this is r.t. international tonight afghan outrage over the deaths of children in another american airstrike but nato officials insist it was an operation to disrupt the insurgency we've got a report coming up. a key syrian opposition group refuses to take part in next week's peace talks as moscow brings together a rat and syria's foreign ministers to help with the groundwork for the conference . and can see eye to eye on this spice hopes 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.

it's just past eleven pm now here in moscow and we're starting this hour with news that afghanistan's president hamid karzai has ordered an inquiry into the u.s. airstrike that 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 didn't for marty's arabic system channel reports from the region. as a result of american bull 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 his office they have asked the americans to give an explanation as to such a barman specific area for the past few weeks it has shorn kinds of resentment and fighting between the not of forces and of one forces on one side and the taliban forces and the other side but the bombardment has not actually touched or hits 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 it were for its part maters directly refuting what president karzai claims so the only two civilians died in what he described as a defensive support to afghan forces a mill to choose from a quick to spread the blame for the death to save quote local district and provincial officials were informed in advance of the operation that said the statement reads an international security assistance force it also says the operation was meant to disrupt insurgent activity foreign policy and is colored mopin says the afghan government shouldn't buy that and instead demand justice for the innocent victims here. 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 they've 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. i've got to the u.s. . has been fully flat presidential aide recently spoke of how many more it is about to die so it gets the attention of u.s. officials the issue of child abuse is of course especially disturbing. has been

looking into that. 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 lay dead and troops say they mistakenly shot the child in 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 died in 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 while collecting the data about civilian casualties is difficult

when u.n. figures do not represent the true number of children killed by foreign forces a corresponding mounting civilian casualties from american military operations put the us afghan security very shaky ground washington's draft pushes for thousands of its soldiers to remain in afghanistan after the calm but mission ends later this year although the role is supposed to be support for local services what the u.s. wants is still to be able to let its troops. rate afghan homes all while being immune to afghan prosecution for his part president karzai is reluctant to approve the deal demanding that ending the airstrikes is a precondition for any agreement. in other news tonight egypt's military leaders get their way with a referendum landslide coming up a bit later we hear expert opinion on whether the new document though heralds big changes to the country's political climate. you know secretary state john kerry is called syria a magnet for extremists he's been speaking in the last couple of minutes his

comments come just a few days before the geneva two peace talks are due to start the syrian government officially confirmed no it's participation but one of the main syrian opposition groups is again refusing to take part in this long delayed conference has been hosting the syrian and iranian foreign ministers trying to pave the way for these elusive negotiations a correspondent paul scott is following this latest fresh round of 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 and the make up of the two delegations is still unclear but one side who does want to attend but might not be there is the arraigning in 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 who 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 of moscow runs for minister spoke to r.t. sophie shevardnadze he says syria's future should be decided through voting and at the opposition demands for assad's removal as a precondition for peace talks makes no sense at all it seems that there is a great deal of insecurity among those people who are setting conditions for even negotiations to start that 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 them of 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 not for iran to decide 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 see the failure of that process i. give us his thoughts there are moscow back 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 beirut based political analysts chemical massy and told us the opposition's reluctance to take part in the peace conference will do no great harm though since the talks are going

to focus on the role of international players here. the dialogue should be between the regime and the opposition in syria not in geneva or in any other state so whether they boycotted the geneva or not it will have zero difference because geneva two it will be an argument 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 input in iraq to. there are a lot of new brigades has been formed in syria like the islamic state in iraq and the eleventh and also this law make 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 day we also have to ask saudi arabia to also accept geneva one which

says to stop any kind of funding and sending terrorists into syria next tonight reports from germany say the talks with the united states to get a no spy agreement looks set to fail lengthy discussions have been ongoing since america's n.s.a. was exposed new playing on its allies at the highest levels leaving germany few areas a good pairing at the notorious east german secret police artist peter all of a minute with veterans of the organization to find out how much it really has in common with the n.s.a. . on finding out that the united states attempt to private mobile phone call confronted president obama this claim. former offices in the east german secret police which was known as the stars of a warning for the n.s.a. if they think must surveillance is the solution to a nation's problems and 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 during the cold war this can now it's really 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 i would 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 its abundant now but back in the day this post with ears 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. he didn't have access to this type of technology they rely on developing personal contacts in the sense 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 human those fires my superior officer is there anything. knowledge that i 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 cautious about the quality of the information collected for lessons yet 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 germany. while president obama is expected to unveil a proposal this week to spring clean the n.s.a.'s activities but critics on expected much the editor in chief of the german global current affairs magazine compact isn't convinced at all that washington will ever agree to give up spying on berlin the americans are not willing to do. any good press perhaps they give a kind of treaty with humiliating convolutions is not acceptable or the attempts of the government and of the american government to cool dawn.

have failed now we are back to the situation of october last year after all snowden came out with. the spying on foreign oil for transamerica. discussion will heat up in in the next week so i think. but then heading into a quick break after the worldwide race to the top of the world is gathering steam as the. roots of businesses open up good news but want to shortly we're looking at how that could pave the way the competition and maybe even war. a spill in oregon is suing nike one hundred million dollars claiming that the company failed to include a warning on its air jordan stickers that they could be used as dangerous weapons

after he used his own pair to beat a man. in other pimp this from the pacific northwest bill gates continues to pimp out your privacy and data to the n.s.a. and many other forgot the spy agency want to give a few bucks but rather than use a sneaker this pimp the boy says companies software products including skype as a dangerous weapon against the constitutional rights of unsuspecting customers on the products. gates to himself when he gets caught. this immediately though so we leave the people. of the scene motions to. play your part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with to get what you deserve answers from. politics. are today.

it's exactly sixteen minutes now past eleven o'clock at night here in moscow leaders in spain's wealthiest province are voted to us with dread if it can go it alone catalonia not only has its own language and distinct culture it's also responsible indeed for a fifth of spain's wealth this is social movements are seen as a direct challenge to prime minister a whore you previously voted to thwart a referendum on constitutional grounds i spoke to iraq she's from the european partnership for independence she told me catalans can't be prevented from having their say anyway. more than eighty percent of catalans wish to express themselves either you've they want or not want the davenant's of catalonia so we're talking about them ocracy obviously and there's no what democratic institution that can pull us to a majority of citizens of european citizens to not express themselves in the ballot

box we actually think that the government of catalonia is going to be a benefit for catalonia for spain and for europe because for us it's not a question of mine it is about that we are a nation we know we are nation we know our rights and we are brow to prove that we know that and that we want to restore this state that we used to be with our constitutions our institutions so we can decide either about our own policies. and iraq and the results reject referendum suggest overwhelming backing for the country's new constitution proposed by the military backed interim government while leaders called a political road to democracy supporters of the brotherhood boycotted the vote they called it illegitimate my promise to challenge the result with one hundred from british egyptians for democracy however thanks for being with us ninety eight percent yes everywhere else in the world that's a huge vote a huge landslide it's not really how the egyptians think about this constitution

they are so enamored with it. basically so confident that it's the way forward for their country. well we've seen the referendum that it's a fast call process what we've seen a very low turnout of egyptians that went out to vote in this constitution we saw it was written egyptians knew. him actually well there are. numerous hundreds of reports of. children voting the judiciary are influencing people inside the polling station to vote yes for the referendum and over all the turnout was very very low and this was conducted in an atmosphere of fear repression and intimidation and we've seen thirteen egyptians killed by the security forces including a twelve year old boy. protests against this constitution we've seen more than five

hundred egyptians arrested just because they said no to this constitution so whatever the results are this is an illegitimate protest and the results are irrelevant but maybe you could say that is just over five ten percent ninety eight percent it does appear that it's a huge vote in favor of the muslim brotherhood by telling all its supporters not to vote maybe proverbially they're kind of shot themselves in the foot because the one of the people voted no maybe what do you think. will will this process took place as i said in an atmosphere that wasn't fair and it wasn't free egyptians into the ballot box many many times and they voted in fair and free elections after the twenty fifth of january revolution this vote is a betrayal to the twenty fifth of january principles and it's understandable this is the return of the mobarak regime again and again the number is very similar to

what we've seen in the mubarak era when all ended up being ninety nine point nine percent yes i'm just really curious about plowing egyptians lost. i'm just really curious. people. into taking the yes was it because people couldn't see what they were taking on the on the ballot sheet surely. well a lot of people didn't turn up so those who turned up actually wanted a yes that's right but the end of the day a lot of a lot of egyptians the majority of egyptians decided not to go to the ballot box because they actually have lost all hope that this military junta can actually conduct a constitutional process with foster cool let alone a real one so they knew that going to the ballot box your voice will not be counted unless they voted yes the was absolutely no reason and no. there is no reason for

them to go and vote and so it's understandable that what we've seen is a yes vote more than fifty percent of the polling stations were not actually monitored by judge and the majority of judged judges appointed to monitor this process where actually appointed by mubarak and so these results are not fair they're not free and so egyptians in the world should not actually consider it a. process that's fair and legitimate frank so much for explaining your point so clearly nonsense one of the questions. from british egyptians for democracy thank you thank you. us around the world this hour a suicide car bomb struck a hezbollah stronghold in lebanon near the syrian border has killed at least four people at least twenty six others were hurt in the explosion near a local government building has plus deployment of fighters to help president assad's violence spread from syria. as well shortly before an international

tribunal again for his blood members over the assassination of former lebanese prime minister. palestinian medical sources say israeli airstrikes on gaza have wounded a woman and four children now israel claimed it struck in retaliation after intercepting five rockets from gaza and it blames hamas for all cross border missile fire local residents you see it woke up to the sound of explosions and they began inspecting the scale of the damage. the arctic standing ice is gradually opening up to access massive oil and gas reserves hidden under the polar sea bed but with an increasing number of states aiming to exploit the region's riches getting everyone to agree on how to divide it up could prove tricky turns out his report on the story. 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 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 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. you know twenty forty five sounds like a long time away but time does fly in the civil war if we want to but for a long time of most potential of conflict of war the thawing polaroids setting up new perspectives on the good side of it for in how to sing trade let's take a look at our lovely animated map here the northern sea routes a short cut for russia and europe to ship goods to asia we just saw that i was the blue one the whole journey from the atlantic to the pacific could be three weeks on

the other side the red one here there's another attractive trade route to that's the northwest passage through canada think i says until now prevented navigation through the passage has been hearing in that report things are changing chris were parries a former british naval officer spoke to me says disputes there were over the arctic will inevitably arise some point in the future here. who hasn't 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 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 sea route 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 are not 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 of view probably around twenty forty five twenty fifty but people will be getting ready for that of course it in the years leading up to that. we've been talking at length about the n.s.a.'s icy grip but there could be some good news for you if you want to avoid that if you want your a phone calls to say private without n.s.a. spooks listening and encrypt should now says it's developed smartphone technology that lets users with discretion it works we'll tell you on line also that american troops withdrawn from iraq two years ago but abuses continue to haunt the country is really disturbing read this gruesome pictures of merging of rita's posing of

dead iraqis that were in this abu ghraib prison it's a month many stories going to a lot of clicks right now at r.t. dot com. well it's twenty seven minutes past eleven at night i'm kevin and i'm back with more news in just about thirty three minutes from now great program between now and then after the break max and stacy are never lost for words when it comes to blasting the world of those bad bad kids or the cause reports next.

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 badly. 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 one campaign to get in a 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 lead 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 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 . of the play. the limbic spirit travels with the flame from its place in greece. joining james brown for an elemental and epic journey around russia and beyond.