hurricane print. command control. as the syrian government and opposition show signs of progress in the u.s. on leashes a new chapter of scaremongering saying to masters is capable of producing biological weapons. they need a way to balance against geneva need to find a way to continue to demonize the assad government because their ultimate goal is to get rid of assad. and not see the first foreign channel to get near the action and draw away an early morning attack by saddam is radicals less lozenge displays and claims of dozens did. biting the hand that feeds ukraine's opposition rioters refused to vacate to seize government buildings a precondition for an amnesty put forward by the government and updated to libya

the crisis gripping country. is a beer lover and he is here to save the day simple hobo sweeping the streets of berlin helping those down in the dumps to get back on their feet. what are you watching us from our new york london the old beijing and this is r t international you with me to be on with say it's good to have you company with us. the international chemical weapons watchdog is meeting to bolster the drive to eliminate syria's toxic arsenal but only evil of the gathering the us national intelligence chief kick started a new wave of scaremongering saying the us government remains capable of producing

biological arms arches bring up what may or 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 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 feed the same point 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 brownback things washington's alum is just a new push to drive 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 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 in town has been in the hands of islamist rebels for more than a month now they snuck into a sewer during a december snowstorm catching the army of god they allegedly massacred burned soldiers and civilians but those claims have been impossible to verify i'm however thousands have been displaced as the government continues its siege t.v. crew was the first foreign team to get to the area where we have 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 mountains 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. where the first foray into vickery 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 beheaded and burned in over ends and one claimed the doctors and patients were killed in a clinic which revelled 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 blurred and the workers house in complex nearby

a drum aliya both are now besieged. with maybe some banknotes here to separate other are below and that room earlier and to prevent the militants uniting these corridors go all around the besieged cities with the army watching the area day and night. this is one of the checkpoints of the syrian army behind this wall is territory held by militants and the soldiers strategy and mission right now is just to watch this area and to shoot if they see the enemy approaching. and this is actually all they can do 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 drug we meet some of them two kilometers away they sheltered 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 skate they occupied and we cannot go there they're owed a 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 years mother appear from the darkness of the room barely ten square metres and a silence 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 full ready 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. and. 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 alone and up they were looking for anybody serving in the syrian army and also the virus so 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 and i still see them in my nightmares. that i'm like this sort of they 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. 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 win and it's the ordinary syrian people left to pay the price roof notional tea from our drive in syria. head to our website at r.t. dot com to learn more about what's going on in now for more stories britain and france can do it is about making military trains together the european neighbors are pooling their resources to produce the deadly planes but questions remain over just how they hope to avoid civilian casualties we'll have more of the story coming up. and say 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 ninety mergence the session says the protesters want to be prosecuted if they leave they do the two dozen administrative buildings they've seized all over the country

like sierra shuster reports from kiev last night on wednesday the parliament stayed almost until midnight to find a solution they managed to pass and then and i'm still all which provided those conditions but the opposition says they're not willing to take these to meet these demands they're not willing to make concessions of their own the opposition wants all those detained in the protests to be released from prison send. government the ruling party says they're ready for it only on one condition that other protesters d. o. keep are all the ministers of 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 doctor to bewitch you know abuse is not the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it's true the deteriorating situation heats up tensions in society because. of the british 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 dissolved so the tension is now in the political sphere and it's really hard to say where this will all go. ukraine's president has a shoot a statesman while on sick leave saying he's done all he promised to do to a living the crisis published on his website the statement the stresses that it's now up to the protesters to take a step forward now the president made

a number of concessions after meeting with opposition leaders earlier this week first he lifted the ante reading laws that enraged protesters shortly after that he accepted the resignation of the country's prime minister and dismiss the cabinet and now the amnesty bill which the opposition says is not good enough because it requires that they leave central kiev. city just think of it the foreign affairs editor of the chronicle magazine believes the unilateral concessions only encourage protesters to step up the pressure on the president. 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 both 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 mainstream kiruv 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. say of the same floor with events in the plane twenty four seven five com where you'll find a time line with photos from kiev as well as the latest reports from our correspondents . after the break a streetwise

a superhero and two european countries team up on military trains stay with us for that. do we speak your language was anybody will or not a day in. the program says documentaries in spanish what matters to you.

is a little tonnage of angola's stories. here. i'll teach spanish to find out more visit actuality that. will stay with us here on r.t.e. international britain and france looking to join forces and invest and building military drawings 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 activism political analyst chris bambery believes whether you was goes to military it's you know piano allies show to go as well. so the americans go for 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 the americans are investing in drones and evitable britain and france are also going to do the same britain is more open about it france is more about the fact there has to it's a military alliance with the states but inevitably they're going to go go there and i think it's our warning actually in times 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 or the clock ticks down towards the grand a printing we reveal some of the secrets of sorcery olympic park coming up in our series say it's a just so nicely sport that seems too complex for many. turning

to something a little lighter now it's not a bird or a train though it's super hobo and he's here to get the lens a homeless back on their feet so what's his lust for beer and reeking breath these fall from politically correct but as art is political reports from the german capital as readership is up 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 bettman or iron man they are very very rich playboys who rescue all the world no it's the guy from the on the ground who rescues which gets to the city because it's very attractive for people all over the world not because it's so correct or

clean city but because of his heavy charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of. so. 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 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 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 because they had super car too. the document publication aims to brighten the fortunes of its fellows the soup kitchen and. station has an increasing number of hungry mouths to feed the crisis is doing and or bringing in bringing much more people into difficult situations a lot of foreigners you 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 believer is increasing in the next years enormously but there is trying to shift the papers daily say the comic strip has at the very least added that little bit of comic relief. the olympic games may have show is stopping them but they also about making competitors from all over the world at home are days paul scott went to the athletes' village where everything is said to provide a warm welcome to the cold winter games. 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 band 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 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 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 is 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. curling is one of the most curious and eye catching winter sports in the olympic program is rules and strategies have ended the title of tests on ice and as i finally 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 all this we've been this to some it looks like a sweeping match 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 to go ahead 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 rock crosses to the center of the button after all these throws wind in the end knocking the opposition's team stories out of the house of blocking it's possible to keep parts of the game this involves intense strategy sessions and this is where curling really turns into chess on ice. now you know so curl up at the curling stadium this winter olympics would say sochi olympic called our team. and it will continue to a history of the olympic park to watch our series of reports on. the sortie venues here on r.t. international. being put in the slammer in america can be

a life threatening proposition the most recent data from the u.s. ministry of justice shows more than eleven thousand people died in local jails in the decades to twenty eleven is all she is a mirror of david reports some of those hadn't even been charged. 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 levingston son alex says a witness told him n.y.p.d. officers ignored the pleas of his mother and others who were with her in the cell they 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 under 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 r t. coming up on our it's international and we report on the final frontier money crossing from the u.s. to make.

us. 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 of the teams for twenty fifteen are setting up metal detectors to screen all fans entering their stadium for get visions of hotdogs and 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.