it was. i mean signs of more drug progress in syria peace talks in washington accuses damascus upholding on to its biological weapons program despite the ongoing chemical design process. we need a way to build against geneva they either find a way to continue to demonize the assad government because their ultimate goal is to get rid of assad. while inside syria survivors of the alleged massacre recount the horror as they saw one islam is militants seized more than a month ago. the first foreign to recruit to film in the area since it was taken. the ukrainian president agrees the last part of a peace deal to end protests and kyrgyz but demonstrators refused to leave the barricades are saying it's still not. the homeless superhero

brings new hope to down and out report on how a comic book strip is giving hundreds of financial lifeline. hello and welcome to our international twenty four hour news life from moscow my name is hugo our top story now. there are trends of daylight breaking through and see where peace talks international mediator lakhdar brahimi said negotiations between the government and opposition are finally seeing some progress but at the same time washington says its more about new threats emerging from syria with terrorism being only one of them bigger us national intelligence chief warns damascus is still capable of producing biological weapons despite the current

progress and process of design meant that marina details. the u.s. director of national intelligence claims that syria has not successfully weaponized biological agents in an affective delivery system but he says the government possesses conventional weapons systems that could be used to launch biological weapons now speaking to the senate intelligence committee james clapper said that america's spy agencies believe that some elements of syria's biological warfare program might have advanced beyond the research and development stage and might be capable of limited production you know the timing of these comments are quite interesting you have to understand them in context mr clapper is making these allegations as damascus has been successfully complying with the russian u.s. brokered deal to remove and destroy its arsenal of chemical weapons the agreement was brokered as a way to avert u.s. missile strikes that president obama was threatening in september to carry out now

it looks as though the u.s. administration may have a new reason to revisit their military playbook mr clapper is warning that syrian militant groups tied to al qaeda such as the al nasra front is aspiring to attack the united states he told the senate intelligence committee on wednesday that extremist groups in syria are conducting training camps to train people to go back to their countries and conduct more terrorist acts clapper says that some twenty six thousand rebel fighters battling the government of bashar al assad in syria are extremists and he also estimates that seven thousand of them are from fifty different countries including europe we've been reporting for months about how an influx of extremist groups in syria has turned the war torn country into a terrorist training center now the u.s. is currently feed facing quite a conundrum because members fighting with the rebels may pose a greater threat to american interests than the syrian president washington wants

removed. brian back believes washington's warning about biological. is just a new way to push out assad's government. it's a clear indication that the obama administration is looking for other rationales other pretext to keep the pressure on the assad government and when i say pressure that's kind of euphemistic what they're really doing of course is creating a great international crime by funneling arms and weapons and money to an arms struggle in other words for mental and civil war so that they can destroy an independent nationalist government in this region of the world we've gone through this script before we saw it in iraq we saw it in libya we're seeing it in syria the united states government is carrying out an armed struggle policy a civil war policy and they need to keep up public rationales also they need a way to balance against geneva but he did find a way to continue to demonize the assad government because the ultimate goal is to

get rid of assad not for a negotiated settlement and it's been more than a month since islam it's rebels and things been best for all syrian town of entre and the legendary masika dozens of civilians that have been fighting left thousands displaced and militants still holed launch possibly say to making it impossible to go in and verify the details of any atrocities yes once he became the first foreign t.v. crew to get to the area since the start of the siege and spoke to some of the survivor . address is just a twenty minute drive from damascus but the highway runs through an area firmly under rebel control so instead we take a newly created pass driving through high mounds of sand and piles of old tires the army uses to shoot its convoys from a tanks it's maybe longer but it's a safer route our government offices told us that last december our job was

attacked by militants from a kidal in crude and the free syrian army. they stormed into the city and they kept the civilians in their buildings using them as human shields which made our mission very difficult this is why it takes so long we want to avoid civilian losses they're actually to address the old town admiral blood and the work is house and complex nearby a drama leer both and i'll besieged like a dog with a line of well maybe some bankers here to separate other out by law and out room aliya and to prevent the militants uniting. these corridors go all around the besieged cities with the army watch in their area day and night. this is one of the checkpoints of the syrian army behind this wall is territory held by militants and the soldiers strategy and mission right now is just to watch this area and to shoot if they see the enemy approaching. and this is actually all they

can do for any military operation could threaten the lives of those who remain hostage and with no access inside it's impossible to tell just how many the are but luckily most of the residents managed to escape address we meet some of them two kilometers away they shelter around what used to be a large sum and factory in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore but this place because a terrorist attack the street and we had to skate they occupied and we cannot go there their old job blocked. he says his father is a government employee this is why it was dangerous for his family to stay we ask where they live now. the r.'s mother appear from the darkness of the room barely ten square meters in a silence and everything what is happening is wrong there was no need for any of this see where we are now what degree we have reached now it's

a question that many here are asking because these children haven't seen their mother for a month already seriously ill she couldn't get her medicine due to the siege with her condition deteriorating she was sent to a hospital far from her family. here we were living in peace and now where are we i wish peace would come back to all of syria. a month later it's still not clear exactly what happened another drug most of those we talked to here in this camp fled before the militants arrived but occasionally we meet some who didn't escape so quickly and the loner they were looking for anybody serving in the syrian army and also the virus of the syrian soldiers beheaded at the sewage system. like this sort of drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for a cigarette and young children are about to die from a local water and they threatened us with machine guns. are drawn once an important

industrial and peaceful city has become yet another syrian battleground for weary forces whose three a long confrontation has left well in excess of one hundred thousand dead and millions displaced and yet it's another place where no side looks able to will and it's the ordinary syrian people left pay the price. see from our draw in syria and will witness accounts of the alleged drug trial cities are available online for you on our website r.t. dot com. protesters in ukraine are refusing to leave the trees despite a parliament passing an amnesty bill which was the last of three demands put forward during recent negotiations with the president the law was a part of a tradeoff an exchange for the dismantling of barricades in kiev and the return of siege to governmental buildings peter on a reports now on the chances of finding a compromise. following the results of this victory on

a covert the ukrainian president actually said that had they not voted in favor of this law then he would have actually dissolved parliament when it comes to seeing how people will react to the news of this amnesty if and on the condition that they leave barricades in government buildings it's not just here in kiev we need to be keeping an eye on i can see as a scene people still on those barricades right now these these ultras these are the really committees nationalistic rioters some of those that have been responsible for starting instigating some of the most serious violence that we've seen whether they'll leave not just here in kiev but whether they leave their barricades and buildings they've occupied in the west of ukraine people very much dug in and they were committed to a revolution they were saying they wanted yannick over each out now that they're being told that they will only get amnesty for those that have been detained if

they leave those positions well we'll be keeping a watchful eye on whether they will do that at all. ukraine's president made concessions after meeting with the opposition this week fast and he riling laws were lifted shortly after the country's prime minister offered his resignation the head of state accepted that and dismissed the cabinet and here we go now the amnesty bill which the opposition says is not good enough because it contains a condition that they should leave a central key of that so the president's attempt to broker a peaceful solution i was not enough for washington and brussels to curb the pressure on ukraine the u.s. is preparing sanctions while the e.u. remains highly critical of the violence seen during the protests global policy expert monitors see believes the korean leader's attempts to restore peace are being blocked. the united states and the european union they shouldn't are very much amiss and mistaken but what they should be doing is supporting the ukrainian

government and urging the rebels the holdouts to accept the amnesty agree with the most important thing is to defuse tensions and prevent new explosions of violence and the opposition are not doing this they are not in a constructive mode they are in an oppositional destructive mode they don't want to make change to due process i think it would be disastrous of president you know which were to resign i think if that was the case the danger of civil war in ukraine between eastern ukraine and western ukraine with kiev caught in the middle would be much greater president you know which should be supported by the european union and by the united states he is the main force for moderation and reconciliation left in this country. stay up to date with events in ukraine twenty four seven with the help of our website and see dot com i'm going to find the time line in closing photos from here as well as fresh reports from our correspondents.

a superhero has come to the rescue homeless he's going to get from another planet norwich crime fighter basically has just the cops have from magazine but as i say it's pointed by current polls even that may be enough to help us and all. his muscles affair but he has no fixed abode it's super hobo the unlikely superhero inherited his super powers accidentally after savoring some discarded beer. normally like bettman or iron man they are very very rich playboys who rescue all the world no it's the guy from the on the ground who rescues which gets to the city because it's very attractive for people all over the world not because it saw

correct or clean city but because of his heavy charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of. so bomb super hobos creators says the idea was spawned while watching a homeless man trying and failing to sell a newspaper on a train. so stefan went to the stratton fagen newspaper which is sold by the homeless and unemployed and offer to launch the charity supplement in order to boost its sales for sure it's a little bit political incorrect but this is the only way to get more people into the subject homelessness and so we decided to do it the newspapers distributed through kiosks such as this one so the city's homeless can come here and buy in copies for sixty cents apiece which they then sell on for one year a fifty and they're able to make a profit but certainly in the time that we've been here several people have come up

trying to buy in more copies of that super hoboes supplement that has been selling so well super hobos breath stinks he dreams of oceans of beer and yet the homeless vendors don't take offense it's a very good idea it should have been thought of earlier the comic supplement makes it heavier and i can't carry as many coffees so it's not too bad you just don't carry on. now the customers are asking. that's comic because they had super. body but documented publication and stepped right in the fortunes of it so it's a soup kitchen at the station has an increasing number of hungry mouths to feed the cries is. doing and or bringing in bringing much more people into difficult situations a lot of foreigners you foreign law to come and people are telling them germany is a rich country and please come and you will have

a good life but in fact it's very difficult to get jobs here and it's very difficult to get flats i'm thinking that's the number of people many and specially and nobody is increasing in the next years enormously but there is trying to shift the papers daily say the comic strip has at the very least added that little bit of comic relief. curling is five centuries old but it's relatively new to the winter and then takes so doesn't break would take in science be a nice keep counting every night in some trees and take out. step behind bars a report on a lawn in statistics from the u.s. jails brought to mind by the death of a mother that left to die in an american prison cell. is obviously more for the ladies because it's pink. women wanted to avoid rape they

really needed to buy guns and learn how to use them. this is the one that i'm going to go with them once again it's the field for women definitely the target of the gun lobby the one you don't kill i'm not going to kill anybody but if somebody would you would piss with her. i'm noticing more and more is this really scary marketing tactics which implies that women have some sort of moral obligation to own guns to protect their family and young girls shoot out here too so we do have a pink or. more kids young kids choke on food than are killed by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on earth so we're clearly not the safest. today got a lot of housing for only people but the government is not really funding it and

then a lot of the shelter today be having people brothers down the street because people begin to rate been sheltered to get that right now ironically ironically i'm worth more to the city of new york holding. the person working. when you paid regular people like someone like a lawyer or doctor or some other madison avenue it's boring and sometimes the homeless people deliberately didn't like the alibi. is the same because the country rather than the state the deliberate structure or it should never been done in this city or region bridges city and the world what people. pay money to do is give you the least doubt anybody could make you feel you know get out of.

it watching i'll say international life for most go welcome back. of all the winter sports to the outside at canning seem like one of the strangest they gain has been dubbed chess anaïs due to the strategic and technical details involved and at the sochi winter olympics it has it's a very own. it's curling up in sochi for the winter games and at the curling lympics stadium at least will be perfecting this sweeping sliding and ultimately the quest for gold the ice cube curling center is a three thousand multi-purpose arena it's one of the smaller centers here at the olympic park it will be hosting the wheelchair curling competitions the come the paralympic games now it's quite a spacious small center and those with disabilities will be able to enjoy this center so what it is proving you made one point have seen this all this

we've in this to some it looks like a sweeping match but it's more than that physics and strategy play a role. the idea is to push the stone from one end of the ice to the other aiming for the center of the house which looks like a bull's eye a sports plant to comes when the sweeping begins sweepers with what looks like a mop to go ahead of the stones melting the ice ever so slightly with the friction of the sweeping this is done to make the rock go farther it can straighten out the pond that the rock is traveling on. now the team with the rock closest to the center of the button after all those throws wins in the end knocking the opposition's team stories out of the house of blocking it's part of a key parts of the game. this involves intense strategy sessions and this is where

curling really turns into chess on ice. now you know so curl up at the curling stadium this winter olympics to mom would say sochi olympic park r.t.e. . one of course continue to walk through the olympic park or chalice here is a report from based on our international here. how do you operate doing but again i'm going to host the two day sports and such like speed skating is it as easy as russo a road i'm not an olympic hockey player by much it is all going to find me a little sleep in my fly. and the world news this hour a young palestinian man has been shot dead by israeli soldiers near the west bank city of ramallah israeli defense forces claims the victim opened fire at civilians and a military post but local say he was unarmed violence in the region has increased

in recent months with over twenty palestinians and four israelis having lost their lives. to terror and violence shows no sign of easing in the central african republic after a grenade at times on the house of muslim family in the camp sold by and peacekeepers were called in to rescue around twenty people over fears of further times more than six thousand troops from france and the african union are currently trying to stem the violence in the region that has claimed over two thousand lives . for the protesters poured into the streets of russel's to protest spain's or abortion politics demonstrators marched from this punish understood to the european parliament last december winter it adopted restrictions on abortion allowing it only in limited cases including rape or physical risk to the mother. in american trail sometimes means losing more than just your liberty figures published by the u.s. ministry of justice showed more than eleven thousand people died in prisons over

the last decade and some of them hadn't even been charged and we were david looking into one such case. who who . it's a mother still in mourning distraught over her thirty seven year old daughter died after spending several agonizing hours lying on the floor of a brooklyn jail cell the day which led to kyin livingston's death this past summer stemmed from a nonviolent altercation with her grandmother but after her arrest police brought her here to brooklyn central booking where she was held waiting to be arraigned by a judge unfortunately she would never make it to a court or ever officially be charged with a crime. instead livingston would spend the remainder of her life in

a jail cell suffering from severe stomach pains diarrhea and convulsions but despite her physical distress livingston son alex says a witness told him n.y.p.d. officers ignored the pleas of his mother and others who were with her in the south bay started banging on the bars of the cells and screaming at the officers to get help to get medical help and everything and there was a female officer i walked by and said oh oh. she's just having a seizure my grandson has seizures old sano past and why p.d. officials tell the family that livingston was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital but one witness and fellow inmate told the daily news that livingston had been dead for twenty minutes before the e.m.'s had even arrived the department which is now being sued by the family has declined requests to turn over key surveillance video and release the names of the officers who oversaw her care

in a statement to our t.v. regarding the case a spokesman for the new york city law department said this involved a tragic matter but given the pending litigation we cannot comment further but livingston story is not exactly unique she represents just one of hundreds of deaths that take place every year in local jails across the country according to the most recent department of justice statistics available. in two thousand and eleven eight hundred eighty five inmates died while detained by local police departments deaths which have typically stemmed from a preexisting health condition it's a statistic that kara to bash nick of cooney center on media crime and justice has called the alarming it could be somebody the has a condition that has never been diagnosed before adding the stress of the situation could bring that out it could be anybody eighty percent of the people under jails have some sort of medical chronic condition and that's why to bash nick says these officers need to be aware of inmates illnesses and trained on how to react to dire

medical conditions and that's what this community is demanding six months after khayyam livingston's tragic death they're calling for accountability and they're insisting on changes to the u.s. jail system that could prevent others from falling victim to the same fate in new york a mere david r t. there's more from the u.s. on line as they countries hog line foreign policy eggs take a toll on those hungry for knowledge as an american company providing online education courses because users from iran and syria from using its services blading sanctions put in place by washington. and a vocal critic up front and they do ask not only the end to almost top of her run her own home state including a hospital after she lost a neko boss over what an oil giant. will be back with more news in just over half an hour a tent just a minute at a time

a boy carries here in walls are. going to get a lot of housing for homeless people but the government is not funding it and then a lot of the shelter today be having people brothers down the street because people begin raped in the shelters they get bogged down they're not running ironically i'm worth more to the city of new york he told me. personally. when you paid regular people like someone like a lawyer or doctor or some other madison avenue it's boring and sometimes the homeless people do little to look like relative by. the sea because kludgy plans to be restored or it shouldn't be in this city or region city in the

world what people with a money to do give you. the least down anybody could make you feel good you know get up. here you. how do you operate dylan piggy i'm going to the most courageous sports such. as ruth's a rose i'm not an olympic hockey player bomb which is on to find me and my son. hello and welcome to worlds apart is there life on mars it used to be a million dollar question than a billion now it looks like it may soon become

a trillion dollar question but will it ever produce announcer well to discuss that i'm now joined by a co-founder of the marsh one mission. mr thank you very much for the time i know that you've been a very passionate advocate of sending a manned mission to mars and do you believe that you can do that by circumventing governments and space agencies and you don't even need so much money for that you claim that it may only cost around six billion dollars but i wonder how much of that money have you already raised. we don't disclose the mother's money that we've raised but i can tell you that's we've we've not race a significant portion of those six billion us dollars but we are talking to the right people we're talking to the right people in the media industry we're talking to the right potential partners and sponsors for our mission and we're very confident that we can raise that level of money well correct me if i'm wrong but they're courting to some media reports as of november first this year you received

slightly less than two hundred thousand dollars in donations which seems to be a little bit short of the six billion dollars why do you think people haven't responded to your pleas more generally maybe a space exploration is no longer. as appealing as it used to be donations is one of the way so we will finance this mission but it's only a small part of what we what we seek to to collect and the larger amounts of money will come from investments from from investors who are interested in the media outreach that we will do and from big partners and sponsors . that will contribute to this mission because they want to attach share name to such an exciting events now the main reason why your price texan's to be relatively low is because you don't really factor in every turn journey you believe that those valid volunteers have to stay on mars for the rest.