why. biting the hand that feeds ukraine's opposition to. government buildings a precondition for an amnesty put forward by the government in a bid to alleviate the crisis in the country. he is the first foreign channel to reach the syrian town of early morning attacked by islamist radicals displaced and plain. and he's here to save the day. in the streets of berlin down in the dumps to get back on their feet.

this is art international live from a studio here in moscow was just past midnight and first to some breaking news from the u.s. we're learning that a shooting at eastern florida state college has reportedly left at least two people injured one suspected to be in critical condition incident is believed to taken place in the campus parking lot and students are being told to remain indoors while the campus is on lockdown we'll bring you more details as we get it on the story. in ukraine antigovernment protesters 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 administrative buildings they've seized all over the country and reports now from. last night on wednesday the parliament stayed almost

until midnight to find a solution they managed to pass and then an animist a law which provided those conditions but the opposition says they are not willing to take these to meet 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 sending criminalised the government the ruling party says they are ready for it only on one condition that other protesters d o q 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 i'm here unfortunately did dr could deal with you know a view is not the best solution to the crisis on the contrary it's clearly deteriorating the situation. to say. 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 and 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 maybe just sort so the tension is now in the political sphere and it's really hard to say where this will all go. ukraine's president yanukovych 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 now the president made a number of concessions after meeting with opposition leaders earlier this week first he lifted the running north rage protesters and then shortly after that he accepted 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. well seven jet thrift code which is the foreign affairs editor of the chronicle magazine he 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 you in the car 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 we've been steam 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. statistics show the world is watching ukraine's on rest especially in the u.s. 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 dad spreading each red flash represents one tweet and there's almost as many flashes over america and europe as there are over ukraine itself or do stay up to date with events in the country there twenty four seven 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.

the international chemical weapons watchdog is meeting to bolster the drive to eliminate syria's toxic arsenal but on the eve 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 james clapper also warned that thousands of foreigners have joined the rebels in syria where al-qaeda linked groups are inspiring them to bring the jihad back home with them they've even established special training camps to teach former recruits how to attack targets in the u.s. and other western nations german journalist manual of respect to murder he says washington brought this threat upon itself. know better about the military capacity of the syrian or of the rebels in syria better than the u.s. intelligence chief because he has to know he was arming them or the west was arming these people so they would have to know how many arms they have i was in damascus

when security sources were saying that the united states delivered one hundred stinger rockets to the f.s.a. to the free syrian army which is known as so-called moderate army and a couple of days later the front of. the islamist terrorist group claimed that they just bought one hundred stinger rockets from the so-called moderate rebels so you see those arms whoever you sell them in that region will end up in the head of the worst people. they snuck in through assume during a december snowstorm catching the army off guard both soldiers and civilians were allegedly massacred band early morning in syria's town of andhra as it fell into the hands of is mr extremist however those claims have been impossible to verify because of the chaotic situation that he is the first foreign channel to get to the area refreshing reports. 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 attacks it's maybe longer but it's a safer route. 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 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 the old town are the real blood and the work is house and complex nearby a drama lear 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 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 are dry we meet some of them two kilometers away they shelter around what used to be a large sum and factory life in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore but this place because a terrorist attack this weekend we had to skate they occupied and we cannot go there their only job locked he says his father is a government employee this is why it is dangerous for his family to stay we are six yard 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. 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 i saw 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 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. 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 win and it's the ordinary syrian people left to pay the price roof notional tea from our drive in syria. still to come on the program this britain and france get serious about making military drones together european neighbors uprooting the school says to produce the deadly planes but questions remain over just how they hope to avoid civilian casualties we have live expert opinion on this coming up

shortly from london. why do you think this is for live on other planets why the real truth is this such disregard on the spot one of the things i think that's a human mission to mars will accomplish is to make humans here on earth more sensible about life about life on this planet about the planet itself about the environment so one of the one of the key benefits for you mr marshall will be a better earth.

britain and france are looking to join forces and invest in building military drones together two governments are expected to sign an agreement that will pave the way for two years of joint research into building the manned planes well for some analysis on this we can cross live to my right is an activist with and from our perceived village like a downing street source told the independent newspaper that drones are an essential piece of equipment for the military while they are on the way.

if the military is all about killing civilians and i guess they are. the real essence of drone technology today is really just carry on getting subsidies to the industrial military complex the likes of theory the likes of rolls royce tallis u.k. these are all the companies that are going to benefit from this joint drone program and in fact it's probably not going to be just with the french i think the british are talking to the italians and the swedes and who knows who else but the program is likely to continue to reproduce runs from afghanistan to likely to be redeployed into africa again to assist the french maybe in mali central african republic and possibly even back into libya to to quell the productive green uprising that's happening there in the south of the country and that drains don't just kill civilians i mean the whole point of this move by the british and french is is to build their own drones to make their own countries safe as well as obviously to use in any overseas campaign where they deem necessary this is the problem with

this the politics of drone warfare though it becomes very easy to sell a war based on drones to the domestic audience because there's no soldiers there's no m. and there's no pilots put in their lives at risk. this makes drone warfare. fairly acceptable to most countries it's very popular in the us again for those reasons i mentioned it's becoming popular in the u.k. because we don't have boots on the ground we don't have soldiers losing their lives . but what's to stop china and russia and other states. taking part in drone warfare effectively if you use drones in another country you've invited a sovereign state you've violated the subcommittee of that foreign country that's against the law that's simply a breach of international law right there. it seems to me the current agreement that's going to be signed tomorrow that the french and the british at the moment they're the kind of make strange bedfellows because you know we have a socialist government in france we have a far wider tory government in the u.k. they did different very much on economic policy and there's been

a political spot about that in fact this this conference tomorrow the summit tomorrow was originally going to be held in plenum palace now this just highlights the diplomatic insensitive the british but a palace was named after a famous battle in the eighteenth century when the british slaughtered thirty thousand french soldiers and it was moved at the last minute i would surprise norton just to avoid this embarrassment but just just the idea of the plan going ahead was just incredible. so i think that the long term goal of certainly the next ten fifteen years is to continue the drone program it's going to escalate and it's going to reach parts of africa that we haven't painted thus far and this is something obviously that you've been watching a lot of that fact that civilians do die and join attacks in the u.s. has been staunchly criticized for causing many civilian drone attacks in afghanistan and other countries but surely cutting edge design now we're talking about a project what we're going to go over the next two years of say we'll reduce that

risk wait drones become far more effective an accurate in the future. i don't really see this happening to be honest because i mean the cia drone program which is pretty reckless and that has the most civilian casualties associated with it but then the syria you get most of their intelligence in from pakistan places like somalia countries in afghanistan all of their intelligence is coming from the n.s.a. in g.h.q. so their base in their their missile strikes on intelligence that's not even being counted on the ground it's been gathered thousands of miles of by so that for one that's not going to be extra very accurate in terms of the collateral damage yes we have we have missiles there do kill those in the surrounding area and i don't think that even the british military take much care if they need to take out what they consider an insurgent if there is a in a crowd of people i think they carry on in there anyway certainly the cia drone attacks of been known to do that. even when there's only one person in the vicinity

we've been we've managed to kill a person and extend that right to that they've been civilians this case is going on in the u.k. the moment who by afghan civilians because their family members were killed while farming we also have drone pilots that are going on the record and have said that from their images they can tell if someone's carrying a gun or a spade so i mean the advice to the afghan population would be stop gobbling stop coughing the crops in the field because these drones above your head or i can't distinguish what you are carrying a kid like thanks very much in the light ready live in london so your thoughts on this. while the clock ticks down towards the grand opening we reveal some of the secrets of. park coming up in the big series it's a sport that seems too complex for many. still to come forward first it's not a bird or a plane it's

a super bowl and he's here to get burned homeless back on their feet shore with his nose for a beer and reeking breath he's far from politically correct but of. reports from 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 know it's the guy from the on the cross and rescue which gets to the city because it's very attractive for people all over the world not because it saw koretz or clean city but because of his heavy charm so it's logical that the glorious superhero of. the so bomb super hoboes creator says the idea was spawned while

watching a homeless man trying and failing to sell a newspaper on a train. so stefan went to the strasse unfair 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 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 hard to the document publication aims to brighten the fortunes of its fellow as the soup kitchen. 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 foreign law to come and 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 the number of people. especially in the

believers are 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 it curling 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 very own venue. it's curling up in sochi for the winter games and at the curling the limpid stadium at least will be affecting this slide and ultimately the question of. the ice cube curling center is a three thousand multi-purpose arena it's one of the smaller centers here at the olympic park it will be hosting the wheelchair curling competitions the come the

paralympic games now it's quite a spacious small center and those with disabilities will be able to enjoy this center so one of these three you made one point that this. we didn't get to some it looks like a sweeping map but it's more than that there's a strategy face 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. sports car comes when the sweeping begins sweeping 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 of the rock is travelling on. now that seems what the rock close is to the center of the but soon after all these throws wind in the end knocking the opposition's team

stories out of the house of blocking it's part of the parts of the game. this involves intent strategy session 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. it is. international. take me 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 getting 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 dollar it looks like it may soon become a trillion dollar question but will it produce a monster well to discuss that i'm now joined by a co-founder of the march 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 not theresa significant portion

of those six billion us dollars but 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 these year you receive 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 way so 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 prize texan's to be relatively low is because you don't really factor in a return 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 doesn't til they will we will hire them in about six groups of four people in about two years time and they will train significantly for this mission full time. eight years and they 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 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 do you make sure that those people who commit to this down chair you know through all of these training process will not regret that decision later on anyone who applies for a martial mission and is selected to come into our a short course 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 departure will we decide which crews are ready and only the crew will.