from around the. globe. the u.n. resolution on syria's chemical disarmament should allow the use of force according to russia's foreign minister who tells his french colleague he wants more pressure on the syrian opposition to join peace talks. a mass shooting in the u.s. capitol leaves thirteen dead in the known gunman targeting a heavily guarded naval facility the motives behind the attack us and unclear. on r.t. speaks exclusively to the lawyer of whistleblower edward snowden as we pieced together the details of the fugitive everyday life months after his revelations lifted the veil on the n.s.a.'s sweeping snooping activities.

and online twenty four hours a day you're watching. russia and france both want progress in syria's chemical disarmament haven't yet agreed on how to get there the country's top diplomats failed to reach a consensus on a u.n. resolution on syria at the moscow meeting paris the document to allow the use of force russia doesn't pull scots has more. the tone of the press conference was really rather interesting with both sides stressing in highlighting their similarities rather than their differences both sides saying that their objectives for syria are the same that is peace in the country brought about by diplomats diplomatic and political means the only difference really seems to be how to get there and in particular the wording of this u.n. security council resolution of the united nations will try and find common ground and try and agree on

a resolution that would really give legal and binding support to the deal that was agreed in principle between moscow and washington in geneva over the weekend this is the deal that syria has also agreed to it would see damascus disclose and declare that chemical weapons stockpile by the end of the week and have it destroyed by the middle of next year now the usa the u.k. and france of course suggesting that the threat of military intervention and sanction should remain on the table if damascus fails to comply with this resolution however russia says this is counterproductive and are necessary and only if damascus fails to comply only then should the issue be taken back to the u.n. security council or not before and that the threats of military intervention and sanctions should not be included in the. resolution that the other topics that were discussed by the foreign ministers in moscow on tuesday included the possibility of a geneva two conference where both sides in the syrian conflict get around the table and try and discuss a way

a peaceful resolution to the end of the conflict now russia says they can get representatives representatives from the syrian government around the table however the opposition are unlikely to do so without the precondition that president bashar al assad stands down but at the moment that looks extremely unlikely. and the u.n. report which came out on monday confirmed that chemical weapons were used in syria last month but doesn't say who carried out the attack u.s. britain and france all think in from. mation documented points to the syrian government was so fast says russia's ambassador to the un bitterly chicken russia believes rebel involvement should be investigated too over the origin of the sarin noted rockets that were used and where they were in the alleged from. one question which i sort of wondered out loud about in the course of consultations and there was no answer to that you know we have this scenario of the use of chemical weapons

on august twenty one by the government forces they are fighting with opposition armed groups and they fire a number of rockets with chemical weapons. trying to get to those armed opposition groups and there are no casualties in the the in the armed opposition groups is it even stereotypically possible to fire five or six rockets against your opponent and have all of them missed the targets well michael maloof had worked for the u.s. defense department and then in thirty years he showed us what he claims is a classified u.s. intelligence report indicating that al qaeda linked to abu from the al nusra front were in possession of sarin gas but documents also states that the poison could have been used in the attack on syria's not just city aleppo in march. i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with. classified information it's one one page i mean expecting others it's classified secret no foreign it's from

the n g i c or the national ground intelligence center the u.s. military did an assessment based upon fifty indicators and clandestine interviews that the sourcing siren originated out of iraq into turkey before some of it was confiscated in may in turkey and that there has actually been a more significant amount of crn production both in iraq and in turkey going to the going to the opposition principally al-qaeda and we've had separate reports now that al qaeda elements are rather significant numbers and have and now have permeated into the opposition so the ability to be able to. distinguish who gets what and where is going to makes it much more problematic for this administration when while a car bomb has exploded in syria at

a checkpoint to the country's border with turkey seven people have reportedly been killed in the blast they report said at least a dozen people have been taken to hospital bringing more of this as we get its. what's going on in syria on our website right now we're reporting about the obama administration waving provisions were to supply the syrian rebels. for more on that. mass shooting at a heavily guarded u.s. naval command center thirteen people dead including the gunman himself the shooter is believed to be a former navy reservist but it's still unclear what drove him to carry out the attack. i'm here on m. street in southeast washington d.c.

just a few blocks from the navy yard where police responded to an active shooting that we now learned led to multiple fatalities as of right now the fatality count stands at thirteen people including the suspected gunman who police have identified as thirty four year old aaron alexis who formerly served in the navy and was working as a military contractor witnesses describe the scene shot starting side the building and building one hundred seven i was not there i heard this and shots there inside the building i know it was on the fourth floor when i documented the building myself and other gentlemen were in the alley behind that building and that's where we were shot at the washington navy yard is the navy's largest on shore establishment today it serves as an administrative pub for the navy housing the chief of naval operations and the naval sea systems command many who worked at the navy yard were forced to shelter in place for as long as eight hours until police determined the scene to be safe we were shuffled around and just. wish they could home an area here is it where we could be took care of the spores like contacting

spouses family members with. the they were very very professional about that they made sure that we were comforted that during this traumatic situation those who worked at the building considered it secure this is a military environment and we all screen to get in and you know we thought to be on the seven vironment but again not on come on you know outside in d.c. area because we had a military zone but for that to happen is quite unfortunate to believe the suspect may have acquired a security card from someone who has access to the building there are no metal detectors in place as part of security as of right now there is no known motive and survivors are still trying to piece together what they lived through. that's going to be tough in washington sam sacks are to. well president obama has described the latest attack as a cowardly act while the. u.s. has witnessed numerous gun attacks in recent years in november two thousand and

nine thirteen people were killed and thirty two injured in a rampage carried out by an army psychiatrist at fort hood texas two years later twelve people were shot dead when a gunman entered a movie theater in aurora colorado that's than six months after that adam lanza attacked the sandy hook elementary school think twenty six mostly children in march this year another shooting spree at a military base left three dead including the attacker opened fire on fellow service personnel and a few months later an unemployed twenty three year old killed five people including his own father and son to monica the latest shooting l.f. the country's capital in turmoil government facilities and schools were placed on lockdown and flights suspended from a nearby airport the targeted may be command centers just blocks away from capitol hill on the white house as you can see here on this map this whole analyst gordon duff says that such incidents highlight major flaws in america's security system

the issue we have i think is that we have a massive amount of security in places where it's highly visible where the threats are really very very low they're done for appearance sake only. america is it is a country with maybe two hundred million or more privately owned weapons. the idea of increasing security in the united states the people are very much against it they're tired of twelve years of being followed catalog wiretapped apparently all our mail being read. people are tired of that. there is no amount of violence that's going to bring the american people to a point where they're going to want more government more watching more security more big brother. well coming up later in the program a euro skeptic. coming up next on the money the chances of the merkel's.

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to mission free cretaceous free. free. free. free. free. download free blog video for your media project for free media. human rights watch claims there's evidence that bahraini security forces routinely detain and abuse children suspected of participating in antigovernment protests that's according to a press release issued today we have a copy of this document and his a quote from it information recently obtained from victims from. members and local rights activists suggests that bahraini authorities often hold children for long

periods in detention and subjected to similar forms of mistreatment and adult detainees including beatings and threats of torture nicholas mckeon the one of the authors of the release shared some of the alarming details it's part of a broader crackdown on bahraini society an arbitrary detentions are very common mistreatment and detention is common and it often rises to the level of torture what we found is that there is a failure to distinguish between child detainees and adults so the children are mistreated in the same manner as as adults i think the most alarming serenading issues referring to in this brief research that we conducted was the children being threatened with rape children being threatened with electrocution and children being beaten one point. getting outside of a police station was only stopped or or lessened when our senior officer was brought onto the bus and he reportedly said beat them but do it quietly the

evidence that we produced would appear to be perhaps only the tip of the iceberg unfortunately. a month has already passed since russia granted asylum to fugitive american whistleblower edward snowden he hasn't been seen in public since then or any details of his current life revealed my colleague it's about what's a spoke to lottie's lindsey france for more on the mystery man. so where is the snowden well that's the question everyone wants answered as quickly as possible there was word when he left the airport initially that he was actually staying with american friends so we sat down with anatoly don't know which is he the lawyer assisting him ever since he got here in russia we asked him that very question and this is what he has to say that it is impossible at the moment to reveal where he's living we'll talk openly about it we believe the danger remains quite high what sort of danger do you mean we. should go there well which is what you have to understand is that he's being persecuted by major holland in the u.s.

government and we fear that they could use some very serious consequences. it was even within the russian territory i mean they can chase and catch you if you're in russia. i don't think that is going to happen but we saw american special forces intervening in other countries also with regards to our own citizens they get detained abroad and transferred to u.s. attorney. this he goes. of course you don't he walks he can travel he enjoys traveling and he's interested in our history has he been recognised in the streets while he was traveling you know he hasn't been recognized not so far ok so he hasn't been recognized on the street so far but he is paying for his own private security team to watch out for him and his father is reportedly coming to visit him very serious got to get all the paperwork taken care of so there we go speaking of security there was talk of him getting a job here so i'm guessing that he must be getting some kind of funding somewhere how's that going on for him i mean does he have any office on the table do we know

that well there's plenty of offers the question is will it be a book deal that he takes up will it be work as a program or will it be a talk show who knows we asked about this specifically and here's what he told us he's still receiving a huge number of offices and people are writing to him and calling the offer assistance because they understand that this. needs to settle here he also gets calls from business executives from different companies who want to give him a job have there been any offers which surprised you. yes there was a woman about fifty years old who couldn't suggest. i found that pretty amusing yet as you can imagine an adoption office pretty amusing and also when he was in the airport he was also getting marriage proposals from women here and as you can imagine any business executive it would increase the public attention on their company if edward starting were to take a job there but i could china does mention that he is very interested in that

snowden is interested in doing human rights activism here in russia especially in light of what brought him here to begin with so we'll be watching that closely. well that was just a preview of our exclusive interview with the lawyer assisting out of snow so you can catch it in full next week here not. germany will be electing a new parliament this weekend and it's promising to be a close race with no party heading for an outright majority coalition talks are likely without sort of factions possibly having a decisive influence on what the bundestag looks like come next week also you squeeze all over attended a rally of one of the parties that is now unexpectedly set to make a crucial difference. that germany's political new kids on the block but it does seem that alternative for germany will have

a key role to play and shaping what the country does politically over the next few years no the most recent polls ahead of the elections next sunday suggest that alternative germany will be taking a good four percent it's expected they'll take far more from not when germans actually get in to the voting at the polling stations now five percent is what you need to take a seat in the bundestag and it seems alternatively germany will do just that a euro skeptic party they are anti euro and their party leader has been outlining exactly what he wants to do when just when the alternative for germany gets into the bundestag well you know that but you're a skeptical skeptical of the efforts to find currency and that we have a number of other issues like for instance our energy policy or like the ability of our social security systems on a business of grange and you to ration your needs i can you show off if you change the hundred or so he's going to do i mean just because you will think for years as

much as this is being a good campaign for alternative for germany it's been horrific for angler merkel's current coalition partners the free democrats in fact many of the voters that would have voted for a democrat seem to be turning towards other parties like alternative in germany now what that could mean is some pretty dicey discussions when it comes to getting together a coalition here after the election and alternatively germany's members are saying that if angle or merkel wants them to be part of a coalition it's her that's going to have to move towards them not the other way around but we will never work with angela merkel if she is not willing to soften her stand on the euro as it has right now it would be a real upset if angle in her call wasn't returned as german chancellor after sunday's ballot but it does seem that after the votes of being cast the real political wrangling will start when it comes to forming a new coalition here in germany. on air and online head to our website for more including following french footsteps as paris moans having religious symbols in

universities british m.p. calls for muslim veils banding newquay schools. in modern america one that companies drones have been grounded for on the horizon mapping flights over colorado's flood zones one of their sort ought to dot com. write the state. first strike. and i would think that you're. on a recorders with their. instrument. to be in the. some other international headlines this hour because the concordia cruise liner has been pulled upright in two months after run aground off the coast of tuscany

killing thirty two people are now being towed away in scrapped after nineteen hours of efforts by engineers the crash started siders out of the water pollution from the wreck has been detected three. hundred ninety meters vessel is longer than the titanic with more than double the tonnage. texaco continues to contend with flooding and landslides of two alpha storms left three people dead on it wouldn't wane harkening grid has been raging on both east and west coast this disaster forced evacuation of tens of thousands of people from the stricken regions. dozens of houses were buried in the mud slides and talk on electricity. a glowing message was beamed onto the side of the japanese embassy in berlin overnight the action in protest at japan's

recent victory to host the twenty twenty one big games was organized by german artists or even. the stunt was designed to draw attention to the latest spike in radiation levels fukushima nuclear plant crewmembers from your agency roughly were briefly detained by police in the protest. the artistic director of russia's bolshoi ballet has returned to work eight months soft an acid attack nearly blinded him so they feel in the hudson georgia dozens of operations on his eyes and face the bolshoi as top dances known for playing the villain the swan lake is now on trial for ordering the attack the instant exposed a bitter rivalries inside the world of russian ballet caused ripples worldwide let's get more on the stuff montes for spondon summer doing a collection of the bolshoi theater for us will be there today the bolshoi well as in the new season doesn't it a poignant moment for a surrogate for then perhaps. it is it does and it is

a very important moment so overall for the theater and indies as you just mentioned the artistic director of the budgetary theater siggy phelan has a return to moscow after a really long eight months of magical treatment and also following twenty two operations that you had on fees on ice and face off through the acid attack that nearly blinded him now this is it tuesday is indeed his first official working day as he came to the theater to take courage and the troops from the union and made me sad that he looked very alec and he was very wearing a black suit and he was also wearing sunglasses but that is already a usual like south street for mr fellaini especially in the last eight months so he was wearing these sunglasses they were covering his face and he also looked very concentrated and he very smile it's a bug so many people at the theater said that he looked like he is very ready to

continue his work at the theater now this is a terrible attack that was made to the global hotlines happened on the seventeenth of january as mr phelan was coming back home a strange red tide human rights advair e close to his apartment building and through a board of passage rights entered his face now and that was in detail for you find him. event to happen in the cultural world the russian capital and b. of investigators had a number of versions on the water had proved both such an incident to happen in the first place but of course everything was a leading to he is a work to the theatre as being the artistic director of the theatre of course he had a lot of paul were now currently. top dancers who also made his name by playing villains and swan lake on the terrible his name probably changed go now he's on trial on charges of ordering the attack and he on the other two people who

allegedly helped him in performing this attack now face up to twelve years and prison ever convicted but as forced to be fillin if he says that you will need further medical treatment and even maybe some further operations but still the artistic director is back at the theater. ok with reports a lot of it from the bolshoi theater thank you for the civil rights groups have been raising your knowledge in the us where over the weekend police officers opened fire on unarmed civilians in two different states all to use our remotes in that takes only issue in breaking the sets and today fifteen thirty g.m.t. . well over the weekend america's grossly over militarized police force once again showed its true colors first in the charlotte north carolina where police killed twenty four year old football player jonathan ferrell who was seeking help after miraculously surviving a car crash the homeowner called nine one one and told dispatchers that a man was repeatedly knocking on door leave when they arrived at the scene fairly

charged at them but something tells me that by charge they meant stumbling injured so naturally want to cops fired a stun gun and when that failed to stop them another police officer opened fire and killed him but not to be outdone in the police brutality department on the same day in new york city the n.y.p.d. opened fire in times square toward a man pretending to point a gun at officers sort of hitting the crazed man who was later found to be unarmed police struck two female bystanders protect and serve more like shoot first ask questions later. up next join us on a trip to one of the least accessible places on earth so it seems.

we've talked before about people getting in trouble throughout the u.s. city just for gardening in fact according to the christian science monitor a couple of florida has been fined five hundred dollars a day until they dig up their vegetable garden which is on their own property immediately people who write these articles draw comparisons to communist russia where people weren't allowed to grow their own food unless the state allowed it yes the revolutionary period in russia forced agriculture to change rapidly and often against the will of many of those involved and this did lead to starvation revolution isn't fun but what about after that while stalin and khrushchev gave a. a lot of which are private summer houses where people garden and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to sell to see all these pictures behind me these are people in the soviet union selling food they produced privately and legally but there were some moments in soviet history when there were some taxes placed on the sale of your personal goods from your

personal labor which according to russian website history of taxes was around ten percent whether you love or hate communism more than anything doesn't matter this half truth about shooting soviet gardeners burns like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact in the u.s. government for every reason in various forms clamps down on private gardens it isn't the same as communism but it's actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its lifespan where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary period but that's just my opinion. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse to notice. faces change.

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