will reports next. london twenty ten young people furious at the government's plans to triple that swishing 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 denies it this is the problem it's pretty dire situation in the u.k. and particularly around the issue of choice. you have to choose to take contact or you choose to be an employee 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 monies 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 about the 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 so that could very well be the norm. students. bring 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 their use. and the government keeps threatening to change the terms and conditions of those loans in response to our 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 called 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. monthly salary my fees were three thousand two hundred. page here and now obviously it's going up to nine thousand pages i still find the impact class heart and i want to. spencer melman if i'm not going to uni says all this financial insecurity is making young people more open to considering other options than going to university printers shields 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 or 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 a fact that education is being massively restricted to people who are far less financially well off backgrounds just are still your r.t. london. coming up when is a coup or not a us government spokes person answers in riddles when questioned over the egyptian military intervention that ousted mahmoud morsi we've got that story in fact online if you want to check it out started or gone tonight but also a gigantic google password floor puts millions of users at risk you want to catch obama to scary r.t. dot com we've got the details. so if the settings are calling a war that devastated their homeland five years ago back in august two thousand and eight the georgian military began its assault on the south a setian capital killing up to two thousand civilians hours later the russian army . and after five days of fighting the georgian troops were forced out of the republic thousands have been gathering then on the main square of said the settee is capital schiavo for

a vigil to remember the victims of the war and later today here at r.t. will be taking a closer look at how that conflict unfolded in a special report. twenty six minutes past eight thanks for being with us tonight great programs lined up tonight max is here after the break bringing you more of the scandals but on the latest financial headlines i'm kevin when we see you again with another news update and often. everyone respects a promise written in stone the promise is 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 works both 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 there are 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.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser did you ever get the feeling that we're all sort of neo through it all calm controlled you know corporate state experiment lab rats untested genetically modified frankenfood lab rats injected with toxic synthetic financial products experimental monetary policy lab rats subjected to blind tracking experimentation spewing chemical compounds into our water table one thing about lab rats is they have no choice injected where broke. don't dangle strangle mangled that's left of a lab rat explain all this stacy herbert well you know this weekend we're going to actually talk about the freak monetary policy experimentation as exemplified here

in the u.k. with mark carney and george osborne but first i want to talk about this month's santo experimentation because there's been a remarkable video on c.b.c. in canada and this is the length and o'leary exchange and they have a thirteen year old girl i'm called rachel parent and she's an activist against genetic modification untested and unlabeled genetic modification so first let's talk turned to this clip here what is what would the testing look like in other words what kind of testing would be reliable to say this is ok for the environment ecosystem finitely we need a long term study to determine if it's safe for not only our ecosystem but our health as well rachel we're in a long term study you're eating genetically modified food whether you're a kid or the lab rats and we have been for decades now wow gun well it's very consistent is that what this idea. or rat ladder is not alone.