amid signs of madrid progress and see where peace talks at washington accuses damascus of holding on to it's a bundle trickled weapons for iran despite the ongoing chemical design one process we need a way to build against geneva he to 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 andro months ago recount the horrors they saw when islam is militants seized the city more than a month ago seized the past four interior crew to film in the area since it was taken and. also the sign of the ukrainian president agrees the last part of a peace deal to end and violence in kiev but demonstrators refused to leave the barricades saying it's still not turn out. and how this

brings new hard to believe the down and down through port and how it could make a book script is giving hundreds of financial lifeline. this is all seem to national coming to life from moscow my name is you there and welcome to the program. the chinks of daylight breaking through in syria 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 it's worried about new threats emerging from syria with terrorism being only one of them the u.s. national intelligence chief warned damascus is still capable of producing biological weapons despite the current process 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 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 agent production now 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 russia 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 feet 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. and. brian back believes washington's warning about.

is just a new way to 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 he to 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 it's been more than

a month since the myth rebels seized the industrial syrian town of andhra and allegedly months ago and dozens of civilians there have been fighting that thousands displaced and the militants still hold large parts of the city making it impossible to go in and verify the details of any atrocities yet i'll see became the first foreign t.v. curry to get to the area since the start of the siege and spoke to some of the survivors that. 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 may be longer but it's a safer route our government offices told us that last december 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 are the real blood and the work is house and complex nearby a drama lier. both are now besieged and i could do a little salaam another one maybe some bankers here to separate other out by law and out room earlier and to prevent the militants uniting because of. 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 approach aim.

and this is actually all they can do for any military 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 our drugs we meet some of them two kilometers away the 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 terrorist attack the street and we had to escape there compiled and we cannot go there their own to 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 hours mother appear from the darkness of a room barely ten square metres 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 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. 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 that unlike the shot of the 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. drawn 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 will and it's the ordinary syrian people left to pay the price. t. from our drive in syria will witness accounts of the alleged atrocities are available for you on our website as he dot com. protesters in ukraine are refusing to leave the trains despite parliament passing an amnesty bill but forward during recent negotiations with the president as a part of a deal to and then rest because that would mean dismantling the barricades and care and returning seized the governmental buildings the political position are refusing to accept the conditions. and care for. last night we we watched how the deputies stayed until almost midnight in the parliament to have work 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 very catered and also this meant that the barricade at the governmental quarter which has been blocking here 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 protests that independence square the only just had to vacate those state buildings still the opposition said that 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 so we're not sure what we're seeing is that the ruling party is making concessions we're making a lot of movement and this practically no response coming from the other side from

the side of the opposition so we're in probably for some more twists and turns in this very very interesting story. ukraine's president made concessions after meeting with the opposition earlier this week a fast anti rallying lula's was lifted shortly after that the country's prime minister offered his resignation and the head of state accepted that and dismissed the common it and here we go now they are mr bell wished the opposition says is not good enough because it contains a condition that they should leave central kiev and opposition leaders have defended their refusal to settle for a compromise to clear government buildings in return for rights to amnesty they appear to want even more concessions from their authority. unfortunately did dr to bill which you know is not the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it's clearly a deteriorating situation heats up society but it was. at the bridge how

can we discuss negotiations today they're pursuing their own goals they pay no attention to the people they ignore the people's representatives in parliament they decided to go their own way we'll see where it leads. the ukrainian president attempts to broker a peaceful solution was not enough for washington brussels to ease the pressure that posting on big lines is preparing sanctions for both the authorities and the opposition responsible for riots while brussels remains highly critical of the violence during the process global policy acts that save believes the ukrainian leaders attempts to restore peace that blocked the united states and the european union they shouldn't our 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

a 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 of president you know who they 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 up to date with events in ukraine twenty four seven would be helpful to our website and. find a timeline including photos from a kia as well as fresh reports from our correspondent. a superhero has come to the rescue of berlin's homeless and is not

a guest from other planet nor a rich crime fighter basically has just a character from a magazine but as a point to boycott reports even that may be enough to help those in need. 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 know it's the guy from the on the ground who rescues them 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 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 stratum 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 his several people have come up trying to buy in more copies of that super hobo 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 heavy and i can't carry as many copies but it's not see bad you just don't carry on . now the customers are asking for this comic because they have super hard to. that document publication aims to brighten the fortunes of it says the soup kitchen it is 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. foreigners are law to come and people are telling them only as 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 the number of people. especially in the

balloon is increasing in the next years enormously but there is trying to shift the papers daily save a comic strip has at the very least added that little bit of comic relief. leg is five centuries old but it's somebody new to the went. south for the break which may be the sign of the ice cube cutting arena in central again but. the data behind bars a report on a longing statistics for u.s. jails brought to light by the death of a mother of two left to die in an american prison cell.

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welcome back to our international games don't stop for just over a week but soldiers went to olympic villages open their doors to the first athletes today there are three areas ready to harvest thousands of competitors and poles court went to see them. well behind me is one of the three athletes villages that between them can house up to seven thousand competitors this is the one in the coastal cluster and for the next few weeks it's going to be the home of two three thousand competitors it's where they're going to eat sleep train and of course socialize now the unique thing about this coastal cluster is that the athletes all of them are going to be within walking distance of their venues leading to a real sense of community spirit there are two other olympic village is based a thousand meters above sea level there are in the mountains and it's going to house all the competitors in outdoor events and of course any olympic games it's

really just about the sport it's just about the athletes and with the first competitors beginning to arrive in sochi excitement is on the increase with the games now just a little over a week away. of all the winter sports to the outside carrying can seem like one of the most complex the game has been dubbed chason eyes due to the strategic and technical details involved and of the social winter olympics it has its very own banging. it's curling up in sochi for the winter games and at the curling lympics stadium at least will be perfecting this sweeping. 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 story in 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 it can straighten out the part that the rock is traveling on. now the team with the rock closest 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 part of 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 curled up at the curling stadium this winter olympics would say sochi olympics our team. and we'll continue to walk here through the olympic park courthouse here is a report on the venues here on alt. you know you. know you are great deal of the game in most sports and short track speed skating is that as easy as racing. and olympic hockey. is on. my side. and the other world news this hour iraq's capital baghdad has been shaken by a series of bombings and shootings leaving at least twenty people dead shops and

restaurants and commercial districts of many share neighborhoods were targeted although no one has claimed responsibility but are sold al-qaeda linked militants often launch similar times against share community. a young palestinian man has been shot dead by israeli soldiers near the west bank city of ramallah israeli defense forces claimed the victim opened fire at civilians and military posed 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. and hundreds of protesters poured into the streets of brussels to protest spain's abortion policies demonstrators marched from the spanish embassy to the european parliament last december madrid a doctor restrictions on abortion allowing it only in limited cases including rape all physical risk to the mother.

being put in an american jail sometimes it 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 on the right david look now into one such case. 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's a female officer i walk by. but she's just having a seizure my grandson has. passed 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 alarming but 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 bacha 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. song lion as the country's han line for and want to take take a toll on those hungry for knowledge as an american company fighting online education courses from iran and syria from leasing it services blaming functions put in place by washington. and a vocal critic of fracking in the who ask no longer and to almost time for states increasing hospital officials to make obama what an oil giant. and coming up next announcing international airport on the final frontier of drug money passing from the wise to mexico.

take me up to the ballgame and 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 the civil mariners released a statement that they like all of the teams for twenty fifteen are setting up metal detectors to screen all fans entering their stadium for getting 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 with these security measures really stopping. psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion.