international human rights standards things like that especially in this chemical weapons debate and syria. what do you think is an unwillingness to put pressure on israel's doing to america's image around the world and really like putting you know fire on the tensions that are already right in the arab world i think it's it's reflecting very poorly on american politicians and it's very very pro that america is as a country because you've got this small state that is receiving so much money it's not a developing states so why are they getting all this foreign aid and then suddenly john kerry today walks around the world not today but since he took office is traveling around trying to bring peace between israelis and palestinians based on an idea that everybody knows is not going to work it's two state solution idea and people in israel cabinet members and are making jokes and making fun of it you know how could he be so gullible what's he talking about everybody knows that we the israelis will never allow this to happen and he is the you know jumping up and down trying to trying to bring t

witnesses who described the goings on in the kurdish part of syria at the moment. to skate their shot militias raided their house and blew up some of them and robbed others till now they have more than two hundred civilian hostages we are in contact with some of those who managed to escape they are in a shock and fear for their lives the conditions are very bad people are in fear and terrorized. out of control there raiding the streets there's no media coverage and anyone who tries to reach out is being kidnapped by the militants. again the reports they're coming in a very hard to verify that we do know that the united nations and investigators are on the ground right now trying to piece together whether earlier reports that some four hundred people being killed in cold blood are indeed true the u.n. has said that if indeed those reports have any basis in reality that this amounts to a war crime nevertheless this issue doesn't seem to get any better even though it does get more coverage at this point the problem is like i said it's the lack of communication it's th

christians in the middle east are facing increasing sick terror and violence with the civil war in syria and instability in egypt and iran forcing them to flee their homes the u.k.'s minister for phase has called on western governments this week to protect christianity from becoming extinct in the countries where a mass exodus is taking place. and now reports. for many christians in the middle east the arab spring has been wintry at best the international society for human life says that born out of the defeat five acts of religious discrimination in the world today are perpetrated and carried out against christians nowhere is this more acutely felt than in the middle east and north africa if you look at syria for example we tend to say of the total population is christian a third of them have already fled from the civil war that started two years ago and that number continues to grow off to the murder of father best in years nasser last june two thousand and twelve the threats and the persecution of christians escalated so much so that many today say the night me facing the questions of

mistaken assumption that's often purveyed in the media that what's happening in syria is some sort of civil war as some sort of internal conflict and a lot of the narrative has been framed around that that frame but i think it's fundamentally false to assert that i think we have to understand what's happening in syria as the planned result of a nearly decade long intervention foreign funded foreign armed foreign supplied foreign trained intervention in syria that has been arming and training syrian opposition groups on the record documented back to the bush administration as far back as two thousand and six they were starting to fund and train the opposition forces in syria so we have to understand that this is not some sort of spontaneous uprising and that as a result there are many different outside forces including the united states including the. us who are fight funding and financing their own fighters to go into this conflict and many of them are motivated for different reasons and are there for different opportunities and some are motivated as mercenaries others are motivated b

for there to be military intervention now in syria you have a case where. assad has actually acted on that threat and there have been many more deaths than there were ever predicted to have happened in benghazi and yet they are not there is no there is no military intervention like there was and that hits back at the consistency and the lack of consistency while i guess that question of consistency come from in your opinion. that's a really good question and that's the question that you have that i think reporters have an obligation you did this in in this case why are you not doing the same in this other cannot she was there in the quoting you or it was a certainly pushing for eat you know the administration any administration is going to have its policies and it can decide sponsors i don't take a position on what the policy is i don't say i don't think it's my job to say hey president obama you're wrong on this i think it's my job to say hey president obama hey state department hey administration why are you doing this. well exactly. and i think that they

their legal defense that an act of violence this could be a cruel test in pakistan or in egypt or in syria a demonstration there or stay where they're some violence that happening gives the n.y.p.d. grounds to surveil muslim americans and to collect their political views because you know the logic of this is that somehow muslims are like the borat they have a hive mind talladega and what somebody does you know halfway around the world gets transmitted and this is nothing if not the very definition of racism of course every generation has this stereotypical enemy figure. how do you think we could break the cycle of an told. and that's repeated in every. well we have to have first and foremost historical memory that is we have to understand that if a country no matter what country wants to go out to war it has to target not only the people out there who are seen as threats to us but the supporters of representatives of those people in this country so during the second world war for instance japanese americans particularly are the incident in pearl harbor japanese the japanese not only become

international approaches to peace in syria clash wrong on the u.s. are stressing diplomacy while britain and france fall into on the rebels directly. that the sanctions surges in the middle east with reports israel's been hit by a little kid from lebanon which was grabbed by six towers tried cause by sewer and struggle across the border. also questions mount over the virtual method used by the french police against protesters following an anti-gay rally over the weekend with the installer she's accused of downplaying just how big the dissent was. and the powerhouses of china and europe struggle to avoid a trade war as the e.u. threatens to make beijing pay more to sell its products below market value. hello and welcome to. news live from moscow my name is you are all at home ain story reason and france are pushing to be able to supply weapons to the sea where rebels and won't be you always embargo on the gulf country lifted the sanctions expired fine day and for now most european union members are strongly against arming the opposition this comes as

and recognition inside of syria. and activists with the answer anti-war coalitions as the syrian rebels are willing to negotiate only when they have the upper hand. the united states and the united kingdom france other western nations have really made clear that they will only accept the fall of the side and despite the fact that they continually try to say that they're for peace negotiations it seems at every turn whether it's sending arms to the rebels whether it's sending them quote unquote non-lethal aid money in general supporting the gulf countries that are also supporting them that really all of the talk about peace is disingenuous and unlike russia and other countries they seem very. determined to push forward the syrian rebels as the new leadership of the country regardless of the situation on the ground when the russian the united states where originally trying to promote the geneva two conference we saw that the syrian rebels essentially said that they had no intention of negotiating until the situation on

earlier we spoke with berlin based journalist and syria crisis expert manuel oxon a writer who thinks the rebels are interested in negotiations and will do everything to undermine international peace efforts. we had this already in the past we think we know that you were. where. we had the un inspector team which was investigating in. a couple of weeks ago which we are attacked by sniper fire so it's not in the interest it's not at all in the interest of the so-called armed opposition those teams can approach but we don't want that there is coming a calm time of agreements and. negotiations this is what they want to prevent and they will prevent it with clients on our website a new report reveals an apparent conflict of interest behind some public debate over military intervention in syria several major t.v. outlets standing accused of nearly of talking to nearly two dozen gas about military action against damascus both failing to reveal the experts connection to the us defense industry had online for more details plus. case of selling off the family jewels on a grand scale italy plan

saudi arabia hates the fact that the us didn't bomb syria saudi arabia did everything possible to make it happen and he didn't saudi arabia hates iran and any mentioning of a possible nuclear deal between the us and iran washington and tehran are far from any deal really but even the talk irritates saudi arabia so saudi arabia decided to go public with all that irritation the saudi prince bandar bin sultan said there will be quote a major shift away from the us and that it will affect arms purchases and oil sales and most recently citing a protest against the us saudi arabia refused the seat at the un security council so could an ally be turning into a foe i spoke with professor. the u.s. has invested a lot in the relationship with saudi arabia and now some of the reviews rightly the us i mean talking points and all we're is this alliance going well. by supporting saudi arabia saudi arabia and many of the gulf countries are probably the most undemocratic the most corrupt and they are really a liability and they have contributed to the sense of alienation between the us and the arab wor

on syria has destroyed all of its chemical weapon production equipment one day ahead of schedule that's while the poles continue to suffer it's about toxic elements used by the opposition. you saw russia and iran the while this is all see with me. hello and welcome to the program. why do you spy an e.u. delegation has met america's intelligence officials face to face to hear their first explanations national security agency was apparently not only topping the u. phone calls of tens of millions of europeans but intercepting the communications a wild leaders as well but the missions members were clearly disappointed by the response they called as. the reports now from washington. the e.u. delegation came to get answers from the n.s.a. and they got nothing keith alexander told members of the e.u. delegation that they are not spying on european citizens on a massive scale obviously there is no way of checking it i caught up with some members of that he says this is sort of like trying to give some figure some information that don't clarify. the situation this is. justifiable we are lies the

off on the founder feet and secretary kerry think all the time we have something with the people in syria and hope for them says this the future in a biography still in indoor i saw i'm not sure that they really are talking to the taliban direct or what about the current government in afghanistan at the moment just how strong is it. all president karzai hasn't got a chance in hell to remain in front of one of us or would be remember let's go back to president. he was forcibly removed but the un not the united nations and he was massacred in the streets and hung up on the telegraph. i think. so as to why he would leave with the us all but given that the us forces are going to planning to remain maybe the way through many or was it would take over them want to cause i didn't leave well as the taliban are going to move in there they have a fundamental issue with this they are going to move in and protect that which is being. the policy all along they are going to be and they're going to take back and protect the consensus they are very fundamentalist about this viewpoint so the idea of havin

un resolution they invaded iraq with a un resolution they attempted to carry out as strikes against syria recently without un resolution so it makes the whole world a dangerous place with their with their policy in place now libyan authorities say washington never informed them of the planned raid law professor and colonel morris davis says that if such claims are true the us was acting against international law publicly libya is saying they did not consent to the raid were aware of the raid when we sent in an armed force in order to conduct a kidnapping so if that's true then you know that sovereign territory and i question our legal authority to conduct a military operation in the sovereign territory of another country without their knowledge and consent and so there are other countries i'm sure there are people here in the united states that other countries view as an enemy of their state so if we can go into libya and just abducted the one we choose and one country come here and do the same which they did that you know be the lead story on every news network tonight before we do it is

syria rebel group on our. time very sad this sucker of the global financial system is once again time to rebuild sup. better something less corrupt perhaps in fact this three architecting of the global financial system is happening right now as i speak these words doesn't matter whether you like it or not it is happening why the research well the former french prime minister dominique de villepin the reason they said the u.s. has used its three phenomenal courage is to put the financial stability of the whole world at risk. real damage and complexity of this oil spill was not something you can grasp just by looking at dirty birds we have between four to five million people in this directly affected area of the coast and it's pretty clear why it's not being reported because b.p. can't afford to have a reported all along the gulf coast are clean they are safe and they're open for business if b.p. is the single largest oil contributor to the pentagon the u.s. war machine is heavily reliant upon b.p. and their oil

shock and fear and i witnessed the brutal attacks on kurdish civilians in syria tells how do you what's happening in the african claims now plagued by radical as. you all foreign and defense ministers from russia and the us are said to search for solutions to the syrian violence in the first meeting since the diplomatic friction over and the saving to edward snowden could relations. and the recent threats of the arab spring we look at the ongoing democratic by susan struggle for stability in the arab world more than two yes after the uprisings. i. am. here watching r g for more international news with me to bomb would say let's take a look at our top story this hour the kurds who try to report attacks by radical islamists in syria are in danger of being abducted that's what an eyewitness to an assault has told our team the kurdish minority is a syrian syria has endured being the target of heavy attacks allegedly for around three weeks now with the alarming reports of killings and kidnappings growing our correspondent in the region and has the story. our ticket is getting new details hor

stop this very threatening rhetoric of a potential military strike against syria. this won't be about syria signing a protocol and delivering it with no positive feedback it has to be a mutual process and above all the united states has to give up its policy of threatening syria once we see the united states truly want stability in the middle east and once we see it refrain from threatening us and pursuing intervention once we see them stop supplying weapons to terrorists then we'll consider this process is truly acceptable for syria and we'll look to finalize it if you want it russia should play a major role in the disarmament process we don't trust washington and don't talk to them moscow is the only party that can fulfill this role now. so number of times and a very different position is that need to be reconciled here in geneva if there is even a sliver of a child's that we're going to come up with a diplomatic solution to this crisis by the end of the day. the issue of series also dominating a meeting of the shanghai cooperation organization in kurdistan a gro

who is slaughtering his own people is that an accurate description of what is actually happening in syria because they know what is actually happening is a very brutal civil war now between the government and versus porters and the rebels and their supporters and now both sides are clearly guilty of. regarding civilians as an incidental collateral damage if you like i think it's probably true to say that most of the casualties we're talking about around one hundred thousand most of the casualties have been civilians and very many of them it's very hard to say how many have been killed by the the government tactics of fighting the war by shelling and bombing civilian towns because that's where they believe the rebels are i think what's crucial in the western narrative on the syrian conflict is that the line between combatants and civilians is really really blurred and i think i would argue that it is done for political reasons because one we have quite a mother who is nursing her baby somewhere in homes and her male neighbor with a kalashnikov who is a attacking in nearby army checkpoint y

is non-negotiable in terms of what the us is trying to put into power in syria similar to what they tried in egypt and failed that is a muslim brotherhood controlled regime that would allow qatar to control pipeline flows in to europe and not iran so among other things so this is there is not a basis of agreement on these fundamental questions lowden is as i say is not the issue the issue is this fundamental disagreement and washington is not prepared to change its agenda and openly and honestly negotiate to resolve these differences therefore obama is using this childish maneuver of capturing the media because of snowden supposedly. or an assertion of gears now to syria where the war's opened another bloody chapter with fierce battles now unfolding in the country's north kurdish fighters are being forced to stand their ground against islamist militants who are pushing them out of the territories thirteen kurds kidnapped on sunday or four hundred fifty civilians slaughtered in another attack earlier this week and we have a can the region making specific information rather hard to ve

twenty and he so many people saying that syria is going to overshadow the g. twenty what do you know where you. that's right as we speak host floyd zimmer puts in welcoming the leaders from the twenty largest economies in the world and as much as many of these leaders especially the emerging economies would like the agenda to stay on point the official agenda of being reform of the financial sector the financial systems in the world it looks like these predictions of the so-called syrian cloud over the g twenty are here to say it's a very tense atmosphere here in st petersburg obama is in town he won't be meeting as far as we can here although the white house hasn't officially stated that there are one hundred percent won't be a meeting a bilateral meeting between obama and putin it looks like that is going to be the case presumably of course fallout from a russia granting asylum to whistleblower edward snowden and of course what we're seeing in syria now to answer your question what are we heard so far on this first day of the g. twenty summit well it looks l

why would they be interested in creating chaos in syria and to stick it destabilize the region. i think it is against their interests in the long run and unfortunately i don't think those who are creating chaos and city are right from the beginning have a totally independent will whether in their countries old or in the region unfortunately they are carrying out their designs that every design ploy that asian you know under probably for the word you know if you if you if you do think of what is happening in libya and yemen in sudan in egypt you know you in here out in syria you would know that there is a huge the design that is made for this to the region and i think they are ignoring that tug that it is the people and they are people who make the future of their countries and personally i feel that what we are witnessing in the middle east is the absolutely the threshold of independence of a lot of countries and the benefits twenty or thirty years you will find another word that truly speaks up for itself and i hope syria is going to be the first country to usher in this a new

send a warships and find to just move within striking range of syria as the u.s. and britain look set to the war torn state saying it's time damascus they supply. the warmongering comes as un inspectors probing alleged chemical attack which western powers blame on the syrian army speak to the head of effect finding mission that searched in vain for you to weapons of mass destruction back in two thousand and three. talk of a third degree create a headache for europe's a political elite as chancellor merkel. the german taxpayers with any election. and a major air show gets underway outside moscow with cutting edge technology and a world class of flying skills on display an expected half a million strong audience. it's one pm here in the russian capital you love with us on r.t. if you've just joined us a very well welcome to you you're with me. syria looks set to face a military onslaught as british media reported warplanes and transport jets being deployed at the base in cyprus the sport is just one hundred kilometers from the syrian coastline and is expected to bec

from damascus syria. about paris have joined big climate to convey is that while that it was syria's president who ordered a chemical weapons attack outside damascus last month of power it says it has satellite images proving chemical strikes came from a government controlled area and also blames bashar al assad for three other times committed by. april and august and in germany media reports suggest the country's spies intercepted communications indicating this leadership gas in one high level has been official apparently tells iran's embassy the president stopped and made a big mistake unlike the u.s. france and germany also based their conclusions on unverified witness accounts videos and the fact the syrian government possesses chemical weapons. the u.s. navy's building its presence around syria how do you ask congressional debate later this month on whether or not to strike five u.s. destroyers landed with missiles loaded i should say along with an phoebus assault ship are in the mediterranean right

syria's president rejects western finger pointing over an alleged chemical massacre of damascus saying facts not assumptions or should come first as u.n. weapons inspectors head to the site. planted at embassies in the e.u. offices and now even the united nations headquarters a newly leaked document reveals another front in the n.s.a.'s all out spying effort . plus as libya since the fall of gadhafi we report on how the government is reverting to the colonel's methods to crush to send while the country slides into economic turmoil. that's just composite may day here in of the russian capital you live with us on r.t. with me to say. syria's president has responded furiously to allegations that his army was behind the chemical massacre outside damascus last week branding them nonsense u.n. inspectors head into the site to prove some point powell's seemed reluctant to wait for their findings now the united states which says it's confident that bashar assad was responsible for the deadly attack is moving its washin screws into the syrian border the u.k.'s royal navy is also making preparat

one missile systems for which could be its full strike on syria in the last six months. does the church and prosecutors froze the deposed president on spying and inciting violence to take a closer look at the impact of the crisis is having on the country's free flowing economy.

airstrikes and bombing campaign over syria all of libya. the opposition would like a libyan style coalition with nato in order to force the regime out of power in damascus so they clearly benefit from any reports of a chemical attack in syria. and over the course of the civil war the syrian opposition has repeatedly accused the regime of mass atrocities and chemical tunks many such claims coincide it was major political events and diplomatic efforts and in most cases the number of victims proved to be exaggerated and here are just some of the examples here in july twenty twelve as the you on this cost a possible intervention in syria the rebels announced a civilian massacre in that trauma carried out by the government and that later proved to be fools by a you want to submission to the town in august just days before u.n. security council meeting the duran masika once more assad was blamed but it was later found that the rebels will most likely be papa traces in december as russia the us and the one met to discuss a peace plan on the west a

has been sending personnel to syria to fight against assad and the sovereign government of syria and supplying arms as well so they have been cooperating with the americans for the for since the fall of gadhafi in twenty twelve. they are there obviously they feel their exceptionalism. can take place anywhere which it does because that they've tried this in somalia and libya now thanks for your thoughts one row for live from burma defense consultant you appreciate it. thank you right coming up afghanistan's gearing up for his first democratic transition of power we talk about that dubious warlords and militia leaders among those vying for the presidency it's fear the taliban could get a head start. holding their own homes hostage to tell you about the desperate measures being taken by spying is these days facing eviction after losing their livelihoods. we know how to do banking it should be like infrastructure to support the economy it shouldn't be for the benefit of it leads to think they're above the law as we currently have. wealthy british style it's time to. market why not. find

the ones chaos in the area to show that syria is far from stability. stay with us here on our table got more news after the. thank. you. do we speak your language i mean some of the will not advance. news programs and documentaries in spanish what matters to you. but a little too much of angles to the story. here. the spanish find out more visit actuality. it gives authorities have detained the head of the country's muslim brotherhood mohamed body this comes as a new report by humans rights watch accuses the country's military of a lawful mass killings and its crackdown on pro-democracy supporters the wash logs investigation claims police are deliberately using lethal force on protesters who don't pose any threat violence rocking the whole country has caused a rise in militancy on the sinai peninsula near the border with israel the latest attack there claiming the lives of twenty five police officers and israel is beginning to feel the effects of the chaos across the border as former israeli diplomats grow adding their eggs. telhami is going to stand b

syria so they don't have to carry weapons and once the the army comes they throw the weapons and the crittenden being civilians they just leave the area safely and the moment the government forces clear out they put their weapons back our that's too late very very hard to tell you know who is on the opposition who all the rebel fighters are but you know the blame game has been going on since day one maria i understand in the near future you're going to be heading back to that same part of the world so looking forward to more of your reports are to you correspondent a great pleasure to have you in the studio today thank you thank you very much. well a call of despair from palestinian prisoners in israeli jails inmates say they've been left to waste away behind bars and denied any medical treatment of the alleged inhumane conditions or claimed to be behind the recent death of a palestinian official in israeli custody which was followed of course by in the west bank and gaza and we did manage to speak to one of the prisoners who described the plight of those locked up. we suffer from an

is a very bleak picture and fortunately what we're seeing is that iraq is after syria if not already it's already becoming an area where great powers in the region are trying to weaken iran i personally don't think it's a great mystery that we're seeing all these sunni demonstrations in sunni parts of iraq these days. you know that iraq iran's competitors in the region we should be mainly saudi arabia and the persian gulf countries they see runs hand is weakening in syria they see a link between iran iraq and syria and now they're going after iran's influence in iraq and now we see that there's been recently demonstrations in sunni areas of iraq and according to human rights watch has been great abuses of human rights mine and i never go in happens to define of these things would have been happen would have happened if there were in the invasion hadn't happened right i mean iraq was one country before the invasion and three well i'm sorry you a hand they say is out way while i can say it i could be wrong but i can say it happy what do you think well out there for me not to papeete th

syria mine. already groups are becoming increasingly active as the conflict spirals deeper into civil war kurdish militants have beaten back islam as rebels in the country's northeast taking control of a key crossing on the border with iraq parties both leaders in syria for us with more on the trials and tribulations of another minority the palestinians. this is young walk south damascus ten months ago it was home to one point two million palestinians today ten percent remain the price of world discount acutely here where it's divided families and pitted brother against brother. they betrayed us we cannot trust them anymore eight days ago abu movie and his wife came home for ten long months they'd lived on the streets not once giving up the hope they'd return this is what way to them and the well come we are coming to kill you bashar scribbled on the walls. whatever happens i will not leave my house again i would like to destroy the walls and we'll them again could not be worse than this for one

tomorrow congress votes to bomb syria the latest war of the post nine eleven era the u.s. would now officially be al qaeda as a force its former congressman kusin it but america's had enough nine in ten oppose this invasion the most popular in history regarding the eleven a massive eighty four percent now say the government's lowing we now have the president's documented the government's prepared to commit supremum crimes against its population exactly what happened on nine eleven couldn't be all good by both so cool conspiracy theorists and they also are a tease. what's beyond dispute is on the eleventh of september the world will join to mourn the almost three thousand innocent people who lost their lives this is the truth seeker. live live live live live live. live. talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want to live. they were ready to do anything for their country to me is to love the country more than yourself if you joined the military for any other reason that you're probably not to have a good day they were tools in the hands of the state now

has to work out a framework in order to deal with the procedures of the disarmament of syria they were supposed to hold a meeting on that on sunday but they have found that indefinitely of course that was before it became known that damascus has already sent the entire package of documents needed to all be c.w. so we'll have to wait and see exactly what will transpire now but at the united nations it is slated to hold a discussion in new york in the coming week in order to devise a deal hammered out between moscow and washington. geneva according to bad deal damascus has until the middle of two thousand and fourteen in order to completed disarmament program now there is of course some difficulties involved there with it and that is the fact that the chemical stockpiles of the syrian chemical stockpiles are actually distributed between various points in the country and not all of those parts are controlled entirely by the official damascus and of course there is also some disagreements when it comes to the wording of the potential u.n. resolution where is london washington and paris tha

constant war with different countries especially those in the region now they are also involved in syria where their interests is in opposition to russian interests they are supporting the al qaeda and terrorists in syria while moscow is an ally of syria like iran so there are opposing interests in there in the entire region and i believe one of the most important ones everybody knows there is iran and iran's nuclear issue as we are approaching a deal between the two sides which was very probable last time israel is increasing its activities of throughout the world meeting with different award leaders in order to convince them that if they struck a deal with iran it will not have good consequences for their region because israel will embark on some deliberate actions. saved and not stop chashme from. fars news agency thank you very much. at least twenty eight people have been killed in a series of blasts in iraq the bloodshed is skyrocketing with bombings as crowded in crowded areas and busy streets are almost every day more analysis on the situation is ahead. and while winding down its

and to four hundred fifty kurdish a women and children are reportedly killed in syria as radical islamic militants attack kurd villages. it's nine am here from other russian capital moscow you're watching r t with me tom would say it's good to have you company with us of the small. it's now a hall for. prisoners began their hunger strike so u.s. military says the self-imposed starvation protests is waning because inmates have been eating off to dos to as is tradition in the holy month of ramadan but painful force feeding procedures and invasive body searches are still part of the dating routine for many of the prisoners is a washington correspondent than if she can. every day in guantanamo it's groundhog day whether you're a guard or a prisoner that's how one officer described life would get mail every day's the same as the last then there is no escape for many inmates it's a painful routine routine that includes regular searches and force feeding twice a day for those who are on hunger strike the latest account from the prison comes from a british resident named shakur amr has been held

and syria's chemical disarmament track with the u.n. . progress is praised by the u.s. and russia at the age because if somebody. just person pm here in moscow my name's kevin though in this is r.t. international delighted to have you company our top story that russia still wants an apology from the netherlands the softer noone over the treatment of a russian diplomat in the hague police reportedly beat up the official and detained him overnight but news comes against the backdrop of another spot between the two countries he's going to be following this story all day for us all of the developments for the last because that earlier on today six o'clock was the deadline to his only but for the netherlands a statement wasn't that's right kevin the netherlands responded to russia's demand for an explanation and an apology by saying that they're investigating the incident and that they will apologize when they prove that the line foresman violated international law is not at all satisfied with such a response moscow says such an evasive and incoherent response is unacceptabl

has to work out a framework in order to deal with the procedures of the disarmament of syria they were supposed to hold a meeting on that on sunday but they have a postponed that indefinitely of course that was before it became known that damascus has already sent the entire package of documents needed to the c.w. so we'll have to wait and see exactly what will transpire now but the united nations is slated to hold a discussion in new york in the coming week in order to devise a good deal hammered out between moscow and washington about a week ago in geneva according to that deal damascus has until the middle of two thousand and fourteen in order to complete a disarmament program now there is of course some difficulties involved there with and that is the fact that the chemical stockpiles are the syrian chemical stockpiles are actually distributed between various points in the country and not all of those parts are controlled entirely by the official damascus and of course there is also some disagreements when it comes to the wording of the potential u.n. resolution where london washin

it's interesting isn't it when president assad was warning about al qaeda in syria from twenty eleven all of which he was dismissed by the west and scaremongering etc he was saying that al qaeda was coming to her in syria and now we're hearing this from the f.s.a. so it's interesting isn't it that those of those who did want this were half were dismissed as sort of apologists for a sad apologist for the syrian government now the west has put a wake up to what's really going on and that i think having said that it's very important to understand the f.s.a. strategy. is very keen to get western intervention i think they're now change their strategy and they send look al qaeda are going to take and unless we do they don't help us the f.s.a. have lost or basically and i think now they're lost and say look you've got to help us out and to try to put the trends of the good guys the moderate rebels but they're not a place the terrible crimes it's a terrible terrorist atrocities so it's i think it's a kind of faux division to say that there are bad rebels and good records the fact is elections

determines had back to switzerland to take part in the geneva two syria peace talks and today here in tehran mr library has sent this message again saying that first sewer crisis should be resolved peacefully and second iran has to be part of a solution and has to take part in the geneva two peace talks. solution i've heard reports that some international players think it would be more effective to use force instead of dialogue but these reports were not confirmed. the initiative will be successful and any attempt to undermine it will be a blatant violation of the international will cemented in the u.n. security council resolution but if i may have as i do have all i was said and for size that it's up to syrian people to decide the country's future bet the international community has to help them and encourage them and support. meanwhile the u.s. has confirmed it has suspended all non-lethal assistance to fighters battling government troops in syria's north the decision comes after radical islamists seized a stronghold of the rebel free syrian army near the turkish border washington h

has to work out a framework in order to deal with the procedures of the disarmament of syria they were supposed to hold a meeting on that on sunday but they have a postponed that indefinitely of course that was before it became known that damascus has already sent the entire package of documents and needed to all p.c. w so we'll have to wait and see exactly what will transpire now but the united nations is slated to hold a discussion in new york in the coming week in order to devise a deal hammered out between moscow and washington about a week ago in geneva according to bad deal damascus has until the middle of two thousand and fourteen in order to completed disarmament program now there is of course some difficulties involved there with that and that is the fact that the chemical stockpiles are the syrian chemical stockpiles are actually distributed between various points in the country and not all of those parts are controlled entirely by the official damascus and of course there is also some disagreements when it comes to the wording of the potential u.n. resolution where is london

and resolution and side over syria as russian and u.s. diplomats put the finishing touches to a un security council draft to oversee chemical disarmament. if you're watching are you coming to live from moscow four pm in the russian capital i'm marina joshie welcome to the program accord to in russia sports city of more months kaz remanded three people involved in a greenpeace protest to stay in jail until the end of november almost three dozen others are awaiting their verdict after they scaled an oil platform against drilling in russia's arctic waters well we'll be joined by our correspondent going to get all the very latest for us a little bit later in the program so do stay with us for that. in the meantime a mass and i sashes rally has turned violent in athens after a few areas protesters tried to storm they have quarters of far right golden dawn party the anger was sparked by the murder of a left wing rapper last week by a sympathizer of the new nazi party reports say there has been at least three hundred similar fashion is a tax sin

with syria locked in a deadly tug of war between the government opposition forces are to gets access to a rebel stronghold. but. america's up and killing machines are on the radar as a senior u.n. official urges washington to reveal. its drone program. just after midnight here in moscow if you just joined us for the warning from me kevin zero in this is our top story then the world's marking for day an international protest uniting all activists who want to put an end to shale gas extraction frack to the cold or urging their governments to stand up to the oil and gas lobby there's been plenty of action so far let's look around the world in new york activists hit the streets demanding that authorities change their ways of thinking about the environment on the other side of the atlantic meantime spanish activists have been campaigning for a new level energy sources environmentalist of also gathered in belgium an island hoping to bring about change and the group called young friends of the earth gathered in london to send a message to people in charge to stop and think about the younger

caution to the west saying that assigning blame to soon over the alleged use of chemical weapons in syria would be a tragic mistake in fact in a statement released on sunday the foreign ministry did not mention the u.s. by name but i'm going to read what they said it says we strongly urge those who in trying to impose their opinion on u.n. experts ahead of the results of an investigation announce the possibility of military action against syria to exercise discretion and not make tragic mistakes now again they did not mention the u.s. but this comes as a broke obama has met with his security advisers as well as his military advisers and even spoken to the prime minister of the u.k. cameron and basically saying that they are prepared to use military action making sure they know what is on the table there but president obama has not made a decision as of yet now russia has suggested that in these situations it can be tricky to decide who is actually responsible in has said that it might even be the rebels who are responsible for a chemical attack if in fact a chemical attack has actually ha

west also the vatican and russia have been praying lots of attention to the rights of christians in syria but what's also interesting here is the way italian media has been reporting on the russian president's visit wasn't really the situation in syria nor the relations between the vatican and moscow that were in the focus but the former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi's feet clearly looking at having to deal with several convictions including abuse of power and having sex with an underage prostitute and the italian media really has been boiling with speculation over whether or not mr berlusconi will be able to avoid getting punished and the latest in that sense was that president putin was going to make mr berlusconi russia's ambassador to the vatican automatically granting him diplomatic immunity. speaking these rumors have not been confirmed but it does show the amount of attention being paid to visit. his can offer. and also share unusual bond their distaste for the oil and gas extraction technique known as fracking is held in this recently posed with environmental activists

nationals in syria fighting with the rebels i mean this is another one of the blowback is the cancer that this war on terror creates. well yeah and i think i think stephen alluded to this that the attack that we signed kenya the other day was the result of a splinter within al-shabaab you have these competing forces on one on one side you have the al-shabaab who is fighting to get the kenyans in the ethiopians out of somalia it's a more localized effort and then you have the more transnational al-shabaab that's affiliated with al-qaeda and has broader transnational aims. and we see in recent reporting that the the latter had one and we saw that in the massive attack on the mall the other day that transnational effort includes like you said. many fighters from across across the globe including fighters that have come from. close to the united states is minnesota there's a huge somali population there the f.b.i. has been watching them for years turns out that they've been doing al-qaeda and al shabaab has been doing some very effective recruiting from that population well it's really q

will been witnessing for the past few weeks a lot of officials have been coming to russia discussing syria including u.s. secretary of state the prime ministers of great britain and israel and in general it seems the approach of many nations two ways of resolving the conflict in the country is changing now however there are still many problems including the one with the washington since when john kerry was in moscow it seemed that they were completely on the scene beach with russia's leadership but as soon as he left he started calling again for president assad to step down and promised more support of the rebels and that was back just recently by president barack obama himself what's widely being ignored is the fact that many of these rebels admit that they are receiving directions from international terror organizations including al qaida there are tons of videos in the web showing horrific acts conducted by a. including public executions of captured syrian soldiers there's this just troubling and horrific video of a rebel cutting the cord out of a dead syrian soldiers chest and eating i

the destruction of syria's chemical arsenal has successfully entered its third day with the government and an international team working together but it's all men process is in line with it leaches u.n. resolution that followed global outrage over a gruesome toxic attack in august a middle east correspondent is in damascus. tuesday is the third straight day that angle wind and cutting torches have been destroyed in missile warheads as well as aerial bombs and chemical equipment used for mixing the whole process is being overseen by some thirty three international observers their goal really is to ratify a record an opposite of the process while the actual destruction of chemical of syria's chemical weapons is taking place by syrian forces now the international team as of yet is not giving any interviews to the media we did however manage to catch up with the spokesperson who told us off camera that everything was going ahead as planned the important point to make though is that this whole process is not straightforward and this is because some of these stockpiles are in care in combat

syria faces the prospect of terrorist forces gaining overwhelming control over the country's enormous sources in the free syrian army claim the terrorist group al qaida plans to take control over transit routes friends a border with turkey ousting other rebel troops from the area the relationship between radical groups and the have a say has been rapidly deteriorating with a senior army commander recently killed by the islamist parties gannets to count investigates. you imagine okai hiding in some remote mountains not anymore they want their own country they found the land it's the part of syria which is under the rebels control we're talking about the northern part of the country that borders turkey according to an influential arabic newspaper off charcol outside which cites a source in the free syrian army a kind of feel limited militants intent to accidently assert their control over the territory immediately after ramadan ramadan ends around the ninth of august according to the source of a kind is about to announce an islamic state in syria they were in full control over the weapo

syria is going to hand out some major contracts and if they as the e.u. is now condemn hezbollah as a terrorist organization least it's a military wing and it's almost impossible to distinguish one from the other. the europeans may not get some of those kind of contracts and then tries to get those contracts i think is to make sure that they don't do anything i'm very thankful internet he finds that they don't really. that will be the reaction from has been large as quickly my reaction is it was a feel go operation please israelis at the white house and that's about it i were not going to see much consequence coming out of their heart also that but they caved to you. merican not pressure like a thank you we have an active time thank you that it stuck to franklin lamb an international lawyer and political analyst thank you. up next will be following one of russia's oldest and biggest the images. i talk with you and many times about the absurd things going on all around us like kids being thrown out of school because they had a gun that shoots bubbles or va

now britain's prime minister is changing his tune on syria david cameron said he still fully supports the opposition but admitted there is too much extremism among the rebels that's quite a change from nov twenty seventh about half a year after the syrian conflict erupted back then he called for more engagement with the rebels the following year he called for more international aid to put the syrian government under pressure fast forward a year he was still very manly and he is sad but not so sure that arms shipments were the way forward syria's top rebel commander has already accused the british pm of betrayal of the hay abandon plans to arm his fighters the government was strongly considering it and lobbied the e.u. to end an arms embargo and this brings us to the present the syrian government advancing on rebel militias the official opposition failing to unite in cameroon describing the situation as a stalemate political analyst deepak the path the explain what could be behind the u.k. leaders shifting positions. i told him he will have difficulty getting. approval because there is

mistaken assumption that's often purveyed in the media that what's happening in syria is some sort of civil war as some sort of internal conflict and a lot of the narrative has been framed around that that frame but i think it's fundamentally false to assert that i think we have to understand what's happening in syria as the planned result of a nearly decade long intervention foreign funded foreign armed foreign supplied foreign trained intervention in syria that has been arming and training syrian opposition groups on the record documented back to the bush administration as far back as two thousand and six they were starting to fund and train the opposition forces in syria so we have to understand that this is not some sort of spontaneous uprising and that as a result there are many different outside forces including the united states including the saudis qatar ease and others who are fight funding and financing their own fighters to go into this conflict and many of them are motivated for different reasons and are there for different opportunities and some are motivated as mercenari