which is why you should watch only. more syrian kurds recounts in civilian slaughtered as their villages are plundered by al-qaeda linked rebel fighters while splintered opposition militias engage in deadly rivalry. president obama says moscow and washington's relations need some time out russia's foreign minister insists there's no cold war shadow and both powers reach to act like adults. and the battle for moscow begins six candidates of wired to become mayor. one of the campaigners the real nail biter for those leading the race.

live from moscow this is r t you with me wrong with their let's take a look at the international news this hour. 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 the rebels are increasingly fighting each other for control in a number of places with al qaida of affiliated radicals trying to create an islamist state within syria now as part of that plan the militants are accused of stepping up lethal assaults and kurds in the north east to seize their land more from our correspondent in the region policia. 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 commie nineteenth of july you had an assault by islamist extremists at that stage they placed a bomb in a local kurdish school they also rounded up and abducted a number of civilians the very next day a number of kurdish houses in various kurdish enclave were blown up it was also an

entire kurdish village that was destroyed and some five hundred people were kidnapped that violence continued into early august when you had the report of killing 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 kurds were killed from the figures we've been receiving some one hundred twenty of them were children some three hundred and thirty of them were women 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 back in recently they came into villages and started to blame the locals have been faithless it was during ramadan they opened 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 so they also said that our grant to them all or money or property or women or maybe even 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 they're 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 leading out of the economy that is being carried out by the islamist fighters this is resulting in the spread of of

distance. basically 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 some 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 is 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 found itself called between a pro western stance and supporting the rebels and demanding its relations with the

kurds on r.g.p. dot com patrick have examples on drugs or dilemma up front this article online now . thanks. thanks. thanks. thanks thanks thanks. thanks. to russia and the u.s. are sending rather contradictory signals about their relationship there is no sign of cold war thinking according to foreign minister sergei lavrov who's with the russian defense chief meeting the u.s. counterparts president obama of those relations need to be paused and reassessed it's all in the wake of obama's canceling his summit with bloody move boojum after moscow granted edward snowden temporary asylum he is a washington correspondent. 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 in september 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 laughter off i remember very well what you saw when we were saying goodbye he said well i believe that we can make a difference in the russian american relations let's. get as adults. and that's what we're trying to do because if. small incidents. become an impediment to 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 one of the better it 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 contests 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 so it was a difference that there was an agreement on both sides that they should not lead disagreements and standards 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. international relations expert assurance the day he says it would be able

to stake if washington let's note is a demo its ties with moscow as 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.

now in the same news conference where president obama mentioned the strains with moscow he announced a 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 had this can't be happening told us it's just an attempt to come at the public down. first of all history 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. abby martin gets stuck into the u.s. government's handling of the n.s.a. surveillance scandal coming up later today on the program. 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 well that just makes us conspiracy theorists the project 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. another one of these ever seen anything like that. still ahead here on r.g.p. we go food shopping with a difference if you find your way to made big dubious we'll introduce you to the german club i'd really love to pick you apart while still alive. and yes a reporter feels all britons tend to always giving the u.k.'s embassies around the world that will have more on those stories after the break.

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welcome back you're watching our team campaigning to become moscow's next may is now in at full speed with less than a month to go before russia's capital takes a lead him the first round of debates between the candidates is scheduled for monday and he said now it looks now add y. to rival run is already getting a head start 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. incumbents beyond and his team in office for two years are confident the city streets speak for themselves so. as

have been completely changed the city is prorated have been public space frightened 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 is elected but also running is anti corruption blogger an opposition leader alexei nobody really 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 bike paths our plans for traffic will be like the rest of the world not like so banyan although a staunch critic of the government not vine is platform 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

will be able to survive in the sea so what about those who are old poor and need support but a state media is focused on sit down and opposition media with some help from the west and from n.g.o.s is promotion of all in so the core mission of the socialists are sidelined but i think they are kind of this format shape you i mean you go you know a scientist and. also i think that asian man a scientist of the socialist kind of i think their programs are somewhat more humane either way the vote is expected to draw tremendous turnout that's the media coverage and possibly even controversy and he's now a r.t. moscow. we're friends of all stories online for you including boarding denied to that says common and back to this if stopped from taking a flight home apparently due to an order from my mama online we look at whether the gulf kingdom government is tightening the screws out of the land mass protests.

and in i envision section images of massive wildfire that has destroyed more than twenty five homes and a commercial building in california plus the galleries will plenty of other world even. right the streams. were stripped. and i think the true. on our records were. hundreds of gay rights activists stage a protest in belgium in front of the russian consulate the rally in and out of 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 social winter olympics which activists hope will move will be moved elsewhere some statements have been raising more than a few eyebrows for example renowned actor stephen fry compared of president putin to hitler and how he treated minorities the olympic committee stepped in saying spota should be available to all and the new law will not affect those attending the games british journalist neil clogged believes 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 a new law which advance promotion of homosexuality to under eighteen's now i'm not saying i support the law i oppose all anti-gay laws wherever they're 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 helping twenty twenty two you go to prison for five years if you're homosexual it's political i think that's because i said there's eighty countries but eighty countries have worse records on gay rights than russia stephen fry's are talking about that so i think it shows double standards here and it shows this could have russia phobia i think among the western elite that they look down at russia they patronize them and they get this 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 a northern ireland have left twenty six. officers injured loyalist protesters attack security forces with bricks and bottles as they waited for a republican raid to ivan belfast police used but on grounds and will take an interest because the rally in july riots rocked the city for five days after loyalists were banned from parading through nationals areas of the city. a small aircraft has crashed in the u.s.

state of connecticut taking up to six people a propeller driven plane piloted by a former microsoft executive struck two houses as it tried to land in grain you whether firefighters from both homes and gulped 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 government small crowds gather nationwide in support of the all said president dozens were injured south of cairo after police used tear gas and water cannon to disperse the demonstrators now the rallies came despite calls from the country's army bag leadership to immediately end the protest egypt's been gripped by turmoil since the third of july after a military coup. remember pre-packed and obvious ready meals today are built so that we can feed it speeds but it's proving to be somewhat unsavory as customers know less and less about what's really in their dinner parties but all about has

been to meet a german farmer whose illusion is a living menu. europeans want to know exactly where their food is coming from this year we've seen the scandal of horse meat being passed off as beef in 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 important for people 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 unhumane pigsty. buying from burned is a little different from going to your local organic butcher customers pick their pig from photos online and then through a web cam they can watch the animals grow when you get back and then several months later they receive their requested but. the idea behind this belongs to

a student from berlin called denis bookman his philosophy was that people should be better quality products he wanted to increase food awareness and make it known how meat is produced with famous chefs politicians and styles of music in sport queuing up the bones products it's called his son with a whole pig going for around four hundred fifty euro for. the transport and the policy on customers like to have transparency in the production process and people want to know where their meat comes from where 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. that you wouldn't like it would be counter to tell you i'm sorry because if people think. oh yeah 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. couplet. you get to see where the biggest comes from have a grow up in the live ultimately the quality of the product i've got no problem. with the pigs or groom in a natural habitat it can't be a pig stays in better days you know what you're eating in light of the recent scandal that is important to me just. most diners would say they don't want farm animals reared in healthy conditions before they get to the but whether you want a closer relationship with what's to come your sausages or chops is really a matter of taste he told of a party jeremy. drug arrests a drunken rowdy and there was not the usual ingredients for holiday but it's a common occurrence for thousands of british tourists travelling around the world and that's our first explain that they seem to think nothing and stop them. we

saved you pull the take a 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 a broad there has been a rise in some countries of more serious crimes and that's causing concern in particular the statistics around rape and sexual assaults are up by ten percent now in the countries that have been 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 for you you often see brits completely

drunk how they had. holes the biggest bank to earn income most of says nineteen thousand people so consular assistance thing a lot about it's going to be youngsters getting drunk a lot of it i love it and so the foreign and commonwealth office reminding travelers once again to keep safe. coming up after the break it's prime interests for me it's good bye. 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 changed on gov site were taken down if this is the 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 distort information on the internet then you are only going to get burnt yourself but that's just my opinion.

good afternoon and welcome to prime interests i'm hereon boring and above in good good since it is headline. so if you're going to fight the fat do it legislatively today twenty two year old bangladeshi man with since he was thirty years for attempting to blow up the new york federal reserve building his cell phone was infiltrated by the f.b.i. who supplied him with one thousand pounds of fake explosives. according to the justice department the attempted bomber asserted the plan was his own and that is goal was to quote destroy america by targeting its economy no evidence was introduced in court of him scoping out the new york stock exchange he eventually chose or help to choose the new york fed itself and it is the london whale simply john kors sign a slash m.f. global read out the stories are being floated in the media today the first by bloomberg regards j.p. morgan which is negotiating with regulators over the derivatives debacle that cost

the farm over six billion dollars according to quote people mr diamond's firm will likely get off with only a fine. and according to sources the london will himself will not face u.s. charges so why the possible john corazon redux the media was repeatedly used as a tool to float the idea that would walk free and now we have this london whale story that doesn't have nearly the grassroots movement that a global did but members of congress don't like angry phone calls or answering them and in bed bob tog's fake econ staff of former assistant treasury secretary paul craig roberts and i profiled purdue pharma and here's what's been your prime interest.

despite massive debts the u.s. is now able to borrow at record low rates thanks in part to quantitative easing it is a world of this information and misinformation in which facts are fiction and abstract theories are substituted for empirical reality not unlike the movie. the matrix in which an entire population lives in an alternate reality now those are the thoughts and words of paul craig roberts who i spoke with earlier he is the author of the failure of laissez faire capitalism and former assistant secretary of the us treasury so i first asked him about the federal reserve expansion of the monetary base. create that many new dollars you threaten the dollars exchange value and lo and behold the gold price was taking off and nineteen hundred dollars an ounce and that signaled.