the. russia condemns the efforts of the un to blame the syrian government for the violence in homes where the aid convoys are being fired upon this as the conflict increasingly spills across the neighboring borders. and you really. believe. it's a radical islamist stronghold. being bred for battle. taking silver surprise podium success for a russian female. for the winter olympics host nations only medal. people in over a dozen cities around the globe come out to fight for online privacy as part of what's been called the day we fight back looks at how one of the movement's leaders

died while fighting the call. the world's top headlines for the. international with me rule live in moscow welcome to the program talks between syrian government officials and their main political rivals have stole during another round in geneva the ceasefire they agreed to in force in the city of homs well that's not holding either international aid convoys are coming under fire while trying to get to severely others talk of the u.n. general assembly of a draft resolution which would threaten the syrian government with sanctions unless you provide safe homes but russia slammed the draft as one sided believes rebel fighters in fact are the ones firing on relief missions and many of the militants odd. directly linked to al qaeda and it may bring countries that are bearing the

brunt of the spillover as maria for national reports now from behind the rebel lines though eleven. was the syrian conflict rages on neighboring lebanon faces a dramatic increase in sectarian violence in january alone for kabul killed dozens in beirut and the town of headmen 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 al assad we traveled to the northern city of tripoli a sunni stronghold veneman to opposing hizbullah visible in the midst of calling those who. supported by. his palace military involvement in syria is believed to have given damascus the upper 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 water. is showing. anything i can do for sunni brothers anything i can do for syrian brothers i will do anything i can do for these people suffering from injustice i will do. and they say. the unkind affiliated a new survey front claimed responsibility for days recent deadly bombings just days before a man calling himself and al qaida commander announced by you tube that the group had put 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 their views. no 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 been ludden a teacher and their fight jihad. went twenty three year old med returned from syria where he joined the free syrian army he continued his jihad here in lebanon. targeted the district where she'll leave tripoli is divided into sunni and shia parts ironically by the street called syria two years ago we filmed on that street by street in the city of tripoli separates the whites and sunni neighborhoods in this part of north levanon 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 the cache sometimes oh. who do you fight against who is your enemy i'm going to be and i fight against infidels those who don't carry the flag of 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 seeing 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 she will see every day to raise a little get her stroller said and i will take well you know someone who is zero experience become a real fighter. a week's training and you are in for a life time of of the dns growth over your rules for those who want to become one trading 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 let jihadi flags on the walls weapons on the floor this is the life of

a true fighter. it's tough and the rules are strict as kashyap who introduced himself as a tripoli sunni leader says many youths are willing to join the fire even more from now until i grow up i'm ready to defend myself i'm ready to kill alawite and syrian army and the raids and kill four of them over the neighborhood of you know. we here 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 as the syrian conflict rages on the country is busy dismantling its chemical arsenal and accordance with international agreements a third back of toxic material has been shipped out for decommissioning syria recently missed several deadlines to hand over its chemical saying rebel to that he was to blame jonathan steele

a columnist for britain's guardian newspaper he says there's no reason to believe damascus is trying to hold anything back at this point. there are security problems obviously the country's chief the middle of a civil war and je the u.n. diplomat in charge of this whole regime change that it will be done by june thirtieth so the dollar they missed the deadlines there's no real sense of alarm that they will miss it so again as the u.n. diplomat sigrid cog showed just this year georgia council the other day. the reasons for the delay are security concerns and that's sounds quite legitimate and close the deal are still to come here at r.t. international it might just be the right time for some house hunting. basically what's next to nothing.

and all around the world. is still the focus of attention let's. pick up with my colleague. yeah hi guys hi everyone day four of the limpid games in sochi drawing to a close again tonight and speed skater the older fed colinet russia's heroine winning the host's only medal to date silver on tuesday but there's another gold on the horizon in the days ahead a russian couple are in the laid off an astonishing performance in the first one of the pairs figure skating let's talk about this and the day's other lympics stories and life with sports scott hi paul first of all let's talk about that silver medal for russia and speed skating sound pretty much like it was a pretty tough go in the cold and i wouldn't. yes well it was somewhat of a surprise as old cool enough transfer domestic success on to the international

scene claiming that silver medal in the women's five hundred meter speedskating in the adult arena now afterwards she admitted that she was suffering from a huge belt of nerves before her final race and she credited her success to a sports psychologist elsewhere russia are on course for a second gold medal in the figure skating event at the halfway stage of the payers competition maxime trunk of an tatiana vol of result the overall standings the event concludes on wednesday the world and european champions put in a thoughtless display to the delight of the home crowd to firmly put themselves in medal contention and my trunk of well documented tempestuous nature they put their success down to a special working relationship. i was familiar with some of. my city gemini and like seem to believe so we get along just fine. when we first started skating together i told her tiana 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 finally said whatever people say about my or someone else's personality figure skating is a sport and what my. 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 like well trying. already have gold medals to their names at these winter olympics that's after success in the team event fifteen year old yulia lipnitskaya shot to global fame after two peerless performances in that competition and she admits that before her winter olympics debut there were some nerves. well sure i was very nervous and scared but added my singles event i'm more calm to be honest i've got used to it and singles is

a completely different event. well let's take a look at the very latest medals table see how it looks and you can see that it's norway who currently lead the way they are back on top but canada and the netherlands are not far behind. the major stars have been speaking to the public today as well. yes some of the world's leading sports stars have been on show in sochi over the course of choose day russia's ice hockey team russia's men's ice hockey team attended a press conference ahead of their first match against slovenia in two days' time not captain pavel datsyuk but he did attend the press conference he is a here in sochi despite fitness concerns he missed all of his side's n.h.l. matches throughout january with injury and the n.h.l. is actually on a mid-season break right now so the n.h.l. players can come and compete in the winter olympics but it might be the final time that they allow that to happen is currently up in the air and currently up for

discussion but it does seem that despite the fact there is going to be increased pressure on the russian team playing on home ice and in front of an expectant home crowd it does seem that spirits are high inside a jovial russian camp. who you want to hear first. the captain of course some of the most. 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 with you that. i agree with our captain and he deserves his title his 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 we're very friendly bunch there's a great atmosphere among us the team and the coaches are on the same wavelength and one that's the most important thing of everything is in our hands now. thank you

i agree with everything he said. so it is all smiles then for alex ovechkin i'm head of the men's ice hockey competition but away from the coastal cluster and up in the mountains i can tell you that the women's inaugural ski jumping competition has just taken place germany winning gold there and up in the mountains there is still one resort the remains open despite the fact the world elitists are the world's most elite athletes are actually in town and it's open season snowboarders of all standards as my colleague martin andrews reports. the close up must come down there's no better way to see the beautiful caucasus mountains 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 inception as an established winter sport it's developed various styles each with its own specialized equipment and technique snowboarding but he 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 and the first foot i fell on was the direction i should go wish me luck. there are around one hundred thousand risk of fractures worldwide among snowball. each year i'm not going to be

a statistic to 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 to reserve. 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 just thankful that i asked the slopes in a salty and great i'm enjoying them but i'm trying not to go too far so i don't get that number down. but she's not known for its alpine skiing or snowboarding and i

might not be very good at it but it's an activity that's on the rise and there's the professional snowboarders with their various in the pit medals on this very mountain it seems that some of us were not born to such winter activities planted. a. martin hats off to you hey alicia tried yeah now let's go back to the professionals earlier i was lucky enough to catch up with american skier and gold medalist from the night in ninety eight pick up a st i asked her 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 that it's 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 in a lot of negative publicity in the media how all the athletes getting on together

in a certain rate the athlete village is phenomenal that 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. the big names told to us many more to come as well over the next nearly two weeks still as you heard paul mention earlier on the history has been made today still being made female athletes of just finished in fact competing in the lympics ski jumping event of. germany we can tell you that have secured gold the very best you go to join a scan if you can he would some cheat and it will be live with more of the results of the day but not of me but you rory.

see you soon don't forget though we can always check out all t's facebook page to see what we've got lined up for you and we are busy with it twenty four seven we're asking you to post your questions for the athletes and will always choose the best ones for all. of the no one spoke to him pick a champion pick up the street we threw one of your questions out so i don't miss your chance to take part in our special coverage from sochi all the way throughout the entire ok. the g. twenty four team follows the colts amid an exhilarating winter. it seems to me and you so now i make seven zero in on the rest of our lives take news team for sochi twenty four take. on oxy.

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it's an international lie from moscow max kaiser is his soon for now though a number of coordinated anti n.s.a. protests and haka gatherings taking place around the world have been dubbed the day we fight back they 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 ati's guy nature can tell us the story of the computer prodigy heiress wars could have been a millionaire living now in silicon valley when he was just fourteen aaron helped launch the first artist says feeds them which deliver web content aaron 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 call aaron went down 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 a stage somewhere where giants fight each other and you get to sit and munch popcorn this is a fight you can join in right so if you go 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 sweet 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 in the living 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 that 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 aaron's death 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 with

lentulus li after someone who fully embrace the idea of transparency and accessibility of information like aaron swartz data in washington i'm going to check out our take. on the u.s. department of justice is considering a loosening of the computer fraud and abuse act which was used against schwartz putting him under threat of a thirty five year prison sentence and a million dollar fine pocket hagan's from the electronic frontier foundation says changes will not come easy or for that matter of a night either unfortunately the government has changed its first option here there's been there was a proposal last year in the u.s. legislature called erin's law that would address some of the biggest concerns that we have. parents lost still has been advanced to the point where it works past or where it can be cited and in fact we've seen before as those two to make our computer crime laws even harsher and so that's something that we need to keep

working on. really politicians who don't have a great grasp of how technology works understand that this kind of persecution isn't acceptable. it's also international across britain house prices are soaring out of reach for ordinary people apart from in one town though where you can get a home for just about one pound all you have to do is give it a make over promise to live there. are reports. 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 to me is probably hard. but yes i use quite shortly you know i actually did go out which actually great for us

because we did a house for pound. the snag many of the properties have stood abandoned for years 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 park trees which is only walking distance who are all living here and then what happened was as the potteries factories started closing down people had to move forward so the communities start to disperse or this area is 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. 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 boring 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 him can see what they're going to look like before the scheme came along like many britons gavin couldn't afford a 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 free with how. many people can get after ten years 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 their part of town. auti stoke on trent.

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would stop this storm we might or might people will die. welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser there's a new game we like to play you see a game with no added sovereignty it's a made to a vote that puts me on my knees you call it master and servant we call alex and sam and with a sort of independence you need servitude alex why be yet another nation on the chain gang when you can be the first on the block train station yeah.