a teacher and a policeman are killed at a moscow school after one of its model student opened fire and took over twenty classmates hostage. france's president alon is accused of family phobia another major blow to his reputation as thousands marched against laws supporting same sex marriage. and fractured ukraine western governments for to gather and a plan for the protests plagued country while energy giants crave some of the chill gas prospects. which are here national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to

the program teacher and policeman are dead after a hostage incident at a moscow school the gunman who starred to have been one of the school's straight a students briefly took more than twenty students hostage archies margaret how is outside of school in the north of the capital was more for us well maybe to tell us what's the feeling on the ground what's the atmosphere there is everyone feeling safe now. well it does appear to be called mail and things have definitely calmed down from earlier this morning when around eleven o'clock a young man a young shooter did walk into this school in northeast moscow and he did kill one a security officer and one teacher and he entered another security officer that's currently in hospital he then went into a tenth grade class and proceeded to take twenty four other students hostage and i do think that we have some sound where r.t. talked earlier with one of the friends of those hostages. keeping an

eye so something happened there were lots of people in some cars and they told me that either a parent had into the school approached the god and demanded us be let in. the guard and stormed into a cost room and taking all the people inside hostage. well as you can hear that young men say there was a lot of chaos going on this morning with that gunmen that young men coming into the school system and taking those lives. and what do we know about the suspect at this point. what we know a great deal we know that he is in the eighth grade that he was said to be a very good student it was originally believed that he had some sort of grudge against the teacher that he killed some type of revenge or vendetta but it's unclear we know that other students have said that he was a bit of a loner that he didn't have very many friends and those two shot guns that he

brought to school with him they belonged to his father he fired off eleven shots and the father actually showed up today and was able to talk to the young man and law enforcement was able to take in men without any demands being made and without incident now the education minister said that he didn't have any conflicts with other students or the teachers that speculation about the emotional state of this young man clearly unknown at this point but a lot going on with him but he has been taken into custody that we do know all right well this is very much a developing story here on r.g.p. international that maggie thank you so much for bringing us the details. to other stories now over one hundred thousand protesters have rallied in paris and yolen 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 and battle leadership has been all over in our reports. paris saw 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 has been particularly anger toward suggestions that france could legalize homosexual marriage also due laws could be brought in that we could see gay and lesbian couples conceived children to i.d.f. treatment they say that that's well 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 france well and the president to hear their anger the government is very fair. in this matter i mean they don't want to consider but there are many many people who just want to hold back the right of two germans i just don't care that she's this is 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 most unpopular french president in recent memory and what that seeing is more were more people coming out onto the streets to vent their anger against all and against the rules that he's trying to impose on them that they say infringes upon traditional family values here. i just spoke to one french activist who is so unhappy with president alonso performance that she's got a hunger strike so if it don't reach him it's been a day since i've been fast i only drink water because there are many people demanding the resignation of francois hollande because he's unworthy of representing france more and more countries including germany england and russia and making fun of france we are many french people who think that own land is not legitimate to govern this country he's ruining france. now president aligns

approval rating remains low with just twenty two percent of france satisfied with him as their leader has become record breaking only unpopular amid 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 long promised to restore growth but it's hardly left at about zero reaching about point one percent last year french journalist robert harneys believes all along focus on sexual orientation issues as a smoke screen to distract the public from his failures. susan issues that are used to divert the race to distract attention from. what you get to see oppression at the ministries each year is actually due to these issues but he clearly it's true there is i suppose about one of the population who do feel very strongly about this we talked about this a year ago at that time i said there is the settlements the population will not let go on the subject of wars the government issues an old back to the background there

is the new which is expiring and to try harder if you like the she's not. even savior 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 gripped by mass protest in a stand off between the government and the opposition is foreign policy chief catherine ashton said the package is supposed to help the country through a transition period the money will be the pan and on the new cranium government approving political attic anomic reforms the west a plan comes after opposition mirrors calls for greater involvement and more than just vocal support for the protests in the ukraine the assistance may be more than just cash with help for investment also on the cards waiting in the wings are the energy giants or keen to exploit the country's shale gas potential that's got

locals worried as policy or now explains. western ukraine a beleaguered battleground for american oil giants two months ago kiev signed we met with chevron to use this area for fracking. some of the water toxic chemicals pumped into the contaminated environments just some of the risks that have sparked protests against fracking in the united states and europe i think. yet. now it's ukrainian farmers. who are left in the cold. with time our lakes and rivers will get dirty sporadic protests have fallen on deaf ears unable to match the might of the fuel lobby 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 ban 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 of the countries so all claims that ukraine will make a lot of money are in fact nonsense and in a place where unemployment is rife kids promise of thousands of new jobs is enough bait for people next ingenue forty four years old i'm employed and trying to care for his sick mother. i hope i will get a job people in ukraine are not scared of work we must just learn what to do the carriage 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 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 bodies may decide to stop their activities because they find some places where it will be their disability to produce gas pressure on p.f. 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. in 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 save but american environmentalist begs to 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 besides what they hear from the guest 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. i'll say without international is a very poor on the viral video that's caught out the cops in britain. being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructed and resisting arrest i could have been six months in prison and that would have completely irrevocably changed my life a student tells us how a video on you tube proved our police took it too far with unfair arrest that's up

next here on arts international. the media leave us so we leave the. motions your. party says it. seems that no one is asking with again that you deserve answers from.

welcome back you're watching r.t. international and elliston take a look at some other stories from around the world the iraqi army has stepped up its bombardment reportedly had a form of of sense. 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 security in iraq has been getting worse with almost eighty thousand people killed in sectarian violence last

year. explosions at a cinema in pakistan have killed at least five people eyewitnesses claim a man sitting in the back row dettori him through grenades dozens of people were hurt some critically during the incident and peshawar. clashes in kenya have seen two people killed after police opened fire in a mosque in the city of mumbai it's after use real the daggers when some worshipers raise the flag of the jihad is a group police say they wanted to thwart a meeting aimed at recruiting extremists and say they made over one hundred arrests . and the u.s. will continue in forcing existing sanctions on iran if talks on a permanent nuclear deal fail it was made clear between the country's top diplomats at a closed door meeting and 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 in mid february that are 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 she seems as washington's words do more harm than good. you think carries pressure tactics which is part of these two prong coercive diplomacy the other pronk rising military threats and this very dangerous. threat that we saw in prison obama's state of the union address is really come to put duct 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 needed to gain maximum concessions and

secretary of state kerry has been referring to dismantling aspects of the really a nuclear program which is contrary to the content of the geneva agreement and flatly rejected by the iranian foreign minister. when it's your word against a major british police force if some mighty strong evidence on your sign that something student ashok kumar knows all too well what an officer rounded on him at a rally has or cilia has his 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 you tube where a shock is later 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. often committed an offense but the evidence of the off court has given more credence to notch off 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

the conduct of the police is put firmly under the spotlight in the twenty eleven two thousand and twelve period at the independent police complaints commission saw a decrease of 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 and then of accountability that. police misconduct she is a sort of like specific to being to be too old. for someone who's been on the receiving end of this misconduct the shock says there's something he'll now keep in mind we need to videotape the police whenever we can because if it's their word against ours the only way we're going to win is if we actually proved them to a court without a shadow over doubt that they were lying. to us or sylvia r.t. love the. syrian leadership is vowing to reject face to face talks with the

opposition when the geneva peace conference restarts that's unless american secretary of state john kerry apologizes for saying president assad has no future in syria political activists tomorrow cough told r.t. is coming on and that such talk could hijack the next round of negotiations. yes congress is looted during the negotiations to arm the rebels so there is a lot to answer for and from the language we're hearing from the americans they don't seem to be you know having any shame about it what about the threat from washington they 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 know from from friends and family that whoever travels along that route between damascus and either know who or what there are certain segments of the road where they have to drive closer to like a hundred miles an hour or hundred 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 through they 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 the 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 is serious rather than using this image to get rid of the chemical warfare. i 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 walk was raised in seconds and one of the largest ever control building explosions in europe is captured on camera on r.t.e. dot com. also why new york swans are about to get it in that

basketball is planned over planes that these creatures are a danger to people and passenger jets. twenty four thousand marks a tragic sin tannery for a one of mankind's worst catastrophes the start of the first world war crossed off the sour looks at the global order as it is now and its stability across a 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 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 american system round 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 the colonial power of dominating all the countries or other continents i think the parallel between. imperial germany and the united states i think is much more apparent. so cheney is one hundred percent ready to host the best winter olympics ever according to the had of international in picking media for the world's top athletes gold silver and bronze medals will be the most valuable in them and those of their time there that doesn't mean abby one else has to leave empty handed and the farmer looks at how visitors can take a piece of the experience home with them. 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 workshop english has produced russia's famous blue and white china for the last two centuries but it's not played some parts of the taking up at shelf another 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 moscow poured into special molds made for the head that could bag benefactress forty crass women get to work carefully have a painting each one on average it takes fifteen minutes to load the letter it is a bit tricky and takes a little longer and it's a whole day spent in the oven during which the black ink turns into that trademark blue after that they're left to chill boxed and sent to the shops it is an

intricate process that even mirrors the slogan for these olympics cool yours andrew farmer. i'll make sure you stay with us on our team for our special coverage from russia's black sea coast we are in error throughout r t twenty forty. next as promised there is shaping of the world santiago from the start of east world war and first world war and crosstalk.

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hello and welcome to cross talk were all things considered i'm peter lavelle a century ago this year the first world war started it fundamentally changed the global political order later and even weakened 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.

to cross not parallels to nine hundred fourteen i'm joined by my guest george samuel in new york he is a fellow of the global policy institute of london metropolitan university and author of the new book bombs for peace nato's humanitarian war on yugoslavia in washington we have brian becker he is the national coordinator for the answer coalition and in london we crossed to david stephenson he is an author of several books about the first world war as well as a professor of international history at the london school of economics are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it george if i go to you first in new york a century ago one of the worst catastrophes in history occurred and it was the beginning of the first world war and looking at parallels to the present we had a very unstable international system then how stable is the system today. when it was not so much. on stable so. them back then i mean it's more

that there were foolish policy makers. and foolish policy makers are around today i think what happened in one nine hundred fourteen was a series of miscalculations due to the belief on the part of policymakers that there's an easy way to win a war and there's an easy way to get what you want through force rather than diplomacy ga ga ga but it sounds like that sounds like afghanistan and iraq to me in the in our century now that's exactly right that's. that's exactly right and i think that's what they're the parallels are there which is that even today we have policy makers in washington who are absolutely convinced that there's an easy way to win a war we'll just bomb a little bit and then we'll get a regime change and then we'll have the balance of power will be in our favor and

of course it never turns out that way it always escalates and gets out of complete control and then once the war starts no one knows how on is supposed to get out of it or what even the original objectives were or what the objective should be brian how do you reflect upon the the balance of power house stable the international system is right now because as i mentioned we have a lot of unilateral action coming out of western powers and i mentioned iraq and afghanistan libya you could throw in there as well yugoslavia before that you know a lot of people will say that it's very similar to nine hundred fourteen because of alliances how stable our alliances particularly western alliances well i would say there's a fundamental difference between now and nine hundred fourteen nine hundred fourteen was the and the war and the outbreak of conflict on a on a global scale something that hadn't really been seen before was the consequence of the centuries.