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in broadcasting live from our studios in. stories with the weekly. now you have suffered a major freeze this week at least that's what washington is claiming barack obama has accused moscow of a cold war mentality and even called for a pause. russia on its part is demanding america adults. hostility. this week when president obama canceled the bilateral meeting with the russian president in september u.s. russia relations have 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 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 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. in the village and let's. get as adults. and that's. when president putin who was prime minister when i'm 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 make a pause and he said. 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 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 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 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 in order to stop the bloodshed all hands need to come to the negotiating table and foreign minister lavrov said john kerry. that the syrian opposition is going to be there but making

progress on those very important issues concerning global security becomes much harder when galatians are defined by scandals not going back to president obama's news conference it was not all about president obama proposals. and. president obama said he intends to work on ways to try one provision of the patriot act known as. the government broader authority to obtain business phone data records the creation of a panel of outsiders intelligence officials 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 forums 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 u.s. marshal ations russia was apparently one of the countries designated as a high priority for n.s.a. surveillance this is according to a recently published a document which was leaked by fugitive whistleblower edward snowden geo political analyst william author of myths lies and oil wars says america's snooping goes far beyond security reasons and its confrontation with russia far beyond the snowden issue. washington is determined to encircle russia with its missile defense which isn't often substrata g. not a defensive one by the way it's a nuclear first strike preparation strategy add that's something that russia understandably is not exactly overjoyed about the issue of syria is non-negotiable in terms of what the u.s. is trying to put into power in syria similar to what they tried in egypt and failed

that is a muslim brotherhood controlled regime that would allow qatar to control the pipeline flows in to europe and not to iran so among other things so this is there is not a basis of agreement on these fundamental questions noton is as i say is not the issue the issue is this fundamental disagreement and washington is not prepared to change its agenda and openly and honestly negotiate to resolve these differences therefore obama is using this childish maneuver of capsule in the meeting because of snowden supposedly radical islamists have turned to syria's north into a battleground as they attempt to push kurds out of their territories al qaeda linked groups are carrying out ethnic cleansing of the local population in order to declare an islamist state there four hundred fifty civilians many of whom were women and children were allegedly slaughtered in one attack alone with havoc in the region making it difficult to verify specific information now we turn to two

kurdish journalists. put together a timeline of the conflict so far according to him the attacks began it back on the nineteenth of july when extremists planted a bomb maker to school and abducted civilians the next day number of houses across the kurdish enclave were blown up with one village obliterated while many more locals were kidnapped and islam is cleric has declared from a local mosque that those killing members of the ethnic minority would be rewarded in heaven and he encouraged militants to loot and destroy kurdish homes the violence has been spilled over into early august with seventy kurds murdered and three hundred fifty kidnapped by al-qaeda linked fighters now for more on this let's get to our correspondent in the region our tease. horrifying images of slaughter in 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 fighting 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 rebel shouted granted them all their money homes and women and then they started looting 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 or the 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 hoping 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 they're fighting a 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 and they are united against these two religious as they are killing people and i didn't face and they call their people you can kill them kidnap them capture their woman and it's all how laws that mean 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. 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 this stance is totally unacceptable terrorism should be treated with double standards heard 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 kurds say ends 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 in curbing extremists 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 the united states of america when prior is a card 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 other school r.t. istanbul. the kurds claim what's happening in syria is nothing short of genocide and they're asking foreign powers to throw them a lifeline the peace in kurdistan activists want the united nations as well as the . u.s. and e.u. to act immediately to halt the ethnic cleansing there demanding that western powers stop providing groups in syria with weapons since they fall into the wrong hands

and are used to attack civilians the statement also calls for a probe into turkey's role in fueling the conflict in kurdish areas syria's democratic union party has sent a letter to the european union pealing afford to step in and do something about the growing islamist danger investigative journalist emanuel oxon writer believes that both turkey and the u.s. have links to the radical groups fighting in syria. like i meant to step in but at this they mean to cut their support to this kind of i'm in. i'm in the organizations because i mean it isn't even. two people in our head look but i mean obviously two people there were. members. p.g. members and there was lots of i mean just. just like man it was all you slow

them thousands so free people are homeless they left their homes and hundreds of them there were. some of them roast nobody knows where they are now. this week has also seen an unusual assessment of america's strategy towards the syrian war from one of the top defense figures in the u.s. the cia's second in command has warned that the spread of extremism in the country is posing an ever greater threat to u.s. national security deputy director michael morrell says if the assad government collapses with its massive chemical arsenal the country could become a haven for al qaeda terrorists he also claimed that given the constant inflow of weapons syria could turn into the next libya with the potential for conflict to spillover into jordan lebanon and iraq however the u.s. is an outspoken supporter of the rebels in syria and is currently mulling the

option of sending arms supplies to opposition ranks middle east expert phyllis bennis says this clearly shows divisions within the obama administration well i think that his statement is very much tied to the debate that's underway within the administration on whether or not to send weapons to some factions within the rebel armies in syria there are many people people like myself and others who have no access to any of the classified information that michael morrell presumably has access to but where it's been clear that sending more weapons on both sides or on either side is going to make the situation worse and not better so i think there's been rumors that morale actually is that you posed to the emerging position of the administration which seems to be leaning more towards sending some kind of weapons and this probably was and was designed deliberately to undercut that position within the administration and shore up those who are saying no sending weapons is

a really bad idea. well third time lucky or so the saying goes that may be the case for greece as another bailout looms germany warns that athens will need yet another financial rescue while impoverished greeks take to guerrilla tactics in an attempt to literally tighten up these desperate times this and much more after a short break right here at r.t. . this is the media leave us so we leave the media. by the scene motion security play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from. politic only on r t. e speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic

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the protesters have been calling for a boycott of the winter olympics or for russia to be stripped of hosting them over what they say is a crackdown on gays the u.k.'s prime minister rejected the games a boycott but didn't calm down the protests the most furious rhetoric came out from renowned actor and gay activist stephen fry who condemned the olympic committee for not trying to fight what he dubbed as russia's a barbaric laws he went as far as drawing parallels between moscow's actions and of those of nazi germany against the jews the olympic committee really iterated sports should be available to all and that the new law will not affect those attending the games british british journalist neil clark believes the west is attempting to use the law to demonize russia and nazi germany homosexuals really were discriminated against they were putting to 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 now i'm not saying i support but i oppose all anti-gay laws wherever that passed in the world but why stephen fry focusing on russia there are about eighty countries in the world where homosexuality is actually illegal one of them it's a country where the world cup is going to be helping twenty twenty two you go to prison for five years if you're homosexuals it's political i think that's because i said there's eighty countries that have worse records on gay rights than russia stephen fry's talking about that so i think it shows double standards here and it shows this could have russia phobia i think among the western elite that they look down at russia they patronize them and this idea that in russia people who are homophobic they're racist it's nonsense it's not true. as western activists rise up against the new russian law artie's an isa now i went to find out what it's like for the gay community in moscow and she discovered it's far from being suppressed. there's. no stoli no sochi. dumping russian vodka and calls 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 massive 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 a protest against the 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 lawyers to soften thirty years ago there was criminal carnage meant for being if you take examples from some states in the u.s. the relationship is much crudely and strict and these propaganda law forces 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 he wants to hold on to that. this is one of moscow's many gay nightclubs yes it's in a discreet location but it holds three thousand people is. time on the weekends and is full of foreigners it's owners asked us not to film on the inside to protect the

privacy of its clients but reassure us business is booming there is a happy arriving excitable you know wonderful gay community which is happy 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 the sons of these 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 he's with this capitalist boom with excising western lifestyle i was in such a last week filming there's a gay community that has a great day scene but the west has a b. and its on it regarding russia politically. stay right there to go and he's now a r t moscow. well from a fast back to

a hunger strike the muslim holy month of ramadan has come to an end and the inmates at the notorious prison have continued to refuse food for protest against indefinite detention and inhumane treatment has now entered its seventh month terry holbrooke's a former security guard at the camp claims that the instructions he was given were harsh. we were taught not to interact with them not to look at them as humans not to talk with them not to speak but had nothing to do with them unless it was absolutely necessary important to work we were told to be very aggressive in searching growing and sometimes i don't think any of us as guards felt comfortable doing that as a result of such we didn't do that there were certain rules that we were given that many of us just didn't all of we didn't see them as as being a political logical or ethical in some circumstances and as a result such we didn't implement them you know that hundred sixty six for meaning we've had to live in the year to find any shred of evidence to charge try and

convict them and we've not been able to do that nor we've been able to falsify the evidence. the white house has a reiterated that it is standing by president obama's pledge to close the detention camp but it seems that the flow of money to the prison isn't drying up the total cost to keeping the facility running will reportedly exceed five billion dollars by the end of two thousand and fourteen and this year alone the pentagon plans to spend almost five hundred million to maintain the site this means that every day the us government sponsors out one million dollars of taxpayers' money on the controversial camp and right here you can see the breakdown about how this is a tab all works out the major chunk is spent on security while legal and court issues come in second only fourteen million dollars are allocated to fund prisoner review boards. now the numbers are in for greece and they are bad the country is going to need

a third bailout within months according to germany's central bank even then the risk of default is considered to be unusually high and the performance of the greek government has hardly been satisfactory matters aren't any better on the home front with impoverished greeks themselves now giving up on unfulfilled promises of recovery here's artie's peace peace could offer more. for millions of europeans it's impossible to imagine a life without things like refrigerators television computers and electricity in general but no matter how difficult it may be the reality is every month more of those living in the cradle of the european civilisation are being forced into the dark. for two years now christina hasn't been able to pay her electricity bills she can't find work and work in her brother two daughters or their husbands. as the bills begin piling up i had to make my priorities and this is where the food comes first i want to pay the bills and i want to be

a case of the state but the state hasn't been ok with us with one in four greek strongly unemployed christine is far from the only person who's electricity has been cut off and that's where these guys come in young radical and very determined activists from the i don't see movement illegally reconnect power to as many as two hundred homes per month for three. the vast majority of the society is to be. sunk into poverty only a few of them for families across the world to have the ninety nine percent of their. wealth that's not something that. we want to bear. they reconnect old society to homes or disconnect power from loopholes making them free for motorists or sometimes we target the underground today the i don't pay movement has over ten thousand members across greece and is gaining supporters despite being targeted by more than one hundred on going more

seats no respect to when you know we say that the thousands of people with no relief they said it will coca no electricity a field water so this will winter we will warn them because it's a very big hit with a p.p.o. greece's government continues to promise economic miracles despite the country's status having been recently downgraded to emerging market. but the greeks are tired of empty promises and now more and more are digging matters into their own hands even if that means breaking the law you want to spin off athens greece. well coming up we report on drugs gangs and the police raids in the mexican city of tijuana that's after a short break right here. the

u.s. government project aero marti has been in place for twenty years this project was designed to break the media monopoly of cuban television by putting u.s. government propaganda up to t.v. screens this injection of american t.v. works with a blimp and a c one thirty military plane working in tandem you know this would actually be a major achievement in the history of technology if it actually worked this program which over the years has built up a billion taxpayer dollars simply does not work but continues to exist despite the cuban government completely blocking the transmission the official logic of continuing the program is that it would send a bad message to the cuban government if they stopped brilliance and action but the big question is who gives the u.s. government the right to propagandize cuba is just because they have a different lifestyle doesn't mean it is wrong and the u.s.

government does has the right to destroy it and even if cubans on mass actually do hate their system then it is their job to change cuba not the military industrial complex and its cronies in washington but that's just my opinion. you have any welcome to. here you can feel it.

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