it's all politics only on our t.v. . if. a teacher and a policeman are killed after a student opened fire in a moscow school taking over twenty teenagers hostage. france's president alon is accused of family phobia and another major blow to his reputation as thousands march against laws supporting same sex marriage. fracture of ukraine western governments put together an aid plan for the protest plagued country while energy giants crave some of its shale gas prospects. watching r t international coming to life from moscow i'm marina joshua welcome to

the program deadly shootings at a mosque a school that left one teacher and a policeman dead after a gunman who is thought to have been one of the students took more than twenty teenagers hostage they've all now been released and the shooter is under arrest well our correspondent english has followed me the developments for us here in moscow irina what we now this point is that it all happened very quickly what else is there what sort of information is available to us absolutely as a matter of fact we started tracking the story. from the very beginning until just about his arrest i would say maybe an hour an hour and a half has passed maximum basically forward to look at this timeline we're looking at a young man who is one of the senior students in this school who walked into the school building with apparently two rifles that's information according to the ministry of the interior and now the guard has walked him upon his request to one of the

classrooms and after doing that he pressed the panic button so when this student was actually entering the classroom the police were already starting to to come. the building however this student did have a chance of unfortunately to wound. one of the teachers the teacher of geography who was in that classroom the teacher later died from he's rooms after the police have come down on them onto these school grounds at least two of them have gone over to negotiate with the shooter and he has shot both of them one of them has died on the scene another one is in hospital right now again this information is also coming from the police that the student has allegedly also opened fire on other police who are surrounding the building from from the window off the classroom however very shortly afterwards while the students the rest of the students who were in school including the staff of course members were being evacuated the police have actually managed to bring in these students father who was part of the negotiating team who has coerced to his son to surrendering to give

police at this point according to the testimony that we heard from one of the students which was broadcast in one of russian russia's channels according to that student this shooter is actually. is actually nearly perfect student who has never been there who has never been in conflict with neither the teacher of geography nor any other teachers so exactly what was the reason for the shooting rampage what has set this young man off is not yet known of course and it is a geisha has officially started we do know that the shooter is looking at least three criminal cases that have been opened against him and of course we're also serving the latest situation on the scene we will be bringing you pictures that we have shot there in just a very short while. thank you so much for bringing us the very latest as we continue to monitor the situation and as soon as there are more developments we'll be bringing them to our viewers here in the international.

now over one hundred thousand protesters have rallied in paris and leon accusing president alonso government of what they call family phobia they want to scrap the bills legalizing gay marriage and procedures to help same sex couples have children it's seen as another blow to france's embattled leadership has been all over now reports power is sold the latest wave of discontent to sweep across france as we saw thousands upon thousands of people come out onto the streets to vent their anger at what they see as the erosion of traditional family values in the country is being particularly i'm get towards suggestions that france could legalize homosexual marriage also that it could do those could be brought in that would see they could see gay and lesbian couples either adopt or conceive children to i.d.f. treatment they say that that's isn't what the traditional family is about and that's why they've been coming out here and telling me that they want to get the

french government in particular fronts war on the president to hear their anger their government is very firm exists in this matter i mean they don't want to go but there are many many people who just want to hold that the right of two germans i just don't care that she's she says even more so use for a long time his personal popularity well that is it an all time low and he's currently seems the the most unpopular french president in recent memory and what that seeing is more remote people coming out onto the streets to vent their anger against all odds and against the rules that he's trying to impose on them that they say infringes upon traditional family values here martin spoke to one french activist who is so unhappy with president alonso performance that she's gone on a hunger strike. so. it's been a day since i've been fostered i only drink water because there are many people

demanding the resignation of francois hollande because he's unworthy of representing fronts more and more countries including germany england and russia making fun of fronts we are many french people who think that own land is not legitimate to govern this country he is ruining france a president a lot of rule rating remains low was just twenty two percent of france satisfied with him as their leader has become record breaking really unpopular and mounting frustration over broken promises he pledged to cut unemployment by the end of two thousand and thirteen but the number out of work in france rose about three million the largest since records began a lot of promise to restore growth but it's hardly lifted above zero reaching about point one percent last year french journalist robert harris believes a long focus on sexual orientation issues as a smokescreen to distract the public from his failures. d'souza issues that are used to divert the race to distract attention from his own popularity one to get

seed pressure at the ministries each year is actually to these issues that he clearly there is i suppose about one of the population who do feel very strongly about this we talked about this year ago at that time i said there is the set of the population who will not go on the subject of wards of government issues that hold a week back to the background there is the new code which is it's barring them to try all of it or if you like this is not. even favor of the family was a pair of children. for sure just. brussels and washington are putting together a significant short term assistance for ukraine which is grid by mass protests in a standoff between the government and the opposition e.u. foreign policy chief catherine ashton said the package is supposed to help the country through a transition period the money will be depended on the new cranium government approved approving political and economic reforms to the west

a plan that comes after opposition leaders calls for greater involvement and more than just vocal support to the protests in ukraine the assistance maybe more than just cash will help for investment also on the cards waiting in a way the energy giants were keen to exploit the country's shale gas potential and that's got locals worried as both we are now explains. western ukraine a beleaguered battleground for american oil giants two months ago kids signed we went with chevron to use this area for fracking. that would have altered toxic chemicals pumped into the earth contaminated environments just some of the risks that have sparked protests against fracking in the united states and europe i thought i. should. now it's ukrainian farmers not only who are left in the cold spring time our lakes

and rivers will get dirty sporadic protests have fallen on deaf ears unable to match the might of the fuel lobby for if america comes to ukraine we can lose our position and america will control ukrainian money and business meanwhile countries like france switzerland and the netherlands a worried enough to have banned the technology the ten billion dollar deal level chevron to operate in the country for fifty years it has the right to sell the gas it up tains with quotas to other countries so all claims that ukraine will make a lot of money are in fact nonsense and in a place where unemployment his wife kids promise of thousands of new jobs is enough pay for people next engine forty four years old and employed and trying to care for his sick mother of all day over hopeful gets a job people in ukraine are not scared of work we must just learn what to do the courage for kiev is energy independence and cheap fuel for

a country struggling to pay the bills even though russia dropped the cost of its gas by almost a third to calculate the shale spoils industry experts look at precedents in neighboring poland with companies promise the earth only to significantly scale back which is very high risk for this bush because after the five years of exploration process called bodies may decide to stop their activities because they are trying some places where it will be their disability to produce gas pressure on peers to keep these firms out is growing but not fast enough it seems to quell the government's desire to have its own gas whatever the cost or concerns of the people policy our team have live coverage of western ukraine. and reaching out to chevron and shell ukrainian authorities say the firms will help the country achieve self-sufficiency and even enable its own energy exports the oil and gas giants

insist fracking is safe but americans are malice verus dragons differ. the process itself is you cannot or millions of gallons of liquid laced with sand and with chemicals under super high pressures down into all these drilled holes without having a consequence this whole fracking. madness is spreading all over the planet they want to frack as many countries as possible and so more people are getting aware of it and i'm getting people here from all over europe north america africa to come here to see for themselves the science what they hear from the gas companies because the gas company will admit to no problems everything is hunky dory everything is covered all the bases are covered we have nothing to worry about folks we know what we are doing. stay with us here at national as we report

on the viral video that's called out the cops in britain i was being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructed and resisting arrest back and six months in prison and that would have completely irrevocably changed my life a student tells us how a video on you to prove that billy's to gets to far with an ounce a arrest that's up next here on our international. unit she did love her tour. was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot

which one fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything turns mission to teach creation why. they should care about humans and. this is why you should care only. be cool language. programs in documentaries in arabic in school here on. reporting from the world talks about six of the c.o.r.p. interviews intriguing story are you. trying. to find out more visit our big. welcome back to watching r.t. international and with more we're going to deal was the world of eight the iraqi army has stepped up its bombardment of fallujah reportedly a had

a full on ground offensive. oh. the city was seized by militants connected to al qaida in early january and has been under intense shelling for days the government's been holding off from sending in troops to give local tribesmen time to oust the insurgents and security in iraq has been getting worse with almost eighty thousand people killed in violence last year. photons at a cinema in pakistan have killed at least five people eyewitnesses claim a man sitting in the back row of the auditorium threw grenades dozens of people were hurt and some critically during the incident and peshawar. clashes in kenya have seen two people killed after police opened fire in a mosque in the sea of mumbai after use wielded daggers when some worshipers raise the flag of the jihad is a group police say they want to forward to meeting aimed at recruiting extremists

and say they made over one hundred arrests. while the u.s. will continue enforcing existing sanctions on iran if talks on a permanent nuclear deal fail that was made clear between the countries stop diplomats at a closed door meeting in munich meanwhile former secretary of state hillary clinton wants congress to refrain from new restrictions saying it's time to give diplomacy a chance to work iran and six global powers are due for fresh talks and ms fabulous their hope to bring a solution to a decade long nuclear standoff interim deal initially known as the joint plan of action freezes iran's nuclear work for six months in exchange for seven billion dollars in sanctions relief a former advisor to iran's to go team sask washington's words do more harm than good. carries pressure tactics which is part of

these two prong coercive diplomacy the other problem being rising military threats and this very dangerous. threat that we saw in president obama's state of the union address is really can't to put duck here and it poisons the environment for the coming talks they brought the iran to the table by pressure and they need to escalate that pressure to gain maximum concessions and secretary of state kerry has been referring to this man telling aspects of the really a nuclear program which is contrary to the content of the geneva agreement and flatly rejected by degree and for a minute. when it's your word against a major british police force you need some mighty strong evidence on your side something student ashok kumar knows all too well when an officer rounded on him at a rally that's are silly a hassle story. i was being charged with assaulting a police officer obstruction arrest and six months in prison and that would have

completely irrevocably changed my life and devastated. i could i make more had intended to attend a talk by the education minister in june two thousand and eleven and found himself in a crowd of protesting students and just outside this university who was later arrested and the police officer said that a shop had pushed him twice before running away. i'm not going to be this video appeared on he tube or a shock is neither seen and it offers a different version of events. thanks to this video the charges were dropped scotland yard agreed to pay a shocked twenty thousand pounds in damages after he launched legal action for wrongful arrest as a result of video evidence produced as part of a civil claim against the metropolitan police service three offices are the subjects of the i.p.c.c. supervised investigation but such outcomes may not always be so easy to come by

it's very often the case. people have been wrongly accused by police officers committed an offense but the evidence of the after court has given more credence to notch the accused individual they just have. to try and give his best accounts as they can to gather as much evidence as they possibly can and once again that the conduct of the police is put firmly under the spotlight in the twenty eleven two thousand and twelve period the independent police complaints commission saw a decrease in complaints but an increase in appeals made about the handling of complaints by police compared to the year before where it's found that officers are fully below the expected. behavior the public would want to see of accountability that. police misconduct it's sort of like specific to being to be a tool. for someone who's been on the receiving end of this misconduct

a shock says there's something he'll now keep in mind we need to videotape the police whenever we can because it's their word against ours the only way we're going to win is if we actually prove to a court without a shadow over doubt that they were lying. to us or sylvia r.t. love the. now back to the fatal shootings at a moscow school and here are the latest pictures from the scene all the pupils and teachers have been evacuated from the building after a gunman thought to be one of the students opened fire and two twenty four teenagers hostage and geography teacher and a policeman were killed within the past few minutes it's emerged out the suspect fired at least eleven shots and he was armed with two rifles the hostages were released and the gunman arrested after he was convinced into giving himself by his father the weapons. to

other stories now syria's leadership is vowing to reject face to face talks with the opposition when the geneva peace conference restarts and that's unless american secretary of state john kerry apologizes for saying president assad has no future in syria political activist in markoff told r.t. such talk could hijack the next round of negotiations the u.s. congress has moved to do you agree. to arm the rebels there is a lot to answer for. seem to be you know how to get back to what about the threat from washington that would use force of syria failed to get rid of its chemical stockpiles by the summer there are some pretty cool reasons why this is happening you know i knew from from friends and family that who were trying to use along the route route between damascus and. there are certain segments where they have to drive. closer to like a hundred miles an hour under sixty can orders an hour because of a funeral sniper fire power. shots from moderate opposition so if you want to move

military grade equipment and vehicles. they have to be moved you know much slower than that they would be vulgar. you know chemical. warfare material a language that was used also questions to commitment and you know the american position whether they went into this agreement in good faith or because they might seem to be using this agreement to punish the syrians rather than using this agreement to get rid of the chemical warfare is now want to see what happens when you mix a skyscraper with a ton of explosives take a look at this. the frankfurt skyline is now a little clearer after this huge block was raised in seconds and one of the largest ever control building explosions in europe is captured on camera on our t.v.

dot com. also why in new york swans are about to get it in the den a mass call is planned over claims that these elegant creatures are a danger to people and passenger jets. twenty fourteen marks a tragic centenarian for one of mankind's worst catastrophes the start of the first world war today's cross-talk looks at the global order as it is now at its stability across the century. we've seen the world shift instead of the various major capitals powers vying with each other they've been pulled together as a united front under the leadership that had germany of the united states first to do war against the socialist bloc countries but now to sort of ring colonize those countries that have become independent so the nature of the conflict has shifted fundamentally since world war one which doesn't mean it's a stable world the chinese would say they are being encircled ok and they're

borrowing money. money from united states for the americans to surround their country militarily it's interesting scenario there's doesn't seem to be any real evidence that the chinese are really interested in becoming one of the great powers in the in the sense of being a colonial power of dominating other countries or other continents i think the parallel between. imperial germany and the united states i think is much more apparent. at the world's top athletes gold silver and bronze medals are the most valuable than enters their time in sochi that doesn't mean everyone else has to leave empty handed though and a farmer looks at how visitors can take a piece of a spirit home without. well if you're looking to buy a souvenir during the olympics you probably want to get your hands on one of the mascots either the snow leopard or the polar bear and if you want to go to the high

end of the market you could try one of these porcelaine figurines these have all been made in a very famous village just outside moscow this workshopping visual has produced russia's famous blue and white china for the last two centuries but has not played some parts of the taking up it shelf enough in the space at the moment smiling mascots for the sochi games are being produced in abundance crafted a molded from the region special clay sixty kilometers southeast of more sco that's poured into special moments made for the head that could polar bear benefactress forty craftswomen get to work carefully hammering painting each one on average it takes fifteen minutes to load left it is a bit tricky and takes a little longer than if the whole day spent in the oven during which the black ink turns into that trademark blue after that they left a chill boxed and sent to the shops it is an intricate process that even mirrors

the slogan for these olympics cool yours andrew farmer. well make sure you stay with us on our team for our special coverage from russia's black sea coast we are an air throughout twenty forty. and up next a look at a big city life under the watch of thousands of electronic eyes if you are watching us and then it's going underground where she returns.

the first recreational marijuana shops are now open in colorado finally the question of what effect legal marijuana will have on the american public can be answered with real world experience you know there are a lot of people out there with strong arguments as to why we should legalize this controversial play it firstly there are plenty of things just as bad for us as marijuana or works like beer cigarettes anti-depressants and mystery fast food meats which are totally legal secondly young men are often thrown in jail for the absolutely victimless crime of smoking marijuana i can see punishing someone for drugs like crystal meth which can and do turn people into maniacs but have any of you out there ever heard of someone breaking into people's houses on a we ramp age no no you haven't the downside to all this is that across america the world people are looking for change and they want a massive star rise but when the masses are stoned out of their minds it makes things in life that we shouldn't tolerate become very tolerable we now call allow

us to make it through another day of our miserable lives so that we can live without going through all that effort of trying to make things better or challenge the system legalizing weed will just pacify the masses even more but that's just my opinion. stories others refuse to those. places change. to picture. from groups that.

look to. me. wealthy british style seinfeld's that's not on the front. end of the. market financed scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to name two cars a report on our. cities of a culmination of globalization and. nowhere else in the world a conflict so strongly concentrated as here. cities are of the ebus and the savior bustling with possibilities yet vulnerable. those wanting to hama

society ambushed the city and its daily life the. city's a defenseless against this form of terrorism. their inhabitants vulnerable. how do cities respond to this threat. and how does fit change our open lifestyle. in. the. city they're excited to see incredible cities all of human life.

settlement patients of all of human history they all landscapes of power. once the hearts of the british. along with new york and home called still the center of the global financial industry. symbol and driving force behind the international monetary flow. twelve million inhabitants over three hundred languages countless ethnicities and colleges london is a prototype of a global network megacity and a laboratory for security measures a lot of the changes in cities since the nine eleven terror attacks in new york washington were already on the way before those attacks so it's important to to sort of stress that the nine eleven attacks have led to certain changes intensifying that we're already on the way most import.