my son. made signs of madrid for a growth in syria peace talks washington accuses damascus upholding onto his biological weapons program despite the ongoing chemical design meant process. we need a way to build against geneva but he did 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 recount the horrors they saw one is limited minutes and save this city more than a month ago the last four in to recruit to film in the area since it was taken. also this hour the ukrainian president agrees the last part of a peace deal to end protests in kiev the demonstrators refused to leave the barricade saying it's still not enough. to hold the superhero brings

new hope to down and out report on how a comic book strip is giving hundreds of financial one line. international news and comments live from moscow you will not see international with me you know thanks for joining us. there were daylight breaking through in syria peace talks international mediator. negotiations between the government and opposition are finally seeing some progress but at the same time washington says it's worried about new threats and managing from syria with terrorism being only one of them the u.s. national intelligence chief warned is still capable of producing biological weapons

despite the current proces of design them and. the 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 weapon 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 asian 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 do you bring

that 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 nusra 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 the same point a conundrum because members fighting with the rebels may pose

a greater threat to american interests than the syrian president washington wants removed. and brian back believes washington's warning about syria's biological warfare program is just a new way to push assad's government back. 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 he to find

a way to continue to demonize the assad government because their ultimate goal is to get rid of assad not for a negotiated settlement it's been more than a month since it limits rebels seized the industrial center in town of entre and allegedly massacred dozens of civilians that have been fighting left the house and displaying stand militants still hold large parts of the city making it impossible to go in and bury find the details of any atrocities yes i'll say became before i asked for until the crew to get to the area says the start of the siege and spoke to some of the survivors. 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 attacks it's maybe longer but it's a safer route pocket our government offices told us that last december our job was

attacked by militants from a keitel 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 their work is house in complex nearby a drama lear. both are now besieged and i could go a little so long although we may be some bankers here to separate other our blog and out room earlier and to prevent the militants uniting because of. these corridors go all around the besieged cities with the army watch in the 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 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 a shelter around what used to be a large sum and factory but in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore men were displaced because terrorist attack the seat and we had to escape the occupied and we can't go there they're older blocked. he says his father is a government employee this is why it is dangerous for his family to stay we ask where they live now. the hours mother appear from the darkness of the room barely ten square meters in the silence and everything what is happening is wrong there was no need for any of this see where we are now to what degree we have reached now

it's a question that many here are asking what are these children haven't seen their mother for a month for ready seriously ill she couldn't get her medicine due to the siege with her condition deteriorating she was sent to hospital far from her family. 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 in our 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 alone and up to be ahead they were looking for anybody serving in the syrian army and also the virus of the syrian soldiers beheaded at the sewage system. like the shell of a big cut drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for a cigarette and young children are about to die from a lack of water and they threatened us with machine guns. once an important

industrial and peaceful city has become yet another syrian battleground for weary forces whose three year 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 win and as the ordinary syrian people left to pay the price roof notional tea from our drive in syria more witness accounts of the alleged terror are available online on our website. protesters in ukraine are refusing to leave this trace despite parliament passing and amnesty bill which was the last of three demands put forward during recent thank you stations with the president but because it would mean dismantling the barricades in care and returning station governmental buildings the political opposition refused to accept the conditions peace owner of course now on the

chances of finding a compromise that following the results of this ballot victory on a covert the ukrainian president actually said that had they not voted in favor of this steel 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 committed nationalistic rioters some of those that have been responsible for starting instigating some of the most serious violence that we've seen whether they leave not just here in kiev but whether they leave their barricades of buildings they've occupied in the west of ukraine people very much dug good and they were committed to a a revolution they were saying they wanted gallico beach 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 earlier this week france down to running north were lifted shortly out of the country's prime minister over his resignation the head of state accepted that and this has become it and now here they amnesty bill which the opposition says is not goodenough because it contains a condition that they should leave central key. the president's attempts to broker a peaceful solution was not enough for washington and brussels to cut the pressure on ukraine the u.s. is preparing sanctions for bottles to authorities and the opposition responsible for riots while brussels remains highly critical of the violence saying during the protests and global policy acts that are not in favor believes the ukrainian leaders attempts they were stalled peace are being blocked that the united states

and the european union they shouldn't are very much miss a mistake and that what they should be doing is supporting the ukrainian government urging the rebels the holdouts to accept the amnesty agree with the most important thing is to defuse tensions prevent new explosions of violence and the opposition are not doing this they are not in a constructive mood they were not oppositional destructive mode they don't want to make change to due process i think it would be disastrous a president you know which would work 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 look at it 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 which isn't

a dot com and that all you find a timeline including photos from care as well as fresh reports from our correspondent. a superhero has come to the rescue of his homeless is not a gas from another planet you know a rich crime fighter basically has just a comic set from a magazine but has also his point of biker reports even that may be enough to help single. his muscles are firm but he has no fixed abode it's super hobo the unlikely superhero inherited his superpowers accidentally just savoring some discarded beer. normally like that man or iron man they are very very rich playboys who rescue all the world know 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 shabby charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of earlier 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 stress and 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 pollute 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 chaos 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. it's comic because they had super hobo cartoons. that document 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 bring much more people into difficult situations

a lot of foreigners you foreigners are 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 and germany and especially in mumbai leaders 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 coming from the twenty point. telling is five centuries old but it's relatively new to the winter olympics so also the break we'll take you inside the ice cube cutting arena in salt has an impact. on the also they said behind bars a report on along the statistics from the u.s. trails a brawl to live by the death of a mother of two left to die in american prisons south stay with us.

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welcome back sassy of all the winter sports to the outsider caring can seem like one of the most complex the game has been dubbed trash on eyes due to the strategic and technical details involved and of the social winter olympics it has its for our own venue. it's curling up in sochi for the winter games and at the curling the limpid stadium at least will be affecting this sweeping slide 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 one of these prix you made one point have seen this all this weekend 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 car comes when the sweeping begins sweepers with what looks like a mob 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 palm that the rock is traveling on. now the team with the red cross is to the center of the soon after all these throws winds in the end knocking the opposition's team stories out of the house of blocking it's possible to keep parts of the game this involves intense strategy sessions and this is where curling really turns into chess on i. know you know so curl up at the curling stadium this winter olympics to mom would say sochi olympics our team. well of course continues her role here through the olympic trials here is a report on the news here on alt. you know you're ok. how do you operate dealing. with mostly sports. is that as easy as they say it is i'm not an olympic hockey player which is on. the.

fly. and another 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 claim the victim opened fire at civilians under military post but local say he was on armed violence in the region has increased in recent months with over twenty palestinians and four israelis having lost their lives securing violence shows no sign of easing in the central african republic after a grenade attack on the house of muslim family and become bitter old banger gooey peacekeepers who were called in to rescue around twenty people over fears of rather tykes more than six thousand troops from france and the african union are currently trying to stem violence in the region that has claimed over two thousand lives.

hundreds of hers has poured into the streets of brussels to protest abortion policies demonstrators marched from the spanish embassy to the european parliament last december madrid adopted restrictions on abortion following it only allowing it only in limited cases including rape or physical risk to the month. being put in an american jail sometimes means losing more than just your liberty figures published by the u.s. ministry of justice show more than eleven thousand people died in prisons over the last decade and some of them hardened even been charged. david look now into one such case. nor were. those who were. 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. 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 cell they started banging on the bars of the cells and screaming at the officers to get help to get medical help and everything and there's a feeling off that i won't buy. it she's just having

a seizure my grandson has seizures old song it will pass 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 r.t.c. 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 a medical a 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. those men from the u. us online as the country's hard line for in politics take a toll on those hungry for knowledge as an american company providing online

education paul says a bond is useless from iran and syria and using its service is blaming sanctions put in place by water. on the local critical franking in the you ask an hour longer and to almost topple the state including a hospital official lost a legal battle with an oil giant. and coming up next and also international is breaking the south with host of the macho stay with us. the building behind me will become the center of startup communities from around

the world come together to talk about the best way to new ideas. one of the most noticeable. will be the ocean of some of the place most. take me to the ball gain take me through the metal detector so wait that's not how the song goes well as the country changes sadly so must the national pastime they settle mariners released a statement that they like all other teams for twenty fifteen are setting up metal detectors to screen all fans entering their stadium for get visions of hot dogs in home runs now everyone will be able to tell their grandkids about how their bags got searched because they had metal buttons at company name stadium baseball memories the team's management is also continuing their ban on bags larger than

forty by forty by twenty centimeters because if you're going to stick an explosive device it had better be compact their body maybe i'm jumping the gun metal detectors can't touch your genitals or do a naked body scan they're probably the least intrusive coming form of security scan then again think about it they want to prevent some terrorist from blowing up a densely packed crowd of people in the stadium so the m l b wants teams to create densely packed lines of people outside the stadium before the game starts well these security measures really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion. martin and this is breaking the set so today the house of representatives passed the farm bill after two years of negotiating how many billions of dollars would be

cut from food stamps after all it was said and done the program will be cut by eight billion dollars and about eight hundred fifty thousand households will now lose ninety dollars a month and food assistance here is that right a measly ninety dollars is what all the for. this was about the to who worry the bill also provides billions of dollars to subsidize major commercial farmers many of which are owned by the very congressional lawmakers who rally all the time against the nanny state i guess government handouts don't apply when you're the one cashing in now let's break the set. the the please please take and leave very hard to take. the. one that you have had sex with that are great there are those. that believe.

that. every year approximately twenty two thousand dolphins and porpoises are killed by fishermen in japanese waters and no town exemplifies the slaughter of these marine mammals more than the village of thais she from september to april thais you fishermen engage in a tactic called drive hunting with herds pods and dolphin toward a cove which is then enclosed by nets to prevent escapes many of the dolphins are then killed by inserting a metal pin into their necks severing their brain stems at least forty one bottlenose dolphins have already been killed so far this year.