american and european politicians pledge their support for the ukrainian opposition at a major munich security conference raising some eyebrows. listen to it where there's a. feeling street riots that are becoming more and more violent promote democracy russia's foreign minister hits out at the west with accusations of double standards when it comes to the key of protests. syria demands an apology from america's top diplomat threatening to pull out of direct talks with the opposition if they do not get one that says the situation for those fleeing the conflict worsens. these no food nothing to eat or drink the militants are inside i spend the soul of

the prophet we want this to stop our t.v.'s it's a starving rebel held a palestinian refugee camp in syria that's received its first food aid in months after dozens of people have died from hunger. and as the olympic flame goes to the top of europe's highest peak just a stone's throw away from its final destination. we tour the brand new course where cross-country skiers and biathletes will be racing for gold in a matter of days. broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team to have you with us now the ukrainian opposition has secured the political support of the west at a security conference currently underway in munich top u.s. and e.u.

diplomats said they back what they have called the country's fight for democracy but russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov accused them of double standards if you go to peace going off explains. clearly the west has already taken the side of the protests or so u.s. secretary of state john kerry said that the time has come for to you have to decide whether it's one country or with the rest of the world and he added that washington supports the people of ukraine but some have been calling this a one sided approach and criticizing it including russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov you have to deal with it is the new there are some fundamental questions that need to be answered in particular about the situation in ukraine how does fuelling street riots that are becoming more and more violent promote democracy why is there no condemnation of the siege an even still occupying government buildings were those who burned police officers show racist anti-semitic and nazi slogans why do many leading european politicians and current such actions while any violations

of the law and home are dealt with harshly some strong words there from russia's chief diplomat also added to joking that next time they meet was mr kerry is going to ask him what grades he had in school asking how many countries this you think are in that group that he called the rest of the worlds. u.s. secretary of state john kerry has reiterated that washington stands with the people of ukraine but the latest polls show two thirds of them are against the havoc that's been plaguing kiev and the country's western regions and many fear civil war political analyst alexander pov each believes that the support shown by the us for the riots is all about geopolitics now we have the nato general secretary. making more and more comments in this regard again favoring the protesters of course the ukraine is is geo political prize par excellence if you're moving east

toward russia and obviously nato has been moving east since the end of the cold war more than twenty years ago the thing is it seems like the end justifies the means this is again not anything new for the west they're playing real politics and it has nothing to do very little to do with democracy it has much to do with pragmatic geo political interests and people are just being used as pawns unfortunately. on our web site r t v dot com of there is more expert analysis on america's role in ukraine's latest turmoil. the syrian government has rejected it direct talks with the opposition at the next round of the geneva two peace talks that is unless the us secretary of state says sorry for declaring that president assad has no future in syria kerry or later continued his verbal attack on damascus accusing

the regime of delaying the removal of its toxic arsenal the chemical disarmament in the country started after the u.n. russia and the u.s. helped broker a deal in september last year and with no workable diplomatic solution to conflict currently on the table there's no respite for refugees fleeing the war but he's more if notion of visited was one camp south of damascus where thousands of civilians that remain besieged by rebels. 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 move probably sit in 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 the military people who are controlling the situation here on the ground told us that the ross now i praise and the rug on demand on this building but it's not only from bullets that's 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. there's 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 holding 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 rest that while we're talking to one in a crescent an old man behind us collapses to the ground at all no one could tell us exactly why. there are. my guards who are dying from

hunger we can't take this anymore. humanitarian aid is the only achievement so far i ask those responsible how they know 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 outside damascus according to army generals at least five thousand to remain trapped there sieges serve well to weaken an army his capabilities keep in large forces tied up for long periods of time but they have another go to go to do your 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 now lisa villains could be heard 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 way to indeed rif notion r.t. from syria. and coming up a shoplifting spree of sorts. some people and the. kids what do you k. experience is a nine year peak in fads as essential items can sometimes be simply too expensive for many people's budgets. also in israel people can now improve democracy with just one click as legislators now sometimes even submit bills based on angry

facebook posts closely or reports on the online away of lawmaking after the break. we got a lot of housing people but the government. funding it and in a lot of the shelter today be having. people beginning. to get involved right now ironically ironically i mean we're moving to the city of new. jersey. where you paid regular people like someone like

a lawyer or doctor or some other madison avenue it's buri and sometimes the homeless people who live in atlanta i would advise. this is say those. responses were. in this city. region city in the world what people. need to do. to make you feel good you know. and welcome back you're watching r.t. international now the two thousand and fourteen olympic torch has seen tremendous ups and downs during its record breaking a relay it has traveled from outer space to the bottom of the world's deepest lake and on to the north pole and one of the stops on the way to such a was the highest mountain in europe artie's paul scott reports. on its journey

across the world's largest country the an impact 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 path as bill states of the cross country skiing and. this.

legend is that more was an urban legend caraway now she decided to choose death by getting married to an older prince of course it's not just about this mind serve as a reminder that you might have to die from figuratively was this could be a metaphor for the athletes that determination casts in every person of the errands to whatever you want but likely that gold you can get it for sochi twenty fourteen the cross-country skiing and by twenty minutes will take place from long organizers not keeping the run venue stage of the tease to look good so she threw me on the world's biafra long man i took control of the grounds on a stage to see the massive complex getting my feet when it includes two stadiums a shooting area i'm going to say so it's true what they say this. holds brings

everybody together and they're limping and not just for us but for everybody even this little guy here. the course is a very demanding it has few places where athletes can glide and save energy and at a height of one thousand five hundred meters 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 olympic and paralympic games will be held will be filled with spectators as well as sports men and sports women ride is where the starting point aiming for gold gold will begin mother nature has dissolved the snow is ready the altar shoot is perfect now all that's missing is the stop of the whistle so that she is up and ready for the start of the winter games and in the coming days we will be bringing you more reports from the olympic city don't miss

the coverage on air and online at our to you doug. and. how do you operate dealing. with. sports and such expert stated. goals i'm not an olympic hockey. league. it canadian metal band hits the guantanamo bay play list but the musicians are not happy about that with the band sending the u.s. government and voice for allegedly using its music as a means of psychological torture head online for more details. plus a proposed bill could allow u.k. police to get their hands on journalists notebooks photos and computer files without consent to learn more about the law it critics say could bury press freedom in britain at r.t. dot com. cutler right to see

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community board alone more than somewhere around two hundred children for all four of them they also found that child abusers convicted child abusers got access to those kids. whole recalling 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. or the back you're watching r t international know in the u.k.

shoplifting is no longer the domain of bored kids and petty criminals the country has seen a nine year high in the amount of goods stolen from stores and many are now resorting to the proctors for their basic needs polly boyko has been finding out. some people do it for a dare others might have a physical compulsion when i could 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. if you can see on the ceiling to here. for over. one over there. would be. if you keep looking further down the. government critics say that it's cuts to welfare payments that are pushing previously nor 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 fact is 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 fully boito. azzi lines and. now for more stories making global headlines today first we start in spain where thousands of people have rallied against government plans to curb abortion in the capital madrid the bill proposed by the ruling party would permit a woman to terminate a pregnancy only if she was great or her health was in danger the protesters are accusing legislation's backers of violating human rights of women while calling on the country's justice minister to resign. in lebanon a car bomb has exploded near a school in the country's north east close to the border with syria at least four people were killed and eighteen others injured in the town of her mel which is

a stronghold of the militant group hezbollah the country's interior ministry says it may have been a suicide attack sunni militants have often targeted shia areas of lebanon in retaliation for hezbollah sending its fighters into syria. anti-government protests are heating up in the thai capital with at least two blasts and dozens of gunshots fired at least six people have been wounded as supporters of the country's prime minister clashed with her opponents the incident happened after demonstrators blockaded a building where the ballot papers to be. the violence is spiraling ahead of sunday's general election which the opposition has vowed to boycott and destroyed. at least fourteen people have been killed and three others injured on indonesia's western island of sumatra after a volcano erupted again. unleashed clouds of thick gray ash and a searing gas it engulfed nearby homes just one day after authorities allowed

thousands of villagers to return to their lands and saying it was safe officials now fear the death toll will rise the volcano has been active with smaller options since september after being dormant for three years. israeli democracy is while and are truly embracing cyberspace last year the government admitted it paid some students to defend its policies on social networks now it's using facebook rather than direct face to face meetings to ask what the public wants pollock's policy leader 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 write the page what they want to change. sometimes even better if they write how and we take the commons choose and pick

a member of parliament that this deal is suitable to that. 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 metamorphosed 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 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 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 do 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 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 us policy our r.t.e. tell of of. well just ahead on r t international what it is like to be homeless in the concrete jungle of manhattan but if you're watching in the u.k. it's our sputnik show stay with us. i've always had mixed feelings about speed traps it seems like it's

a waste of the police officers time but on the other hand they sure do make people paranoid and drive more slowly one man from texas is completely sure of his opinion about speed traps and he set out to save his fellow texans from being fined for speeding and much more importantly from potential traffic accidents caused by the hidden police and now he is the one who is in deep trouble according to fox news ron martin faces a misdemeanor charge for violating frisco texas sign ordinance that says that you may only stand around holding a sign on private property martin claims that he was doing the exact same thing as a speed limit sign reminding people to slow down and i think ultimately he is right you should be able to tell other people where the police are setting up speed traps because that will cause them to drive more slowly which is the real goal of speed traps in the first place the only reason local authorities would be against this is because they love the income that comes from a nice big pile of speeding tickets i hope that mr martin finds a way to go right back to holding his sign but this time on private property but that's just my opinion.

the. very reason so be the. problem so sick to those who seem. to. so. it's really it's your deal responsibility. this is many reasons why a person. so started beginning for example we can. talk about the case because

a. so he got refers here by his friend whose name was also saying. they both worked in times where. their kind of costume. the other jose was batman and this was wrong too so they got to know each other and the other was a got to a financial situation that was going to not that he was ready to. patch up his family. wrong and rented apartment so you with his wife and children and they moved out on the two apartments together. so yes the city was soon is that this is what's i'm sure you heard. i'm from cuba. because your i've been in the states of the united

states. and this is the best. this is the top that you know what i mean don't make it. you will make it in no way. you know what i mean so i report to here in new york. mayor you know i just get our no room for work and. and everything was close. so thank you very much i mean it's a difficult for that. make you. feel . when you're when you're young you have a lot of energy and headed because our and i went around painting beggars in the street and i went to the bowery i painted bums i'm sorry.

i'm not that political and that. you know to me it's more about. statics you know if i paint black people it's not because i love them or don't love them i i i find it beautiful i find it easy to paint. it's political i mean it's the city is so close to you know. to me. it's like the rich get rich in a plug. it's not what. how do you full so far down so most. from me unemployment. and half expected me plus my friends. and tell police where your answer it is usually. live on the street you know something almost down to change station sometime other than a change station when you get cold you know but on city got

a lot of college and wellness people but the government is not really funding it. no and then a lot of the shelter today be having people valleys down the street because people begin to grate didn't sheltered a good god you got to sleep with one eye open and one out close i was in a shelter in one town and a guy like right next to me being john a rape will jump in a no is stopped. and shelters is no good that's why you see a lot of homeless people on the street they feel safe. and c.d.o. you know to make a few dollars and pay somebody to let you stay and night it's that way you know you say i see by about myself you know because i'm in an area you know that it's not that much that i you know you only got one life i'm going to happen it's going to happen anyway and i just created a lot of don't. i just keep my head up every day long i've got another shot. but you. can still have

a file you put your entire yeah and that's. when i grew up here in new york in the fifty's in the sixty's for instance there were three soup kitchens in new york down the bowery and one in brooklyn today there are twelve hundred and over a hundred camp trees and other emergency food program stats how the need has grown when they first started this soup kitchen in nineteen eighty one or two or three depending on who you ask if it was an epidemic cope almost just in the eighty's you couldn't walk down the street without four people each block asking you for something homelessness was very visible today thirty some odd years later there are more homeless people in new york then there were down by almost double and yet you don't see them as much because what the result of the laws and the result of the regulation is.