golden rice. the iraqi prime minister urges all kind of fighters in control of key towns to give up that says the militants enjoy a rise of influence fueled by the war in neighboring syria. the army's greatest threat to u.k. militaries disconnected from the public who apparently don't understand what a sad truth for the claim coming from upon entry. and russia's sledge hockey team prepares to make its debut at the upcoming paralympics when made the captain's family to find out what he's drawing his strength and inspiration for.

this is our team to national coming to you live from moscow and a very warm welcome to the program iraq's prime minister is calling on all kinds of pointers and all those who joined them to surrender the militant group has occupied key cities of the country's biggest province and the government is trying to regain control middle east correspondent paula slee ace following the conflict for us. well the situation certainly is becoming increasingly volatile but we've now heard from the iraqi prime minister is him urging all those who have joined al qaida to give up the fight he has hinted at the possibility of hardening these militants if indeed they do so they are facing a message of siege that has been launched by the government troops are maliki was speaking in his weekly televised address and he volunteered that it is to continue what he calls the sacred war against al qaida is the local branch which is known as the islamic state in iraq and they live and he also said that he would continue to

finish the push to retake the key ambassador. and ramadi which earlier were taken over by the militants and that the militants had to commute from as the independent state what we see happening now is that al qaeda going to militants are trying to capitalize on the sixth alien attention that is currently inside iraq and this is a tension that the united states failed to resolve you remember of course that the united states occupied iraq for eight years and then pulled out leaving behind this major stick tarion power of the cave at the same time some of the old clay day militants who are now fighting in iraq are reportedly coming from across the border in syria and of course the united states has been supporting the syrian opposition which inadvertently has allowed these extremist islamist militants to flourish in the first place the united states is now saying that it will be sending an

emergency shipment of surveillance drones and missiles to iraq in an attempt to try and prop up its allies in baghdad. the militant group now in control of calls of the islamic state of iraq and the levant and its fighters are also known as the most radical jihadist weighing on this city where rebels that's now take a closer look at the organization which is gaining momentum in the region right now . and its roots go back to the early years old the war in iraq it was unable to thousand by sunni extremists and pledged allegiance to bin laden at that time it was called archaia to iraq two years later it was rebranded as the islamic state or rug in twenty thirteen it gained a strong presence in northern syria which saw it and a live band to its name and of course in the latest developments the group has taken control of saluja the key town in the anbar province in iraq and proclaimed an islamic state bet and their plan they actually plan to unite iraq and syria to

form a kind of trade phyllis bennis from the institute for policy studies told r.t. is kevin oh and the crisis in iraq is fueled by the syrian war. 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 the for the against them directly 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 and so the u.s. is saying instead of and 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 the wrong key government has delayed his assault on the militant how the city of fallujah for now in fear of civilian casualties that but the troops and tanks besieging the city are ready to attack as soon as they get the order for the residents it's a looming catastrophe as long as he's been at it now reports. residents of. hell during the u.s. occupation now face their own army's assault 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 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 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 moved was killed we need to clear a kill zone you see 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 movie 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 towns 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 islamic state of iraq and live and controlling fallujah is at the same time urging at times on its rival opposition groups in syria while other rebel leaders urging a truce between the. read all about it on our website that's a tough call meanwhile. the second round of peace talks will see where it is around the corner but the country's opposition blocking late on whether to attended coming up in just a couple of minutes we've got an expert opinion on what's behind the syrian

national coalition is divided stands. one of the biggest threats to britain's armed forces is a lack of public understanding of what they stand for that's according to a recent u.k. parliament report so and peace say the opposition to wars in iraq and afghanistan and a reduced public appetite for overseas interventions is leading people to question the purpose of the u.k. army public support for defense is dropping due to want it seen as a lack of a long term strategic a mission meanwhile massive military budget cuts are pushing the army's capabilities a triscuit that despite being one of the world's top defense spenders britain is planning to cut personnel by nearly thirty thousand over the next six years and he is on his tests our senior. 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 of the time enjoyed such a bad idea to be joining the forces because they were fighting a war against fascism i don't agree with the way. it's used for. the grass. 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 campaigns targeted at sixteen and seventeen year olds who according to one recent study a more suitable to post-traumatic stress disorder at the moment we're asking a sixteen year old who we don't trust to point to drink a pint of beer that we don't trust to fight in a general election we're asking our president to make a very far reaching legal commitment towards a career like having a baby care of foreign accounts or the ministry of defense. 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 or try to do the job and you are going to

have to show people that if you're joining the army no you're not going to be sent abroad to shoot people you've done nothing against. also so your article. and joe blanton is a former british soldier who refused to serve a second tour in afghanistan on moral grounds he was later jailed and spent five months in military prison he believes people have a problem with the politicians who turned defense forces into a means of invasion because i was with had questions been the military was just not for them it's nor 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 and 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 is repeated. operations along the lines of iraq afghanistan libya

nearly syria they were 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 the call of the laws ation of of the military and you can call it a hero or is asian and you see this increasingly this very jingoistic kind of building up and placing on a pedestal of military personnel and out for millions to counter the groundswell of popular opposition. coming up later this program they talk spares picking out the endless bells. this building site will eventually become the premier concert hall however it's already over ten times its original budget it's set to cost close to a billion euro or report on the huge national construction projects in germany the buzz their budgets many times over just a poor planning that's not

a short break. has been on they winter paralympics since nineteen ninety four a base here will see russia steam make its debut and we've already seen them on ice and the captain and now what made those who helped the team salute can enjoy so many hardships and his drive for victory all four of them so who are going to he's known as the captain of the national paralympic flood talking to here in russia but in this tells he's just known as. we asked him a dream about his family and the first time he met his wife irene. we first met when i was in the army serving in this area it was a spark from the very beginning and grew as we dated it 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 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 i read 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 that 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 dream his two passions in life are never too far from each other. i really enjoy all the time i get suspended 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 health while the dream is eager to take home gold come march he already has his prize at home in the moscow region margaret howell r.t. on with the olympic and paralympic games finest approaching don't forget to fall about amazing chinese the olympic flame well good for going into line as well for

you cash the best bits on the record breaking torch relay of the twenty four same winter olympics in sochi. philip the church is on its epic journey to. one hundred and twenty three days. through down some nine hundred towns and cities of russia. related by fourteen thousand people or sixty plan doesn't kill it. in a record setting trip by land air see another slate. a limp dick torch relay. on mars. or a bank in a few moments after the break or trunk while russia saying sing green peace is connected with a seizure of one was tremulous by singing. the

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pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today i roll researcher. this is coming to life are most welcome by. debunking the myth of german efficiency of public construction projects have been turning into economic time bombs critics say to the irresponsible planning well doesn't charge on its talks pay is so fail it's taking most of all. reports. if you listen to the politicians germany's ruling in it but if you believe those following the money trail is a different story. the 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 be cumbered 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 to those

a train terminal 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 hold up when it comes to construction those running for re-election this year to the e.u. parliament believe 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 they are in charge for four years before eight years as long as the project is not finished and. they are fighting for the story it's not over the top it's a toy about the additional cost increase the national deficit talks of years have to be twice first to pay the interest on the debt then again on the extra cost of those planning it deploy those familiar with the construction. of 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 rule germans will have no idea how much that promise and eventually cost them peter all over germany. and online for you right now does believe in his own strategies. dot com to find out why the former u.s. secretary of defense feels disillusioned by obama's policies plus some other juicy details of a former top military man reveals in his memoirs. and also that the whole of their one greek terrorist might have run over time as he fails to return back to prison after his new year's leave well details on the story just a click away. with the geneva two talks and see were set to kick off later this month the country's opposition remains undecided on whether to take

part while more than thirty members of the syrian national coalition have already resigned over the group's at disobey should the block has postponed its final decision until january seventeenth which is less than a week before the summit begins and analysts believe despite being bombed by the west their opposition doesn't have the support of the syrian people. the 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 and series of recruiting 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 they would serve western corporate interests. and some other news in brief that sound at least nine people have been killed in india a fire broke out on a passenger train and spread to three cultures the train was on its way from him by to the country's north and the passengers were evacuated and continue their journey in the remaining characters because of the fine is unknown in december at least twenty six people died after another train caught a light in the country. in britain four and were killed after a us military helicopter crashed on the east coast the trouble was flying at low

altitudes during a training mission the crash spread debris across an area the size of a football field and the exact cause of the incident was not immediately apparent police have cordoned off the crash site made concerns live ammunition on board. mosca says it's preparing to file several legal claims to a quarter in sin in goal over the detention of a russian fishing trawler it's now been trapped in the west african country since the weekend something greenpeace has expressed its satisfaction about. we're talking about an armed detention of this ship and some sixty two russian citizens that are on board and detention was actually handled quite roughly by the . stories because at least four people now off the course saying that they are actually in need of medical help however they are not allowed to get off the ship in fact all of the russian citizens have had their passports taken away by the

armed officials and they are the ship and the crew are essentially being accused of illegal fishing and poaching in the city goalie's waters however the authorities of senegal still haven't given any concrete proof of that actually haven't taken place or have not provided any concrete explanation where these allegations are coming from and still we're already have the green peace which is already making statements saying that they fully support the actions of the senegal government in their attempt to prevent the alleged illegal fishing this involvement by greenpeace is something that doesn't sit well with russia's federal fishing agency greenpeace says it's been tracking this special for a long time why are they taking it upon themselves government's responsibility to protect their waters and biological resources therefore based on the statements from greenpeace one may conclude that the military of senegal is acting upon these claims as you may know senegal fishing minister the green party in senegal and was

until very recently a member of greenpeace and so you see the connection between this harsh and i'm president an attack on the russian trailer and its detention with greenpeace's actions if you go back to september i will remember the arrest of the greenpeace vessel arctic sunrise after an attempt by the greenpeace activists to scale russian oil rig in the northern waters and then of course later they fell under the nationwide amnesty and were released and what we can assume that they are now safely home when there was however this recent development in the west african nation this. it seems to rise up at the tensions between russian officials and green peace yet again. and coming up next is that a way to curb violence in america is not a campus hold shellshocked as just that. you

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