as the syrian government and opposition shows signs of progress in talks the u.s. unleashes a new chapter of scaremongering saying damascus is capable of producing biological weapons. way to balance against it need to find a way to continue to demonize the government because their ultimate goal is to get rid of assad. and r.t. is the first foreign channel to reach early morning attacked by islamist radicals displaced and claims of. feeds ukraine's opposition rioters refused to vacate seized government buildings. put forward by the government in a bid to alleviate the crisis that's gripping the country. he's homeless he's a bear lover and he's here to save the day hobo is sweeping the streets. down in

the dumps to get back on their feet. this is from a studio center here in moscow where just past eight pm the international chemical weapons watchdog is meeting to bolster the drive to eliminate syria's toxic arsenal but only heave of the gathering the u.s. national intelligence chief kick started a new wave of scaremongering saying the assad government remains capable of producing biological arms report 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 that 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 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 to 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 church 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 in quite a conundrum because members fighting with the rebels may pose a greater threat to american interests than the syrian president washington wants removed. they snuck in through a sewer during a december snowstorm catching the army off guard both soldiers and civilians were allegedly massacred that early morning in syria's town of hadra as it fell into the hands of business extremists however those claims have been impossible to verify

because of the chaotic situation there ought is the first foreign channel to get to the area refreshen the 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 shield its convoys from attacks its 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 limerick's 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 ins and one claimed the doctors and patients were killed in a clinic we 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 the old town admiral blurred and the workers house in complex nearby a drama lear. both are now besieged like a dog whistle of another maybe some bankers here to separate other out by law and out 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 approaching. and this is actually all they can do any military operation could threaten the lives of those who remain hostage and with 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 a shelter around what used to be a large sum and factory but in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore and when displaced because terrorist attack the student who had to scheme they occupied and who cannot go there their old job 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 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 to 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. through here we were living in peace and now where are we i wish peace would come back to all of syria. a month later it's still not clear exactly what happened in our drive 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 there were looking for anybody serving in the syrian army and also 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 and i saw with my own eyes people stone and i still see them in my nightmares. like this sort of big cut drinking water and they prevented the bakery from working for a cigarette and young children are about to die from a lack of water and they threatened us with machine guns. 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. see from our drive in syria let's talk to german journalist manual oxon writer he's been in syria and he met some of the refugees from but also what struck you most in the

stories that they told you. i was in syria last december when the terrorist against other that took place and what is still stuck in my memory is the outspoken try and brutality of those stories we are i heard stories about mass executions also about executions of children and of women and maybe the most brutal and at the same time we have story is the story about employee use of the state bakery which were put into the over where they usually bake the bread they were putting humans in it that this is maybe the most shocking and brutal story i was able to hear at the same time we have to say that when those stories came up and you were able to listen to them you witness the complete silence of the west saw there was no call for an international

investigation of these crimes i just prefer of course as you say you know just briefly that the keyword there is stories and they yet to be verified aren't they that that's the thing just briefly exactly exactly they have to be verified. if it is true they have to find the responsibility off them and they have to find out if the responsible people who committed this if it comes all that there where are those people who are supported by the west by turkey and by the arab states now let me just ask you the u.s. national intelligence chief he's claimed that the syrian government is capable of producing biological weapons now of course this comes at a time when there's the removal of those toxic arsenals throughout the country what do you make of the timing of that why should they be mentioning that now. frankly speaking nothing is a coincidence which is set right now in those days because we have right now the peace are the conference the geneva two conference taking place where the syrian

delegation of the syrian government this bringing up an outspoken positive impression and. and a good performance and while the opposition or the ferry supported opposition of sirius not giving a really good impression so those coming now from the u.s. secret service are not a coincidence at all and we have to see that within the last three years we have to remember the syrian war is now going on since almost three full years three years certain circles of foreign politics and the west trying to impose an argument for a military intervention in syria so those sort of statements and could have an impact on these peace talks that in switzerland at the moment just find any. that's the big question right now it always depends how the mass media how the western governments will take this approach we have to remember that right one day or two

days before. the number she ations engine if i began there was this report about these so-called voc rhymes with these photos coming up right in time delivery we can call this and there it came later out that it is a fraud report that they have also a lot of staged material in it so this is one of the maneuvers to disturb those talks because as i said the syrian government is bringing up a good impression and a good performance while the so-called opposition is not doing this they are in a deep problem and they need the help of the west and this could be one of those helpful maneuvers. journalist to live in berlin thank you very much indeed for your thoughts on this here on r.t. international. to come on the program this for you britain and france get serious about making military drones together the european neighbors of pooling their resources to produce the deadly planes but questions remain over just how they hope

to avoid civilian casualties that's coming up shortly. but first 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 and a late night emergency session says the protesters won't be prosecuted if they leave the two dozen administer to buildings they've seized all over the country. reports now 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 d. o.

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 said regarding the new amnesty law which someone here unfortunately did doctor to bill which you know abuse is not the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it could it deteriorate the situation heats up tensions in society because this is. 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. and ukraine's president in a covert has issued a statement while he is now on sick leave saying he's done all he promised to do to alleviate the crisis published on his website the statement stresses that it's now up to the protesters to take a step forward and 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 excepted the resignation of the country's prime minister and dismissed the cabinet and now the amnesty bill which the opposition says is not good enough because it requires they leave central kiev where certitude covert she's 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 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 coverage 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 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. and twitter statistics show the world is watching ukraine's unrest especially in the us and e.u. the latest wave of public anger kicked off on the nineteenth of january and you can see here on this map how tweets with the hash tag euro my dan spreading each red

flash represents one tweet and there's almost as many flashes over america and europe as the ra over ukraine itself will do stuff to date with events in ukraine twenty four seventh's on our website r.t. dot com where you'll find a timeline with photos from kiev as well as the latest reports from our correspondents. at international live here moscow i'll be back with more knees after a short break. the

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britain france and looking to join forces and invest in building military drones 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 activists and political analyst chris bambery believes where the u.s. goes militarily its european allies is sure to go as well. americans go or the british and french need to fold 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 inevitably 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 it never where they're going to go there and i think it's our warning actually in 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 while the clock ticks down towards the grand opening we reveal some of the secrets of saatchi and then pick apart coming up in our in the big series it's chess on ice a sport that seems too complex to many. but turning to something a little lighter now it's not a bird or a train no it's super hobo and he's here to get home and is back on their feet sure with his lust for beer and reeking breath he's far from politically correct but as a boy to reports in the german capital his 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 bomb super hobos creators says the idea was spawned while watching a homeless man trying and failing to sell a newspaper on a train. so stefan went to the 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 that'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 a piece 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 about 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 copies but it's not too bad you just don'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 itself as the soup kitchen. station has an increasing number of hungry mouths to feed the

crisis is doing and or bringing in bring 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 and believe 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. of all the winter sports to the outside a kerning can seem like one of the most complex the game has been dubbed chess on ice due to the strategic moves involved and at the sochi winter olympics it has its own very own venue.

it's curling up in sochi for the winter games and at the curling lympics stadium athletes will be perfecting this sweeping sliding 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 creating 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 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 red cross is to the center of the back soon after all those throws wind in the end knocking the opposition's team stories out of the house of blocking it's possible a key parts of the game this involves intense strategy sessions and this is where curling really turns into chess on ice. now you know so curl up at the curling stadium this winter olympics say sochi olympics our team. through the. international.

with that with more news from just off the huff an hour from now in the meantime next cause it dives into the murky waters of the financial world that's because reports are not international.

take me up to the ball gain 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 are 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

a security measure. is really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion. 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 print paper maybe paper print paper

bring paper print paper tape or paper 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 commander control economy doesn't seem to be working yeah milk we need milk bread bread yeah hurricane print command to 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 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. lowers the invisible hand as described by adam smith you don't need central bankers you don't need tapering you don't need printing as such. and it's

a beautiful it's kind of the point of a day you know from two hundred 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 destroys 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 pork is that al but that's what's got to happen in this in the financial system now there's room for you know mutations that.