president hassan rouhani says suspicions surrounding iran's nuclear program claiming there's no place for atomic weapons in his country and his address to the u.n. general assembly. greenpeace are accused of piracy after trying to storm a russian oil rig while the country hosts an international forum to secure our ticket ology. the u.k. abruzzi some citizens people of a tiny mid atlantic guardian who say they're being squeezed to make room for a u.s. military bags.

are you watching r.t. with me andrey farm. now addressing the u.n. general assembly iran's president hassan rouhani says he's ready for dialogue on the country's nuclear program he's called for a consistent voice from washington on the year she while obama also signaled his willingness to talk on the sidelines of the gathering in new york russia and the u.s. also continued their work on a consensus over syria. as this report. at his debut speech at the u.n. iranian president hassan rouhani stressed iran is not a threat but made to be won by other countries to promote interests in the region he said no military solution is acceptable in the region and the syrian crisis is a result of external influence to change regional order now rouhani talked about how people in the world are tired of wars and violence and how moderation is needed he added that iran is ready to cooperate he once again said iran is not seeking

nuclear weapons and is ready to help quell concern over its peaceful nuclear program but only assy you know on iran's nuclear program and for that matter that of all other countries must pursue exclusively peaceful purposes nuclear weapons and other weapons of mass destruction have no place in iran's security in defense doctrine and contradict their fundamental religious and ethical convictions. as expected he had a much softer tone than his predecessor but the israeli delegation was not present for rowhani speech in fact in an interview after his speech he did talk about the holocaust saying that it was a horrible crime against jewish people much different kind of rhetoric than we heard. from. in his speeches at the u.n. the u.s. was present for this speech a lot of hope of course that this we could see a reset of us here on relations no direct exchange between the president but the

highest level meeting since one thousand nine hundred seventy nine will be held as of now on thursday between foreign ministers now on the sidelines of russia and the u.s. continue their work to try and find consensus on syria sergey lavrov and john kerry confirmed the meeting was constructive love rove says there is a mutual understanding that the next step is to move forward with the geneva two format but the u.s. is now pushing for a stronger u.n. resolution on syria that would call for the use of force if it doesn't comply with plans to get rid of syrian chemical weapons russia is very wary of any kind of mention of force in resolutions because it believes it counters hampers diplomatic efforts and also wants to push for all chemical weapons on both sides both the government and the rebels to be destroyed the u.s. pointed out it will still act to protect its interests in the mideast in fact obama

in his u.n. speech said the u.s. is prepared to use all elements of power including military force to secure these core interests in the region and that's not a very good sign for diplomacy. what barack obama also stressed that president assad staying as head of the syrian state is not an option saying it would create an extremely violent space for extremists to operate antiwar activists brian becker believes they washington is just looking for a pretext to push through a military solution to the conflict. but the united states and what france are trying to do at the security council is the bully russia and china in order to get wording into that resolution that would authorize them to carry out military action under the rubric of the united nations but clearly the obama administration says it has the authority to act unilaterally but it would like to have some sort of shield or at least a mask for that sort of unilateral operation chemical weapons in this instance are

a pretext for an escalating intervention the obama administration's hand it's been stayed because of global opposition including massive domestic opposition in the united states they're trying to come back but they're in a weakened position right now it's a double standard it's hypocrisy the united states is trying to bully the u.n. security council to do what it really wants to do which is to escalate the conflict in syria to overthrow their government we model runs president hassan rouhani has said expansionist strategies in the region cannot be masked by humanitarian rhetoric and stressed any use of force would only deepen the syrian conflict and that's just one of the many points of contention between america and iran but is there a chance about open dialogue between tehran and washington so monstrous to that question that coming up in cross talk. am g.m.t. . it's both sides don't need to compromise it's not just washington iran has a whole history of deceiving the international community about its nuclear program

it's documented it's on record this isn't information that should be debated i think there need to come to terms with what is actually real and what is not and there is no there is absolutely not one iota of truth in what you just mentioned iran has always been transparent about this nuclear program but under pressure from the united states the i.a.e.a. start helping iran they've pulled back it's never been secret and this is in accurate. that's cross talk coming up a little later on now we are closely following all the developments at the general assembly we've got the details online for you and there you can listen to all the speeches by the world leaders all you have to do is click click onto r.t. dot com. greenpeace activists are facing piracy charges in russia after attempting to storm an oil platform in the arctic they insist their

protest was for the sake of the environment while investigators are calling it a reckless a soul but this comes as russia hosts an international arctic forum focusing on eliminating environmental damage in the region r.t. as you could piece can offer is following events. well the activists themselves say that their actions were peaceful but you have to understand that a floating oil platform is a sophisticated mechanism there's a whole system of traffic for ships moving around and connecting to it to load up fuel and just simply docking to it could cause massive consequences the including the damage to the environment but the activists didn't only try docking to the platform two of them tried climbing onto it one of them even fell down into the waters and according to the investigative committee in russia they say that they didn't only pose a danger to barrow safety but to the environment as well so now all thirty of them

from eighteen countries are now in the russian northern city of more than ones waiting for official charges which could go all the way up to piracy and terrorism but despite the scandal with the greenpeace activists what we're seeing here are truly international efforts to preserve the environment off the arctic russia for the third time is hosting the arctic international forum this time in the city of the only one located exactly on the line of the arctic circle over four hundred experts have gathered here and one of the main issues being discussed is the environment in the arctic a truly this region holds vast natural resources of the general understanding here is that the temperatures in the arctic have in general warmed up opening up new opportunities for countries to develop these natural resources and a lot of attention is now focused on preserving the environment meanwhile rush's celebrated. pioneering environmentalist. condemned the green test.

the operative but you extremist you i'm against such extremist action as greenpeace carried out on the russian oil rig with international forums for dialogue and consent but settle our issues through dialogue and cooperation. and as well paris team up to secure the ecology in the arctic rivalry over its rich oil and gas resources is heating up that also includes the potential threat of countries increasing their military presence in the region a seaman we as men from the stockholm international peace research institute expects. to talk about it's about them occasions of their territorial claims to talk about behavior digby actually corporate and certain types of search and rescue and those kind of things but it's still that you have areas which are claimed by like two or more countries where both countries are more

than two countries are patrolling sending ships or aircraft and when they meet each other it's always a little bit tricky what are you gonna do how much do you take from the other side and something can actually go wrong there is a risk clearly and an increasing trend on the decipher arctic countries to increase their presence to military presence in the arctic. you with r.t. we're going to take a quick break now but when we come back the olympics goes out of this world as a cosmic trio heads to the international space station on a mission to boldly take an olympic torch rights and have it gone before.

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dropped. to. zero again washed by the atlantic ascension island is a distant remnant of the british empire is still home to hundreds of people though the population has severely reduced over the past decade so let's take a look at this tiny dot is ascension island it's situated roughly midway between the horn of south america and africa it may be small but for the islanders the problem it represents is huge because residents and human rights activists accuse the british government of squeezing the life of the volcanic island and the reason america wants to expand a military base there artie's or smith investigates. tiny island in the mid atlantic major volcanic rock uncovered in pitch. but the eight hundred people.

but now the story of. the big another diego garcia the british and indian ocean islands whose inhabitants were forced to leave to make way for a u.s. base despite having lived there for generations islanders accuse the british government of. rooting families who've been there for more than a century ten years ago with all the difference britain was promising democratic institutions for the island a legal right to live and to own property it wanted a viable community but today the population's already decreased by. community is replaced by contract workers were tired or unemployed people eighteen had to leave and the similarities with. the dominant feature on the island is you guessed it an american base heavily president obama's recent trip to africa there are also

satellites and submarine tracking stations and one of the now infamous listening it's run by. the british government now conveniently insists ascension has no indigenous population and many residents believe they intend to evacuate the island completely and abandon it to the americans far from the dreams of a permanent home they had a decade ago. to haul in the special relationship. well for further discussion on this we are now joined by david lindsay he's in the u.k. but his family originates from the islands thanks for coming on to the program this morning as we said your family is from. people are being squeezed oh yes so let me just from our family my mother. family is from santa leader which is where most people on ascension island come from that are actually from ascension island and i have been there several times and as i say most most people are

essentially out of our sense of indian origin and my family certainly is that i was born there there is a very very strong sense that ascension island is being one might almost say starve to death and there is a precarious character of political representation there is the absence of guaranteed property rights are due to very much property rights at all that is everything that you showed in your film for which i think you profusely the situation on ascension island is now desperate in terms of the future of the community there which is a viable functioning community and as i say most people there are essentially settling in but people are born there people do live their entire working lives there people do wish to retire there but cannot do so may not do so is not permitted when they do return to safely usually. they have no rights to the essentially their own pension even though essential on it makes a significant contribution to the economy of st germain or a both through formal. deductions from people salary to their families back in say

toledo and also informally through customs sent through the post through customs carried by hand when people make the trip between the two islands and also for many many years the fishing rights around ascension island one party payable to the government exactly because essential is legally a dependency of saintliness despite that fact despite all of those facts there is no right to the island pension for centrally inborn people even who having made those contributions are really working lifetime return to sensibly retirement because they are not committed to remain on ascension out of the cycle and it's not really david you are saying that they're not directly being asked to leave but economically the situation is being engineered so it's a economically difficult for them they have to leave is that essentially the argument are firstly i would say that that would seem to be the case. yes and we must remember that it was in the middle of the last decade when there was the first serious talk about a right about which there never was. but they first put

a fence up around the american base on set later on essential an apologia i think that speaks for itself as to the attitude that we're now seeing and what can be done about this in the islanders themselves reacting in any way what pressure can i put on the government if any of well they're in a very well they are in a situation of having very limited political clout there is currently i believe it creates an elected council on on ascension and although it is purely advisory it is not legislative as the one center leader is. and that's us and that's as far as political representation goes i mean when that's the best you can do or the best you're permitted. think they really need friends elsewhere friends essentially no friends here friends wherever they can find them a grave injustice is being perpetrated they'd be they were little mini dance by the former government in this country and i'm a former labor party member from those days although now i have a more complicated relationship with they but you know they they were promised these things political representation property rights right of abode for people who

were born never be lived there for many years right to remain there in retirement and then suddenly a few years ago this was pulled from under them by the previous government i have to say with with no warning at all and they were told that none of this was going to happen. if this is because i don't think there's any serious doubt because of pressure from the american base there which is largely intelligence related and is connected to other stories that you certainly run on this station about what they're really doing there and it is a serious question to be asked about why on british territory british citizens living there these are full british passport holders people from st louis now are again they weren't for a while. that was taken away from the monarch with us but it was restored. why these people are being treated like this for the sake of a station a base which is almost certain you might know more of the details of those involved in gauged in the activities that have been such

a huge global story in terms of spying on. everyone but there is not going on british not of america thank you very emotionally or your minions today we have run out of time i'm sorry to interrupt you there but so thank you very much for coming on to r.t. to explain your thoughts thank you thank you very much like you it's been a pleasure and head online to get the latest from our web two we've got plenty more stories on there including naming the dead investigative journalist tackle the secrecy of pakistan drone strikes to find the real death toll of covert u.s. warfare. also there in greece the army is under fire over allegations it may be training members of the far right organization golden dawn all this and more is just a click away at r.t. dot com. they say education is the best investment but it could prove costly one to students in france scared away from the job market by

record unemployment figures many prefer to stay university but few can afford it and even for those who can there is still the question of what to do with their skills artie's tests are silly as this report. the point of view of six million unemployed youth as been well documented to date in france it's above twenty six percent and in deprived there is a big concrete it could go as high as forty percent the chances of getting a job are so slim some have opted to go back to school but even that is proving to be problematic as students fall back to university campuses like this one for another academic year student unions are sounding the alarm over the cost of funding one year of study away from their parental home they say they'll have to shell out between ten thousand five hundred euros and fifteen thousand five hundred each year a very steep price they say in addition to what they see as a bleak future ahead of the. story today the students from working classes have

less possibility to access university education because of costs the university tuition fees are not very high but the cost of living is very high returning to university this year is going to be difficult because all the fixed prices of food health what we call mandatory fees for social security all of it is going up in the month of september for the new school year he says is once again synonymous with sacrifice and financial hardship something that is all too familiar with a working student completing her degree of theater her story is not uncommon finding herself in a vicious circle of ashley puts it trying to live with someone and to me i'm an optimist but it's so complicated to think about my status and at the same time having to work you have to find a job but even if you find one there is no stable salary without a stable salary you can't rent a room it's not such an extreme idea that one day you'll end up on the streets

there are public servant accommodation but never enough to meet demand government funding the number of public housing doubled by twenty twenty but does little to ease the present burden of an already lost general. there's a bit of good news though the budget for student scholarships has been increased to one hundred eighteen million euros starting this month which student unions hope with me better university access and experience some of the country's poorest. and for many heading into higher education that extra cash is vital to allow them to make the most of their studies. many students get part time jobs to pay for their education that's ok if they were less than twelve hours a week but any more than education suffers from says experiencing an economic crisis and we need to have more graduates for the future it's urgent that the public power acknowledge the problem before it becomes catastrophic assuming one does not get an education it goes back to the question of managing to do something

with it getting a job when there are hardly any tests are so your are to paris hours the thirty seventh mission to the international space station ready for blastoff on thursday morning one extra special piece of equipment is being stowed on board the sochi twenty fourteen winter olympic torch that is set to make history when it is taken on a space walk artie's poor scott explains. russian cosmonauts coach of. scheme along with american astronaut mike hopkins the trio are about to embark on the thirty seventh expedition to the international space station but along with carrying out the usual array of hundreds of scientific and medical experiments present skin culture of have one more unusual task to perform in november now become the first people in history to carry the olympic torch into

open space. as dealers at the caress you as a community will make it as beautiful and spectacular as we can we want to make it memorable millions of people around the world will be able to see us at work and see what we do you'll be able to see the old side of the aisle with earth in the background we aim to make it a visual spectacle but we don't want to give you all the details just yet the torch will follow the crew to the i assess on a specially branded rocket once the russians have taken it on its unprecedented space walk it will head back to earth with returning crew members ready to continue its relay across russia. starting in moscow in early october the torch is to travel sixty five thousand kilometers around the country and will be carried by fourteen thousand bures two of which will be on the i assess although it won't be late twenty's and skiing cultural got their hands on it the very same toss will be used to light the cauldron during the games opening ceremony in february the crew of

expedition thirty seven a relatively inexperienced only commander cult of has been to space before and he's providing a reassuring presence for the newest members of the space community but i'd also like to say i feel very competent and part of that comes from our commander who's obviously very experienced to us in the space craft but as you can see here in the press conference as well always has a calming presence after launch the soyuz spacecraft is set to orbit the earth four times before docking with the eye assess the entire journey taking just around six hours the crew set to remain on board until mid march michael fossum who returned from the i s s two years ago and one day hopes to go back and explains what they can expect i'm very excited for my concern again as they as they look forward to their first flight they have dreamed about this like all of us relief from the time of childhood and now they're preparing to live that dream they're a little nervous they're a little excited and they're professionals they're looking forward to doing the job

for which they've trained for many years while following the final preparations in the testing center behind me the rocket has now embarked on its journey to the launch pad and although this train track is only five kilometers long the journey has taken around two hours this is done a walking pace as not to damage the technical equipment inside and although all does look set there's plenty more final preparations to be done in the few hours ahead of launch. some of those preparations include cooling the rocket with nitrogen to minus two hundred seventy degrees to stabilize and keep the four hundred tons of fuel cool so that come the early hours of thursday morning this rockets can deliver the i assess its newest recruits pull scott by colonel. thanks for being with us. be back with headlines in about half an hour's time up

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secret lover jury to mccurry was able to build on the most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach me the creation and why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only. about. welcome to break in the said martin so this past july was the height of the get my behavior strike one hundred fics of the hundred sixty six detainees were starving themselves to protest their indefinite detention if it was more than half the prisoners taken such a drastic measure of all the media so large are largely ignored their plight of the past few months the number of hunger strikers has steadily dropped just yesterday get my military officials are back. if we declared the strike to be over the

military said it will stop issuing daily reports on a number of these protesters and only a core group of nineteen of them remain striking now considering how the response of the strike was force feeding the inmates is it any wonder why so many of them have given up as i demonstrate on the show for speeding is torture and a complete and utter violation of human rights going through this excruciating experience day after day after day is unimaginable but just because so many detainees have reached the absolute limit of human suffering doesn't mean we should pay any less attention to the crimes occurring at the shadow prison just a few hundred miles from our shores. it's. very hard to take a. look at how to act with the terror threat there.