a british woman is believed to have led the deadly assault on ninety nine robey shopping mall as kenya's foreign minister says up to three americans were among the attackers. and annual much anticipated show gets underway in new york with iran's newly elected president to steal the limelight u.n. general assembly. and the muslim brotherhood is banned egypt outlaws the activities of the organization behind ousted president morsi with the army forming its grip on power and the revolution seeming to come full circle.

you're watching our two live from moscow i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me fresh gunfire is reportedly heard from the shopping mall in nairobi where government troops are clearing out the remaining al shabaab militants holed up there this comes despite the country's interior ministry earlier saying the three day siege had come to an end with security forces taking control of the center and releasing the captives meanwhile kenya's foreign minister says up to three americans and a british citizen are among the al shabaab militants that attacked the building there are reports that a british woman samantha lewthwaite have may have been a mastermind of the attack she converted to islam as a young woman and married a man who was later a london seven seven suicide bomber she said to be among the militants killed in nairobi however this information is yet unconfirmed sixty two people have been killed in the hostage crisis for years the death toll may rise the assault was carried out by a group of somali al shabab militants in retaliation for kenyan military operations

in somalia brian levine director of the center for the study of hate and extremism says that young people from somali american communities are an easy target for extremist recruiters. there is a somali community in the minneapolis area which is very much against what's going on here by the way but that has been the main recruiting spot for the small splinter groups of youth still there have been stuff if you look she was there they didn't even get convince others to join them there's also been an effort over the internet and through other on line publications to recruit young westernized muslim youth from throughout the world to come to that area i think it's also kind of this youthful anti-establishment anti western

military response and they also feel if something else is jihadi cool which is permeated some of the social media as well and al qaida has been successful with using that we're closely following the story here but you can also head online to r.t. dot com there you'll find dramatic pictures from the scene and the latest update from the kenyan hostage crisis. diplomatic tension over syria's chemical syria's chemical disarmament is said to continue as world leaders gather for the united nations general assembly in new york city u.s. and russia earlier hammered out a framework agreement to put the syrian arsenal under control avoiding a strike that some countries still demand a threat of force to be put in a u.n. resolution parties and it's now reports from new york. world leaders are in new york this week for what setting up to be one of the hottest political debates this

year the u.n. general assembly kicks off amid a diplomatic battle over syria between russia and the u.s. john kerry and sergey lavrov set to meet on the sidelines of the assembly but just as it seems like diplomacy might prevail sergei lavrov saying that the u.s. is trying to pressure moscow into approving a u.n. resolution allowing for military intervention he adds that the u.s. claims in exchange they would be willing to continue working on syria's entry into the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons so russia and the u.s. no closer on their positions on syria with the u.n. security council also set to discuss the issue this week now the general debate starts off with brazil's dilma rousseff who recently counsel turf fishel state visit to washington after revelations the n.s.a. was spying on her and other high ranking brazilian officials obama is said to speak directly after rousseff so it will be interesting to see if any kind of tension

hangs in the air of the legendary green marble many south american countries in fact not happy with the u.s. after fallout from whistleblower edward snowden's leaks this year and iran's new president hassan rouhani will be making his u.n. debut on tuesday ahead of his visit there were many signals from him that he was more than willing to start a possible process of soy over three decades of frozen u.s. in radian relations the question is and many people will be watching is the u.s. ready to give him a chance reporting from new york and he says no way r.t. among among the most anticipated speeches at the general assembly is the address of iran's new president hassan rouhani he spoke we spoke to john limbert a veteran u.s. diplomat held captive by revolutionaries in the iranian hostage crisis between one nine hundred seventy nine and one thousand nine hundred one he says that any kind of interaction between the u.s. and iran will be a tremendously beneficial step for all involved. i thought. we

would have been talking to each other. years ago maybe not as friends but at least as. with common things to talk about if it does happen i mean it may just be a handshake or other brief encounter but even that at the same balik level would represent a huge change it's obvious that the u.s. and iran do have some competition syria for example and things to talk about over syria you know rational world we'd be doing exactly that there are always so what i guess you would call the professional out of iran haters around or the people who find it useful to beat the war drum but you have to ask yourself what all of this enmity. for the last thirty four years what does it accomplish if you beat your chest for thirty four years of the real what is the result going to be a very sore chest it hasn't it hasn't yielded much of anything else. and still

ahead this hour choking on dirty air as toxic levels in the skies over the british capital threateningly high blunder nerves feel as if the times of the great smog are back a report on the battle with the invisible killer is coming. islamist backers of deposed egyptian president mohamed morsi now face an even broader crackdown egypt's court ruled out a verdict disarming the muslim brotherhood seizing its assets without immediately making the exacta grounds for the ruling public the decision comes in connection with an earlier lawsuit accusing the organization of terrorism and exploiting religion in political slogans r.t.l. true reports from cairo. this is very significant particularly when you take it in the context of this huge escalating crackdown on the islamist group its members and that support is now this case it was filed by

a leftist party earlier this year who basically said it was functioning illegally in his capacity as an ngo reports of their weapons inside its headquarters in the competition so what the court now has ruled is that by ngo. bonds and of course its finances will be seized and of what we've expecting now is for the security the security forces to use this as a kind of carte blanche to go off to all the other myths of brotherhood figures who are already in jail the has already been a round up all of the leading members of the misbehaves including its ideological leader who is already imprisoned by strong mantra and even now drunken finally picked up in various different protests the missing brotherhood is technically already a banned organization it was in the one nine hundred fifty s. they filed they basically registered as an ngo in march of this year to give them a kind of legal fronts now but it's gone and this could basically mean that the government can do what they want with the organization who are waiting for the

moment is to see how this affects that political way in the freedom and justice party which is registered under separate legislation as a political party but what this really really does is allow the government and security forces to take it one step further and possibly political party and its members which would really contradict their rhetoric which is want to include include a story conclusion they want to include the muslim brotherhood in the political part of the future of egypt if they do by the political parties. then this is going to seriously contradict us so we expect to see further protests on the horizon and possibly an escalating isolation of this already very heavy crackdown. mohammad spokesperson for the activist group british egyptians for democracy believes that a lack of democracy in modern egypt accounts for the ongoing suppression of the muslim brotherhood what we've seen there was very surprising this is what all military coups does and as soon as they take power they go and go off to every

single political party that was opposing them in. the ones they actually took out of power this is really not just about the muslim brotherhood this is about every single political and social party as well as individuals from all backgrounds and from all political parties that oppose the military coup and this is again a politically motivated charge from the corrupted history anything built on a military coup cannot stand what the egyptians want is their voice to be heard through the ballot box not through tanks not through bullets not through the cold killing of peaceful protesters and what we're seeing now is there a modification is of this instability on the ground we've got a very unstable economy at the moment the military junta are insisting on driving the whole country and the entire nation through a very very dark tunnel and we are very worried for the future of democracy and the

future of egypt and just around the corner for you first food aid as one country in the grip of austerity turns to local volunteer groups to help put food on the table of those most in need for store shortly. technology innovation. developments around. the future avar. well the british science. writers. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike stronger no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. guys report. back to watching r t live from our studios in moscow and once in france thanks for joining me craving the resources hidden under polar ice some world governments are seeking a bigger slice of the arctic oil and gas the third international arctic forum about to kick off in russia's north is said to be focused on ecological security but for those taking part it's definitely more than just the environment at stake those

with the strongest foot on the polar door are the eight states with territory actually in the frozen region the arctic council consists of eight countries with russia canada and the united states boasting the biggest bites all of them along with six other observer states have sent delegations to the forum parties eager piskun of is there for us. well located in russia's north is the only city in the world situated exactly on the arctic circle that's why there's no wonder why it's been chosen to host the third international arctic forum the arctic still remains a region with the most unperson as borderlines but with vast energy resources and extreme weather conditions but as global temperatures warm up and ice caps melt the arctic is now opening up opportunities to more and more countries attracting even those not located in the region now due to its geographic location russia is among the countries with the biggest claims to the arctic like the loss of the ridge and the stockmen gas fields russia is forty five percent of the arctic territory so it

is fair that it actually also show that to the world it is really no tension between nations about the russia's claim to the arctic ocean and seabed but there are no big dispute about where the border probably will go they say of course seoul that also denmark and greenland have rights to the central part of the arctic ocean and so do canada but that's between them according to the un laws the see. no reason to believe that they shouldn't find a peaceful agreement moscow earlier said it's now planning to revitalize an old soviet military base on the no was islands showing the international community it is ready to protect its interests but this forum is all about dialogue apart from the russian president of leaders of iceland and finland are also going to be here and up to seven hundred participants all together including experts geologists explorers and others all sitting down and diplomatically deciding how to work out

the situation how to deal with the arctic how to preserve its energy resources and the environment as well. global warming and high energy prices have added fuel to international rivalry over the natural resources in the arctic even those with no territory in the region like china and india have managed to achieve observer status in the arctic council the e.u. also struggling for influence has had its application deferred or trees kitty pill bring has more on what's luring the world powers to the arctic as the climate in the arctic surges the scramble to secure multi-billion dollar deals and it's no wonder when you consider according to the latest estimate is enough to supply the entire world for three years china with a growing energy demand and increasing gas guzzling population is the unlikely contender in the race to secure a foothold in the el tick china has been wooing russia providing. an transnet with

a twenty five billion dollars to build an oil pipeline from siberia to china as well as payroll sniffed an additional sixty billion dollars to develop offshore fields in the arctic and china has also struck up a business relationship with iceland and as a result these tactics managed to secure a place on the arctic council for china along with the founding members the likes of norway and canada which of course have a geographical right to the area. our web team has more stories lined up for you on our team dot com including unlawful disclosure former f.b.i. agents on the brink of a three year prison sentence for spilling the beans to the press spoiling a top secret mission. plus new york's finest spread the word on apple i phone security time well spent their boss to say in the fight against crime.

download. stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't sit well with your mobile device so you can watch your t.v. anytime anywhere. as austerity continues to bite in portugal many find it increasingly difficult to put food on the table e.u. aid programs are also being cut making the situation in the recession hit country worse as the number of people in need rises local volunteer charities are coming to the rescue or to sarah for three ports. with a little of the chile they way. it's mother and her son and now reliance on the consul's hunger and helplessness increasingly common in

today's lisbon thankful eighty two charity could rethink the day to wait so long. it's almost a million people in the country estimated to be severely materially deprived and struggling to put food on the table charities like this become essential to plug the gap. at the start of the evening shift i think now because of the crisis we have a lot of families we do. within a society or food because. sometimes there are their mortgages and all that is only meant still here exactly things like employment has actually dropped a little bit and you know things are getting better slowly here i'm an economist myself so i think right now in portugal i don't believe liking. this strategy that we are taking because we should. we should focus on getting more employment then starting to have. some kind of.

peace they're going to hold these all stary t. kind of way your doing stuff is one of the roots with aims is to have like the first city in the world also not wasting food so you think you'll achieve it yeah we believe so we feed operate so what they call a micro local level they signed up restaurants and cafes in this area today now eight feet that they have left dave closing telling. me here some of them some of them a long series good for us some stuff sometimes we are like the pens on the various . today. it's great because the left being thrown into the garbage and. back at headquarters and it's all hands on deck to prepare the food parcels this the brainchild of this

learned a lot of the people who receive food have always struggled with crisis. and then we have people who. don't have work and don't have a. harder thing to them to take you know. to a situation in. which. we see those people to. save first started it was one man one so i turned around thirty restaurants during a little over a year and a half later and take a look at this they've got hundreds of volunteers they've expanded to sites more than a hundred. cafes and supermarkets more than half a day to the core with the country struggling under the weight of a start. seventy eight billion bailout and with spending cuts to

feed programs threatening provisions already in place in the future and the cool volunteered programs looks set to become increasingly important and say for tonight at least. a hungry so. it's been. and now to some other stories making headlines around the world at least ten people have been killed in mexico after gunmen attacked a home where people were celebrating a baseball victory a six year old girl was among the victims. which is plagued by drug related violence authorities say the victims were unarmed and the motive remains unclear the shooting is the largest massacre in the area since two thousand. and ten fifteen people were killed in an attack on a birthday party. israeli troops have fired rubber bullets and stun grenades in the city of hebron in the occupied west bank palestinian youths responded with stones

and petrol bombs violence erupted during the search for a suspected killer of an israeli soldier the army has been raiding houses arresting hundreds in several neighborhoods near the scene of the killing. police in bangladesh have clashed with garment factory workers in the third day of nationwide protests hundreds of plants have been forced to close as protesters called for better minimum wage one hundred fifty were injured in the unrest as workers set fire to several factories some. from one thousand employees some employees have one thousand hour shifts and are locked in their place of work. as their pollution levels in the british capital reach a high londoners are being encouraged to leave their cars at home and shift from four wheels to two artes polly boyko takes up the story. our blog the great london small given nine hundred fifty two written by locke in the causes of square miles

blanketed day off today reading this resume was in a coffee jam can be held in iraq today it appears much cleaner but the reality is that london's area's so dessie it's been breaching the legal limits set out by the e.u. for years. that a thousand deaths are attributed to pollution and people look at the air today and it's clean but unfortunately it's still very dangerous. air pollution today is completely invisible but the reason for this is it's very small microscopic particles and that's also the reason that they're so damaging to your health because they can travel deep inside of this system and it's london is controversial that's largely responsible for it cars and lorries emit and invisible gas called my trojan dioxide known as the silent killer its effects on noticeable it can cause or spiritual disease reduce lung function and according to the world health organization even trade on long term the biggest single source of notching dioxide

this toxic gas in london are actually these red buses going fast we are also very concerned about diesel vehicles diesel vehicles are responsible probably for about ninety percent of the most harmful exhaust emissions clientèle earth an environmental campaign group is suing the u.k. government for what they call failing to protect points from at pollution and failing to come up with plans to drastically reduce nitrogen dioxide levels we currently breaching limits in forty to forty three zones in the u.k. and sixteen of these we don't think we're going to reach them until twenty twenty and that's ten years after the deadline in may the supreme court ruled that the government isn't doing enough to reduce pollution and improve public health we got in touch with defra the government department responsible for quality and they told us equality has. improve significantly in london and we expect it to improve further thanks to the actions the government is taking to reduce transport emissions but campaigners say that charging cars to drive into central london and

introducing what the government has tagged as green the buses isn't enough i think they need to take a really hard look at what's necessary to reduce pollution in the u.k. that the choice is extremely difficult and electorally not very popular it basically means taking diesel vehicles off the road in the very foreseeable future you can imagine that's not a vote women have to deal with the city as it is and not some crazy green gone in which we all sit around. in the movie and maybe drugs are used to produce that is that is not going to that is not going to happen since it's not going to happen campaign as a raging london is to reach to that bit to make the air in the city clean up by shining that cars and paddling around town instead while avoiding the most polluted routes of course but it's not clear how much difference it will make since the

government itself admits that london will remain dangerously polluted until at least the year twenty twenty five. london. i'll be back with you in about half an hour up next the story of a man who dedicated his life to restoring a monastery on an island the size of a football field there with us for that. the mcmillan 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. so live in one thousand eight hundred six 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 paradigm some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen that 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 on any scientific or historical topic is one click away if you find the idea of the self-made man romantic and now is your time because anyone who has the will to learn can learn you know i don't come from money without the internet i would definitely not have this job and i'd probably be 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. i love. this place so sacred. they say the church was built here in the twelfth century and it was destroyed in the 1930's. people constantly chose this place to pray and by doing so they. created an atmosphere of holiness you can't commit a sin here even if you want to. that's what i do

want to come here one tyrant what would i do there but they came and stayed. until it changes every one little by little but in the lake and in the sea of life . most of the the island is so small that fermi's is the center. the center of the universe. given the sun i go to the island by motor boat that was in winter when lake open sky freezes over i go by car from the town of all into the snow by also skied there or went on for it to the island isn't very far from the lakeside about twelve kilometers which i've become so used to this route that it's.