amid signs of moderate progress in syria peace talks washington accuses damascus of holding on to its biological weapons program despite the ongoing chemical disarmament process. while inside syria survivors of the alleged massacre recant the horrors they saw when islamist militants seized the city more than a month ago r.t. is the first of four in t.v. crew to film in the area since it was take. the ukrainian president makes yet another concession on the bridge and violence in kiev but demonstrators refused to leave the barricades saying it's still not enough. and a home let's see superhero brings a new hope to berlin sit down and outs report on how

a comic book strip is giving hundreds of financial life. live from moscow this is our to international you with me to say it's good to have you company with us this afternoon there are chinks of daylight breaking through in syria peace talks international mediator locked up but he 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. and that's no intelligence chief one damascus is still capable of producing biological weapons despite the current process of this all moment which is more in a partner has 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 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 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 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 to war activists to brian baca believes washington warning about

syria's biological warfare program is just new way to push the 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 form 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 the ultimate goal is to get rid of assad not for a negotiated settlement it's been more than

a month this is islam as a rebels and sees the industrial syrian town of hadera and as italy massacred dozens of civilians the heavy fighting left thousands displaced and medicines still hold large parts of the city making it impossible to go in and verify the details of any of the atrocities atrocities yet he became the first of forty t.v. crew to get to the area since 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 shield 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 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 their work is house and complex nearby a drum a lier both and i'll besieged like a dog with a line of maybe some blankets here to separate other our blood and that room aliya and to prevent the militants uniting 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 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 are dry we meet some of them two kilometers away they 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 student who had to escape the occupied and who cannot 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. he has mother appear from the darkness of a 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 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. 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 up there were looking for anybody serving in the syrian army and i saw the virus of the syrian soldiers beheaded at the sewage system. we were in a group of about twenty people they were beating us three at a time and killing us i saw with my own eyes people stone i still see them in my nightmares. that i might be shot 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 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 driver in syria more witness accounts of the allez address atrocities of vailable online on our website at r.t. dot com. protesters in ukraine are refusing to leave the streets and despite parliament passing an amnesty bill but put forward during the recent negotiations with the president as part of a deal to end the war because it would mean dismantling the barricades in kiev and

returning siege of governmental buildings the political opposition are refusing to accept the conditions let's hear it isn't here for us. last night on wednesday the parliament stayed almost until midnight to find a solution they managed to pass and then an animist a law which provided those conditions but the opposition says they are not willing to take these to meet these demands they are not willing to make concessions of their own the opposition wants all those detained in the protests to be released from prison sandy criminalised the government the ruling party says they are ready for it only on one condition that other protesters d. o. keep by all administrative buildings they have captured over the past several weeks and dismantle the barricade in the governmental quarter in kiev and this is the sticking point right now here is what leaders of the opposition said regarding the new amnesty law which almost every unfortunately did dr bill which you know is not

the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it could it deteriorate the situation tensions in society because. 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. so it seems that the compromised which everyone thought was almost reached between the opposition and the ruling party hasn't been achieved particularly from the side of the opposition which is not willing to make any concessions the president last night warned that if a compromise is not reached between the sides of the parliament then the parliament may be just solved so the tension is now in the political sphere and it's really hard to say where this will all go. ukraine's president made concessions off a meeting with the opposition earlier this week first and he rarely angles will lift it and shortly after that the country's prime minister offered his resignation

the head of the state's accepted that and dismiss the cabinet and now the amnesty bill which the opposition says is not. good enough because it contains condition that they should leave central kiev now the ukrainian president's attempts to to broker a peaceful solution was not enough for washington and brussels to ease the pressure they're putting on the u.s. is preparing sanctions for both the authorities and the opposition responsible for why it's while brussels remains highly critical of the violence seen during the protests global policy expert martin sia believes the ukrainian leaders attempt to restore peace up being. 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 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 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 key of course 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. reza stay up to date with events in ukraine twenty four seven with the help of our web site r t v dot com there you'll find a timeline including photos from kiev as well as fresh reports from our correspondents on the ground.

a superhero has come to the rescue of billions homeless is not just say yes to from another planet is no oil rich crime fighter basically he's just a character from a magazine but as art he's pretty boy girl 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 chlorine superhero of.

the so bomb super hoboes 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 stratton fagen 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 thought of earlier the comic supplement makes it heavier and i can't carry as many coffees but it's not too bad you just don't carry on. now the customers are asking for. comic. book part two. the document publication aims to brighten the fortunes of it says the soup kitchen at zoos station has an increasing number of hungry mouths to feed the cries of. those doing it or bringing in bring much more people into difficult situations a lot of foreigners. for a lot of. people are telling them he 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 and i believe is increasing in the next us. but those 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 is relatively new to the winter olympics so after the break we take you inside the ice cube curling arena sorties olympic. death behind and we report on the alarming statistics from the u.s. jails by the death of a mother left in an american prison still to stay with us for.

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thanks for staying with us here on our team to national league games don't stop for just over a week but so she's a winter olympics religious opened their doors to the first athletes today there are three areas ready to host thousands of compatibilism are just false gods went to see the. well behind me is one of the three athletes village is stuck 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 heart of a two three thousand competitors it's where they're going to eat sleep train and of course socialize but 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 villages placed 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. now all the winter is balls to the outside a curling can seem like one of the most complex the game has been chess on the ice and the strategic and technical details involved and of course i found out myself at the sochi winter olympics that it has its very own venue take a look. 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 question of. 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 the 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 bull's eye on the sports part 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

pot that the rock is traveling on. now the team with the red cross is to the center of the back soon after all these throws wind 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 i. know you know so curled up at the curling stadium this winter olympics would say sochi olympics our team. but i will continue to walk through the olympic clock watching a series of reports on the. already international. you're ok. how do you operate doing pygame i'm going to ruin was pretty good sports and short track speed skating is not as easy as ruth's a road i'm not an olympic hockey player bomb which is on the. way i live in

my fire. and in other world news this hour iraq's capital baghdad has been shaken by a series of bombings and shootings leaving at least twenty people did shops and restaurants in commercial districts of mainly shiite neighborhoods were targeted no one has claimed responsibility for the assault al qaeda linked militants often launch similar attacks against shia communities. a young palestinian man has been shot dead by israeli soldiers near the west bank of city city of ramallah israeli defense forces claim the victim opened fire at civilians and the military pays but locals 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. hundreds of protesters are poured into

the streets of brussels to protest spain's abortion policies demonstrators a march from the spanish embassy to the european parliament last december madrid adopted restrictions on abortion allowing it only in limited cases including rape of physical risk to the mother. 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 hadn't even been charged artie's a mirror dave it looked 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 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. 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 entering 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. and on a website to you is sanctions take a toll of those hungry for knowledge as an american company providing online education courses uses for me iran and syria from using its services claiming

sanctions put in by washington. that's a vocal critic of fracking in the u.s. can no longer and to always hobbled her home state including a hospital after she lost a legal battle with an oil time. coming up on arch international where we're told on the final frontier of drug money passing from the u.s. to mexico i'll be back enough in l. . take me up to the ball game and take me through the metal detectors 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.

the fact is the place they take you to and detain you. really root races and educate their races racist and root. in replying to. can you shoes. examine you in places that they shouldn't they treat you worse than a duck. they say that the gut takes his time but he never forgets. almost them as i hope that one day they will also have to go through this. step trying to go.