you're watching our t.v. tonight afghan outrage over the deaths of children in another american airstrike but nato officials insist it was not ration to disrupt insurgency. ok syrian opposition group refuses to take part in next week's peace talks as moscow brings together iran and syria as foreign ministers to help with the groundwork for the conference. and can see ita wireless spice hopes are fading for germany and the u.s. on a deal to stop snooping on each other as the route of a bugging the berlin leadership rumbles on.

even when i'm kevin o. and it's now eight pm here in moscow our top story than this from r.t. international afghanistan's president hamid karzai has ordered an inquiry now into the u.s. airstrike which killed eight civilians seven of them children the night raid targeted a residential area in the north of kabul despite the government's pleas for american forces to stop hitting villages terek movie deal and from arabic channel reports from the region. as a result of american barman's in afghanistan there have been a lot of civilian casualties one women worst was killed and seven children along with one civilian is injured according to the statements by karzai is office they have asked the americans to give an explanation as to such a barmitzvah civilian area this it has actually links drugs between kabul and the bomb beyond province in the west where it has actually for the fast past few weeks

it has been divorced has been actually saved but the for the past few weeks it has shorn kinds of resentment and fighting between the knot of forces and of our forces on one side and the taliban forces on the other side by double marmont has not actually touched or hit any kind of taliban house or any type of our leaders in that area it only has. targeted the civilian and because reality has been civilians according to the statement by the car as a move for its part has directly refuting what president karzai claims saying only two civilians died in what he described as quote defensive support to afghan forces and military chiefs were quick to spread the blame for the death saying the local district the provincial officials were informed vance of the operation and so the statement reads from the international security assistance force there it also says

the operation was meant to disrupt insurgent activity foreign policy and it's kind of moped told us the afghan government shouldn't buy that it instead demand justice religion 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 and 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 never improve the lives of the people in 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 made so much money off of the destruction of

the people in afghanistan and so many other countries in the world of going to schools in the u.s. to stop a budding civilian areas of unfolding flat presidential aide recently spoke. to you so that it gets the attention of u.s. officials the issue of child is of course especially disturbing was been looking into the. 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 troops say they mistakenly shot the child and dusty weather well 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 while 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 now collecting the data about civilian casualties is difficult with u.n. figures do not represent the true number of children killed by foreign forces. mostly civilian casualties from american military operations or put the u.s. afghan security pact on very shaky ground washington's draft pushes for thousands of its soldiers to remain in afghanistan after their combat mission ends later this year or that their role 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 a means to afghan prosecution president karzai is reluctant to approve the deal demanding that ending the airstrikes is a precondition for any agreement here. in other news egypt's military about leaders get their way

a referendum landslide but not everyone is convinced about the next constitution coming up later the beer expert opinion on whether the current regime will do previous governments in going to far with jay. one of the main syrian opposition groups is again refused to take part in the long delayed peace talks scheduled in just over a week's time now moscow's hosting the rainy and syrian foreign ministers trying to pave the way to the elusive negotiations for scots 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 they're 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 their 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 want to eliminate the hard science 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 for scott well after the high level meeting in moscow iran's foreign minister talked to r.t. sophie shevardnadze he says seriously she should be decided through voting that the opposition's demand for assad's 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 of the negotiations if the people have confidence in their ability to attract the syrian people if they believe their you 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 awfully down to the say 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 wishes on the syrian people sooner or later they'll see the failure of that process. the time on the ground in syria over a thousand people have now been killed during into rebel fighting with radicals connected to al qaeda now waging war against more moderate groups let's bring in yemen i can see we're talking about this is

a foreign affairs expert from the german left parties indeed just returned from a working trip in serious are very pleased i'm on the program i was when i could hide thanks for being with us there what is the rub here what is the general problem with the opposition taking part in these talks is it because they're afraid of radical attacks what's the issue i doubt that i think it's just a political question it's not that they are afraid of attacks and it's very difficult to judge why this group says they won't attend the conference on the other hand i was german sure only in the north of syria it's the most because it is populated area the kurdish people in the. region with more than four million people they want to attend to you peace talks but nobody is going to divide the high kurdish commission in that region now to all the players at the geneva talks or take care of ten thousand on the litigation but so far it's been denied to them ok well the clock's ticking down no it's a journey the twenty second already the national coordination committee said it's

not going to think other opposition groups will also say the same thing now in the coming week or not how is it going to go. it's total guesswork right now i mean there's so many huddling and infighting in there i can't judge who is going to go and who's not going to go so from the different opposition groups you had to screw up so what so ever i can say i think some of them will attend and some may not but you know that's really guesswork but of course if everyone's not there how effective can this conference be end of the day. i think if you want to discuss peace aleutian for the whole of syria then you need to involve all of the syrian fractions whoever is fighting there so if some parts are missing like the kurdish then what very difficult to find a solution for all of that but even if someone coming i think it's too worthwhile to have the geneva talks even if we only have

a partial. solution it's better than nothing. we've seen moscow insist the rand should take part with the syrian opposition earlier said that if iran does take part they'll be no talks it's a bit one sided isn't it i mean i think it's totally right to have iran there but it's also totally right to have saudi arabia you may love it or you may not love it but you see most of the civil war no going on in syria it's a proxy war and so those countries with a vested interest in there. probably make sense to invite them because if if they then you know that if they don't take part in the peace talks and then try to you know circumvent solutions try to you know introduce more problems there it's probably better to involve them from the berber beginning so from my point of view yes iran should be there and yes saudi arabia should be there let's talk for a minute about the regime's chemical arsenal is being eliminated no one sees be

dressing reports of the rebels using chemical weapons is the international community doing anything about it. i mean again this was a lot of you know political propaganda one side always says that it was the assad regime using chemical weapons nothing of that was proved the other side always said it was the be the rebels using chemical weapons nothing of that has been proved so right now we are at a point where we say yes it's proof that there was an attack with chemical weapons but nobody knows who was behind it so by now it's very good news that these weapons that are in the hands of the assad regime are destroyed and yes it would be right to have also everything every kind of chemical weapon that the head of the rebel groups is destroyed but so for they didn't come forward with it yeah you just. a final thought from you your own personal point of view what is the sticking point here the pace what's the main problem at the moment. i think

it's the main problem is the civil war as a proxy war you know and turkey has its own interests it's also connected to the kurdish people there saudi arabia supporting the jihad this iran has its own interests the americans and the west of interest russia has an interest so i think right now it's the people in syria that are suffering from the from the different countries that have their own interest and. i mean it's half of the country that tried to flee the war now it's a disaster and that just because you know all the countries around there had their own interests i think that's that's the sticking point and i think all these countries from russia to the u.s. and from serb saudi arabia to turkey to iran they have to step back a bit i think should be on the program but i can in front of face expect from the german left party. of course from germany so the talk with the united states to get to know spy agreement looks set to fail lengthy

discussions been ongoing since america's n.s.a. was exposed snooping on its ally at the highest levels leaving germany furious and comparing it to the notorious east german secret police one veteran of the organizations but peter oliver about whether the two organizations really do have anything in common. on finding out that the united states' attempt to private mobile phone and glimmer confronted president obama this claim. former offices in the east german secret police which was known as the stars we have 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 jury in the cold war. this is exactly as illegal as 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 in scope of n.s.a. surveillance showing germany as one of the top targets for u.s. snooping again high up 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 was used 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. 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 the didn't have access to this type of technology they rely on developing personal contacts and even those who are working in counterintelligence in the west were ours even they said it 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 months i asked my superior officer is there any technology we have that they can use to stop eavesdropping on my calls 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 lessons yes 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 the two point zero by critics looks set 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 the n.s.a.'s activities but critics are expected much the editor in chief of the german global current affairs magazine compacts isn't convinced that washington will ever agree to give up spying on berlin. the americans are not willing to do. any good press perhaps or they they give a kind of treaty with humiliating conditions that is not acceptable the attempts of the government and of the american government to cool dawn the discussion. have failed. to the situation of for let's say october last year

after all snowden came out with their liberation to the spying on them or by the foreign office transamerica. this discussion of will. in in the next weeks i think. well what race to the top of the world gathering steam as the arctic ice melts the roots and resources open up you can join us shortly then as we look at how that's paving the way for competition and even conflict. over the playing. field in big spirit travels with the flame from its place in greece. for an elemental and epic journey around russia and beyond.

where mike. early results from egypt's referendum suggest overwhelming backing for the country's new comes to choose should proposed by the military backed interim

government supporters of the ousted muslim brotherhood boycotts devote calling it illegitimate and to challenge the results the first day of voting so held in schools injured in clashes. anti regime protesters and the police followed a month long military crackdown on supporters of deposed president mohamed morsy protests with police approval of a band while the muslim brotherhood was declared a terrorist group the government in late december president of the arab lawyers association told us that egypt sliding back into its dictatorial past. as a lawyer i've read the constitution the present constitution and the one before this present constitution the biggest problem it has in it is that it puts the army and the armed forces above the state and above the constitution people have to understand that egypt is the only other country that the army actually is in control beyond any other country all the people who rose against mubarak are now

being offered and you mubarak situation in every sense of the word even the hardship mubarak regime the at the present moment i think the government in egypt at the present moment it's gone way beyond the previous regimes in its treatment to the citizens who do not support it. for making news tonight a car bomb struck a hezbollah stronghold in lebanon near the syrian border it killed for at least twenty six others were hurt in the explosion near a local government building has been laws deployment of fighters to help ally president assad has seen violence spread from syria that attack came shortly before international tribunal against four hezbollah members to the assassination of a former lebanese prime minister. palestinian medical sources say israeli airstrikes on gaza the woman and four children israel claims it struck in retaliation after intercepting five rockets from gaza are in flames hamas for all

cross border missile fire local residents had woken to the sound of explosions have begun inspected with damage but. it isn't as wealthy as province of voting to ask madrid if it can go it alone. the city of barcelona not only has its own language of distinct cold shoots also responsible for a fifth a spate of wealth to the independence moves as seen as a direct challenge for prime minister rudd hoyer who previously to thwart a referendum on constitutional grounds. the arctic splitting ice is gradually opening up access to massive oil and gas reserves hidden under the polar sea bed but with an increasing number of states to exploit the region's riches getting all to agree on how exactly to divide it up could prove tricky tends to port myricks plains. melting 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 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 but 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 to put the cold war confrontation behind us in all of five countries

bordering the arctic sovereignty rights to resources within two hundred nautical miles of their territorial waterways but a growing appetite 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. tension and maybe more tension that we would like to see point nine r.t. new york new world the following polarizes new perspectives for trade that the northern see routes a shortcut for russia and europe to ship goods to asia in fact the whole journey from the atlantic to the pacific could be reduced to about three weeks you can see on the map there and on the other side of the arctic there's another attractive trade route to the northwest passage through canada thick ice has until now prevent

innovation through the passage but things are changing with global warming i spoke to christopher parry he's a former british naval officer he told me disputes over the arctic will inevitably arise in the future. where i think we could have some disputes is there are 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 exist up there in the arctic already the chinese are operating greenland to places like that and i think there will be a scramble by some of the other countries for some of those resources when the ice does recede to you not just going to the north and see reach across the top or russia and 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 and you know 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 united states also entering into the arctic so it's going to be an interesting situation g.g. point here probably around twenty forty five twenty fifty but people were getting ready for that of course it in the years leading up to that. could a very informative world apart lines up perks on is waiting in the wings before the break let me tell you some more stuff if you want your phone calls to say private without n.s.a. spooks listening in take a look at our website we're putting on the flip shouldn't say it's developed a smartphone that lets users dial with discretion when i move go online you get a moment also that two american troops make the phone from iraq two years ago but abuses continue to hold the country is more gruesome pictures of emerge of the rings disposing of dead iraqis at the infamous abu ghraib prison just a couple of very many stories online those goes over twenty thousand videos on you tube you tube ok then as promised they without one of the key by today sions

officials of peacekeeping operations talks to observe the boy korean worlds apart right after the break. 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 is not doing so well financially this 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 especially 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 the 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 they get 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 . when you're followed around when you are being investigated because of the whim of someone this is the beginning of the end of your freedom. teen lee intercept american citizens'. text message use you know. where the calls text messages so you just see everything about my knowledge that i actually

basically and there's no legal absolutely yes when you bareback with the internet you bareback or brother. hello and welcome to walt a part of the u.n. peacekeeping budget has never been larger. liberates missions around the world keeps on growing but the prospect of global peace teams to be more lucid then after peace preventing war still the best strategy for keeping peace while to discuss that i'm now joined by harvey. the u.n. secretary general for peacekeeping operations mr lott sustain you very much for your time but you are the fourth frenchman in a row.