this is why you should care what you only on the orgy dot com. a top u.s. army general says ousting serious president won't help get the country out of the mess it's in that's washington reiterate its support for the rebels opposed to bashar losses rishi. troops are given an ultimatum by forces of the newly proclaimed enhance people's republic to withdraw from the region by midnight amid renewed fighting in the rest of city of slovyansk. prepared to wait longer for your fast food while cash strapped restaurant workers try to squeeze a higher minimum wage from the industry's big names. this

four b.n. mosque here watching our team when we were in a joshua welcome to the program the syrian opposition would be incapable of governing the country if president assad was ousted and that's the view of a top u.s. military commander general martin dempsey says syria would remain in the grip of terror and chaos where the opposition unable to root out al qaeda linked groups in fighting is on the rise among the various rebel factions inside syria and new opposition coalition has been formed it blames the already existing syrian national coalition for failing to stop the violence but the white house has still pledged fresh support for the s.n.c. as a gun if she can there are reports. we're seeing a new push by the obama administration to fulfill a goal that he declared three years ago to topple the syrian president bashar assad has announced that syria will hold elections despite the war the us vehemently

opposes those elections washington has already decided who the legitimate representatives of the syrian people are is the syrian opposition coalition president obama has met with a coalition leader ahmad jarba at the white house this week u.s. secretary of state john kerry told the rebels we've wasted a year in the fight against assad the participants of the meeting said john kerry made the remark in the context of a discussion about renewed efforts to coordinate the flow of both aid and weapons to the syrian rebels the french foreign minister was also in washington this week and he said he quote unquote regret it that the u.s. had not bombed syria as its worth and all of this war talk amid the u.s. and europe saying that they want to find a political solution to the crisis in syria but we say there is no military victory meaning we being the united states there can be no military solution. every step that we're taking is a military step. and so obviously we're

setting up a. longer term conflict more conflict the u.n. envoy for syria locked our brain me has announced his resignation expressing regret for his inability to forge a coherent international response to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in syria the geneva talks have not led to a deal between the syrian government and the opposition although the syrian opposition has been largely unwilling to cut deals with the government of bashar assad nonetheless there have been instances of progress most recently thousands of syrians were turned to war battered parts of the central city of homs after the rebels left under an evacuation deal with the government but washington seems keen to. the syrian rebels to continue fighting instead of cutting deals even though a deal could save thousands of lives in washington i'm going to check on our team was here in crisis escalated after last year's chemical attack in aleppo killed

dozens of people where the government and the rebels blaming each other for the massacre in june u.s. president barack obama upped the ante by authorizing military aid to the syrian rebels for the first time and the crisis reached a peak two months later with western leaders calling for military strikes on syria citing another controversial chemical attack as a red line but just as a military intervention loomed large a diplomatic breakthrough was brokered by russia which helped persuade syria to give up its chemical arsenal damascus began getting rid of its stockpiles in october and is expected to complete the handover ahead of the deadline in june and the next step to the ask allay the crisis came in geneva where syrian government and the opposition officials said down for talks for the first time but the negotiations ultimately failed to break the deadlock as both sides resumed hostilities and now tensions have again escalated where the white house hosting the syrian opposition leader and support and pledging fresh support for the insurgency

let's not discuss further the situation with academic and political analyst. thank you so much mr amazon for joining us here on r.t. to talk about this well as we heard earlier a top u.s. commander says syria will remain in chaos if leaves to what extent do you agree or disagree with the statement. actually this is the main goal of the united states since the beginning of the syrian crisis in two thousand and eleven because as we remember in two thousand and eleven the syrian government has called repeatedly for a dialogue with the syrian opposition groups about the united states convince this groups that the syrian government will be will be over told by by proxy war and that they will arm the so-called rebels in syria or to overthrow just gone but now the current situation in my own understanding the united states wants this

war to prolong in order to create a failed state in syria because even if. the elections the americans will never stop financing and arming this so called the rebels in syria by turkey party agent states such as qatar and saudi arabia and even by turkey so the state is the main goal of the united states and they are going step by step and encouraging those who are fighting on the ground to to for the destruction of the infrastructure in syria the hospitals cutting water and electricity on the whole cities for example you know liberal did the residents three million people we made we don't want to for nine to ten days because the good guys of john kerry cut the electricity and the water on the people they launched the so-called liberals the launch of campaign calling hashtags seem unimportant but saving the liberal is not by putting the water on the people certainly didn't say very dire situation there

as you described there on the ground but look today what we are having is the grouping that's called friends of syria are meeting in london and that would include eleven western and arab countries sitting down at the table and talking to each other what do you expect to come out of it. we have to remind our audience that these so-called friends of syria conference which has been launched in two thousand and twelve there were one hundred over one hundred twenty countries supporting the opposition in syria but there are now only eleven western imperialist dog bark states this indicates that most of the states there are aware now that the repercussion of the syrian crisis is imposing a serious threat on regional and international security because remember we were watching the picture in your news that for example but obama meets with the german defector reminds me of the meeting between president reagan in one nine hundred

eighty with the mujahideen a funny guy in afghanistan this is the same scenario but the stupidity is to repeat the same thing about expect a different outcome the situation in syria is not between desir in government and the opposition it is between the syrian government and armed extremists who are fighting everybody there who oppose their narrative their narrative is to create an islamic caliphate in syria the governance of the will of the people and the only prospect there of the of of the secular values or the civil values of the syrian state is the army is the syrian army so this friends of syria conference now they will they would not to each install any are any kind of arguments because they are not able to overthrow the government to support to using force so they will only prolong this war and all the hope that the syrian army will able to crush disarray billion in all the places or to make any conciliation as it happened in homes and

also in the suburbs of damascus political analysts can work honestly i think is so much for talking to us here on our team or national. and as we mentioned the friends of syria meeting is due to begin later in the london a with a purpose of pledging more support for the embattled syrian opposition so do stay with our international to find out what comes out of that meeting later in the day . some of the fans forces of the newly proclaimed in the people's republic are urging ukraine's military to withdraw from the region they say they will move against troops if the ultimatum isn't met by the end of thursday gunfire and artillery have been heard outside slovyansk and the city which is about six hundred kilometers from kiev was among the first to face a crackdown by government forces and as artie's policy reports after being under

siege by the army for weeks now the city is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. we're now entering the town of slovyansk which is completely encircled by the ukrainian military this is a ukrainian army checkpoint and as you can see the cars are backed up a little way down the road there it will take me a better part of at least one hour to get him because of this because the town is so encircled you have a growing humanitarian crisis supplies simply cannot get in. get patients in the town are running out just many of them simply do not have any gas that we provide outside to come and fill up the car here put on your natural supplies will run out so there will be nothing to run our cars on and we won't be able to get. the local hospital is treating people who've been injured not only here in slovyansk but also in neighboring towns there's real concern that it's been pushed to crisis point and

because of this ordinary people have been arriving with packets of food and blankets toiletries as well as medical supplies to try and stop this from happening the gates has been closed here for the better part of two days this is the local grid factory where people are simply too afraid to come to work choosing rather to stay inside their homes as a result the prices of bread and flour have skyrocketed and in the shops there are long queues to buy it. this is one of the largest supermarkets in the town they have been rumors circulating for days that the shelves are empty and that suppliers are not able to get in let's go have a look last solves. i'm scared so it's almost everyone i know i haven't felt this much fear in my entire life. this is the fourth

a.t.m. that we've been to and none of them are working they are at least seven banks that have stopped operating in the town. as you can see the shops are closed and the streets are mostly empty people are choosing to stay home rather than risk coming to the streets there's a sense of anxiety and fear in the air a feeling that a military strike is imminent poulos there are t. slovyansk eastern ukraine while the way the e.u. views the unfolding crisis in ukraine has sparked fury in germany. oh. this is how chancellor angela merkel was greeted and her party campaign meeting in berlin and the event organized by her christian democratic union was disrupted by protesters angry at their country stance in ukraine's conflict demonstrators buda the chancellor and brandished banners demanding the arrest of analogies and

a crane and call for stronger ties with russia well for more about the growing public discontent of the e.u. policies in ukraine let's talk live to john locke on director of the institute of democracy and cooperation in paris john thanks so much for being here with us in r.t. any european a what exactly is it about the e.u. policies that cause such a. stormy reaction in germany well it is interesting that the reaction in germany has been stronger i think than in any other european country obviously in germany for well known historical reasons there is a greater sensitivity to the issue of naziism than there might be in other countries and secondly of course germany is traditionally a close neighbor and close economic partner of russia many germans not least not just those in the east but many germans have always been well disposed towards russia and they're therefore angry at chancellor merkel's very pro-american

policies i don't think however that it would be right to say that this is a general trend yes there have been some demonstrations meetings and so on in germany yes there have been some dissenting voices in the in the german newspapers and in the german elites but i don't believe that one can say unfortunately that there is a sea change in european public opinion certainly you know john what's interesting here i mean let's leave europe aside for a while for a short while and take a look at what's happening stateside specifically now the congressman john and presidential candidate ron paul has questioned his country's role in ukraine in crisis and we can now take a listen to what he had to say. i don't like our government getting involved in the affairs of other people and leading only to trouble have followed the admonition of our early founders of the country that we should be involved in the entangling alliances throughout the world nor in the internal affairs of other nations so

whether it's the middle east northern africa or whether it's ukraine. well the full interview with ron paul is available on our website but having just heard what he had to say what do you make of his words and do you agree with what he said or disagree with your position yeah i absolutely agree with the my i'm a longstanding admirer of ron paul a known fact i'm on the board of his of his institute i don't know myself but i know the executive director of his institutional support ron paul a very strongly and admire his work but i think even ron paul's admirers in the united states would agree with me that he has a voice in the wilderness certainly in the american congress even when he was in congress he was always in a minority of one for voting against america's various wars abroad and i'm afraid we're a long way from there being a sea change in america either there will of course be a dissenting opinion. in american civil society that's for sure but was it

a visible arse or just finish what you the political class remains completely dominated completely dominated by the neo conservatives on the left in the democratic camp and on the right in the republican camp and i'm afraid we're unfortunately we're a long way from that changing as well as he despite the fact that there are voices of disagreement both in the europe and the states as he just said they're not numerous arab but europe still wants to impose more sanctions on russia in europe you know what form can they take well there are all sorts of things that europe can do it can ratchet up what it's already done it can publish a longer list of people who are subject to personal sanctions it will definitely abandon the visa liberalization program which russia has been asking for for nearly a decade now and it may even reduce economic exchanges i mean let's not forget this

is the same european union that introduced the euro which has throttled the european economy. and which has throttled individual european economies particularly greece spain and the club med countries in the name of the ideology of european integration and the confrontation with russia russia is just as ideological and for the same reasons as the euro project these two of these two projects are different sides of the same coin so russia should not be under any illusions that the european elites are prepared to cut off their nose to spite their face in other words they are prepared to undergo or make other people undergo severe economic pain in order to justify and entrenched their ideological hostility to russia of that i personally have no doubt at all why is it just that recently announced along. the russian foreign ministry said that what's important here is to continue the dialogue and not looking at different positions that exist on the

issue there what is your take on this. well that is the that is what you would expect a civilized country to say obviously particularly in a very volatile situation like ukraine where as wanted to even want to western newspapers the guardian this morning has picked up the notion that there is an incipient civil war in ukraine it's obvious that civilized nations should call for dialogue the west european union and the united states have systematically supported the men of violence in kiev by men of violence i mean not just the nazis about whom the russian media speaks a lot but more importantly the people who are actually in ministerial positions the prime minister and the other members of the new government in kiev are those people who have used violence to gain to get where they are now and they are prepared to use violence to stay there and they have been supported and probably encouraged in this well we know they've been encouraged in it by the americans and by the europeans so it's a very dirty game indeed which the west is playing but i repeat it's because they

are the west is engaged in an all out ideological and geopolitical struggle with russia which it intends to we're. going to jog and thank you so much for a year of years here on r.t. international director of studies and cities for democracy and cooperation in paris very much appreciated thank you. and coming up after the break here in our national fast food workers anger at their employers goes global we're following the strikes that are set to take place in over thirty five countries worldwide distinctness. you said that the european union has no alternative but to work with russia as it is not trying to pretend that it is something different and i wonder if you put a lot of a doubt about what is russia as it is russia as it is as you said it's a country still in transition it doesn't really have recovered its identity. russia

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big macs or classic whoppers stick to the streets to participate in what is expected to be the largest ever strike against the industry while the walk outs will take place in at least thirty five countries around the world to squeeze better wages from the fast food giants while the images right here that you can see are the latest protests are the latest protests which are taking place in japan well here's marina border now with more on why the workers are running out of patience. the fight for a decent living wage is a battle millions of citizens can relate to and it's also a battle that is not going away fast food workers throughout the u.s. are walking off the job in onto the streets thursday demanding a paid increase and the right to unionize you see fast food is a two hundred billion dollar industry but the majority of those who prepare and serve the meals for those folks they're living in poverty or close to it the

problem is that the majority of fast food workers are paid minimum wage to us the federal minimum wage is seven twenty five an hour i've paid so low that even after working forty hours a week most fast food workers have to rely on government assistance like food stamps to make at least meet. a lot more than minimum wage can live off of that it's hard you know i'm a single mom and it's hard to provide for my sons hard to put food on the table sometimes the fast food labor force is demanding that minimum wage be increased to fifteen dollars an hour during the last day of action in december thousands took to the streets and that's when i received the first hand account from struggling workers about the purchase of these things i don't know by the grace of god i am. i am in a shelter trying to get out of there and i can do it because i. hate the much so i'm struggling you know. for me and they're asking for right to

take you to a family well the single people when asked america where and i believe. in vision a country not full cooperation before the working man. way too much money for the beach and where the one will give them the money the one earns and then. the one who takes the money home according to reports the average yearly salary of a new york city fast food worker is eleven thousand dollars. as for the fast food c.e.o.'s well they earn an estimated twenty five thousand dollars a day more than double what their workers are all you know nobody likes not going to the numbers really put the disparity between america's rich and poor to respect working for me or we're in a fortnight our take. now is a day progresses and new strikes occur around the globe we'll bring you a live updates right here on our team or national i'll take

a look at some other stories from around the world in streets in the u.s. city alessandro's are a flowing with oil after a pipe ruptured in a suburban area nearly fifty thousand gallons of crude have spilled onto the roads and it is said to be need high in some areas no injuries have been reported in hazardous materials crews are working at the scene. police have used tear gas and water cannon on protesters in the turkish city of izmir thousands took to the streets mourning the hundreds of them died in the coal mine disaster people are blaming the government for the disaster saying it failed to implement proper safety regulations trade unions are holding a one day strike across the country bodies are still being recovered from the site as the death to reaches two hundred eighty. and here is on line count video that's worth every bit of your attention security footage shows

a toddler happily playing on his bike in his parents' drive but he was sitting prayed for next door's dog which went nuts and attack but guess who comes to the rescue is the family's daredevil cat which body slams of which then runs for cover take another look at this amazing clip on our website artie dot com. now the usual cat behavior in there well after the break russia and e.u. relations come under the microscope and worlds apart. the quote is nice but there are a couple point one things just get silly for example for the last year even at the

congressional level some democrats on the military association of atheists and freethinkers have been pushing to create atheist chaplains in the us military a chaplain in the context the armed forces is a priest who goes alongside the nation's troops to give them spiritual counsel and boost morale and also myself was very skeptical that god created man i could tell you that this is just a bit odd what sort of spiritual or moral support is some sort of generic atheist chaplain going to provide he'd probably say something like well son everything you're fighting for in this tiny rocket in for universe is ultimately pointless and johnson who died yesterday he's not in heaven or anything there is no afterlife for me to our existence so he's just maggot food now you feel better yeah thanks for the counseling father i think this is just a case of me too me too politics where the demand for a humanist religion free priest is war despite christian soldiers rather than to actually do something to help atheist soldiers but that's just my opinion.

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hello and welcome to worlds apart a part of europe or apart from europe russia's place within the continent has long been a subject of debate a debate which has become particularly heated over the crisis in ukraine does russia really belong in europe well to discuss that i'm now i'm joined by phrase that cameron director of the e russia center mr cameron thank you very much for being on the show pleasure now this month's your center marks its eighth anniversary it was a sad hour back in may two thousand and six with a specific goal of promoting closer ties between russia and the e.u. and it would seem that the events of the last eight months have essentially undone old the progress that was made over the past eight years is the relationship now wars than it was when you started the sound of saluki this is the worst crisis in.

russia relations for more than a decade certainly since the collapse of the soviet union and this is essentially because there are very different views on how to protect the independence of the neighboring countries and in the e.u. we believe that ukraine should have the right to decide its own foreign policy in russia there's a very different approach well i think mr cameron in russia there is also believe that ukraine has the right to decide its own foreign policy on its own associations even if the e.u. or the west in general disagrees with that vision but let's delve directly into that you just mentioned the difference of opinions between russia and the west and traditionally a cli such difference of opinions is very much tolerated in ukraine in the iraq where it is taken as a sign. plurality and yet when it comes to this recent crisis over ukraine any

attempt by russia to explain itself is taken as propaganda this very channel r.t. is often referred to as the mouthpiece of the kremlin you know people who are sympathetic or at least understand the logic of russia denounced as putin sympathizers and i'm sure you will be also criticized for appearing on r t why do you think there is such a push to do it just to my eyes the russian side of the story what's the difference really between the propaganda and just an alternative point of view well if you look at it very objective the propaganda as you say is arguably the worst since the height of the cold war there's no attempt at objectivity i mean at the very top with putin claiming that the world wide web is some kind of plot which is utter nonsense putin saying one day that there is no russians in crimea than two weeks later meeting that there were russians in crimea so how do you expect the e.u. to actually look upon russia this is the kind of you know black is white white is

type of propaganda so in the last few weeks and months the propaganda has been totally one sided well you just mentioned the propaganda being totally one sided but getting the west is being totally transparent when it comes to ukraine and the tactics that it uses there was. not a question of one hundred percent pure on the other side zero percent there are shades but i mean in terms of the objectivity of reporting you have far more different channels far more different sources of information about what's going on in ukraine from the european media broadcasters than you do from if you're living in russia well i beg to disagree with you because here in russia we are also exposed to western media i mean. most of the people who are interested in ukraine can watch ukrainian chalons they can tune into wasn't channels they can tune into

russian channels i'm not sure that such diversity of views is afforded to you many citizens of the west but just recently i saw you writing an article on ukraine and in that article you mentioned the so-called putin's paranoia and populism and you contrasted that with the west and with the e.u. still being a big can that inspires people around europe and people around the world and i wonder if that pretrial of the e.u. russian divide isn't just a little bit too binary you know like evil down versus good us when you're writing you want to make sure people understand your point that it's not a case as you said of black and white i'm sure millions of russians who would like a liberal democratic russia based on the rule of law and the rule of law simply doesn't exist in russia today and that's i think a fundamental difference people want the freedoms that we enjoy in the e.u. and people around the world want these freedoms to. agree with you totally that

people in russia want all those liberal freedoms i would just question your assumption that those freedoms don't exist in russia freedom of speech we are capable of discussing ukraine as we are doing actually on this show the rule of law you just mentioned surely russia has some difficulties and that they made by the you know it's understandable russia is a transitional country and compared to let's say one thousand nine hundred ninety s. i would argue that the rule of law is much more prevalent in this country than it used to be just a decade ago you look at the decision of all the member states of the council of europe to suspend russian membership shows that there's a very broad international consensus of the absence of the rule of law in russia today while i think the decision of the council of europe to suspend or. membership was not only temporary a day for some reason didn't want to suspend russia's funding of the council of

europe which shows that at least on some point there is an interest to keeping russia within the framework but let's go back to the portrayal of this crisis which i think is a very interesting topic a number of western policymakers angela merkel john kerry kerry asserted that. russia and most importantly putin are is essentially constructing their own reality that is divorced totally divorced from the events on the ground and i wonder if this approach when you essentially denounce the other side as crazy is something that actually contributed to this reason stalemate because you cannot negotiate productively if you decry the other side is simply not. i think you will agree that you know pretty season politician probably one of the most respected leaders in the world and when she resorts to this kind of language she obviously does it after some careful consideration she probably has the best relationship or close

relationship with putin of any western leader which is now come to the conclusion that he is someone who simply cannot be trusted yet but on the other side when we use your own claim about putin's paranoia much of that was arrested previously at least on the russian assertions that the west was using dirty tricks in ukraine and just a couple of days ago germany's one of germany's leading newspapers came out with the report citing german intelligence services that there actually are american military contractors deployed in ukraine so it seems that after all you know all that putin's paranoia as you term it wasn't without a groan if you go back to the very beginning there was always some skepticism. in the west about whether ukraine could and should be an independent nation you remember president bush sr speech goes down history as the chicken kiev speech questioning whether ukraine should really be independent so there's never from then

on been any desire. by the e.u. or nato to somehow bring ukraine into western clutches that simply nonsense the ukraine has made its own choice it wanted to sign an association agreement with the e.u. and then suddenly at the last minute obviously put pressure on you kind of it and they decided not to go ahead with it and this is what led to the current situation isn't the president we are witnessing and the moment the very manifestation that ukraine never made that decision about european association all equally with you know its allegiance with russia it was always in the middle there are many divided countries in europe including the one i live in belgium but people agree on is that they you have to respect the will of the people and the majority in the elections and parliament the government also under was negotiating an association agreement

with the e.u. and that was supported clearly by the vast majority of the population and this only changed in the very last minute last november when putin put pressure on ukraine not to sign the agreement why do you feel it was supported so uniformly by the majority of the ukrainian population why do you think people in the east are so unhappy with this current government you know they're willing to if you know raised our own lives to fight all the regime in key if. there's been a lot of propaganda to go back to the first question trying to portray the interim government in kiev as some kind of puppets of the e.u. or the united states which is utter nonsense there's also been a state of the tiny number of the extreme right radicals who participated in my they were. blown out of proportion. i think it's in russia's interest to have a stable relationship with ukraine and if it goes wrong the way it is i think ukraine is going to be not

a very friendly neighboring country towards russia and that surely is not in russia's long term interest the e.u. has just as much of a stake in having a productive and friendly relationship with ukraine and russia and some would argue that its recent policies are putting the relationship with both of those countries at three but let me go back to germany i know that you are teaching at one of the german higher institutions and you mentioned the very principled position of angela merkel just a few minutes ago and yet we know that from many polls conducted in germany that the majority of the german population actually don't support the current stand stance of the german government that doesn't mean that they support putin's position but this is certainly see some of the logic in his actions and there in a number of polls to support that do you attribute that also to the russian propaganda job of governments to lead not to follow public opinion the whole time

of course there is concern in germany as in some other countries about the possible . sanctions on german jobs or energy supplies from russia that's quite natural and understandable there are big issues at stake here in terms of the whole future of the european security order and certainly what chancellor merkel understands do you think the skepticism that the german public has with regards to the western official narrative are of ukraine has anything to do with the massacres in. deaths or murder you or indeed those recent reports of american contractors being employed deployed rather in india crane. their own american military experts there quite openly. they're supposed to be helping the ukrainian forces carry out reform of the security apparatus that was at the invitation of the ukrainian government so there was nothing about this the e.u.

has also said they were willing to provide the rule of law mission to try and reform the whole security sector in ukraine something that's long overdue so this i don't think it's called tribute to the position of the german population not at all mr cameron we have to take a very short break but when we come back what's the waiter's how long extolled win win solutions in their ties with russia does when when still mean again for both or rather a double cheick for one that's coming up in a few moments on worlds apart. trying to. get.

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welcome back to worlds apart the real discussing threats to european security is real and imagined with praise a camera and director of the russia center mr cameron just a few months ago we had former state department official angela stance here on the show and she made a very interesting observation she said that the term when when doesn't really translate well into the russian language and i guess there must be a reason for that do you think that's russians still see the world in terms of these win lose mentality unfortunately yes i'm always astonished when i meet colleagues in the studio and i refer to balance of. spheres of influence and situations which is something you really don't hear about and. you we are constantly trying to look for win win situations in terms of relations with countries and the e.u. russia relationship should be a win win situation it's obvious that the economies are complementary it's obvious

that we have so many issues we have to go in common from terrorism to climate change and yet the elites in the kremlin is still obsessed by alleged threats from the west which is simply not true in the real security problems from russian perspective obviously come from the south and from. islamic fundamentalism has nothing to do with the west while i don't think the kremlin has ever a large that it sees the e.u. or the west in general as an enemy i think he. said justin was that the west routinely ignores russia's security interests and this when when stance was pretty much ignore it last fall when the rallies in keefe were still ongoing because mr berger also at the european commission president was very categorical in his refusal to have any talks with russia on your crane he did say he did he refused to

have any try party negotiations it seems that win win is a very attractive proposition when it is. you know exercised by your rival but not so attractive when you yourself have to follow suit this is simply not true the european commission. is constant talks with the kremlin last year the it is just trade deals digits thus the impact of the association agreement on russia and russia at no time until the very end made any critical comments or remarks about it . so this idea that somehow the e.u. russia in the dark is utter nonsense i'm not saying that the e.u. kept russia in the dark but mr burr also is on the record saying that he has no intention of bringing my. into discussing the possible impact of the association agreement on the russian and ukrainian economy he is on record refusing saying that russia has to have absolutely no part to play in discussing economic ties between

the european union and ukraine again taken out of context because mr barroso has set up a task force to actually look at the whole trade relationship between the e.u. and russia and the eurasia union is very conscious of the potential impact of any agreement with ukraine and russia the reality is that any agreement is obviously w.t. compatible and there would be no knock on effect in russia with flooded by cheap imports from the e.u. this simply cannot happen under the association agreement and russia knows that perfectly if russia knows that perfectly well i don't understand why the e.u. or mr burr also. couldn't discuss that or read to raid that point with moscow one more time and that leads me to my next question i wonder if you see any divide between elected european officials people like angela merkel rich people who have

to follow all of that populations and here to what people have to say even though you don't believe apparently that european leaders have to follow their populations and an elected officials like mr burr also because some would argue that it is the very uncompromising ultimatum like position that bear also adopted that ultimately led to this current stalemate. not just go off and go see it an agreement with russia or any other country on his own he needs to do this you have to get the authorization and agreement of all the member states and mr cameron your center describes itself as a nonpartisan organization and throughout these interviews you've been pretty critical of russia and the kremlin's position but very sympathetic i would say to the positions adopted by the. asked is there anything that you believe that the west has done wrong in the leading up to the crisis in ukraine the west is certainly nothing in principle wrong we have negotiated with independent country

who had stated quite clearly its objectives of wanting an association agreement with the e.u. at the same time we have been the go stating for many years with russia on a new partnership and cooperation agreement knows exactly what has been going on in terms of the negotiations with ukraine and other countries i would remind you that russia was invited to join the eastern partnership that the e.u. created a number of years ago but it declined to do so that's why we negotiated independent . the agreement with russia which is not yet completed snow on ice now. russia's the mastic politics has long been a very important part and played a very crucial role in all those negotiations that you mentioned earlier is it possible for the west to ever air. negotiate with russia on an equal basis rather than putting those possible agreements into the dependence on russia's domestic

politics of course you have to negotiate with whoever is in the kremlin we don't choose who russian leaders are so we negotiate with mr. yeltsin mr putin is quite clear that the same time we want a long serious strategic relationship with russia i mentioned before those so many when when opportunities and the number of international issues that have to be dealt with both on the global terrorism climate change foreign policy issues middle east iran syria so we really need each other to work out solutions to these problems so it doesn't really matter who's in the kremlin we have to deal with them . it's interesting and protege and i saw you mentioned that earlier in one of your articles i think it was in january two thousand and ten you said that the european union has no alternative but to work with russia as it is not trying to pretend

that it is something different and i wonder if you could elaborate on that what is russia as it is russia as it is as you said it's a country still in transition i think it doesn't really recovered its attention to . russia for russians is that russia is a multicultural country is that russia looking more towards asia russia looking more towards europe still suffering a kind of identity crisis after the breakup of the soviet union but this is not surprising when disintegrates including the british or french it takes a long time to actually discover a real identity that people can align themselves with so i don't think it's surprising that russia is still struggling to find its own identity today do you see do you see that struggle over identity as the main hurdle in a way of building a productive relationship between russia and the e.u. why would that be a problem for building bilateral ties well obviously we have

a closer relationship with countries to share common values in terms of respect for democracy human rights the rule of law or liberal values we have a very close relationship with the united states but that doesn't mean that we don't disputes and differences with the united states sometimes and value issues we criticize the united states for continuing the death penalty for example we have numerous trade disputes with the united states as well so one doesn't exclude the other we have to accept the world including russia as it is and try and work out the best possible deal which is to our mutual benefit implied in your answer there was an assertion that russia somehow doesn't share those liberal values about the rule of law and democracy do you have any proof of that. is there any evidence for that claim why do you think russia is somehow different when it comes to all those liberal values because i think russia has always struggled throughout its history in terms of the opening to the west you know going back to peter the great the

strong forces of conservatism in russia and i think the orthodox church takes a very conservative view of society and russia has no exposure. i think social trends in western societies help influence the liberal changes in the center for interacting with here talking about social trends and i don't see how social trance relates to the rule of law or their respect for liberties for elections and so on i mean those a political issues and on political front i think russia has stated very loud and clear that it wants to be a liberal democracy it does not necessarily mean that we have to embrace all the social values that the west currently espouses it is a question of tolerance tolerance for minorities tolerance for other people so show religious sexual rights i think that's a problem for groups in russia today and linked obviously to fundamental issues

like the rule of law but the other big issue that's a problem in russia is the role of money and corruption if you look at the members of the duma they're not exactly ordinary workers representing the people they're all basically millionaires of one kind or another we don't have any significant control in the executive so the problem point is there is no real separation of power in russia well mr cameron i agree that some of the members of the duma are pretty rich man and who used those money to get him to do it but i think the same could be said about american politics i think that applies to the american politics even more so than to the russian politics and since we mentioned and you mentioned the united states earlier i think washington is always. a third party interior any discussion on the russian ties but i wonder if there's real a possibility for russia and the e.u. to build that ties on a bilateral basis without always bringing washington into the fall well of course

on many issues we don't involve the united states the told me in we have a far bigger trading relationship with russia the united states i mean that's an issue that is a purely bilateral issue i think we're probably closer to russia on climate change issues than we are to the united states and to quite recently they have a rather different agenda with russia in terms of control and disarmament issues getting out of again they stand for example to some extent the middle east and so the relationships are actually quite different and we don't work in tandem with the united states and believe russia if the relationship are so different and indeed the convergence of interests between russia and the e.u. in europe is far more prominent why is there such a high demand and request for unity when it comes on the issue when it comes to the issue of ukraine because apparently russia and the european union have much more in

common and much more in stake when it comes to european security. american vision of security on this continent is probably. quite different even from the european vision and yet. most politicians in the west insist that brussels and washington need to stand up together to face this face from these threats rather from moscow well it is because on this case of ukraine you're actually seeing a change of borders unilaterally without the consent of the government i mean russia was a signatory to the nineteen ninety four good a person member and i'm guaranteeing the territorial integrity of ukraine if we gave up the nuclear weapons russia as the secretary to the sea and un which also of principle stating that there should be no violation of borders so i mean this is a fundamental point of principle that has changed of the actions that russia has

taken with regard to crimea and eastern ukraine but mr cameron i think the the events in ukraine were also very exceptional and they ventilating up to the situation in crimea were also quite exceptional in a way that it was the first time in your crane that the government was ousted unconstitutionally out of office and i think the events ever since you know the massacres in mary opal and the massacres in the deaths of burning people alive it is also something that is very out of ordinary haven't seen anything like that over the last let's say twenty years ever since the conflict in the balkans so i don't think it's only russia that is. acting i'm usually here the government in ukraine is not unconstitutional after yanick over each fled the country the parliament followed the constitution and elected an interim government perfectly constitutional the point is that russia refused to recognize that for some reason

and you kind of hiding somewhere in russia present. looking you know maybe sometime there maybe. the russian protection what mr cameron i'm fortunate i have or have to leave it there let me just mention that russia had very strong reasons to reject the government not to recognize its legitimacy and the recognition of the. was in violation of the ukrainian constitution but unfortunately we have to leave it there we have run out of time i do appreciate your appearing on the show and to our viewers please keep the conversation going on our twitter you tube and facebook pages and i hope to see you again same place same time here in a while but part. personel

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which are here national coming to you live from moscow it's five pm here on marina joshie welcome to the program and one of ukraine's industrial tycoons has been implicated in some of the worst recent violence in the country and a series of leaked phone calls posted on the you tube and one recording your call him only ski who is ukraine's second richest man and one of the country's biggest power players is accused of being behind the massacre in odessa in which at least forty eight people were killed earlier this month now he has hands in scores of major businesses and controls ukraine's biggest information agency plus one of its central t.v. channels but it's this phone conversation with opposition figure and former presidential hopeful. in which he says there's a million dollar reward for the latter's head that's raising the most eyebrows take a listen. actually i'm on the left.

but i'm very blessed. to this difficult to see unanimous opinion that you say well that exchange became a focal point of a different phone conversation between two graham businessmen citing an eyewitness to call moyse he actually making that call and both of the men clearly outraged about the strong message and as the conversation moved on it touched upon another alleged revelation about iran always keep placing him as a person who has ordered the recent attack in odessa which has claimed the lives of dozens of civilians normal to bits on medical the need them when you notice their goal to deal with these issues companies if we want to change any of them have precious little muscle just. look at the video on this one crystal where do you see what did your dad and i know i'm so mad at the little son they wanted told him that we had voted out of the disgusted at the. what he said but that was has become sort of a nature boy he is the good will do each book when you see when you simple misunderstood

or too lazy. well for more perspective let's now talk to international affairs expert marcel botha who joins me now in the studio marc it's always great to have you here with us let's now get your perspective on the situation here i mean as we see some big money big businesses are involved in a situation in ukraine you were calling more skews one of the shadiest and most interesting figures right now in ukrainian politics he is in israeli ukrainian citizen supposedly either the second or third richest man in ukraine who made has made his fortune off of his bank holdings pre-bought bank finance metals and his media empire which controls a lot of the propaganda that's coming out of the ukrainian media right at this moment. he was recently placed. as essentially a few to all of dark baron over the territory of deliberate tosk in

the southeast of ukraine with the intention that he repress the opposition movement against the current regime that is taking control in kiev and there's the unspoken assumption which is proven true that he would hire his own army of mercenaries to further that. but mark what's interesting here is that the west keeps pointing the finger of blame moscow and but with this information now emerged do you think this is likely to be a game changer or not when we've seen such revelations already of the story in foreign minister a view into baroness ashton that she thinks that that he thinks that it was the some of the putsch leaders themselves responsible for the killings the of some of the other leaks the nuland tapes i don't think that the western media will even bat in these revelations of unfortunate it is they've long ago chosen sides and

a few massacres and involvement of all of gargle figures and corruption in. not going to chair into the narrative they're spinning in the western media at this point well also russia has repeatedly called for investigation to the odessa massacre but this has brought no results so far why do you think its key of dragging its feet on this one of course gives dragging its feet because there's a lot of implication that either the regime in kiev is directly involved in what happened or at least forces which depends for power and were involved in what mary will have been a massacre that should be investigated as an act of genocide occurred there. implication and this isn't surprising to anyone ukrainian press is reported that he is one of the principal financial backers not only of the opposition parties in the my dawn but also supposedly of the right sector internationalist fascist group itself well today we heard from russia's foreign ministry is

a comment on the situation in the ukraine and saying that the key issue at this point is not the recognition of the self-proclaimed. regions but national dialogue how under you know these circumstances probable is any dialogue when big money determines the course of events in ukraine it doesn't seem that at this point either side is prepared to engage in dialogue. has said this repeatedly referring to their protesting citizens in the south and east as terrorists with which they will not speak and obviously the protesting citizens in the south and east that have self determined are not going to be able to manage much of a dialogue with a regime that is trying to kill them for voting against marseille international affairs expert thanks so much for coming to us in the studio and sharing your perspective on the situation. now self defense forces of the

newly proclaimed announced the people's republic are urging ukraine's military to withdraw from the region they say they will move against if the ultimatum is met by the end of thursday gunfire and artillery have been heard outside slovyansk the city which is about six hundred kilometers from p.f. was among the first to face a crackdown by government forces and as artie's published reports after being on their seats by the army for weeks now the city is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. we're now entering the town of slovyansk which is completely encircled by the ukrainian military this is a ukrainian army checkpoint and as you can see the cars are backed up a little way down the road there it will take me a better part of at least one hour to get him because of this because the town is so encircled you have a growing humanitarian crisis supplies simply cannot get in. get patients in the

town are running out just many of them simply do not have any gas and we provide no time to come and fill up the car here. put on your actual supplies will run out soon there was nothing to run cars on and we won't be able to get the local hospital in history from people who've been injured not only here in slovyansk but also in neighboring towns there's real concern that it's been pushed to crisis point and because of this ordinary people have been arriving with packets of food and blankets toiletries as well as medical supplies to try and stop this from happening the gates has been closed here for the better part of two days this is the local grid factory where people are simply too afraid to come to work choosing rather to stay inside their homes as a result the prices are great and flour has skyrocketed and in the shops there are long queues to buyers. this is one of the largest supermarkets in the town they've

been rumors circulating for days that the shelves are empty and that suppliers are not able to get in let's go have a class solves. all and scared me so it's almost everyone i know i haven't felt this much fear in mind tire life. this is the fourth a.t.m. that we've been to and none of them are working there are at least seven banks that have stopped operating in the town. as you can see the shops are closed and the streets are mostly empty people are choosing to stay home rather than risk coming to the streets there's a sense of anxiety and fear in the air a feeling that a military strike is imminent poulos there are thirty slovyansk eastern ukraine. now a syrian opposition would be incapable of governing the country if president assad was ousted and that's the view of a top u.s.

military commander general martin dempsey says syria would remain in the group of terror and chaos where the opposition unable to root out al qaeda linked groups infighting is on the rise among the various rebel factions inside the country a new opposition coalition has been formed and blames the already existing syrian national coalition for failing to stop the violence but the white house has still pledged fresh support for the s. and c. is going to count now reports. are saying a new push by the obama administration to fulfill a goal that he declared three years ago to topple the syrian president bashar assad has announced that syria will hold elections despite the war the us vehemently opposes those elections washington has already decided who the legitimate representatives of the syrian people are is the syrian opposition coalition president obama has met with a coalition leader ahmad jarba at the white house this week u.s. secretary of state john kerry told the rebels we've wasted a year in the fight against assad the participants of the meeting said john kerry

made the remark in the context of a discussion about renewed efforts to coordinate the flow of both aid and weapons to the syrian rebels the french foreign minister was also in washington this week and he said he quote unquote regretted that the u.s. had not bombed syria as its worth and all of this war talk amid the u.s. and europe saying that they want to find a political solution to the crisis in syria but we say there is no military victory meaning we being the united states there can be no military solution and every step that we're taking is a military step. and and so obviously we're setting up. longer term conflict more calm for. the u.n. envoy for syria lakhdar brahimi has announced his resignation expressing regret for

his inability to forge a coherent international response to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in syria the geneva talks have not led to a deal between the syrian government and the opposition although the syrian opposition has been largely unwilling to cut deals with the government of bashar assad nonetheless there have been instances of progress most recently thousands of syrians were turned to war battered parts of the central city of homs after the rebels left under an evacuation deal with the government but washington since keen to prompt the syrian rebels to continue fighting instead of cutting deals even though a deal could save thousands of lives in washington i'm going to check on our team. now the syrian crisis escalated after last year's chemical attack in aleppo killed one dozens of people with the government and the rebels blaming each other for the massacre in june u.s. president barack obama upped the ante by authorizing military aid to the syrian rebels for the first time and the crisis reached a peak two months later with western leaders calling for military strikes in syria

citing another controversial chemical attack as a red line but just as military intervention loomed large a diplomatic breakthrough was brokered by russia which helped persuade syria to give up its chemical arsenal damascus began getting rid of its stockpiles in october and is expected to complete the handover of the deadline in june and the next step to deescalate the crisis came in geneva where a syrian government and opposition official sit down for talks for the first time but the negotiations ultimately failed to break the deadlock passed both science resumed hostilities and now tensions have again escalated with the white house hosting the syrian opposition leader and pledging fresh support for the insurgency well officials from eleven western and arab countries are now meeting in. in london was the purpose of pledging more support for the embattled syrian opposition right now you're looking at live pictures coming out of there and political analyst yana

talked earlier says most countries have by now realized that backing the rebels only leads to instability in the region like will deter these so-called friends of syria conference which has been launched in two thousand and twelve there were one hundred over one hundred twenty countries supporting the opposition in syria but there are no only eleven western imperialist states this indicates that most of the states they are aware that the repercussion of the syrian crisis is imposing a serious threat on regional and international security the situation in syria is not between the syrian government position it is between the syrian government and armed extremists who are far the everybody there who oppose their narrative their narrative is to create an islamic caliphate in syria the governance of the will of

the people and the only protector of the of the secular values or the civil values of the syrian state is the army is the syrian army well it's now take a look at what to countries are in the so-called friends of syria club as you've just heard their number has dropped significantly from over one hundred to just eleven and most of them are middle eastern countries and syria's neighbors in europe it's germany france the u.k. and italy and of course the united states is also on the list the group is now giving a press conference and we'll be bringing you the details and extent. coming up here in our heat a national after the break fast food workers anger and their employers goes global we're following the strikes that are set to take place in the works thirty five countries worldwide.

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welcome back you're watching r.t. international fast food well not so fast these days are the people responsible for your big macs or a classic whopper stick to the streets to participate in what is expected to be the largest ever strike against the industry the walk outs will take place in at least thirty five countries around the world to squeeze better wages from the fast food giants while the images right here that you are looking at are the latest protest which are taking place in japan here's marina with more on why the workers are running out of patience. the fight for a decent living wage is a battle millions of citizens can relate to and it's also a battle that is not going away fast food workers throughout the u.s.

are walking off the job in onto the streets thursday demanding a paid increase and the right to unionize you see fast food is a two hundred billion dollar industry but the majority of those who prepare and serve the meals for those folks they're living in poverty or close to it the problem is that the majority of fast food workers are even minimum wage to us the federal minimum wage is seven twenty five an hour a pace so low that even after working forty hours a week most past workers have to rely on government assistance like food stamps to make at least meet. a lot more than minimum wage can live off of that it's hard you know i'm a single mom and it's hard to provide for my sons hard to put food on the table sometimes the fast food labor force is demanding that minimum wage be increased to fifteen dollars an hour during the last day of action in december thousands took to

the streets and that's when i received the first hand account from struggling workers about the purchase of these things i don't know by the grace of god i am. i am in a shelter trying to get out of there and i can do it because. some struggling. for me and they ask for right to take you to a family well the single people last america with and i believe. in vision a country not full cooperation before a working man a bad mother make way too much money for the beach and where the one will give them the money the one earns and then it's like we're not going there because they want to take some money home according to reports the average yearly salary of a new york city fast food worker is eleven thousand dollars. as for the fast food c.e.o.'s well they earn an estimated twenty five thousand dollars one day more than double what their workers earn all year now nobody likes nothing but those kind of

numbers really put the disparity between america's rich and poor into perspective forty from new york where in a fortnight our take. as the day progresses a new strikes occur around the globe will bring we'll be bringing you live updates right here on r.t. international to stay with us for that. let's take a look some other stories from around the world a street in the u.s. city of los angeles are flowing with oil after a pipe ruptured in a suburban area nearly fifty sounds and gallons of crude have spilled on to the roads it is said to be in need high in some places. and you can see hazardous materials crews trying to clean up the area. police have used tear gas and water cannons on protesters in the turkish city of izmir thousands took to the streets warning that hundreds that died in the coal

mine disaster people are blaming the government for the tragedy saying it failed to implement proper safety regulations trade unions are holding in one day strike across the country bodies are still being recovered from the site as the death to reaches two hundred eighty. a car bomb and suicide bomber have struck in the center of baghdad at least nine people have been killed in the blast including three policemen the bombs went off in busy commercial areas where a number of government buildings are located and this is the latest in a series of car bombs to hit the iraqi capital since elections last month. when stivers gunned down dozens of protesters in kiev in february cool meters along with the western media were quick to pin the blame on president got a call which an easy lead police officers but investigators in the ukrainian capital now have evidence that contradicts these hastily reached conclusions or

days ago is going to explains. the footage that shook ukraine and the entire world many see this was the point of no return protesters being shot one after another with live rounds during five years uprising showing images of riot police firing their weapons the media outlets were quick to accuse them of being behind the massacre images of snipers in central q flooded the internet along with more accusations of the authorities while several western officials fans the flames people who stood up against night burgers firing at them from the rubes who are fighting against the tyranny of having political opposition put in jail. well you have some on the ukrainian ambassador and london this morning to register our emphatic protest the event planned to call for an immediate and far reaching challenge in the attitude of the ukrainian the power to. the premiums were shocked

and even those protesters who were ready for some sort of negotiations with the authorities were now ready to push for the all to mcgaugh dragging them from power president in accordance first philly's the capital and then the country but denies accusations that he ordered the police to kill the officers who were seen opening fire and claim they were merely trying to scare the rioters away by aiming at the ground in front of them while each conversation between the story and foreign minister and the e used top diplomat gives his version varies i was stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers they were it was not over each but it was somebody from the new question but all that is widely ignored. instead of the new police chief announces the results of a hasty investigation putting the full blame on the riot police and arresting twelve officers further splitting ukrainian society in the south to see more deaths in violent clashes between those for and against the new york forty's. and

so-called anti down operations with the use of heavy military equipment in the country's east while the rift with the western provinces grows wider than ever. but now nearly three months after five years mayhem parliament finishes another investigation with an unexpected outcome those bullets were not fired by the right believes. it would have been great if some things could be rewound not on t.v. but in real life who knows could the uprising have been successful if not for those accusations would you crane have come to the brink of a civil war like we're seeing now which is don't know nor do we know what's really behind those sniper deaths in february you were pissed off r.t. moscow. after the break go behind the scenes were to your response in the latest installment of the of steam.

quote is nice but there are a couple point one things just get silly for example for the last year even at the congressional level some democrats on the military association of atheists and freethinkers have been pushing to create atheist chaplains in the us military a chaplain in the context the armed forces is a priest who goes alongside the nation's troops to give them spiritual counsel and boost morale and also myself was very skeptical that god created man i could tell you that this is just a bit odd what sort of spiritual or moral support is some sort of generic atheist chaplain going to provide he'd probably say something like well son everything you're fighting for in this tiny rocket in for universes ultimately pointless and johnson who died yesterday he's not in heaven or anything there is no afterlife for

me and your existence so we just maggot food now you feel better yeah thanks for the counseling father i think this is just a case of me too me too politics where the demand for a humanist religion free priests is war despite christian soldiers rather than to actually do something to help atheist soldiers but that's just my opinion. i marinate join me. in part and. carry a service and much. only on the bus and.

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out forcing anti government to rioters to abandon that barricades that has violence in central kiev rolls into its fourth day running and. is that for us. guys at the newsroom want me to find something new today. some new details and something more interesting in the last couple of days is like. i don't think i can invent anything you i mean if i see something it's like a groan all day with a great most of the tie so that once the thing starts it's pretty pretty much the same all the time and it's getting very cold and the snow was just. ranting the third day. god knows how many more days will have. easy chairs that will be entering a thirty. thirty third day in a month from the. there's

nothing you. the only thing new is that it's now quieter. you can actually hear ourselves talking there's no this metal clanging thing anymore. a lot of people. they're setting up another barricade you see. it may suggest that. they're here to stay for some time or they may suggest not the police may actually. make another attempt to disperse them soon but this really looks like another barricade look to the burned carcasses of the cars so we might be here for a long spell that. out of the national to see. if i don't. know just. play a clip. i

have come down in terms of the noise of the governmental corps in kiev but it's still far from settled only a few meters are separating the police lines and the line of the protesters of the rioters and still there sometimes exchanging project hours at each other over the night we saw an attempt by the police to push the protesters off this particular place here the failed attempt when the protesters started charging with a writer started charging at the police the police had to withdraw and ever since then it's been like that the standoff continues on here it looks like yet another barricade with what remains of the police cars which were burned here on sunday night basically separating the line of the rioters and the police during the night we also saw something completely peculiar for ukraine cases of vigilantism where in the civil militia. groups basically organized a hundred safari for what they called pro-government provocateurs they took them to . a building which they described as the revolutionary headquarters organize

something of a vigilante trial took him out into the square and them to apologize for supporting the government for doing what they did and this situation is still tense hundreds of injured are still in hospitals including more than one hundred policemen which is something unprecedented not only for ukraine but for many other countries in the world we're also hearing on the ground here that the authorities may consider implementing a state of emergency on thursday if things go on the same way as they do right now we should be monitoring how things unravel in kiev but as again as i said the tension is still far from dying down there certainly following all the developments in kiev all and bring you the latest updates as we get them. we cover that basically what we did was filming. walk and talk with the new barricades i would say this is like something sensationally new would be compared to what we did yesterday in the day before yesterday's relatively new. because the day before yesterday and yes. a we couldn't get as close as we did now.

simply because of all the project outs lying around in the police actually responding with with firearms or with not far off of course with non-lethal weapons . this is the day that lots of work has been done we're getting. lots of reporting we just did direct talks between syrian authorities and the rebels looks like that it may be a long one tonight because we don't really know when they're going to hold the final conference what's going to happen what to expect the rebels are say to me pull out of the top city moment so for us that would be. breaking news probably it's a major story. shows how. nervous nerve wracking the negotiations are it was probably either. a nervous negotiator or

a nervous correspondent doing the line. you know you know you never know when nature what what's going on here. and so i don't slip on anything like that and break my neck that would be. ironic if i just the first real steps for. when they would think. a lot of us. oh right now we don't know what's going on because there are these rumors that the talks have been postponed the syrian opposition is out. because they don't know yet if they are then this whole meeting is just like screwed. my producers just called me and said i want to go outside. said there's going. some sort of flaw since representative is going to be

a subset. of the why physicians always go there check it out which is this really could be a way. that we could release them if they. walk out of the whole thing. if coming to russia today. for thirty days which is so exciting i can't wait to spend seven weeks evacuees here for a month in russia to help robert i've been together for a. few months. past a wedding last summer. that this man just. relieved left. field station and it's finally culminated in the next hour and so it's really exciting. but. this is new for

me to be sent to. say he's the only person who can do this to me it's it's really trying to link up the steps. robert's actually bringing groceries to give him a list of things that i'm just dying for organic peanut butter i can't wait he's bringing four jars. bourbon because. i've walled bars. mechanic o.p.l. just things that i love that make me feel make me feel american have been about american food for two and a half months now. running on low fuel. that i would kill for and more multi-sport her dad think these are not cheeseburger as i want they are taken to a fate cheeseburger in english under the russian writing if i'm so sorry that's so that's it i mean those. lovingly going to people i don't know what help it is.

to just make a match my. school should have was a specialist at least. a little discretion sue we did ya suppose goes to the special not edition of the food the bodos but it was the only. city in the feel really didn't move out of the blue it would still not been using unmoved mover just. a bunch of us in new york city was not doing too good a woman. would come up with the ideas move up as the source was put out of. the other but you can use. the word lucian like you would see when you feel like it's

the truth i do spend each time i do i think speech what you witnessed in the last most movies to stop motion to go would go to those who would have audience that's not. oh. ok. let's go to the interview everybody is fighting king here right now because they don't know what's happening either the negotiations are continuing on they're not continuing because the parts of the oppositional left apparently there was this formal meeting that they had to greet each other and sit at the same table but the opposition refused so that didn't happen and now we're going to be now we don't know what the schedule for today what to expect that's the situation right now. sheepishly. i mean for god's sake why don't we see how good

a fine i'll be on slightly distributed but why doesn't he just cool to the position that down and see where the allies line is not a new position in the u.k. hospice the coming to him to step down he would step down as well in the u.k. we don't drop the phone so maybe to see he killed people two years ago in the streets of rome when i know that you know that i sold the new t.v. david remembering to show people in the middle of the desert the truth people in serious question have said and feel positional this is going to lose your home or a sore throat is highly visible because of the you're going to have a lot of play going to be waiting for the final press conference in the evening everybody is just being chaotic what it's going to say to these people because there is no one knowing the understands like what's happening there and also a stampede stop sort of warning all we're not understanding anything that's happened.

it was a. very hard to take a. look at that back with me here. a lot of people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist so it's time to blow

the whistle and start a revolution before we're all slaves to the corrupt and the generally corrupt. i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's close and for the truth and might think. it's because one full attention and the mainstream media work side by side with you is actually on here. and our teen years we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not how.

you guys stick to the jokes i will hand over the stuff that i'm. plug right to see. first street. and i think the true. on our reporters twitter. and instagram. could be in the. i marinate join me. for that impartial and financial reporting commentary

contributor and much much. only on the bus and. let the kids read to me. that you. can leave her alone at it. this way i like the troy sort of the when you're in your large city states and since it's not likely he wants to be what do you think so that's the traffic not i expected something else you think of you know. the moscow you know the cold war and eastern bloc countries you were expecting it's becoming. is there anything you want one seat on a titles other also red square very crazy and i thought that we would kind of first . of seafood today i mean is there enough little scenes they will have that i think

about and they're. going to list the cathedral as it's you that you always see so much in moscow. to. tell. yeah. i've. never seen a like i was like i'm always taping and integrity it would have to spend two weeks to look around to. have the thoughtful. and i call me that and i thought. it was like no other. never found. it's true mantic it's beautiful it's. a lot of history right here in this area. where it's down to far easier if you've got the ads. you didn't pulls the nine yeah well so i don't want to

thank you. they're going to save your marriage when she first told me to go to moscow so of course when you go you know who are who they said chance of life the vehicle here and be a forum for spawn. so i was proud of us so yes i do it. solo. heights your. can you check my piece to camera please. ok so i. have to do the package. just around today. so. it's going to be. the end of the package so i'll say even though both the rebels and the authorities present here say they support. a solution only. last. peace talks on syria have suffered

a setback in geneva with the opposition refusing to sit at the same table with government representatives still hopes are high that the first direct negotiations will usher in some sort of a solution to the ongoing syrian crisis more on this now from your piskun off your so do tell us what happened there while the talks were supposed to officially start eleven am with both the opposition sitting down at the same table and formally greeting each other with the u.n. special envoy on syria present as well and it was planned that after that he was going to hold meetings with both sides passing on information and making this dialogue possible but since the rebels refused to sit down at the same table with the opportunities for talks haven't started informally they have been postponed but nevertheless mr brahimi will still be meeting with both sides separately and by the end of the day we're expecting a media conference hopefully will be able to find out if these meetings will bring any results and i will also know that the head of the syrian opposition.

the rest are remaining and the syrian authorities their delegation is here to stay as well. said they're going to continue talking with mr brahimi one of the main sticking points is that the opposition continues pressing on. president assad to step down while the authorities are saying that first. they have to stop. in the country and then hold nationwide elections with anyone willing. for the syrian people to decide the country's political future so clearly they're not on the same page when it comes to. the talks are going to continue. at the end of the day hopefully we'll find out if they'll bring any results. seem to be easy to find a common denominator thank you for bringing us the latest from geneva. i don't how

war activist brian becker believes the syrian rebels are not prepared to hold meaningful talks on peace and their country. might stay first time i say so here and. there you the. problem. for your lad i mean as. the saying. he would tell them what you need five hundred bucks if i was given. that.

i thought it all fall. i hope all. goes well in arrests and the only poll three times i still very time see how the garden oh really like i want to live that way can see them back. into bed by ten kids pass me out laughing at it looked up. the word i loved it i would hate to see you do that if you. know. we. were just listening to the point almost gone for us for today for. the one sort of. way we could do it because it wasn't for the wiring. into the hole or the bus conga.

just a couple of days ago. representatives. position in the same room for the first time since the start of the country.

are. also became clear that different participants off the talks have a different understanding. seem to be ready to talk about. syria and they seem to be ready to. discuss things. and the talks or. frankly even having these people. in the same building may already be considered a diplomatic breakthrough well. inside syria.

first we didn't do anything for a few hours then went to do some easy stuff like he's drop and walk around alive or something but we're really looking after this whole situation with a negotiation say and in the end we thought that it was just like that's it it was screwed up it was a disaster but then all of a sudden it all changed again went to ron who had this chaotic moments when we didn't know who was doing the lives we had to do as lives just in case nobody knew what was going on my phone died and in the end everything just worked out well and i really did feel this in these situations you feel the. second energy burst or something and you just do this life and you feel like this is why you're here i have to report on this sort of stuff and i know i'm not in syria right now and i know i'm not definitely not he a friend. this is a really big part of the story and i'm really glad we did it i think it's

a great day really satisfied with myself and the crew and i just hope that. now it all works out with these talks we have you know. just try to see if the fly is it's being lit again they haven't right now but it's a lot of people to. base. the made in which the opposition should do and of course that. doesn't. then there was this will go offensive this deadline is fast like twelve minutes ago

so that's why we're waiting for a sequel to see what happens. god knows what happens on the opposition leaders. into the crowd from the crowd and said about the latest rounds of negotiations with the president which brought nothing the only things that he promised to stop the violence from the police against the protesters and to release all those four detained there were like more than seventy people detained. while they were saying that the crowds were booing at the opposition leaders and they were chanting liars liars. so this is just that the crowd no longer believes anyone like the president of the opposition they like pretty much on their own so again we are a month with a grenade. that's how it's. way. i call it something i need help with in the name of the city that spelled all the people hard like you know.

wrong well no real problem 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 oh yes what we see is proof so demonstrates is that prices across ukraine trying to. keep i will demonstrate outside all government buildings now in the in the cities of evolve. we have seen the. local ministration buildings being occupied notes are all the day we saw a large numbers of people gathering in both places a large numbers on independence square now what they were doing is. they were rebuilding suring up and all being themselves on power kates at the entrances to today to the independence square that has been rumors going around here that perhaps there could be some. particular. ground just yet but that both sides

perhaps willing to to at least speak to each other to talk to each other will be expecting news from those discussions to come out as stephen progresses. a lot international staying in the thick of events there in the ukrainian capital twenty four seven for you to keep you updated on of course the escalating crisis you can also keep up with what's happening at dot com. we think of why we think of. sand beaches. coconut palms gently swaying in the ocean breeze. and frank. white has a deep dark little secret a secret the u.s.

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only. make phone recordings implicate one of the biggest massacre in a disaster earlier this month. a top u.s. army general says syria's president won't help get the country out of the mess it's in washington reiterated support for the rebels opposed. to wait longer for your fat. food while cash strapped restaurant workers try to squeeze a higher minimum wage from the industry's big names. which are here to national coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie now one of

ukraine's biggest industrial tycoons has been implicated and some of the country's worst recent violence in a series of leaked phone calls posted on you tube and one overheard recording a ski has the cranes second richest man is accused of masterminding the massacre in a gas in which at least forty eight people were killed earlier this month as well as a hand in scores of major businesses and controls ukraine's biggest information agency plus one of the country's main t.v. channels gains not a riot he'll asked months what a bank he owns openly offering a ten thousand dollar reward for the head of any so-called russian sub a tour but it's this phone conversation with opposition figure and former presidential hopeful a leg to reel off in which call noise he says there is a million dollar reward for the latter is had that's raising the most eyebrows take a listen. would you do that you. don't know enough.

for some very borders regular number of refer to this. unanimously in your careers or. well that exchange was later discussed over the phone by two other ukrainian businessmen who mentioned that someone actually witnessed camo ski make that call according to show the boat well this is shows that both men are outraged and as their conversation moved on it touched on and the other allegation about a girl noisy bad he was the person who ordered the recent attack you know data and which dozens of people were killed no one knew them articled knew them that were new york or gold or people who were the city's companies we would have literally anyone who questions from official just. look at the video on this program store where do you see what did your dad and i know i'm. committed that will send the right it's all going to be at the root of who did this come said that this is what

he said look at what has become sort of the nature boy is the good will do each book when you can when you simple misunderstood or doing. we talked to international affairs expert mark the vote on the merged call and he told whatever shocking revelations about ukraine's inner circle being involved in dreadful events in the country the west will continue to ignore them your column or excuse one of the shadiest and most interesting figures right now in ukrainian politics he was recently placed at as essential a few to all of dark baron over the territory of deliberate. in the southeast of ukraine with the intention that he repress the opposition movement against the current regime that is taking control in kiev and there is the unspoken assumption which is proven true that he would hire his own army of mercenaries to further that a war i don't think that the western media are using that and i these revelations

are unfortunate it is they've long ago chosen sides and a few massacres and involvement of all of dark figures and corruption is simply not going to chair into the narrative they're spinning in the western media at this point. defense forces of the newly percs lamed an ant's people's republic are urging ukraine's military to withdraw from the region they say they will move against kids troops if the ultimatum isn't mad by the end of thursday gunfire and artillery have been heard outside slovyansk the city which is six hundred kilometers from kiev and it was among the first to face crackdown by government forces and as are his policy reports after being under siege by the army for weeks now the city is on the brink of a humanitarian catastrophe. we're now entering the town of slovyansk which is completely encircled by the ukrainian military this is a ukrainian army checkpoint and as you can see the cars are backed up

a little way down the road there it will take me a better part of at least one hour to get in because of this because the town is so encircled you have a growing humanitarian crisis supplies simply cannot get in. get patients in the town are running out just many of them simply do not have any gas to be proven out five to come and fill up the car here put on your natural supplies will run out so there will be nothing to run our cars on and we won't be able to get. the local hospital is treating people who've been injured not only here in slovyansk but also in neighboring towns there's real concern that it's been pushed to crisis point and because of this ordinary people have been arriving with packets of food and blankets toiletries as well as medical supplies to try and stop this from happening the gates has been closed here for the better part of two days this is the local

grid factory where people are simply too afraid to come to work choosing rather to stay inside their homes as a result of the prices of bread and flour have skyrocketed and in the shops there are long queues to buy it. this is one of the largest supermarkets in the wrong they've been rumors circulating for days that the shelves are empty and that suppliers are not able to get in let's go have a look last solves. i'm scared so it's almost everyone i know i haven't felt this much fear in mind tire life. this is the fourth a.t.m. that we've been to and none of them are working there are at least seven banks that have stopped operating in the town. as you can see the shops are closed and the streets are mostly empty people are choosing to stay home rather than risk coming to the streets there's a sense of anxiety and fear in the air a feeling that

a military strike is imminent paula see r t slovyansk eastern ukraine. the syrian opposition will be incapable of governing the country if president assad was ousted and that's the view of a top u.s. military commander general martin dempsey says syria would remain in the grip of terror and chaos where the opposition unable to root out al qaida linked groups infighting is on the rise among the various rebel factions inside syria a new opposition coalition has been formed and it blames the already existing syrian national coalition for failing to stop the violence but the white house has still pledged fresh support for the u.s. and she is gone and she can now reports. we're seeing a new push by the obama administration to fulfill a goal that he declared three years ago to topple the syrian president bashar assad has announced that syria will hold elections despite the war the u.s.

vehemently opposes those elections washington has already decided who the legitimate representatives of the syrian people are is the syrian opposition coalition president obama has met with a coalition leader ahmad jarba at the white house this week u.s. secretary of state john kerry told the rebels we've wasted a year in the fight against assad to the participants of the meeting said john kerry made the remark in the context of a discussion about renewed efforts to coordinate the flow of both aid and weapons to the syrian rebels the french foreign minister was also in washington this week and he said he quote unquote regretted that the u.s. had not bombed syria as its worth and all of this war talk amid the u.s. and europe saying that they want to find a political solution to the crisis in syria but we say there is no. military victory meaning we meaning united states there can be no military solution and every step that we're taking is a military step. and and so obviously what we're

setting up is a longer term conflict more conflict the u.n. envoy for syria lakhdar brahimi has announced his resignation expressing regret for his inability to forge a coherent international response to the humanitarian catastrophe unfolding in syria the geneva talks have not led to a deal between the syrian government and the opposition although the syrian opposition has been largely unwilling to cut deals with the government of bashar assad nonetheless there have been instances of progress most recently thousands of syrians were turned to war battered parts of the central city of homs after the rebels left under an evacuation deal with the government but washington seems keen to prompt the syrian rebels to continue fighting instead of cutting deals even though a deal could save thousands of lives in washington i'm going to check on our team. now the syrian crisis escalated after last year's chemical attack in aleppo killed

dozens of people was the government and the rebels blaming each other for the massacre in june u.s. president barack obama up to the ante by authorizing military aid to the syrian rebels for the first time and the crisis reached a peak two months later with western leaders calling for military strikes on syria signing another controversial chemical attack as a red line but just as military intervention loom large a diplomatic breakthrough was brokered by russia which helped persuade syria to give up its chemical arsenal damascus began getting rid of its stockpiles and tobar and is expected to complete the handover ahead of the deadline in june and the next step to deescalate the crisis came in geneva where syrian government and opposition officials said down for talks for the first time but they won't negotiate alternately failed to break the deadlock as both sides resumed his tilly's and now tensions have again escalated with the white house hosting the syrian opposition

leader and pledging fresh support for the insurgency geopolitical analyst brian backer says the syrian people are the ones paying the price for washington's regime change ambitions it's an indication that the obama administration in spite of the fact that its policy has completely failed it's hanging tough so to speak showing that it's be stowing the legitimacy or so-called legitimacy of the united states certainly the power of the united states with the armed opposition in spite of the fact that the armed opposition does not have the popular base of support necessary to oust the assad government so they're just continuing with the same script the syrian people are the ones paying this terrible price in blood and treasure is the leading goes on i think it's wrong. well officials from eleven western and arab countries pledged more financial diplomatic supports to the syrian opposition and let's take now look at what countries are in the so-called friends of syria club well most of them are middle eastern countries and syria's neighbors in europe it's

germany france u.k. and italy and of course the united states is also on the list political analysts and says most countries have by now realized that backing the rebels only leads to more instability in the region these so-called friends of syria a conference which has been launched in two thousand and twelve there were one hundred over one hundred twenty countries supporting the opposition in syria but there are not only eleven western imperialist states this indicates that most of the states they are aware that the repercussion of the syrian crisis is imposing a serious threat on regional and international security the situation in syria is not between the syrian government and the opposition it is between the syrian government and armed extremists who are far the everybody there who oppose their

narrative their narrative is to create an islamic caliphate in syria be governess of the will of the people and the only protector of the. just secular values or the civil values of the syrian state is the army is the syrian army and coming up after the break fast food workers anger at their employers goes global and we're following the strikes that are set to take place in over thirty five countries worldwide. among the people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist so it's time to blow the whistle and start a revolution before we're all slaves to the corrupt and the generally corrupt. dramas the truth be ignored. stories others refused

to notice. food since changed the world rights next. to the picture of today's leaves. home to and from roads to blow. up to. welcome back you're watching artsy international fast food not so fast these days

as a people responsible for your big macs or classic whoppers take to the streets to participate in what is expected to be the largest ever strike against the industry the walkouts will take place in at least thirty five countries around the world to squeeze better wages from the fast food giants the images that you can see right here are the latest protests taking place in japan while here's marina ford now with more on why the workers are running out of patience the fight for a decent living wage is a battle millions of citizens can relate to and it's also a battle that is not going away fast food workers throughout the u.s. are walking off the job in onto the streets thursday demanding a paid increase and the right to unionize you see fast food is a two hundred billion dollar industry but the majority of those who prepare and serve the meals for those folks they're living in poverty or close to it the

problem is that the majority of fast food workers are paid minimum wage to us the federal minimum wage is seven twenty five an hour i paid so low that even after working forty hours a week most fast food workers have to rely on government assistance like food stamps to make ends meet you should really get a lot more than minimum wage can live off of that it's hard you know i'm a single mom and it's hard to provide for my sons hard to put food on the table sometimes the fast food labor force is demanding that minimum wage be increased to fifteen dollars an hour during the last day of action in december thousands took to the streets and that's when i received the first hand account from struggling workers about the purchase. i don't know. i'm surviving by the grace of god i am. i am in a shelter trying to get out of there and i can't do it because i don't get paid that much some struggling you know and that's why i'm here to see what these people

before me and yeah so for right to take you to family well the single people were just america away and i believe all fall in vision a country not full cooperation before the working man about another make way too much money for us to be treated like this where the one will give them the money where the one earns it and then it's like we're not going there because they want to take some money home according to reports the average yearly salary of a new york city fast food worker is eleven thousand dollars cost for the fast food c.e.o.'s well they earn an estimated twenty five thousand dollars per day more than double what their workers earn all year now nobody likes not but those kind of numbers really put the disparity between america's rich and poor into perspective porting from new york we're in a fortnight our take. as the day progresses and new strikes occur around the globe we'll bring you live updates right here on r.t.

international. and at our website we have actual stories including how a porch alou door was mistaken for a north korean drone leaving one so resident feeling rather flushed that's on our call. and while you're there or get some world cup inside and reasons why global politics should say out of sports our interview with former england football manager fabio capello is just one click away. when snipers gunned down dozens of protesters in kiev in fabry coup leaders along with the western media were quick to pin the blame on president the. police officers but investigators in the ukrainian capital now have evidence that contradicts these hastily reach conclusions are days ago going off explains. the footage that shook ukraine and the entire world many say this was the point of no

return protesters being shot one after another with live rounds during february's uprising showing images of riot police firing their weapons and many media outlets were quick to accuse them of being behind the massacre images of snipers in central kiev flooded the internet along with more accusations of the authorities while several western officials fanned the flames people who stood up against neighbors firing at them from the rubes who are fighting against the tyranny of having political opposition put in jail where you have some of the ukrainian ambassador in london this morning to register our emphatic protest the event planned to call for a media reaching trying to end the attitude of the ukrainian the power to. ukrainians were shocked and even those protesters who were ready for some sort of negotiations with the authorities were now ready to push for the all to mcgaugh dragging them

from power president in accordance first flees the capital and then the country but denies accusations that he ordered the police to kill the officers who were seen opening fire and claim they were merely trying to scare the rioters away by aiming at the ground in front of them while leaks conversation between the story and foreign minister and the e used top diplomat gives his version that he's now stronger and stronger understanding that behind snipers it was not going to quote which it was somebody that you know question but all that is widely ignored. instead of the new police chief announces the results of a hasty investigation putting the full blame on the riot police and arresting twelve officers further splitting ukrainian society in the south we see more deaths in violent clashes between those for and against he adds new york forty's. and so-called anti terror operations with the use of heavy military equipment in the country's east while the rift with the western provinces grows wider than ever. but

now nearly three months after five years me parliament finishes another investigation with a not expected outcome those bullets were not fired by the riot police. it would have been great if somethings could be rounds not on t.v. but in real life who knows could the uprising have been successful if not for those accusations would you have come to the brink of a civil war like we're seeing now which is don't know nor do we know was really behind those sniper deaths in february. or to moscow while russia's and card exchange has proposed creating an international agency to combat the global drug trade viktor ivanov says the organization should be set up in afghanistan which provides most of the world's opium u.s. led occupation forces are now pulling out of the war zone having failed to stem the drugs flow of an abstract that russia will continue to cooperate with america in

the war on drugs despite a string of sanctions imposed on moscow by washington afghanistan produces more than ninety percent of the world's heroin which has killed around half a million russians in the past fourteen years. and now for some news in brief from around the world the streets in the u.s. city of los angeles are flowing with oil after a pipe ruptured in a suburban area nearly fifty thousand gallons of crude have spilled on the roads and is said to be need high in some places cleanup teams are working in the area. police have used tear gas and water cannons on protesters in the turkish city of as mayor thousands took to the streets mourning the hundreds that died in the coal mine disaster people are blaming the government for the tragedy saying it failed to implement proper staved regulations trade unions are holding a one day strike across the country bodies are still being recovered from the side

as the death toll reaches two hundred eighty. a car bomb and a suicide bomber have struck in the center of baghdad at least nine people have been killed in the blast including three policemen the bombs went off in busy commercial areas were a number of government buildings are located and this is the latest in a series of car bombs to hit iraqi capital since elections last month. and then here is an online cat video that's worth every bit of your attention security food it shows a toddler happily playing on his bike in his parents' drive but he was sitting prayed for the next door's dog which went nuts and attacked but guess who comes to the rescue it's the family's daredevil cat which body slams the body which then runs for cover you know look at this amazing clip on our website are today. and next max and stacy are the trail of the rich and famous and infamous rather in

a kaiser report or national. equality is nice but there are a couple point one things just get silly for example for the last year even at the congressional level some democrats on the military association of atheists and freethinkers have been pushing to create atheist chaplains in the us military a chaplain in the context the armed forces is a priest who goes alongside the nation's troops to give them spiritual counsel and boost morale and also myself was very skeptical that god created man i could tell you that this is just a bit odd what sort of spiritual or moral support is some sort of generic atheist chaplain going to provide he'd probably say something like well son everything you're fighting for in this tiny rocket in for universes ultimately pointless and

johnson who died yesterday he's not in heaven or anything there is no afterlife for me to our existence so he's just maggot food now you feel better yeah thanks for the counseling father i think this is just a case of me too me too politics where the demand for a humanist religion free priest is war despite christian soldiers rather than to actually do something to help atheist soldiers but that's just my opinion. your friends post a photo from a vacation you can't. call it different. the boss repeats the say old joke of course you like. your ex-girlfriend still tense tear jerking poetry keep tabs nora's. we. post only what really matters. to your facebook news feed.

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the kaiser report iraq stars are among the people generally corrupt. liberty cannot long exist so it's time to blow the whistle open and start a revolution before all slams to the corrupt and the generally corrupt state. that was a quote from edmund burke irish statesman orator philosopher and member of the british parliament of course who was with the whig party and supported the american revolution but there was another quote i wanted to talk whatever happened to the word poorly. they're gone i guess they supported the remark of revolution and then they were kicked out but there's another quote about corruption i wanted to bring up from tacitus and he said in a state where corruption abounds laws must be very numerous i.e. laws against speaking your mind like libel and things like that so in this episode we will have to make up many new words because exclusive the cameron crony the

private jet company it won't let a minute but first of all the movie whose task this i take it this is roman ancient guy from long ago so my education in the public class expected new york university's gallatin division is finally coming into play finally twenty five years later yes test is are we sure he's roman or tour or something yes yes haven't you seen all those b.b.c. doesn't run to cicero and what. tacitus fair enough that he's mumble mumble disabling on about what you said about the more corrupt a nation the more laws they need yet won't if that's true i mean look at the tax law they started up this thick now it's this thick and general electric's tax return is this thick and they don't pay taxes exactly and all those laws are to basically provide cover for those that are corrupt well exclusive the cameron crony the private jet company and a crash landing that cost taxpayers one hundred million pounds that crash landing

was of eight balls. the scottish bank that collapsed during the two thousand and eight financial crisis well take a look at pictures of david cameron on one of his many globe trotting trips to boost british trade and their. a good chance you'll see robin southwell at his side he's the president of arab us u.k. at the time of the financial crisis he was the president of what it was then called a d.s. u.k. and he dealt with a lot of their p.f. i scams i mean schemes but he at the time he was also a non-executive director and shareholder of corporate jet services an exclusive private jet group which owned planes hired out of the likes of david back to max clifford a media mogul richard desmond now they have two million pounds in assets max they collapse owing one hundred thirteen million pounds to h. boss which then had to be bailed out with twenty billion pounds by the british taxpayer so the bottom line as i understand it is that. rang up one hundred

million pounds and. with probably you know one one one hundredth of that in. the scheme connected to david cameron he's a bloody it was my phone that correctly well yes it's a small company they had two million pounds and assets they had an eight hundred thousand pound overdraft and yet they racked up one hundred thirteen million pounds in debt they managed to borrow that much from the bank now because they never filed accounts up and for the last two or three years of operation which is against the law by the way well it's against purple paint you can't say all the words here right in the u.k. but they we don't know where that hundred thirty million pounds went to what they incurred those costs on who got paid where the money went but they went back they went bust ate it therefore the taxpayer ate it so we can't use words like fraud in

a in the context of describing a situation which would normally be you know the context would be so we have to find a substitution for fraud will use fruit for. so it was committed fruit. yet david cameron enabled does fruit to be committed to a centrally as a crony cap of fruit capitalist because of his connections to the area because he's going to be in diet because without fruit there would be no david cameron there would be no concern for the burden they live on fruit there are fruitarians. peons they believe in a utopian state made entirely of food which of course if you replace this type of substitute fruit for fraud you'll understand exactly what we're saying secondly now the other interesting thing about this so this bank well this company corporate jet services c.j.'s collapsed one hundred thirty million pounds and then as its balance

sheet collapse the beleaguered bank placed the company into administrative receivership with pricewaterhouse coopers but then encouraged the accountancy giant to sell the profitable assets back to the same directors including mr southwell for what one expert now describes as quote a knock down prize at the independent on sunday which said this investigation said that this decision was bizarre as a company seemingly under the control of its directors with mr southwell as a not exactly had caused a loss to boss of about one hundred million pounds with a bank writing off sixty million pounds worth of debt on a single day and march two thousand and eight well this mirrors what we sold r.b.s. from r.b.s. sensors in their division restructuring group the global restructuring group the lobel restructuring group which is enabled by one of these big four a big five accountancy firms they're the really the linchpin in the photo being diet for the

fruit for their fruit stores right so here it is price waterhouse cooper i think with r.b.s. it was one of the others or the big four and so this is a typical scam where they borrow hundreds of millions of pounds against no collateral to buy. assets blow up in value because they're riding the crest of an unsustainable bubble then they write them down for the loss against property and some other division and then buy back the assets for pennies on the dollar for some other division so they never lose money at all the accounting is very complicated so you need one of these for photopia and companies the fruit fruit frutti the fruit frutti accountants the fruity accountants k p m g price war outsourced and young and some other one the the they create a fruit salad they create the fruit salad and afterward they create a fruit fruit opium milkshake that is then imbibed by david cameron and his cronies i mean as for toby and loving cafeteria at the cafeteria and at the end of the day

somehow they end up making millions and millions and millions of pounds and then up on the times fortunate list. while imposing austerity yes and that the diet that everyone else has to. survive on is like the dirt biscuit diet of haiti so it's like the haitian derbez good diet to keep the for dope eons in full bowls of fruit and fruit for everybody thanks to the four photopia and what by the way if you see a book circling in the show here with big four letters on it that's one of the top ians i were speaking of that's the one you forgot by the way but oh no this isn't it for not. but yet you mentioned that the age of austerity in the article does point out that every single taxpayer had to fork out here every single taxpayer seven thousand six hundred pounds to bail out the banks now this one small company by this close friend of david cameron his his little you know aviation company everybody here at all the taxpayer every actually every citizen man woman and child

had to give one pound to this company but they ask like where did this one hundred thirteen million pounds go well the books six figure transfers from c.d.'s coffers every month to europe max one of its subsidiaries basically. tax haven of the isle of man mr southwell is listed as chief executive on the company's annual returns his lawyer said he was a non-executive banana i mean director according to company records just under thirty percent of his shares and euro max were owned by mr southwell through another isle of man company called debt the dean ltd so all these little shell companies are you might call them coconuts or whatever it anything to say but what it really is so all a lot of the hundred thirty million pounds went to the subsidiary which also flew planes between the isle of man and the u.k. and they went also bankrupt and another chapter in the ongoing the soap opera for topia. enabled you know reminds me tell us of the world snooker championship

a couple weeks ago stacey between ronnie o'sullivan and mark selby and this is the problem in the u.k. we our show is like ronnie o'sullivan we actually hit the ball and we take shots and we see what happens because we're playing the game mark so b. is like the b.b.c. where then it's all about the the shot that goes into the safety shots it's just safety shots safety shot after safety shot after safety shot until you wear the opponent down and you claim victory but it's not a manly victory it's not a victory with dignity it's a shameful victory they should strip him of that world championship mark selby because it really when he just bored ronnie o'sullivan to death there's a big difference in that at least joe perry stood up like a man and he took shots any last playing the game but b.b.c. or mainstream media there like mark selby there just to caution caution caution caution caution we when we when we have now we allow all this fraud to take place

in our economy what is one of the shameless krupa wishes you mean all of these apples to take place in our economy oh yeah. ok go back to. euro max was received a lot of one hundred thirty million pounds looks like we don't know because everything is opaque and they went bust with owing one point five million pounds to the isle of man and they lost thirty to seventy jobs there in iowa man now this is the interesting part in may two thousand and eight tony brown the chief minister of the isle of man told its parliament that when the company's last aircraft left the island euro max waited until two minutes after takeoff to inform the airport that the company was bust he said this was quote a deliberate act by the owners of euro max so as to ensure that the airport authority could out of rest the euro max aircraft a security against outstanding debt now remember the guy this guy southwell is a friend of tony blair tony well they're all the same aren't they david cameron he flew to with david cameron to china to the middle east on these trade conferences

he's an ambassador for business for the for britain so and he's still the head of airbus u.k. . you know you know he'll be the secretary of commerce and replacement cable you know another another one of these guys another fruit salad purveyor. well it's a fascinating detail old exposé of the intricacies and scandalous nature of the frauds. was the new fruit i'm inventing it's called the fraud fruit. it's going to be classified as a fraud fruit invented this fruit and you peel it and alone behold there's david cameron how do. i know how you're doing so it never ends because there's no penalties for fraud in this economy there's no deterrent for fraud in some countries there are turns not in this country so i'm

afraid this is just going to continue until something bad happens i might mention that they do mention paul our more we will be speaking to in a few seconds and as the whistleblower at each boss who tried to stop this from happening lo and behold they didn't listen and here we are. taught off for now. thank you. my little pomegranate. state till this like a whole lot more please. pledge it was a normal and very hard to make other plans against a longer disciplined life that never had sex with the perfect let's let's play.

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live live . welcome back to the kaiser report time now to turn to h.b.o. whistleblower paul our more who is currently writing a book called crash back wall up the story of the h. boss will blow or pour more welcome back to the kaiser report thanks it's fantastic now for those who need to put all this in the context just remind the audience exactly what happened to aids boss when and why you blew the whistle kind of the

potted one minute version if you can't well cross be called it the new force in banking it turned out to be a new farce in banking. they had a strategy it was called growth at all costs and the costs of turned out to be somewhere in the region of forty seven billion pounds and i was head of regulatory risk it was my job to. slow the wild horses down where necessary i raise the challenge crosby fired me cursed me is he was sergio because people he had to give up his knighthood last year his name james crosby he was the chairman he was the chief executive he then became the deputy chairman of the financial services authority and you may remember that when i blew the whistle to the treasury select committee in february of two thousand and nine the following day he had to resign as the deputy chair of the financial services authority so basically what i was saying is that if they carried on with that growth strategy it was likely to cause

serious trouble and of course it did i mean the strategy basically is just to assume as a debt without any accountability for whatsoever it's kind of like the enron strategy from the u.s. going back to the enron scandal just keep accumulating debt come up with new ways to account for it that are sketchy and get some accounting firm to sign off on it and then when the debt it can't be paid just say loops that's that sort of in a nutshell i remember the head of risk of one. the division is saying to me risk management has no priority around here at all the only thing that current sales and then he said and you know that animals around here that cultural statement well a so the because they get paid on the fees based on the volume of debt costs does that have no accountability for the debt just the volume of debt they get to feed ok so that's the story you're the whistleblower as a result you're you are either out of the industry basically and now you're a whistleblower you're writing books and you're starting

a new company which we don't to get into deep details today but does it look like you're suffering it's looks like you're thriving having gotten out of that culture fraud hang on it took me ten years to get through the tribulation everybody knew i was right but they scattered like the four wins because i was a leper so when you're a whistleblower nobody gives you a job back in the area that you were i had an impeccable record so now i'm doing peer to peer lending we can talk about that on another occasion and i'm also writing as you said my book of memoirs crash bank wall up ok i want you here today because in the first half of the show we mentioned something a scandal this is just months before requiring a twenty billion pound taxpayer bailout boss lost one hundred thirteen million pounds on bad loans to corporate jet services a company which had just two million pounds of assets so this is kind of scandal we want to want to dig down a little because a case study in really all the machinations of these frauds how connected do you

have to be to rack up that kind of debt against virtually no assets at all talk about get us into the story golly gosh i've seen the detail of this and i can tell you max the devil is in the detail but let me try to make it simple somehow or other between one company followed by another company that borrowed vast amounts of money from bank of scotland assets ended up in another company called quest. for next to nothing which is now a successful company with all the loans been written off in another environment so that the assets ended up in a company run by robin southwell and he also was involved in running a company or corporate jet services which was one of these and he also owned the shares in that company in the early days it was robin southwell robinson as well is a top advisor to david cameron on business matters he's also the head of a d.s. which is a defense business in the u.k. and by the way let me tell you e.a. d.s.

not yet the s u k but e.d.s. is the subject of a very serious set of allegations of corruption in saudi arabia over a defense contract so robin south was connected to a range of these different things this matter needs to be investigated i can go into the detail if you want to but frankly what happens is lots of money lent assets created end up for almost nothing in a company run by robin southwell very successfully now ok last count there but it sounds like you mentioned a five or six separate entities well a moment a moment about roughly correct is a little my next question because it's really three ok but i won't absolutely entities inside it entities and park it entities and after books entities and there's three primary entities but they seem to be going through conduit it's the detail of this is complicated and we don't want to get into all that is well let me try and make it as simple for viewers as i possibly can one company chauffeur went

bust its assets ended up in corporate jets services. with a lower amount of the debt. that it started with corporate jet services the shares were originally wholly owned by robin southwell well originally nearly all the shares then that was holy and then he transferred them out lots of money was lent to them by bank of scotland to buy more assets one hundred thirteen million at least that company went bust and mysteriously all the assets and the goodwill were sold to quest for virtually nothing here which is also owned robin by robin and others who knew where the banks in the equation get up to five or six and there is a very strong inference here that somebody at the bank was involved in the conspiracy and they'll get a must be investigated by the criminal or forces except the trouble is the criminal

authorities are not investigating things properly none of the enforcement officers are and by the way i know that in the course of this whole affair which relates to a fraud called the h. boss reading fraud that lord dennis stephenson i want to say this very carefully because i am a barrister by original profession that's a lawyer there is an overwhelming evidence that i have seen that demonstrates that lord dennis stephenson was involved in a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice in other words to cover this matter up and i want to say that clearly i wouldn't say it on the television if i couldn't prove it i have mentioned this matter to the most senior people and retire at the treasury select committee to the senior investigating officer of the actual fraud and none of them seem to want to drill down and get to the bottom of it i am confident that i can prove that lord denis stevenson the ex chairman of h. boss was involved in one way or the other in a conspiracy to pervert the course of justice very serious criminal offense i would like it to be investigated let's get it done here bad i'm not a bad i mean in

a way i mean that in the pub kids or the cia i mean even naming names they kicking people in in the. in the gift or that's a good thing i think will come on the show was i max i am a barrister i know the laws of evidence and i wouldn't say that i had an overwhelming evidence that could prove a fraud by somebody a senior is that if i couldn't prove it because i'd be subjecting myself to defamation and law dennis stephenson knows exactly what i'm talking about and i strongly recommend that he actually fesses up before i actually find him out and get your skylarking honest davis that he's about to get flayed i don't want to want to do is not just who's in trouble this time not not just him by the way there are so many of these the greed ocracy i call them the elite elite he greed ocracy that are protecting one another from being held to account and you're right it includes the large firm of accountants firms of accountants it involves the top players in these banks it involves the regulators the whole system darling i'm

a person hasn't been dealt we don't so here we have corporate jet services was put into administration price waterhouse cooper. immediately sold all the best assets for pennies yes to a company owned by the very same directors of the bankrupt company including robin southwell the advisor to david cameron which is now a successful company ok we are right now surrounded by four big accounting firms price waterhouse cooper k p m g p w c price water closet. ernst and young and another one there lloyd do it for ya. i have said on the show that these four the four horsemen of the accounting apocalypse are as much to blame as anyone else i would actually say they are more to blame than anyone else talk about now i want to say this carefully most of the people who work in those firms are good and honest people but actually those firms have given up integrity and independence in return for fees and they are involved in the insolvency world in

a scandal they're involved in covering things up by the way k.p. energy supposedly did an independent investigation into my allegations about h. boss and that was a coverup directly to the camera that was a cover up and if you want to sue me for it come and do so because i can prove it and it'll be in my book top to tail so you might as well fess up right now this is totally ghetto i mean i am going to try this it's absolutely true and by the way for i feel need neil mitchell's case a guy no more oil bank of skyline no every in the real world restructuring group of the royal bank of scholars and i think the same thing right rob bank of scotland with the global restructuring group is not just a similar scam by another accounting firm in the same nonsense victimising is for british very much stealing their assets got it. global restructuring group i have direct evidence. i know neil mitchell and i know he's right in the middle of the tribulation so sometimes it becomes across as a personal vendetta but it isn't and by the way i'm not on

a personal vendetta rather i might sound like it i'm up for truth and justice and reform i have direct evidence of. what i would describe as virtual dishonesty inside global restructuring group by the way and it wasn't just royal bank of scotland that was doing that stuff it's all the other banks as well we're doing it pushing companies into insolvency virtual is honestly meaning meaning when you take a criminal case you have to prove the case to a jury and getting the case across beyond reasonable doubt is not easy but i can tell you i am absolutely sure. or there was serious wrongdoing as a very serious level inside global restructuring group and this business of supposedly signing it off it's a cover up but isn't there u.k. economy now dependent on fraud to survive in other words these scandals are so much institutionalized the banks the accounting firms we just mentioned a lot legal profession that are involved the money managers without this common

fraud amongst the g.d.p. in the u.k. would collapse well no i don't digitally agree with that actually the s.m.a. business business is in this is more than a medium enterprise are very powerful businesses and peer to peer lenders that can actually provide them we're going to certainly talk about me a little in the world bank of scotland who are targeting small to medium enterprises for death and then they break them up when they sell the assets for pennies on the dollar how do you fight against that if the government is born and vince cable who always saw the biggest give away billions of the royal mail sell off to their advisors their banking advisers they gave eight million pounds a week to keep on keeping on i call this project jericho and the walls of jericho you have to go around seven times before the walls fall down we are getting closer and closer on a whole range of the and you have been a very important part of this max actually allowing people to speak up properly when most broadcasters will not do it that is why i chose jeremy paxman right off

the air he's leaving because he knows better than i like your mistakes i like jeremy and i love you know i see him here he's been here as there was a come on that he was the one who described james trolls but as the prominent incompetent on newsnight hardly anybody does that so give it up just a good guy take that back jeremy good god is forgiven we don't well very well run at a time when our duty as drinks while the book is called crash bank won't want to come out it's going to eighth of november the tenth anniversary of my dismissal very want to come back to the show tomorrow sounds good enough to come back anytime a lot because i know the detail of all this stuff. all right that was going to do it for this edition of the kaiser report with me max geyser and stacy everett i'd like to thank our guest paul are more the eight sponsible so blower who is now chairman of assets capital a new peer to peer lender he's also the author of the upcoming book crash bank wallop if you like and touch to it as a cause report the likes of bio. personal

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