every week. as the syrian government and opposition show signs of progress in talks the u.s. on leashes a new chapter of scaremongering say damascus is capable of producing biological weapons. we need a way to balance against geneva basically to find a way to continue to demonize your side government because their ultimate goal is to get rid of assad. and archie is a for a suffering channel to get near the action in a way and early morning attack by islamist radicals that's thousands displaced and claims of doesn't see it. biting the hand of that feeds ukraine's opposition writers refuse to vacate seize government buildings precondition point amnesty put forward by the government in the bid to alleviate the crisis given country. he's homeless he is

a beloved but andy is here to save the day super hobo sweeping the streets of berlin helping those down in the dumps to get back on their feet. live from moscow this is r t international you with me tom on monday it's good to have your company with us to. the international chemical weapons washed up is meeting to bolster the drive to eliminate syria's toxic. but only evolved the gathering the u.s. national intelligence chief kick started a new wave of scaremongering saying that the us a government drew mains capable of producing biological arms in a pod now 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 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 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 bring back to things washington's a llama is just a new push to drive up 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 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 their ultimate goal is to get rid of assad not for a negotiated settlement serious southern town has been in the hands of islamist rebels for more than a month now they snuck into a sewage ring

a december small storm catching the army off guard they allegedly massacred both soldiers and civilians but that those claims have been impossible to verify however thousands have been displaced as the government continues its siege i've seen as a t.v. crew was the phrase foreign team to get to the area where if the national 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 mountains of sand and piles of old tires the army uses to shoot its convoys from attacks it's maybe longer but it's a safer route pocket. where the first foray into recruit to get this close to address after the siege began a month ago it's still not clear exactly what happened in this industrial city last december back then reports emerged of numerous killings and violence after alger

was attacked by militants belonging to al-qaeda linked groups 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. to reported allegations the dozens of civilians had been executed that people were be hadad and burned in over ins and one claimed the doctors and patients were killed in a clinic which travelled to address hoping to verify these reports but there is still no way of getting into the besieged areas of the town to confirm if any of that actually happened we got as close as the army can there actually to address the old town admiral blood and the work his house in complex nearby a drum aliya both are now besieged by people because a lot of them were maybe some bankers here to separate other are below and that

room aliya 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 the 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 and a 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 address we meet some of them two kilometers away they shelter around what used to be a large sum and factory but in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore but this place because

a terrorist attack the seat and we had to escape the occupied and we can't go there they're owed a 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. yes mother appear from the darkness of the room barely ten square meters in the silence and everything what is happening is wrong there was no need for any of this see where we are now 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

we meet some who didn't escape so quickly and the loner they 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. unlike the shot of a cut 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.

t. from our drive in syria. anti-government protesters in ukraine are wowing to stay put and demand the president's resignation refusing to accept the condition for an amnesty the bill passed by parliament in a late night emergency session says the protesters won't be prosecuted if they leave the two dozen administrative buildings they've seized all over the country alexei reports 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 criminalized the government the ruling party says they are ready for it only on one condition

that other protesters dio 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 from syria unfortunately did dr bill which you know of you is not the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it could a deteriorating situation. in society because this is. the break 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 to 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 sop to meeting with opposition leaders. the empty reading laws that enraged the protesters shortly after that he accepted the resignation of the country's prime minister and dismissed the cabinet and now the apna city bill which is the opposition says is not good enough because it requires the leave central kiev now in the latest twist ukraine's president is now on sick leave according to the officials victor. medical advisor says he has a cold and a high fever and he still faces the tough task of getting a firm grip on the country according to live coverage the foreign affairs editor of the chronicle magazine. your new coverage finds himself in a tricky position because we know from experience that

a regime in trouble which starts making union electoral concessions actually does not strengthen its position but weakens it because it displays unsureness of touch which the opposition then invariably uses to strengthen its intransigence and its maximalist demands a reasonably the next step for your macaw 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 ministry 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. and stay up to date with events in ukraine twenty four seven on our website at r.t. dot com where you'll find a timeline with photos from kiev as one of the latest reports from our

correspondents. i tell you something a little light and now it's not a bird or a train no it's super hope and he's yet to get billions homeless back on their feet shaw with his last full b.-a and we bred these fall from a politically correct but as artist pretty boy reports from the german capital his readership is up up and away. his muscles of but he has no fixed abode it's super hobo the unlikely super hero inherited his super powers accidentally after savoring some discarded beer. normally like bettman or iron man they are very very rich playboys who rescued the world no it's the guy from the on the ground rescue 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 it's 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 supplement makes it heavier and i can't carry as many copies but it's not too bad you just didn't carry on. now the customers are asking for this comic because they have super hobo car too. the document publication aims to brighten the fortunes of its center as the soup kitchen and zeus 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 for a lot of foreigners. for

a lot to come and some people are telling them germany is a rich country and please come and you will have a good life but in fact it's very difficult to get jobs here and it's very difficult to get flats i'm thinking that's the number of people. especially and nobody is increasing in the next us. 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. britain and france get serious about military drones together now the european neighbors are going to have resources to produce the planes but questions remain over just how they hope to avoid civilian casualties that's coming up. and while the clock ticks towards the grand opening we continue unveiling the secrets

of the sochi olympic park after the break a chest on a baseball that seems complex to many. crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want.

i. thank you thanks for being with us britain and france are looking to join forces that invests in building military joins together the two governments are expected to sign an agreement that will pave the way for two years of joint research into building the unmanned planes activism political analyst chris bambery believes whether you was going as militarily is european allies sure to go as well. americans go all 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 pows that have the military capability the americans can sometimes use so if the americans are investing in drones inevitably britain and france are also going to do the same britain is more open to both france is more about the fact the house to it's a military alliance of the states but never where they're going to go. and i think it's our warning actually in soaps terms of europe because drugs are not just simply attack weapons they're also surveillance weapons as we know 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. so other world news in brief now more than a thousand people have filed a class action lawsuit against the companies that manufacture japan's fukushima nuclear plant they claim the firms are should take financial responsibility for the facilities twenty eleven meltdown caused by

a massive earthquake and tsunami the accident is one of the worst nuclear disasters in history according to experts it may take decades to finish cleaning up operations around the crippled facility which is still spewing radiation. a wave of shootings and bombings have shaken iraq's capital baghdad claiming at least twenty lives no groups have claimed responsibility for the attacks although al qaeda linked fighters have mounted similar cells in the past made all six suicide bombers strong to any iraqi ministry building killing at least eighteen people before security forces regain control. the olympic games may have a show stopping venue but they also about making competitors from all over the world feel at home are just balls caught went to the athletes' villages where everything is set to provide a warm welcome to the cold winter. 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 complex is beginning to arrive in sochi excitement is on the increase with the games now just a little over a week away. curling as one of the most curious and eye catching winter sports in the olympic program its rules and stresses these have ended the title of chess on ice and as i found out myself at 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. 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 bull's eye on the school's haunted comes when the sweeping begins sweepers with what looks like a mob out 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 top that the rock is traveling on. now the team with the red cross is to the center of the oldest throws 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. will continue. series over.

venue's an artsy into mass. crowd coming up off the bank that makes the dives into the murky waters of the financial war hides a report. gentlemen i guess you all mostly. because it was good to hear from you even the few hundred a day come across is going to leave i'm going to miss the faces i'm going to still go to the members of the we've got people coming in littered with criminals we've got people from it who knows where in the world this is the united states and very

tough by the way you know to sure i was worried that they may not know what they live on mars you know mars. so we pick up things like rand. turbans prayer rugs and we know that they're coming from the middle east it's a concentration camp. concentration camp. we've got it hasn't the white house is not even want to disclose the fact there is a stranger. here you ok. how do you operate dylan but again i'm going to the most good sports and such expert status. as proof shows i'm not an olympic hockey fan by much it is on the plan down. by fire.

welcome to the kaiser report backs kaiser currencies are crashing markets are tumbling taper no no no taper no no no no i mean print print more no wait maybe we should taper no maybe we should print print paper maybe paper print paper bring paper print temper temper temper print think. well markets are down two percent four percent away maybe we should print more money. you know having this whole thing as a command control economy doesn't seem to be working yet milk we need milk bread bread. hurricane print command control what the frick. stacy frick max it looks very difficult to do this commanding control is very hard because the series you control one single thing it's like i guess the theory of

relativity you know all changes you change everything and then you have to go control that and then you have to tell this lie and that lie and more lies on top of lies on top of fraud to cover the fraud more fraud so it's a never ending cycle of a whirlwind of chaos you know the central bankers invisible hand envy in other words the invisible hand as described by adam smith you don't need central bankers you don't need tapering you don't need print thing as such. and it's a beautiful it's kind of a bit coin of a day you know from two hundred and two hundred forty or years ago or so that was the point of its time the enlightenment that i'm smith but then central bankers got very envious of the fact that there was something so beautiful perfect as the as the invisible hand so they started to degrade it and they come up with this new command and control central bank model that of course is utter failure well that's interesting because of course adam smith looked at nature and when he wrote wealth of nations and you look at nature to devise

a perfect balance market and because nature. destroy anything that's weak or bad so all of these enterprises that we've propped up all these banks they would have been destroyed ruthlessly i mean it's difficult to watch those nature documentaries where the lion eats the port isabel but that's what's got to happen in this in the financial system now there's room for you know mutations that evolve to become the new standard and that's part of what you should see in an economy so here in the u.k. the small to medium enterprises are not allowed to thrive because a bank like r.b.s. finds and got some strips sells off the pieces and devours them because they're a predatory monopolist or not a free market capitalist yeah but nature would say that if you're just going to favor the lions on the serengeti if you're only going to allow the lions and you like those the best because they're the most ruthless then like you would still need the gazelles and all the other animals out there to be eaten but i want to

look at this first headline regarding you know basically what to do against all these commanding controllers who have seemingly lost control learn from and demand delivery for true price of gold so this is from the f.t. this is from a few days ago but i wanted to bring it up now as where if to meet with the second half talking with john bolton and a year ago the buddhist bank asked for seven hundred tons of gold back you know that well according to this piece last month yeah why did been just bank president admitted that just thirty seven tons had arrived in frankfurt the original timescale to complete the transfer by two thousand and twenty was less fully enough but at this rate it would take twenty years for a simple operation well perhaps not so simple while he awaits delivery hair weidman is welcome to come and look through the bars and federal reserve vaults but the question is whose bars are they and then the f.t. goes on to recount the arm chair farmer for.