you're watching r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program. now the british government's attempts to stamp the tide of articles on mass surveillance have gone beyond intimidating the journalist behind the publications just a day after glenn greenwald's partner was detained at heathrow airport the guardian's head of her came forward describing how the authorities pressure the newspaper to destroy documents provided by n.s.a. leaker edward snowden well let's now talk to r.t. says our who is in london to say thank you so much for joining us here on r t so how exactly do the guardian staff end up being forced to thrash their hard drives. all of this was written by the editor of the guardian alan rusbridger it seemed to have happened over a period of a couple of months rusbridger was contacted by what he wrote as officials who claim to represent the views of the prime minister to demand that the information be surrendered or destroyed now he said that over that period th

r.t. don't come. russia's interior ministry has called claims of discrimination and bias towards homosexuals in the country far fetched and guarantee the safety and comfort of anyone competing in the upcoming sochi winter olympics this was in response to global protests by the gay community who were calling for russia to be stripped of the games for introducing what they believe is an anti-gay law there see catherine of looks at what is causing the strong reaction the international reaction as well as domestic here reaction here in russia has really been hands on what this law doesn't doesn't do and there's been a lot of misconceptions about aceh let's really break it down now. the bill criminalizes the public expression of support for so-called nontraditional relationships russian lawmakers say that it doesn't outlaw homosexuality it merely discourages the discussion of it among people younger than eighty and now the law doesn't outlaw gay sex which was actually legalized in russia back in one thousa

this is r.t. coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina josh and welcome to the program .well the obama administration is willing to step up drone strikes in yemen even further despite no precise intelligence on terrorist targets there according to a report from washington and this may well be sending chills down the spines of ordinary yemenis who bear the brunt of the man to tax it even pushes some to join the ranks of al qaida are going off reports recent research suggests that since two thousand and two was drone strikes in yemen have claimed the lives of over eight hundred seventy people ninety nine percent of those victims were killed under the obama administration thirty eight since late july alone washington claims most of them were suspected al qaeda terrorists but locals are painting a different picture it's hard to verify the exact number of civilian deaths i would miss reports are often contradictory and the bodies of those killed in drone strikes are sometimes too badly charred to be identified in september last year thirteen civilians were killed including wom

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program. kurds in syria are calling out for international help to prevent a genocide against their people that follows reports of mass murderers and kidnappings of civilians by rebel forces. has the details the kurdish democratic union has officially turned to the international community asking them to pay close attention and to rescue them from the fighting that is happening in this region and essentially asking the likes of the un to save kurds who are being among the syrians who are killed on the basis of their regional and secretary and identity among them they're saying a lot of women children and the elderly in this statement because they are saying that these practices are fully alike with ethnic cleansing and genocide and of course they're accusing the cell a few groups in the groups such as the a loser front operating in this region now russia for a for a very long time was telling the world essentially to pay closer attention to what's happening in this region and. has just reiterate

a welcome you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me andrey farm. fresh surveillance scandal is unveiling in the u.k. it's been revealed that major telecom companies are secretly collaborating with the british intelligence agency giving it unlimited access to the private communications of millions of customers documents naming verizon business vodafone cable and bt among the companies aiding g c h q to intercept much of the world's online and telephone traffic were lead by the whistleblower edward snowden this comes hot on the heels of previous revelations showing the agency was generously financed by the n.s.a. r.t. sarah firth has more now from london. these three big companies and the four smaller companies really making up a large part of the high capacity undersea fiber optic cables that really make up the backbone of the internet's architecture now these fiber optic cables carry vast amounts of data for millions of uses back in june the guardian newspaper had revealed details of t.c.h. call data hoovering programs not this was where t c h q it

i welcome it's good to have your company you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow now in recent weeks saudi arabia has launched an offensive against anti regime activists arresting many and sentencing some years in jail the total number of political prisoners is now surpassed forty thousand according to some reports the crackdown is even forced a member of the ruling family to defect r.t. arabic spoke exclusively to saudi prince khaled bin. who accuses the morning of corruption and silencing all voices of dissent. the government is obviously scared of the arab revolutions and they responded as they usually do by resorting to oppression violence arbitrary law and arrest the easiest thing they can do is deprive you of your salary or fire you altogether so the ruling regime is not guarded by justice and this is especially true of the ministry of interior there is no independent judiciary that has both police and the prosecutor's office are countable to the interior ministry the ministries officials investigate crimes they call them crimes relat

international news and comment watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me andrew farmer now there have been further revelations in the ongoing spy scandal in the u.k. the world's major telecommunication firms have been working alongside a british intelligence agency handing over swathes of private data documents leaked by u.s. whistleblower edward snowden suggests that the rise in business vodafone cable and bt were among those who gave g c h q unlimited access to their network of cables their collaboration allowed the agency to harvest millions of phone calls e-mails and facebook conversations and this comes in the wake of reports that america's national security agency is generously funded by british surveillance details now from r.t. sara furphy joins me live. can you tell us more about hall how all this works. well some big names in there for the telecommunications companies bt vodafone cable verizon business these three big companies along with four other smaller companies have been named now those companies operate a hu

watching r.t. coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina joshie today we take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news well age of seeing its deadliest violence since the twenty you haven't revolution with more than eight hundred people killed across the country over the past week supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi and the authorities blame each other for provoking the carnage the situation escalated after security forces broke up and said government sit ins and islamist riders retail you know by setting fire to official buildings and attacking christian churches are just beltran has been witnessing the mayhem in cairo at first hand. well the tensions are palpable here in the capital cairo as today marks the start of what the morsy supporters have called departure the coup week which is that we could long series of protests and rallies in the capital and across the country particularly yesterday we had this twenty four hour standoff between morsy supporters an

international news and comment you're watching r.t. coming she live from moscow. now mass anti-government demonstrations are planned in bahrain and the government has promised a strong response today marks the country's forty second anniversary of independence from britain and exactly two and a half years since the current wave of unrest started police confronting protesters and foreign clouds of tear gas these scenes have become common in the gulf nation ever since the uprising began despite constant talks between the ruling sunni family and your position the shia majority in the country want a constitutional monarchy with a government which is chosen to a democratically elected parliament artie's lucy caffein of details the key events of the unrest over the past two and a half years a majority shiite country ruled by the sunni all khalifa family in bahrain has been a rocked by political unrest since twenty eleven and for the past two years the majority shiite opposition has been pushing for democratic reforms and more say in their government but those demands ha

welcome back this is r.t. comingto you live from moscow three regions in russia's far east are preparing for the worst flooding in a century waters are expected to peak next week too with three large regions already affected huge swathes of farmland have been swamped causing around sixty million dollars worth of possible damage thirty two thousand people have been stricken by the disaster and over half of them have been relocated by emergency crews but up to one hundred thousand people may still need to be evacuated from their homes moscow's dispatching army units to help tackle the tragedy russian weather experts say the disaster is not expected to recede until early next month. reports from one of the stricken districts. the flood stretch from east to west a distance of two thousand kilometers and from north to south a distance of five hundred kilometers now there was a real concern that the situation could get worse with more rain on to supply did over the next twenty four forty eight hours or so the flood levels

welcome back here with r.t. coming to live from moscow catastrophic flooding in russia's far east has put more than one hundred thousand people at the risk of losing their homes in the worst such a disaster in more than a century nearly twenty thousand people have. overdye been evacuated to safety but that number is expected to rise with heavy rains likely to last until september the floods hit more than one hundred twenty villages with locals being moved to shelters for food and medical care much of the surrounding countryside is some merged with the damage currently estimated at around sixty million dollars artie's both caught reports from the scene of a delusion with the water levels in some parts of the region having risen seventy two centimeters on saturday alone the evacuations are continuing the worst case estimates suggest that one hundred thousand people may be forced to leave their home however it is hoped that that final number will be substantially lower now the worst hit areas of the remote rural villages

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshing and welcome to the program. now egypt seeing its deadliest violence since the two thousand and eleven revolution with more than eight hundred people killed across the country over the past week supporters of the ousted president mohamed morsi and the authorities blame each other for provoking the carnage the situation escalated after security forces broke up and said government sit ins and islamist rioters retail heeded by setting fire to official buildings and attacking christian churches has been witnessing the mayhem in cairo at first hand. well the tensions are palpable here in the capital cairo as today marks the start of what the morsy supporters have called departure the coup week which is that we could long series of protests and rallies in the capital and across the country particularly yesterday we had this twenty four hour standoff between morsy supporters and security forces which resulted in a very bloody gun battle

welcome it's good to have you company you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me andrew farm. now there have been further revelations in the ongoing spy scandal in the u.k. the world's major telecommunications have been working alongside a british intelligence agency handing over swathes of private data documents leaked by u.s. whistleblower edward snowden suggest that verizon business vodafone cable and bt were among those who gave g c h q unlimited access to their network of cables their collaboration allowed the agency to harvest millions of phone calls e-mails and facebook conversations and this comes in the wake of reports that america's national security agency is generously funding british surveillance the details now from artie's. incredibly high profile names in the telecommunications industry and these three big companies and the four smaller companies really making up a large part of the high capacity undersea fiber optic cables that really make up the backbone of the internet's architecture now back in june the guardian

hello welcome you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with make. now relations between russia and the u.s. suffered a major setback this week at least according to the american side first president obama canceled a one on one summit with putin and then even called for a pause in the relationship russia expressing disappointment over these developments insists however there are no signs of a return to the cold war. as the details. this week when president obama canceled the bilateral meeting with the russian president in september u.s. russia relations have paid a new low on friday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the russian defense minister arrived in washington as planned to meet their u.s. counterparts and we heard two different messages coming from president obama and foreign minister lavrov both held a news conference on the same day at the same time in different venues of course with foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it away from the cold war talk with president obama seemingly doing the opposi

welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to life from moscow a jailed for oil tycoon meal how to cost he is set to walk free earlier than expected after an appeal hearing at russia's supreme court artist medina caution it was outside the court building to tell us more. already a tell us more about what kind of a breakup accosting is just received at this appeal hearing. right well russia's supreme court has reduced by two months to prison terms for jailed. and his business partner don't leave is if now the courts to today was to rule whether the second conviction for money laundering and embezzlement should be left to the defense team of me paul had demanded he is released saying that they were convicted on charges that were invalid right from the start so while leaving this court building today a lawyer said that they would appeal the decision. was not present at this court hearing to spoke via video link from the prison colony and he was due to be released in october two thousand and fourteen but now he will walk free a ye

a welcome it's good to have you company watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with meg and. now private bradley manning was this week found guilty of america's biggest leak of restricted information with almost all charges in his court martial standing although he was cleared of the most serious charge of aiding the enemy he still faces more than one hundred thirty years in prison so let's take a look at how it all unfolded bradley manning was deployed to iraq in two thousand and nine he soon exposed the collateral murder video showing the civilians there being killed by u.s. troops but after a series of online chats with a hacker manning was turned into the government and arrested for more revelations followed exposing iraq and afghanistan war logs along with diplomatic cables all published by wiki leaks in march twenty levin manning was accused of aiding the enemy charge that could have kept him behind bars for life and while waiting for his court martial the u.n. described manning's prison treatment as in the main but the judge did not allow the global bodies torture insp

international news and comment you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. now an american judge has found private bradley manning guilty of almost all charges against him a former intern. is more than one hundred thirty years behind bars for leaking a massive amount of classified data the soldier was however cleared of the most serious and controversial charge of aiding the enemy so let's take a look at the timeline of events surrounding manning it all started when he was deployed to iraq in two thousand and nine several months later he exposed the world of video showing u.s. troops killing civilians in iraq his arrest didn't stop revelations as wiki leaks published a new trade of classified data including diplomatic cables he faced twenty two charges including aiding the enemy united nations called manning's confinement conditions torture us and inhumane as he awaited the court martial which started this chain but the judge didn't allow be un inspected to testify finally he was found guilty of nineteen of the charges against him with the leak seen as the b

this is r.t. coming to live from moscow i'm or even joshua welcome to the program as washington tries drumming up support for possible intervention in syria its closest ally the u.k. has ruled out military action but a huge blow by parliament which rejected his plan to support the u.s. if it chooses war the motion filed mounting allegations of a mass chemical attack near damascus largely being blamed on us his government argues sara for us followed the crucial session in london. defeated and humiliated that's how the prime minister is being portrayed today after that major political blow with parliament voting against military action it means that the prime minister's decision essentially to recall parliament to bring this nation against possible military action in syria has backfired spectacularly now i'm not standing here and saying those some piece or some pieces of intelligence that i've seen all the gypsy in the world won't see that convinces me that i'm right and anyone who disagrees with me is wro

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program while we begin it with breaking news how barack obama has canceled a one to one with russia's president vladimir putin that was scheduled for next month the white house claims the decision was prompted by moscow granting temporary refuge to the fugitive whistleblower edward snowden well let's now bring in our correspondent your piskun often has more on this igor what sort of reaction can we now expect from moscow well since the speculation about president obama canceling his one on one meeting with vladimir putin somewhere around the upcoming g twenty summit in st petersburg began on the scene as russia granted temporary asylum to edward snowden the new it's unlikely that it's going to be a surprise to officials in moscow but it's also very clear that it's going to be greeted with applause because moscow is stance on this whole situ. around mr snowden it was very clear from the beginning first of all he was

and i welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow. now the father of a chechen man shot dead while being questioned by the f.b.i. in his home has traveled to the u.s. to demand someone be held accountable here but he family insist he was unarmed while being interrogated about his links with the men accused of carrying out the boston marathon bombings there are allegations he was shot in the back of the head artes and this is the grieving father who wants justice for his son. a quaint residential neighborhood in florida and a father who can't hold back his tears. nothing will bring me peace as long as i live from the moment it happened i haven't been able to forget about it even for a second barely containing his grief. of takes a moment several times during our interview. a few days ago he arrived in the u.s. from russia to seek answers for his son a brother games tragic death this is the entrance into the condo where twenty seven year old greg lived minutes away from disney world it was here that on may twenty second after reportedly

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh welcome to the program . intense gunfire is being reported in the egyptian capital were scores of the ousted president supporters are battling a mass deployment of security forces on the streets both morsy euless and police officers have been killed in the cairo riots and elsewhere in the country belt true as in the egyptian capital. it's another chaotic day here in egypt so most of what the supporters of mohamed morsy call the day of rage in ramses square which is in downtown cairo just off the area is absolutely massive the moment twenty eight marches converged on the square when they basically intended to set up a sit in by about half past two three pm gunshots could be heard both automatic weapons and rifle rounds i'm not sure exactly how it started it was coming from direction of a police station called as became a police station need to ramses square but there are wildly differing accounts about who attacked first one side they're saying the muslim brotherhood supporters have mostly fired on the police

and i welcome you watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me andrey. now relations between russia and the u.s. suffered a major setback this week at least according to the american side first president obama canceled a one on one summit with blood amid putin and then even called for a pause in the relationship russia while expressing disappointment over these developments insists however there are no signs of a return to the cold war. as the details. this week when president obama canceled the bilateral meeting with the russian president in september u.s. russia relations have hit a new low on friday the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov and the russian defense minister arrived in washington as planned to meet their u.s. counterparts and we heard two different messages coming from president obama and foreign minister lavrov both held a news conference on the same day at the same time in different venues of course with foreign minister lavrov trying very hard to ease the tension to move it away from the cold war talk with president obama seemingly

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital hi marina josh welcome to the program in cairo the standoff between islamist protesters who have been holed up in a downtown mosque and security forces has reportedly been followed by an intense gun battle hundreds barricaded themselves inside the building overnight fearing arrest if they merged was no head to cairo to get the latest from our correspondent troop well bill tell us what's going on with the siege. well it's absolutely chaotic i literally just came from this downtown central scrag where this mosque is housed and there were just there was just gunfire everywhere what's happened at the moment is the appears to be a shooting on the minarets of the mosque shooting down on to the army who are responding meanwhile inside there are still hundreds of protesters i spoke to one a go back to me who stuck inside they say they are two rooms in the mosque they're in the back room barricaded in there's at least seven hundred of them that they want to

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now the british government to stand the tide of articles a mass surveillance have gone beyond intimidating the journalist behind the publications just a day after glenn greenwald's partner was detained at heathrow airport the guardian's editor came forward describing how the authorities pressure the newspaper to destroy documents provided by n.s.a. leaker edward snowden are just are still he has the details in london. you have been contacted he said about two months ago by by government officials demanding the surrender or destruction of all materials in their possession relating to surveillance of the surveillance operations uncovered by edward snowden and then he said that a month later he was again contacted from what he calls quote unquote at the center of government in which he was told quote you've had your fun now we want the stuff back and he had written that there were subsequent meetings with certa

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program now the blame game surrounding the alleged chemical attack in syria is gathering pace syria's foreign minister insists the gravels and foreign mercenaries fighting with them are behind the alleged atrocity once again refuting washington's assertion data was a regime accountable assault claims that already damaged adverts to find a peaceful solution with the us postponing a meeting with russia to discuss the revival of talks in geneva are losing often it has more in doubt. russia and the u.s. have been scheduled to meet in the hague on wednesday night this is to discuss setting up an international conference on finding a political solution to the crisis in syria now on monday a u.s. state department official indicated that the meeting would be postponed because of ongoing consultations over an alleged chemical weapons attack in syria and that russia meanwhile had expressed regret about that decision the deput

this is r.t. coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina josh and welcome to the program whereas for several inmates a guantanamo bay prison who are on hunger strike have filed a fresh appeal for u.s. judges to intervene and stop force feeding the facility the painful practice slammed internationally a store tour has continued to rock remedy and with a mass hunger strike now in its seventh month meanwhile the un's chief proper terror on torture has told r.t. is being denied full access to the detainees. unfortunately i was not allowed to visit. my database at least not in the terms that i have to apply under the rules that i am subject to i did get invited by the pentagon but on conditions that i couldn't accept because conditions was that i would see only the parts of the prison that they wanted to show me and specifically that they could not. i have to do the job of meeting. with inmates they claim that they can only give me the same terms that they give united states and i just dados for exampl

this is the weekly here on r.t. coming to live from moscow and inmate at guantanamo bay has accused guards of carrying out procedures amounting to sexual assault invasive routines were described by the last british resident at the facility shocker in a private talk to his lawyer another says that during the searches an extraction team walks in and forces a detain me to the floor putting down their arms and legs to prevent any movement the procedure then takes place takes place any time a prisoner wants to leave his cell to see a lawyer or a relative and it happens again when he returns prisoners believe that this is a tactic to intimidate them break the ongoing hunger strike and prevent them from taking legal steps to defend themselves but attorney clive stafford smith representing shaka says that the measures that the camp have the opposite effect we have not raised it with the american courts that there shouldn't be doing this this shouldn't effectively be sexually assaulting the prisoners and it was the government's i b

well this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital on marina joshie welcome to the program well russia says foreign intervention in syria would be a mistake that would further destabilize a country and the region and a news conference in light of the u.s. and its allies considering military action foreign minister sergei lavrov said there was no proof of regime used chemical weapons largely as a shawn thomas has been following the briefing and joins us now live sean talk us through the key points that sergey lavrov made what exactly do you say well certainly marina sergey lavrov spoke very seriously about the situation he had knowledge. that there is a growing hysteria and a build up of military presence presence regarding the situation in syria he questioned the west's inconsistency about evidence and the chain of custody with unconvincing arguments he also said that he questioned the timing saying it was aimed at peace talks and smashing those peace talks including the new geneva two accords plan

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital armory and josh welcome to the program now neither side of the egyptian standoff is willing to back down with a first dance having occurred in what's been declared as a friday of anger at least for supporters of deposed president mohamed morsy have been killed by police who were given the green light to fire a threat that has islam as began nationwide marches vowing to revenge after hundreds fell victim to a brutal crackdown on dissent the army has set up checkpoints and deployed military vehicles in egypt's biggest cities we'll talk to our correspondent in cairo and next hour but right now beltran is trying to reach our studio through the intensified security in the capital. in the meantime he can access what belcher is seeing online she's updating developments from the heart of egypt's deadly turmoil find her at twitter dot com slash about. true. well more disturbing footage of civilians being fired on allegedly by army snipers in cairo is emergi

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program. a new chapter is beginning for one of america's most wanted man who's finally left the moscow airport transit zone after more than a month in limbo whistleblower edward snowden is temporarily krita live and walking russia job offers are already coming in as he's eager for ports. now that seldon's manage to leave the transit zone of sydney to the airport this is a whole new chapter in this story but if really were we knew at least approximately where he was now his location is even more secret you would have to start with you to the fact that he was the most wanted person on planet earth to do he'll be concerned about the issue of security that includes questions of safety and the police where he is going to live that's all up to him i will consult and advise him but on other issues it's up to him as we're meeting the press yes he's ready to meet the russian media but you need to understand you still need some time to adapt to russian realities a lawyer and i personally accompanied sno

for a good meeting is just after ten pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. coming to you live my name is kevin i went first nato has become the latest to tell america it won't join its plan to attack syria the u.s. is struggling to drum up international support for action but secretary of state john kerry's been stating his case in the past hour or so indicating that washington is almost certain to proceed with military intervention anyway let's go live to d.c. our correspondent cans there how they got this news just having in the last hour or so how is he justifying it. well kevin those who expected to hear from john kerry some you know specific evidence that the u.s. claims it has were disappointed but he did refer to a paper that the white house would least with with with the title of the u.s. government assessment of the syrian government's use of chemical weapons on august twenty first twenty thirteen and also just we got a little bit and the only specifics that we got. probably the only ones where where we're here take a listen. we know that the regime was sp

just eight months with july being the deadliest month since two thousand and eight you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow and more news just ahead plus we report on what's behind the growing opposition to islam and the u.k. . wealthy british style it's time to retire from. the. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on our choose your language. call it make it with zero in federal court today still some. choose the consensus to. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that impact. choose access to. welcome back here with r.t. the counterterrorism forces in the u.k. are looking into a series of c.d.'s featuring pornographic an abuse of images insulting the prophet muhammad sent to several one to mosques the incident adds up to a wave of offensive acts towards british muslims by parts of society desperate to keep the u.k. islam free tests are silly a find out what it takes to strike a balance. my name is gavin baby and i'm the lawyer behind freedom foundation we still. that is we help local neighborhoods resist planning

this is r.t. coming to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program after being implicated in world wide surveillance america appears now to be targeting those who help users protect themselves against the n.s.a. spying is the owner of a secure email service used by whistleblower edward snowden is locked and of court battle with the u.s. government after being forced to shut down and here's a statement that love a bit leveson made two weeks ago when he took his service offline indicated that you are society's demanded information about his customers or else but according to him that would amount to a crime against the american people so he took this service offline instead levison isn't allowed the to disclose many details because of ongoing court proceedings but he did explain his decision to fire that to my colleague mark reza. if i had continued to operate i felt like it would have put me in a ethically compromising position. in other words the service no longer would have been what i intended it

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshie. the united states is facing the prospect of going it alone in syria after washington's key ally withdrew its support for airstrikes in a storage vote british lawmakers defeated a motion by david cameron's government marking the first time in recent years that the u.k. has refused to take part in a u.s. led intervention military action was rejected by a margin of thirteen the votes with thirty members of cameron's own party turning against him parliament refused to sanction british involvement in syria even if un inspectors conclude that damascus was indeed responsible for the use of chemical weapons earlier in august and attack that reportedly killed hundreds of civilians in the eyes of lawmakers cameron was unable to make a sufficiently convincing case against ossett well when pressed by m.p.'s to explain why this hearing regime would have resorted to his staff provoking for an action the premier admitted that british intelligence could not pinpoint a motive cameron then urged lawmak

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital joshua welcome to the program amid mounting disturbing reports of civilian kurds targeted by militants in syria the ass nigga is crying for help the kurdish democratic union party has filed an appeal to the e.u. about their plight the u.n. is also investigating the allegations of acid and cleansing our days are following the situation in the region. the kurdish democratic union has officially turned to the international community asking them to pay close attention and to rescue them from the fighting that is happening in this region and essentially asking the likes of the un to help to save kurds who are being among the syrians who are killed on the basis of their regional and secretary and identity among them they are saying a lot of women children and the elderly and the in this statement the kurds are saying that these practices are fully alike with ethnic cleansing and genocide and of course when they are talking about those who are committing

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh welcome to the program how is washington tries drumming up support for possible intervention in syria its closest ally the u.k. has ruled out military action the prime minister was dealt a huge blow by parliament which rejected his plan to support the u.s. if it chooses war the motion followed mounting allegations of a mass chemical attack near damascus largely being blamed on assets government here are some of david cameron's words which led parliament to its decision well cameron admits the u.k. has joint intelligence committee found a very difficult to pinpoint a motive of the alleged assault he urged lawmakers to make their own judgment against president asad and act on their convictions well that didn't win over parliament creating an embarrassing situation for downing street with arguably the first time a prime minister has been defeated on a vote for war since seven hundred eighty two r.t. said firth fall of the crucial session in london.

welcome back this is r.t. coming to live from moscow now the hunger strike again tottenham a bay has receded during the holy month of ramadan and attention has now turned to how the detainees are being treated there well we've heard accounts from several prisoners who describe a daily routine of invasive body searches which sometimes included sexual assault terry holbrooke's worked as a guard at the prison camp and he revealed the instructions he was given. we were told not to interact with them not to look at them as humans not to talk with them not to speak with them have nothing to do with them unless it was absolutely necessary important to work we were told to be very aggressive in searching growing . i don't think any of us as guards felt comfortable doing that as a result of such we didn't do that there were certain rules that we were given that many of us just didn't all of we didn't see on those as being the political logical or ethical in some circumstances. and over a hundred sixty six remaining we've had

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital armory joshie welcome to the program now and other top commander of the free syrian army has been shot dead by al-qaeda linked militants it's the second killing of its kind in less than a month and clearly illustrates the depot still a day between the rival groups fighting against president assad's army and while the may hand continues radicals are seeking to set up an islamist state in the country's northeast they area has a large kurdish population which is finding itself on the receiving end of a deadly offensive policy are now reports. we've been speaking to eyewitnesses relatives and also kurdish journalists and from the sequence of events that we've been able to piece together back on the nineteenth of july you had an assault by islamist extremists at that stage they placed a bomb in a local kurdish school they also rounded up and abducted a number of civilians the very next day and number of kurdish houses in various kurdish enclaves were bl

this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program . now it looks increasingly likely that syria will face a military onslaught with the british media now reporting that warplanes and transferred jets are being deployed to the u.k.'s air base in cyprus lying just two hundred kilometers from the syrian coastline the island is expected to become a launch point for a u.s. led campaign against the government are just as are so he joins me now live from london so tessa what else do we know about the military buildup in the area. well we know that over the weekend the rhetoric indeed has been increasingly tough and increasingly aggressive towards syria and various reports here have suggested that there is indeed a signs of muscle flexing in the region particularly surrounding syria it's been reported here by the guardian newspaper that warplanes and military transporters have been moved to britain's akrotiri air base in the cyprus citing that two commercial pilots who regularly fly from larnaca in cyprus have spotted a c. one thirty transport

this is r.t. coming to life from the russian capital marina joshing welcome to the program how the u.s. and british drive to launch a military operation against syria has come up against new hurdles both abroad and at home and westminster parliament is meeting right now and prime minister cameron is up against kept ical m.p.'s trying to get their approval for action let's now take a listen to what happens these weapons must not be used and president assad has in my view crossed that line and there should be consequences this was the first significant use of chemical weapons this century and taken together with the previous fourteen small scale attacks is the only instance of regular and indiscriminate use of chemical weapons by a state against its own people for at least one hundred years interfering in another country's affairs should don't be undertaken except in the most exceptional circumstances it must be as my own little friend just said a humanitarian catastrophe and it must be a last resort but b

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r.t. talk come. one child in edward snowden's saga was closed this week the u.s. whistleblower on the run has finally left the transit limbo of a moscow airport of course he's been stuck there for more than a month snowden has been granted temporary asylum here in russia and has already received some job offers including one from russia's biggest social network now while his whereabouts at the moment still unknown lindsey france recaps the media's chase for the former n.s.a. contractor. on sunday did twenty third when reports surfaced that the u.s. is newest whistleblower edward snowden was in russian airspace on a flight from his hong kong hideout every journalist knew the weekend was over and they all scurried here to section a i said to metro airport snowden and his wiki leaks advisor sarah harrison are a no show reporters found out that snowden and his advisors were due to be on a flight to cuba the next day so what did they do search around for the nearest hotel to get a good night's sleep before getting on that flight. june twenty fourth dawns the doors to t

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