we're clearly not the safest. i mean signs of progress in syria peace talks washington accuses damascus of holding on to its one logical weapons programs despite the ongoing chemical design process. to go to geneva but he did find a way to continue to demonize the government because their ultimate goal is to get rid of assad. while inside syria survivors of the alleged drug massacre recount the horrors they saw one islam the militants seize this issue more than a month ago on t.v. for asked for in t.v. crew to film in their area since it was taken. to the south of the ukrainian president agrees the last part of a peace deal to end violence in kiev the demonstrators refused to leave the barricade saying is still not enough we'll be live in kiev shortly.

and a homeless superhero brings new hope to a down and down report on how a comic book strip is giving an address at the national lifeline. international news live from moscow you international with me you know thanks for joining us. the chinks of daylight breaking through in syria peace talks international mediator locked our brain is said negotiations between the government and opposition are finally seeing some progress but at the same time washington says it's worried about new threats emerging from syria with terrorism being only one of them the u.s. national intelligence chief warned moscow is is still capable of producing

biological weapons despite the current proces of design moment. as 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 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 won the war torn country into a terrorist training center now the u.s. is currently feed the same point a conundrum because the members fighting with the rebels may pose

a greater threat to american interests than the syrian president washington wants removed. brian baca believes motion to warning about through as biological warfare program is just a new way to push 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 our 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 islamist rebels seized the industrialists here in town of andhra and an educator massacred dozens of civilians that had a fighting left thousands displaced and militants still hold large parts of the city making it impossible to go in and verify the details of any atrocities yet he became the first foray into the crew to get to the area says the start of the siege and spoke to some of the surviving. 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 its convoys from attacks it's maybe longer but it's

a safer route talking about what the government offices told us the last december our goal was attacked by militants from a kaiden 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 they work his house in complex nearby a drama lear both and i'll besieged and i can go a little salaam and others will maybe some maintenance here to separate other out by law and out room earlier and to prevent the militants uniting. these corridors go all around the besieged cities with the army watching 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 animal to operation could threaten the lives of those who remain hostage and was 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 life in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore but this place because a terrorist attack the student who had to ski they occupied and we can't go there they're on top 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 and a 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 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 hospital far from her family. through 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 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 but i don't 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. drawn once an important industrial and peaceful city has become yet another serial 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 will and it's the ordinary syrian people left to pay the price. see from our drive in syria. more witness accounts of their alleged to our drug trials it is our own raible for you online on our website r.t. dot com. protesters in ukraine are refusing to leave this trade despite parliament passing an amnesty bill put forward during recent negotiations with the president as a part of a deal to end the rest because it would mean dismantling the barricades in care and returning siege to governmental buildings the political opposition are refusing to

accept the conditions let's go cross live to our correspondent. who is in care right now for us do you think it's still too early to talk about any kind of compromise that. indeed it looks like another deadlock last night we we watched how the deputies stayed until almost midnight in the parliament to have worked out some kind of decision they in fact managed to pass a law stipulating that all those detained during mass protest would be released but only on one condition the condition is that all buildings taken over by the protesters governmental buildings and different state buildings must be vacated and also this meant that the barricade at the governmental quarter which has been blocking kenya for the past two weeks already also had to be dismantled at the same time the law said that the protesters may continue their peaceful protest at independence square only just had to vacate those state buildings still the

opposition said that they would not accept those kind of conditions they want the all those detained during the protests to be released without any kind of preconditions and they will continue their protest until eventually they get what they want which is the resignation of the president and early election in the country which is something which seems very much unlikely that the ruling party would be able to would be willing to make as a concession because already the ruling party has made several very important concessions like offering the government to the opposition the opposition refused then the government then the prime minister himself stepped down and now basically understand that the government's position i think that the prime minister's position and the government itself is up for grabs but the opposition is still not willing to take it so this looks like another stalemate they're still looking horns we also saw that the e.u. foreign affairs chief catherine ashton came over to kiev and i asked both sides of

this political crisis to stop the violence and work out a compromise but for now it's really hard to say where this will all go because yesterday last night the deputies of the ruling party confirmed that the president actually talked about just saw the. all of it different for us to find a compromise so we're in probably for some more twists and turns in this very very interesting story. live from kiev very excited thank you very much indeed and of course we'll be talking to you later again with more days so ukraine's president made concessions as an excess said after meeting with the opposition earlier this week and first running a little while lifted and shortly after the country's prime minister offered his resignation the head of state did accept 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 central key so the president's attempts to

broker a peaceful solution was not enough for washington and brussels to curb the pressure on ukraine the u.s. is preparing sanctions for both the all sources and the opposition responsible for rides that while brussels remains highly critical of the violence seen during the protests and global policy acts that martin seif believes the ukrainian leaders attends to restore peace they're being blocked. 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 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 prison if you know which we 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. say half a day where the balance in ukraine twenty four seven with the help of our website at home and by you'll find a time line in closing photos from kiev as well as fresh reports from our correspondent. a superhero has come to the rescue of balance this is not a guest from another planet know a rich crime fighter basically has just a car except for a magazine but as a point to buy a car pools even bats may be enough to help in ruled.

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's so correct or clean city but because of his heavy charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of. the so bomb super hobos creator 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 star some faggy newspaper which is sold by the

homeless and unemployed and offered 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 fool to avert the comic supplement makes it heavier and i can't carry as many copies so it's not too bad you just don't carry on. now the customers are asking for. it's comic because they had super cartoons.

that document publication every step brighter than the full chains of it so that's the 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 foreignness you for a lot to come and some people are telling them joanie 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. especially in the believers 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 olympics so after the break we'll take you inside the ice cube cutting arena insulters really big bomb. and also later in the program does behind bars a report on law mean statistics from the u.s. jails brought to load by the death of a mother of two left to die in an american prison cell state. there's a legal shall we leave the baby. of the see bush and see to. play you call the

musical. shoes that no one is that stood with to get that you deserve answers from . politics. do we speak your language was anybody will or not a day and. we'll use programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. that will turn it into angles stories. here. in the spanish to find out more visit actuality. they're watching out international it's good to have you with us let's move on over all the winter sports to the outside curling can seem like one of the most complex

the game has been dubbed chess on eyes due to the strategic and technical details involved and of the sochi winter olympics it has its very own venue. it's curling up in sochi for the winter games and at the curling lympics stadium at least will be perfecting 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 what it is proving you made one point have seen this all this weekend this to some it looks like

a sweeping map 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. sports car comes when the sweeping begins sweepers with what looks like a mop the head of the stones melting the ice ever so slightly with the friction of the sweeping this is done to make the rock go farther they can straighten out the top that the rock is traveling on. now the team with the rock crosses to the center of the oldest throws winds in the end knocking the opposition's team stories out of the house of blocking it's possible a key parts of the game this involves intense strategy sessions and this is where curling really turns into chess on i. know you know so curled up at the curling stadium this winter olympics would say sochi olympics our team.

we'll of course continue to walk you through the only big park will china series of reports on this soldier by news here on r.t. international your. great deal of. mostly good sports. is that as easy as they say it is and olympic team. is on. the. fly. and other world news this hour a young palestinian man has been shot 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 unarmed violence in the region has increased in recent months with only twenty palestinians and four israelis have been lost their lives. there in violence shows no sign of easing in the central

african republic after a grenade attack on the house of muslim family in the capital bangui peacekeepers or cold aim 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 violence in the region that has claimed over two thousand lives. and hundreds of protesters poured into the streets of brussels to protest spain's abortion policies demonstrators marched from this punished understood to the european parliament last december madrid adopted restrictions on abortion allowing it only in limited cases including rape or physical risk to the mother. 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 hadn't even been charged. or david look now into one

such case. 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 diarrhoea 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

based out of 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 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 lot apartment 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 carrot to batch nick of cooney center on media crime and justice has called alarming but it could be somebody that 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 batch 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 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 i mean our david our. there's more from the u.s. online as the country's hard line foreign politics take a toll on those hunger for knowledge as an american company providing online education courses and boz uses from iran and syria from using its services blaming sanctions put in place by washington and vocal critical front a in the u.s. can no longer and almost state in creating a whole special of the show lost on legal boss all in all child. up next if the kaiser report.

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