mean the tension in the ukrainian capital international keeping you up to date with the events throughout the day you can also log on to r.t. dot com for live updates from kiev. it's r.t. international live from moscow no justice for the son of a pakistani drone victim he's been told by a british court he's not allowed to find out if u.k. intelligence contributed to the american strike that killed dozens of locals that's one of the many stories coming your way. also i made a ring of steel and a world of privilege multi-billionaires and celebrities from around the world gather for the davos economic summit in another annual attempt to put an end to the world's poverty. well it seems everyone is descending on switzerland today on the shores of lake geneva political heavyweights are trying to put syria back on the path to peace. and heavy diplomatic artillery has been deployed to the picturesque town of montreaux in an attempt to broker a deal between the assad government and the syrian opposition there for us on location artes you go to person off. for the first time after years of intense fighting and unimaginable violence the syrian authori

r.t. international live from moscow britain's prime minister wants the country to stand up to the e.u. and demand the right to stop paying welfare to new arrivals from abroad his critics say he's rounding for popular support as voters increasingly look further and further right when it comes to immigration u.k. independence party says david cameron is completely misjudging the public mood we've had mass open door immigration in the united kingdom over the past decade it's had problems on schools hospitals infrastructure and pushing down wages in the country that is why he is struggling and he can't find a solution politicians are not listening to people in the streets of or into places around the country go to lincolnshire for example they are telling us that they have difficulties in their community because it's changed now that's not being racist is actually being realistic and listening to those people all that we suggesting you could be is that anyone who comes to this country has to be able to afford to work here pay taxes and contribute to this country but we have to have a sensi

r.t. international live from our studio center here in moscow where just past nine pm differences over the political crisis in ukraine a been towering above the e.u. russia summit in brussels the event was scaled back by the block from two days to just a few hours over the rail. who's been following the meeting there so what's come out of this summit has it managed to achieve anything. when all this russian. it has been consistently billed in the past as a platform for furthering the street strategic cooperation between russia and the e.u. went to great extent it was in terms of the topics that they did touch upon however we know that coming into this summit there was this huge issue that of ukraine that was hanging over the meeting and the relations were strained after the decision of . not to go ahead to sign that agreement with the e.u. in favor of closer ties with russia so that was one of the sticking points of this is what came out of it basically all of the representatives. of the european commission report of the european council all condemning the violence also for also saying tha

r.t. international live from moscow i'm linda fraps thanks for joining me around two hundred policemen be sieged in a convention center in kiev have been allowed to leave the building there are conflicting reports whether it was opposition front man vitaly klitschko or the interior ministry that brokered an end to the standoff the siege began shortly after leaders of the ukrainian opposition partially turned down the president's proposals aimed at calming the unrest in the country artist peter all over has more from kiev. this all started after. we had speeches from literally just behind me here in independence square from the main stage here from opposition leaders in which they said that they they weren't willing to accept the . the offers that would be made to them by ukrainian president viktor yannick coverts not to run through what some of those offers were the constitution would change in that ukraine would go back to a parliamentary presidential republic what that actually means is that the parliament here the the end pains would have far more power it would actually remove some of

r.t. international live from moscow the u.s. war in iraq may have added more than two years ago by washington's now rushing an emergency shipment of surveillance drones and missiles to the country the firepower is designed to help the iraqi government to retake the city of fallujah which has been overrun by al qaeda linked militants now earlier extremist forces crossed over from neighboring syria joining up with their allies already in iraq the radicals want to set up an islamic state in their ranks or 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 now we can talk to the analysts middle east analyst who joins us live here on our t.v. thank you so much mr jenner for joining us now the first question is to what extent do you think will the american shipment of weapons be enough to you tip the scales of the fighting in iraq. first of all to have to clarify. the visit the last visit of mr nouri maliki the iraqi prime minister to

r.t. international live from studio center here in moscow which just eight pm and six pm in kiev where protesters and police have declared a truce which is expected to hold for the next two hours the e.u. is getting more closely involved now with the head of the european parliament saying the country's president should call an early election peter all of it is there gauging the mood on the streets and following international reaction. in terms of what we're seeing from pressure and people taking speaking about what's going on here in ukraine from the outside well we have seen some movement with regards to the european union martin scholtz the head of the e.u. parliament has said that ukraine must call snap elections now that came on the back of the of a phone call between the president of ukraine on a covert john the president of the european union but also which was to put also expressed his deep concern about the situation there was unfolding here in ukraine and said apparently this well if action wasn't taken to rectify this then the e.u. would be looking to try and step in and see what they c

r.t. international live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned nine pm and seven pm in kiev where two people have died in antigovernment protests in the ukrainian capital in the fourth consecutive day police have torn down barricades in the center of the city and. the retaliation of protesters has been equally as forceful what. is there for us now and let's see it's been pretty difficult to see exactly what's going on with all that black smoke behind you know now we have a link with you a telephone link tell us exactly what is happening now where you are. well that's a bad timing i'm sorry about that as you can imagine in a city under such disruption at the moment it's very difficult for us to maintain communications but i can tell you that we can go to our correspondent peter all of a he is also in the center of kiev and he's closely following the events as they're unfolding so let's get the latest from him now there are reports of growing numbers of people gathering there in the streets despite the launch of the protests last today where the police are trying to di

r.t. international live from our studios today here in moscow where it's just turned ten pm and eight pm in kiev where a truce between protesters and police has just expired now the opposition and government are expected to announce very shortly the results of these talks he also getting involved with the head of the european parliament saying the country's president should call an early election. is there gauging the mood on the streets and following international reaction. well as the situation continues to unfold here in ukraine we have heard comment from the leaders in the european union first of the e.u. president jose manuel barroso said when he held a phone conversation with the ukrainian president viktor on a covert which mr barroso expressed his deep concern over what was happening here in ukraine and said that if the situation didn't sort itself out it wasn't sorted out then the e.u. would be looking to take steps to try and help along. be looking to try and take steps of their own to try and solve the situation out here we also heard from martin shultz who's the head of the the e

r.t. international live here in moscow coming up later in the program for choosing old european countries jump off the euro vision ship one by one. unable to afford to take times of economic hardship that story. also. a way. to travel to rome to see how people there are coping with the vandalizing nature of some feathered friend. and the rest. of these twelve european countries are skipping the twenty fourteen euro vision song contest and this to participants has been getting shorter by the year and the economic troubles of the continent seen as the main reason. reports. good knowledge represented russia at the u. revision song contest in twenty ten despite only coming eleventh he describes his participation as a major highlight which propelled him to new heights our audience grew very very much many people to get to know us and so they began to come to our concerts it was great. music experience because it was a concert on the great greatest. auditory that i could ever imagine. from drag queens to hellish creatures and some of europe's brightest talents one of the world's most watched t.

r.t. international live from moscow it's eleven pm here now and we're starting with the developments have been hearing about the last hour we've been talking about at least seven children a woman have been killed in a u.s. nighttime air raid those details are from the afghanistan president hamid karzai himself upright about attack took place on tuesday night in the central power one province north of kabul but the teachers have only just been released robert naiman joins me now he's a foreign affairs analyst from the group just foreign policy hi robert evening to you so again it's kind of an awful ground all day isn't it we're seeing again disturbing details of innocent people including children being killed by accident in u.s. attacks that are going to be big ramifications from this again on their. well yes absolutely because this is a directly tied to what's in dispute between the afghan government and the u.s. government is they try to negotiate an agreement on what's going to happen to u.s. forces after twenty fourteen what they won't be allowed to do after a government doesn't want t

r.t. international live from our studio city here in moscow where it's just turned eleven pm and nine pm in kiev where two people have died in antigovernment protests in the ukrainian capital and a fourth consecutive day of violence police have torn down barricades in the center of the city and chased down writers and the retaliation of protesters has been equally as forceful and now we're getting reports that up to twenty people have broken into a city television station and destroying equipment there. is in the ukrainian capital for us. i can see from my vantage point that several hundred protesters are moving into the square the numbers are not receding here it's still pretty much i would say maybe several thousand people of protesters and riot just over here slowing flash bangs bullets of cocktails rocks at the police can't see if the project was actually reaching the police lines because of this black smoke as i've said i would never expect that i would have to wear a bulletproof vest and a helmet in the iranian capital the negotiation with the president members of the opposition have

r.t. international live from our studio center here in moscow which just turned eight pm and six pm in kiev where the government is offering further concessions to calm the rest with president pledging to free those arrested during the riots earlier this week well meanwhile protests are engulfing more cities across western ukraine live to the capital now in artie's peeta all over so pete what is the government's plan now. what we've been hearing from president. to the latest rounds of talks between the government and the opposition now he's announced what's been achieved so far he said the january sixteenth laws that were brought into. down on demonstrations that they would be changes to those laws he didn't say that they would be repealed but we're expecting there could be some kind of softening of the legislation that was brought in to try and tackle the riots here now the opposition and government have agreed that there will be an amnesty for all people who are being detained by police during the riots that we've seen here in kiev as well as across the rest of the country now what we're

r.t. international live from our studio center here in moscow which just turned ten pm and eight pm in kiev where the government is offering further concessions to calm the unrest with president at a covert pledging to free those arrested during the riots this week meanwhile protests are engulfing cities across the west of ukraine peter one of the reports now from the capital but been hearing from president. to the latest rounds of talks between the government and the opposition now he's announced what's been achieved so far he said the january sixteenth. demonstrations that they would be changes to those laws and now the opposition and governments have agreed that there would be an amnesty for all people who were being detained by police during the riots that we've seen here in kiev we're expecting to see a reshuffle of the the un accord which is government now in terms of the violence that's being going on here that the on a covert you said that he points the finger towards a groups all foreigners who be responsible for the majority of the worst violence we're looking at about a dozen cit

r.t. international. world headlines live from moscow the u.s. secretary of state john kerry will meet ukraine's opposition leaders for the first time this on the sidelines of a security conference in munich on saturday and washington is also keeping up the pressure on president got to cope it sure is now on sick leave calling on him to resolve the crisis threatening restrictions if he doesn't. we're willing to consider sanctions no decision has been made meanwhile the divide in ukraine appears to be widening as ati's alexy at a sharp speed now reports from kenya. ukraine is now in an absolutely unique situation i don't think there's ever been anything compared to what is happening in the country right now half of it is now paralyzed with the regional administrations taken over by the protesters making it completely impossible for this part of the country to be properly governed by the authorities there already been cases we've heard reports that some of this and some of the reasons authorities are actually running their regions online exchanging

r.t. international committee live from moscow with twenty four hours a day coming up later in the program. european countries jump off the euro vision ship. one by one unable to afford to take part at times of economic hardship that story after a very short break and also still to come away. he's correspondent. to travel to rome to see how people there are coping with the vandalizing nature of some feathered friends. speak your language. programs and documentaries some spanish matters to you. a little turn it into angles stories. of the spanish find out more visit. at least twelve european countries are skipping the twenty fourteen euro vision song contest the list of participants have been getting shorter by the year and the economic troubles of the continent as seen as the main reason and the reports. look the knowledge represented russia at the u. revision song contest in twenty ten despite only coming eleventh he describes his participation as a major highlight which propelled him to new heights audience grew very very much many people to get to know us and so they began to come to our

r.t. international we're live from moscow it's just after eleven pm here now our top story it's exactly looking at the calendar thirty one days to go then until the winter games kick off in russia and all eyes are on as the city gets ready for its big moment paul scott reports now on the culmination of seven long years of preparation all focused on this international sports spectacle. organizes are reiterating that everything is on track and they are ready for the start of the games now each of the eleven venue in. which you can see. just over my shoulder on the mountain cluster have been completed and put to the test hosting international competition on more than one occasion and each of the brand new transport networks including the high speed rail link which is going to connect the two clusters are also up and running there is still some work to be done in and around the city of sochi in the final months but it's mainly cosmetic it's mainly superficial in terms of sprucing the city up so that it looks nice prepares to welcome the world come february the seventh security has been a top priori

r.t. international going to live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program how 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 firing in the republic has been on the rise since the start of the year was doctors themselves now under threat the un is now also ringing the alarm of a humanitarian catastrophe as more than a 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 reports. less than a year after french moods marched into mali france again is fighting in another of its former colonies in africa. let's address short of the situation in the central african republic as alarming if not frightening that your paris received a green light from the un security council to use military force to restore order after deadly ethnic runnels in the country escalating. i have decided to act immediately or mor

r.t. international coming to live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program protesters and police in kiev have declared a truce which is expected to hold for the next five hours earlier the ukrainian opposition threatened to escalate street riots if the government refused to call early elections meanwhile the e.u. is entering the fray was ahead of the european commission voicing his concern and a phone call to president yanacocha are just peed all over reports from. well what we're seeing right now is a relatively peaceful scene and what's been the place where the most of the clashes the the most violent clashes have taken place here in kiev there's a cease fire be respected by by both the right police and the the writers themselves but in terms of the the international reaction to what's being going on here in ukraine we've been hearing that the e.u. president jose manuel barroso held a phone call with victory on a call which the ukrainian president and which mr but also pony express his deep concern about what is unfolding here in ukraine now in response was the on a cove

political thing with the institute of foreign policy research and initiatives joining us here live on r.t. international thank you very much for your time today thank you well we are closely following the ongoing developments in ukraine online more expert analysis and opinion is just a couple of clicks away. thank you for joining us today long awaited direct talks between the syrian government and the opposition getting underway friday in geneva but few think there will be a meeting of the minds with the government saying it will not discuss removing president assad while the rebels insist this should be the only way forward. has this report from switzerland. syrian opposition says that it's not ready to sit down at the same table to talk with the syrian authorities but they are nevertheless ready to continue the negotiations using un special envoy on syria lakhdar brahimi as the mediator so basically he'll be meeting separately with the rebels and with the syrian authorities and passing on information from one to another thus making this dialogue possible it's not coming as a surprise because. after al

r.t. international we can cross live now to the very heart of the big diplomatic arena and listen to some of the opening speakers there right now either russia's foreign minister sort of get off or off will soon hit the stage though this is the u.n. chief i think he was in geneva to the syrian peace corps kicking off right now in montreaux so also already read over one hundred thousand people a large numbers of people are missing what detained attacks on civilian civilians continue and on site have shown a point to speak on for the responsibilities on. any tarion and human rights for. but six point five people total it's pretty but my point is people. make arrogant. with more that point five and up then. airiest credit in this is to studiously constraint and many have not been reached at or. deprivation has become powder political and military strategies once the place where coming to refugees or backgrounds to why has forced more than two point three million people or how full dimensional to free to neighboring countries and beyond despite him is a strings syria's neighbors have shown on

r.t. latvia and also internationals coming here live from moscow how the winter olympic preparations going in sochi a live report coming your way along with the rest of the world's top headlines in just a couple. i know. tanya the lady well tell me how you are and my little grandson. i don't like i don't like. being cut off. except it doesn't mean. that the spiritual side is destructive. i try to convince her try to preach that it was a sect but it's dangerous that she had to leave it was a story she had lost her mind. you know you she will come back i know it and i will wait but even if it means i must wait. until my dying day. to british soil it's. happening to the global economy. there were millions of dollars moving from a company in saudi arabia called. a fruit company and they were sending money to. the leading members of the muslim brotherhood in yemen so this is what. is allowing that in facilitating that to happen here that causes political instability in the region and causes i mean that's why it's treason it's financing our enemies and what's crazy about it is that each p.c. adm

r.t. international coming to you live from moscow with me welcome to the program of the iraq war continues to haunt the u.k. with lawyers representing hundreds of detainees of conflict now saying the british government is ultimately responsible for torture so brutal that amounts to sadism their testimonies have been submitted to the international criminal court but as artie's police boyko reports the u.k. is determined to stop and the investigation and its tracks. up until now the international criminal court at the hague had mostly tried 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 assaults committed by u.k. forces and according to the also as of this report the finger of blame extends to the very heart of the british government at the time so the head of the british army the former defense secretary and the f

r.t. international coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie welcome to the program iraqi city of has become a battle zone between government troops and islamists with a population of three hundred thousand people has been occupied by al qaida wing groups that declared an islamic state there even though the army managed to kill the commander of the hardest and regain control of several districts the main part of the city still lies in the hands of the extremists the militant advance comes after days of fierce fighting in the region between. backed sunni rebels tribal militias and the army around a hundred people have been killed in the bloodshed a third of them civilians robert naiman from the campaign group just foreign policy thanks government policies that have paved the way for al qaeda success. doesn't doesn't establish itself in functioning democracies where there's a broad social consensus that the state is legitimate it is that what this is and in countries where there's a breakdown of central government authority and conditions of civil war with a large part of the pop

r.t. international coming to you live from moscow. two more people have been admitted to hospital in volgograd after their health deteriorated since the double bombings that killed thirty four people in the russian city meanwhile a baby and a young girl remain in a serious condition at one of moscow's top clinics. there are russian children's clinic a hospital it's one of the best such hospitals in the country and the girls are both being treated here now the nine year old received her injuries during the first blast that took place in volgograd on the twenty ninth of december both the girl and her mother have sustained injuries and that's terror attack this second terror attack which hit volgograd less than twenty four hours later on december thirtieth that took place on the child the bus where both the mother and the grandmother of the three month old baby were killed the girl was said and that is the report according to some of the doctors the girl was saved by a blanket in which she was wrapped which prevented her from receiving l

international news and comment live from moscow you're watching r.t. international with me q thanks for joining iraq's prime minister is calling on al qaeda fighters and all those who joined them to surrender the militant group has occupied k cities in the country's biggest province and the government is struggling to regain control of his middle east correspondent policies following the conflict. well the situation certainly is becoming increasingly volatile but we've now heard from the iraqi prime minister is him urging all those who have joined a kind of to give up the fight he has hinted at the possibility of targeting these militants if indeed they do so they are facing a massive siege that has been launched by the government troops now i think he was speaking in his weekly televised address and he volunteered that address to continue what he calls the sacred war against al qaida is the local branch which is known as the islamist state in iraq and they live and he also said that he would continue to finish the push to retake the key ambar cities of

international news and comment live from moscow you're watching r.t. international with me. and welcome to the program and it's you know today in ukraine but it hardly looks fast to with burnt out cars and rocks and molotov cocktails flying violence and capital kiev loaded into its fourth day running as police and anti-government rioters battled in a barricaded a street and the owner is there for us right now looks like the front line has been shifting what does it look like right now please tell us more. well the situation in kiev right now is this essentially two groups of of demonstrators one of them just behind me on my down square is is completely peaceful as there's not a lot going on there but just a little bit well round the corner literally over to my left there is essentially a war of attrition going on between rioters and the riot police we've seen barricades built up from. from burnt out police vehicles being used by by demonstrators and police trying to force them back away from there and they've they've been giving ground and gaining ground in an equal measures

international news and comment live from moscow you're watching r.t. international with me your national thanks for trying. the u.s. is eyeing the resumption of normally so military aid to the syrian rebels even if it's going to islamist groups those shipments were cut off last month out of the equipment or seized by fighters from the islamist front that's up to some of the islamists united with the secular opposition america's worries were eased so normal age is everything needed for combat except for guns and bullets including things like body armor night vision goggles and communication equipment but there are a lot of gray areas here when normally objects are becoming lethal for example one a radio transmitter is used to trigger trigger an explosive device and there's no guarantee the aid will only get vetted organizations meanwhile some very graphic footage has appeared online reportedly showing the aftermath of a massacre carried out by al qaeda linked fighters they have grown ever stronger in the country and some analysts say there is a flow of l

this hour's top world news live on r.t. international. very warm welcome to you today pockets of continuing violence amid small touring cars and dead at the main landmarks of the ukrainian capital right now it's off to a night of violence in kiev which left at least seventy policemen injured government protesters angry at her recently adopted set of laws against demonstrations have been attacking police lines with clubs flash bangs and fire bombs as well. reports right from the thick. just when everyone thought that the protests in kiev and the whole protest movement was dying down and all hell is breaking loose again protestors have been trying to penetrate the governmental quarter behind those what remains of the police buses which had been burned by the protests this is the police line it's really hard to say how many policemen are there but there could be hundreds of them this the riot police called be adequate it's a special regiment of the right police and they're trying to secure this perimeter here. we can see the fire still burni

r.t. international broadcasting around the world live from moscow very good to have you with this sunday we're approaching actually christmas the christmas celebrations here in moscow now and in russia if you just joined us we're going to talk through this will but it's a sort of talk through before the streamed live on our website. from the russian orthodox church hi there father to go to our correspondent in crisis a cathedral because that's of course where it's all based on ideas that we're going to catch up with her later and just give you a plug you'll be with our correspondent a bit later talking is through this in about fifty five minutes or so as we stream it live on our website but for the uninitiated if you like people watching around the rest of the world that don't know what's. johnny the seventh is christmas day is now what happens and what happens on this service tonight first of all it's december twenty fifth according to the do in calendar when was in use by all humanity or european humanity since these are only in the sixth century sixteenth century i'm sorry it was changed to

civilian areas well let's now bring in afghan political analyst habib hakimi who joins us live here r.t. international thank you so much misery to me for being with us so in your opinion why are these deadly nato raids are still happening. this incident has repeated in afghanistan minute times in the past two years and president karzai. has condemned this action by a foreign forces in afghanistan and demanded for from. nato countries india from from the united states to stop military operation particularly air operation and his attention areas in afghanistan in. afghanistan but still that. american forces the need to first the forces are operating in and different parts of the country and developed as and homes of afghan people to targeting taliban militants and i would members of the government of afghanistan demands. the stop of military operation and develop as of afghanistan but american forces and in it two forces say they are targeting the militants not the civilians sometimes they killed the civilian some civilians by by ms. this happened again in the country and the government of afghanistan s

if you can do stay with us the very latest developments on the story to be coming to you live on r.t. international there's a. just over one hundred. common sense come together with one. war is not. peace have a chance. thanks for joining us here on r.t. international still ahead for you the dubious methods of the u.k. government to get failed asylum seekers kicked out of the country more news in just a. tanya the lady well tell me how you are my little grandson. i know. i don't like. being cut off. except it isn't. that the spiritual side is destructive. i try to convince her and try to preach that it was a sect but it's dangerous that she had to leave it was a story she had lost her mind. you know you she will come back i know it was and i will wait even if it means i must wait until my dying day. lots of news to cover for you today here want to see international for the meantime star for the british home office are being offered cash bonuses if they manage to kick more failed asylum seekers out of the country than expected incentive scheme has been lambasted by critics who say people's lives are

side how the messiah is joining us live now from a number are there thanks for being a live on r.t. international you compile this report tell us where you got the solid information from what's backing it up here. well in fact we have human rights and freedom department and all the people are coming to us and document these cases to ask on the other hand we are monitoring orders going on our country human rights activists we have a great and huge. team they monitor what's going on here and there and the violation still remain. lots of people are arrested and detained it was one hundred eighty three persons been detained on december thirty one of them was trial less than eighteen years and one of them aged ten years and the other thirteen years and they are still in the jail up to this moment the house raids is ongoing and it's almost two hundred and seven house raids have been during the night time and. lots of vandalism tortures the ongoing while the authority are denying that they are torturing people in the investigation rooms but actually it is ongoing. practice and it is a. really big title

live pictures for you right here on r.t. international from kiev as opposition leaders protesters against violence as the city is split by barricades with at least two killed in the. rival positions clash of the geneva two conference on syria even before the warring sides of the conflict sit down for direct talks. and n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden reportedly asking russia. protection amid mounting death threats. from moscow its aussie international with me rule research we've got your top headlines for this hour. leaders of the ukrainian opposition have called on protesters in kiev to refrain from violence over the city's embattled remains a blaze overnight these are live pictures we're showing for you right now in fact it's proximately eleven am there in the ukrainian capital the latest report from there with correspondent peter on. 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 of me talking now we have seen a a distinct d

moodie no she gets more comment on it technology writer from london hi there glenn you're live on r.t. international there you are my name is kevin owen thanks take the time to be with us you can hear me. your initial thoughts i guess you were listening across to war i had to say over the last hour or so there in washington damage limitation could more have been done. much more i was struck how completely very full of loopholes it was i agree with the last speaker that everything's been punted into the long grass he said i'm going to set up a committee to do this i've asked this department to look at this everything's in the future we just don't know what he's really promised and so i was very disappointed there was probably nothing concrete in there for example as far as the metadata collection is concerned he announced grandly well we're going to stop doing this that i haven't actually decided how we're going to stop doing that so obviously the details matter there similarly in terms of the spying on the rest of the world it is very important to note that foreigners have far fewer rights than the

amid the tension in the ukrainian capital international we'll keep you up to date with the events throughout the day you can also log on to r.t. dot com for live updates directly from kiev. it's r t international live from moscow thank you for joining us it seems that everyone is descending on switzerland today on the shores of lake geneva political heavyweights are trying to put syria back on the path to peace. or the giants of international diplomacy have the future of syria under a magnifying glass as the long awaited peace talks have started in the picturesque town of montreaux. going off now joining me live from switzerland with the latest statement so you have got a good to see you here on r.t. international we were showing un chief ban ki moon the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov and of course the u.s. secretary of state john kerry opening statements but as i understand you accord the main condition for talks is that there be no preconditions and yet john kerry the u.s. secretary of state letting out a precondition that assad house to go. well that's right laurie even though the main agreement for this conference was to be for it

i mean it's going to be true glenn great to talk to you thanks so much for joining us live here on r.t. international glenn ford former m.e.p. there in brussels thank you. the brits just can't get themselves fired up about voting anymore would turn up for elections in recent years on a downward slide and it's young people in particular who are backing away from the ballot box only ten percent say they'll definitely take part in next year's general election reports now from london. there's nobody worth fighting for i wouldn't vote i want you to point. sorry i'm not really sure what sentiments that don't bode well for democratic legitimacy and british politicians as electoral engagement continues to decline and the public's emotions turn sour anger is the chief reaction to politicians across all sections of the electorate a recent poll found followed by boredom particularly among the youth with one study showing that only one in ten are definitely planning to vote in the u. case twenty fifteen the general elections have voted before i regret doing it i don't want to be involved with it and i don't want

it's just gone a little after nine am here in the russian capital you live with us on r.t. international with me to along with a thank you for tuning in. millions of those who are concerned over the extent to which they've been watched by america's national security agency and are waiting to hear from the country's president he's expected to announce much anticipated changes to the way the agency works but it's unclear how far the reforms will go r.t. some sex 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 might remember when it was disclosed that allied world leaders like brazil

snowden calling his leaks to the press a perfect storm that would endanger american lives later today on r.t. international abby martin on breaking the set she goes to pull that to pieces. shortly after perjuring himself about how the u.s. government is not spying on every american citizen national intelligence director james clapper appeared before a senate judiciary hearing to blow some more hot air according to transcript clapper called on snowden in his quote accomplices to return the remaining stolen documents pertaining to the n.s.a.'s global spying apparatus yes aside from painting snowden as a criminal clapper also seems to believe that the dozens of journalists who have simply reported on the legal documents as his criminal accomplices proper stance on journalist simply doing their jobs sends a chilling message one echoed by the british parliament recently when it accused guardian journalists of aiding terrorists but equating journalism with terrorism seems like a trend that's becoming more commonplace among government officials on the plus side it seems like a desperate attempt by the intelligenc

live from moscow this is r.t. international with the twenty four hours a day coming up later in the program this chewing out european countries jump off the euro vision ship one. also. teach me. good knowledge represented russia at the u. revision song contest in twenty ten despite only coming eleventh he describes his participation as a major highlight which propelled him to new heights audience grew very very much many people to get to know us so they began to come to our concerts it was great. music experience because it was a concert on the great greatest. auditory that i could ever imagine. from drag queens to hellish creatures and some of europe's brightest talents one of the world's most watched t.v. programs the eurovision song contest brought fame to the likes of celine dion and julio iglesias however votes have not always been spread purely for it is to qualities say researchers from switzerland actually really shouldn't be nice in giving us a measure of species international relations or their feet your cohesion with

hello and welcome live from moscow you're with r.t. international and i'm and you say now like good to have you with us straight to our top story ready set and only a month to go sochi is ticking the final boxes and its winter olympics preparations let's cross live now to our cheese paul scott who's there paul just a monk laughs certainly almost everything is nearly ready. well organizers are confident that everything is on track. all the eleven venues have been completed built and tested to international standards on more than one occasion and all the transport networks including the high speed rail service between the coastal cluster and the mountain cluster are also up and running now there is still some work to be done but it's mainly superficial in terms of sprucing the city up so it looks nice come the opening ceremony on february the seventh what you can see behind me is the coastal cluster or the olympic village where six of the venues are housed where six of the venues are based including the fish stadium which is going to host the opening

live from moscow you're watching r.t. international i'm lindsey france thanks for joining me rioters in ukraine's capital of kiev are reportedly holding two policemen hostage authorities also say an officer was found shot dead in the city center with another in hospital with stab wounds amid burning the barricades the protesters and riot police showered the streets with molotov cocktails and rubber bullets over night. the fury and kava spreading to ukraine's west as well as artist reports. these are the scenes playing out across western ukraine one by one thirteen region so far have been overcome by protest grange rioters have stormed regional administration buildings it turned violent in some cases as angry crowds clashed with the police and over not occurring to the west of the river which breaks the country into but on the other side there's hardly any disturbance at all if we're talking about people from cellphone east and boss they are not eager to participate in any sort of military action in the southern region of the crimea aut

broadcast twenty four seven live from moscow you with r.t. international now doctors say still touching go over the condition of a three month old baby girl injured in the recent terror attacks in volgograd she's currently in intensive care in a hospital in moscow artie's market how has more details. i am here at this children's hospital where baby was brought and she is currently fighting for her life behind me now doctors did give up a press conference earlier regarding what they are doing for her and here's what they had to say whether good you as a baby go remains in a coma we put her on a ventilator in intensive care also she sustained some light yet serious brain damage the condition is very serious but we've got it under control they b.b.q. was originally on the trolley on eight thirty december the thirtieth that bus with her mother and her grandmother they were headed to the hospital where because it was already sick and going to receive some testing to find out what was going on they were standing at the epicenter of that blast in very close proxi

live from. moscow this is r.t. international with twenty four hours a day several hundred captives of a hardline rebel group linked to al qaida have been freed in syria and were being held by fighters from the islamic state of iraq and levant one of the most radical jihadist militant groups in the region middle east correspondent paula has more on this and you may find some footage in her report just. the script is looking as if the actions of kerry's arms are increasingly horrific there is video that is circulating of a terrible execution the video is verified but it comes from the syrian city of aleppo and what we see in it is people who have been killed by this al qaeda affiliated state in iraq committed violent which is calling itself the i guess it is understand is that the people killing each other for to flee from the feeling and emotion seen journalists among them as you see they will shake their heads as well as being handcuffed now this comes off to these this is the most medals have to be hit for the treatment of and

hello and welcome live from moscow you're with r.t. international i mean east and now a with our top story in iraq local tribes have stepped in to liberate their homes from al qaeda linked militants sunni elders have asked government troops to pull back from anbar province as local militias retake key positions from islamist forces meanwhile foreign powers have also weighed in do political rivals iran and america have united in opposition to the islamists is going to now reports. because of politics of the last few decades you think about the u.s. and iran as enemies that don't have anything in common but they do and it's fight against terror for one the kind of terror that is now so rapidly metastasizing in syria and in your book radical sunni militants are gaining food hold in iraq's own bar province and the iraqi government is struggling to drive them out now for americans who had heard the term state sponsor of terrorism so many times used to try and iran this whole setting sounds unusual and u.s. secretary of state john kerry saying that iran m