why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars reports on our. al-qaeda linked rebels besiege an ancient christian village in syria with panicked president an able to flee and desperately calling on the army for help. from the syria crisis is being felt at the g. twenty with a war already described as the worst humanitarian disaster in modern history amid deep division at the summit over america's war plan without un for mission. and nationals in security agencies how britain and the u.s. have been waging an undercover war on internet encryption and digital scrambling as fresh leaks show they can't hack into even the most protected systems.

this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina joshie welcome to the program a kind of wing travels have attacked and christian village in syria home to one of the world's oldest monasteries the army has responded and secured much of the settlement but residents say radical opposition fighters have seen as nearby hills and are firing indiscriminately at the community our correspondent in damascus refinishing reports. i tried to go to my little village shortly after we heard that the clashes erupted there and it's just one hour drive from damascus north of the capital but we were stopped by the army and warned that it could be a one way ticket because first of all the road from damascus to milo is not safe but even if we're lucky enough to get. to the village the clashes still continue there and the raw are still some snipers who are active on the ground so the

situation is very dangerous so it's better not to go there as we were told we're hearing that the fighting is between the army and the militants mostly from. al qaeda affiliated groups fighting here in syria. against the regime of bashar assad but mostly for their own radical islamic state and it's known it's believed to be the best armed the most successful and at the same time the most aggressive opposition force here in syria and it's listed as a terrorist organization by you when us and some other members of the international community and we can see that the tactics were also. very similar to those that terrorists all around the world use we know that. early on wednesday. suicide bomber struck a checkpoint at the entrance of my little village and after

a car exploded at the checkpoint the militants of just stormed and we have online and i hope you can see it right now showing the rebels. the city and residents have been telling media that the same day the militants managed to take over a mountain top sophia hotel and they've been firing from that strategic point what we know is that a village is a very special. not only speaking. in terms of syrian reality but internationally speakin it is home to an orthodox rhine for century carefully church and dozens of more sex so it's a religious heritage is very soul that it was protected by the government and it was what we saw during this crisis respected by the rebels but after this recent

attack of course the whole christian community not only here in syria but all over the world was shaken and let's not listen to one another on. the managed to speak from latoya care what she says about the situation and about the fears of the christian minority here in syria. and here how can the international community ignore the brutal killing spree in little earlier on august the fifth and the target that affected five hundred people including children women and older people in the villages travel that they massacred all the residents and burned down the houses in another village almost all of the thirty seven locals were killed only ten people were able to keep twelve alawite villages were subjected to this horrendous attack it was a true slaughter house people who were mutilated and beheaded there is even a video that shows a girl being dismembered alive with a so. well it's worth to mention that malula has very troubled

neighbors another village of broods center of smuggling here in syria just twenty minutes drive from my little homes the city known as the percent of the question is one hundred kilometers away from but we are hearing from some free syrian army members that from some opposition members that the idea of attacking this village was to clear the road from the city of homs in central syria to damascus because. this village was the only one not taken nor. touched by the rebels but these are just rumors it's very hard to confirm. brainstorming has begun of the g twenty summit in st petersburg it's a fresh chance to try and seek some common ground after a day one saw the syrian crisis split leaders of the world's top economies into two

rival camps. now around half of the g twenty members said no to america's intention to strike syria with down the un's go ahead washington accuses damascus of using chemical weapons in a more than two year long war but its arguments failed to convince all now let's cross live to our correspondent here cesky who is following the summit for us there well he alexi so syria was not the official topic of the g. twenty agenda but clearly became its main talking point tell us what's going on what's the latest and how has been discussions playing out so far. well it's safe to say that the syrian conflict has pretty much consumed the economic agenda of the g twenty summit in st petersburg and that to a large extent of victimized in a statement by the head of the european commission about it was it was said who described the syrian conflict as the biggest humanitarian catastrophe over the last

several decades indeed the number of a dozen of the displaced refugees in the in the country has reached has exceeded four point five million two million more people have to leave their homes as a result of the conflict more than one hundred thousand people dead already so this . creates serious concerns in europe so definitely but also once a peaceful resolution to the conflict he doesn't want a strike on the country to be performed the same opinion goes along with the chairman of the european council missed of on their own also the same opinion is voiced by the un secretary-general ban ki-moon who said that the geneva two conference must be held in the quickest time possible in order to find a peaceful solution he also stands against any kind of military intervention but despite all this rhetoric coming from these three major figures there seem to be no consensus whatsoever among the g twenty member states last night they had a very lengthy a gala dinner which lasted more than five hours finished late in the night. we do

not know what kind of rhetoric was used there we don't know what kind of plans and schemes were discussed there but we do know from putin spokesperson that syria definitely was the main topic of discussion among the leaders of the g. twenty states and we do know as well that according to mr bischoff that the countries were split in the our opinion on how the syrian government should be resolved through military intervention or through diplomatic means well indeed actually the split is quite obvious but what do we know about those who are for intervention and those who are against it we're certainly waiting for press conferences of all g twenty members maybe they will have something to say on that and voice their positions but judging by the statements we have received so far we can say that russia and china's position hasn't changed the slightest they are still opposing military action against syria same goes for germany and italy both of them said that they would not take part in this conflict should it happen and in

fact the only european major state which would participate in such military action is france six more european states also support the idea of a strike against syria that is turkey romania poland cyprus creation a lot of but all in all there's no unity among the european union member states among the g twenty member states and despite obviously a long lengthy talks we have seen no common ground among the g twenty member states on that issue to write a legacy thank you so much for it keeping us abreast of what's happening there and reporting from st petersburg. now if you want to find out the details of what leaders had to say and what they might mean had to r.t. dot com still have we take a look at the financial side of things in st petersburg. recovery stagnation and picking up the pieces are all the talk today with the breaks a group of emerging economies working out the details of

a new global mega bank. now the u.s. not only failed to get any were near a unanimous nod for its war plan for syria at the g twenty it's also struggling to convince its own lawmakers and the public that a strike is necessary even usually stanch allies like britain saw parliament for cold water on prime minister cameron's drive to help the americans artistic work is going off looks at whether there is actually enough proof to back the bombing the intelligence services of the us france and britain have all presented reports suggesting it was the syrian authorities who used chemical weapons on august twenty first so let's look at their arguments open source reports are presented among the key evidence by old free services instead of being tucked safely in their beds at home we saw rows of troops lying side by side

sprawled on a hospital floor. open sources are actually videos on you tube and social networks this brings us to the second argument presented once again unilaterally its knowledge of previous chemical attacks allegedly conducted by the assad regime un experts however still haven't been able to agree on whether or not chemical weapons were deployed during the conflict in syria and way which side now argument number three washington paris and london claim intensified fire in the area of the alleged attack is another sign the authorities were behind it this way they allegedly tried destroying the evidence now finally the fourth key argument presented by all three is that the rebels are simply incapable of using chemical weapons there is no credible intelligence or other evidence to substantiate the claims all the position of chemical weapons political position earlier the u.n.

said it had evidence suggesting otherwise so it's pretty clear the arguments are completely of the same but interestingly the reaction is the cause in these countries are not the governments amendment does not mention compelling evidence against president assad i will seek authorization for the use of force from the american people's representatives in congress i'm waiting for an answer from cannot act on its own so as washington waits for congress paris for washington and london has dropped out altogether u.s. senators are set to make a decision on the issue next week. the united states congress vote on syrian intervention as now not far off and pollsters are keeping tabs on which way the wind is blowing so far it's certainly not blow you know obama's favor while the south looks likely to vote in favor of war it's a very different story in the house of representatives according to an updated poll by think progress as

a mere forty three lawmakers say they will or are at least likely to vote in favor of attacking us it was staggering two hundred twelve though say they will vote no or are leaning towards rejecting obama's war plan furthermore the president has apparently ordered congress to expand the list of targets in syria for an operation while inviting rebel leaders to washington for talks meanwhile holding little back america's envoy to the united nations launched a tirade against russia for refusing to back washington's plans for syria take a listen there is no viable path forward in the security council the system has protected the prerogatives of russia russia continues to hold the council hostage and sure its international responsibilities including as a party to the chemical weapons convention and while the u.s. envoy in the un is pushing america's military agenda and throws accusations at russia the international bodies chief says there is no way the syrian war could be

resolved by bombing there is nobody to sort of there's only forty two could sort of reach. three she's. right enough now investigative journalist charlie mcgrath says international trust in washington has all but a road it. it's extremely harsh i mean you know they're at the the front of the u.n. talking about russia holding the security council hostage i mean making russia the bad guy because they're the you know putin is one of the only people in the international community who has the you know i want to say courage to stand up and ask super commonsense questions who benefits from this and let's not rush to launch one point five million dollar tomahawk cruise missiles because we have a five page report that is in large part made up of you tube clips and twitter feed i think the world is war weary and they're no longer trusting the message or the messengers so it's not a surprise to me that the internationally stepping away from our guaranteed claim

that assad was responsible for this gas attack if that's indeed what it was the threat of attack on syria already roiling markets the world business community isn't taking well america's decision to and when down of instant stimulus program in fact the brics group of emerging economies are gathering speed and setting up a global bank of their own intended to act as a buffer to western crises. now i have to say good as brooke and katie pilgrim from artie's venture capital is joining us. katie and the do tell us what's dominating the business agenda of the summit. well it is all about business today and that's because we have had the twenty. and that includes the biggest business people the business elites if you like the heavyweights i'm talking about heads of

the biggest global banks companies c.e.o.'s of the big blue chips and they come together and they said they want some monsters how we're going to get this job creation how we're going to deal with the unemployment two hundred million people still unemployed over seventy of those all use and there's been talk about the last generation and really no wall. fixes it's all about long term solutions to the problems that we have the moment we know that tax evasion has featured heavily and it's a topic that everyone pretty much agrees on and putin said that it's just the beginning and that small to be done but so far there is cooperation between the twenty eight leaders which makes up ninety percent of the global g.d.p. so in terms of tax evasion then we know that there's going to be more monitoring of the multi companies i'm talking about twenty eight of the so-called too

big to fail banks and they're going to be monitored for that shadow banking and those in cars move from countries that do offer low tax rates to now increase tax evasion issue as i say it's just the beginning but there have been some agreements to say the least you mentioned the development bank i wanted to say that this is been a big breakthrough before coming here we didn't know how much money each country was going to be contributing to this and that had cool. disagreements because the bric countries brazil russia india china are different so china is the biggest economy. in brazil with eighteen billion dollars to. five we still don't know where it's going to be or who is going to be in charge of the logistics we decided on what we know that it is going to happen in the us because. see this time around we know that. all suffering on us in the light

of the. economy is. going to pull the plug on the cash injections this coming. i want to mention a few business. because really it's been focused upon russia and china not just in the same. issue of syria of course but we've also had some big. back in june of course we had the announcement of the over two hundred sixty million dollars trade deal between the two countries and now we've had. in russia signing a deal with c n c. so as i say tax evasion the emerging economies as well and as we do at the moment trying to get away from all to fish. so that we can

really do with the unemployment rates which are really quite saucing particularly in. revelations and business. i can tell you from the business. they are quite. so. busy. right now having lunch. well there's always time for. and katie thanks so much indeed for bringing us this update from st petersburg where g twenty is taking place there so. i think your encrypted internet is unbreakable wrong the ad to say has a way into your info i'll tell you more after the break.

down as terrorists they hide in the woods and prepare to become suicide bombers. those still believe these young men can be saved. oh you've gotten so thin. the mothers won't sleep at night they'll follow those sons into the woods find them and return them to a peaceful life they killed almost everybody. had been able to take him away from maybe that was by chance. how does it feel to be a terrorist mother. if you have even the slightest chance come home. my son takes terrorist on o.t. . secret lab or a tory tim curry was able to build the world's most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tunes mission to teach creation why it should care about

humans and. this is why you should care only on the dog. welcome back you're watching r.t. and an army of supercomputers covert work with internet companies and tell me go trickery this is the forest that's latin america's n.s.a. and britain's g.c. h.q. to crack into any encrypted system they wanted to get access to the sensitive personal data of millions of users artie's laura smith explains just how big this is. it seems that they're capable of doing practically anything essentially all of the stuff that you do online the emails that you send the banking data that you insert when you transfer money the shopping all those passwords that you've created to protect yourself online even your medical records it turns out that the guarantees that you've been given by the internet companies that all that stuff is protected are rendered practically worthless by this they've got these super

computers which basically use brute force to break codes and then here's the kicker it turns out that they're collaborating with the internet service providers themselves secretly also inserting back doors into commercial encrypted in software so again in on the ground floor and it turns out has made significant inroads into breaking into hotmail google yahoo and also facebook where they don't work or don't stretch to of course there are all of these things direct taps that they've got on what's called the backbone of the internet these cables that run under the sea transatlantic that carry all the internet traffic and then of course intercepting satellite communications so basically you name it so essentially the message is from these leaks that if the n.s.a. wants to get into your computer it can but there are some things that security experts say can make it more difficult for them to do that and ultimately that's

what you're aiming to do really so first of all you can use this redirecting software enables online anonymity but you can also encrypt your communications again not failsafe not foolproof but it will protect you slightly better another thing that security experts in the guardian are suggesting today is to have a computer that has never been connected to the internet you do all you really important kind of secret work on there and then if you want to over the internet you encrypt it on that computer and you put it onto a u.s.b. stick and walk it literally across the room to the computer that you send it on the internet on also as we've learned don't don't trust. christian software because that's likely had a backdoor inserted into his already by the n.s.a. or g c h q this is heresy exposing the guardian sums it up by saying look you know the n.s.a. are amazingly efficient at doing this it seems but ultimately they're not magicians they can't do everything in their constrained by the same financial and economic constraints that all the rest of us are so basically all you can do is make it as

difficult for them as possible and just cross the fingers. kid so who established an encrypted secure server says it's alarming who can potentially get their hands on such information it's not only industrial espionage think about the value of you know how many people have access to this huge treasure trove of data there are one point four million people in the u.s. you have top secret clearances are all those people enjoy i don't think so so you have the issue of who has access to this data and mr snowden was able to get quite a bit of it so you know he's obviously he's not alone there are at least two probably tens of thousands of other people who do it what's valuable for for political blackmail it's hugely valuable if you had all these private conversations from a political opponent think what you could do you win every election this is basically something that's completely worldwide and you know you should assume that it's anywhere if you're anywhere in the world and you're using something electronic that

someone is looking. now if you're a driver in the u.k. you should make the most of your time alone in your car before european commission sits in there with you it wants to install an automatic food on the break in every vehicle for when motorists breach the speed limit here's our peacefully boycott on brussels backseat driving plan. got a need for speed the fancy yourself is a bit of a petrol head perhaps well lawmakers in brussels are thinking of ways to slow you down the european union wants to improve its road safety record and they're coming up with innovative new ways to do it the latest proposal fitting all cars with a technology that would read a road speed limits and automatically slam on the brakes if you go over it so in the u.k. that would mean a limit of seventy miles per hour and matter how big your engine is so we decided to find out what some of the members of london's ferrari owner's club think about

the idea of the fun out of drawing wouldn't a car isn't that either i would have got this one at the moment but i've got various other classics and it would just take the fun of the whole scenario thing it's something disappointing for everyone if somebody saw for you but it's not going to dance on congo so many different cars so if some of them are applying. the new technology i'll be ok but on the special don't do it once a control cause you know for sure i think you some people sleep because if they use they realize that they're being controlled by speed the forget to drive they'll forget to be aware so poor drivers will just simply cause more actions even though they're going this quickly so if people are so worried about people not being able to write right judgment well then we need better education not draconian rules where one size fits all they're exempt to that law. and you can't do that no not supposed all but have and. the proposal hasn't gone down well with the case transport secretary either he says that forcing cars to break or semantically has

got big brother written all over it and that britain already ranks amongst the top in europe for its road safety record. what's more for today's have experts say that sometimes the driver needs to be able to speed up the go to avoid collisions and tricky situations. tony boyd k. hot seat london. all next the russian mothers who discover their sons have become terrorists and what they do about it stay with. 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 impossible i am 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 us economy with its unfathomable debt is really propped up by war in the petro dollars so if the us 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 had 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 highly motivated to counter attack 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. wealthy british style. time. markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with max keiser for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report.