russia's foreign minister says moscow is being blackmailed by the us which is trying to force through grounds for military action in syria this is a u. turn to what's already agreed. on merkel wins the general election but not with enough votes for her party to rule on its own how many in europe appear frustrated with germany's choice. and we're saw in iran's leader readies for the un general assembly pushing to ease economic sanctions that appear to hit the weakest part of the iranian society. you're watching our team live from moscow i'm going to france thanks for joining me

. russia's foreign minister believes that western states are undermining its efforts for a peaceful resolution to the syrian conflict after weeks of diplomatic talks to avoid military action in the war torn state sergey lavrov says that the u.s. and its allies are simply looking for a pretext for a military strike in syria artie's guyana to come and has more details the u.s. says they will stop the work toward securing syria's chemical weapons if russia does not sign off on a u.n. security council resolution based on chapter seven that would allow use of force so you are upset this is not something that he and u.s. secretary of state john kerry agreed on in geneva the russian foreign minister said instead of using this agreement brokered by russia to get rid of syria's chemical weapons the u.s. is now trying to achieve other goals quick listen. i remember compartments are starting to blackmail us they see if russia does not agree to a chip to seven resolution in the u.n. to see who will stop working with the chemical watchdog in the hague this

completely counters what we agreed on with john kerry namely the chemical watchdogs decision and then a supporting a solution from the un to see what without chapter seven. so you lover of also talked about the conflicting interpretations of the un investigators were poor the report gave description of substances and shells that the u.n. experts saw on the ground in syria but no indication of who use the chemicals in august twenty first attack near damascus russia says it's looking at the evidence that rebels have used sarin gas there is a report by israeli experts saying the rebels took control over the areas with chemical weapons facilities at least twice and they may have gotten hold of it it is also known that members hope job but almost attempted to smuggle containers with sarin gas via turkey so russia is not at all convinced that the assad government can use the weapons but whatever classified evidence the u.s. says it has it has not presented it to the u.n.

security council expecting the international community to take washington's word for it the russian foreign minister said the u.s. has a hard time coming to terms with the fact that decisions on global security have to be taken together take a listen. this part is a blinded by an ideological goal to remove the assad regime they want to show the big can call the shots in the middle east you know they're mostly concerned with proving their own supremacy and not the task that we're driven by which is to solve the syrian chemical weapons problem. so your lover upset only extremists will benefit from such a blind approach as he called it he talked about the chaos in iraq in libya and the iraq and referring primarily to the us he said they simply choose not to talk about how it chain of their actions led to a catastrophe in the region. russia and china have repeatedly blocked security

council resolutions on syria that would allow military intervention in the conflict historian and middle east expert mark almond believes there is a precedent for russia and other states to reject any potential military action in syria. remember of libya in march of two thousand and eleven the resolution was presented as a humanitarian resolution to prevent the libyan army gadhafi forces entering the city of benghazi but it was used to justify more than six months of bombing until gadhafi was overthrown and in july the british prime minister david cameron said that over syria we don't want a resolution like the one on libya that would have labeled us to engage in regime change he was trying to reassure russia and china but precisely because back in march of two thousand and eleven david cameron barmah president sarkozy said this was just a humanitarian resolution to deal with the immediate crisis in benghazi undoubtedly not just russia and china but other countries like india brazil south africa of a suspicious that a resolution which authorized force over chemical weapons could be used to justify

a broader range campaign to remove the regime and install a different government protesters although i have to say i think if we look at what happened in libya the chaos that followed i would be very reluctant to predict that even if the west was able to pursue a military option in syria that it would produce a regime that most people in the west would feel comfortable with. for the latest on the syrian crisis log on to our website r.t. dot com there we've got a detailed look at the comments made by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov on the situation in syria had on line for all the highlights of that interview.

on the merkel has won germany's top job again but the landslide victory is overshadowed by some tough coalition choices the conservative bloc christian democrats took forty one point five percent of the vote and that's not enough support for merkel's party to rule on their own as their main rivals the social democrats led by peer steinbrück came in with twenty five point seven percent a coalition between the two will be hard to reach artie's peter all over has more from berlin. well it was a resoundingly result for angle and merkel however now the big question is just what kind of government will she preside over her christian democratic union didn't get the amount of votes that we needed the amount of seats that we needed for them to have an overall majority and more importantly their coalition partners going into this election the free democrats well they didn't even get over the five percent threshold to allow them to have seats in the parliament what this means is that there's going to be a different kind of german government coming out at the end of this election what

perhaps we could see what's the most logical choice is a resurrection of the ground coalition that's a coalition of the christian democratic union the social democrats it's the type of coalition that anglo merkel presided over in two thousand and five five after she won her first term as german chancellor what we're waiting to see though is what type of negotiations that done between those two sides between the the christian union the christian democrats and the social democrats to try and work out how they can form a cohesive cohesive union we could see tax increases here in germany that was something that the the s.p.d. had pushed for we could even see a minimum wage introduced which was another thing they campaigned hard on one thing that we are unlikely to see though is ph who is angela merkel's main contender going into this election being any part of that he did say he would take part in

the goshi ations but he wouldn't serve in a grand coalition so third term for angela merkel if it sees her after after that it will see her become the longest serving a female political leader in european history but some of those in europe are wondering what that will mean for them four more years until a merkel's election when you see comparisons with another three female leader. on markers for the dinar merkel is a follower of margaret thatcher this is that euro zone two point zero mark a lesson of one similarity policies between the two is they both pushed privatization although with mrs merkel case that's not been its home but in cash strapped eurozone states. we have this obvious privatization agenda that is an essential feature of european politics it's not people and social needs that get addressed but business angela merkel supported the decision by portugal to sell off

some of its publicly owned companies it's not clear sometimes whether what he is proposing for other countries she will do it itself in germany it's natural that some countries would question whether the call for privatization of countries is a way to open a. room for german companies are many countries angela merkel has convinced the german people that she's the right person for the job but across europe people are wondering what four more years of her leadership will mean for them. it is going to be negative that's logical she's the symbol of the recession in europe. is the worst. nothing will change for those when we get more jobs and people have work then we can have growth i don't expect anything from the germans. of course critics accuse her of pushing europe in the wrong direction. merkel must be

stopped as well as those wholly represent the interests of international finance who are going to strike just like other satcher parts of northern england where a lot of demonstrators receive the same greece today it leaves three years of an agreement and poor living conditions. whether she's the new lady not sixty four more years of the merkel. as the world's most powerful woman these are all of the. let's talk more about what merkel's third term will mean for her country and the rest of europe with german journalist manwell oxon writer thank you very much for joining me sir can you tell me you know with with merkel coming out a winner again will her government even be strong at this time around to push her policies through. yes i i think there will not change so many things when we compare know the new the new the next four years of

market to the to the last four years of that we have to see that in all important decisive project. she has a vast majority in the parliament not just her own party but in the new parliament at least two other parties the greens and the social democrats who support the big decisive coccyx let me just a few weeks on the first example is how to rescue the euro the euro risk to approach and the other things for example in foreign politics. to send german soldiers in foreign missions and so on so we will see there will not change so much because for the size of projects she has some i dorothy. ok so be the brand new party alternative for germany almost got into parliament we're talking four point seven percent of. the vote to just short of the five percent threshold was this a surprise to you. well when we talk about the turn to for

t.v. for deutschland we have to see that we talk here really a political party i told you before that for the big project the euro rescuing project can rely on a vast majority in the parliament they have clearly said they will not support the euro skeptic party it would be a new party so. we know from paul its that in germany almost twenty to thirty percent of the people who support the euro skeptic party so it's not a surprise that they had almost five percent for a lot of people it's a pity that they didn't manage to get into the parliament that they didn't get more than five percent of course also from germany at this time that this is a way of democracy also to give those people voice who oppose its politics towards the european union and against the risk of the euro currency

so essentially you know what is your opinion as far as why are we seeing so many non-mainstream parties gain strength in germany. well first of all we we have to see to analyze that election we had yesterday the first point is that we have a huge party nobody's talking about and this is the party of the nonvoters almost one third of the germans didn't participate at the elections yesterday in two thousand and nine it were a little bit more who didn't participate so that's means one thing almost one third of the people it's not represented in the parliament then we have to see that almost fifteen percent of the people who participated yesterday at the elections are not represented in the parliament this means these are all the voters for the euro skeptic party if the the voters for the liberal party and for the other parties will reach their own six percent so we see that this so-called huge my

dorothy for that cd would for angela merkel it's not anymore so he would when we take into account that people are so many people are not represented in our parliament and this is a sign of a crisis this is a sign of a crisis also if democracy in germany and it's time for turn the power to use it it's time for parties who speak out what those people think and what those people mean and they don't want to elect always let me say like this. the less evil they want to vote for a party they they they can support by their heart and so i think yes it's time for turning to fargas and as for example ballot and on t.v. . all right we'll have to leave it there thank you so much for joining us. for many angela merkel has become the symbol of austerity measures and with greece awaiting another dose of bailout medicine the country's preparing for

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the concerns you. choose the opinions that you think great to. choose to stories could impact your life choose the access to your office. welcome back you're watching our t.v. live from moscow and lindsey france thanks for joining me iran is reaching out to world powers to revive nuclear talks sparking hopes of resolving a standoff that's dragged on for years ahead of his upcoming address to the u.n. general assembly the country's new leader hassan rouhani pledged not to seek atomic weapons demanding the west make concessions and ease painful sanctions as artie's policy player reports the restrictions are hurting the most vulnerable. the aim of sanctions is to harm the state but the real victims are ordinary regular people

what small experience has shown that there's a huge wedge between what ordinary people experience under sanctions and what the eat to mohamed we heidi is one such case study he's a cancer victim in iran. it is my second communitarian program previously each session cost approximately three hundred dollars these days it costs about seven hundred dollars it is also a challenge to get the medication because you have to go to almost every drugstore asking for them and also because the prices are way too high i get a chemo session once every two weeks and i am a pensioner. there has never been more doctors also frustrated not only is the problem the cost of medication and getting that medication but also getting medical supplies its upkeep can also be a nightmare. if we have a problem getting high tech modern equipment to treat our cancer patients there are

numerous obstacles for importing the equipment due to the sanctions in place against iran we have some equipment but it requires spare parts that we can't get anywhere a failure of any single piece or part of this equipment causes us to stop operating the entire machine history has shown that sanctions are a failure but in those few very instances where they do bring about some kind of diplomatic agreement that takes a long time merely prolonging the suffering of ordinary citizens the president rouhani and barack obama are expected to meet at the u.n. general assembly in the first face to face between an american and iranian leader in over three decades but as assistant professor at the mom said dick university mohammad hasan conny says there's resistance to this thaw in both countries. if you want all sorts for some hopefully consider yours in results of more concerts it's on you won't believe. it's good for the worst to think that you were in north for

calls from the richness the skeptics or all the slow food into on washington. warmer months of the mists of bio the possibility of sorts of breakthrough and even look one. slow growth one a solution to call ruth their own people their own functions their own political fortunes this is in the business the interests of both sides so the human warmth here is common as critics say it sanctions on iran have not proven effective in achieving political aims no matter their scope or duration the restrictions are justified as being better than war but they only seem to make things worse for the people within the countries north korea has been hit by a range of economic and military restrictions by the u.s. over its nuclear ambitions if we look at the effects a shortage of food and medical supplies it's led to severe malnutrition while p.r.

nyang shows no sign of curbing its nuclear program syria too has been slapped with u.s. sanctions which have only aggravated the situation its economy is plagued by over two years of civil war and people are left struggling to deal with shortages of even basic foods cuba is another target of u.s. sanctions the elderly and men in particular there appear to be most affected and the loss of its economy to its economy is estimated to be around six hundred ninety million dollars annually so in all those cases it appears sanctions are hitting ordinary people hardest with little effect on the sanctioned states. there's plenty more on our team dot com for you including saved by the circuits it's revealed america was just one switch away from the nuclear disaster after an air force accidentally dropped two h. bombs over north carolina fifty two years ago. meanwhile in germany it's time for leader hosen and logger head to be in motion page on our website first dropped out

of the video for unix world famous beer festival. the troika of european lenders is now back in athens it will decide on a new bailout package aimed at healing the fragile greek economy meanwhile the country's teachers and trade union leaders have opened a week of protests promising more strikes to come and as artie's lucy catherine off reports the new installment of cash will mean even more austerity adding to public discontent. a team of international inspectors is here in athens for a fresh audit of the country's ailing finances with debt stricken greece hoping progress in reining in spending will unlock even more loans greece has been kept out of bankruptcy with two bailouts worth two hundred forty billion euros but revenues are falling short of expectations sparking fears that another rescue package could be needed to keep it afloat now each loan has come at a high price for ordinary people painful austerity measures have brought cuts to jobs salaries and public services and some greeks are asking whether sticking with

the euro is worth the cost instead of waiting for another bailout from europe some are suggesting that leaving the currency union altogether and one such boisterous theater cost a neighbor's he's an economist and former member of parliament now i had a chance to sit down with him earlier take a look do you believe that the cycle of bailouts for greece is sustainable policy for this country. to be there they have to be fit because we really we go to google to give us money not to. fulfil our needs but the big book. launch of the bust and the. bailout to this whole thing raises very human the. gut is why did you build into it with evident we will never regain the strength of our economic strength to.

an economic development to fight on the blog on the list because you're a beaut. is is made. basically for strong condoms he says. it doesn't suit least not true for you call me now polls do show that a large majority of greeks do not want to quit the euro just yet however more most people also seem to believe that the country's economy will never recover if it sticks to e.u. mandates to cut government spending enough to repay its debts reporting from athens loose accounting of r.t. a policeman and a migration officer have been killed in a terrorist attack in the russian republic of dagestan authorities say a suicide bomber detonated the car he was driving near a police station at least six people were injured in the explosion including civilians a nearby building collapsed and as a result of the blast it trapped people under the rubble. and now to our world

update starting with the ongoing hostage crisis in the kenyan capital heavy gunfire and an explosion has been heard from inside the nairobi shopping center where militants are holding several people hostage. gunmen are now threatening to kill the captives that's after the military announced that the siege was coming to an end with most people rescued the two day standoff has claimed sixty eight lives so far and injured more than one hundred seventy says the action comes in response to the presence of kenyan troops in somalia. to china now or take food to soggy has killed at least twenty five people around eighty thousand have been moved to safety the most powerful typhoon this year has led to hundreds of flight cancellations in hong kong the city's seaport one of the world's busiest has also been closed. mexico is seen eight thousand strong rally as pro as protesters flooded the streets of its capital to oppose new energy reforms president pena nieto is proposing to

open up the state owned oil sector to profit sharing contracts with private firms mexico's nationalization of its oil industry has become a popular symbol of sovereignty many in mexico are against any foreign or private investment in the industry. hero to some traitor to others whistleblower edward snowden has not been seen in public since russia granted him asylum two months ago to find out more about his current lifestyle r.t. interview show so fico spoke to one of the few men in touch with the fugitive leaker you'll be able to watch the full exclusive interview with snowden's lawyer anatoly at nine thirty g.m.t. in the meantime here's a quick preview. emerge you have to understand that he found himself in a very tough situation it. his position may change over time but right now he's adapting to his new circumstances studying russian reading russian classics in english because naturally he hasn't been able to master the language yet. so this

point that's the choice he has made to north well as for his communication with the outside world yes i am his main contact as for friendships of course he has some people he's close with that name in america both in america and here because as i said when we began to discuss where to place him and how to organize his live his american friends were part of the decision making process of course any person who dares to challenge a superpower has to realize that they will have to look over their shoulder for the rest of their lives. he can't just go to a nightclub or a restaurant like you and i but more so because you can tell the u.s. government very much like to get to him he's got the.

i'll be back with the news team in about thirty minutes up next our team takes you to a football sized field football field sized island if human. the macmillan family in canada has decided to defy time itself and keep their family trapped in one thousand nine hundred six sort of like new age only for one year and not their whole lives so to live in one thousand nine hundred the family forbids the use of any technology developed after the mid eighty's they want their children to experience the world they grew up in when you had to read books and if you're outside no one could call you and there were no tablet computers to stupefy

children at a moment's notice as a parent i have some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen the technology is dumbing us down a lot i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information about any scientific or historical topic is one click away if you find the idea of the self-made man romantic that now is your time because anyone who has the will to learn it can learn you know i don't come from money without the internet i would definitely not have this job and i'd probably worshipping at the feet of rush limbaugh deluded by the mainstream media modern technology can make your mind with information or break it with cat videos and dumb trendiness but that's up to you and this is just my opinion.

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