it wasn't even national coming to you live from moscow with marina josh welcome iraq's prime minister is calling on the residents of the city of fallujah to drive out insurgents the city has been occupied by al qaida militants since friday when they declared it an islamic state that as the army prepares for a major assault on the city with several air strikes already carried out our disposal here has details. does not pick elements with al qaeda links have overrun the iraqi cities of ramadi and thousands of residents are fleeing these area as government forces launch air strikes and fire artillery shells the iraqi prime minister nouri al maliki has evolved that government forces will not leave this area until all these extremist elements are to quote him eliminated but he does admit that for now the government has lost control in these cities in recent days the militants received a boost as they were joined in the fight against the baghdad government by sunni tribesmen and what is interesting is that it marks a change from the years prior to the u.s. withdrawal when major sunni tribes

fortune hunter national coming to you live from moscow it's five pm here on marina joshing welcome to the program senior british politicians and military figures could become targets for the international criminal court for alleged war crimes committed by the country's troops in iraq two hundred fifty pages describing the widespread abuse of detainees amounting to torture has been headed to the hague the u. case fighting tooth and nail to keep out of the tribunal as our london correspondent pauline boyko explains. up until now the international criminal court at the hague had mostly tried to african dictators and tyrants but the i.c.c. has been asked to investigate thousands of allegations of war crimes committed by british forces in iraq a two hundred and fifty page dossier presented by a human rights organization and a british law firm contains allegations of beatings of electrocution smoke executions and sexual assault committed by u.k. forces and according to the all says of this report the finger of blame extends to the very heart of the british government at the time so the head

you're watching national coming to you live from moscow marina josh welcome to the program or ukraine security forces say two policemen were injured last night after angry crowds stormed kenya's convention center with about two hundred officers inside they were later allowed to leave and the siege came despite the president's offer to change the constitution and give the prime minister's job to one of the opposition leaders but that wasn't enough and they are demanding further concessions espied all over now reports. the opposition said they couldn't accept those concessions but they were willing to negotiate further they put forward what they wanted in speeches from the main stage in independence square here just behind me they want to continue negotiations they want elections this year they want a new government and a total amnesty without any conditions for anybody who has being detained and fatality klitschko speaking from the stage just behind me said there's no way would anybody be clearing the streets right now he said that they'd come here they would stay here until they finis

the start international coming to life in moscow with me marina josh welcome to the farmers got a stance president hamid karzai has ordered an inquiry into the u.s. air strike which killed eight civilians seven of them children the night raid targeted a residential area north of kabul despite the government's pleas for american forces to stop hitting villages local journalist bio dean reports from kabul for are today. as a result of american bull barman's in afghanistan there have been a lot of civilian casualties one women were was killed and seven children along with one civilian is injured according to the statements by. his office they have asked the americans to give an explanation as to such a barman's to civilian area this is it has actually linked drugs between kabul and the bomb beyond province in the west where it has actually for the fast past few weeks it has been. has been actually saved but the for the past few weeks it has shown kinds of resentments and fighting between the not of forces and of one forces and one side and the taliban forces and the other side but the barma

which we are going to live from the russian capital on marina josh welcome to the program . well skyrocketing violence in the central african republic has forced international medical group doctors without borders to almost hold its aid in the country's largest refugee camp fighting in the republic has been on the rise since the start of the year with doctors themselves now under threat the u.i. and it is now also ringing the alarm of a humanitarian catastrophe as more than half a million people are facing starvation while disease is rampant in the crowded camps and even though france has deployed a military contingent they have so far failed to bring peace to the country as are now reports. less than a year after french moods marched into mali france again is fighting in another of its former colonies in africa. and i suggest you also the situation in the central african republic is alarming if not frankly the. paris received a green light from the un security council to use military force to restore order after the deadly ethnic runs in the country escalated. i have decide

welcome back this is our team international with me marina josh now britain's prime minister has given a massive lift to the controversial fracking industry david cameron has said local authorities will allow shale gas extraction will be able to keep one hundred percent of business rates they collect from the site while his her first joins us live now from london for more on this story. so what do you think i mean do you think councils will welcome the offer. well this is part of what the prime minister has called his long term economic plan and as you rightly said that's going to mean that local authorities that allow drilling to take place will receive one hundred percent of the business rates from the scheme that's double the fifty percent the kids currently receive no government estimates say that that could be worth one point seven million extra a year each site that a council agrees and there are other estimates as well that say that the industry could attract three point seven billion a year in investment and support an extra seventy four thousand jobs so it all sounds like grea

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which is international coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshing welcome to the program i was second and final day of voting is underway in egypt on whether to accept another new constitution critics say yes result will serve to secure the military's grip on future governments the ousted muslim brotherhood refuses to take part calling it a sham referendum that puts the army before the people violence during day one of the ballot killed eleven people and is in cairo. well addictions are once again in the polling stations for a second day on this referendum on the constitution people behind it so are this interim government and also the military and then the people who stand to gain the most if this is a yes votes and if there's a high turnouts in particular the military is this key articles within this constitution which would cement military power over the civilian states' military trials for civilians will be allowed the minute she budget will be kept secrets and crucially the appointment of the defense minister will have to be approved by egypt's a supreme council of the

which is actually coming to you live from the russian capital marina josh welcome to the program now the syrian government says it's ready for a limited ceasefire with the rebels and a prisoner swap the foreign minister has even proposed cooperating with a more moderate opposition groups against radical islamist you raise those issues at a meeting in moscow just now with his russian counterpart sergey lavrov already the list could joins us now with the details and we know the russian foreign minister is hosting a syrian counterpart in moscow as we speak but what has come out of that meeting what do we know at this point well at this point it looks like the syrian government is actually ready and willing to go ahead in order to implement all sorts of action in order to bring about at least the first step in an attempt to find perhaps a diplomatic if not a peaceful resolution of the syrian conflict which at this point has been going on for almost three years and by some estimates has cost as many as one hundred thirty thousand lives so the syrian government has said through their forei

it is right here in moscow are you watching us here national with me marina josh polling stations have opened across egypt for a second day voting on a new constitution a yes vote would cement the authority of the transitional government and partial military and pave the way for presidential elections and matter of months our correspondent all to reports from cairo. dictions it once again in the polling stations for a second day on this referendum on the constitution the people behind it so are this interim government and also the military and then the people who stands and gain the most if this is a yes vote and if there's a high ten outs in particular the military is key articles within this constitution which would cement military power over the civilian states' military trials of civilians will be allowed the minute she budget will be kept secrets and crucially the appointment of a defense minister will have to be approved by egypt as you print counts of the armed forces which basically means the minutes to be able to veto the decisions by the presidents now this is worry quite as

to start the international coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshing welcome to the program now the beginning of the new year was marred with a loss for volgograd as its citizens said their last goodbyes to the thirty four victims of two bombings that shook the southern russian city dozens remain in intensive care and we report on one of the youngest victims and the heroic man who saved her life. it was just another day for you wagner grads a main train station but suddenly at old changed. there was a loud clamp the force of it was so strong that it smashed the windows and the doors of the luggage room i got up and rushed in to help people it was the first of two explosions that rocked the city just east before the new year the blasts of the station set off by a suicide bomber reached through a crowded area between the entrance and the security metal detectors and. then i noticed a man in a girl's around towards the girl asked her whether she could breathe she was losing consciousness i picked her up and carried out of the station u.-t. saved a nine year old all following an

is there an international coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshing. it's exactly thirty one days to go until the winter games kick off in russia and all eyes are on sochi as the city gets ready for its big moment scott is in the u.n. picco city that's wrapping up its seven years long preparations for the international sports spectacle. organizes a saying that we are on track and that everything is ready. h of the eleven venues in the coastal cluster which you can see behind me on the mountain cluster have been completed and put to the test on more than one occasion by hosting international spy standard competition and also each of the new transport networks including the high speed rail service which is connecting the two clusters to one another they're also up and running now there is still some work to be done in and around the city but it's mainly cosmetic it's mainly superficial in terms of sprucing the city up so it is ready to welcome the sporting world come february the seventh from day one the security has been a top priority for organizers of

what you are to get a national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing now millions of those who are concerned over the extent to which they have been watched by america's national security agency are now waiting to hear from the country's president and he is expected to announce much anticipated changes to the way the agency works but it's unclear how far the reforms will go argue some sacks reports from washington d.c. today president obama heads to the department of justice just a few blocks from here and he'll deliver a speech on n.s.a. reforms specifically what he supports from the forty six recommendations his own review panel put forward a few weeks ago the president is expected to devote a large portion of his speech to the privacy concerns of non-u.s. citizens and businesses basically trying to assure foreign consumers that their privacy will be protected when they communicate using american tech companies like google and yahoo now you may remember when it was disclosed that allied world leaders like brazilian president dilma rousseff were spied on by the n.s.a. the

this is already international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing welcome all kind of filly eight assassins have reportedly gunned down a senior yemeni intelligence officer in a broad daylight a drive by shooting the terror network has been increasingly cornered in recent years by both government forces and the u.s. drone strikes lucic often have reports on how it's forceful kata to adapt and evolve its strategy. it's a bone chilling video the man driving this s.u.v. is on a mission to kill as the truck barrels into an army base in yemen's szabo province a sickening act of terror was captured on film omar oh it was more than fifty soldiers died that day but al qaida went beyond just simply claiming responsibility for it released this video showing computer generated maps in preparation for the attack in an interview with the bomber it even included english subtitles and al qaeda leader is then shown chiding a group of captured soldiers to know that you and the americans are in the same trench the american drones are in the sky and you are on the ground of al qaeda in the ara

welcome back to watching r c international with me marina joshing the u.s. war in iraq may have ended more than two years ago but washington is now rushing an emergency shipment of surveillance drones and missiles to the country the firepower is designed to help the iraqi government retake the city of fallujah which has been overrun by al-qaeda linked militants earlier extremist forces crossed over from neighboring syria joining up with their allies already and iraq and the radicals want to set up at islamic state in their ranks are swelling with thousands of new recruits iraqi leaders have been struggling to control the country in the aftermath of the u.s. withdrawal two years ago iraq has also offered to help baghdad and alice say the islamic state will fill the gap left by america but we have seen and this town and washington for the past three years been so this some sort of a disinterested iraq you know like iraq does not exist i thought their radar screen so. you know really it's a volatile situation the military was never prepared it was always predic

six pm in moscow watching r t international with me marina josh welcome to the program. the beginning of the new year was marred with loss for volgograd as its citizens said their last goodbyes to the thirty four victims of two bombings that shook the southern russian city dozens remain in intensive care we have a story of the youngest terror a victim who lost her mother in the blast and who is hanging on to life. bekah is just three months old but she's found that life can be hard and unjust she was badly injured and a terrible terror attack she is now in an induced coma in intensive care clinging onto life what we give you as a baby girl remains and a coma we put her on a ventilator in intensive care also she sustained some light yet serious brain damage condition is very serious but we've got it under control on that dreadful morning of december thirtieth caught a fever and was on route to a hospital with her mother and grandmother when a powerful explosion rocked their trolley bus the three happened to be in the very epicenter the women died the infant survived it wa

which in our national coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh welcome to the program now before remain stories here are some breaking news we've been getting within the past hour here our teacher national the business partner former oil tycoon may know how to ski has had his prison sentence reduced the move by russia's supreme court means split tongue negative could walk free later today or tomorrow well we'll be getting more from our correspondent in just a few minutes here on r t for the latest so do stay with us for that if you can. now no peace in the central kiev where despite the reduced number of protesters on the streets the season battled centers remain a blaze overnight peter oliver is in the ukrainian capital for us. looking independent square where the speakers are continuing to deliver their rhetoric from the stage just as you might be able to hear that over the top of. me talking now we have seen a a distinct decrease in the amount of people on the streets on thursday compared to wednesday now that's because wednesday was a public holiday it allowed more

well back to watching r t international with marina josh and tam byron getting farmers in the u.s. to gap and santa it's a promise never to sue them for accidentally growing their originality modified seeds has failed the u.s. supreme court refused to consider a case lodged by the farmers and they say their fields could be contaminated by doctor and crops and fear being dragged through a legal quagmire by the by a tad giant for peyton's infringement dotter of the book seeds of destruction the hidden agenda of g.m.o. says the decision has serious implications. monsanto has a team of lawyers that go out and terrorize farmers in the us and canada when the wind blows the seeds from a field across to him he. says ok you know you have to play this is a concentration of power all in the human food chain in the first ruling of the supreme court and what i mean by the best but you can patent life that you can take a patent on life by in fact you know for a gene a bacterium or so that was a false decision to begin with but all sequence sense them and it's the influence why not the business t

what you are to have a national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh molotov cocktails homemade bombs and cold seal kiev has seen at all during the last two weeks and this is how it looks right now you're looking at a live pictures coming out of the ukrainian capital at the moment well sunday night saw rioters capture the justice ministry in the city center and we can now cross to our correspondent pierre all over who's got all the very latest for us from the ukrainian capital peter so what's happening where you are at the moment i mean it seems like the rioters are really taking control of the situation there is it so well what was. well what we're seeing right now is the justice ministry has become the latest government building in ukraine to be occupied by rioters this is just a short distance away from where i am right now they've built barricades there we've seen numbers of people coming from independence square which is just behind me heading there i was speaking to them saying where are you going what are you going to be doing they're saying they're going there to man tho

which in our state or national coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh welcome to the program and greenland has decided to open up one of the world's most pristine and dangerous environments to oil drilling and environment so on forgiving in fact that many international oil giants have shied away from getting involved because of the potential risks but not b.p. the company responsible for turning the gulf of mexico into nickel logical catastrophe nearly four years ago has been given drilling rights in eastern greenland greenpeace says a bagger is believed that a firm with such a patchy history could be allowed to work in such a fragile region reports on why the country shifted its environment first stance. british petroleum has been denied any drilling licenses in the united states for more than a year now the deepwater horizon spill taking its toll on the company's reputation but this mattered little to the new government in greenland drilling. and all exploration off the western coast of the country particularly from the bay has already been underway for some tim

this international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program now bonfires barricades and dug up pavements that's how ukraine's capital looks after almost two weeks of unrelenting violence and government rioters are entrenched in the justice ministry building refusing to budge even despite fellow opposition leaders please about fifty radical activists from the movement known as common cause stormed the ministry at night smashing windows with clubs and metal bars opposition leader vitaly klitschko tried to talk them down and convince them to leave instead they dug in deeper calling for backup and directing barricades ukraine's justice minister calls them a threat to talks between the opposition and the president and warrants she might call a state of emergency if the occupation continues people all over has more from kiev . well this is how it looks right now at the justice ministry here in kiev this became the latest building to be overrun by rioters on sunday evening now it's still being occupied by opposition forces as you can see they've they've the windo

national coming to you live from the russian capital it's four pm here i'm marina joshing welcome to the program now the peace conference on syria cannot be delayed any longer and must be held at the end of the month and that's the joint message from russia the us and the un after talks in paris but the main challenge is convincing the syrian opposition to take part as a group still hasn't given a definitive answer as a correspondent who's following the. and. so do talk us through some of the highlights and especially what the side has been agreeing on and what are the sticking points that still remain there. but one of the first things that we've heard from u.s. secretary of state is that russia the u.s. and the u.n. are completely on the same page that the only solution of the conflict in syria is a diplomatic one mr kerry also said that both the soon enough and to the opposition are equally responsible for the atrocities committed there now we've also seen a slight shift on iran since a lot of barbara he needs your own special envoy on syria and syria lauber off the ball for sayin

welcome back this is r t international i'm marina josh britain's been braced for floods but this has nothing to do with the storms battering the country right now the u.k. fears a massive influx of eastern europeans now that the wind immigration rules are relaxed as billy boy who reports people's biggest concerns are a wave of unskilled workers and criminals leading up to the new year the british government hadn't released any estimates about the number of remain ians ambo gary and that they expected to arrive in britain now that immigration restrictions have been lifted for them and that since he hasn't done much to allay the fears of the british public. and although romanians and bulgarians now have every right to live and work freely anywhere within the european union of skepticism and public concern say the mass immigration a written all time high what are you currently doing to stop the influx of skilled workers in from the e.u. and planning to do we've made absolutely sure that it's not possible for people to come here simply to claim benefits to a putting a brace very tough me

which ninety coming to you live from moscow on marina josh welcome to the program i'm ganna stands president having karzai has ordered an inquiry into the us air strike which killed eight civilians seven of them children the ny raid targeted a residential area north of kabul despite the government's pleas for american forces to stop hitting villages nato though claims only two civilians died in a water described as defensive air support to afghan forces and military chiefs were quick to spread the blame for the deaths saying that local district and prevention officials were formed in advance of the operation and that's how the statement reads from the eyes of the international security assistance force it also says the operation was meant to disrupt insurgent activity foreign policy oust mob and says the afghan government shouldn't buy that and instead demand justice for innocent victims. that's always the argument that the foreign powers make they always make it sound like they're invading a country just because they care so much about the people that are under attack but all over the world

this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow with mean marina joshing welcome to the program. anti-government rioters in the ukraine's capital are holding two policemen hostage three security forces were reportedly attacked and captured but one was later released with injuries peter oliver is following developments in kiev. these three police officers were attacked on friday night by two independent square which is just behind me they were then taken captive by the rioters eventually one of those was released he's now being treated in hospital for stab wounds no the interior ministry of demanded their immediate release and what we're hearing from the interior ministry is they believe that they're being held in a city government building that's currently occupied by riots is that they're not ruling out the possibility that if they are released then riot police could attempt to storm the building to try and free those two offices still being they believe are being held in there now also in that building we're hearing from the authorities they believe it's being used to stockpil

it is seven pm and the russian capital which international with marina josh welcome to the program album fires barricades and a dug up pavements that's how you cranes capital looks after almost two weeks of unrelenting violence anti-government rioters are entrenched outside the justice ministry building refusing to budge even despite fellow opposition leaders please about fifty a radical activist from the movement known as common cause stormed the ministry at night smashing windows with clubs and now bars be all over has more from t. of. well this is how it looks right now at the justice ministry here in kiev this became the latest building to be overrun by rioters on sunday evening now it's still being occupied by opposition forces and as you can see they've they've the windows that are being broken through their feet in using the furniture here to make some kind of barricades and block those away you can also come over this way still groups outside making sure that nobody can get into that building night telling me that they have no intention to leave anytime soon now that's despite op

which martina national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program how both fires barricades and the pavements that's how cranes capital looks after almost two weeks of unrelenting violence right now you're looking at the latest pictures that we have seen from the ukrainian capital so far with government rioters are entrenched in the justice ministry building refusing to budge even despite fellow opposition leaders please about fifty radical activist from the movement known as common cause stormed the ministry at night smashing windows with clubs and metal bars opposition leader vitaly klitschko tried to talk them down and convince them to leave instead and they dug in deeper calling for backup and erecting barricades ukraine's justice minister calls them a threat to talks between the opposition and the president and warns she might call a state of emergency if the occupation continues peter oliver has more from kiev. well what we're seeing right now is the justice ministry has become the latest government building in ukraine to be occupied by rioters this is

you watching r t international coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing welcome to the program all riders in kiev are reportedly holding two policeman hostage earlier on friday an officer was found shot dead in the city center with another in hospital with stab wounds amid the burning barricades protesters and riot police showered the sheets with molotov cocktails and rubber bullets over a night but the i hate of unrest isn't being felt in the country's east artist closely here is in the nancy for us and she can join us live with the very latest poll how is the east of the country responding to the riots in the capital. well most of the east and south of this country is supportive of the government and the president i'm here in the city of donetsk where for the better part of the last hour there has been approached government a rally happening just a short distance behind me and emotions running high they have been various speech as we people have been saying we support poison gena coverage that he has been truth and justice on the. side in that they were not heading down i've

with me marina josh welcome to the program for a task and police in kiev have declared a truce which is expected to hold for the next six hours earlier the ukrainian opposition threatened to ask street riots if the government refused to call early elections its leaders last night said they were giving president yanacocha twenty four hours to meet their demands all get out across to our correspondent all over who's following the very latest for us in the grainy in capital so peter what's the atmosphere like where you are now what is the latest on the true situation. well we are in this period of ceasefire right now from both sides that both the police on the rioters have said that they're going to they're going to cease any hostilities towards one another for the while until eight pm local time the six pm g.m.t. what we have seen though is still many many people just behind me in front of the number stadium which is being one of the the major flashpoint in the conflict between both sides here in kiev there's still many many people led what they have seen though and what is a big diffe

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this is our senior national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshing now two policemen how by anti-government rioters in ukraine's capital have been released security forces say they were tortured three officers were reportedly attacked and captured one was later released with injuries are just bitter all over is following developments in kiev. well this is the scene here in kiev after the ukrainian capital spend a week gripped by violence and now see rioters have barricaded themselves in on the one of the main streets here in the at the ukrainian capital near to the number stadium now this is being the major flashpoint in this city. didn't stay we saw this whole area cleared out for a period of around half an hour by the riot police in what was a rather vicious running battle that was being forced between rioters. and the riot police there but i would say within about thirty minutes they'd already come back into this area though since then what we have seen is a large tire fire being set up on the front line between the between the police and the rioters now police are still