market. why not what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to. the week's top stories here on moscow as president obama freezes u.s. russia relations decrying what he sees as a cold war mentality following the granting of asylum to edward snowden. serious battlefront and moving to the lands of the kurds their villages being raised to the ground by radical jihadists who are aiming to set up an al qaida emirate and. also

the hunger strike hitting its six month milestone as the pentagon continues to splash out taxpayers millions on the prison claims the white house has not given up its plan to shut it down. and western gay communities demanded russia be stripped of the right to hold the next winter olympics in protest against the new law against homosexuality propaganda. some even going as far as comparing him to hitler . we are highlighting the week's top headlines here on our t.v. welcome to the weekly with me life in moscow talk of cold war punishment and a fractured relationship of this week perhaps the worst for us russia ties in years

but both washington and moscow have different takes on the situation obama is talking about reassessing relations as the russian side believes it's all being blown out of proportion. it's. this week when president obama canceled the bilateral meeting with the russian president in september u.s. russia relations have paid a new low on friday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov 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 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 talk with president obama seemingly doing the opposite take a listen remember the rewards you saw when we were saying goodbye you said will i believe that we can make a difference. let's. 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 recalibrate the tone of the talks at 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

ted make a difference is the crisis in syria both state the same objectives 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 and the syrian opposition though 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 when galatians are defined by scandals not going back to president obama's news conference he was not all about russia president obama has announced proposals to pray for me and i say some failings president obama said he intends to work our way through one provision of the patriot act known as section two fifteen gives the government broader authority to obtain business phone data records he announced the creation of a panel of outsiders intelligence officials civil liberty and privacy advocates and

others to assess the programs and. 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 problems this 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 u.s. marshal ations but opinions do differ on whether the setback in relations was provoked by russia granting the whistleblower edward snowden asylum or whether that was just a pretext and geo political analyst eric draitser says that obama's consolation is just a damage control to try and save face at home. the notion of putin as bringing the foreign policy trajectory back to the cold war is part of the us propaganda machine you see the the decision to grant temporary asylum to snowden was not

merely a political one it was one that was made out of sheer necessity by putin in the russian government because frankly they couldn't have allowed the mellow drama to continue on in that airport and so what we're seeing as it's being reported in the media is that this is kind of a tit for tat harkening back to the cold war but i think that what we're seeing is actually practical politics this is really a saving on the part of obama so that he can play kate not only the conservatives on his right who vehemently attacked putin the russian government at every turn while at the same time attempting to portray himself as consistent on the issue. ok to syria now where the war is opening up a bloody chapter with fierce battles now unfolding in the country's north kurdish fighters are being forced to stand their ground against islamist militants who are pushing them out of the territories four hundred fifty civilians many of them women

and children allegedly slaughtered in just one incident alone and with half a making specific information hard to verify and we turn to a kurdish journalist a button on my soul to help us put together a timeline of the conflict for you here on our city now according to him radicals launch their attacks on the nineteenth of july by planting a bomb in a kurdish school and kidnapping civilians the next day a chain of explosions targeted houses across the kurdish enclave switch levelled one entire village to the ground a still more locals kidnapped venn and meantime an islamist cleric declaring from a local mosque that those killing members of the minority would be rewarded in heaven and encourage the militants to loot and destroy kurdish homes and the violence has spread into early august seventy kurds murdered three hundred fifty abducted by al-qaeda linked militants let's have more knowledge get details from our correspondent in the region. picks up the story. horrifying

images of slaughter and mayhem from a region already in throes of conflict this week some reports emerge that hundreds of kurds have been slaughtered by extremist groups in northeastern syria those still in very fight because insurgents keep the media from getting close this is just syrian kurds find themselves in a 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 rebel shouted granted them all the money homeless and i 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 for 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 the kurds 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 out there you know what's going on there especially into a lot it's a loss a free army as. united. as they are killing people and i didn't take certain they call their people you can kill them kidnap them capture their woman and it's all how that mean it's or allowed for you once you fight for force.

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 in this 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. the first 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 with 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

gird say end up in the hands of extremists but when it comes to helping kurds western powers who wasted no time in trying to force out president assad seem to do little including exchange lists an approach that looks ominously familiar through the overthrow gadhafi in libya to syria we've been supporting al qaeda the very people who attacked united states of america we knew prior is a car bomb 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 getting the ball to school r.t. istanbul. well they could say what's happening in syria is nothing short of genocide and they're asking foreign powers to throw them a lifeline of the peace in kurdistan activists i want the united nations as as well

. u.s. and the e.u. to act now to halt their so-called ethnic cleansing and they're demanding that western powers stop sending weapons to groups in syria who then use them to attack civilians and commit war crimes the statement also calls for a probe into turkey's role in fueling the conflict in those kurdish areas and the democratic union party has sent a letter to the european union it with an appeal to step in and do something about the growing islamist danger of the group is a syrian affiliate of the kurdistan workers party and its head mohamed is joining me live here on our team now to take this conversation a little bit further a big hello to you from moscow thanks for joining us today when it comes to a war zone it's so difficult to verify the reports coming out of syria what do you know at this point about the plight of your fellow kurds that we have of. the war. viewers really the situation in syria is getting war. by attacking this

reporting. by those groups look we've got out of. we since the three months we have. and also of course. there were along for two months of our. players called suno or in africa. began. to involve you in or before and then. started in. what was if i if i can jump in for i'm terribly sorry to interrupt you here but the jihadists were previously focused on toppling the assad government why if they now switch to attacking kurds it's all a bit confusing. who would really be well maybe all

month ago there were the announced they are going to. is the mc i mean it's i mean it was the. leader of the islamic militants in the north of syria and of course they don't know maybe they were used by those forces who doesn't like the kurdish being in syria and everywhere i mean the people who doesn't like the kurds put it down to certainly does seem to sign we're getting reports of basically indiscriminate killing indiscriminate kidnapping as well women and children being the victims of what what are these jihadists who are attacking the kurds now this is the question i suppose at one point is you've appealed to the european union to step in have you received a response. no we don't like i mean to step in but at least they mean to cut their support to this kind of i'm in

a cell of his. i mean the organisation of because i mean recently even yesterday there were two people in our mother the head world cup i mean. to people there were. p.g. members. p.g. members and there was sloth of i mean just just like man it was no use for them those sloth of i mean really this is very situational so when we were only getting horrific horrific reports and all of the killings as you say beheadings as well as that as as women and children also being victims say but what about the role of your holy alonso learn to love and i mean you you talked about the examples in a lot and. house of the i mean thousands of people now

homeless they left their homes and hundreds of them there were. some of them rose nobody knows where they are now so all i mean just destroying everybody i mean that's a lot let's bring in some regional considerations here let's let's bring on some regional considerations i'm so sorry but i'm getting very short on time let's talk about i'm correct you think should be showing more concern here what it what is the role of turkey quickly please. yeah we you know i mean from the beginning maybe we'll. see a conflict start to it all supporting those. groups who are open in the syria but now i believe this groups to uncover i was there for . fifteen days ago this is supporting the book still i mean they are getting support from where but maybe. it's not you know

normally it's i mean maybe if they're getting the support from some. organization inside you also perhaps perhaps government officials in ankara very very very quickly passed very quick to pass the buck and perhaps to avoid any type of blame as you as you well know this as you know as you well know there are many examine all the factors getting involved in this. maybe maybe at this coming through turkey because just last week they were talking i mean even the media was talking about how the twenty people from germany and also maybe the. middle of talked about the other people came from germany from england and also also a lot last week we clocked up i think it was upwards of three hundred homegrown jihadists a going from france to syria to fight there mohammed i wish we had more time we really really died head of the democratic union party a syrian affiliate of the kurdistan workers party thank you for joining us here on

r t this evening thanks very much. well gay activists for the meantime are calling for an olympic boycott as we proceed here on our t.v. that story is coming up a long with six months of hunger striking at guantanamo bay those stories and much more after a very quick break. wealthy british style it's time to rise. markets why not scandals. find out what's really happening to the global

economy in the kinds of reports on our t.v. choose your language. make of it oh and if they sell some of. the the consensus to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the stories that in life choose to access to your office. thanks for joining us here on our to today hundreds of gay rights activists across europe and the u.s. have been calling for a boycott of the winter olympics sort of move them from sochi all impro test against what they see as a russia's new anti-gay law that's despite assurances from moscow the bill only

bans the promotion of homosexuality to minors and does not harm human rights well the u.k.'s prime minister rejected the demands to stay away from the games but that certainly didn't stop the protests around actor and gay activist stephen fry he joined a rally in london accusing the olympic committee of not trying to fight what he dubbed russia's barbaric laws he even went as far as to compare president putin's attitude towards minorities to that of out of hitlers now the olympic committee responded saying sports should be available to all and the new law will not affect those attending the games and british journalist neil clark he believes gay rights are a disguise for other political way. 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 saying we go to russia all together and i'm not saying i support what i oppose or anti-gay laws were passed in the world but why stephen fry focusing on russia there are about eighty countries in the woman 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 go to prison for five years if you're homosexual it's political i think that's because i said there's eighty countries in the world who have worse record on gay rights than russia stephen fry's talking about that so i think it shows double standards when it shows this kind of russian 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. and that's the western activists rise up against the new russian law and he said now i went to find out what it's like for the gay community here in moscow. there is. no still only no sochi. dumping russian vodka and cost to boycott the olympic games the l g b t community in the west is furious with the passing of a new russian law banning gay propaganda to minors a detail almost never mentioned lot of here putin signed

a law and some very strict anti-gay measures these laws absolutely obscure they're not clear in what they mean of course it will not have a wide ranging gretzky's of being applied everywhere and to everyone and members of the gay community have been attacked and arrested you cannot say that there is massive suppression or messi of attacks against gay people in the streets and that wherever you say that you're gay you will be killed or beaten russian gay activists are taking their case to the european court of human rights and say the law is meant to target specific individuals but see the picture of gay life in russia from abroad is warped these pictures being shown and being portrayed just because this little became a symbol of protest against their suppression of l.g.b. community in russia supporters of the law argue it represents the russian majority

. if there is a large number of people who believe the law is too soft thirty years ago there was criminal punishment for being killed if you take examples from some states in the u.s. the relationship is much cooler and stricter and this propaganda law was this one. it's important to remember this law is about gay propaganda to minors and it will be enforced with fines not criminal punishment russia is still a very traditional conservative country it wants to hold on to that. this is one of moscow's many gay clubs yes it's in a discreet location but it holds three thousand people is packed on the weekends and is full of foreigners its owners asked us not to film on the inside to protect the privacy of its clients but reassure us business is a group or is a happy arriving excitable you know wonderful gay community which is how great martin andrews is british openly gay and living in russia for eight years he

opposes the law but won't be dumping his russia is dominated by the church in general far more than the u.k. i think if you compare america for example you can't look at san fran and los angeles and new york and then look at the middle part of texas and that's what russia is especially moscow you've got the old meets the new and you've got soviet mindset fused with this capitalist boom with exciting western lifestyle i was in such a last week filming there's a gay community there was a great day seaman but the west has a big in its bonnet regarding russia politically. they approached it not to go and he's now a r.t. moscow. now from a fast track to our hunger strike now the muslim holy month of ramadan has come to an end but the hunger strike carries on entering its seventh month mars and back spent nearly two years ago he thinks the only right thing to do is let people start afresh outside of captivity but several countries where the individuals can and

should be returned to most of them in fact the overwhelming majority of them know being charged they're not going to be designated for trial by military commission or anything else they should be returned home if they had been convicted they would have served now the equivalent almost of a twenty five year sentence a life sentence and so the answer is that there's simply not enough will in the united states of america not in the american people sadly and certain. a lot of american politicians to do the right thing which is to release these men return them back home and let them live the rest of their lives with their families like the most like all of us have like the former guantanamo prisoners the six hundred of us who've returned to try to build up the normal lives. and the white house has reiterated that it stands by obama's pledge to close down and get most but it seems the flow of money is certainly not drying up the total cost of running gear to mow reportedly exceeds five billion dollars by the end of twenty fourteen and this year

alone depending on plans to spend almost five hundred million bucks to maintain the site and this means every day the u.s. government splashes out a million dollars of taxpayers' money on guantanamo that's broken down for you right there you can see how it works at the major chunk though spent on security legal and court issues coming in second only fourteen million allocated to prisoners for the prisoner review boards are just a moment when our two worlds apart is next. good lumber jury to look kirby was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything mission to teach me the creation of why you should care about humans. this is why you should care only.

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. alone welcome to worlds apart it's hard to find a bilateral relationship that is so. old stereotypes as the one between russia and the united states and yet when it comes to doing business quite a few examples of prevailing in the combination of what the russians and americans just. stick to the mantra of nothing personal just as in this well to discuss that i'm now joined by andrew summers president of the american temper of commerce thank you very much for a time as our summers we often hear that since the united states is the largest consumer of energy and russia is the largest producer of energy the synergies between the two are obvious but i do you really so obvious the may not be obvious but there is great center g. already not just in energy but in many other sectors of the global economy who are

americans are investing in russia making a lot of money and expanding their operations this is a completely different world in the geopolitical world that we read about and business is focusing on making money but whether we look at the trade between the two countries and last year it was just under fourteen billion dollars it's not so impressive and if you compare that to the trade with china for example which was more than ten times larger. you know it could be argued that one of the reasons for so much geo political bickering that we've seen over the past year or so is simply because the two countries don't have that much to lose well i think you are on a very profound point the better the trade relations and the more commerce the risk between each country the more they have to lose if they get into geo political spats and that's where i believe the u.s. administration is its strategy.