russia condemns efforts of the un to blame the syrian government for violence in homs where aid convoys are being fired upon as the conflict increasingly spills across the neighboring borders. and the reason. we hear this is a radical islamist stronghold in lebanon where jihad it's to being bred for battle . taking silver surprise podium success for a russian female speed skater for the winter olympics. people in over a dozen cities around the globe come out to fight for online privacy as part of what's being called the day we fight back. looks at how one of the movement's leaders actually died fighting the course.

the world's top headlines live from moscow it's r.t. international with me from all of us here welcome to the. talks between syrian government officials and their main political rivals have stalled during another round in geneva the ceasefire they agreed to in force in the city of homs is not holding either international aid convoys are coming under fire while trying to get to civilians as talk of the un general assembly of a draft resolution which would threaten the syrian government with sanctions and provide safe homes but russia has slammed as one sided moscow believes rebel fighters are in fact the ones firing on relief missions and many of the militants

directly linked to al qaida and neighboring countries are now bearing the brunt of the spillover. reports from a to. behind the rebel lines in lebanon. was the syrian conflict rages on neighboring lebanon faces a dramatic increase in sectarian violence in january alone for kabul has killed dozens in beirut and the town of haddam and next to the syrian border the targets were a shia areas controlled by hizbollah lebanon's most influential force which also supports syrian president bashar assad who traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold seeming to opposing hizbullah visible mess of calling those who . is appointed by. his palace military involvement in syria is believed to have given damascus the op a hand in the battle of god and has deeply angered assad's enemies do you think

we're going to see more explosions like this while today is showing. anything i can do for sonny brothers anything i can do for syrian brothers i will do anything i can do for these people suffering from injustice i will do. anything the unkind affiliated to a new survey front claims responsibility for days recent deadly bombings just days before a man calling himself and al qaida commander announced. that the group had to down groups in lebanon or people we've met her on the ground deny belonging to either of these groups but don't hide the fact that they share the news. there is no al qaeda as an organization anymore but al qaeda as an idiology and it doesn't need money to spread it spreads by itself everywhere in the world not only in lebanon but in america britain serbia. here radical ideas of bread

from a young age fighters here call a card has bin laden a teacher and they fight jihad. when twenty three year old med returned from syria where he joined the free syrian army he continued his jihad here in lebanon. district where she'll leave tripoli is divided into sunni and shia parts ironically by the street called syria two years ago who filmed on that street first street in the city of tripoli separates the whites and sunni neighborhoods in this part of not running like a murderer between those who support the syrian president and his regime and those who want him out today we can't get. cashews sometimes oh. who do you fight against who is your enemy i'm addicted and i fight against the infidels those who don't carry that for i go far lebanon is probably the war

spillover of the syrian conflict and while the world is hoping for peace to come back to that middle east country war seems to only spread further on. people here seem to be used to seen fighters carry sniper rifles through busy markets they tell us everybody here has a weapon and is ready to fight. it will come to these camps outside you will see every day to raise a little good told us that it doesn't take well you know for someone who zero experience you become a real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of obedience rosol realize for those who want to become ones i deem you have to forget about money and be ready to die or to be arrested and to accept that no one will take care of you or your family lect you how the flags on the walls weapons on the floor faces the life of

a true fighter. it's tough and the rules are strict because the yard who introduced himself as a tripoli sunni leader says many use are willing to join but didn't live. here from now until i grow up i'm ready to defend the whites and syrian army and the reason to kill for them over there for the better of you know the we. and while the syrian conflict expands a legion of fighters on to these deadly weapons and an even deadly ideology is on the rise. from lebanon and activists say that al-qaeda linked rebels have killed more than forty people in a village in central syria is the latest report atrocity committed by extremists inside the war zone a global trends for costa gerald celente he says a curbing radical ideology that's that's the real fight here. so who is

this out qaeda is al qaeda the guy that that prime minister tony blair and president bush said that saddam hussein had ties to or is it the al qaeda that we're in that dangerous or die hard al qaeda or or dangerous is long is so we don't really know where these people are but from what i see and from what i know from what i read and for what i learned these are just disparate gangs of murderers and criminals it's a moral issue at a military issue and that's the only way it's going to be solved. and as the syrian conflict rages the country is busy dismantling its chemical arsenal this all in accordance with international agreements a third batch of talks of material has been shipped out for decommissioning syria recently missed several deadlines to hand over its chemicals saying rebel typically

was to blame but the massacres maintains it will meet the un backed road map and fully disarm it's a toxic asset all by june. coming up here on r.t. international it might just be the right time for some house hunting. great for. one british town puts homes up for sale for just one pound a look at what's driven the local council to let them go for next to nothing and. the meantime they're here on r.t. international it is day four of the olympic competition and and there's been more podium success for the host nation it came via a surprise silver medal in the women's five hundred meter speedskating meanwhile of the two fixtures for the russian female curling team one ended in victory this morning and another one is underway as we speak right now let's go to the sochi media center of the moment and join our correspondent paul scott for the very

latest from our olympics headquarters and paul good to see you what's the latest now with russia's most recent success. well there was somewhat of a surprise is cool enough transferred her domestic success on to the international scene with a silver medal in the women's five hundred meters in the speed skating event elsewhere russia's female koalas they're looking for their third straight win their third win in a row that kearney taking on china and lead for three and eight this is after a victory over the usa earlier on tuesday meanwhile anticipation is growing inside the iceberg skating palace the figure skating pay as event is underway it starts with the short program and concludes on wednesday with the free program russia of course already have a gold medal in the back in the team event so there is an expectant crowd under the world and european champions at the moment of the home favorites of maxime trunk of and tatyana valas dissolve are they going to take to the ice very very shortly and

they put their success down to an extra special working relationship. i was familiar with some of. my city. and like seem to believe so we get along just fine. when we first. skating together i told her that more than half of what people say about my personality is probably true and she told me she could get along with pretty much anyone. whatever people say about my or someone else's personality figure skating is a sport and what matters is the result doesn't matter what my personality is like some would say about a coach for example he's insufferable the most important thing is my training in my performance and the medals i win who cares if i'm a difficult person. well maxon trunk of mention medals that aside let's take a look at the very latest medals table and you can see that it's norway who are back on top with four golds followed by canada and the netherlands.

russia's ice hockey team aka the red machine what a latest on that you know. yes some of the biggest sporting stars in the world have been on the show throughout the course of tuesday russia's ice hockey team attending a press conference ahead of their first match against lavinia in two days' time it was attended by the captain pavel datsyuk now he missed all of his side's matches in the n.h.l. in january through injury so there were serious concerns over his health and fitness coming into these games but he is here and he is fighting fit which is good news for russian fans and despite the pressure of playing in front of an expectant home crowd it seemed as if spirits were high inside a rather jovial russian cow. looked on the trail who do you want to hear first. the captain of course. i think because we're playing at home we'll have

a lot more brotherly support the entire country will be cheering force we will be united in that. i agree with our captain and he deserves his title he is very experienced respected by the entire hockey community and beyond so with a captain like that we can aim for the top as for our team where a very friendly bunch there's a great atmosphere among us the team and the coaches are on the same wavelength and that's the most important thing everything is in our hands now. thank you but i agree with everything he said. so it is all smiles then alex ovechkin and i were head of the start of the men's hockey competition now away from the coastal cluster and up in the mountains there is one resort that mains open remains open despite the fact that the world's elite athletes are in town and

it's open for skiers and snowboarders of all standards as martin andrius found out . what goes up must come down there's no better way to see the beautiful caucasus mountains consuming down the slopes taking the breathtaking scenery and marvel in the vast resorts and facilities they now have here as you know the famous phrase when in rome so it's on with the boots and off to the slopes at krasnaya polyana a totally transformed area of this month's on the big opening this is just beautiful it's been fun we came up skiing the other day a couple days off between work and sochi and adler and corky all came together nicely when we got here is a little and then end up in a couple days a hammer it out it's really cool since snowboarding section as an established winter sport it's developed various styles each with its own specialized equipment and technique snowboarding when you became a winter sport in one thousand nine hundred eighty eight ranging from the stunts of

freestyle to the fast pace of slope style used for both recreation and professional snowboarding it's my first time and it's not as easy as it looks but it's a little bit confusing as i've been told that i'm left footed even though i'm right handed i said in the same story position was pushed forward on the first foot that i thought was the direction i should go wish me luck. there are around one hundred thousand risk of fractures worldwide i'm going snowboarders each year i'm not going to be a statistic. me and my instructor says he can teach someone to be a recreational snowboarder in one or two days with the ability to use all lifts perform controlled link turns control speed and direction and stop confidently something i'm having trouble with the slopes are busy now with locals and visitors from all over the world but what's the future of the region after the olympics i think it's best through the. summer times because

all of. connected in the one large resort people of all ages come here to the slopes fifty kilometers from the black sea coast the perfect way to exercise and to stand up for their asses loves in a salty and great time enjoying them but i'm trying not to go too far so i don't get down it's risky at my age but she's not known for its alpine skiing or snowboarding and might not be very good at it but it's an activity that's on the rise and as the professional snowboarders with their various and pick medals on this very mountain it seems that some of us were not born for such winter activities. and. caught up with american ski and gold olympic medalist or from the nine hundred ninety eight nagano games picabo street to ask what she thinks about such as venues and

facilities. i think it's wonderful it's beautiful here i looked at it on google google earth before i came and i thought wow i hope it's this beautiful from the ground is the air and it has been it's lovely it's people have been friendly it's feels very secure and sochi itself is a very beautiful location i've gotten to put my feet in the black sea been a lot of negative publicity in the media how all the athletes getting on together we don't know if they're great the athletes' village is phenomenal their food has been great their rooms are big you know there's been a lock in the bathroom here and there in an elevator episode here and there but honestly all in all the athletes are really happy the thing they're the most happy with is their venues and their competition space it's the first olympics i think that i've seen where all of the athletes at every venue are happy with the level of difficulty and the level of preparation that's gone into their venues. so you can

always check out our twitter feed it's where we rolled out a special lineup for the games with all the latest tweets pictures from the athletes taking photos and evaders though apparently now the fashion according to some russian women's hockey team is missing so sharing their excitement as you can see in this tweet right here of course on their own to use bring you the latest news. as soon as anything happen to do if you can stay with us. in the final. and the rest. it will be.

a pleasure to have you with us here on our t.v. today. joining us here on r.t. international a number of coordinated anti n.s.a. protests and the haka gatherings taking place around the globe and they've been

dubbed the day we fight back may mark thirteen months since the suicide of internet freedom poster boy aaron swartz a tragedy that many believe was provoked by america's security response a gun a teacher can tell us the story of the well as he was known as the god of the computer prodigy. aaron swartz could have been a millionaire living now in silicon valley when he was just fourteen aaron helped launch the first artist says feeds from which deliver web content arun by the time he turned nineteen his company had merged with take a look at it which would become one of the most popular websites in the world but money was not his ultimate goal aaron went on to champion a fleet internet it's common sense and it's the foundation of our constitution the government is constrained by having someone else check off to make sure they're not abusing their power aaron became a political activist calling for others to join this isn't something playing out on stage somewhere where the giants fight each other and you get to sit and munch

popcorn this is a fight you can join in right so if you're going to demand progress dot org and sign up we have actions every week there are bills that are coming up that could crack down on internet freedom there are companies trying to abuse their power and it's up to all of us to stop them aaron swartz drew the f.b.i.'s attention in two thousand and eight when he downloaded and released about three million federal court documents from a restricted service the government did not press charges because the documents were in fact public he was arrested in two thousand and eleven for downloading academic articles from a subscription based research website at his university with the intention to make them available to the public. although none of what he downloaded was classified prosecutors wanted to put him in jail for thirty five years when he saw all of his wealth gone and he recognized his parents were going to have to mortgage their house so he could afford a lawyer to fight a government treated him as if he were nine eleven terrorists as if it as if what

he was doing was threatening the infrastructure of the united states when he saw that he recognized how how incredibly difficult that fight was going to be of course he was depressed at the age of twenty six aaron swartz took his own life. this was somebody who was pushed to the edge by what i think of as a kind of bullying by our government it was several months after that that edward snowden blew the whistle on the government's widespread snooping showing that while the government wants everyone to be open and transparent it can go relentlessly after someone who fully embrace the idea of transparency and accessibility of information like aaron swartz. in washington i'm going to check out our team. for the quick global snapshot for you here on the program a military cargo aircraft has crashed in the north african state of algeria while transporting soldiers and their families and local media are saying over one hundred people on board were killed when the plane came down off the clipping

a mountain in the country's east a bad weather believed to be the cause rescue teams now on the scene. thousands of anti-government demonstrators flooded the streets again on tuesday off of the country's prime minister refused to step down people waved banners demanding that politicians deal with the nation's high unemployment and rampant corruption just last week hundreds were injured during the worst clashes to hit the nation since the one nine hundred ninety s. one top official warned to be things escalate but look might consider intervening. for now across britain house prices are soaring out of reach for most ordinary people apart from in one town where you can get a home for just a pound and all you have to do is give it a make over promise to live that. one pound sterling doesn't buy you much nowadays but in stoke on trent lucky locals have managed to grab the ultimate bargain house it's part of

a sell off of rundown properties in a deprived part of the city at this sort of apply just sort of to the blue really because i was saving up for a mortgage and things anyway which when you run time is quite hard. but yes i use quite shortly you know i actually did go out which actually great for us because we did a house or pound. the snag many of the properties have stood abandoned for a year is after the closure of the city ceramic factories the area started to decline the roof sleeping every negative thing that you keep in mind just into properties all of my commute for those behaviors the workers of the patreas which is only walking distance who are all living here and then what happened was as the poultry stock to started closing down people had to move forward so the communities start to dispose of this area's deprived it's riddled with antisocial behavior like drug abuse crime and squatting but the local councils say that the one pound scheme

and the new owners moving in should help to create a sense of community and turn the area around the. applicants have to be locals first time buyers and earning less than forty thousand pounds per year to avoid entrepreneurial property developers from taking advantage of the author homeowners have to commit to staying in the houses for at least ten years this is what one pound will buy you on century street in stoke on trent now on top of that one pound owners have to commit to borrowing thirty thousand pounds from the local council for the renovations and work has already started on transforming these abundant shells and turning them into brand new properties and through hey can see what they're going. plight the fall of the scheme came along like many britons gavin couldn't afford it deposit for a house and was paying more in rent then he will be in loan repayments to the

council in ten years' time i'll be more tree with house. and not many people can get up to it with the housing crisis leaving millions struggling to get on to the ladder many will now be crossing their fingers hoping they'll get a similar chance in that pots of town. stoke on trent well thanks so much for joining us as we come to you live from moscow after a very short break the latest a pronouncer revelations and boom bust with aaron and. the alleged phone call between the assistant secretary of state and the u.s. ambassador to ukraine has created quite

a controversy in the call like smug british colonisers cashless big t. in africa that basically say that that native books of phil he's not fit for the government of the of the needs of the baldwin become prime minister they also mentioning the help of the un to get this thing glued whatever that means although the authenticity of this phone call has not been confirmed but certainly hasn't been denied this reminds me a lot of the snowden leaks independent journalists for years had been writing about government spying but it took a snowden to shove it into people's faces and confirm that it was really going on we've heard from people like ron paul jesse ventura and many journalists that the u.s. state department uses a horde of international grant receivers and local political organizations to try to consciously and directly control sovereign nations and overthrow regimes they don't like and this phone call is legit that is the same level of undeniable evidence that snowden brought to the table to be fair during the cold war i could kind of see the justification to meddle in other countries so the soviets would create world communism but now who is the great enemy that justifies a korean regime change there is no such anime but that's just my opinion.

oh there i marinate it this is boston these are the stories that we're tracking for you today. first up economist george elgin a one of the founders of the school of modern free banking theory joins us to talk about inflation the good the bad and the ugly then after that we have a boom bust favorite financial pundit and investor kyle harrington on today's show you won't want to miss it and finally edward harrison and i talk to coin in today's

big deal a lot has happened with the cryptocurrency over the past couple weeks and we're taking a look at all of it now let's get to the shelf. with . our lead story today dealing picks more specifically coverage of the twenty fourteen olympic games in the digital age now i'd like to start off by saying that i am not a fan of reporting on the news and i do try to avoid it at all costs however the proverbial cost of this story exceeded my standard threshold for such types of reporting so here we go now estimates are putting n.b.c.'s total olympic profits at a cool one billion dollars with a cost of about seven hundred seventy five million to pay for the rights and

another hundred million to produce it now with all that money on the. one may ask why why would a network be so foolish as to not air the opening ceremonies live and then added a different version of those same ceremonies for primetime does n.b.c. not know about the internet do the hard hit hard to figure it out now n.b.c. makes money on the olympics by increasing the numbers of hours of coverage they air something that broadcasters of one off events like say the super bowl cannot do this year in sochi n.b.c. will broadcast five hundred thirty nine hours of t.v. with another thousand hours streaming online now olympic ad time is much cheaper than super bowl time averaging around one hundred thousand dollars per spot but with two weeks worth of games this allows for a mass market approach to buying and selling of commercials now the olympics will see about eleven thousand run across n.b.c.'s various networks the thing is though not airing those opening ceremonies live it bugged a lot of people and the move prompted an angry response on twitter and quickly

popularized the hash tag n.b.c. phil not something you want to hear on b c and n.b.c. went seriously seriously overboard when they decided to block all live streams of the opening ceremonies on the internet so we get it n.b.c. you've got a monopoly on the olympics here's the thing though n.b.c. thinks viewers are so locked in that they can actually get away with this but in the process they're killing that goose that laid the one billion dollar golden egg people will remember this n.b.c. and if they don't the internet will remind them. what thirteen was a stellar year for us equities with nearly thirty percent.