so you actually do you wrong living in a democratic power anymore. as the first stage of syria's chemical disarmament is declared a success we recap on the diplomatic achievements that prevented a u.s. strike on the war torn country and look at how the civil conflict has transformed during this year. government tax lowering drive seems only to be stuffing the wallets of the highest earners leaving no reason for those on basic weights to tell a brain what's. truly in a certain chair until the big day recently worlds of online privacy protection and freedom of information and getting ready to give their talks here to the chaos communications conference.

four pm in moscow you're watching r t international with me and you sonali. it's been thirty three months of bloody civil conflict in syria and twenty thirteen has brought no relief to the people of the war torn country on the contrary from the conventional standoff between the government and opposition conflict has grown multidimensional marked by infighting between various rebel groups. this year the opposition has grown more fragmented with many rebel groups increasingly dominated by radicals a study by a defense consultancy shows that out of one hundred thousand opposition fighters in syria more than half are extremist made up of the hottest and islamic hardliners the rest are more moderate but their voices are being increasingly drowned out by the radicals. well this here in syria was also marked by

a growing number of attacks on christians with the ancient town of becoming a frontline and r.t. crew was there right in the midst of the standoff between the government forces and islamist rebels here's what our correspondent marina for notion of filed at the height of the fighting. but we're listening to all of. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out but when you look at this some of them were killed some of them escaped from you but that policy the locals joined the army to defend the native town the soldiers in light colored uniforms a so-called national defense for all but one of the terrain here is very difficult with mountains and graves but we know the area better so we're carrying on with

your derision about that i think. we come across one grocery shop owner who we filmed back in two thousand and twelve and then he told us that the armed rebels hasn't come to their village and why would they this time he's armed with a gun and honestly when soldiers and he has some question is again the story of a thirty of syria is a land of history and of love at the bottom of a sense terrorists here for will be corners of the world to kill syrians and each other their life what should i ask the world i mean why every european city as i know so much is slapped across the theory so they'd be a scam going on in syria which are many victims but how many hundreds of thousands of british shows american why will it stop with quickly find out that it won't be today held by the militants for a week it seems that mountain tops of fear hotel still poses a threat that sufi hotel our goal was the liberated them push on the market from on

a street that we couldn't do it best my business everywhere. is home to many christian churches and monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we see either crosses on the rents now added to these we see blag jihadists flags. it's time to head back. to trial in the car something goes wrong whoa whoa. whoa. we take cover in a place where we find dozens of army soldiers hiding from enemies bullets. the main road is being targeted and it's he's our only way out. we think over our chances when our engineer gets heat. is not about you know you're going to kill the fish you must get if you scratch. but. thankfully it's not serious. but it becomes clear we come to

a to minutes more. ok much of a shock when i'm stuck here in this corner and we're now trying to get out of here because in this weather. well no no no no. so. this had been anything done back then had a go ok clear a lot. more focus off of the boots did you hear the whizzing by full of it but now say that we've reached the safe area. the fire and

you're behind this. and you're told that this is here no may get to be careful you don't know what it is too much so you get back. and we leave you. i'll give them until forces continue their princely form on. which despite the claims remains under siege. from syria. well the syrian conflict could have taken an even more dramatic turn this august when the u.s. threatened bombing raids on the country it followed a major chemical attack near damascus that killed a hundred washington blamed the also government for the atrocity but failed to produce any evidence the airstrikes were shelved only after moscow intervened helping to negotiate a landmark chemical disarmament deal that led to a un resolution that kickstarted the destruction of syria's chemical weapons and production facilities the first stage of the process has officially been completed

artie's arena explains what's next. well you can see the first hurdle or rather task at hand which is destroying the facilities where the chemical weapons were stored and produced and then gathering all the chemicals together that that stage has been completed now we are at the stage two and that is the transportation of all chemicals to the port of latakia and now the there is a deadline for that and that was december thirty first but organization for broad vision of chemical weapons is saying that deadline is most likely not to be met because you don't have to transport the chemicals the route they have to go via the route from damascus to latakia which of unfortunately is rife with various armed gangs populating the areas and that could present some danger although russia is helping out in that regard by sending its special heavy duty armored trucks and lorries in order to transport these chemicals now after they reach the port of

latakia the chemicals will be boarded on several vessels belonging to denmark norway and head over to italy where they will be transferred to another vessel this one is belonging to the united states there is also of course the issue of the actual just destruction off the chemicals and there are two ways that could be done and the details are being figured out today. by all parties participating in this rather difficult and very sophisticated task and according to the russian their present to the russian history of foreign affairs there are some kinks that they need along the way when talking to the representatives of the united states but again russia is remaining very hopeful that the talks today will be very productive and of course they're saying that they're smoothing things out along the way as they go now another major international initiative on syria is of course peace talks which are expected to take place at the end of january whether the syrian government and opposition will finally sit at the negotiating table negotiating

table and whether that will help bring the conflict to an end we'll have to see in twenty forty. these are very close to the sally here braving the elements in order to stand up to us oil giants chevron. this comes after a massive hunger strike that returned the world's attention to the place that summed up dubbed the gulag of our times. is an undeclared global battlefield in which again and just one of the front lines . the british government is bending over backwards to slash taxes and raise living

standards for its people the result rich individuals and big businesses are stuffing their pockets with more cash while the public pays the price despite criticism from m.p.'s the tax authorities aren't willing to change the status quo as probably boyko finds out. for many of those working here in the city of london two thousand and thirteen has been a year of prosperity thanks to a tax cut that kicked in earlier this spring the u.k.'s highest earners have been able to make even more money this year the rate of tax for people earning over one hundred fifty thousand pounds per year has gone down from fifty pence to forty five so for every hundred pounds they earn over that fifty pounds used to go straight into the treasury but that figure has now been reduced and now they're only paying forty five pounds to the tax man from every hundred now all these save five as a rounding up in the u.k. is all position labor party has done the math they say that collectively the u.k.'s

highest earners have saved almost one hundred million pounds thanks to the tax cuts you have seen the long useful in living standards on record you've got half a million people using parents know you've got i think homelessness is up by around since two thousand and these are serious problems why is the government choosing to cartwright's the fan like this when the government's made such play of the need for seriously this is bizarre and there's very little evidence that it's benefits to be the u.k. economy so most people. have their tax cut they're not investing that money this investment story before they're just trying to basically london isn't called a millionaire's playground for nothing you have more super rich individuals living in the capital than anywhere else in the world you have the world's most expensive houses here and butlers a back in fashion but away from the glitz and glamour thirteen million brits are

going to be starting the new year living in poverty u.k. prime minister david cameron has been fighting off claims that his political party only represents the privileged few but this latest tax cut only benefits the richest one percent poly boyko artsy london. well the rich are getting richer in the u.s. as well they're even bolder there with wall street setting aside nearly a hundred billion dollars for new year's bonuses and activists fighting corporate dominance says that cash will be coming straight out of taxpayers' pockets these big wall street banks pay their employees a very high b salary usually in the range of like one hundred fifty thousand to two hundred fifty thousand but then on top of that they get the sort of performance bonus and the way that they're tallied is there's a number of surveys they basically have to us how much money they have set aside for bonuses in two thousand and thirteen and that's how we arrived at the ninety one point four four billion dollars it is crazy right especially when you think

about earlier this year there was this bloomberg article about how the government there's like the government subsidy of eighty three billion dollars so it's almost as if all of that government subsidy is just going right back into bonuses but this is just way that wall street has worked for a really long time before so we're going to continue to see these problems and that's why we're saying listen you shouldn't get to take these big dollars that you've gotten in this ill gotten ways and give them to yourselves you should give it back to the people that you've harmed. coming up in the program turkey's leadership teeters on the edge of a political abyss as the prime minister tries to prevent the government from being shattered by a corruption scandal crowds keep up their calls for his resignation ahead. also coming up our report on the devastating effects of a deadly narcotic that's cheap addictive and scarily simple to make.

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the spanish find out more visit i. come back you're watching our two international live from moscow clouds have gathered over the premiership of the turkish prime minister tired. they're the ones with thousands of protesters demanding his government resign their anger was sparked by a recent high level corruption scandal that already forced him to replace ten of his ministers let's talk more on the issue we're now joined live from istanbul by journalist. thanks so much for being with us tell us what's driving the protesters onto the streets is it just the bribery scandal or does it go deeper it goes deeper the bribery scandal is not an isolated incident. to explain it's shortly this is the recent battles in the so-called keep. going to war the put the

luck in our community is that really just going to lead by clear equate to look. the u.s. and they are known to be organized in the state structure they used to be elyse for years when they were joined for the goal to remove the military influence for a purpose of politics and they succeeded however in recent years they will be in a power struggle so this crack. is said to be allegedly a run by prescriptive for close to. but. so this is what i don't like the incidents but we are seeing serious. about corruption also how justified are protesters claims that aired on have turned into an author authoritarian leader . where he justified. the less general election

day by day month by bonds year by year. more authoritarian and he's. best known demand is that everybody should have three children but he has a. regulation change or an order for everything. and you were. with the brits people who. are not supposed to be white we're supposed to eat bread because it's more help to ease people's lives. it wasn't like that for everyone in the beginning i mean just a couple of years ago he was seen by many as a visionary able to create a country where both muslim and european values were interger ated. what is changed about that during the first year or so if they keep the rule. of supports from the european union and they were coming from

a very hard core islam is. claiming that they were changed therefore. the more liberal are the. people. inside. the members of the party the members of the parliaments. in the party who are. very different. but. samantha power. used to think so. it doesn't need. to support him or. he has changed. it's his power really under threat here. because for years and years it has. said that. he can not rule. as long as everyone is the leader but we are seeing that. is losing face

keeping is moving power thanks for the. right general joining us live from turkey with that analysis thank you so much for your time i will if you want to know more on the bribery scandal that drove the turkish leadership to the brink of collapse head to r.t. dot com or we have all the details for you. also online the arctic thirty greenpeace activists are just a step away from leaving russia after moscow dropped all charges against them for trying to board an offshore oil rig and issued exit visas to get the full story on our website. that turns out that e.u. politicians hollywood big shots and even vatican officials don't always practice what they preach when it comes to piracy as it emerges they've been downloading huge amounts of illegal content. right from the sea. first street. and i think the jury.

on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. welcome back to archie international live from moscow julian us on the wiki leaks founder who's been holed up in the ecuadorian embassy in london for over a year hiding from prosecution glenn greenwald the reporter who broke the n.s.a. scandal and whose partner was held in question under terrorism laws and jacob appelbaum the wiki leaks hacker detained a dozen times at the u.s. border border today they will be headliners at a major conference in hamburg on surveillance and privacy r.t.s. peter all over is there to. well as the thirtieth anniversary of the chaos

communications conference here in how to get stronger more and more supporters people are made aware of just how fragile they online privacy actually is now i'm joined by michael ettlinger who is a online privacy campaigner michael thanks very much for speaking to me how people started to take more of a interest in looking after their online security you know a lot of people do it in a different manner some start to encrypt i.e. made something that we would like to support those people how to do it how to manage p.g.p. for example iran's reducer communication on the internet whatever this is going to be a big impact for everybody's lives and i think we're just looking at the beginning of a big saying to somebody like myself who's barely computer literate is there anything that i can do it to look after my own online security. of course start to encrypt the e-mails start to use open software start to change your system on your computer not microsoft not apple but use linux are you going to and anything that exact

people away a year ago before these leaks from edward snowden just how would risk we are online . normal most of the people didn't realize that some few people always were talking about it on the events like this once here by accident normally there would have been been a big voice an immediate now would you like to see edward snowden here perhaps next year as a speaker i would like to have him today it's as fast as possible and i would like to have the german government to give him a safe place and a secure place here in germany i would prefer it that thank you very much that's michael ebeling who say privacy online privacy activist here talking about the thirtieth chaos communication conference. but now some other stories making headlines around the world a car has blown up near an international military convoy in afghanistan killing three soldiers. according to nato officials six civilians have been reportedly

wounded in the explosion on tuesday two rockets were fired at the u.s. embassy in kabul followed by another attack that injured three police officers the recent spate of violence comes as president karzai is considering an agreement to allow u.s. troops to stay in the country beyond twenty four. gyptian authorities have arrested twenty three activists from the pro morsi muslim brotherhood on accusations of inciting violence just days after declaring it a terrorist organization the sept marks a fresh crackdown on the group after officials accuse them of being behind deadly attacks on a police headquarters and across one member of the brotherhood was killed in clashes with pro-government residents in cairo. in bulgaria thousands of protesters have marched in the capital sofia demanding the resignation of the socialist government involvement in fraud cases rather was posted by crowds of students anti-government demonstrations have become a regular occurrence in bulgaria over the past six months since the government was

caught up in a corruption scandal. israel has launched a new round of airstrikes on gaza in retaliation for two rocket attacks from the palestinian territories the second wave of attacks in three days the previous one left a three year old girl dead elsewhere in gaza the sole power plant there has stopped working through to a shortage of fuel after israel's close with the fire palestinian officials blame it on television crackdown on underground tunnels in the reach or. the drug that devours you from the inside and is addictive in almost every case since september when the first signs of the so-called drug crocodile were reported in the u.s. fears have been rising that it will spread all over the country despite a lack of confirmed data state media has already published articles about the horrific effects of the drug medina question reports now on why it's so dangerous. it's two years since drug addict alexina lost his best friend and every december i

have visited his grave. andrea was a group exactly he was into advertising was he was involved in several projects but the thing just killed him. chased him to death that thing was just some more of an extremely addictive opioid to get users and jack is better known as crocodile because it gives addicts gangrenous skin as also described as the flash is sing song b. drop it causes severe brain damage to your skin eventually falls off and kills addicks within two years alexi managed to escape the consequences of the drug but his story is more of an exception than the rule and reality of those who try the so-called world's deadliest drug even ones pay dearly for the cheap high and all too often they end up here or abroad and you've got to remember my friend couldn't

work because of the drug he needed to inject again it became an obsession in the end he was only working to afford the crocodile is cheap costing just in terms of the price of regular herring and most worryingly it's easily manufactured at home using over the counter chemicals. at the pleasure i would visit one of the main factors widespread over responsible decisions made about could be under the ninety's where the health ministry is the sales regulations of medicine which contains called the alexy agreed to show us just how easy it is to get the vital ingredient painkillers that's where you're going but we're on our way to the drugstore i don't have a new prescription but i believe i'll get everything i need that it's not a problem. it didn't take him long just five minutes and it was alexy tells us. that crocodile is made by combining county but it was never

a household detergents or even gasoline it was recently just taken from a god so many different really dangerous toxic ingredients you want to get in return is a very intense and very short time i the diction has developed so fast faster than heroin this is a drug of poor so there is a con the food and things that will get you as one of the lockyer addicts who survived after quitting crocodile alexy has a stark warning. don't do it this thing just turns you into a monster it's you insulate all that because it's so painful it's so scary you lose everything your friends your family and you know everything. i do to question our team must now go out coming out of larry king's exclusive tour of u.s. news history here on r t interns and.

although i have gone duck hunting a few times i've never seen the duck dynasty t.v. show but gosh i heard about the scandal involving one of the stars of the show phil robertson who got suspended for making what many consider anti homo sexual comments in an interview this celebrity scandal is creating a lot of arguments about freedom of speech on social networks many people who believe that robertson deserved to be booted from the show for what he said argue that freedom of speech means that robertson can't be arrested by the government for what he said but the any t.v. channel has the right to fire whom they like the thing is that if the situation were reversed and robertson was fired for making pro l.g. p.t. statements then people who are current. defending any right to hire and fire as they please would all be bashing the t.v.

channel for violating the star's freedom of speech think cry that firing him would violate his rights and i'm sure some websites would make him into a hero or demand a boycott a closing of a and a forever very few people actually believe in freedom of speech for all they just believe in freedom of speech for people who agree with them but that's just my opinion. millions around the globe struggle with hunger. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. they can the very strong position against g.m.o. and we think that's. the genetic anymore the right products are priest to have there is no. evidence to this any problem with genetic engineering.