this is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital marina joshing welcome to the program now there is a deep sense of history repeating itself in edge of the country's first democratically elected leader faces the same fate as he's authoritarian predecessor hosni mubarak mohamed morsi is in court along with fourteen others accused of inciting the murder of protesters last december if convicted he could be sentenced to life in prison or even death tensions are rising with some to fan. chanting slogans against egypt's current rulers as our supporters outside the court well you are looking right now at live pictures from the streets around the building and the judge has decided to adjourn at the session until call is restored. while during last year's unrest in egypt experienced mass public outrage at the government's attempts to push through and islam is leading constitution and give the president's weaving powers policy the reports from cairo on the landmark court case. for the first time in

and stacy churkin at r.t. guantanamo bay cuba where more than half the detainees still at guantanamo are you enemy nationals the arab countries considering building a new facility to receive the inmates after their transfer a plan already dubbed guantanamo to well arty's lucy caffein office just returned from yemen where she met relatives of the detainees. it's difficult to stay positive about these detainees coming home when you've been awaiting us long as over a decade as was the case with some of the families who we've met now yemen is in a specific different situation for a variety of reasons than other countries more than half of the remaining detainees are yemeni citizens fifty six of them have been cleared for release to get sent back from guantanamo not a single one has come home and in fact the last citizen to return to the country came home in a body bag and twenty twelve and that is the fate that some of the families that we've met with worry could be in store for or for some of their loved ones one

what r.t. spoke to human rights advocate he himself is a decade behind bars in both public and private jails alex freeman believes private prisons. no benefit to society since that or only goal is to make money serve six years at a privately operated prison this part of the ten years total that i spent incarcerated and my experience is privately operated prison pretty much is what led me on to a career if you will fighting against a private prison industry it is a very drastic experience and people come out of prison generally worse than they went in to get the isolation due to the the lack of resources and rehabilitation programs of them and what that means of course is that when they get out they are more likely to start to recidivate and come back and that benefits no one except for companies like c.c.a. because if you profit from incarceration then the more people you have locked up the more money you can get. coming up in the next hour there is one u.s. prison that refuses to close. it's v

r.t. . that could finally be light at the end of the tunnel in the global diplomatic wrangling over iran's nuclear projects as america's secretary of state sweeps into geneva to push the talks towards a long awaited agreement we'll have more on this story shortly. and ginny's at the stricken fukushima nuclear power plant are preparing for the most dangerous operation yet the removal of fuel rods from the reactor complex more than a thousand highly has a selzer at the facility and damaged cooling pools to keep them from emitting radiation our correspondent alexy our share of skee was in the exclusion zone. extracting these rods from the pools is a really hard task because each one of them called ways of more than three hundred kilograms and they cannot even hit each other that's what caused a nuclear chain reaction not only these pools are crippled but the machinery the automated machinery doesn't work as well so every rod has to be extracted from the pool manually the typical company running

but for now here on r.t. to britain we go sometimes being too good at committing crimes can actually secure your future especially if you're a hacker it's after it was revealed the newly formed u.k. cyber defense unit is looking for reinforcements from the ranks of its convicted enemies shedding some light on this story r.t. correspondent laura smith. the life and times of. britain from cruising through cyberspace to banged up in prison to what can for the governments as details of the u.k.'s proposed defense. officials admit they're considering hiring convicts it's just all the implications in black and white that it's ok for governments to have people but if people had governments it's a cry must. convey he paid the price and is now studying computer science soon he'll be looking for a job but he will be looking to the government think it's part. of the government doesn't try to hide a conflict. because i feel that people would still be. state sponsored. i think they should be trying to confuse your securit

r.t. london. a quick look at some other stories now public workers calling for better pay have clashed with riot police in the capital of chile the violence broke out as thousands of unionists marched through santiago demanding a salary rise of nearly ten percent is part of a forty eight hour strike that has brought government services including colleges and hospitals to a standstill a typhoon that could be the world's strongest ever has smashed into islands in the philippines forcing millions of people to flee their homes winds of more than three hundred kilometers an hour whipped up waves reaching five meters high the super storm will pass close to the second largest city in the philippines to blue with a population of two and a half million. thousands of to have protested against plans to build a wall along to the southeastern border with syria the day long demonstration was forcibly broken up by police using tear gas and water cannon kurdish leaders say the barrier is being built to split them

r.t. documents the surge in civilian casualties with an in-depth database on the growing terror. there is nothing you don't. britain's spy chief can damn whistle blowing at a parliamentary committee hearing on mass surveillance that rights groups say avoided all the tough questions. and new revelations emerge in how america uses its embassies around the world to spy on host cities you speak to an investigative journalist studying this network. britain has declared a global hub of financial secrecy as tax havens responsible for hiding most of the world on account of cash are traced to the country's offshore zones and a pressure group report. this article in to live from the russian capital marina joshie welcome to the program. as iraq suffers the worst surge of violence in years r.t. launches a special online. deaths often they don't even make it to the mainstream media headlines addresses right there on your screen and every passing day the number is rising with at least thirty more people

also with r.t. dot com a child's dream come true a five year old leukemia survivor becomes his favorite superhero for one day thanks to a san francisco wish fulfillment foundation we've got these stories plus of course plenty more at r.t. dot com. more french farmers die through suicide than through axes and stealing to farming itself a recent report is found artie's test recently went to the country's worst hit region to find out what's behind the phenomenon phenomenon and what's being done to combat it. since two thousand and eight years of milk and meat had to plow on the face of rising production costs and a fall in profits with some farmers taking it much harder than others. fifteen days ago my colleague tried to commit suicide because his bank manager told him he's credited won't be renewed. we work very long hours seven days a week they were simply disconnected from the rest of french society who work hard and keep our heads down but mama look around we ask ourselves what do we actually have.

with the twenty four hours a day this is r.t. live here in moscow still to come on the program this hour the fukushima plant operator may claim it's doing well in remedying the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami disaster but things don't look so great now more problems have been exposed . we were treated like nothing like disposable people they promise things and then when we received a large radiation dose. coming up we report on why those cleaning up the crippled power plant built mistreated and who is cashing in on this. the american captain of the greenpeace vessel involved in the storming of a russian oil rig has been freed on bail now this brings the total number of those released to twenty before trial for hooliganism medina. the russian court and. the american captain of the greenpeace ship peter wilcox and earlier the court has also decided to release citizens who are all over the board has decided to release it to go which means peace activist associate can see more than probably the cases down i don't trust thirty

my life from moscow is r.t. international with me rory sushi stepping aside for the one and only larry king is program politicking it's coming your way in just a minute. we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. the music programs in documentaries and spanish what matters to you breaking news a little turn a tip angle is keep these stories. here. in the spanish find out more visit. tito's comb. secrets from the campaign trail the inside scoop from behind the scenes of the two thousand and twelve presidential race and its impact on the shape of the u.s. political landscape joining me in the co-authors of an instant bestseller double down journalist mark halperin and john. all next politicking with. the politicking i'm happy to have the authors of double down in the studio with me mark halperin is editor at large and senior political analyst for time magazine and senior political analyst for m.s.n. d.c. and john holliman is the national editor of new york magazine and a political analyst for m.s.

thank you for joining us here on r.t. on rory sushi in moscow the shale gas boom in the united states has prompted a congress to make amendments to the first amendment freedom of speech and assembly might now come with a price tag when it comes to staging an anti fracking protest and if indeed the new legislation becomes law the fine for speaking out could be five thousand dollars guy a teacher can reports. when romania granted the u.s. oil giant chevron more than a million acres of land to drill for shale deposits thousands of romanians took to the streets to protest oh they soon found out there was little they could do to protect their soil. in holland farmers stood up against chevron to fight fracking to no avail fracking pumps a high pressure cocktail of water sand and chemicals underground to release the shale gas from the bedrock the environmentalists say it has the potential to trigger earthquakes as well as polluted groundwater and the surrounding countryside the problems with shale gas mining in poland is a quest

r.t. and they hold to iran's nuclear program gives hope for diplomacy but more threatening sanctions from washington could put that progress in reverse as capitol hill chooses between israeli plays and barack obama's promises. meanwhile reports emerge that israel could join forces with former foes saudi arabia to attack iran if a deal with world powers fails to rollback terrans nuclear program. underground adoption in the united states when their children proved too much to handle adoptive parents to simply handing them over to strangers through the internet. mission accomplished the sort she twenty fourteen olympic torch returned safe and sound off the russian cosmonauts took it on in a storage space while. broadcasting twenty four seven live from moscow you with r.t. this week's interlude between the two rounds of crucial talks over iran's nuclear program has some has sent some mixed signals on the one hand the u.n. watchdog declared that atomic projects have been virtually frozen since

r.t. . a quick look now at other news happening around the world this hour of protests in los angeles against the wages paid by america's biggest retailer has led to more than fifty arrests wal-mart is one of the world's most valuable for what it says but its workers say the company's contributing to the united states growing income inequality most of those who took part in the action are union members and activists. was members of two militias have clashed in the libyan capital killing at least one person in during eleven more the fighting started after dozens of men in pickup truck some with anti aircraft guns surged into tripoli forcing people to run for cover it's believed to have been triggered by the death of the commander of one group during recent clashes there. thousands of kurds have protested against plans to build a wall along to the southeastern border with syria the day long demonstration was forcefully broken up by police using tear gas and water cannon kurdish leaders say the

welcome watching r.t. with me. monday has been declared a day of mourning in the republic the russian republic of tire to stand after a plane crash landed killing all fifty people on board including a son of the region's top official locals have been bringing flowers to cause an international airport the scene of the tragedy. is there for us. that there is very heavy police security here right now we know that the site of the crash itself is also still blocked some relative saw the victims saw it here as well we saw a woman whose face was covered in tears she really did seem a bit lost like she didn't didn't know what was going on she said that her nephew was among the killed passengers on board of that flight there are flowers here near the airport buildings a list of the victims as well and psychologists are here since their help is really necessary right now they're assistance and later on monday also with the relatives of the victims are going to be allowed to start identifying them for the plane crash happened

bars is part of the government's efforts to stifle dissent coming up we talk to his wife who tells r.t. how her husband ended up in prison. well powers are celebrating the breakthrough nuclear agreement with iran with president obama praising the diplomatic solution and saying tough talk doesn't guarantee security but his israeli counterpart prime minister benjamin netanyahu took a harsher stance saying by taking pressure off iran the deal left it laughing all the way to the bank artie's reports from tel aviv israel's leaders are lining up to lambaste the rand nuclear deal taking a cue from the commander this first stone. could very well be the last of the country's foreign minister vols the world is now closer to a nuclear arms race while the economic chief warns a nuclear suitcase could detonate a new york or madrid five years from now this agreement has made the world a much more dangerous place. but that world is hating the deal with iran as historic it will make our partners in the region safer it will make our ally israel safer while television threatening to isolate itself even

ski r.t. reporting from japan. investigators have found the missing tape from the cockpit voice recorder of the passenger plane which crashed near the russian city of concern so far the decoding of the flight recorder has revealed details about the maneuvers of the pilots moments before the tragedy on sunday evening the boeing seven three seven aborted a landing at the airport in. after that the crew quested a second attempt the plane rapidly climbed to a height of seven hundred meters while losing speed the crew then force a jet into a dive in order to regain speed but it hit the ground in an almost vertical nosedive all fifty on board were killed. from other world news in brief in egypt at least twelve soldiers have been killed and twenty four wounded in a car bomb attack inside a suicide bomber rammed an explosive laden vehicle into one of two buses carrying off duty soldiers in the heartland of the islamist insurgency attack came just hours after a raid on a checkpoint in the capital where four police officers

there it's good to have you company with r.t. now hot on the heels of american intelligence bosses insisting they've done nothing wrong it's time to hear from britain u.k. spy chief said going public for the first time to testify on britain's collaboration on global spying more details now from our london correspondent sara for. for the first time you're going to have the three heads of britain's spy agencies in the same room being questioned by m.p.'s now that's part of the session this is going to be broadcast satellite link is going to be live but there will be a short time delay just in case any things revealed that could be considered a threat to national security so who exactly do we have in place hot seat so we've got so elope and the director he and parker he's the director general of m i five and we've got john soyuz who is the state's chief. they are going to face questions from the intelligence and security committee. as part of an inquiry into the oversight of u.k. intelligence agencies following concerns about the sc

and i live from moscow as r.t. the israeli military refusing to confirm or deny reports that its warplanes have yet again breached syria's sovereignty and bomb targets there according to u.s. media reports citing a white house official the israeli air force attacked a military base storing a missile arsenal apparently destined for the lebanese group hezbollah now the incident happened near the port city of syria's town of latakia and it's not the first time that israel has been blamed for blatantly ignoring international laws by launching air strikes in a sovereign state or similar attacks which the israeli leadership refused to confirm took place in january may and july of this year lawrence freeman from the executive intelligence review explained why tel aviv keeps on getting away with it . you do not have the right to it another sovereign nation and israel has done that and if we had a functioning government according to war. function according to war this would be condemned and israel would be reprimanded and f

boccieri r.t. kind. and early on r.t. my colleague cavanagh and he spoke about china's resource hunger with author and investor jim rogers who told us that beijing's up a diet is nothing regional it's worldwide china's trying to secure natural resources all over the world africa south america central asia germany's offset the raging success is built on washington's failures what do you think. well certainly if you look around the world you will certainly see there's a lot of truth to that the chinese have more or less. they're all over africa there by plantations and everything else america's got very little presence in africa now time is making inroads in the middle east is going to get a lot of oil from iran going forward it looks as though china may even start getting oil from iraq you know america says that they were a liberated iraq in the end it may be the chinese who get the oil tiny's look around the world they see what's happening over the next few decades they're going to be big shortages of oil and many other t

coming up next here in r.t. something you might not expect to see in the cradle of western civilisation we investigate child labor in europe that's next. i hate to be a downer but i really think the olympics have lost all meaning in the past when there was the cold war it was like a battle between two ideologies taking place in the abstract at the one nine hundred thirty six olympics nazi pseudo science their self-proclaimed superiority was put on trial for the whole world to see and it's quite the olympics having the majority of the countries on earth participating they're now horribly horribly bland one could argue that they have become a great way for countries to show off their ex used to build up some infrastructure by i think this is a big misconception let's look back to the two thousand lympics and beijing yet china is really develop in the last twenty years but they do live picture really teach us anything about this country with a radically different political system or anything about their ancient cul

where they welcome you watching r.t. and our look back at the week's top stories now hopes of reconciliation are on hold for iran with crippling sanctions over its nuclear program still in place and opposing powers lining up against it despite all the smiles and handshakes the u.s. is renewing its trade restrictions and even considering toughening them meanwhile iran's most outspoken critic israel seems to have a new partner in france which shut down last week's tentative deal in geneva more details now from artie's to bang not say the pieces are in place. we have time and again said that i know no circumstances would we seek any weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons nor will we ever wrong and how you. operate with respect if connectivity is to be undertaken by going. to meet all of all present and party. one will words flowing relations yet just as the deal in geneva was on the cons between the world pollens and iran came concern from france a surprise move that stall the talks but end fran's new friends

yes or sylvia r.t. what suspects back in about a half an hour's time with the top while headlines for the martin break in the set just a few moments. press and media freedom worth nothing. when it comes to the interest of multinationals we have a media that is corrupted by power mostly by corporate power you have corporate ownership from the top of corporate advertising coming in from the side we have the media this is where advertising and money and corporate influence is really the mother's milk a documentary filmmaker is being sued. for the truth has been told a private investigator so something. e-mailed reading it happens people buy and sell those kind of services all over the world when you've got hundreds of million dollar industry needs to protect its reputation a few million being spent on the only campaign to do just that is probably goods good money wells well spent. so what will be the verdict. big boy is going bananas on r.t. . delivered torch is on its epic journey to such. one hundred and

r.t. . japan is in barking on behalf of the most dangerous operation yet at the fukushima nuclear complex and preparing to remove fuel rods from the facility i risking process to which there is little. and shortly we assess what could go wrong m y s. q us presidents elected to a second term in office leave the white house successful or even popular obama is the case in point his poll numbers are low his legislative agenda is in deep trouble and washington's friends and foes are around the world do not take him seriously is obama already a lame duck president. is actually what happened i don't know but. here's later is when i got arrested for. for a crime i did not do. we have numerous cases where police officers lie about polygraph results. and people can trust the police officers don't beat people anymore and it just doesn't happen really. in the course of interrogation why because there's been this is like no because the psychological techniques are more effective in obtaining confessions

r.t. bike annoys you. and of course of every year more on record breaking torch relay for the twenty forty winter olympics in sochi and on saturday when the torch is taken on that historic space walk to we'll have special coverage of the maids in a boat for you to see live here on r.t. thanks for being with us this evening at sixty minutes past ten at night now i'm kevin oh in about with more news after this break. torch is on the. one hundred twenty three days. fourteen thousand people or sixty. in a record setting trip. air. space. torch relay. on our. police. believe. archie dot com is launching a special project to mark the appalling scale of violence in iraq. we want you to know. a pleasure to have you with us today. peace negotiations with the government but announcement comes hours after the militants chose a new leader to replace the foreman had killed by a u.s. drone attack last week i spoke. to says the u.s. was austin put a halt to his joint strike but chose to ignore it. the taliban are angry a

welcome watching r.t. with made. monday has been declared a day of mourning in the russian republic of tatarstan after a plane crash landed it because an airport killing all fifty people on board including a son of the region's leader. is at a local medical center there. we understand the relatives of the victims have the very somber task of trying to identify the bodies. well that's right earlier on monday we're told that the identification process was supposed to start but what we're hearing now and this is speculation at the moment is that the bodies of the victims of this plane crash were burned too badly and perhaps d.n.a. tests will be needed in order to identify them and if that's the case then it's going to take much longer obviously than just one day it's going to take more possibly a week or perhaps even a month but once again so far this information has not been confirmed this is speculation at the same time the relatives of the victims have been gathering inside this medical center behind me. have been pr

r.t. . the world's faceless march protest movement anonymous spread their message across the globe with crowds rallying against online snooping and government corruption. war spy revelations with britain reportedly running a secret listening post in the heart of berlin right on the roof of the u.k. embassy. and eastern libya sware is in its own government as the oil rich region tries to break away from tripoli blaming authorities for failing to maintain peace and security in the country. this started coming to life for moscow six pm in the russian capital syria says it's now going to the long awaited peace summit to hand over power or form a transitional government the statement from the country's information minister has sparked fears a planned geneva conference will be called off we had an exclusive opportunity to discuss this vital issue directly with an advisor to president assad dr tyner. this interim government has announced money and dimes that this is what i did to a fender nevel t

of one of them for that zimmerman from silent circle told r.t. what is driving the initiative. we're trying to restore the privacy that we feel that has been lost by a pervasive surveillance email is intercepted by intelligence agencies all around the world and we've discovered through these snowden revelations that. our own government is spying on its own citizens who it's turned all americans into foreigners as if we were. you know intelligence targets we can't make everything surveillance proof but what we can do is try to reduce the amount of exposure of e-mail metadata that's the data that says what the man who it's from who we date and time and these days the method data and the mail header is is really important for being able to surveil a society and see who's talking to who. live here in moscow with the twenty four hours a day more news coming up in just a few minutes from now. are you in newport and investigation by human rights groups make it abundantly clear policies may constitute war crimes under international law the white house says these claims it would appear

scandal you can log onto our website r.t. dot com to participate in our latest international web poll in fact today we are asking you are given the stream of n.s.a. spying revelations since june what impact will further leaks have and let's bring up the numbers for you here they are an oddity the majority believing though that the majority believing as you say that politicians will make more noises about respecting privacy but do nothing to rein in the government snooping almost a quarter says they'll lead to a rise in social resistance to n.s.a. practices such as the recent stop watching us march that was held in washington thirteen percent feeling that nothing will happen at all with people getting used to the expos age when there are no surprises left and a minority things that i didn't see a discussion of surveillance practices will take place and steps will be taken to ensure one's purpose see you can have your say right now online at r.t. dot com while the n.s.a. spying scandal it's already costing america's telecom gia

for now an r.t. a group of angry e.u. officials has been spending this week in washington seeking the truth about america's global surveillance operations europe has stressed repeatedly that spying is not what friends and allies do in such activities will not be tolerated germany even sent its own delegation to the white house to investigate the revelation to the u.s. was tapping chancellor merkel's personal mobile phone mounting questions on criticism of push president obama to launch a review of the country's intelligence operations and it seems europeans were the only ones kept in the dark over the n.s.a.'s practices i just give you some examples here in r.t. of the secretary of state john kerry claiming that both he and obama were not aware of the things the n.s.a. was doing saying that the agency sometimes ran operations on autopilot since they had the technology and the ability to do so contrast that with this guy right here this is the chief of the n.s.a. keith alexander he said his agency is told who to spy on by

with r.t. at the moment next firsthand accounts from those who survived the blockade of leningrad during world war two. you know i love these rare moments where action of something fairly sounds positive to share with you the f.d.a. is working to ban partially hydrogenated oils which are the leading source of trans fats and foods and possibly the cause of up to twenty thousand heart attacks per year across the usa according to f.d.a. commissioner margaret hamburg as you know i would like the chemicals in my food kept to a minimum but the thing is the people at the f.d.a. are surely aware of all the hormones and beef and jim o's being produced why does this band have such a very narrow narrow focus in fact when you look at all the things that americans consume smoke use that to swear health some get the violent band hammer while others are completely tolerated if you ever talk to a hardcore marijuana smoker they'll tell you. dude weed is better for you than beer and that's legal man and they kin

concrete timetables signs of good faith to r.t. iran by the united states. the dire good amik situation has forced iran to seek external help china has reportedly agreed to find twenty two billion euros in development projects using oil assets for a measly barred by international sanctions regime and to iran deal in the yuan not the dollar so the sanctions do not affect child as business with its third largest crude oil supplier political analyst side mohammad marandi says america has failed to achieve anything with the sanctions. this is one of many signs that the u.s. imposed sanctions is not working and it's beginning. to fall apart not that the united states wants this to happen the united states wants to make ordinary iranians suffer as much as possible they want to devastate the iranian economy and they've already succeeded in killing people because for example iran has had great difficulty in importing medicines so the americans are definitely upset with this but as time goes on we are seeing increasingly countries moving away from the united states c

r.t. . cuba. he was. a. the government chemical weapons production. but the whole process hangs in the balance. in the process. he couldn't hold onto. she runs her own factory. they worship the. woman. stories. picture. this week syria the first. chemical. it has successfully dismantled facilities used to produce weapons but the. existing stockpiles head the war that continues to rage. reports from damascus. dangerous and dirty that's how the nobel prize committee described the work of chemical weapons inspectors inside syria not to mention a brutally tight deadline october twenty five damascus provides a detailed plan of its chemical weapons stockpiles done october twenty seven foreign inspectors visited all declared sites missed. syria finishes destroying all equipment used in the production and mixing of poison gas and nerve agents done we eliminate. whatever we can but you know this is a very complicated the process complications fueled by so-called security concerns and that's the reason why one deadline already has been missed one of the biggest

cross talk coming our way a little later today here in r.t. the u.k. home office is being heavily criticized for a campaign aimed at forcing illegal immigrants out of the country thousands of text messages were sent to mobile phones of suspected illegal migrants warning them to leave britain auntie's nor smith investigates what effect it had. your phone is a text message a friend asking if you. or your mom just checking your ok but no it's the home office telling you you are illegal in this country and have to leave this is the text got fair enough if he was illegal but he's not and he doesn't even know how they got his details i have been a british citizen for at least for this country so. it's all part of a government campaign to weed out illegals first they said round threatening. and now threatening texts this denies sending one to child it's triggered two hundred complaints but the government defends the program we are taking proactive steps to contact individuals who record show have novell it right to be in the u.k. some of which date back to de

turn just ahead online it's out r.t. dot com right now. good to have you with us on r.t. international today in egypt a student demonstrator has been killed as cairo university has become the latest battleground of antigovernment protests against a brutal police crackdown i just saw about a scene of officers clashing with use firing tear gas to disperse them the protesters chanting down with military rule one nineteen year old student died in the scuffles office sustaining fatal bird shot and shooting the protesters fieri has been rocking the country over a new government law banning more than ten people who gather without permission from cairo with this report true. it's harsh jail sentences given to twenty one young women i cannot exam to who were arrested in october for protesting and suppose that islam is president mohamed morsi he was ousted in july by the military fourteen of those women have to be given the eleven years in jail for supposedly holding weapons and assaulting police offices seven of them are mine is that just fifteen years old sixteen years old the fa

boccieri r.t. kind of. my colleague came in and spoke about china's resource hunger with off investor jim rogers and he told us that beijing's playing finder's keepers across the whole world. china is trying to secure natural resources all over the world africa south america central asia himself said the beijing success is build on washington's failures what do you think. well certainly if you look around the world you will certainly see there's a lot of truth to that the chinese have more or less. their all over africa there by plantations and everything else america's got very little presence in africa now time is making inroads in the middle east is going to get a lot of oil from iran going forward it looks as though china may even start getting oil from iraq you know america says that they were a liberated iraq in the end it may be the chinese who get the oil unrest in the middle east has helped push up international oil and gas prices mexico looks at how it's the consumers who ultimately suffer. many d

welcome back you with r.t. now the syrian government has reiterated its commitment to taking part in the geneva peace conference in january but in the rebel camp there's a fresh drive to boycott the summit and battle on regardless the armed wing of the main opposition the free syrian army is now refusing to recognize the international peace effort the group's commander says his forces will keep taking the present the fight to president assad's government meanwhile radical rebel factions are formed an alliance called the islamic front and say their goal in is shiria law in syria some analysts say any agreements reached at the geneva summit will have no effect on the ground. the government is one of the only two factions who can claim to present if actually part of the series and the only other party of the opposition who can claim to have such illegitimacy via representation or fear representing another group of syrian syrians but if the syrian government for example goes to geneva in the suits with all the poli

breaking news from r.t. days of intense talks shrouded in secrecy result in the storage deal ending a decade of diplomatic standoff over iran's nuclear program but the vision to remain iranian. enrichment program will continue this first does not say that a has a right to enrich but mixed messages so what exactly decides to goree on. this war has started. and it's going to be going for another six months experts warn that the deal's vague language could see all sides interpret the detail to suit themselves. you know the news a tear gas scaring care of reports of a heavy handed police response to the thousands marching on ukraine's government building angry at the country's wavering on integrating with the you. also in the weeks main use doomed flight three six three data recorder yields insight into the tragic air crash that killed fifty people in central russia we reconstruct the jets final desperate moments. the afghan president rejects advice at home and abroad to sign off on a security pact with washingt

a life in the capital rigor opens up the r.t. world after now that's where the number killed while the collapse of a super. the roof is on the rise eighteen people now confirmed dead including three rescuers were trying to pull victims from the debris it's thought up to thirty people are still trapped the tragedy happened a peak time as people did their shopping after work on the roof mail for the name because of the weight of soil being used to build a winter garden on top of. a string of attacks across iraq killing forty eight the deadliest took place in the city north of baghdad where a car bomb ripped through a crowded market killing thirty one iraq is seeing its worst violence in years more than five thousand killed in just the last eight months we've got a timeline marking all the victims who have died since the invasion of two thousand and three at r.t. dot com. japan's fukushima nuclear power plant workers have successfully removed the first nuclear fuel rods from a cooling pool twenty two of the unused assemblies were tr

welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow now governments around the world have been calling for an anti u.s. mass surveillance but so far britain isn't among doubt prime minister cameron has in fact been criticized in an open letter signed by seventy human rights groups who believe his fighting on the wrong side of this issue our london correspondent sara first joins us now for more on is this sara so do tell us what exactly a mr cameron is accused off. well some very strong words for the prime minister there from those human rights organizations and they're fighting back against what they call the eroding of fundamental rights in the now let's take a look over some of the main points that that letter raises and their concerns center around the use of terrorism legislation against david miranda when he was detained at heathrow airport they also talk about the sustained pressure against media organizations reporting the edward snowden leaks the guardian newspapers come under a huge amount of pressure you cast

london you've been watching the weekly here in r.t. coming up we've got a look at the world of business in venture capital but before we go to some of the week's images from the olympic flames record breaking journey across russia with less than one hundred days now before the winter games in sochi olympic flame is continuing its ambitious relay it's already been to the north pole and in just a few days will blast off for the international space station. which is passing through the towns and cities of the world's biggest country currently touring russia's north. if you get an r.t. dot com there's a full selection of videos and photos from you then pick merab. the office of civil rights in the city of seattle washington has told city employees that certain terms may not be used in official emails and discussion scoring to google fox news these terms would be brown bag and citizen ninety nine percent of americans when they hear the expression brown bag think of taking a nice healthy lunch you know in a brown paper bag to work with thems

news continues here in r.t. israel launched another strike inside syria according to us media reports citing an official inside the white house the target was a military base in the west of the country which stored a missile arsenal apparently destined for hezbollah in london be it the israeli military though has refused to confirm or deny that the attack near the port city of latakia even took place but this is not the first time the country's been accused of breaching syria's sovereignty and bombing targets that have been three center attacks this year in general may and july israeli leadership refused to confirm them as well and analysts say that this will continue to happen as long as powerful ally is watching israel's back. you do not have the right to it another sovereign nation and israel has done that and if we had a functioning government according to war. in the korean war this would be condemned and israel a would be reprimanded and what would he like it's our nature. but everybody knows that. and the

joining us here on r.t. today nato may be gradually withdrawing from afghanistan but the alliance is making sure its troops are kept busy elsewhere officials say military exercises on an unprecedented scale will take place in europe over the coming years now the latest war games held on russia's borders with poland in the baltic republics involved six thousand troops but that figure will be dwarfed by upcoming drills in spain and portugal where a force of more than forty thousand soldiers should be assembled by twenty fifteen now the u.s. led bloc says this will be the first in a series of such exercises are designed to make sure the allies keep working closely together peter all of our reports there's a little appetite in europe for this costly military deployment. european nations can and should. do more to match america's commitment that commitment is said to see upwards of forty thousand troops deployed on maneuvers within the e.u. in the coming years all in port and work for the future of the alliance o

r.t. . are still on the way here on r.t. rest recuperation and indefinite detention. i love it a lot of people think there's not much to do but there is definitely an abundance to do smiles and sunshine stealing the show at one time of day with no went inside for the u.s. military base hunger striking detainees continue to be force fed behind bars. thanks for joining in for their weekly here on our yet another diplomatic scandal blowing up in the faces of european officials this week after a british newspaper reported the u.k. is operating a secret listening station in by lynn to spy on the german allies of the equipment housed on. the u.k. embassy roof is believed to be able to intercept communications from across german officials are investigating the claims while their hands are already full with reports that the german chancellor has mobile phones been tapped by american intelligence european parliament member paul murphy admits there will be a diplomatic fallout but he says the political interests always outweigh any public criticism. germany and britain are both