by firearms if being armed made us safer in america we should be the safest nation on. earth clearly not the safest. as the syrian government and opposition shows us signs of progress into also you was unleashes a new. scare mongering seem to mask is capable of producing biological weapons. we need a way to balance against geneva baby to find a way to continue to demonize your son government because their ultimate goal is to get rid of assad. and she is the first channel to get near the action in the address where in the early morning of funds lummis radicals left thousands displaced and claimed dozens. buys in

the hand that feeds ukraine's opposition bryant has refused to vacate seized government buildings a precondition for an amnesty put forward by the government in a bid to live in the crisis gripping the country. these homeless as he is a beer lover to save the day super sleeping the streets of berlin helping those down in the dumps to get back on their feet. whether you're watching it on the milk london or beijing this international you're with me so it's good to have you with us. the international chemical weapons watchdog is meeting to bolster the drive to eliminate syria's toxic asset but on the eve of the gathering the us national intelligence chief kick started

a new wave of scaremongering saying the us that government remains capable of producing biological arms are going about there 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 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 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 fede 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 toole activists brian back things washington salami is just a new push to drive 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 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 did 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 serious other entire drama has been in the hands of a slender rebels for more than a month now they snuck in through a sewer during a december snowstorm catching the army off the ground they allegedly massacred by soldiers and civilians but these claims have been impossible to verify and however thousands have been displaced as the government continues its siege i tease the t.v. crew was the phrase foreign team to get to the area maria financial reports. address is just a twenty minute drive from damascus but the highway runs through an area firmly under rebel control so instead we take a newly created pass driving through high mounds of sand and piles of old tires the army uses to shoot its convoys from a tanks it's maybe longer but it's

a safer route talking about what the government offices told us the 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 and complex nearby a drum a lier both and i'll besieged like a dog with a lot of the will maybe some bankers here to separate other our beloved and outdrew malea 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 the mission right now is just to watch this

area and to shoot if they see the enemy approach change. 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 draft 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 this hit and we had to skate they occupied and we cannot go there their rooms are 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 meters and a silence and everything what is happening is wrong there was no need for any of

this see where we are now what degree we have reached now it's a question that many here are asking because these children haven't seen their mother for a month already seriously ill she couldn't get her medicine due to the siege with her condition deteriorating she was sent to a hospital far from her family. 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 and not drug most of those we talked to here in this camp fled before the militants arrived but occasionally we meet some who didn't escape so quickly and the loner 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 stoned i still see them in my

nightmares. don't like this sort of drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for us and young children are about to die from a lack of water and they threatened us with machine guns. are drawn once an important industrial and peaceful city has become yet another syrian battleground for weary forces whose three 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 driver in syria head to our web site r.j. dot com to learn more about what's going on in outre. anti-government protesters in ukraine are vowing to stay put and demand the president's resignation refusing to accept the conditions for an amnesty the bill

passed by parliament in the late night emergency session says the protesters won't be prosecuted if they leave the two dozen administrative buildings they seized all over the country and i feel it as a reporter from kiev. last night on wednesday the parliament stayed almost until midnight to find a solution they managed to pass and then an animistic law which provided those conditions but the opposition says they are not willing to take these to meet his 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 dio keep by all the 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 sad regarding the new amnesty law which almost here

unfortunately did doctor could deal with you know abuse is not the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it could a deteriorating situation. 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 a number of concessions after meeting with opposition leaders earlier this week first he lifted the entry railing laws that engage the protesters shortly after

that he accepted the resignation of the country's prime minister and dismissed the cabinet and now the applets the bill which the opposition says is not good enough because it requires they leave central kiev in the latest twist ukraine's president is now on sick leave according to his administrative officials his medical advisors victoria you know which has a cold and a high fever for more analysis on the overall ukrainian crisis let's cross live now to. who's the foreign affairs editor of the chronicle's magazine thank you for being with us now here is the bill seems to be as you have only deepened the rift between you know the opposition as well as a ruling party is is it doing any more harm than it is good. you know coverage finds himself in a tricky position because we know from experience that

a regime in trouble which starts making unilateral concessions actually does not strengthen its position but we can see it because it displays unsureness of touch which the opposition then invariably uses to strengthen its intransigence and its maximalist demands we've seen it with the russian provisional government in the summer of one thousand nine hundred seventeen when the bolsheviks took advantage of their lek of determination in tackling internal be solde we've seen it in iran in one thousand seven hundred nine we've seen it with milosevic in belgrade in october two thousand once she was stopped making concessions and get nothing in return it will only serve to strengthen the determination of your opponents to ask for more and actually we've seen three sets of so then what is the next step so what is the next step because those concessions have already been

given and the opposition is saying no so what is the next step then. reasonably the next step for you on the call which would have to be to reassert the authority of the state and the rule of law because let's face it the scenes that we've witnessing with bins the in kiev over the past few weeks would never have been allowed in washington d.c. in london or in brussels or in any democratic european union capital balaclava mosque demonstrators with helmets and died on buzz and molotov cocktails it's simply wouldn't be allowed so he has every right to say no i've tried has resigned we have introduced the repeal of the public assembly law. and we are offering amnesty but now we need to see those ministries back ative we need to see

your position leaders exercising control over the first that's the right question right frankly is that opposition leaders are simply afraid to enter into a dialogue because they will be accused of treason and of giving in and so we have be absurd situation that the hardline street protesters who will never be mollified are effectively controlling the opposition politicians because people like klitschko might even be personally tempted to enter into some kind of arrangement but they're aware that with the hardliners in the streets they are effectively the hostages when it comes to political dialogue misses that if i want to speak more on this but i've run out of time thank you so much for your time here on r.t. international we're of course are following those developments out in ukraine for everybody who's been watching here at r.t. international. bride sale today with the events in

ukraine twenty four seven if you're away from the t.v. set you can go on our website at r.t. dot com where you'll find a timeline with photos from kiev as well as the latest reports from our correspondents. turning to something a little lighter now it's not a bird or a train no it's simple hope and he's here to get berlin's homeless back on their feet show with his loss will be and we can grab these fall from politically correct but as archie's point of boyko reports from the german capital his readership is up and up and away. 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 batman or iron man they are very very rich playboys who rescue all the world no it's the guy from the

on the ground who rescues which gets to the city because it's very attractive for people all over the world not because it saw correct or clean city but because of his heavy charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of earlier so bomb super hoboes 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 that 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 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 thought of earlier the comic supplement makes it heavier and i can't carry as many copies but it's not too bad you just don't carry on. now the customers are asking for this comic it would be good to have super hobo card to the document publication aims to brighten the fortunes of its sad as the soup kitchen at zoos station has an increasing number of hungry mouths to feed the cries is. doing and or bringing in bringing much more people into

difficult situations a lot of foreignness. for a lot of calm and some people are telling them joanie is a rich country and peace calm 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 is the number of people and germany and especially in mumbai leaders increasing in the next us along with me 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. well back with more news of play.

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britain and france are looking to join forces and invest in building military trains together the two governments like specter to sign an agreement that will pave the way for two years of joint research into building the unmanned planes activists and political analysts to chris bambery is with me now live from london. mr bradbury this is a decision for spy in this city isn't it the drones of the weapon of the president and countries are just waiting to keep up aren't they. well the americans of course have pioneered the use of drone warfare with disastrous results in pakistan in afghanistan and yemen and increasingly across much of central africa and of course where the americans go or the british and french need to fall because the british and french are essentially american attack dogs in europe they're the

only two european powers that have the military capability the americans can sometimes use so if the americans are investing in drones and evitable in britain and france are also going to do the same britain is more open about it france is more about the fight there has to it's a military alliance of the states but inevitably they're going to go there and i think it's our warning actually in terms of europe because drones are not just simply attack weapons they're also surveillance weapons as we know from the american drone was brought down over iran and i think it also highlights the fact that there is in europe potential instability that those drones could well be used for surveillance in the east if i was russia i would be worried about drawings being used exact. branch drawn so when. david cameron meets and fraidy to agree this package i think it's illegal to the instant potential instability in this region and it also undermines the fact that britain and france are really truly

once more behind the mirror let me let me do jump in that you are mr bambery let me just jump in there quickly as you said drones have been blamed for hundreds of civilian deaths in afghanistan in pakistan is there any guarantee that these new machines will distinguish between you know combatants as well and residence so far no ignoring north from the whole history of area warfare from the beginning we've always been told that they can carry scientific strikes which will not affect our civilians and every time there has been a war and there's a world war two wars in the gulf or the former war and you lose the war in former yugoslavia the sword we know all there has been war the collateral damage on another was civilian deaths and from pakistan and afghanistan we know that they cannot distinguish between a wedding party and a group of al-qaeda terrorists so these weapons whenever it will be the deployment will bring civilian casualties just as it's a case of the bombing so i think we should take all the talk of surgical strikes

and these we have the weapons we have a scientific basis that we can avoid civilian casualties a pinch of salt chris bambery thanks very much political analysts say live from london giving us an overview of that a new joint decision by the french and british military to develop their own trains . the olympic games they have show stopping venue's but they also about making competitors from all over the world feel at home arches paul scott went to the village where everything is said to provide a warm welcome to the cold winter games. 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 higher up to 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 villages 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. i'll be back with more news in just over half an hour but in just a minute. here in worlds apart. take me up to the ball game 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

they said the 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 with these security measures really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome to worlds apart is there life on mars it used to be a million dollar question than a billion now it looks like it may soon become a trillion dollar question but will it produce an ounce well to discuss that i'm now joined by a co-founder of that marse one. line store mr. thank you very much for your time i know that you've been a very passionate advocate of sending a manned mission to mars and do you believe that you can do that by circumventing governments and space agencies and you don't even need so much money for that you claim that it may only cost around six billion dollars but i wonder how much of that money have you already raised. we don't disclose the amount of money that

we've raised but i can tell you that's we've we've now theresa significant portion of those six billion us dollars as we are talking to the right people we're talking to the right people in the media industry we're talking to the right potential partners and sponsors for our mission and we're very confident that we can raise that level of money well correct me if i'm wrong but they're courting to some media reports as of november first this year you received slightly less than two hundred thousand dollars in donations which seems to be a little bit short of the six billion dollars why do you think people haven't responded to your pleas more generally maybe it space exploration is no longer. as appealing as it used to be donations is one of the ways that we will finance this mission but it's only a small part of what we what we seek to to collect and the larger amounts of money will come from investments from from investors who are interested in the media outreach that we will do and from big partners and sponsors

. that will contribute to this mission because they want to attach share name to such an exciting events now the main reason why your price that seems to be relatively low is because you don't really factor in every turn journey you believe that those valid volunteers have to stay on mars for the rest of their lives and i know that in your first round of selection you received more than two hundred thousand applications from all over the world but i wonder if it's even realistic to ask for an informed consent on something like that can you really ask people for something like that because they they simply don't know what it entails but we will prepare them very carefully for what it does until they will we will hire them in about we'll hire six groups of four people in about two years time and they will train significantly for this mission full time. or eight years and

a day will they will learn what it's like to be alone they will be in an isolated environment on earth by the copy of the march outpost and they will get to experience all of the things that they will experience and not experience will march before they leave but of course it's still a very very big deal and that's why selecting those people and keeping track of what they do is so important it's one of the most difficult things for our mission it's not the technology it's not the money it's finding the first crew that can do this how could the you make sure that those people who commit to this denture you know through all of these training process will not regret that decision later on anyone who applies for the marshall mission is selected to come into our astronauts corpse they can always regret regret the decision and step out and that's why we will select multiple crucial for people and train all of them as if they were the first crew to go and only if a year or so before the actual did.