civilians are caught in the crossfire between al qaeda linked militants an iraqi troops with the conflict being fueled by weapons paid for by. a government report says its military is under imminent threat because the public no longer knows what it's for examine how it got to this point. i'm a nice if you want to make most of it you're one hundred percent committed and means the family behind russia's spy talk you count it in our latest report on the not small terrilyn big team very to take on all comers at the winter games in sochi .

live from moscow you're watching r t international with me and you see now a our top story twenty five al qaeda linked militants have reportedly been killed by an air strike in iraq where government forces are on the offensive against an islamist insurgency the violence is being fueled by the conflict in neighboring syria with militants apparently surging facon forth across the border at the center of the fight in iraq is the city of fallujah if you can reports. residents of. hell during the u.s. occupation now face their own army so solve on the cd the iraqi government has lined up tanks on loaded fighter jets preparing to drive al qaeda linked militants out of the city the u.s. is packing more hellfire missiles and other weapons with the iraqi army to use and everybody knows when the bombing begins there will be blood brian back with me brian so many innocent iraqis have died in terror attacks do you think this anti

terror assault could turn out to be just as deadly as terror itself it could be even more deadly if the people who. have been through this before two thousand and four twice the u.s. marines committed to huge war crimes against the people of flu should they can they call a kill zone anything that move was killed when you declare a kill zone you say everything that moves must die everything that moves must be a terrorist everything that moves is a legitimate target who then dies who then suffers it's the the people of pollution themselves of course they don't want to live under what do they want to live under these kind of military assaults paid for by the united states with arms from the united states carried out by the mohican government which is also been brutal against the residents of fallujah i don't think so crucial question thank you thank you no doubt there is an urgent need to drive these militants out after all how can you allow extremists to run talent's again territory expand but then you also have

to ask if you see bombing as a viable option in order to drive extremists out of residential areas how different is it from what bashar assad is doing in washington i'm going to check on. my colleague kevin owen spoke with antiwar activist phyllis bennis about the ramifications of america's drive to arm the mideast. we risk the possibility of the extension of this militarization that we're seeing in iraq right now we're seeing it already in syria where a civil war has expanded to a regional war and it's now spilling over into iraq the increasing militarization by the united states to the iraqi government is only going to make that worse not better and of course the irony is on the one hand you've got the united states supporting the rebels in syria have now come over the border into iraq and we're also hearing this week no offering drones or military support not personnel but military support to fight these very same people before them there against them

indirectly you have this scenario where the sunni population which is the minority but large minority in iraq feel completely disenfranchised disempowered disconnected from their own government and so the u.s. is saying instead of in insisting that the government change its policy of discrimination towards one of egalitarianism many quality for all something that we are in no position to brag about here in this country i should say but what the u.s. claims to withhold as a hold up as a as a model the u.s. says well we'll send you told missiles so you can send more missiles and kill more people washington's tactics in the middle east and beyond is up for debate later in the program in cross talk with peter. we have alliances all over the world because of a grand strategy that has been implemented especially since world war two that seeks to dominate the world and so all of our interests according to people in washington

rests in every nook and cranny of the globe and we end up paying the governments of smaller nations and arming them and making sure that they are allied with us but it ends up in tangling us in conflicts that are none of our business ok dive in new york would you agree with that or disagree entangling alliances just too many and it puts u.s. interests all over the world at risk well i think certainly there is a danger of being overcommitted to allies but i think at the moment touch lee far from like precipitating conflict that the opposite danger is that many of the us his longtime allies are now questioning the degree to which they can rely on the united states and that might actually encourage them themselves to take more assertive perhaps risky action than they would do if they could rely upon the united states.

people in the u.k. are losing sight of what their own army is for a government reports or just that's one of the greatest threats facing the military according to m.p.'s a reduced appetite for overseas interventions of the public to question whether the army still has a purpose disillusionment is apparently being driven by severe budget cuts and what is seen as failure to come up with a long term strategic vision britain which is among the top five military spenders in the world plans to slash personnel numbers by thousands over the next six years archie's tests are silly and investigate. the army's recruiting but applicant numbers are slow to pick up amid thousands of layoffs to be defense budget cuts of eight percent job or four years there's a massive drive to recruit army reservists but leaked mid year army memos revealed the number of people in the listing and beyond the reserve over a three month period was just three hundred sixty seven barely

a quarter of the target the ministry of defense said that after wrapping up the recruitment drive in september there were more than fifteen hundred applicants in the first four weeks and that it's too early to make a conclusion but this young man says he simply can't be convinced my grandparents were in the air force actually during the second world war of the time enjoy it wasn't such a bad idea to be joining the forces because they were fighting a war against fascism i don't agree with the way the only excuse but i go through these days it's used to force the grass about the poor to and this morning that was arrested to commemorate the conscientious objectors to military service those who would exercise their right to refuse to kill the at the time of the first world war for instance they faced a restaurant jeers from some of society who view them as cowards but times have indeed changed. a decade of fighting in iraq and afghanistan

has made the british war weary. most people join the armed forces to be in the peace business not in the war business because such is a threat to their livelihood nobody wants to be in a war because to be in a war activists have also lashed out at recruitment campaign started at sixteen and seventeen year olds who according to one recent study are more susceptible to post-traumatic stress disorder at the moment we're asking a sixteen year old to read an interesting point to drink a pint of beer in the park we don't trust of age in a general election we're asking that person to make a very far reaching legal commitment towards a career like having a baby or in accounts or in the ministry of defense says the report completely ignores the benefits and opportunities that a military career offers young people but for this young man it's a career path is a great way to change his mind about this not try to do the job anymore we're going to have to show people that if you're joining the army know you're going to be sent abroad to shoot people you've done. so so you are to do.

well joe blanton is a former british soldier who refused to serve a second tour in afghanistan on moral grounds and was thrown into a military prison he believes people are fed up with the troops but politicians who send them overseas to fight wars they themselves started. because i was with had questions been the military there's just not a forum. it's not the oxford debating society obviously you're just told to crack on and tell the politics have nothing to do with you why defense i mean offensive capability and i mean the invasions and the use of drones and special forces which is increasingly the trend clearly people want to be secure. and that's not what people in the public generally have a problem with what they have a problem with it is repeated. operations along the lines of iraq afghanistan libya nearly serial rape are not sympathetic to those in the corridors of power who stop these walls and this is part of the reason why we've seen increasingly because of

the laws ation of of the military and you can call it a hero or a zation and you see this increasingly this very jingoistic kind of building up and placing on a pedestal of military personnel and out for many years to counter the groundswell of popular opposition. coming up in the program poor planning german taxpayers grow weary of handing over huge amounts of public cash for nationwide construction projects that end up costing their budget many times over. if you. and you've got no opportunity. to start to construct your own. don't want to be in bed. don't want to be gangstas in a lot of. drug deals they don't want that blow with the time that the kid came to

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a top level athlete all four of the games so who are going to he's known as the captain of the national paralympic flood talking team here in russia but in this house he's just noticed dad. we asked him a dream about his family and the first time he met his wife irene a. we first met when i was in the army serving in this area there was a spark from the very beginning and grew as we dated you could see it was love at first sight my entire life changed it had a new meaning but another kind of change was coming the two were considering time the knot one of a team went off to war where he lost both of his legs i removed into his hospital room to help with his care and the couple continued with their plan to marry when asked about the proposal irene a said she knew it was coming. well i was expecting the proposal

the wedding day we had a lot of guests and we all had so much fun but the mood changes a little when we ask our rena how she felt about his and jury. i couldn't believe it for a long time coping with the stress of any injury requires real psychological resilience they both clearly have that in spades he does everything for the family we all feel that he helps people realize that life isn't over but everything is possible life goes on. the marriage is stronger than ever and katia became the second woman to change of a team's life six years ago. now he's heading for the paralympic games and that also means leaving his loved ones but four of a team his two passions in life are never too far from each other. i really enjoy all the time i get to spend at home because when i'm away in training

sessions with the team i miss my family very much which is the same as the game when you sit on the bench for a long time just watching the others play and then you get this little time and nice you want to make most of it you're one hundred percent committed. a commitment shared by everyone in the house while the team is eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home in the moscow region margaret howell r t. where is the olympic and paralympic games fast approaching don't forget to follow the amazing journey of the olympic torch we've been following it on line it's the best of the longest flame relay in the history of the games that are teen dot com. is on its epic journey. one hundred twenty three days. through. cities of. relayed by fourteen thousand people

or six. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others. olympic torch relay. m r r r. germany revels in its international image for efficiency and quality but behind the stereotype often lies a different story some taxpayers are complaining national projects are costing them billions thanks to bad planning archies peter oliver looks at the price the e.u. is leading economy pays when it comes to construction. if you listen to the politicians germany's ruling in it but if you believe those following the money trail is a different story. meanly it's

a problem with cost estimates they use the wrong data they start building and eventually they run out of money and then taxpayers have to pick up the bill. currently germany has one of the biggest construction sectors in europe but all around the country there's evidence that those in charge of the purse strings on the best to make building decisions this building site will eventually become burks premier concert hall however it's already over ten times its original budget it's set to cost close to a billion euro it's not just the grand artistic projects that have cost the big money here in the thought off this tourist information booth has already cost taxpayers around one and a half million euro for the ultimate in modern german construction white elephants look no further than right here at the brandenburg airport grossly over budget already four years behind schedule it's currently costing nearly one million euro

a day to run and that's without any planes or passengers to those a train tunnel in late zigged that ended up five hundred million over budget that people had expected in two thousand and five and the german reputation for efficiency doesn't hold up when it comes to construction those running for election this year to the e.u. parliament believes those in power don't have the required skills to decide on huge projects it's not their money they can dream they can play they can make. each and every kind of. drafts. because they don't have to paid for four years before eight years as long as the project is not finished and the final bill but they are fighting for the story it's not over the top it's a toy about additional costs increase the national debt so talk spears have to be twice first to pay the interest on the debt then again on the extra cost of

planning it for you those familiar with the construction business might know that if you plan as you go it's always more expensive than planning in advance she was sworn in as chancellor for a third time late last year and promised five billion to fix up germany's rule adds germans will have no idea how much that promise may eventually cost them peter all over germany. or us and vessel is slowly maneuvering out of the icy grasp that it has been trapped in so somber a change of windows help set the ship free after attempts by australian and chinese icebreakers to rescue the scientific vessel file the full story is that r t dot com . also online glenn greenwald says he has many more explosive revelations from edward snowden up his sleeve including some that would put israel in a very uncomfortable situation learn what else to expect from the n.s.a. leaks on our website. right see.

first book. and i think you're. on our reporters. in. the in the. on. syria is making headway with its chemical disarmament the first batch of toxic arms has been just transported out of the country on a nato military ship meanwhile diplomatic efforts which are focused on the upcoming geneva two peace conference have a new issue to deal with turkey's prime minister has suddenly renewed calls for regime change in syria although analysts say he's just trying to draw attention from problems at home. it's hardly surprising that arizona would come up with such

a ridiculous line he's been behaving mostly radically since the very start of the war. talking about regime change is not on the agenda obviously we're doing these themself under threat of regime change in turkey so it's probably the last man in the region talking about regime change at this stage of course you can't i have political negotiations with one side it's ridiculous preconditions. of course. never really been an option. absolutely possible to say the only way you can have regime change in syria is if the regime is overthrown. that hasn't all this is not the case and they failed to defeat the syrian army and talk about regime change is really on health one at this stage. some other world news in brief for you this hour at least nine people are dead in india after a fire broke out on a passenger train and spread to three coaches it was on its way from mumbai the

country's north other passengers were evacuated and continued with their journey in the remaining carriages the cause of the fire is unknown in december at least twenty six people died after another train caught a place in the country south. in britain a u.s. military helicopter has crashed into a bird sanctuary on the east coast killing all four crew members the chopper was reportedly flying low during a training mission although the exact cause of the incident was not immediately apparent police cordoned off the area over concerns about live ammunition onboard could pose a threat. armed militias have vowed to protect oil tankers loading up at rebel controlled ports in libya's east that's after warning shots were fired on one tanker approaching the eastern coast in defiance of a ban imposed by the country's government tribal leaders challenged the central government last november and announced plans to start selling crude independently libya's remain volatile since the toppling and murder of moammar gadhafi and twenty

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row which is. every time something like bankers they changed me on in fact. to see somebody and i did in the cold week i don't know but i don't go to see the enemy just saying that you are gays can expose my life so a lot of. the first that they have been because of violence it was like you know it was a shot there but we came together. the second one it was all but we still came to get it and it there when everybody

just seemed just to just split up. one thing we do is citizens one thing we tend to do is to humanize human beings so we talk in terms of how many people were murdered norms what are the numbers so what do we do about that mindset what do we do t. humanize murder the only way that we could think to do it was to name each day is listed on a board with the name of the person there is a judge and how they were killed without respect to where they're from what their

color is what they did or did not do for a living whether they graduated or didn't from on a school where they deal in drugs or not you don't know if you look a bit bored. ya shit like it was. my. shah sometimes i look at our little church on our little walls and say you know how much wall space do i have here after a while this will get to look silly and stuff like that i suppose when we looked more like maybe milwaukee and a half million people and they killed fifty three people not two hundred fifty.

yards. was. my name is me of iraq as a kid growing up in the projects of new orleans i saw shootings like this all the time and eventually committed acts of violence myself at the serving five years in jail i began to help kids to mentor but this story isn't about me this is a story about the environment in which i grew up. a wild night across metro new orleans someone sprays a crowd with bullets as they were leaving a high school basketball game five people i thought good evening and all nine people were shot tonight including an eleven year old in five separate shootings in new orleans and jefferson parish has a nine year old.