of protests against his visit. author and journalist karen feld who's been specializing in coverage of the middle east believes that the u.s. has underestimated the conflict between turks and kurds seem to have not a really good idea of the situation on the ground today overstretched their position and their relations immensely and the situation you know the relation with the kurdish groups on the other side is not very stable as the americans lead a very big mistake and estimated in threads towards kurdish political presence actually in their own country as well as at their borders turkish government things the kurtz host of them. in a recent interview russia's foreign minister said that using the kurdish problem for on zone geo political interests is an extremely dangerous and. by tour this whole issue is further proof of the short sightedness or lack of

vision or whatever you want to call it if not malicious intent on the part of the us for over two or three years now which is basically the entire time that the u.s. led coalition has been operating in syria u.s. special forces and other american troops have been active on the ground in syria in violation of international law without any invitation from damascus the legitimate government or mandate from the un security council right from the start of the operation in syria the us has backed up the kurds and ignored the voices of discontent coming from turkey no matter how you view turkey's position it is real and it has never been a secret to anyone but the turks have said repeatedly that they will do all sorts of things to prevent the kurds from taken control of the turkey syria border disappoint this over the entire period i've mentioned the americans have been consistently providing arms lots of them in fact to the kurdish forces ignoring

turkey's position. turkey announced its military operation as far as i'm concerned it was by no means a surprise and because repeated warnings to washington have fallen on deaf ears you could ask for taking on the kurdish issue through the narrow lens of one's own political interests in a specific part of a great a region which is what the u.s. is doing at the moment is an extremely dangerous endeavor it can lead to a lot of trouble in a number of other countries where kurds live and where the kurdish issue is just as relevant or what they should be doing is looking for a way to ensure equal rights for the kurds living within existing borders and not trying to stir up the entire region which is something our western colleagues have been engaged in over the past century. a year after the massive fire in london's grand fell tower activists are still struggling with the authorities of

a needed changes their story a more after the break. the stakes couldn't be higher and it's happening in syria the goal of destroying the islamic state is largely complete now the syrian proxy war is in train a new stage for the players and one of their aims and what is winning. this war three really believes we're about to conduct a preemptive strike on them is going to be significant in a serious preemptive strike that may. they may be motivated to make it to try to be the sort of guys have the first really. good politicians to do something to. put themselves on the line to get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president and you. want to be.

the two going to be press this is what before three in the morning can't be good. i'm interested always in the waters in the. first. the as far as. activists demanding justice for those killed in the massive ground fell far in london last year of chosen an unusual way to stage a protest they borrowed an idea from the oscar nominated film three billboards outside being they hired three billboards to send a clear message trucks carrying the word seventy one dead and still no arrests and how come we're paraded across london critics say that questions over construction and cheap housing quality have yet to be answered in the wake of genes graham tower

. i am. i. activists warn that many housing projects right across the country suffer from the same construction problems as the ground for tower and they see our thirty's are refusing to take action on the situation spoke to one of the protesters behind the billboard campaign. it's been eight months since the ground fell tower tragedy shook the u.k. a twenty four story building was engulfed in flames the lives of seventy one people were lost with dozens more injured numerous campaigns protest demonstrations have taken place since calling for answers justice and accountability most recently london saw a campaign where several vans went around the center of the british capital with big billboards saying seventy one people dead no arrests how come for more on this

we're now joined by one of the co-founders of justice for grunfeld which is a grassroots community group obviously calling for justice and answers about thank you so much for joining us today two hundred ninety seven buildings that people are still moving into tie up and down the country that have the same kinds in the government's response has been to that they should pay for it themselves to take it down. you know lots of the survivors are still in temporary or emergency accommodation for those who really don't i think you know the survivors and the community i think prosecution of those responsible needs to take place we need to see people in the dark. and they need to suffer the same penalties that any other citizen would do rather than just kind of get them elected officials spy people treatment or how likely do you think that might happen given it's been eight months already and we haven't seen one name or person be held accountable do you think

that is actually going to happen i think we're going to have to make it happen and we will continue to come time to my children happens how real is the fear that something like this could happen again while this investigation even is still continuing if i was within one of those buildings i don't think i'd be sleeping at night right now you know you cannot put people in unsafe built ins and why the government isn't reacting to this quickly and people may your home sure your home is your hyphen you have a right to live it's a human right to have a say. shelton we will continue to campaign you know look out for other things that we're going to and more keep those questions out in the public domain and we expect the government to respond to what's in the public to moan about woods thank you very much for joining us here well the officials are continuing to conduct investigations into what exactly happened at grenfell tower that killed all of those people and it's clear that the local community is going to continue fighting for those answers until we get them and r.t.

monday. this friday moscow was shocked by this sudden death of a three year old girl in one of the local kindergartens the cause of death remains unclear hawkins' as the story. what exactly happened at kindergarten twenty one twenty here behind me is still under investigation at this stage what we do know is that there are two main versions of events being looked into some local moscow media were quick to report that the children were taken out for a walk and upon their return to the kindergarten it was discovered that one of them three year old zahra was found to be missing the workers here at the nursery the nanny's start to find her only to discover her unconscious in the snow and by the time the paramedics arrived it was too late to save the child and in these freezing conditions it's understandable how that could have happened and now the kindergarten have denied this version of events outright they say that the group of twenty five children was taken out for

a walk they were under constant supervision by workers at this nursery and one of the girls are desirable was taken ill she was provided with first aid at the scene by the nursery workers an ambulance was called but tragically it was too late to save the little girl's life now we've seen what we presume to be plain clothes the tech there is coming to and from the nursery looking into these versions we've also spoken to some parents have been picking up their children as the nurseries closed many of whom have said that they are in shock and would never have believed that such an incident could have occurred because everyone here is very kind i think what happened is just a fatal incident nothing as. they look after children very well my child is always happy there's this magical every day you see ness is looking after children take them everywhere together how could this disaster happen according to them they've had no complaints of the professionalism and over the level of service provided at the nursery and they're just as in shock presumably as the local community.

the u.n. backed government of libya has reportedly formed a team to assess the damage to infrastructure in the war ravaged city of sirte also nice or strong. hold it was a place where terrorists some of the most gruesome videos the city was liberated more than a year ago but local still fear for their lives threat of jihadists returning to the area looms large over residents continue waiting for life to get back to normal . i think i. said. just because. it is a big islamic state. these are everywhere granted food in the complex

and should be shown to be useful in completely out of the mashed into the ground. and it's impressive even though it's been destroyed. as you can see here is damage state flag has been drawn on the site. image of the area is completely destroyed and there is no local or international assistance for the population there are fears that ice will return to this area again this may be entrenched in after the one year war. came several people were displaced from this area even up to the return the can find their homes because of the past struction is no house left intact especially because of the four planes bombing and everyone knows that by so much return as any

moment to the city of sirte since then it's been the terrorist stronghold of the city surrounded by mountains and valleys and noise that was always in. the present to the red cross is told up to a nothing enough international attention is being paid to libya this spy to the number of devastating crises suffered by the country. i've been in libya for the last three days and what you can see is that certain parts of the country are of course choir there today maybe one or two years ago in storage and in other parts of libya fighting is continuing and therefore needs are enormous because of the disruption of basic social services health water sanitation and others impact on civilian population is important is heavy libya is one of those countries with the largest percentage of displaced populations and therefore the humanitarian needs

are important more needs to be done to support the different or thought it is in libya more of course has to be done also to find the political solution within libya so there is for me an unquestioned necessity to put libya much more in the center also of international attention comparable to the attention the international community has on other crisis in the middle east. it's now a week since the winter olympics in south korea officially began and while there have been some touching stories of mutual help and support supported control over c.n.n. they have also made headlines explains. unfortunately with these winter olympics the story has been that every other day yung chang treats the media with some sort of scandal so far perhaps one of the most disgusting ones for me was when

a canadian short track speed skater was receiving death threats from the locals after she finished fourth first but then a south korean athlete was disqualified and then her position was upgraded to start place and that's when the ugly things started happening but you shouldn't get the impression that the olympic games are doomed because in many sports there is such family spirit it's the kind of family spirit that goes first after nationality rivalry politics etc there was one good example when during a cross-country skiing competition a russian skier lost a part of his equipment and then an american coach rushed to help him out if the russian sphere had to do this u. turn you don't come back to pick it up that would have been a disaster for the race but thanks to the american coach it didn't happen and we talked to the men in the cross country ski family is this exactly that it's

a family we often benefit from russian or no region coach is giving our athletes a pole in a race and we'll do the same i would say it's very friendly when you walk by a russian athlete or coach will always say congratulations or if we've had a good race they will say congratulations to us three years ago and most of the entire russian women's team came up to our hotel and had tea and cookies with our american team and not many people spoke the same language we know a few words of russian a couple of them they knew some more english than we knew russian but we had a great time and that it was one of those moments in my career that i remember well i guess when it comes to pole winning. coal rivals russia and the u.s. helping each other out in force it works both ways and here with me i got the silver medalist in luge brás master who definitely knows what i'm talking about and

he's ready to tell us about a story that happened to him a few months ago as far as i understand chris hi again congratulations and what's that story was the russian athlete i guess helping you out yeah thank you very much who is it was a couple weeks ago where i was having a very difficult last season people were starting to reach out and help me and there was a specific russian athlete he offered me help technical help with with my pod with with fiberglass with with aerodynamics and although it didn't work because a much larger than he is the fact that he was willing to reach out and help me in such like a desperate time shows that sport can bridge you know cultures it can bridge politics that we can connect on the human level through sports and that's that's really what embodies the olympics here is that so many countries are coming together connecting through sport and it really shows the power of the human spirit absolutely this is a small little step it takes a lot of people to get one of these and i can't think samuel enough for thinking

about me and just trying to help me out in a time of need i am very close friends with with so many different russian athletes and yes there's been a lot of scandals and i'm really i can't wait for the day that we can move past this and we can just get right back to sport clean sport it's so easy to talk about negative things but it's really difficult to highlight these positive situations you know who knows maybe one two lympics this will all be behind us and we'll get right back to you know clean competition and a lot of fun. staying with sled related sports russia's team of at least of either the silver to the it was a medal that might never have been skeleton compared to the nikita true goob of considered boy causing these games in support of his fellow countrymen bound over doping claims or the reduced team sizes meant a lack of coaches at the competition mean that he had to actually prepare all of his equipment himself to get off even did the same for his teammate running some of

the results and the tally of a run in one bronze in the speedskating is worth noting she's one of the younger competitors ages twenty three the same as triguboff skier denise spitz solve also took a third place in his event and makes a grand total of eight medals for the olympic athletes from russia team. i've been just right up to date things this thing with all t. international all from a fanatic a politician because when you're brought up to date on the top of the. hour.

level one hard sell you on the idea that dropping bombs brings police to the chicken hawks forcing you to fight the battles they don't want. to do socks for to tell you that they'll be gossip and public but the supporters of the. office of advertising tell you on the pool and on and lets you buy their product. all the hawks that we along the border will watch.

looking at value surveys russians aren't so different from their european neighbors when it comes to individual rights and freedoms however they do have a very low tolerance for uncertainty in politics that translates into a strong electoral advantage for the incumbent making power transition and precarious. for russians to stop playing it safe politically. the other make they're talking back on a banker and fiduciary to fiduciary in other words are saying that bitcoin as even our lunch the returns on bitcoin of made everything we do as a bank look stupid immature and low performance even warren buffett has not kept up

with bitcoin nobody's kept up with that coin so they're saying that oh it's a non correlating asset ok what does that mean that means stocks bonds then currencies are all in bear markets now and i'm going to continue to be americans and i'm probably going to wipe out a whole generation or two that crypto currencies are the only thing is going to save these people and us from being fired so we're going to middle of the group the currency market because even if we get a little bit of those gains we've had a last ten years of big going it will save us from having to report big red negative year on year returns on every single piece of money management business we touch. with just manufacture consent to consume to have public will. when the ruling close is protect them so. when the flame and merry go round lifts and we do.

we can all middle of the room sit. in the real news room. in early february of two thousand and fourteen as the made crisis was getting more violent there was a phone call that was intercepted it was a call between the secretary of state for european affairs victoria nuland and the u.s. ambassador to ukraine geoffrey pyatt questions of credibility. private chat between top u.s. diplomats was leaked. you know what he. i just think. working for you.

probably. so you had this remarkable phone call. of the u.s. government apparently talking about a coup or how they were playing to restructure the government of ukraine. exactly i'm not saying the whole u.s. government feels that way the there is there is division on this but the neo conservative element wants very much to change the strategic dynamic in eastern europe. very smart people and they've been at this for a long time they came in around the issue of propaganda they studied how to create hot buttons for the american people they had this experience when they were getting the american people to get excited about central america back in the one nine hundred eighty s. . and they've been applying those same strategies ever since they remain very dedicated to achieving

their goals they still want to get rid of certain governments they want a regime change in syria for instance regime change in iran. very skilled at this and they have a lot of allies now inside the news media inside the government means that. they can do a lot to control the narrative of any story so i think in america these days we have somehow told ourselves that there are a lot of ways of dealing with these problems other than hard power blabber putin cares about hard power the neoconservatives can now demonize a leader of a country that sells with the american people so you don't just sort of argue a policy you attack the leader so the neoconservatives became very skilled at picking out leaders finding their ugly traits and then highlighting them yet a ko bitch you might say was a rather clunky political leader but you make him into a devil he's he's totally corrupt and he's evil and he wants to kill people in the made in these wonderful white headed demonstrators so you get

a black cat versus white hat and then you keep repeating that basic scenario and it works with the american people and got to realize what vladimir putin is he's an old k.g.b. colonel it wants to restore the russian empire you make them into demons and the american people find that the way they can understand the world once that happens it's very difficult for a journalist or anyone else to say you know hold it that guy he's got more of a gray hat than a white hat or a black at and if you say that you somebody or you're unico which apologist or you're put an apologist and and then the attacks come on to the person saying it the journalist the academic or whoever. any good director will tell you that tempo and rhythm are the most essential components to hold an audience's attention . some are. pretty mean you know with my them since they all of you must you suck it out of the news of. the chest to mobile you.

can also be called a method of betrayal when the allies and followers are relentlessly thrown into the revolutionary flame. the idea is simple when the preparation. work is done the trigger just needs to be full the second machine into full motion. the murder of politician rafi curry every lead to the cedar revolution. looking back at the mysterious poisoning of viktor yuschenko right before the orange revolution of two thousand and four we see now that he became a sacred victim himself. most political analysts believe the compassion of the ukrainian people at that moment tilted the scales giving him the presidency. the number of victims among the protesters during your own my done totaled over one hundred they are called to the heavenly hundred all the sacred victims were

immediately mythologized. the beating of students on november thirtieth two thousand and thirteen was the obvious trigger of your own my done those who sent trained provocateurs to the square very well realised that peaceful protesters were the ones who would get hurt the most. it's hard to keep protests going for months on end tension subside and people inevitably get tired. holidays are also a big danger for revolutionary masterminds people want to be home with their families and friends and one needs to get inventive to keep people in a cold tent city. on christmas day of two thousand and thirteen tabloid journalist and political want

to be taught the on a chart of all was chosen to become the tool to whip the protests on my down back up a civic activist in journalist known for investigating corruption among senior officials was beaten outside you. crane's capital on christmas. her heroic deeds as a reporter looked more like petty crimes trespassing on the presidential residence of victory on a covert age leading the rioting crowd to seize the key of city administration building breaking into a car of the security service of ukraine it looked like tatyana was more interested in making news than reporting it and gaining name recognition that could be turned into votes for her struggling political career in the opposition party fatherland she gave the world media a christmas present in two thousand and thirteen when she was cruelly beaten by unknown assailants on the road despite the fact that in just three days all the suspects were arrested and confessed to beating tatyana during

a road rage incident world media kept insisting upon the political background of the crime instantaneously tatyana became a heroic martyr uniting people around her image the beating coming and they had political turmoil in ukraine this is drawing protest your own my done was once again center stage and tatyana in less than two months after the assault she was already healthy enough to attack the office of party of regions the party a victory on a covert each letter to the zealots much in the people in mind that a look at this in a disability which in my view as they got it was like this group is if one of the staff members sixty five year old i.t. specialist of lattimer's a hot of was killed during the attack. so where is tatyana now well she finally got her position of power in the new government. one month later the time for another act in the play came armenian ukrainian protester

sir gagne go on was one of the first to arrive at my don he wasn't radical or violent but instead naive and full of hope. watching surrogate read a patriotic poem is like watching a casting tape for the. role of a sacred victim lead to simple mourning the most common solicitousness of a slow loris is. unfortunately sergei got the part betrayed by his brothers in arms this video would eventually go viral after sergei was killed early in the morning of january twenty second two thousand and fourteen the circumstances of his death remain unknown to this day even though the whole area of protests was heavily filmed at that time there were no records or witnesses to help the investigation and his body was moved immediately from the scene of the crime. sergei became the first killed martyr of your own mind on and in

a heartbeat.