it's a pm here in moscow tonight leaders of the world's biggest economies gather in st petersburg with syria and the u.s. strike plans eclipsing global financial concerns we bring you extensive coverage of this ongoing may just from. russia publishes a damning report showing syrian rebels hind a chemical attack last march with evidence that the weapons used near aleppo were not from the government stock. and the u.k. record labels the set to break the pirate code as they look to revive their ailing industry by crushing free downloading you said.

hello very good evening if you just joined us live from moscow is kevin owen here at r.t. tonight leaders of the world's top twenty economies have gathered in st petersburg for the g. twenty summit to tackle some of today's biggest challenges. twenty studio in simply disappear with the latest on what's going on at the summit rory over to you a lovely day behind you. oh it's a gorgeous day kevin winding down with sunset instant peter day one of the g. twenty summit on rory sushi for rod see a whole crew of us out here covering the entire annual economic forum for you this time around i'm just moments away just steps away here from the home of teach museum by the way one of us go world heritage sites also the former winter palace of the zaz absolutely gorgeous surroundings him major landmarks in st petersburg

let's get down to the bras touch the real business here it's an economic global forum that of the g. twenty if you were to take all the members of the g. twenty nations add them together and then combine the total of unemployment for them you'd have a ninety million people unemployed among the members of the g twenty countries also though you look at the will don't implement level that's a good two hundred million people as well let's say let's bring in a season the sonali she's actually at the venue for the g twenty summit here in st petersburg and can bring me up to date actually because a i understand and he said hi it's rory again and that we had a meeting today with members of the brics nations or representatives from brazil russia india china south africa that concerned about volatility in the markets something to do with the quantitative easing what can you tell me. yes and i think it's fair to say that a lot of these a merge in a condom is the breaks might be even a little disappointed that syria has taken center stage at this year's g.

twenty summit especially with the recent developments just ahead of world leaders merging on russia's northern capital here to discuss at least according to the official agenda reforming the financial world a lot of these emerging countries are feeling the fallout from the steps taken by the federal reserve so what you have happening in the u.s. of course the country which a lot of these emerging countries blame for this financial crisis which they're still feeling the repercussions of many years on that it's really touching these emerging economies and they want to. the defense mechanisms nevertheless even not the meeting between the brics the smart syria came up we had a press briefing from post-flight senior putin spoke spokes person to me to be pisco and he talked about how the brics really are on the same page when it comes to syria they see the only way as a political solution a solution but to feel that if any kind of action is necessary that it by all means

costs to go through the u.n. security council that any other way would be illegitimate and therefore illegal they also talked about another sore spot i think we can say u.s. russia relations are the revelations that were brought to the world by whistleblower edward snowden of course he received asylum by russia a lot of people around the world see him as a hero but countries with the british at least see this electronic snooping they even aligned it with terrorism and a clear violation of their national security so that is something that they spoke about brazil as went as far as to say that they're looking for an apology from the united states for this by so a very tense atmosphere it's fair to say on the first day of this summit. yes certainly indeed so you bring up the issue of the n.s.a. surveillance and all about you brazil looking for an apology from the white house they can basically join the list of many countries around the world are very upset with the uncovering of the true extent of washington's n.s.a.

surveillance program but an easter let's let's bring up one of the dreaded issues that everyone's talking about out of a possible strike against syria obama john kerry they're all making a case for war with syria over the allegations of chemical weapons usage and no one on the stand and he said that we have a new russian report that says it was the rebels and not the assad government that use chemical weapons. but russia from the beginning certainly has been very skeptical of any information coming out of syria it's very hard to verify anything they did send in their own investigators and we have a detailed report coming up on that a bit later but in terms. of the g. twenty in syria what's important to mention is it might have been a possibility that obama was coming here to look for support an expected at least the european union to stand with him it's become very clear today. excuse me that that is not the case we heard from herman van rompuy but who said that he believes that military intervention in syria is not an option should not be on the table

shows a manual barroso saying that a political solution a solution is the only way italy is quite optimistic about this g twenty summit saying it's one of the very last chances to sit down and look for a political solution and then you have germany as well saying military intervention is not the way to go but yes they would be willing to give any kind of support for a political solution to it looks like obama is going to have to go it alone at least when we look at europe he did sit down for he did speak to his japanese counterpart where they did condemn any kind of use of chemical weapons but the europeans down at least at this summit is very much so far as you have to that intervention is not the way again president obama will be sitting down with francois along the president of france who had previously voiced support for military intervention so it will be interesting to see if france sticks with that after all of these comments we've been hearing coming out of the e.u.

and how they are opposed to military intervention. you know i knew so you know just to bring up some other issues here it was about twenty four hours ago the u.s. secretary of state john kerry was getting a grilling on capitol hill with him and chuck hagel the defense secretary as they were trying to justify that strike that hopeful potential future strike against syria off to being grilled by a republican congressman john kerry said look the entire world condemns the use of chemical weapons in the entire world insists on a global response to syria and then the republican congressman said well if that's the case mr kerry then why is america so alone in its cries for military intervention in. civil war war torn country in the tsunami we'll check in with you soon and throughout the next two days here at the g. twenty in some petersburg thank you very much for that indeed we'll hear not see let's continue the program now want to join it chris but tina a democratic strategist are joining us here on so you to discuss the g. twenty issues that are above the surface on those issues that are below the surface and perhaps issues that are being talked about behind closed doors chris rory here

is in petersburg i hope you can hear me ok moscow washington relations they've been so i can be very cool for weeks if not a few months now in the wake of the snowden scandal thank you sir and out of the ongoing syria crisis as well why did the american president decide to snub his initial meeting with the russian president at the kickoff to the g. twenty. well i think that mr obama wanted to express displeasure that i missed that snowden was a return to the united states that he was given asylum in. in russia but again that's a small diplomatic matter and as a matter of fact if you. report it today you saw the president and mr putin shake hands today. they're both professional politicians they both understand that there are issues bigger than snowden and there are issues that the united states and russia agree on which are much bigger than snowden and quite frankly bigger than

syria and that relationship continues so there's always gamesmanship between politicians are world leaders and that initial meeting was just one of those little games that are played among leaders. chris so you mentioned you mention issues of politicking for example you also say that there are much bigger issues in the world bigger than snowden and bigger than the crisis in syria where putin and obama can work together in a wood off some of these issues that you that you're mentioning here. sure well for instance are ran i mean i think that the united states believes that basically russia and mr putin know that a nuclear armed iran is not a good thing for the peace in the world and the united states believes that russia has been working to keep the iranians from developing nuclear arms united states is very happy about that i think the american people understand that the same thing in north korea we i think both countries see a north korea

a loose cannon with nuclear arms is a threat and i think we will both work to are working together to keep north korea and that regime in check and again i don't think that's lost on the people in america who pay attention to international affairs that russia is part of that international coalition and a very important part there is the ongoing issue of terrorism i mean is i said on this show before russia's been a victim of terrorism united states obviously has been a victim of terrorism i think people are very mean and we understand that we want to get there are the best we can to fight terrorism and so some of these other things while they are difficulties are really a distraction mr snowden did what he did mr putin gave him asylum you know that doesn't really change world affairs so you know those a little things that the media likes to talk about and if they are they're real but they're not the most important things between our two countries and between the two peoples of our

nations. chris i'm terribly sorry to tell you this but i'm very very very low on time i've got about fifteen seconds here quickly i'm sorry any expectations here for the g twenty and some petersburg. you know i hopefully that it is to focus will be on economics because russia's got some tough economic times united states in tough economic times hopefully that's what countries will talk about creating jobs putting people to work and maintaining a kind of overall peaceful cooperation at all and i'm optimistic that that's what the story of this g. twenty will be not some sidetrack about snowden pussy riot or any of those other things which really ultimately will matter in ten years from now. all right christoper democratic strategist joining us here live on r.t. many many thanks indeed from the g. twenty summit here in st petersburg thanks for joining us here on the program today on the broadcast does continue here from the venice over the north of russia's northernmost capital here a beautiful evening sunset in some petersburg aussies it katie pilbeam the host of

our business program venture capital she filed a report on how the first day of the g twenty has gone so far and that report is coming your way in just a moment. ten minutes away and now russia's release expert finding showing that a chemical attack in syria was apparently conducted by the rebels not the regime the assault in question killed dozens of people near the city of aleppo back in march the report comes as the u.s. strives to convince the world that syria's opposition has no access to chemical weapons should go pers can offer of course. this is a detailed one hundred page long report which provides thorough analysis of the weapons which were used in that attack in aleppo in mid march and first of all it concludes that it was infact a chemical attack the weapons which were used were custom made and were similar to the ones usually used by. one of the most radical rebel groups with links to

al-qaeda fighting against president assad regime investigators also found traces of hexagon which was used to release the chemicals that is not the way it's done in the military and also found traces of the xyron nerve gas which was produced not industrially but it was all made and found traces of another chemical which was used by western western nations in the times of the second world war so these are the main arguments presented this report which is to suggest that that attack in aleppo is that the camel attack was in fact by syrian rebels this is actually the second time that we're hearing about this new board russia already passed it over to the secretary general of the united nations back in july but neither then or now we are actually hearing about it international media basically de facto this report

is being ignored by all the towers and international media unlike the we or it's published just recently on the recent attack near damascus they were presented by the intelligence services of the u.s. britain and the u.k. and all three suggest that that was a chemical attack which was conducted by syrian authorities a lot of media attention is currently being we'd to these reports basically are international spotlight even though one of the key arguments in all three is that while they are based on interceptions of communications satellite photos and open source reports which are actually youtube videos. and information from other social networks the how correct it is is raising lots of questions and another argument shared by all three intelligence services pointing about it was the regime which held that attack is that the rebels the syrian rebels are simply incapable of

dealing with chemical weapons something which is not proved it's not confirmed in the report presented by russia. he got pushkin off the let's discuss russia's findings and chose to bring he's a former british army and counterterrorism intelligence officer joining us now live line from london hi there saving so i'm listening to that report that russia says it's found evidence that the rebels used chemical weapons back in march in aleppo why this information been ignored by the international community it's been in the public domain for nearly twenty four hours now. yes and indeed at the time of this attack. close to aleppo back in march there was speculation that indeed this was a rebel attack not an attack by assad's troops not least because as even the u.k. based opposition supporting body the syrian observatory for human rights common to most of those killed in that attack it reported

a time where indeed syrian army soldiers which again would suggest that it was a syrian army accident or b. that the russian findings now tend to show or suggest it's the case that in fact this was an attack carried out by syria's rebels i mean obviously it does not suit the western agenda that's to say and of course we mustn't say the western agenda because most of the west remember is opposed to this potential strike on syria by the united states and france but it doesn't suit the agenda and the narrative put out by britain and the u.s. and france in its intelligence assessments which was referred to in your earlier report but i would emphasize what your earlier contradicted just said that a very very important aspect of the three intelligence reports put forward which are the only really evidence in inverted commas that has been put forward to support this strike possibly on syria is really. based upon the idea that syria's rebels cannot and do not have the capability to produce chemical

weapons and therefore could not have been responsible for the attack last week all that it has a fall into their hands because the message seems to change doesn't it i mean about a year. ago we're hearing from the west that there was a big danger that the stockpile of chemical weapons of the assad regime could fall into the wrong hands as things fall apart the how does he mention although all we hear is there is no way they could have found it i mean could they have manufactured these chemicals themselves the rebels. yes they could and of course. did russian report the detail is contained in that about the manufacture of the sarin that was used in an instant this is. in march is very very interesting because it maintains that the sarin that was used or that they tested in those samples was not should we say a product of industrial manufacture it isn't standard weapons grade sarin that has been used and of course one would expect that that would be the case if these have

come from syria's chemical weapon stocks which are of a higher standard and so therefore these are not standard syrian army listens now this is very interesting in respect of the curator attack which of course is the reason that the u.s. and france are considering attacking syria with the recent attack a couple of on the twenty first of august because once again hey we will have to u.n. weapons inspectors are currently doing their work analysis is taking place in some european capitals precisely to look at the makeup of that sarin is one of the aspects they're looking at now is that sarin i would just say they thought so and again it's not military standard again that would point toward syria rebel use rather than syrian military use possibly and just sort of question marks still a puppet shelves for british army in countering terrorism intelligence officer live from london thank you sir. pleasure. thanks for being with a small world news after the break with me kevin i want including an offensive launched by record labels against internet pirates coming up.

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critic prostate that we are mosco fall share is a facing a crackdown in britain you and tea party receive rules could see hundreds of thousands of internet users blocked by the provided and even prosecuted for downloading unlicensed movies and music representatives a struggling media companies will be sharing their grievances with the prime minister during a private discussion next week is a lower smith. well basically this is a move to make internet service providers essentially police the internet so it's a voluntary thing so far but if the likes of these big sort of internet writers here in the u.k. virgin media bt b. sky b.

talk talk that kind of people if they sign up is understood what they'll do is create a database of repeat offenders if you like repeat illegal downloads that first sent a letter if that letter was then ignored they would see these sites being blocks they could potentially see the slowing down of their internet connection and i think right up to and including prosecution now jim collector of the open rights group is here to talk to me about this he's our go to guy for all things concerning internet and rights on the internet now these i s p's policing the internet basically though they'd be doing it at the behest of an on behalf of these rich huge industry titans music business film business will they be willing to do that you think is it legal is should they be the ones to do it kind of things you don't mind i think would be very very illegal i think would be streaming dodgy doing those kinds of things you can't just simply start blocking the site restricting somebody who's internet just because they've. been entered on

a database people do have legal rights copyright is a legal right and the b.p.i. could take you to court might well be reasonable lease then you would know what the evidence was somebody could say well look i'm innocent i didn't do this it was not me and you could see some kind of logical conclusion that you know is transparent i think it's sort of become interesting to everybody the secret services governments big industries they all want to copy the information you want to have operated in their interests rather than the interests of individuals and all this sort of you know lead to sending threats this is a way to consumers and it's not a way to actually make money and collect thanks very much of course there's another important question who will pay to keep in this data. yes analysts say it'll probably be you in the state of increased broadband charges. smith there were some creators of spyware reaping huge profits from government snooping schemes that's according to the latest investigation by wiki leaks which has now revealed cozy

ties between private ip firms and intelligence agencies if you want to read up more about that report's a good read i can tell you now that our dot com our web site of course one with so much more as well. about to our top story artist or a solution is standing by for us and some pages per with the latest from the g twenty summit. a very warm welcome to you from all of us here at the g. twenty summit in st petersburg for twenty thirty nine re sushi tax dodgers be well know the everyday average joe but the big multinational corporations they might have to cough up some big bucks if indeed some new tax agreements go through that's one of the issues being discussed at the g. twenty today and for the next day as well to more included the brics and market volatility they're meeting today about concerns about why their markets are suffering after the tapering off of quantitative easing. the host of venture

capital she filed this report just a bit odd. ball this not cooperation in terms of polish takes perhaps the subtly is it with the economics because we've heard the president vladimir putin he has addressed his fellow leaders here the g. twenty leaders which can comprises the likes of german chancellor angela merkel we've got all the heads hit which make up ninety percent of the world economy very important people and they have agreed that tax evasion needs to be tackled in the almost ways about that they have to call them together and they are going to be clamping down we're talking about high taxes in places that are often referred to as tax havens as well as that stricter laws and regulations and he as i say he did praise the fact that they will manage to agree upon they said they said it's all about growth as well in terms of long term quality great that can be sustained and

high unemployment needs to be tackled we know that two hundred million people are still unemployed in the world seventy three million the those are the use which is the biggest concern perhaps now let's talk about the emerging economies because they are in the center at the moment in terms of economics because they have been taking a battering recently and that's because of ben bernanke he fed was a chairman and also. he would be forcing tapering and other words taking out the money that he's been pumping into the system. september not interesting enough we spoke to the former finance minister of russia like they could today and he was talking about the fact that the global economy is almost like a sick man and that this stimulus is almost like the medicine that subjected to the six miles let's have a listen to what he had to say. to work on. the world's economy its current state can be characterized as being on life support for its vital functions are being kept running by the federal reserve the european central

bank and other banks like constant cash and directions this should only be temporary if a sick man goes through treatment and it doesn't help there's no point continuing it is an ongoing effort now to buy time for reforms and changes but this will end in the world's economies will be left to stand on their own feet which countries economies will be able to stand and which ones won't remains to be seen. and indeed we will find out who all the healthy economy is when the medicine when the steroids are taken away and that's why at the likes of india which is suffering the most at the moment having lost a fifth of the rupee that currency because it's the current says that already suffering in the emerging world as well another topic that is being approached. so i will go to stay with us if you can for continued live coverage here on r t from the twenty third scene g. twenty summit here in st petersburg.

yeah a lot more to come next though from moscow much the stacy rundown on the bankings bad guys wore them in the cars report after the break. iraq afghanistan the balkans somalia haiti libya yemen and so on and so on the list of engagements and airstrikes by post cold war nato just keeps getting longer and now it looks like it's serious turn a lot of people have written me asking me to predict what is going to happen next which for me is a possible i'm not good at predicting the future but i can say is that we are living in a very tense moment in history many argue that the u.s.

economy with its unfathomable debt is really propped up by war in the petro dollars so if the u.s. backs down here won't could be the beginning of the end for the world's only hyper power but if they do attack syria there will probably be some sort of reaction from iran russia and china if you haven't noticed nato has been trying to encircled these nations and in russian internet conspiracy land a lot of people are saying that russia is next you see if there is no resistance in syria then one by one all resistance to the un ending hunger of nato will be smashed out one by one the reason syria is so important and so scary is that you have one massive military force that could be very motivated to attack for its own self interest while you have a group of massive military forces how they voted to counterattack for their own self interests this is a very tense standoff that could lead to a major moment in history military history but that's just my opinion.

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