a teacher and a police officer are killed in a hostage crisis at a moscow school carried out by one of its model students. these activists go in trial in the u.s. for taking a stand against their government's drone warfare campaign. and its really cabinet ministers hit out of u.s. secretary of state john kerry after his warning that the country could face an international boycott of the failed to take real steps to strike a peace deal with the palestinians. the start international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to

the program a teacher and a police officer have been killed and a hostage crisis at a moscow school over twenty students who were in the classroom at the time were released on heard the gunmen who is now in custody is reportedly a model high school student who harbored a grudge against his teacher are just margaret howell reports from a scene. i'm standing just outside the school in northeast moscow where a tenth grade boy walked inside earlier at around eleven o'clock this morning and opened fire know he taken two rifles out of his father's home and killed one security officer killed one teacher and entered a third person a security guard who is currently in hospital then he proceeded to take twenty four students hostage now these students he took he took hostage we're tenth graders fellow students and they have since been let go now archie caught up with a friend of one of those hostages earlier here's what he had to say. my friend told

me to switch on the t.v. i didn't saw my school on the news he said the security guard had managed to push the emergency bachmann time students were evacuated from the building i saw some of them later and they said the teacher was injured but then my mother said that it was quite a chaotic morning this young man fired eleven shots in total his father was able to communicate with the young man he did let the hostages go and that he did ultimately surrender to law enforcement it said that he is currently under psychiatric assessment the educational minister did make a statement saying that this wasn't a situation where the young man had any grievance against students or teachers it was believed that he just has an emotional problem however originally it was reported that this was a revenge killing particularly for this young teacher who's believed to be between twenty nine and thirty years of age that this young man did kill but at this time

we don't have any information regarding his emotional state although we do expect that to be forthcoming. well we'll be bringing you the latest as we get it and you can also had a line to our g dot com for all the updates on the events in a moscow. activist calling for a world without a drone strikes will be defending their actions this week in courts across america three groups are standing trial separately for their protest against the use of unmanned war machines well to find out more let's now cross live to over spawn. how they're going to so what else do we know about these groups at this point while moreno for activists appeared before a judge in california this monday for their attempt to deliver a letter of protest to a military base commander at the letter accuses the government the u.s. government and all military personnel involved in the drone program of crimes

against humanity more activists are on trial for similar action here in the u.s. seventeen people are facing charges in new york for protesting that the premises of a base from where we put drones are piloted also this week of five other activists will be appealing their trespass conviction there nearby at the central intelligence agency where they attempted to deliver a letter to the head of the cia john brennan the letter that these people are on trial for says among other things our government has become a lawless power acting as a judge jury and executioner just because he can so the us uses remote control drones to kill women in their kitchens and elders meeting in their jirga as mourners at funerals and rescuers who try to help the wounded. by most intimate by most independent studies the vast majority of those killed in drone strikes are civilians and president obama's statement about quote unquote near certainty of no civilian deaths of course. strikes of course sound so cynical especially in light

of reports like the one two months ago where a drone strike hit a wedding convoy and of course these activists they point out those said irony wait no one has been charged no one is in trial for those extra judicial killings so no one is held held responsible for or for that and yet these activists are directed to court for protesting against such activity. or again i think is much for bringing us more information on these cases than additional reporting from washington d.c. for us. well you may be used to hearing headline news about drones carrying out airstrikes but as a report in our website the overlord error could soon be gone as the u.s. military puts its manned war machines on the ground. and another spat seems to be brewing between the u.s. secretary of state and the israeli government it all started after john kerry

expressed his concern over the lack of progress at peace negotiations with the palestinians mr kerry who has been holding back and forth talks with both sides says the status quo being maintained by israel is not sustainable he also warned that manny countries could seek to boycott tel aviv if peace negotiations fail now this triggered an angry response with prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying that any efforts to boycott israel would be unjustified and counterproductive israel's strategic affairs minister them away then saying israel cannot be expected to negotiate with a gun to his head and the economy minister went a step further calling on israel's allies to stand up against those who try to pursue anti-semitic agendas against his country and some two thousand israelis gathered outside the western wall in jerusalem last week for prayer rally against u.s. efforts to broker an agreement the two sides resumed peace talks last july

a deadline has been set for april with israeli settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem remaining the key sticking point. while we spoke to a mere r.n. senior correspondent and columnist for haaretz newspaper and he says pressure from the u.s. could mean a blow for the israelis. american pressure could have many forms. that would probably not be any direct overt physical sort of pressure but even holding off on supporting israel indeed diplomatic arena including the united nations security council if the police students godor and claimed their right to establish a state this could also put a lot of pressure on israel and the very fact that we see a public spat between the. obama administration and the netanyahu government

this is already putting pressure on israel because israel's main strategic asset has always been its good relations with washington if this is taken from israel israel could no longer be considered the major power originally that it was considered to be for the last fifty or sixty years following calls for greater support by opposition leaders in ukraine brussels and washington are putting together a significant short term assistance package despite concessions from president john of god which mass rallies are still being held in kiev with people refusing to leave the streets unless he steps down a year foreign policy chief catherine ashton says the western aid is supposed to help the country through at transition period but the money will be dependent on a new ukrainian government approving political and economic reform and with investment also on the cards the energy giants have been eager to exploit the

country's shale gas potential and that's got locals worried as possibly or explains . western ukraine a beleaguered battleground for american oil giants two months ago keeps trying to agreement with chevron to use this area for fracking. it's seminal quarter 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. thank you but now it's ukrainian farmers that only grew by milk who are left in a cold sweat less time are 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 bend 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 is wife kids promise of thousands of new jobs is enough bait for people next engine forty four years old unemployed and trying to care for his sick mother of a 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 where it's a risk as bush because after the five years of exploration brought us companies may decide to stop their activities because they do not find some places where it will be there as. ability to produce. 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. the r t have live coverage waste in ukraine. well in the chain now to chevron and shell ukrainian authorities say either firms will help the country achieve self-sufficiency and even enable its own words american environmentalist verus ryan says however a financial gain will come at too great a cost for ukrainians. 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 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. and coming up later this hour catch me out the cops. i was being charged with assaulting a police officer obstructed and resisting arrest but couldn't six months in prison and that would have completely. revoked openly changed my life. are to speaks to

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and then having it trashed because of politics yet it's you don't want to go through that again. welcome back you're watching r t international now over one hundred thousand people marched through paris in the yard on sunday once again standing there anger at the policies of france's embattled president alond. the protesters accuse the government of what they call family phobia saying he is killing traditional family values and this comes exactly a week after a so-called day of anger crowds across france demonstrate against the government's recent policies and one french activists are so unhappy with president a land that has gone on a hunger strike. it's been a day since i have been fostered i only drink water because there are many people

demanding the resignation of francois hollande because he's on board representing france 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's ruining france. and more stories from around the world the iraqi army has stepped up its bombardment of the city of fallujah reportedly for a long ground offensive. 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 and iraq has been getting worse with almost eight thousand people killed in sectarian violence last year. and for the proof of the worsening security situation today as baghdad is hit by

a wave of bombings at least sixteen people have been killed authorities say the attacks bear the hallmarks of al qaida is affiliate and in iraq meanwhile government troops have killed fifty seven islamist militants in western province in advance of a possible assault on fallujah. a series of explosions at a cinema and pakistan have killed at least five people eyewitnesses say a man sitting in the back row hurled several grenades into the audience around thirty people were injured some critically during the incident in peshawar. more clashes have broken out between police and use at a protest and the kenyan city of mumbai the task of security forces stormed a mosque on sunday resulting in a violent confrontation that left at least two people dead the raid was ordered after worshipers raise the flag of the band extremist group use armed with knives are said to have attacked the offices the officers rather who responded with

gunfire over one hundred arrests were made. when you go up against the british police force it's your word against yours and our team at one student who learned the hard way how important hard evidence is when that happens to us or sylvia has a 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 couldn't make a 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 to 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 course is give 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 that 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 at 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 offices 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 killed. 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 prove to them through a court without a shadow over doubt that they were lying. to us or sylvia r.t.e. london. while she might have brushed aside the embarrassing revelation of being spied on by german chancellor angela merkel could be in for more trouble and connection to washington surveillance operations germany's largest group of hackers

has filed a criminal complaint against mrs merkel says government for aiding foreign spying and violating the right of citizens find out how that case has panned out on our website. also online nasa wants to create what it calls the coolest spot in the universe on board the international space station had to r.t. dot com to get more on what chile experiments are planned out the orbiting laboratory. right to see. first street. and i think that you're. on our reporters there. in. the in the. on.

the top athletes at the winter games in sochi who will of course take home their haul of matter the luckiest ones will even get a slice of the meteorite but what's left for those who don't make on to the podium and for the army of fans that have traveled there are descended far out when to find out. well if you're looking to buy a souvenir during the olympics you'll 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 has not played some parts of the taking up at shelf another in the space at the moment smiling mascots but it's not easy games are being produced in abundance crafted a molded from the region special clay sixty kilometers southeast of more cisco poured into special molds made for the hair that could polar bear them in the

factories forty crafts women get to work carefully how many painting each one on average it takes fifteen minutes to load left it is a bit tricky and takes a little longer and is a whole day spent in the oven during which the black ink turns into that trademark blue after that they're left until boxed and sent to the shops it is an intricate process that even mirrors the slogan for these olympics cool yours andrew farmer for our take on make sure you stay with us our energy for our special coverage from this year's capital of winter sports and we're on air throughout such a twenty forty.

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a report on. a century ago this year the first world war started to fundamentally change 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. in two thousand and seven one of the first things released by wiki leaks was

a secret video recording that actually looked like a video showing two american actually political actors opening fire on a dozen people in iraq this is going to means to live in a society of images of violence become normal this is what the sense of isolation lack of empathy. we try and experience from place. disassociate our out in the body into action. activity we also have to say from certain kinds of. i absolutely am frightened of the potential games desensitize people we know they can because the military uses games. called me of war it is not simply put it is chilling and chilling exacts a penalty of the killer. people for whom it is defined by the popular media.

wealthy british style holds sometimes. markets find scandals find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headline used to cause a report. says he is 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 harm a 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. that. cities are exciting for its incredible cities all of human life.

sediment patients of all of human history they all landscapes of power. london once the hearts of the british. along with new york and home culture still in 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 cultures london is a prototype of a global networked mega city 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 destroy to sort of stress that the nine eleven attacks have fled to.