the week's top stories on aussie mosca just coming president obama phrases u.s. question remains from his dick cheney what he sees as a cold war mentality holding big launching up a temporary asylum to edward snowden. see where his bottom front is moving to the lines of the codes that villagers are being a race to the ground by radical jihad is a means to some stop and al qaeda and are. also they going to hold a hunger strike paid for six months mine style as the pentagon continues to splash on taxpayers' money on the prison amid claims the white house hasn't given up its

plan to shutdown. and western again communities demanded russia based trip to override super bowl the next winter olympics in protest against the new nor against homosexuality propaganda to mind as some even going as far as comparing him to hitler. hello and welcome you know watching that we do you know now see with me here. talk of cold war punishment and a fractured relationship have made this week perhaps the one for u.s. russia ties in years but with washington and moscow have different takes on the situation where obama is talking about reassessing relations the russian side

believes it is all being blown out of proportion check out half a story this week when president obama canceled the bilateral meeting with the russian president in september u.s. russia relations have hit a new low on friday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the russian defense minister arrived in washington as planned to meet their u.s. counterparts and we've heard two different messages coming from president obama and foreign minister lavrov that both held a news conference on the same day at the same time in different venues of course with foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it away from the cold war with president obama seemingly doing the opposite take a listen remember very well. when we were saying goodbye he said will i believe that we can make a difference in the rest of the galatians let's. get as adults.

and that's. when president putin who was prime minister were 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 president obama also said in light of all the disagreements with russia it's time for the u.s. to take a pause and he said. the tone of the office of the state department seemed a bit different 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 it seemed there was an agreement on both sides that they should not let disagreements and scandals completely overshadow whatever progress the two countries can actually make and one area where the two countries tend make a difference is the crisis in syria both state the same objective that they want to

political solution and that they want to bring all sides of the syrian conflict together in geneva to try and map out such a political solution and the syrian opposition says they're not going to sit down at the at one table 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 said john kerry assured him that the syrian opposition is going to be there but making progress on those very important issues concerning global security becomes that much harder wind relations are defined by scandals not going back to president obama's news conference he was not all about president obama's proposals for me and i say something president obama said he intends to work on the way through to one provision of the patriot act known as. the government broader authority to obtain business phone data records he announced the creation of a panel of outsiders former intelligence official civil liberty and privacy advocates and others to assess the program sir. suggest changes by the end of the

year but everybody understand it's all happening because of edward snowden's revelations probably that's why the majority of americans say edward snowden is a whistleblower and not a traitor now it's not clear whether the government will actually go through with those were forms promising is one thing delivering on those promises is something else but at the end of the day the american people may actually benefit from what snowden did which can't be said about us were actual ations. opinions differ on whether that you said back in relations was provided by russia granting fugitive u.s. whistleblower edward snowden asylum or whether that was just a pretext which sadly is true moscow's efforts to limit the damage from the snowden affair says married to ask who is the chief editorial writer for the u.k. based independent newspaper. you know that some people say oh relations between the u.s. and russia generally are very strained and the the reset never really happened that

it didn't have the desired effects but i think that to an extent is exaggerated what i find more interesting is what i think the great efforts. president putin has gone to to try to make sure that the snowden affair damages relations with the u.s. as little as possible i think there's a lot of evidence for that which really hasn't been appreciated i think there's been two maybe three one on one telephone conversations between president putin and president obama since snowden landed unexpectedly in moscow so i think there are actually great efforts are being applied to find some source sort of some sort of solution but it's very difficult to see how that can be a solution which such plies both sides. the syrian war has opened another bloody chapter with fierce battles now unfolding in the country's north korea's fighters are being forced to stand their ground against islam as militants who are pushing

them out of their territories four hundred and fifty civilians many of whom were women and children were allegedly slaughtered in one incident alone with havoc there making specific information hard to verify we turn to kurdish journalists isso to help us put together a timeline of the conflict and according to him radicals launched the targets on the nineteenth of july by planting a bomb in a kurdish school and kidnapping civilians the next day there was a chain of explosions targeting houses across the kurdish enclave which leveled one village to the ground while many more locals were kidnapped and islamist cleric was declared from a local mosque but those killing members of the minority would be renewed rewarded in heaven brother and he encouraged to militants to loot and destroy kurdish homes the violence has spread into early august with seventy kurds murdered and three hundred and fifty abducted by al-qaeda linked fighters let's hear more now details

from our correspondent in the region it lucia. horrifying images of slaughter and mayhem from a region already in throes of conflict this week some reports emerged that hundreds of kurds had been slaughtered by extremist groups in northeastern syria they're still in very fight because insurgents keep the media from getting close this is just syrian kurds find themselves in a green gruesome situation. that the militants started shooting everyone who came out onto the streets become should young men and started cussing them with knives the revolution granted them all their money homeless you know women and then they started losing houses the kurds who are one of the largest nations in the world without a state have tried to stay neutral for as long as possible in the syrian conflict and it's clear that they believe islamic fighters from al-qaeda affiliated groups turned up their killing pressure on the kurds. kurds do not want to be part of the war and they have achieved that by not siding with the the saudis they're showing

their ability to administrate themselves and that all the some international players such as it has been helping those facing against for example there are several al qaeda affiliated organizations in turkey going in fighting against the kurds in syria kurds however want to have a democratic syria not just for the kurds but for everyone on top of that jihad is themselves have made statements alluding to their hopes of creating an al qaida state right here on what they hope to be vestiges of syria but there friday deadline came and went the situation is getting worse and the number of people who have been kidnapped and killed and beheaded is rising every day are they know what's going on there especially into a lot it's a loss a free army as they are united against this very just as they are killing people and i didn't take they call their people you can kill them kidnap them capture their women and it's all that means it's or allowed for you once you fight for for

god's. russian foreign minister sergei lavrov was among the first to sound the alarm over reports from syria urging the security council to step in we believe that in this action we were shocked by the reports of around four hundred fifty kurds massacred in the north of syria including children just because the men were fighting against and it's not the first such report of the un security council will condemn all these terrorist attacks we've seen some of its members refusing to condemn terrorist attacks in syria justifying it with the fact that the people behind them are fighting against the outdated regime and this stance is totally unacceptable terrorism should be treated without double standards kurt seem to be facing a double threats on this side of the syrian state border they're up against extremists on the other lies terry it's been a bit or a long running battle with the kurdish workers party and only recently seem to be making amends at the same time on karrar backs the syrian opposition which is known

to include al qaeda sympathizers and allows for arms shipments into syria which the gerd say end up in the hands of extremists that when it comes to helping kurds western powers who wasted no time in trying to force out president assad seem to do little including extremists an approach that looks ominous to familiar through the overthrow gadhafi in libya to syria we've been supporting al qaeda the very people who attacked united states of america prior. is a cause that spreads from north africa all the way to the gulf that could bring us to a new world war if we don't stop obama and the british policy but for now syrian kurds plea for international help to seems to have been met with indifference in the photos from r.t. istanbul. the kurds say what's happening in the series is nothing but china's side and they're asking foreign powers to throw them a lifeline the kurdish democratic union posse has sent

a letter to the. european union with an appeal to step in and do something about the growing islam is danger in kurdistan and also. actually the peace in kurdistan organization and their activists are asking the united nations as well as the u.s. and e.u. to act now to hold the ethnic cleansing there demanding that western powers stop sending weapons to groups in syria which use them to attack civilians and commit war crimes these statement also calls for probe into turkey israel and fueling the conflict in those kurdish areas and. dollar the direction of the damascus center of strategic studies joins me now live to discuss the plight of the sea where the kurds mr abu abdullah welcome to all she is good to have you with us so you are in syria now what do you know about what's happening in the north of the country can we call it ethnic cleansing that. as

a matter of. what's going on in the north of syria. but relation origin they are syrian citizens on the record they are part of the syrian so safety was going on in the north of syria that. there is a massacre against syrian citizens it doesn't matter the our courts or what have been in the north of that there get this here more time in the north of syria we are in front of terrorist groups and most of the or other groups these groups they are getting support from the government absolutely. and everyone knows that and he is afraid that from what they call the state or response to it or a in the north or syria or the state or something like that i don't think.

so and i think that now in the big game they tried to keep government to play these car against the syrian government and they try to use people population against this regime now was going on in the north of. there is attempt to. stack the call this population to kill them. not to defend themselves all. because they should be in the game with the. syrian government and this is what's going on now this seems if you were late with an awful lot like we are in front of tourist organizations right and we're talking we know that al qaeda linked functions are fighting president assad's forces but why have they tend against that had now. for them for. their target or their goal it's to establish what they called it

islamic states and you know that the al qaeda group is in two groups merely groups there is another group which the reaction of what they call the the islamic state and the two groups be serious was because it's the free syrian army with which. what they call the free syrian army the military knows and besides the islamist but what they have is the means by growing all these to go because they are trying to establish a free zone or what what we can call it this is in the interest of turkey would be arabia especially after the mission of one who is leading the now the syrian opposition and they are trained to meet republicans younger we want to make a new pylons between here and government what the current call it opposition but

merely the opposition who are fighting the are foreign earth there are not to most of them syria and the person to foreigners including inside this globes they are very high and i think the international person mentioned yesterday or two days ago in new york times mentioned there are six thousand and fourteen others including from new york. from. russia and different groups saw the reports they are part of this your society they are targeting all people who are against the. record there is confrontation between the talking about. his role here so we know that. at the territory where al qaida apparently wants to establish that tone of a state what can they do that because trying to stop the jihad it's a really dangerous attack as when to stand that. i think the go on to

a very. very difficult situation mentally they have relations with syria with iraq with iran with russia. because they used very bad installment in their geopolitical targets now they have these people from where these people they came they came through the corridors and they feel that there is participation before they are speaking about. soldiers officers are from bookish. army and they are participating in these in these. in this war in the north of. the government they are trying to get you have to pressure and there are those who are with you because the last you did he will feel failed i think he failed in syria he will he would pay a very high price in politics specially internal affairs now where the body would very difficult situation and i think there would be

a very high price because. after or after time they will go back to turkey or. they could get used to for other commented on this iraq related as a abdallah sorry to interrupt but our time is up right now they have sound down a direct damascus center of strategic studies many thanks indeed thanks. to its call for an olympic boycott that stories coming out and then with six months of hunger strike of gone tunnel day that was and natural outbreak. technology innovation all the developments around russia. the future covered. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something

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this is aussie welcome back now from a fossil back to hunger strike the muslim holy month of ramadan has come to an end and the inmates at the notorious gone tunnel by prison have continued to refuse food this means that precious against indefinite detention and inhumane treatment has entered its seventh month and james gates he's a former u.s. army. chaplain who walked to the gun town amman he was charged with aiding the enemy but then cleared and he thinks the u.s. prosecuted him for objecting to a prisoner. certain want time was the muslim chaplain assigned to the detention camp. and basically after objecting to the horrible conditions the enormous amount of abuse that was going on there i was real roaded and accused of being a terrorist myself and that landed me in prison by the u.s. military there were reports. stories from prisoners how they were

maybe subjected to being put in you know what you might call this a turning circle where interrogators attempted to force them to you know make prostration like in the form of the muslim prayer in the center of the circle and then of course there was such a humiliation being carried out on the part of female interrogators down in guantanamo the white house has returned rated that is standing by president obama's pledge to close the detention camp but it seems the flow of money into the prison isn't trying up and the total car keeping the facility running reportedly exceeded five billion dollars by the end of twenty fourteen and this year alone the pentagon plans to spend almost five hundred million to maintain the site and this means every day the u.s. government splashes out one million dollars of taxpayers' money on the controversial count and right he can see how this breaks down the major chunk is spent on security while legal and quite

a shoes come next and only fourteen million dollars are allocated to fund prisoner review. hundreds of gay rights activists across europe and the u.s. have been calling for a boycott of the winter olympics or to move them from sochi in protest against what they see as russia's new anti-gay law that's despite assurances from moscow the bill only bans the promotion of homosexuality to minors and doesn't harm human rights the u.k.'s prime minister rejected the demands to stay away from the games but that didn't stop the protestors so remount turned gay activist stephen fry who joined a rally in london accused their limbic community of not trying to fight what he dubbed russia's barbaric laws and he went as spies comparing president putin's and shoot towards minorities to hitler's the olympic committee respondent saying sport should be available to all the new normal notified of those attending the games gay

rights activists to any choli aleksei of the leaves although it's necessary to protect the boycotting the games will get its opponents to nowhere it's absolutely technical not possible to realize this ball court because it's not possible to transfer it somewhere else because the only people who will suffer because of this because is the sportsman whopper dissipating in these in these competitions that's why i'm against but also it gives all the homophobia and the cube operation of the russian state and that's what i am doing we are fighting forty years since two thousand and five and we think that the most the best solution at least in this case is to go and protest during the olympic games to go to do to give right during the olympic games in sochi so that all the sportsman going to where there are involved teams rainbow attributes whatever they can talk again during the press conferences that the giornale says and their media reports about what's going on in russia during the early beginnings i think it will have a much bigger effect then just to go into

a book called early beginnings i think this is more practical. and despite all the protests preparations continue for the games where the race against time to get everything in such a complete the current down has not passed the six month mark and record fines have been put into the winter olympics yet some critics still doubt or the venues will be ready l.t. is not under his travel there to look at the concerns have any foundation. ok i'm not too bad but i think it's best i leave it to the professionals when they arrive next year in tsotsi for the winter olympics twenty fourteen the countdown is getting lower the olympic park with its brand new arenas is almost ready and in february next year many of the world's top athletes will compete against each other right here at the skating palace. it's the first time since one nine hundred eighty that russia has hosted such an event and with an estimated three billion viewers russia will be in the spotlight once again when all the construction is finished

such she will boast some of the best and technologically advanced sporting facilities in the world although with many cynics tells of corruption local opposition and overspending is such ready. the proof as they say is in the putting. the finishing touches are being added now and the amount of work that has been done in the city is huge the whole area is being improved and made more comfortable and beautiful with a new pedestrian it was an underground passage being constructed the city has got a completely new look now it's newly built and very beautiful and there cannot be any doubt that everything will be on time to. slowly and surely each piece of the jigsaw is coming together another example is this next stadium. the ball sure i stone sits twelve thousand people and as you can see well it's an impressive stadium it's unusual ready various competitions i've been staged here over the past

few months and during the olympics ice hockey and after that it can be transformed to more accommodate a plethora of other sporting activities ranging from basketball to boxing the mounting cluster of course that and the rosa khutor resort will host the biathlon and ski center and there will be a freestyle ski and snowboarding park. the two parks are to be connected by a forty eight kilometer highway as well as a high speed train that will run every five minutes and transport tens of thousands a day once they reach the mountains base by train passengers will take one of several new cable cars up to the ski resorts and olympic competition venues. the winter olympics is only the beginning for the whole area after the main event early next year such she will set about hosting twenty two international sports events ranging from the grand prix of figure skating to the formula one next november. the olympic sign here i've been using built at ports represents what the

entire occasion is for it links us together i'm brings out the best in people and sporting events and politics aside as the whole world focuses its attention on tsotsi and the surrounding area the final preparations we put into place and what promises to be or the greatest sporting events held and off to my trip here i can confidently say that the winter olympics twenty fourteen will be one to remember martha danbury's party. and carry out drugs gangs and cops in mexico's policy capital report from the state you have to set it right. 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 snowden these promises of the changed on gov site were taken down if this is there are just some odd coincidence and they consciously chose to hide obama's campaign promises that this is political cowardice at its worst and 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 destroy information on the internet then you are only going to get burnt yourself but that's just my opinion.

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