civilians are caught in the crossfire between al qaeda linked militants and brucie troops one expert tells us that divisions caused by the american led invasion. of the conflict. the u.k. government report says its military is under imminent threat because the public no longer knows what it's for you examine how it got to this point. you want to make most of it you're one hundred percent committed our teammates the family behind russia's sledge hockey captain in our latest report on the national paralympic team preparing to take on all comers at the winter games in sochi.

and welcome it's twelve noon in moscow you're with r.t. international and i'm an eastern hour 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 back and forth across the border at the center of the fight in iraq is the city of fallujah and each can reports residents so far who'd seen hell during the u.s. occupation now face their own army's assault on the cd the iraqi government has lined up tanks and 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 for 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 of fallujah have been through this before in two thousand and four twice the u.s. marines committed huge war crimes against the. they called a kill zone anything that moved 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 has also been a 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 talents 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. the conflict in neighboring syria has helped found the sectarian tensions in iraq some observers blame washington for paving the way to the strife that's engulfed the country. it's clearly the result of the u.s. war in iraq that has given way to the the kind of sectarian fighting we're seeing in iraq you know the existence of these sectarian based political parties these the shia led leadership in iraq led by prime minister nouri al maliki was put in power and remain these kept in power by the united states who provides the money the arms to keep his government in power that government has been not only incredibly corrupt and not only incredibly incompetent in terms of dealing with the needs of

iraq to rebuild from these years of war but also has been incredibly sectarian in terms of what it makes successful to various communities in iraq so you have this scenario where the sunni population which is the minority but a large minority in iraq feel completely disenfranchised disempowered disconnected from their own government washington's tactics in the middle east and beyond is up for debate in cross talk with peter the. 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 leave far form like precipitating conflict 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 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 report suggests that's one of the greatest threats facing the military according to m.p.'s the winding down of the campaign in afghanistan and

a reduced overseas interventions could lead the public to question whether the army still has a purpose this illusion man is apparently being driven by severe budget cuts in what is seen as a 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 twenty thousand over the next six years r. g.'s tests are silly and investigates. the army's recruiting but applicant numbers are slow to pick up amid thousands of layoffs 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 at the time enjoy such a bad idea to be joining forces because they are fighting a war against fascists and i don't agree with the way. it's used as a force as a request. and this morning it was arrested to commemorate the conscientious objectors to military service those who would exercise their right to refuse to kill you 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 a most people join the armed forces to be in the peace business not in the war business because. nobody wants to be in

a war because 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 pub we don't trust to fight in a general election we're asking that person to make a very far reaching legal commitment towards a career like having a baby carriage or in accounts of the ministry of defeat. 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 he is a ready to change his mind about this good try to do the job anyway we're going to have to show people that if you're joining the army no and you're not going to be brought to shoot people you've done nothing against. so so you are just. juggling is a former british soldier who refused to serve a second tour in afghanistan on moral grounds or was thrown into

a military prison he believes people are fed up with the troops but the politicians who send them overseas to fight wars they themselves started because i was with had questions been the military was just not a forum nor the oxford debating society obviously were just told to crack on and tell the politics have nothing to do with why defense they 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 repeated. operations along the lines of iraq afghanistan libya nearly syria people are not sympathetic to those in the corridors of power these walls and this is paul the reason why we've seen increasingly because of the law is ation of of the military and you can call it a hero or as asian and you see this increasingly this very jingoistic kind of

building up and placing on a pedestal of military personnel and from a used to counter the groundswell of popular opposition. the winter paralympics and so she will welcome russia's national sledge hockey team for the first time we've already seen them in training and met their captain so our teams margaret how want to meet the family behind you who help them deal with adversity and become a top level athlete for of a game so who can who is known as the captain of the national paralympic flood talking team here in russia but in this tells his just notice dad. we asked to dream about his family and the first time he met his wife irene a look with his 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 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 not 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 gifts 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 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 for 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 a nice you want to make most of it your one hundred percent committed. a commitment shared by everyone in the house while the dream is eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home and the moscow region margaret howell r.t. . with both feeling sick and paralympic games fast approaching don't forget to

follow the amazing journey of the olympic flame we've been following it online tests the best bits of the longest torch relay in the history of the games and r.c. dot com. twenty three days. through. relate fourteen thousand people or sixty. in a record setting trip by land air sea and others. are. coming up in the program of poor planning. this building site will eventually become. whole however it's already over ten tellings its

original budgets it's set to close to a billion euro german taxpayers grow wary of handing over huge amounts of public cast or nationwide construction projects that end up busting their budgets many times over. the. economic downturn in the final. days of the deal and the rest look like it's going to be if we.

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said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young. 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 or just peter all over looks at the price the years 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. mainly it's

a problem with cost estimates they use the wrong data they start building and eventually they run out of money and then talk spears 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 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 ne 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 on to those that train tunnel in light 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 plan they can make. each and every kind of. drafts. because they don't have to paid leon charge 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 stop it's a toy about additional costs increase the national debt so talk years have to be

twice first to pay the interest on the debt then again on the extra cost of those planning it for you those familiar with the construction business my know that if you plan as you go it's always more expensive than. i she was sworn in as chancellor for a third time late last year and promised five billion to fix up germany's ruled so germans will have no idea how much that promise and eventually cost them the troll of a. gemini. the russian vessel is slowly maneuvering out of the icy grasp that has trapped it since december danger wind has helped set free after attempts by australian and chinese ice breakers to rescue the scientific vessel failed the full story is that our team. also i'm glenn greenwald says he has many more explosive revelations from edward snowden up his sleeve including some that would put israel and i'm very uncomfortable situation and what else to expect from the

n.s.a. leaks on our website. right from the scene. first for you and i think that you're. on our reporters' twitter. and instagram. could be in the. there's just three weeks left until the international peace conference on syria but the opposition has again delayed of out on whether to even attend more than thirty members of the western backed syrian national coalition resigned over the planned participation in this summit analysts say the opposition bloc doesn't have the support of the syrian people anyway in syria you have an electoral

process there is a presidential election this year and the big problem for the opposition is that they don't have the support on the ground in syria because they don't represent anyone other than western powers the western imperial alliance the transatlantic alliance nato the gulf cooperation council so there are support in syria is very very minimal and that's why they don't want to take part in the actual election process in syria the writing process so this is a big problem because how do you negotiate with people who essentially represent western interests and don't represent the interests of the syrian people so they would rather not have to enter into any kind of rational negotiation and the reason for that of course is that they have no political program they have never had a political program they have no economic program and if they had their way they would simply destroy the country get in there tear the country apart privatized everything and sort it out to the gulf cooperation council countries particularly

saudi arabia and qatar and they would serve western corporate interests. talks between russian and some of these officials on the release of a russian ship have been postponed moscow is demanding an explanation from the west african nation over the detention of its trawler which is accused of the go fishing vessel and its eighty two crew members were seized at the weekend off the coast of kenya purcel russian negotiators say senegal hasn't given concrete explanations to support its accusations sixty two sailors are still trapped on the ship with their passports confiscated. straight to egypt where we're seeing live pictures from cairo and there's heavy police presence in the country as ousted president mohamed morsy is back in court over the deaths of protesters outside the presidential palace in twenty twelve trial originally began in november but was a joy and after morsi declared himself the legitimate leader and refused to wear

a prisoner's uniform he also faces criminal charges and could face the death penalty if proven guilty morsy supporters are planning more mass marches in a show of protest. 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 to the country's north other passengers were evacuated and continued with their journey in the remaining carriages because of the fire is still unknown in december at least twenty six people died and another after another train caught ablaze in the country's 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 concerned that live ammunition onboard

could pose a threat. armed militias have vowed to protect oil tankers loading up at rebel controlled points 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 challenge the central government last november and announced plans to start selling crude independently libya's remade follow tiles as the toppling and murder of moammar gadhafi in twenty a lot of. martin now shed some light on one of the poorest communities in the u.s. it's breaking lisette here on r.t. international. if you've got nothing and you've got no opportunity. to start

to construct your whole currency. kuno learn to be a bit. don't want to be gangsters in a lot of. drug dealers they don't want that blow with the time that a kid came be we can see. you just made some progress there i was and i was in the hood and what if you know somebody thirty round clip. but if. i said. i don't want to die i just really do not want to die young young age. dramas that come to be ignored to. stories others refused to notice. faces change the world writes never.

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ridiculously cold winter slumber at a very special program for the first of the year last week i had the great privilege of spending several days at the pine ridge reservation in south dakota my marriage is the eighth largest native american reservation in the us and it's home of the to one of the seven the sub tribes of the coat of people approximately forty thousand and all the tribe members live across two point one million acres with gorgeous rolling hills and untamed wilderness it's no wonder why pine ridge is held so sacred to the tribe that inhabits the land despite the multitude of problems facing a community that hands on federal funding to survive many tribe members have taken it upon themselves to empower the lakota people to secure a brighter future for the people there were hugely inspiring and we love pine ridge greatly humbled by their stories over the next two days i'll share some of those stories with you to shed light on one of the most unreported and neglected issues in america today the abysmal failure by the federal government to provide adequate

social services upholds centuries old treaties and to allow the sovereignty of native american communities to prosper so stick around because we're going to be breaking a set that should have been broken a long time ago. the piece of the problem is it was terrible they are led very hard to make the turks against the money or the plug that never had sex with her their lives let's call it was. just so. list of the subjects lists lists lists.