find out more visit. russia the u.s. and the u.n. agree there is no military solution to the syrian crisis and that that peace talks cannot be delayed any longer but the main opposition groups reluctance to tan keeps the initiative at risk. britain's prime a series accused of bribing local authorities and homeowners to accept kind of virtual fracking in their areas with the cash incentive to sweeten the deal. and as muslim rights take a leap forward in germany we hear people's concerns about spreading islamization at a cost to other faith.

watching on t.v. national coming to you live from the russian capital it's four pm here i'm marina joshing welcome to the program now the peace conference on syria cannot be delayed any longer and must be held at the end of the month and that's the joint message from russia the us and the un after talks in paris but the main challenge is convincing the syrian opposition to take part as a group still hasn't given a definitive answer as a correspondent who's following the. and. so do talk us through some of the highlights and especially what the side has been agreeing on and what are the sticking points that still remain there. but one of the first things that we've heard from u.s. secretary of state is that russia the u.s. and the u.n. are completely on the same page that the only solution of the conflict in syria is a diplomatic one mr kerry also said that both the soon enough and to the opposition are equally responsible for the atrocities committed there now we've also seen

a slight shift on iran since a lot of barbara he needs your own special envoy on syria and syria lauber off the ball for saying that they want to see iran taken part in the geneva two conference this is a key player in the region this was something that the u.s. has previously against but now according to u.s. secretary of state washington wouldn't mind seeing tehran there at geneva two if it's supports the agreements reached earlier at the one now mr labral also said that the authorities in syria have now confirmed that they are going to take part in the conference although one of the sticking points right now is that it's really unknown whether or not the opposition is planning to do the same although we are possibly witnessing now positive tendencies somewhat of a positive tendency when it comes to the relationship between the opportunities there and the rebel since we've heard today about possible exchanges of prisoners.

a local cease fires and allowing humanitarian aid to get in but according to sergei lavrov right now regarding humanitarian aid the rebels are the key obstacle since he says they are responsible for the deaths of several dozen representatives of humanitarian organizations who died there as they were trying to get aid into syria that's why moscow doesn't want to see the terror threat is among the key issues to be discussed. b. on the table there. now today we've heard nothing about calls for president assad having to step down which is different from sunday since yesterday the french prime minister when he met with the syrian opposition he did make these calls for the syrian president to step down which shows that right now even though the key players now working on organizing this conference they are completely on the same page when it comes to lots of key issues some countries in the west are sending

mixed signals which could theoretically undermine the success of the conference. graber as we can see there is a lot of the play there a lot to talk and work through but thanks so much for bringing us this update from france where this questions aren't taking place. well one of the world's top diplomats scored the syrian national council to get added to join the geneva two talks there is doubt that the group has any weight within the war torn country and he longer. seemed clear their. credibility on the ground can deliver nothing on the ground over the rebel factions or what are so she could . see or most of them and we have. two other groups so the u.s. administration is increasingly desperate to try and come together of some kind of syrian opposition and they can do business with but the syrian opposition itself the city national council no really only exists. and it only exists.

u.s. patronage so this is increasingly it seems like a field. that is about to hit the buffers. now despite the glimmer of progress in paris and fighting between the once united syrian rebels has worsened al qaeda linked groups have executed dozens of rival islamists in the last couple of days bringing the total number of victims between the rebels to over seven hundred this month alone today's crossed often r t explores how the terrorist network has managed to gain so much ground in the region. but one of the western media and politicians told us al qaeda was defeated or at the very least on its last legs the same media from politicians today tells a very different story i'll quote it is very much alive and fighting indeed across many countries of the middle east al qaeda is betrayed as a deadly minutes in this edition of crossfire we ask what is al qaeda today who supports it and who benefits from it.

britain's prime minister is being accused of bribery by eco activist after he announced a look right of incentive to areas which allow fracking for gas despite widespread concerns about its safety david cameron is letting our local councils keep all the money raised from the business tax levied on energy firms to drill in their patch and he also backed cash payouts to affected homeowners as well so first the details local authorities that allow drilling to take place will receive one hundred percent of the business rates from the scheme that's double the fifty percent the kid currently would see no government estimates say that that could be worth one point seven million extra a year each site that it council agrees and there are other estimates as well that

say that the industry could attract three point seven billion a year in investment and support an extra seventeen thousand jobs so it all sounds like great needs the financial incentives that have been laid on the table for the lake will forty's but campaigners and environmental groups of express their anger at the plan saying that it amounts to nothing more than a break we might have seen the government frank back pushing the benefits of this procedure but the extraction of shell gas from the ground to schools why it's but controlled to see in the cunt. we've seen large scale protests in the recent months in fact on sunday we saw protesters from across the country marching to solve food to an area where exploratory drilling is taking place in campaigns really concerned about a wide variety of issues with this controversial process including contamination of ground water the potential for the triggering earthquakes we've already seen work

on running the site here. after it was thought that that was linked to earthquakes that have taken place in a nearby area this is a really huge amounts of anger we've seen for painters and protesters of course the announcement coinciding with the expected announcement from french energy giant total who are expected to say that they're going to be investing millions in u.k. drilling licenses now that's causing anger because you look to france it's actually got a ban on the process and campaigners are asking why when there's a ban in that country the energy company can then exploits the u.k. opening its doors to shell gas exploration in this way so despite the financial incentives that we've seen on the table i think a lot of people going to remain unconvinced some brits may be eyeing up a bumper fracking pay day but across the atlantic there is

a squeeze on those in need. the only thing i know is they heard the word sequester whatever that means you have this thing is automatic budget cuts for some of the most vulnerable americans out of their homes find out how later this hour here in our to international. i mean am parts of germany as long as getting a more equal footing with other religions but a survey suggests more than half of germans fear that it could open the door to tougher islam is ation in their country people all over reports. daily prayer in bremen. this region was one of the first in germany to make islam an official religion nearby lower saxony is the next in line with at least three other states expected to follow in the near future the change of status allows worshippers to have their religious holidays officially recognized burial rites

carried out and classes taught in schools. but what does it mean to the islamic community in this part of germany to have their religion officially recognized by the state. perhaps in the future it will help the building of a mosque or a school it will also help to bring communities together over the last ten years both sides have made efforts to build bridges and aid integration in the good mind critics of the move claim this is being done to score political points here by hundreds of whom you can interpret this as a slam a fixation of germany but i see it as more politically motivated politicians telling muslims islam can belong but the majority of germans don't want this. only nineteen percent of germans believe that islam is compatible with german culture that's the lowest in europe thirty percent had specific concerns such as terrorism and almost half thought there are too many muslims in germany only around five

percent of people in the country are muslims giving leave to the idea that the real issue for germans may be immigration not islam and i think it is more a question of getting people in big numbers into germany than having a problem with these. they mix it up and they don't recognize it's a different story islamic leaders recognize that they have work to do to improve the image of their religion. we have a duty to change perceptions and prejudices unfortunately the media plays a big role they only show negative stories about was thems this makes it harder for us that whatever the public perception of islam in germany more and more federal states are set to follow suit and grant germany's almost four million muslims the same rights as the christian and jewish communities peter all over r.t. germany. coming up on the program a final goodbye for the man who was once israel's most powerful figure but amid the

solemnity hundreds of soldiers and an anti-missile defense system to secure a safe burial for the former prime minister abbas britain has told it it should be softer on its most dangerous criminals as the e.u. says jailing people for a wife without parole is not fair to prisoners morning in case five for its own laws and a couple of minutes here on r t international. millions around the globe struggle with hunger each good. what if someone offers a lifetime food supply no charge. very strong against g.m.o. and we think that's. going to be free products are free to do. there is no. evidence that there is any problem with

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to notice. faces change the world writes never. sold picture posted. from around the globe. the brooklyn. welcome back you're watching aren't here a national live from moscow now low income families in new york are feeling the pinch of a so-called sequester they are mad multibillion dollar spending cuts which kicked in last year after congress failed to agree a budget people are being told to find smaller and cheaper apartments or see their rent skyrocket are not met one of them is my brother and his family and inside and

brown's home this is home for me a lifetime of memories are displayed everywhere you look one of my friends went in with me doing this is eighty three year old has lived in her one bedroom new york city apartment for thirty seven years this is the first played out for mercy from h.p.d. but it's a few months ago city officials told her she has to downsize her options move into a studio apartment or see your seven hundred dollar rent triple the only thing i know is they heard the word sequester whatever that means you have access to this ng is the city agency that subsidizes rent for low income new yorkers is facing a thirty six million dollars reduction due to budget cuts known as sequestration. as a result thousands of seniors like anne are being forced to shrink their lives into smaller and cheaper apartments and that physically able. to a will or i'm going to do it my friend if you just sit on

a saddle i can't afford to stuart so what i'm going to do with my life is in this disappointment civil rights attorney norman siegel who represents many sequestered seniors calls the downsizing campaign inhumane i can't dismiss the possibility that the effect of this will impact disproportionately on seniors and poor people because in the bigger picture the people who are in power and make these decisions . know that seniors might not fight back and it's a problem playing out nationwide potentially affecting more than two million low income american households in the coming year that's according to one washington budget think tank but it's when social cuts drag in the nation's unprotected pension nears that experts say the effects will prove explosive what happens to a family watching the government of the contrie stick it to grandma when she's eighty years old you're making enemies you wonder why people join the tea party you

wonder why people join occupy wall street while many times the reasons or grandma in the current era of budget cuts the country's elderly most in need of government assistance and stability are being displaced vulnerable citizens forced to spend their golden years suffering the consequences of washington's debt and overspending is like putting somebody in prison that didn't commit a crime that's the way i see it what did we do because this deficit and why are you going to balance it on the fact that a senior marine a port naya new york all knowing the stories we have authority dot com on our website right now there read a guns behind a spate of suicide. an american firearms firm is now banning hiring out its weapons after customers were turning the guns on themselves plus. cyber security in russia the government goes online to ask people what they think about the country's strategy to stay say.

well if you're going to the market like the bank of new policies i think you. should have you with us here on t.v. today i'm wrong researcher. now israel is bitting final farewell to former prime minister ariel sharon but an atmosphere around the ceremony isn't exactly peaceful the army and police are on high alert with anti missile batteries dispatched around the burial site has now crossed live to our middle east correspondent policy or who is in israel for us. so

paul we're hearing that you know as security stepped up and in fact what's happening there is quite a security detail even for state funeral isn't it. well it certainly is i mean the country is in a state of high alert the our iron dome anti-missile defense system has been deployed over the south of the country there are also extra drones in place over gaza trying to secure the area now this is because final resting place which is at his raunch in the south of the country is in rocket range from gaza and the concern is that militants in gaza might use this as an opportunity to fire rockets into southern israel in recent weeks there were a number of rockets that will fired from the gaza strip now police have also sealed off some two kilometers of roads around to be area the irony of course is that trouble and it is a politician who based on his military and political action on the fight for israel's security and he's being buried in such a climate of insecurity so warm is

a very controversial figure out if all most israelis he's a military hero in forty maybe all of this country's wars he's a powerful politician and also regarded as a field in the media many here have nicknamed him the bulldozer because when he wanted to get something done he just went ahead and got it done but by contrast he is hated and despised by many in the arab world particularly how the students they see him as the mosque the mind of crushing any kind of action and offenses against him and also for being the sponsible for the killing of thousands of palestinians since one thousand nine hundred forty eight he was also called the butcher of beirut for the role he played in the one nine hundred eighty two massacres in the palestinian camps of the suburbs and shit to let in they've been on and many palestinians today say that it is a shame that he was never born to book for the role he played in these massacres i must have heard that show one day is a historic moment that mock the disappearance of a criminal court. he's

a criminal whose hands are covered with the stadium blood so certainly as a very controversial figure and will be. but members. of all thank you so much for bringing us the very latest from israel polis lee reporting there on the funeral. and i must take a look at some of the stories from around the world in bangkok is slowly grinding to a halt now zones of protesters blocked major intersections during a citywide shutdown it's aimed at bringing down the government of prime minister shinawatra the sister of the film and nearly all the corruption claims in two thousand and six some twenty thousand. been deployed with security officials say a state of emergency may be declared if there is fresh unraised. hammy rain staff caused floods and landslides in the southeastern philippines forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes at least thirteen people have

been killed more casualties are feared with swathes of the country still living in rough conditions after the country was battered by super typhoon haiyan last november. and evacuation is under way for thousands of foreigners in the central african republic as battles continue in the capital right across the forge that more than a dozen people were killed over the weekend despite the country's interim president resigning equate to try and and the deadly fighting between our muslim and christian militias which killed more than a thousand people so far. a top european court is trying to make britain ease up on the handing down whole wife prison sentences for its most dangerous criminals judges believe that offering no chance of parole even to those convicted of horrifying murders breaches international human rights but the u.k. is fighting back to stop brussels muscling in on its justice system as laura smith

now explains. a prison sentence is already very breath and to me in life but if the european court of human rights has its way it will become impossible for the courts in this country to hand down the most severe punishment that exceptional criminal might never become eligible for parole condemned to die in jail the a c.-h. all got involved off to convicted killers notes to complaints with the courts saying it was the moralizing notes to have a chance of release last year the courts the greens. having no rights to review contravene the european convention on human rights the justice secretary is set to fight the decision in a lengthy legal battle but many say he should go a step further and leave the courts altogether the legitimacy is pretty much nonexistent. but not

a proper court made up of. often of politicians rather than lawyers many of. the members are tiny countries or countries with. very poor human rights record i mean we're getting a lot of interference in opposition legal system. from them and i think it's completely completely unreasonable i think we should make our own decisions are in arrangements about the boat sentencing there are fewer than fifty prisoners serving whole life in england and wales for the severest drives one of them's more bridges he was sent down last year for murdering well schoolgirl. he's launched an appeal another killing ian mclachlan has already avoided a whole life because of the. he murdered a man while on day release from a murder that said meanwhile the u.k. government is entering into a lot of expensive fights with the course of human rights to stop the court. it's

a theory with british justice well next year i hear a national look at how the staple food for millions is at the center of a global controversy over genetically modified projects. because you don't states is the big dog the only hyper power and the cultural driving force of globalization it takes a lot of flak i mean hate globalization means the whole world gets hollywood and hot dogs and not the other way around so let's take a break from the negativity and talk about something truly amazing about america and as a guy who lives in moscow i could say that the constitution of the united states is something truly amazing in russia there is constant talk about needing

a new national idea a new ideology or political theory or big changes to the russian constitution and so on and it's hard for people in america understand this but twice in the twentieth century the system that russians gave their lives for collapsed and the current constitution was written quickly after a period of violence and said collapse not after a glorious victory now you see why people here are exactly memorizing amendments and founding fathers quotes here in america there are debates between liberals and conservatives but almost everyone believes the constitution and it is america's greatest strength there is a national idea that is a sacred document with a list of rules as almost universally agreed upon everyone with half a brain on the street but sadly not in congress knows when something is against the constitution or should i see against america near universal belief in the constitution is actually something truly exceptional about america but that's just my opinion.

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know what will happen didn't it we are we a cult. it's just very frightening. these people feel betrayed what were the responsible authorities thinking the study was financed by the national health office of the united states and conducted by tufts university they made no official comment only that the research project was the subject of an ongoing investigation how does this story fit in with the inventor's humanitarian ideals veers into false but everything was being done properly and i'm still assume that. i don't know the chinese partners but i know the partners from the us i actually still believe that they did everything correctly. why do they need to know why and how was.