it will. take place. i. found the values take center stage in france as crowds gathered to protest against the policies of france where a lot of us. died from a lack of water and they threatened us with machine guns. and killing us from the first foreign t.v. channel to gain access to the siege syrian town of andhra reports of rebels massacring dozens of civilians there including children. and the state for rioters comes into force in ukraine as the country's opposition cozies up to western politicians of the security munich once again warning the e.u. against taking some.

of the weekly around of the top stories that helped shape the past seven days. and first tens of thousands of people have been rallying in paris and also in the city of leone in the latest wave of demonstrations for traditional family values of his in the french capital. demonstration we're seeing right now is the latest in a wave of unrest that swept across france the campaign is that are out on the streets marching through central paris they say that they're marching in defense of traditional family values now they say they're against proposed changes to the law that would make alternative ways for homosexual couples to have children legal naysay that they want to quash proposed laws that have been put forward now the demonstrations that we've seen in the past have on occasion to end violent haven

from the other week we saw a so-called day of rage a day of anger across the country where thousands and thousands of people were out on the streets and that did end up in some rather unsavory clashes between the police on those those demonstrates is now all of this comes on a wave of also a huge on popularity for the french president francois popularity here at an all time low and he's pretty much the the most unpopular french president in recent memory and the people around here in paris coming out on the streets to show that unhappiness out there later on is very unpopular too that the government's been trying to divert the public's attention from that's what we've been hearing from freelance journalist and former editor of the french news newspaper robert hotness . this is an issue that is deliberately raised to distract attention from his own popularity you want to get to see oppression of the ministers each year is actually

looking into these issues but he clearly it's true there is i suppose about one says the population who do feel very strongly about this we talked about this a year ago at that time i said there is the celebrants the population who will not not let go on this subject all the government issues and all they will push back to the background there is that you told which is expiring and to try order if you like this is not anti disease it is favor of the family was a pair of children this is the basis for the traditional family. you're listening to give it a robot harness that it's been over a month since reports emerged that hardline syrian rebels captured the town of android side damascus dozens of civilians were allegedly slaughtered and thousands displaced the rebels still occupy k. parts of the making it hard to verify information coming from there but out his crew were the first foreign journalist to make it inside and speak to the survivors . 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 moans of sand and piles of old tires the army uses to shoot its convoys from a tanks it's maybe longer but it's a safer route. where the first foray into vickery to get this close to address after the siege began a month ago it's still not clear exactly what happened in this industrial city last december back then reports emerged of numerous killings and violence after abjure 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 reveled to address hoping to verify these reports but there is still no way of getting into the besieged areas of the town to confirm if any of that actually happened we got as close as the army can there actually to address the old town admiral blood and the work his house in complex nearby a drum aliya both are now besieged and i could. maybe some bankers here to separate other are in 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

the 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 was no access inside it's impossible to tell just how many the are but luckily most of the residents managed to escape our driver will meet some of them two kilometers away in the shelter around what used to be a large summons factory but in this hotel's me he doesn't go to school anymore but this place because a terrorist attack the student who had to ski they occupied and we cannot go there their rooms are 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 years mother appear from the darkness of a room barely ten square meters and a silence everything what is happening is wrong there was no need for any of this

see where we are now what degree we have reached now it's a question that many here are asking 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 also the virus so the syrian soldiers beheaded at the sewage system. we were in a group of about twenty people they were beating us three at a time and killing us i saw with my own eyes people 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. 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 national t.v. from our drive in syria. meantime another developments now the syrian foreign minister says the government will not be negotiating directly with the opposition at the next round of peace talks in geneva judy start a week from now that decision was made after u.s. secretary of state john kerry insisted the president assad must be excluded from the transitional government syrian political activist i'm

a worker told me america's reaction was only to be expected the u.s. congress has looted during the negotiations to arm the rebels there is a lot to answer for ows people who don't even represent the umbrella that they came under which is the syrian national coalition syrian government is desperately trying to negotiate with someone who can have some powers to you know hold to their word into their agreement what about that threat from washington that would use force of syria failed to get rid of its chemical stockpiles by the summer there are some physical reasons why this is happening you know i know from from friends and family that whoever travels along that route between damascus and homs either know who is or southward there are certain segments of the road where they have to drive closer to like a hundred miles an hour under sixty can or has an hour because of fear of sniper fire power or shots from moderate opposition so if you want to move military green equipment and vehicles along that through they may have to be moved you know a much slower than that and they would be vulnerable especially if they're carrying

you know chemical. warfare material that was that was used also questions the commitment and you know the american position and whether they went into this agreement in good faith or not because they might seem to be using this agreement to punish syrians rather than using this agreement to get rid of the chemical warfare. and amnesties come into force in ukraine giving rioters in downtown kiev and throw the country's west in for fifteen days now to disperse and leave all government buildings this amid the seeming triumph of the country's opposition frontmen of the security for munich where they scored pledges of more support from washington than the european union will russia's foreign ministers called against taking one sided view of the unrest in ukraine you know please get off reports from germany. 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 you have to decide whether it's what one country or what 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 your for the words it's when you get that from 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 to promote democracy why is there no condemnation of the siege even still occupying government buildings were those who burned police officers shot racist anti-semitic and nazi slogans why do many leading european politicians encourage such actions while any violations of the lord holds are dealt with harshly some strong words there from russia's chief diplomat also added joking that next time we 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. in those discussions in munich both opposition leader klitschko and ukraine's foreign minister had the say with a top to blaming the boxer turned politician for the increasingly nationalist violence in his country klitschko the diverted the debate by blaming the violence on police brutality security consultant chuck joiner who used to work for the cia and the f.b.i. gave us his thoughts on ukraine's handling of the situation. if you are in the situation where i've seen videos of police officers on fire and that's a deadly situation and they certainly in the united states would have the legal right to use deadly force in response to that so if a police officer perceives that there's a threat to themselves or somebody else they can't respond with pepper spray but tons personal weapons strikes electronic control devices if the threat rises to the

level where they think either they or somebody else are being threatened with death or serious bodily harm then they can respond with deadly force i think throughout the history of riots you see if there's not a strong police presence and then the the tag and eyes of the agitators they become emboldened and they become more violent and more aggressive so there needs to be a strong police presence in those circumstances to control the violence. was taken minutes at the latest poll shows two thirds of ukrainians do not support the mullets engulf the western regions in which most of course of those local administration offices have either been stormed the proceeds of that pans out meantime many feel the country is probably under the threat of civil war up to thirty two percent there. traveling to one of the hot beds of the arm rest for us. this is the regional administration building event outfront carves skin western

ukraine where up until a week ago the regional governor had his office but as you can see just like in kiev's there is now a giant barricade surrounding the building with snow tires and planks of wood radical and and he russian this is the heartland of nationalism wear and tear on a common sentiment runs deep and that's the way an italian and her comrades want to keep it the twenty nine year old entrepreneur has been here since the building was overthrown she says work can wait this is more important it is supposed to have no president than to have you know called which but with the opposition as fragmented as it is that tully is the first to admit no yanna coverage could well mean an alkie whitney bishop along with the problem is that we don't have any person to replace him and we will need to take someone from their position which won't be easy the sentiments blown across central and western ukraine where regional offices

are being picketed and seized by protesters i believe that a group of writing radicals some wearing masks stormed the municipal building chanting we have the power they used fire extinguishers and wooden sticks against police. in china gov demonstrators set up barricades made a vehicle pass and sacks of snow they demanded police say the building was similar scenes played out and she can see where protesters trying to signify to furniture they smashed windows and threw stones at security forces. the anger has moved even further westwards. ski protests descend ukrainian hymns while ignoring the governor's attempts to disperse them. in a van or from coffs those now laying siege to the municipality building forbidden in symbols or sentiments of the ruling party. they claim it goes against the will of the ukrainian people no one knows where the head of the administration is there

are parts of this building that are still functioning for example the day to day running of the city but on a political level everything is come to standstill all this process might. lead to door division of the country of course as a result in some arab spring hopes are in the long term perspective. despite the criticism of yani coverage these protesters have nothing better to offer policia r.t. even a front cost western ukraine. well before it got darker these are the latest pictures from carol but earlier this afternoon despite the mystery there's been this mass and to go rally and the fresh from of security for munich opposition leader vitaly klitschko as we once again to dress in the crowds there too she can see will bring you more on the ongoing turmoil in ukraine on air and online as well about the dot com. coming up this

salad testing the ice for future world records a correspondent joins the staff at such a speed skating arena to make sure the services for the upcoming races for gold are smooth as can be. as the media leave us so we leave maybe. i will see bush and secure. your party visit the. issues that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics.

dramas that can be ignored. story others use in the. focus is changing the world right. to picture. from a. look to. see. us new sanctions will continue to burden economies around that's the message from the u.s. secretary of state john kerry at a meeting with the reigning counterpart on the sidelines of the munich security conference we're talking about earlier in the program washington of brussels lifted similar restrictions under an interim deal reached back in march in exchange for to

round scaling down nuclear enrichment but now kerry's reaffirmed that the remaining sanctions are there to stay let's talk about this with political scientist bes used to be an advisor indeed to iran's negotiating team on nuclear issues here don't you think spain where this is this statement you think going to affect relations revived some recently between iran and the world powers imposing these sanctions. no on the contrary i think that this productive type of behavior by washington to rely on these pressure tactics before this start of the next round of negotiations in vienna on third worry eighteenth and you know this may world backfire on the moderate rouhani administration in iran as well which is under scrutiny by the reunion hardliners and mr kerry's pressure tactics which is part of these two prong coercive diplomacy we are depriving being rising military threats and it's very

dangerous where while the military threat that we saw in president obama's state of the union address is really counterproductive and poisons the environment for the coming talks so what should saran do than simply ignore kerry's words or react to it here well you know there geneva agreement went into effect less than two weeks ago we do not know yet what the net effect is in terms of the newly released and sanction areas such as with respect to the shipping insurance companies are doing airplane manufacturers or that cannot export parts to iraq and these kinds of statements by senator kerry can have ripple effects in terms of the tearing those businesses to do trade with iran and iran can respond in a variety of ways i still don't quite follow your reasoning there welcoming the. american said these sanctions will stay in place surely you're going into this meeting trying to get the best out of it and trying to try and broker some sort of

deal at the end of the day that will lift all sanctions are you. well precisely and you know that i think reflects some ambiguity on the part of the united states which has traditionally or the past you know decade or so exploited the reigning in nuclear crisis to sell arms to the arab states in the persian gulf to put pressure on russia and its southern flank as well as to pressure iran and so on and so you know it's been a crisis of opportunity for the united states and i think that makes feelings about ending it and if they're sincere and honest about the next round of negotiations and good faith negotiation then the u.s. should send the opposite signal in terms of its willingness to lift all the associated sanctions which are mentioned in the concord in parts of the geneva agreement ok we're following the through why isn't there what is washington trying to achieve by heading around with words that we're hearing at this point well i

suppose their thinking is that they brought iran to the table by pressure and they need to escalate that pressure to gain maximum concessions and senator kerry i'm sorry u.s. secretary of state kerry has been referring to this man telling aspects of the rainy and nuclear program which is contrary to the content of the geneva agreement and flatly rejected by really and foreign minister like your mama joe words there if so i think the u.s. is intention is to go beyond the terms of the geneva agreement table new demands by applying least two prong pressure tactics in case what's your prognosis for the upcoming talks to the group of six going to resume talking again we think just over two weeks time what's going to come out of. well it's a very difficult road ahead and the united states finds itself increasingly

isolated with the european countries that are part of the negotiation sending the opposite signal of their willingness to ease the sanctions and to you know reach deterrent with iran and so forth and yet we saw. the u.s. rebuffing the un's overtures toward iran and syria and so forth so much depends on political will in washington and their willingness to engage in good faith negotiation and right now we don't quite see that ok thanks for your thoughts presidents on discovery. in a matter of days breath thinking spreads false starts and photo finishes are all likely on the ice it's time to get our skates on them for another look at what the saatchi twenty forty winter olympics got to offer with about what's a. we've just arrived here at the adler skating center this is where the speed skating competitions

during the twenty fourteen winter olympic games is going to be taking place now we've been invited inside to actually take a look at the four hundred meters in length the skating rink it's very important to that this rink to be maintained properly particularly for the skaters and they're going to show us how they do that so let's go and see it. as you can see it's spectacular on the outside but the real beauty is how we worked on the inside no expense was spared in the creation of the venue at the olympic park and you could certainly see where the money went a crystal faced piece is effected by and you know walls and try and do a stained glass windows the gray and white color of the building in hans's this impression even the facade is transparent so the spectators inside the arena can see out the focus of the arena doesn't disappoint with leading sports men and women coming forward to praise the circuit it features to competition tracks and one

training track all designed to provide the best possible performance for athletes the quality of ice can make a huge difference in winning that goal and edler quality is a main priority with optimal micro climatic conditions to ensure a world class ice surface but it's just a limp during the skating games every forty five minutes will have to bring on machines and bring them on the circuit. around the four hundred meter lead off the circuit it's very important that they do this because i will be leveling the ice rink as well as making. all week a limb pins will be skating. close on the machine is doing great. the well the hostages everybody five minutes during the games so that the libyans was thinking well i can have it must be the last. it's going to be all about speed speed

and more speed and the endless stadium and sochi is ready to bomb the thing in the big park in sochi what. we've got you get more of a tour of the limpid part of course on our website r t v dot com make sure to if you can that you're with us when the games get going we bring you special coverage on a throat sochi twenty forty. this is a national comes in live from moscow heading to

a break next after the personal stories of suffering and survival during the siege of leningrad it will. take me up to the ball game and take me through the metal detectors so wait that's not how the song goes well as the country changes sadly so must the national pastime they settle mariners released a statement that they like all 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 well these security measures really stop a psychotic terrorist murder nope but that's just my opinion. i am so happy. it's been the best summer of my life. i am

a student now and i'm going to the village with mom we will have strawberries on the terrace and taking my favorite guitar. what a beautiful summer what a wonderful life is waiting for me. chinese friends made me a guitar on the stimulus the so i started playing the seven string guitar i played quite well he played it well too. i started when i was about ten years old. he saw me in the park it was a sunny day she was too shy to approach me i saw him in the corner of my eye there was some sentimental song playing in my mind i'm trying to remember it now but i can't something sad for some reason maybe it's because i'm leaving the city for the whole summer and won't see him until a lot of people were. drawing the picture. nobody

expected it to end that way through a good note.