more syrian kurds recounting civilians slaughtered as their villages are plundered by al-qaeda linked rebel fighters while splintered opposition militias in gaijin deadly rivalry. president obama says moscow and washington's relations need some time out while washers foreign minister and says there's no cold war shadow powers me to act like adults. and the battle for moscow begins at six canada vide to become mayor look at why the campaign is a real nail biter for those leading the raids.

this is comportment day here in the russian capital you're live with us on r.t. with me to bomb with day let's take a look at the news this hour. al qaeda linked militants in syria have reportedly killed a top commander from the free syrian army in the latest display of deadly rivalry between opposition groups now the rebels are increasingly fighting each other for control in a number of places with al-qaeda affiliated radicals are trying to create an islamist state within syria as part of that plan of the militants are accused of stepping up lethal us alter and kurds in the north east to seize their land war from our correspondent in the region. we've been speaking to eyewitnesses relatives and also kurdish journalists and from the sequence of events that we've been able to piece together that coming nineteenth of july you had an assault by islamist extremists at that stage they placed a bomb in a local kurdish school also rounded up and abducted a number of civilians the very next day and number of kurdish houses in various

kurdish enclave were blown up it was also an entire could issue a village that was destroyed and some five hundred people were kidnapped that violence continued into early august when you had the report of killing of at least some seventy kurds and the abduction of another three hundred and fifty now this week we saw a massacre in which some four hundred and fifty could were killed from the figures we've been receiving seven hundred twenty of them were children some three hundred and thirty of them were woman that massacre happening in a syrian town on the turkish border not neither damascus nor the opposition has actually confirmed that massacre but we have been speaking to eyewitnesses and this is what they told us if we say we are they came into villages and started to blame the locals are being paid to us it was during ramadan they open fire on villagers people came onto the streets men women and children they fired at everyone who came

in the way they captured many young men and began to cut them with knives we told them that we were muslims too but they said that they would continue to kill us they also said that our grant to them all or money or property or women then they begin tomorrow everyone around my nephew was killed. when civilians escaped their shot militias raided their house and blew up some of them and robbed others the conditions are very bad people are in fear and terrorized the all nusra fighters are out of control there raiding the streets there's no media coverage and anyone who tries to reach out. it's being kidnapped by the militants and one of the problems we face is that some reports are difficult to verify as you heard there from kurds we've been speaking to they say that if they come forward and they report on any other directions kidnappings and killings they themselves run the risk of being murdered so what you have is this is the leading edge of the language that is being carried out by the islamist fighters this is resulting in the spread

of this information you have the scarcity of sources this too is leading to discrepancies in the reports that are making it into the international media and then of course you have videos that are being posted online that are sometimes difficult to independently verify there was one video that was posted that purported to show the killing of kurds and said that they were burned to death later this turned out to be false now we could similar solves say that the attacks are being carried out by islamic fighters that are linked to al qaida you have as one of these groups the all nusra front and this is an organization that has pledged to establish an islamic state in northern syria this is precisely the area where these kurds are living so this is why although for some time you've had the kurds on the periphery of the conflict increasingly we're seeing them in the line of fire. turkey has found itself cold between

a pro western strong supporting the rebels and demanding its relations with the kurds not. getting simple as the dilemma up front is articles online now. russia and the u.s. are sending rather contradictory signals about their relationship there are no signs of cold war thinking according to foreign minister sergei lavrov who's with the russian defense chief meeting their u.s. counterparts president obama those says relations need to be paused and a reassessed it's all in the wake of obama's canceling his summit with vladimir putin after moscow granted edward snowden temporary asylum he is our washington

correspondent you can remember the meeting between russian and u.s. officials at the state department comes days after president obama canceled the bilateral summit with the russian president is the more and more often we hear about a new cold war between moscow and washington so everyone was listening very closely to what officials on both sides were saying and we heard two different messages coming from president obama and four minutes to laugh or i'll remember very well what you said when we were saying goodbye he said well i believe that we can make a difference in the rest of their convictions let's. act as adults. and that's what we're trying to do because if you for. small incidents. become an impediment through every single. i think it would be that would be very wrong who thinks this president obama in the

meantime did the opposite he has basically hyped up the cold war talk when president putin who was prime minister when that bit was president came back into power i think we saw more rhetoric on the russian side that was anti-american that . played into some of the old stereotypes about the cold war contest between the united states and russia and i've encouraged mr putin to. think forward as opposed to back on those issues with mixed success president obama also said in light of all the disagreements with russia mentioning syria and snowden it's time to make appalls and to recalibrate the tone of the talks at the state department at least the opening part that we have seen that was different there was an agreement on both sides that they should not lead disagreements and scandals completely overshadow whatever progress the two countries can actually make one

area where the two countries can make a difference is the crisis in syria both state the objective the same objective that they want to political solution that they want to bring all sides of the syrian conflict together in geneva to try and map out such a political solution the syrian opposition says they are not going to sit down a one paper with those who have blood on their hands moscow says in order to stop the bloodshed all hands need to come to the negotiating table and foreign minister lavrov this friday he said that secretary kerry assured him that the opposition will be there at that negotiating table so there were some very serious issues on the agenda like syria like missile defense in europe where russia and the u.s. obviously don't see eye to eye but making progress on any of those topics becomes that much harder when the relations are defined by scandals and today we heard foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it away from the cold war talk but president obama's remarks seem to have exacerbated the

tension. and that's all relations expert assuring us the day games says that it would be a mistake if washington let's not interfere damage its ties with moscow has too many world issues depend on them getting along. u.s. administration simply cannot afford to exclude russia from important talks on very important issues. before snowden happens a couple months ago. those issues were very much to do with syria and some foreign policy issues as well as some economic issues that the u.s. and russia have in common it just seems that this particular snowden affair has unleashed a level of anger in the u.s. government that that is preventing them from actually doing what they do very well which is to manage foreign policy manage crises and use the press to do that i think it's actually. a very unique and rarely seen sign of weakness.

in the same news conference where president obama mentioned the strains with moscow he announced reform of the much maligned n.s.a. surveillance program although he promised more transparency and supervision the american president made it clear that data collection will continue the founding editor of news website this can't be happening told us it's just an attempt to calm the public down. first of all his time press conference is totally for u.s. consumption and secondly. we have now seen five years of this where he says one thing and does another. you know he he is not going to cut back on the n.s.a. spying that's clear or. he he could just order it to cut back if he would he in the past had expressed great concern about the n.s.a. program and yet he's expanded it on his watch for five years so i don't see it being cut back he's been going after whistleblowers in the most fierce way that

anyone can recall and he uses it for that so what they're trying to do is tamp down a growing concern about all the spying among americans that polls keep rising with the number of people who are saying that there is too much spying that the war on terror has overstepped on civil liberties. every mountain gets stuck into the u.s. government's handling all the n.s.a. surveillance scandal is what's coming up later today. in an era of rampant surveillance government secrecy and whistleblower crackdowns more and more questions have arisen over the actions and intentions of the us government regardless of how doubtful we may be of its justifications worktop to just accept the explanations that are given and if we don't if we acknowledge the gaping holes of how that just makes us conspiracy theorists the project sort of term that for years has been cast on those who have been bold enough to ask questions so how did

we get to a place where truth seekers are now conspiracy theorists. the large. number should i mean like. oh. so let's head to head still ahead rather here an hour to you we go food shopping with a difference find you already made didn't have the dubious will introduce you to the german lets you pick your own hole while it's still alive. and you're a reporter who builds all bridges tend to always give in the u.k. the embassies around the world a tough time will have wall stay with us. the

. economic down in the final. good. night and the rest because i think they believe every week. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. operations through the day.

technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got this huge earth covered. it's a watching our team campaigning to become law schools next may is now internet speed with less than the month to go before russia's capital picks leda the first round of debates between the candidates is scheduled for monday and he said our looks now add wide to rival run those already getting a headstock. and they're on the last leg of the campaign has officially begun in the first election for moscow's mayor in ten years there are six candidates over seven million registered voters and a lot of promises being made it's not easy to please a city of an estimated fourteen million people there are major problems huge projects and the seemingly never ending fight against corruption incumbent circus

sabean and his team in office for two years are confident the city streets speak for themselves. as have been completely changed the city is prorated have been public space fighting traffic development of public transportation and to take medicine and education to new levels of development and his plan is to continue that work if he's elected but also running is anti-corruption blogger and opposition leader alexei no marley recently wrapped up in a fraud scandal arrested and then released his campaign volunteers are promising a new moscow. have you ever been to paris that's what we want boulevards green everywhere look here for two months they've been putting down tiles by pots are plants where traffic will be like the rest of the world not like some banyan. although a staunch critic of the government numbers on these platforms so far sounds a lot like some guidance it's a liberal program you know it's a program geared for the reach for the rich young and active you know so that they

would be able to survive in this seat you so what about those who are old poor and need support but a state media is focused on sit down and the opposition media with some help from the west and from n.g.o.s is promoting not wildly so are the core minister of the socialists who are sidelined but i think they are kind of this form airship you are mini golf you know a scientist and. also an intelligent man a scientist of the socialist kind of i think their programs are solid what more you mean either way the vote is expected to draw tremendous turnout that's media coverage and possibly even controversy and he's now a r.t. moscow. we have plenty more stories online for you including boarding a denied to now that's a comment about me as this is stopped from taking her flight harim apparently due to an order from my mama online we look at whether the gulf kingdoms government is

tightening the screws ahead of planned mass protests. and you know investing section images of a massive wildfire that has destroyed more than twenty five times and the commercial building in california has galleries up for plenty of other world. right from the sea. first street. and i would think that you're. on our reporters were very. instrumental i. am a little. hundreds of gays rights activists have staged a protest in belgium in front of the russian consulate the rally in unbearable continued a wave of demonstrations against

a new russian law banning the promotion of homosexuality to minors the main focus of the protests are towards the sochi winter olympics which activism will move elsewhere but does some statements have been raising more than a few eyebrows for example renowned actor stephen fry compared president boot into hitler and how he treated my dorothy's the olympic comedies stepped in saying sports should be available to all and the new law will not affect those attending the games british journalist neil clark believes are the reason for criticism lies beyond gay rights in nazi germany homosexuals really were discriminated against they were put into concentration camps and killed in large numbers and of course this is not happening in russia today if it was i'd be the first person said we go to russia all together it's not happening what's happened in russia is we've got to do more which france promotion of homosexuality to under eighteen's they are not saying i support that i oppose all anti-gay laws were passed in the world but why stephen fry focusing on russia there are about eighty countries in the world where

homosexuality is actually illegal one of them is a country called qatar where the world cup is going to be held in twenty twenty two you go to prison for five years or if you're homosexuals it's political i think that's because i said there's eighty countries eighty countries have all have worse records on gay rights than russia stephen fry's are talking about that so i think it shows double standards here it shows this kind of russia phobia i think among the western elite that they look down at russia they patronize them and the idea that in russia people who are homophobic they're racist it's nonsense it's not true . a quick look now at some other world news clashes in northern ireland have left when you see these officers injured loyalists purchases or take security forces with bricks and bottles as they waited for the republican parade to arrive in belfast please use baton rounds and water cannon to disperse the ready in july arrives rocked the city for five days after loyalists were banned from parading through internationalists area of the city. mo aircraft as

cross crashed in the u.s. state of connecticut killing up to six people a propeller driven plane piloted by a former microsoft executive struck houses as a try to land in rainy weather firefighters found both homes and golf in flames when they arrived at the scene an accident investigators say three people were thought to have been on board and other victims were on the ground. and egypt's military governments or crowds gather nationwide in support of the ousted president dozens were injured south of cairo after police used tear gas and water cannons to disperse the demonstrators the rallies came despite calls from the country's army's bag leadership team mediately end of the protests egypt's been gripped by turmoil since the third of july after a military coup. pre-packed an obgyn ready meals today are bill so that we can see that speed but it's proving to be

somewhat unsavory customers no less and less about what's really in their dinner parties people all of a has been to meet a german farmer you solution is a living menu. europeans want to know exactly where their food is coming from this year we've seen the scandal of forced me being passed off as beef and ready meals and the genetically modified crop giant monsanto decide that there isn't a market for them in you. all this is given one pig farmer an idea how to assure customers that his product is the best it can be and. it's simple to see the environment where that it will take an animal has grown up they get to see them in a field surrounded by grass not in some big stock even if. buying from burned is a little different from going to your local organic butcher customers pick their pick from photos online and then through a web cam they can watch the animal grow when you get back and then several months

later they receive their requested cut. the idea behind this belongs to a student from berlin who donates bookman his philosophy was that people should be better quality products he wanted to increase awareness and make it known. with famous chefs politicians and styles of music and sport queuing up the bones products from caucus and some with a whole pig going for around four hundred fifty euros. the transport ends their policy on customers like to have transparency in the production process and people want to know where their meat comes from if we're looking to fill that niche. these days more and more people are concerned where their food has come from but for some just because you like pork chops doesn't mean you want to come face to face with the pig but you wouldn't like it that would be counter to tell you i'm sorry because it could be great if. your tastes great but

i'm not sure i would have liked to see it when it was a lie many though seem happy enough to watch their dinner. grow from a free range piglets to a juicy. conflict. you get to see one of the biggest comes from how to grow up the lives ultimately good for those who the problem i've got no problem. with you goods are grouped in a natural habitat with stacy better. you know what you're getting in light of the recent scandal that is important to me to speak and most diners would say they'd want farm animals ridden healthy conditions before they get to the but just whether you want a closer relationship with him your sausages or chops is really a matter of taste he told of a hearty german. drug arrests a drunken rowdiness not the usual gradients for holiday but it's a common occurrence for thousands of british tourists travelling around the world

and a server explains they seem to think nothing can stop them you say that you've booked a ticket and you're finally off on your holiday to say the very last thing you want to have happen is to get into trouble boarding at nineteen thousand people so consular assistance last year according to the latest figures by the foreign and commonwealth office into british behavior there has been a rise in some countries of more serious crimes and that's causing concern in particular the statistics about rape and sexual assaults are up by ten percent now in the countries that are being pinpointed as a particular areas of concern especially in turkey and boys all countries popular with young holidaymakers all countries renowned for their very busy night life now it has to be said the brits do tend to have a bit of a reputation of course and out the whole continues to be

a major factor in many of the problems that i think we are as a nation quiet who live abroad especially begins you often see brits completely drunk out of their heads. alcohol's the biggest back to foreign commerce of says nineteen thousand people so consular assistance thing a lot of that is going to be youngsters getting drunk a lot of it a lot of it and so the foreign and commonwealth office reminding travelers once again to keep safe. coming up we're going to now report on the day to violence between drug gangs to the police on the streets.

while revolutions in the middle east sure get a great deal of coverage what you don't mix a lot of sense revolutions or exciting t.v. peaceful protests or nice but footage of moloch tough cocktails flying and crazed crowds of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical next reason why some protest movements get a lot of coverage in the mainstream media well others kind of adult please forgive me for being conspiratorial but there is one revolution going down which does have all the exciting visuals of the arab spring but just doesn't get any of the mainstream coverage in fact unarmed people in this country recently stormed the parliament trapping ministers and lawmakers with that they held them down for eight hours demanding the government resign until police with shields smash their way through creating a narrow corridor through which the officials could escape now that sounds like exciting and visual news but why did you hear about it all over the mainstream press that's because it didn't happen in libya or egypt or any other exotic country but in good old boag area right in the e.u. where u.s. and e.u. interests are best served by the status quo being maintained there is no need to

hype up an intervention or kinetic action in bulgaria the only time you ever hear about the need for a crackdown in bulgaria is when a government there actually started working in bulgaria own interests and not the us use desires but that's just my opinion.

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