am going to rage over the deaths of children in another american airstrike but nato officials insist it was an operation to disrupt insurgency. kids syrian opposition groups refuses to take part in next week's peace talks as moscow brings together the reigning and syrian foreign ministers to help with the groundwork for the conference. can see eye to eye on their spies hopes fade for germany and the us a deal to stop snooping on each other as around over bugging the berlin leadership rumbles on. the starting a national coming to life from moscow on marina joshing afghanistan's president

hamid karzai has ordered an inquiry into the us air strike which killed eight civilians seven of them children the night raid targeted a residential area north of kabul despite the government's pleas for american forces to stop hitting villages target modine from artie's arabic challenged ports from the region. as a result of american bull barman's in afghanistan there have been a lot of civilian casualties one women were was killed and seven children along with one civilian is injured according to the statements by. his office they have the americans to give an explanation as to such a barman's to civilian area this it has actually linked drugs between kabul and the bomb beyond province in the west where it has actually for the fos bost few weeks it has been devoid has been actually saved but the for the past few weeks it has

shown kinds of resentments and fighting between the not of forces and of large forces in one side and the taliban forces and the other side but the bombardment has not actually touched or hits any kind of. house or any type of our leaders in that area it's only has. targeted the civilian and because reality has been civilians according to the statement by the. nato claims only two civilians died in what is described as the fans of iran's support to afghan forces and military chiefs were quick to spread the blame for the deaths saying that local district and provincial officials were informed in advance of the operation that's how the statement reads from the i have the international security assistance force and also sounds the operation was meant to disrupt insurgent activity on foreign policy hours cars and says the afghan government should buy

that and instead demand justice for innocent victims. that's always the argument that the foreign powers make they always make it sound like they're invading a country just because they care so much about the people that are under attack but all over the world you can see the fruits of us foreign intervention these kind of massacres are really built in to foreign interventions you can see it wherever this happens whether in the middle east africa asia anywhere the result is poverty misery suffering they've never improve the lives of the people of the people have the right to run their own country a president karzai if he represents the afghan people should be demanding that reparations be paid to the people of afghanistan for the so many crimes that have been committed there for all the people killed for all the lives lost for all the poverty and misery created by u.s. intervention and those reparations shouldn't come from ordinary working class americans it ought to come from halliburton it ought to come from general electric and all the military contractors that have made so much money off of the destruction of the people in afghanistan and so many other countries in the world and get a sense calls in the u.s. to stop of them barging civilian areas have been falling flat

a presidential aide recently spoke out asking how many more innocent afghans have to die so it gets the attention of u.s. officials the issue of child casualties is of course especially disturbing are just market how has been looking into it. just last week an accidental shot by u.s. special forces on the dry bloodiest day in ground about ghana stems helmand province a four year old boy and troops say they mistakenly shot the child and dusty weather while the toddler's death is a painful reminder that there are still serious collateral damage since the afghanistan invasion began more than a decade ago april twenty third seen an airstrike killed eleven afghan children and the coup in our province in the east here of the un numbers in two thousand and nine one hundred thirty one children in airstrikes twenty two nighttime raids by two thousand and eleven one hundred ten children killed in two thousand and twelve seventy four children died and so far the hundreds of children's deaths at the

hands of foreign troops have not perpetuated a single political actor on the world stage to change the policy on the ground will that's until mel collecting the data about civilian casualties is difficult with u.n. figures do not represent the true number of children killed by foreign forces mounting civilian casualties from american military operations have put the us afghan security pact a very shaky ground washington's draft pushes for sounds of its soldiers during main in afghanistan after their combat mission and later this year all of their role is supposed to be to support local forces the u.s. still wants its troops to be able to carry out attacks and raid afghan homes all while being afghan prosecution president karzai is reluctance to approve the deal demands it and the airstrikes as a precondition for any agreement. now agent in other news this hour here in our to international military backed leaders get their way of referendum

a landslide but not everyone is convinced about the next constitution. coming up later we hear an expert opinion on whether the current regime will outdo previous governments in going too far with change. one of the main syrian opposition groups is again refusing to take part in the long delay peace talks scheduled in a week moscow is hosting iranian and syrian foreign ministers trying to pave the way to the elusive negotiations are all scotus following the fresh round of syrian diplomacy the syrian national coordination committee has decided that they won't attend the talks on syria in geneva starting next wednesday now that not one of the most influential factions in the opposition movement but there are hopes that there isn't a domino effect with other opposition groups deciding not to attend or the make up

of the two delegations is still unclear but one side who does want to attend but might not be that is the arraignment government russia believes that that influence in the region should give them a right to attend along with another influential regional player in saudi arabia but the foreign ministers of both iran and syria have been in moscow on thursday they met with russian president vladimir putin and also met with russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who says that successful talks are in the interest of the entire international community and that iran has a role to play like the syrian people and the people of iran we want to eliminate the hard bits of terrorism on syria's territory this is our unified position so it seems that with these talks now just days away the diplomatic wranglings have already begun. well after the high level meeting in moscow iran's foreign minister talked to r.t. sophie shevardnadze and he says syria's future should be decide its revoting and doubt the opposition's demands for his removal as

a precondition for peace talks makes no sense it seems that there is a great deal of insecurity among those people who are setting conditions for even negotiations this should happen and that should happen this should be the outcome of the negotiations here that should be the outcome going to go she asians if the people have confidence in their ability to attract the syrian people if they believe they do present the bishes of the syrian population then they should be ready to go to the ballot box why do they need to set preconditions and it's all put onto the site at the end of the day no country other the syrian people can decide what will happen in syria and if they try to impose their riches on the syrian people sooner or later they'll see the failure of that process. i. and i'm joined by political analyst keva callus

yani has been closely following the conflict in syria thanks so much kara for joining us here on r t international discussed situation to have geneva two talks scheduled for next week so what does it actually mean if the main internal opposition group is refusing to participate and in fact doesn't go to the talks. good evening thank you for having me on are actually national court the national body for democratic change in syria yesterday day clarified their position regarding geneva two saying that the letter the invitation letter that received yesterday it was the same letter that has been sent to java the head of the opposition coalition so they were asking the national court in action by the which is the internal opposition which represents some factions of the interim the opposition to come under the umbrella of the opposition coalition which belongs to other proxies like saudi arabia and qatar this people want to go independently they

don't want to be under the umbrella of the coalition that's why they refused but the question that should be. whether if they. waited until this moment to go into geneva two i mean syrian the majority of the syrian people who are asking for dialogue and debate between the opposition and the regime but until this moment you can still hear some of the opposition's declaring honestly i think that they will not negotiate him. except when the united states imposed its own threads on the opposition and said you will go to geneva to otherwise we will not give you any aid no longer while looks like they kept everyone in suspense until the very last moment so to speak but what happens if no opposition group goes to the talks i mean. can we say that the talks about effective and how will they impact the situation in syria.

the audience i mean we have to tell the tour that this geneva two is an international meeting it is between states because since most of the experts agree that. the conflict in syria is no longer in it is no longer an internal one that's why the agreement between the states should be in the first stage then agreement between the regime and the other oppositions the dialogue should be between the regime and the opposition in syria not in geneva or in any other state so whether they boycotted geneva or not it will have zero influence because geneva two it will be an agreement it will be an international accord that will divide the participants and the states that will participate in geneva two like to stop the funds and arming the syrian opposition and the terrorists in syria and also to look

at the borders because we know that from geneva one into geneva two. there are a lot of new brigades has been formed in syria like the islamic state in iraq and the eleventh and also the islam it front this law make front is made by saudi arabia so when the united states and other parties are asking iran to abide by geneva one they would also have to ask saudi arabia to also accept geneva one which says to stop any kind of funding and sending terrorists into syria right political analyst can work on a sound thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with us here on out to international. now reports from germany say the talks with the united states to get a no spy agreement looks set to fail lang say discussions have been ongoing since america's annus a was exposed snooping on its ally at the highest levels leaving germany fiore s. and comparing it to the notorious east german secret police one veteran of the

organisation spoke to peter oliver about whether the two organisations really do have anything in common. on finding out that the united states attempt to private mobile phone and glimmer confronted president obama with this claim. former offices in the east german secret police which was known as the stars e of a warning for the n.s.a. if they think must surveillance is the solution to a nation's problems who quote if it's even the best qualified and most advanced secret service cannot save the state we showed you that away from the professed shock of the politicians at the n.s.a. spying ability how does it compare with the actions of the east german secret services cheering the cold war this can now it's truly this is exactly as illegal are some of the tactics that the stars are used to employ it is

a breach of human rights but the government machine is so powerful that you can't stop it edward snowden's leaks about the shape and scope of n.s.a. surveillance show in germany as one of the top targets for u.s. snooping again. on top of the ominously named devil's mountain life the remnants of the last major n.s.a. spying program to look into the private lives of the people of berlin or it's a bond and now back in the day this post with you is to listen in normally private phone calls of thousands of citizens in both the east and the west of the fifty. then it was thousands of calls now it's millions sometimes tens of millions of data connections that are tracked and logged in the movie the way they do it now is much more intensive your web browsing history credit cards they can build a profile on you way easier than was ever possible in my day. didn't have access to

this type of technology they rely on developing personal contacts. even those who are working in counterintelligence in the west were ours even they said that we were pretty good even then the fear of being listened into is taken seriously as one former officer charged with looking into nato told us you mind those fyrst my superior officer is there any technology we have that they can use to stop eavesdropping on my calls yeah answer yes just don't pick it up these veterans of the spy game might be impressed by the capabilities of the n.s.a. but they're cautious about the quality of the information collected for dozens of ships they relied too much on technology that technology might let you locate a person or listen to their cause it doesn't let you know what they think with the usa doing all it can to justify its intelligence gathering the operation dubbed two point zero by critics except to continue for some time yet peter all of a r.t.

germany. president obama is expected to unveil a proposal this week to spring clean n.s.a.'s activities but critics don't expect much the editor in chief of the german global current affairs magazine compact isn't convinced that washington well avar agreed to give up spying on berlin. the americans i'll be willing to. try many good press perhaps they give a kind of humiliating. except the fall. of the government and the american government to cool dollar on the discussion. have failed. to the situation all for the last year. with. the spying on the mobile phone all for transamerica. discussion will heat up in the next week so i think that worldwide race to

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or is. all. this profit. these. golden rice. well. technology innovation all the list of elements around russia. the future covered. or national with almost all the votes counted early results from egypt's referendum suggest overwhelming backing for the country's new constitution proposed by the military backed interim government supporters of the ousted muslim brotherhood boycotted the vote calling it illegitimate and promising to challenge the results built through ports from cairo now many people thought this would be the case as

there's been a huge drive by the government and the military pushing people to participate and very yes as well as multimillion dollar purse to campaigns by businessmen across the streets calling on people to ratify this constitution and this is what the government really be looking for is a big yes as this would basically be a state approval on the political right now and would see basically pave the way for elections and possibly also paid to brace for a president to come this is kind of the seat of the egypt to fight to the day i'm general ability to tell sisi who said he might run if the people want him to do so this will be a huge blow to them is the brotherhood mean that because the situation has basically just imagine have been boycotting the votes this yes to the constitution basically be it make it even harder for them to be able to function on the streets to give the dismissal of the government to the forwards with elections so we'll have to see what's going to happen next but the most motherhood and i suppose have said they will start step up the process so expect that in the coming days. well

the spy during the show results suggesting widespread unity over the country ski foundations the first day of voting saw eleven killed and scores injured in clashes between enter regime protesters and police as follows a month long military crackdown on supporters of deposed president mohamed morsi protests without police approval were banned while the muslim brotherhood was declared a terrorist group by the government in late december the president of the arab lawyers association told us that egyptian sliding back into its dictatorial past as a lawyer i've read the constitution the present them situation and the one before this present constitution the biggest problem it has in it is that it puts the me and the armed forces above the state and above the constitution people would have to understand that egypt is the only out of country that the army actually is in control beyond any other country all the people who rose against mubarak no

the being of a new mubarak situation in every sense of the word and even a hardship mubarak regime at the present moment i think government in egypt at the present moment it's gone way beyond the previous regimes and its treatment to the citizens who do not support it. now elsewhere around the world this hour a suicide car bomb has struck has the last stronghold in lebanon year the syrian border killing four people at least twenty six others were hurt in the explosion near a local government building as well as deployment of fighters to help ally president assad has seen violence spread from syria the attack came shortly before an international tribunal against four hezbollah members over the assassination of a former lebanese prime minister. senior medical sources say israeli airstrikes in gaza have it wounded a woman and four children israel claims it struck in retaliation after intercepting five rockets from gaza and blames hamas for all cross border missile fire local

residents have woken to the sound of explosions and began inspecting the damage. leaders in spain's wealthiest province have voted to ask madrid if it can go alone catalonia and its key city of barcelona not only has its own language and distinct culture it's also responsible for a fifth of spain's wealth independence moves are seen as a direct challenge for prime minister rejoice who previously vowed to swart the referendum on constitutional grounds. the arctic's thinning ice is gradually opening up access to massive oil and gas reserves hidden under the polar sea bad but with an increasing number of states aiming to exploit the region's richest getting all to agree on how to divide it up could prove tricky and tense. explains

. the ice caps in the arctic have ignited a military build up over the world's smallest ocean and the riches buried beneath it the arctic circle is believed to contain thirty percent of the world's undiscovered natural gas and fifteen percent of its oil the future of the world economy to some extent is dependent on the arctic and i think you know russia and canada the united states and norway and denmark are very interested in exploiting these resources last month canada abruptly claims that it owned the north pole while the united states with its alaskan outpost has plans to boost its military there claiming it lacks operational experience and needs to police the thinning ice as it's replaced by fuel filled maritime traffic but that's not all. actually u.s. submarines are deployed not too far away off the norwegian coast it would take us missiles sixteen to seventeen minutes to get from there to moscow so we really hope

that with all the things that have been happening in the world over the past few decades we put the cold war confrontation behind us in all five countries bordering the arctic caps sovereign rights to resources within two hundred nautical miles of their territorial waterways but a growing opportunity for a bigger slice of the pie is what many fear can inevitably spark a twenty first century cold war in the frozen waters there are also unexplored resources that we don't know yet to which country belongs which could be of course of interest to many countries i do think that. smaller things could spark both tension and maybe more tension that we would like to see marina port r.t. new york that was selling polarize is setting up new perspectives for trade and the northern sea route is a shortcut for russia and europe to ship goods to asia the whole journey from the

atlantic to the pacific could reduce to about three weeks and on the other side of the arctic there's another attractive trade route the northwest passage through canada the ice has until now prevented them through the passage but that's changing christopher perry a former british naval officer who says disputes over the arctic will inevitably arise. where i think we could have some disputes is there a number of other interested countries such as india china korea japan all getting very interested not just in the northern sea route but also in the resources that exists there in the arctic already the chinese are operating in greenland to places like that and i think there will be a scramble by some of the other countries for some of those resources whether the ice does recede to you not just going to the north and say reach across the top or russia in the northwest passage across canada you're also going to have a route around twenty fifty straight across the top of the north pole now that

means that the countries that in the past have faced each other across the north pole that icy waste they cannot open water for quite a few months of the year and that will introduce different perspective different geometries and you're going to see canada and you know the states also venturing into the arctic so it's going to be an interesting situation g.g. point of view probably around twenty forty five twenty fifty people will be getting ready for that who will sit in the years leading up to that i mean largely takes a hard look at state executions and breaking the set that's next on our national.

the majority of congress are now millionaires for the first time in history according to the center for responsive politics which sounds pretty insulting when the average american sat doing so well financially that seems bad like a bunch of rich guys rule the country which they kind of do but one could argue that congress isn't rich enough first off due to inflation a billion dollars is not as much as it used to be. a special in the cost of a campaign to get in the congress costs around one million six hundred thousand dollars so yeah a million dollars of net worth may sound pretty rich to you or me but the expensive game of us politics these guys can't even afford the costs related to getting a work electoral campaigns are a big money affair so it is no surprise that people like you or me can't get into the law making business without selling at least a little piece of our souls to someone who has very deep pockets so again the problem isn't that congressmen are wealthy it is that many of them have to get constant financing in order to maintain their positions and as you average folks know once you're in debt they've got you by the throat well that's just my opinion

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