freedom of speech. and the freedom to. call it a crossfire kurds living in northern syria face a deadly own slowed from al qaida extremists ready to wipe them out to make way for a breakaway islamic state we report tonight. barack obama accuses russia or of reverting to a cold war mentality while moscow declares all hostilities dead and buried we report that on the latest chill in relations triggered by the snowden dispute. and candidates for the post of moscow med take their skirmish to the media rina now as we report on the campaign promises of the main rivals.

even from moscow if you're just joining us my name's kevin oh in this is our top story the leader of iraqi's kurds has said that his fighters could intervene to protect kurds in neighboring syria who are facing daily attacks from rebel forces the al qaeda linked factions which initially flooded into syria to fight the assad government are now preparing to declare an islamist state in the country's northeast and the kurdish minority is in their way. reports. 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 come the 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 there 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 of at least some seventy kurds and the abduction of another three hundred and fifty now of this week we saw a massacre in which some four hundred and fifty kurds were killed from the figures we've been receiving one hundred twenty of them were children some three hundred and fifty of them were woman that massacre happening in a syrian town on the. 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 that 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 then they began to murder everyone around them my nephew was killed. when civilians escaped their shot militias raided their houses 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 is being kidnapped by the militants and one of the problems we face is that some of ports 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 of the actions kidnappings or killings they themselves run the risk of being alerted so they want to have is there's a need to have that is being carried out by the islamist fighters this is resulting in the sprayed of this information you have the scarcity of sources this too is leading to just within cities in the reports that are making it into the

international media and then of course you have videos that are being posted on line that are sometimes difficult to independently verify there was one video that was posted that purported to show the killing of kurds it said that they were burned to death later this turned out to be foals now we could some solve say that the attacks are being carried out by islamised fighters that are linked to al qaida you have as one of these groups the al nusra front and this is an organizing. in that this page 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 a middle east correspondent journalist david morgan told me he believes the latest massacre of could should be a signal for the backers of regime change in syria to stop war mongering the rebels are looking for a faction and all the other groups have been trying have been trying to provoke you

know the kurds into into conflict since it will be quite some time has been given incursions there quite some time. and it looks like there was a massacre of some kind of the numbers i'm not certain say the children or children with him or the civilians why they leave been been killed so is a war cry if it's true true for it should be investigated and i would say that the international powers the e.u. and very care in that un this is literally a block without going in going into it he's willing to solve the suit the syrian conflict is the route that's being pursued at the moment is not going to lead to any democratic syria the things will get worse. has found itself in trying to balance to simply contradictory rolls back you syrian rebels on one side with the same time trying to mend its historically hostile relations with the kurds i don't see dot com our web site journalist and filmmaker patrick

henningsen put saying chris dilemma under scrutiny these articles online now if you want to check it out. is the cold war truly dead and buried that's the question well it seems that it's something that moscow and washington can't quite agree on at the moment russia says recent tensions just a temporary glitch but on the other had senior u.s. figures including president obama calling for relations to be paused and reassessed it's widely believed that the catalyst for it all was russia's decision to grant temporary asylum to whistleblower edward snowden is going to she can reports remember the meeting between russian and u.s. officials at the state department comes after president obama canceled the

bilateral summit with the russian president in september of 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 for minister lavrov remember very well what you said when we were saying goodbye he said well i believe that we can make a difference in the russian they're going to lucian's let's. get as adults. and that's what we're trying to do because if you for. small incidents. become an impediment to everything girls. i think it would be that would be a very room crew who thinks there is room for 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 warned that 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 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 so it was a difference 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. it's national relations expert sharon should ag spoke to r.t. about this latest spat she thinks the united states is letting anger cloud his

judgment. the 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 that were very much to do with syria and some foreign policy issues as well as some economic issues that 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 has 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 i think it's actually. a very unique and rarely seen a sign of weakness. also my reaction is over the top it's quite mild compared actually towards some u.s. lawmakers want from sanctions to the limping boycott senators and congressmen

demand russia is punished for daring to give snowden asylum so what do you think it's going to bode for russia if the vote were running right now on our website r.t. dot com thanks if you take in part so far this is what you're telling us in fact that's not change this the majority of. three quarters of you believe very little going to change relations are already too poor to be affected you think twenty percent no effect too many economic ties and political ties maybe still you think the crisis will be weathered four percent of you down a tad. over the same amount this out up a bit. think that russia will be made to suffer for this as we're putting it so they were up that's what it's telling us thank you very much for voting if you have . at the same time at the same news conference last night were a president mention strained relations with moscow he promises world reform the much maligned n.s.a. surveillance program more transparency and supervision are on the cards and he said but he gave no indications that the mass monitoring is going to be scaled back at

all i would listen to a bomber speech khaled mopin of the international action center told me he expects very little than to actually happen if you listen to the speech not much is really proposed that's actually concrete there's talk of some you know a privacy advocate being appointed to a board and you really see that not much is really going to change if you actually actually listen closely and you know as much as when obama was campaigning for president he made a lot of promises about protecting whistleblowers and all of that you see not much of this is changing and the fact that obama came out and gave this address and it's proposing these reforms which aren't that sweeping but sound sound really great the reason he did that is a response to the public opinion people all over the united states are outraged you know that their rights are not being protected and all of this this patriotic stuff we hear about freedom and the u.s. is the greatest country in the world because the freedom how it's really it's really not true it's a lot of propaganda that's used to push us to war and to push us to blindly support government policies. just ahead should the programs not the concept of pick your

own food goes a step further as the fast food culture takes up the quality of meals we report from one farm where you can check on your own children small the animals to love. also one of the world's biggest stuff i think of as kicks off here in moscow for the first time almost two thousand us lisa said to complete all this happening with the gay propaganda little controversy over shutting the upcoming winter olympics a good report on. wasted holidays british to some controllable drinking outfits are causing headaches for u.k. embassies around the world an exposé to then after this break. wealthy british style. from time to time. the. market.

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he did race to become moscow's new man is in full throttle with the main adversaries now officially exchanging political blows in the media battlefield and with less than a month left before polling day company has already seen its share of scandals in this and now it takes a closer look at the front runners. 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 serviceably on and his team in office for two years are confident the city's streets speak for themselves. 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 of and his plan is to continue that work if he is elected but also running is anti corruption blogger an opposition leader alexei nonviolently 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 wore 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 some banyan. although a staunch critic of the government now volleys 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 reach young and active you know so that they will be able to survive in the cd so what about those who are old poor and need support but a state media is focused on sit down you know and the opposition media with some

help from the west and from angels is promoting a volley so the core mission of the socialists are sidelined but i think they were kind of this format shape you i mean you go you know a scientist. also i think that is a man a scientist a socialist kind of i think the program was more humane 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. and we'll be following it for you know online tonight out. from boarding up problem bahraini activists prevented from taking a flight home apparently because of an order from when we look at whether the gulf kingdom is tightening the screws the head of planned mass protests. and the vision section we've got as ever some spectacular photo galleries there including this one this time around of people in japan and abroad marking the sixty eighth anniversary

of the russian atomic bomb making fun of the world events that were captured there and i'll take the call. right from the scene. first for you and i think that you're. on our reporter's twitter. instagram. having fun and relaxing is what holidays are all about but it seems some brits just don't know when they've had enough of a good thing british tourists are among the most a tourist drinkers around the world in the center of first reports they seem to think that nothing can stop them either. you say that you pull the take a and you're finally off on your holidays and say the very last thing you want to have

happen is to get into trouble affording it nineteen thousand people sought 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 with more serious crimes and that's cool saying concern in particular the statistics about rape and sexual assaults are up by ten percent now the countries that have been pinpointed as a particular areas of concern especially in turkey and points all countries popular with young holidaymakers all countries renowned for their very busy nightlife now it has to be said the brits do tend to have a bit of a reputation opposing 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 the youth you often see brits completely drunk out of their heads. yeah alcohol was the biggest thanks to an income of says

nineteen thousand people so consular assistance thing a lot of that is going to be youngsters getting drunk a little bit a little bit different and so the foreign and commonwealth office reminding travelers one thing again to keep safe. is one of the biggest events in the sporting calendar only big brother football will cover the lympics the world athletics championships started in moscow for the first time lindsay from sheer force from the. it was a beautiful day to kick off the competition here at luzhniki stadium beautiful blue skies and sunny weather for the nearly two thousand athletes coming from two hundred six countries to participate in this a bed now it runs and runs until august eighteenth and so there's plenty of time to get an eyeful of these amazing athletes that show their stuff here on the field now at two events have gone on so far the women's marathon that was run along the moscow river it was taken by kenya and the men's ten thousand meter was taken by

england very impressive shows by both of them people coming from far and wide throughout russia. stadium to catch sight of these athletes these are athletes that are not often covered in the media they are not on the cover of magazines and cereal boxes these are people that are oftentimes under the radar but they work very very hard to hone their skills and to become experts and we are getting to see that here now the topic that is on the tip of everyone's tongue does seem to be the legislation that came out of the russian government to prohibiting the promotion of a homosexual lifestyle to juveniles and that seems to clash very much with be such olympics coming up so soon in twenty fourteen many people's political personalities and even if pop culture have spoken up and even promoted the idea of boycotting the olympics by certain countries seems however many leaders such as prime minister david cameron have also spoken up and said that boycotting would actually hurt the

dialogue keeping the participation going in the olympics is something that furthers the dialogue in a situation like this and it's also worth noting that these athletes do spend a very large portion of their lives preparing for these events and to take that away from them because of a discord like this just seems cruel and so that argument also been put on the table over it something that will mark the discussion of the olympics up until and even during the event and so definitely. it's worth keeping a close eye on which governments are coming forward i mean it's spirit of sportsmanship in saying you know let's stick with it once are participating in the olympics coming up so soon. in the france there will be brief a series of nine car bombs across the iraqi capital baghdad killed up to sixty nine and wounded around two hundred people the explosions rocked mainly shiite areas of the city targeting cafes markets and restaurants iraqi authorities of tough and security big celebrations marking the end of ramadan in july alone more than a thousand people were killed in the country. one clashes in northern ireland where

fifty six police officers injured more this protesters attacked security forces with bricks and bottles as they waited for a republican parade in belfast please shoes baton rounds a water cannon to disperse the rally back in july should the city five days after loyalists were banned from parading through a nationalist area of the city. erupting volcano east indonesia is killed at least six people lubber from mount rocket tender flowed through a sleeping village on one island there the volcano has been rumbling since last october forcing the evacuation of nearly three thousand people in easy is located in the size seismically active area and is prone to earthquakes and comic ruptures . today it's not a problem to make a quick bite for yourself you have a lot of time just warm the food in the microwave but for some that approach is simply not good enough they want to know exactly what tucking into. one german farm

with a noose found one way to satisfy even the most picky eater. europeans want to know exactly where their food is coming from this year we've seen the scandal of horsemeat being passed off as beef in ready meals and the genetically modified crop giant monsanto decides 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 main pigsty by 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 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 who denys bookman his philosophy was that people should live better quality products he wanted to increase awareness and make it known how much produced with famous chefs politicians and styles of music and sport queuing up the bones products from the caucus and some with a whole pig going for around four hundred fifty euro for. the transport and 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. that you wouldn't like it would be counter to tell you i'm sorry because if we 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 did. it grow from a free range piglets to eight you see. that. you get to see where the biggest comes from how to grow up the live ultimately what closes the pub i've got no problem. with the pigs or group in a natural habitat with the pigs taste better too and so you know what you're eating in light of the recent scandals that is important because. most dine is would say they want farm animals breed in healthy conditions before they get to the but she is whether you want a closer relationship with books to him your sausages of chops is really a matter of taste he told of a german. fear and loathing of the bank of england and the pounds downward spiral into irrelevance that's next because report after the break.

everyone respects a promise written in stone promises written on the internet well they're a bit more flexible and a lot easier to embrace 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 not just some odd coincidence and they consciously chose to hide obama's campaign promises that this is political cowardice at its worst and what is even worse is that they didn't think that this would get exposed almost immediately if

you try to conduct some sort of medieval book burning to distort information on the internet then you are only going to get burnt yourself but that's just my opinion. welcome to the kaiser report i'm max keiser now according to the guardian newspaper a former manager at the royal bank of scotland impersonated a bunch writer at the bank after losing his job and it's property service division yez k k o prince of business card describing himself as a bond salesman with which he attended internal meetings and met customers also in the u.k. this week mark carney attended a press conference where he impersonated a bunch of hater by offering to buy more gilts should unemployment rise he also did

an impression of a property speculator when he promised to keep rates low at least until twenty seventeen let's all talk about it more in depth with stacey stacey yes max we've seen quite a lot of impersonating happening in the headlines this week and of course yes mark carney earlier this week he was speaking to the press and twitter reacts is carny a banker or a lawyer so he introduced so many escape clauses to his forward guidance some people asking whether or not he was indeed a lawyer but feisal islam also tweeted this chart and he says here's the boom in the u.k. as you see this is production to manufacture that little tiny blip at the end he says mark carney must think we're all both. k.k. hope i like that name kick i hope mark carney is a hope. for the bankers who pimp him out to go before the people in the.