my. question. is whether. anything to do with democracy. in syria the first eight months reaches a palestinian refugee camp in damascus dozens of starve to death. some of those who have become hostages of war meanwhile the u.s. warning to us. they will be referred to the security council for chapter seven secretary of state john kerry military action against syria if the destruction of its chemical weapons is delayed any further. battlefield we give you a look at the brand new. test the trails are ready to host the upcoming.

thank you for sharing some of your saturday with us here on national. headlines russia's foreign minister. european politicians to look closer at the protesters in ukraine and ask whether it has anything to do with democracy he was stressing the global security for munich exactly where you go to. crain the situation there is definitely one of the key issues on the table here in munich and one of the first things that russia's foreign minister lavrov talked about was the situation in fact you criticized the way the european union and the why so far have been dealing with the situation there and their approach what does inside them

and of recently violent street protests have to do with promoting democracy why don't we hear condemnation of those who seize and hold government buildings and the police torture the police use racist as it is anti semitic and nazis why many prominent european politicians are actually encouraging such actions will go back home quickly to surely punish any violations of the law now one of the first meetings that took place here in munich last night was the one between one of the leaders of the queen opposition arsenius enugu and to the german president and even though the president's post here in germany is to somewhat of a formal position many still saw it as a hint that ukraine would take up much of the talks here and we know that mr yates a nuke is also scheduled to meet separately with u.s. secretary of state john kerry while ukrainian officials who are also taking part in

the conference they're not scheduled to meet with any of these people individually and many are criticizing these countries for perhaps conducting this one sided approach to the situation clearly syria is one of the most important issues talked about right now since so well the first attempt to get both sides of the car for to sit down and negotiate peacefully has just happened to an engineer and mr weber of commented on the latest statements coming out of washington that syria after all these are so far in the feeling with the agreements on the chemical arms deal he said this is really right now no time for him. all tomatoes also the foreign minister remind you that this year the world is going to mark one hundred years since the start of the first all world war and said that everyone has to remember what policies of national exceptionalism and called on europe and on the united

states are real certain to the policy of building one joint one joint world peace and collaboration once again saying that until russia receives guarantees from the u.s. it's still going to see its plans for the anti-missile defense system in europe as a potential threat to its national security. if you go to prison if i spoke to him just a short while ago here on the program in the meantime an estimated eighteen thousand people including many women and children remain trapped in the rebel held yarmouk palestinian refugee camp that's in the southern part of damascus hundreds of relief possibles of finally managed to reach the camp for the first time in several months without too late for at least eighty five people who have died there since the middle of last year from illness and starvation artie's marouf a national took a trip inside the rebel enclave. another battleground of the brutal syrian war in the very heart of the country and at the edge of the regime stronghold this is

your new cullison and camp here in damascus that has been held by the militants for more than a year now we are not allowed to go any further because their military people who are controlling situation here on the ground told us that the ras now i person and the rug man you are and this building but it's not only from bullets that people here are dying when we visit dozens already said to have died from starvation a year after the siege began food and water supplies a role but nothing on it is no food nothing to eat or drink the militants are inside as well and the soul of the prophet we want this to stop whatever guilty we just want to go out they want to go out but they can't they're trapped those hold in the camp only allow women and elderly men to go out briefly to bring in food

a distributed by the syrian and palestinian officials together with the un their families remain inside so they have to return to the besieged camp and arrest that well we're talking to one of my crescent and old men behind those collapses to the ground zero no one could tell us exactly why. those of. my guard who are dying from hunger we can't take this anymore. oh humanitarian aid is the only achievement so far i ask those responsible how they know that the food they deliver will not fall into the militants hands they say no one can give any going t. . siege has become a popular tactic among rebel forces here in syria just recently we went to the industrial city of our drive outside damascus. according to army generals at least five thousand three main trap there sieges serve well to weaken an army is

capabilities keeping a large forces tied up for long periods of time but they have another go to go to do it yet their own they claim the syrian government is besieging the palestinians in the camp they want to invert the truth by saying the syrian government is part of the killing force as they don't do anything to protect the people they want the people to hate the regime. accusations over the next of the syrian authorities allowed indeed government officials blame the militants for infiltrating into the cities in the first place and complain they can do little to fight back no least civilians could be hurt and thousands of ordinary people all over syria remain hostage inside their own homes waiting for help. already three years into this conflict that could prove very long wait indeed rif notional r.t. from syria. and the u.s.

secretary of state has warned syria that a failure to eliminate its chemical stockpiles by july could result in force being used against it russia's foreign minister responded by insisting no ultimatums should be set and hey mr breton gordon a former officer in the british army's chemical defense regiment he believes the standoff between syria's government and the opposition is hampering the removal of its unconventional weapons. there are always been great students is a hugely ambitious plan and with the leaders of the russian federation of the us we just wouldn't be the majority of these chemicals i'm pretty close is pretty much stuck to this we need to sort of point it's going on the air it has to go through and there's a. just twenty four inches from the time there are many so i don't position to be. realized that un resolution which has the chemicals

moved up to syria. this is all the international olympic torch relay finally comes to an end in just a couple of days certainly after achieving some very impressive i. did a few moments time join me pull scott in sochi is the olympic torch begins the final stage of its relay had just taken to the top of europe's tallest peak. come for you here on the program with in store skyrocketing to a nine year high you find out what's forcing people in the u.k. to steal from the show. the whole economy is jumping around. a global financial flies back to two thousand and seven when the bankers first drop the acid trip called the liquidity crisis which led to the financial crash and burn which led to the dopes and their central

banks dropping wads of cash while astral plane ing from their imaginary helicopter and saying one brit makes you larger and one makes you smile and the money that china gives you doesn't do anything at all go away and. when she's ten feet tall yes it's been a whole. round trip no way. what is the who's writing it and where was it leaving to seek you to bearings we seem to turn to the news take heat for the medium is the message in this most by will mean the planet is now the method for defining clicked of reality each night if it's not on the news it didn't happen right.

if you're just joining us welcome to the program here on r.t. international coming soon but for now the five finger discount is no longer the domain of bored kids and petty criminals in britain many are now resorting to shoplifting for their basic needs as. has been finding out.

some people do it for a day others might have a physical compulsion when i can be part of a larger crime network but up until now few people in britain were doing it out of necessity i'm talking about shoplifting. people they don't even a small going big thing even expensive or cheap or what they do they just grab the bar and they walk out according to the british retail consortium theft from shops is not a nine year high and the biggest increase has been food theft the police say there's a link between welfare cuts unemployment and shoplifting we're seeing people choosing to shoplift to maintain their previous life still on diminishing budgets and police forces approve actively targeting shoplifting we have a sixteen this if you can see on the ceiling to here. for over

there. and if you keep looking further down the. government critics say that it's cuts to welfare payments that are pushing previously more abiding citizens into so-called poverty crime over the past several months police forces have been criticized for being too lenient on women especially in mothers who of course shoplifting items that they simply can't afford to buy essential items like nappies and baby food life is so hard that the more. people live to see. what they do. but the boredom that speaks to retailers here in the u.k. says that that is far from a victimless crime last year alone the losses to industry over five hundred million pounds as a result they say that shops like this one go bust and communities suffer.

global headlines in brief for you here on r.t. international shots have been fired at an anti government demonstration in thailand injuring at least three other gunfire erupted as supporters of the prime minister clashed with her opponents and the violence is spiraling in thailand ahead of sunday's election which the opposition has vowed to boycott and disrupt. to a northern yemen where we go where fighting between pro-government tribes and shia rebels has left at least sixty dead or at least fifteen soldiers were killed by militants east of the capital in an ambush at an army checkpoint a yemen has been trying to restore stability since president saleh was forced to step down in two thousand and eleven. hundreds of protesters clashed with police over the year fiction of a chronically ill man in the spanish capital madrid activists accused officers of siding with bailiffs in order to make a sick man homeless spain's strict repossession laws have led to hundreds of

thousands being evicted during the ongoing debt crisis. at least one person was killed and dozens injured supporters and opponents of former president mohamed morsy clashed in a number of cities all across egypt and police having to use tear gas to disperse the mob in the capital cairo two roadside bombs were detonated right next to a police vehicle just last week and around fifty people were killed at rallies held to mark the two thousand and eleven uprising when violence erupted between pro and anti morsi groups. now two thousand and fourteen could herald the end of direct u.s. military an involvement in afghanistan but that doesn't necessarily mean peace private security contractors are still a life need to be left behind one company formerly the notorious blackwater operated in iraq until accusations their employees killed civilians back in two thousand and seven. so if we cope program spoke to erik prince who founded that

company. you've said that your men wear guards not investigators stationed to kill and on check the policy and that's from your book that said direct quote what gave you the right to behave in that way well look they're they're performing a defensive mission so you know every day between iraq and afghanistan the company did more than one hundred thousand missions protective missions and no one under our care was ever killed or injured and each time there was a and event where our men had to use their weapons it was documented in of all those times it use the weapons it still comes out to less than one half of one percent. of those of those incidents so the idea that they were trigger happy is just it's not accurate.

it's aussie international sixty five thousand kilometers by car train plane rocket and even rain dia the olympic torch is close to the end of its record breaking relay on its way to salt where it's due in a couple of days of the torch travel to some challenging sponsor clued in europe's highest peak out of mt elbrus scott has. on its journey across the world's largest country the olympic torch was always going to experience some high as some lives on it has now completed one of those hoist the olympic flame has been lit at the top of mt elbrus which is the highest peak in europe a team of five experienced mountaineers took it to the summit which is more than five and a half thousand meters above sea level but it is now in the final stages of its relay that will arrive here in sochi in a few days time ahead of the opening ceremony which is now less than a week away and attention is slowly beginning to turn to the sport and one sport

that russia has traditionally had success in is by athlone a my colleague to bon mots i had a look around the new purpose built state of the art cross-country skiing and biathlon center. these. legends is that laura was an urban legend herald where now she decided to choose death over getting married to an older prince of course it's not just about this mind serve as a reminder that to win gold you might have to dive for it figuratively who is this could be a metaphor for the athletes that determination passion and perseverance to whatever you want but i can only that gold you can get it for sochi twenty fourteen

the cross country skiing and by flint twenty minutes will take place from laura organizes a hoping the long run venue stage of the entre the scylla tees will put sochi firmly on the world's biafra long map i took control of the grounds on a stage to see the massive complex without getting my feet when it includes two stadiums a shooting area and the woman observed so it's true what they say this. well to bring everybody together and we're limping i'm not just for us but for everybody even this little guy here. because it is a very demanding it has few places where athletes can blind and see their energy and at a height of one thousand five hundred metres above sea level the lack of oxygen also makes it much harder for the competitors to breed come a few days a visit the venue where the biafra lawns are limpid and paralympic games will be held will be filled with spectators as well as sportsmen and sportswomen ride is

where the starting point aiming for the gold will be give mother nature has dissolved the snow is ready the altitude is perfect now all that's missing is the start of the whistle. keeping you up to date with everything that's happening in sochi you can follow our coverage right here on r.t. or of course. how do you operate. sports such. as. my fire. in the upcoming games inspired some artists to. buy the fighting for building themed sculptures gallery of their i see masterpieces that's waiting for you right now with. a video.

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break in the set with a big margin is very soon for now though israeli democracy is embracing cyberspace the government has admitted it pays some students to say nice things about it on social networks and now it's using facebook rather than face to face meetings to ask the public what it wants. explains. there's a new kind of politics blowing through cyberspace the parliaments on facebook and its users are the legislators it's very simple citizens right in the page what they want to change and sometimes even better if they write how and we take the commons and choose and pick a member of parliament that this deal is suitable to that. issue we are doing a lobby a lobby for the citizens with its ears to the ground this user generated democracy

is turning citizens into politicians for a long time not everyone have was fed up with the high cost of renting in tel aviv she posted about it her suggestions metamorph eyes into a bull to regulate real estate agents fees it's now a vote away from becoming law i think it's definitely a more direct way to the government and they're actually listening and they're doing things with it which is amazing rather than feeling threatened by this new brand of cyber activists more and more politicians are seeing the potential of partnering with their constituents online within that the public should be a partner in creating policy in legislation social media is a very very powerful tool in politics this will be a mini revolution in everything. to the connections between us and the public which right now is not enough is not good enough the next bill's already in the making granting single mothers cheaper life insurance the social media i think will be the next platform of the politics all over the world it might have been the ancient

greeks who introduced the world to democracy but today's generation is one click away from perfecting at portsea r.t. tell of of what has promised her an art international art in and breaking the set. take me up to the ballgame and take me through the metal detector so wait that's not how the song goes well as the country changes sadly so must the national pastime they said the mariners released a statement that they like all other teams for twenty fifteen are setting up metal detectors to screen all fans entering their stadium for getting visions of hot dogs 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 with these security measures really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion. you need to board the lone more then somewhere around two hundred children for all for them they also found that child abusers child abusers got access to those kids

. very common phenomenon and what i'm saying is overall it's an amazingly rosy picture in that adopted kids international as well as domestic are treated better than regular kids growing up in untroubled biological families in the united states . the whole economy is stripping around yes it's a global financial flies back to two thousand and seven when the bankers first drop the acid trip called the liquidity crisis which led to the financial crash and burn which led to the dopes and their central banks dropping wands of gas well astral planing from their imaginary helicopter and saying what. makes you larger and one paper makes you smile and the money that china gives you doesn't do anything

at all go away as. when she's ten feet so. yes it's been a whole. trip. we made a perfect targets to go after. and we really got caught in the politics of the left vs right the left trying to go after george bush and his policies unfortunately we were we were a victim of those kind of plate tectonics grinding against each other but do you feel betrayed by your own government that's why i'm asking having you know building your business based on the merits winning competitively bid contracts performing well doing one hundred thousand missions with no one under a care killed or injured and then having it trashed because of politics yet if you don't want to go through that again. a century ago this year the first world war started it fundamentally changed the global political order later in the even

weekend international system set the stage for the second world war since the end of the cold war the global order has been in limbo under american domination in the twenty first century just how stable our world politics. of the day. happy friday folks i'm at it martin and this is a break in the set so yesterday the governor of massachusetts announced that federal prosecutors will be seeking the death penalty for a show cars of one of the alleged boston marathon bombers yes after shooting dozens of rounds of bullets it's been living in near death it was a nurse back to health only to face execution all over again make sense now of course justice needs to be served for the perpetrators of this despicable act in which four people tragically lost their lives and dozens more were left wounded and hopefully a trial will indeed prove that was responsible for the death penalty is banned

under massachusetts state law which means he's the only third the only the third person in the state's history to face federal capital punishment furthermore a september poll found that only thirty three percent of massachusetts residents support the death penalty first and by seeking execution the trial could drag on for months traumatizing america for much longer than necessary but beyond just these reasons not to allow the state sponsored execution of the twenty year old capital punishment is just flat out wrong there is no humane way to kill someone and seeking the death penalty does nothing i continue the cycle of horrific violence and brutality that this attack first started now let's break the set. of the. it was a. very. hard to take a little political. theater back with that hurt right

there. little little. little. little. little little. between tracking people's porn habits to spy next lovers you would think that the n.s.a. leaks couldn't get any weirder revelation from earlier this week shows that the agency is also watching you play angry birds today to mine everything from a user's political affiliation to their sexual orientation great because i won't be playing candy crush any time soon but with all the flak that the n.s.a. has been getting over the past year it's.