caught in the crossfire kurds living in northern syria face a deadly onslaught from al qaeda extremists ready to wipe them out to make way for a breakaway islamic state. barack obama accuses russia over a vertical cold war mentality while moscow declared all hostilities dead and buried we report on the latest chill in relations triggered by the snowden dispute. and candidates for the post of moscow take this skirmish to the media for the campaign from a bright. good morning just past midnight here in moscow kevin zero in this is our top story the

leader of iraqi kurds has said that his fighters could intervene to protect kurds in neighboring syria who are facing daily attacks now from rebel forces the al qaeda linked factions which initially flooded to syria to fight the assad government are now preparing to declare an islamic state in the country's northeast and the kurdish minority is in their way on his policy report. 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 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 seven 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 are actually came into villages and started to blame the locals to be the favorites 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 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 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 they want to have is there's a cd out 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 the porter to show the killing of kurds it said that they were burned to death later this turned out to be false now we could simms solves 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 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 all those for some time you've had the kurds on the periphery of the conflict increasingly we're seeing them in the line of fire or at least correspondent the journalist david morgan believes the latest massacre of courage should be a signal for the backers of regime change in syria to stop war monger. 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 things will be quite profound in the incursions

there quite some time. and it looks like there was a massacre of some kind the numbers are not certain and it does say that children and children with more than civilians like they live been been killed so is a war cry but if it's true which i'm for it should be investigated and i would say that the international powers the e.u. and america are in that un this would literally be a block without going into going into that 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. turkey's trying to solve trying to balance the two seemingly contradictory roles on one side backing the syrian rebels on the other at the same time trying to mend is historically hostile relations with the kurds at r.t. dot com journalist and filmmaker patrick henningsen puts an increase dilemma under

scrutiny is articles online if you want to check it out. now there is a big question is the cold war truly dead and buried well it seems that so sadly that moscow and washington can't quite agree and at the moment anyway russia says recent tensions just a temporary glitch but senior u.s. figures including president obama a calling for relations to be paused even reassessed it's widely believed that the catalyst for it all was russia's decision to grant temporary asylum to whistleblower edward snowden has got a future can report 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 potential 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 tools different messages coming from president obama and foreign minister laughter off the remember very real words you said when we were saying goodbye he said well i believe that we can make a difference in the rest of america 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 good six 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. 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 no 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. our correspondent in washington international relations expert sharon should a good folk to r.t. about this later spot she thinks the united states is that an anger cloud his

judgment. 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 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 that i think it's actually. a very unique and rarely seen a sign of weakness. what were some analysts double bombers reaction is over the top is quite mild compared to what some u.s. lawmakers one from sanctions to libya boycott senators and congressmen are

demanding russia's punished for daring to give snowden asylum tell us what you think we're running a vote dot com a website devoted so far thanks very much for doing what you're telling us two percent of you think u.s. russian relations are really so poor anyways not to make any difference ninety percent slight change the no effect the economic ties to important is going to whether it'll five percent this one from last believe the snowden affair is going to blow over relations are down one four percent think that russia is going to be made to suffer for giving safe haven to edward snowden play time to have your say as well thanks for doing so as if you have. all of the same news conference where president obama mentioned strained relations with moscow he promised as well to reform the much maligned n.s.a. surveillance program more transparency and supervision on the cards he said but he gave no indication that the massive monitoring would be scaled back at all i would listen to obama's speeches but the kind of mopin of the international action center he told me he expects very little is going to actually happened. 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 is 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. well crossing live from moscow around the world this is ot say thanks for being with us coming up the concept of pick your own food grows

a step further as the fast food culture takes a bite to the quality of meals we report from one farm where you can check out your own shelves all the animals are still alive plus one of the world's biggest tough let it go here in moscow for the first time almost two thousand pleats is set to compete amid the on going gay propaganda controversy overshadowing the upcoming winter olympics we look into that wasted holiday british tourist sun comes up it's causing headaches for new campuses around the world just three of more stories for you right after this. well. it's technology innovation all the least of elements from around russia. the future covered wealthy british style. time to.

market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser report. they did race to become moscow's new mayor's and full throttle with the main

adversaries now officially exchanging political blogs and media battlefield and with less than a month left before polling day companies already seen its share of scandals to our business and i know 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 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 want boulevards green everywhere look here for two months they've been putting down tiles by pots our plans for traffic will be like the rest of the world not like some banyan. although a staunch critic of the government no vileness 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 city so what about those who are old poor and need support but a state media is focused on some down in and opposition media with some help from the west and from angels is promoting a volley so the communists of the socialists are sidelined but i think they are

going to this format shape you on me and you go you know a scientist. cheerful also i think that asian man a scientist of the socialist kind of i think the programs are somewhat 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. a few of the many stories to look into tonight online we're reporting about barred from boarding got the story from the bahraini activists prevented from taking a flight over apparently because of an order from unama we look at whether the kingdom is tightening the screws had a planned mass protests coming up. in our invasion section we've got to take a photo galleries including this one of people in japan and abroad marking sixty eight anniversary of the russian atomic bomb and you'll find many other world events captured there is one of the. right

to see. first for you and i think you're. on a recorder twitter. instagram. having fun and relaxing is what the holidays are all about but it seems some brits just know when they've got enough of a good thing for tourists are among the most a tourist drink kids around the world the next as explained nothing can stop them either. you say that you pull the take a and you're finally off on your holiday to say the very last thing you want to have happen if they get into trouble for doing 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 of more serious crimes and that's cool seeing concern in particular the statistics run rate and sexual assaults are up by ten percent now the countries that have been pinpointed as a particular areas of concern spain turkey envoys all countries popular with young holidaymakers all countries announced 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 by a. broad species you you see brits completely drunk. yeah ok who's the biggest thanks to phone and call most of the nine hundred thousand people so consular assistance thing a lot of that's going to be getting drunk a little bit

a little bit different and so the foreign and commonwealth office reminding travelers once again to keep safe. it's all a biggest events in the sporting calendar only beaten by the football world cup and the olympics the world athletics championships started here in moscow for the first time on two snoozy france reports from outside. 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 event 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 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 are 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 political personalities and even in 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. for these events and to take that away from them because of a despoiled like this just seems so that argument also been put on the table however it's something that will mark the discussion havill it takes up until and even during the of bands and so definitely it's worth keeping a close eye on which governments are coming forward i speared of sportsmanship in saying you know let's stick with it once are participating in the olympics coming up so soon. in brief tonight the series of mine car bombs across the iraqi capital baghdad killed up to sixty nine and wounded around two hundred people the explosions rocked when the shiite areas of the city targeting cafes markets and restaurants iraqi authorities have toughened security amid celebrations marking the end of ramadan and in july alone more than one thousand people were killed in the country. clashes in northern ireland in the fifty six police officers injured moralists protesters so tight security forces bricks and bottles as they waited for

a republican parade in belfast police used baton rounds of water kind of the disperse the rally back in july shook the city for five days of the moralists were banned from parading through a nationalist area of the city. trouble erupting here a volcano east into the easiest killed at least six people love of for a moment rocket tenders flowed through a small village on one island the volcano has been rumbling since last october forcing the evacuation of nearly three thousand people in the knees is located in a seismically active area and is prone to earthquakes and volcanic eruptions. today it's not a problem to take a quick bite if you've got a lot on your plate no time just warm your food in a microwave have a pig meal but for some that approach is simply not good enough they want to know exactly what they're talking into. all over them at one german farmer who's found one way to satisfy even the most picky of. europeans want to know exactly

where their food is coming from this year we've seen the scandal of 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 of 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 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 pig sty even if. 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 animal 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 be

better quality products he wanted to increase awareness and make it known how many produced with famous chefs politicians and styles of music and sport queuing up the bones products from caucus print 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 and 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 it would be great if. 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 eight you see. that. you get to see where the biggest comes from how to grow up in the live ultimately determines who the problem i've got no problem. with the pigs or group in a natural habitat with a big stage and better ones as well you know what you're eating in light of the recent scandal that is important but with this. most dying is would say they want farm animals breed in healthy conditions before they get to the but whether you want a closer relationship with books to him you'll sausages all chops is reason a matter of taste he told of a german. coming up they drug gangs police raids and street violence that are an everyday reality for the mexican city of tijuana south of the break it's an ex-pro group international.

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 molotov cocktails flying crazed crowds of local middle easterners really grab attention so there's a logical natural 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 reside 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. because it didn't happen in libya or egypt or any other exotic country but in good old ball garia right in the e.u. where u.s. and e.u. interests are best served by the status quo being maintained there was 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 as when a government there actually started working in bulgaria own interests and not the us desires but that's just my opinion. and any welcome to. air you can feel of how.

you looked in the back. three people were decapitated. they were cut to pieces.