i'm going to continue to do. a lot of reporting that accuse a syrian rebels of launching a chemical attack to provoke a foreign intervention the russian president spoke on the issue of the g. twenty summit which he also briefly met with the u.s. leader but failed to find common ground on the syrian issue. meanwhile international alarm is raised over a surge of extremism within the opposition forces in syria after o'connell linked rebels besiege an ancient christian village the latest in a wave of attacks on religious minorities. and fresh insight into britain and america is confidential folder shows nothing can stop the government agencies from getting their hands on your personal data even the most heavily encrypted information is now vulnerable.

this is already coming to you live from the russian capital marina joshie welcome to the program now obama is also struggling to gather international support for strikes against syria the issue has divided world leaders at the g. twenty summit now in its second day in st petersburg well we'll bring you full coverage on those talks in russia's northern capital here on r.t. . worries the shape is our g. twenty studio in the same bit as work with all the very latest updates on what's going on at the summit. over to rory well to tell us what's happening there is it's

a very very busy day was just her president put in addressing the members of the media so talk us through the highlights. well certainly i should say before that marina we're currently on standby for the american president obama it's his turn to address the delegates and of course the media and the press at the g. twenty so any moment we're going to cross live to the american president though he was preceded by as you said marina a lot of the russian president vladimir putin addressing those at the g. twenty before i can give you the highlights of putin speech we're going to cross live right now to the american president barack obama he's taking the stage and let's have a listen to see what he has to say these weapons were banned for a reason. and that the international community has to take those norms seriously. i would say that the majority. of the world. is comfortable with our conclusion that assad. the assad government was responsible

for their use. obviously this is disputed by president putin but. if you polled the leaders. last night i'm confident but you get a majority who said it is most likely we are pretty confident that the assad regime used. where there is a division as you do with the united nations. you know there are a number of countries that. just as a matter of principle believe that if military action is to be taken to it needs to go through the u.n. security council. there are others and i put myself in this camp as somebody who is a strong supporter of the united nations who very much appreciates the courage of the investigators who gone in and looks forward to seeing the u.n. . court because i think we should try to get more information not less in this

situation. it is my view and a view that was shared by a number of people in the room that given security council paralysis on this issue if we are serious about upholding a ban on chemical weapons use then an international response is required and that will not come through security council action. and that's where i think the division comes from. and i respect those who. are concerned about setting precedents of action outside of u.n. security council resolution. i would greatly prefer working through multilateral channels and through the united nations to get this done. but. ultimately. what i

believe in even more deeply. because i think that the security of the world and my particular task looking out for the national security of the united states requires that when there's a breach this brazen. of a norm this important. and. the international community is paralyzed and frozen and doesn't act. then. that norm begins to unravel. and if that norman rebels then. other norms and prohibitions start on rabble and that makes for a more dangerous world and that then requires even more difficult choices and more difficult responses in the future. over for fourteen hundred. people were gassed.

over four hundred of them were children. this is not something we've fabricated this is not something that we. are looking for or using as an excuse for military action as i said last night i was elected to end wars and not start them. i've spent the last four and a half years doing everything i can to. reduce our reliance on military power. as a means of meeting our. international obligations and. protecting the american people. but what i also know is that there are times where. we have to make hard choices if we're going to stand up for the things that we care

about and i believe that this is one of those times and if we end up using. the u.n. security council not as a means of enforcing international norms and international law. but rather as a barrier. to. acting on behalf of international norms and international law then i. think people rightly are going to be pretty skeptical about the system. and whether it can work to protect those children that we saw in those videos. and sometimes the further away we get from the horrors of that. the easier it is to rationalize not making tough choices. and i understand that this is not convenient. this is not something that i think a lot of folks around the world. you know.

find an appetizing set of choices. but the question is. do these norms mean something and if we're not acting what does that say. if we're just issuing another statement of kind of condemnation for passing resolutions saying was a mad terrible. you know if if. people who you know. decry international inaction in rwanda. and say how terrible it is that there are these human rights violations that take place around the world and why aren't we doing something about it and they always look to the united states. why isn't the united states doing something about this the most powerful nation on earth why are you allowing these terrible things to happen and

then if the international community turns around. when. we're saying it's time to take some responsibility and says well hold on a second. we're not sure. that erodes our ability to maintain the kind of norms that that we're looking at now i know that was a lengthy answer and you had a second part to question the conversation i had with president putin was. on the margins of the. of the plenary session and. you know i thought it was a candid and constructive conversation which characterizes my relationship with him i know that as i've said before as always we'll try to look for body language and all that but the truth of the matter is is that my interactions with him tend to be

very straightforward. we discussed syria. and that was primarily the topic of conversation mr snowden did not come up. beyond me saying that reemphasizing that. where we have common interests i think it's important for the two us to work together. and on syria i said listen i don't expect us to agree on this issue of chemical weapons use although it is possible that after the u.n. inspectors' report it may be more difficult for. mr putin to maintain his current position about the evidence. but what i did say is. that we both agree. that the underlying conflict. can only be resolved. through a political transition as invision by the geneva. one in geneva two

process and so we need to move forward together even if you the u.s. and russia and other countries disagree on this specific issue of how to respond to chemical weapons use it remains important for us to work together to to try. urge. all parties in the conflict let's try to resolve it because we've got four million people internally displaced we've got. millions of people in turkey jordan lebanon who are desperate and the situation's only getting worse. and that's not a name by his interests it's not a new america's interest it's not in russia's interest it's not in the interest of the people the region and obviously it's not in the interest of syrians who see in their lives completely disrupted in their country shattered so that is going to continue to be

a project of ours and that does speak to. you know an issue that has been raised back home around this whole issue you've heard some people say well. you know we think if you're going to do sign you got to do something big and maybe this isn't big enough or maybe it's too late or. you know other responses like that . you know what i've tried to explain is what we may not solve the whole problem but this particular problem of using chemical weapons on children this one we might have an impact on and that's worth acting on. that's important to us. and what i've also said is that as far as the underlying conflicts concerned. unless the international community is willing to put massive numbers of troops on the ground and i know nobody's signing up for that we're not going to get

a long term military solution for the country more and that is something that. can only come about i think of if as different as our perspectives may be myself mr putin and others are willing to set aside those differences. and put some pressure on the parties on the ground. on the bar that we have in the american president that barack obama addressing those in attendance at the g. twenty there mostly the q. and a with the members of the press ask him questions up post his address right there let's just get down to the brass tacks for you here an odyssey as we continue our live coverage from the g twenty the american president barack obama saying that the usage of chemical weapons in syria was a breach of international security and the international community cannot be frozen and unable to respond otherwise the world becomes simply

a more dangerous place of barack obama also saying that he was elected to end wolves and not to begin them maybe was noting here that during barack obama's speech he was really apparently stuck for words there were huge gaping pauses and what he had to say perhaps some might think that the pressure of the growth of the international community bearing down the opposition against a syrian strike could be taking its toll on the american president barack obama saying that some people have asked him in the past why does the u.s. allow certain atrocities to be committed around the world when america is the world's most powerful country and has a duty as the world's policeman and barack obama saying well not just a duty but a responsibility to try and protect the world as well and when it comes to the whole issue of chemical weapons attack in syria before barack obama put the state hit the stage he was preceded by his russian counterpart vladimir putin mr putin saying that regarding the chemical attack it was not carried out by the assad government rather it was carried out by the syrian rebels in fact here is what the

russian president had to say. just as. i've mentioned before that i view everything that happened with the so-called use of chemical weapons in syria as the publication by the rebels who count on help from abroad from those countries that originally supported them and that's the reason for this provocation i also want to remind you that the use of force against a sovereign state is acceptable only if it's done for self-defense and we know that syria hasn't attacked the us and only if the un security council approves such action as one of the participants of our discussions on the issue put it yesterday those who do otherwise put themselves above the law. well there we have a russian president there talking about who he thinks was behind the chemical attack in in syria also that one of the questions the russian president had to face was that of what other rep acushla is could happen in other parts of the world if indeed some sort of intervention took place in syria and here's what here's what he

had to say. in the world he said recently the vulnerable and unprotected. powerful countries can attack. any time they like to ensure. non-proliferation we need to. impeccable implementation of international laws. all right let's take this a bit further here on c.n.n. now i join a merry old friends another soldier from the social solidarity movement in tal an hour joining us live here on the program as we as we continue broadcasting from the g. twenty in some petersburg america france in israel receives show in the russian northern capital thanks so much for joining us here on the program we've heard from the american president barack obama saying it's the world's it's the world's responsibility and america's responsibility as the world's policeman to go off to

syria regarding this chemical attack the whole time the russian president saying it was a setup by the rebels your thoughts. to me almost or as it's very difficult to judge of course what really happened on the ground to even the u.n. didn't have any conclusions up till now but what we see clearly is that president obama speaking about world opinion etc the g twenty summit showed that this is not the truth he has a minority position you don't only speak about western countries about worldwide it's clearly that his position on these willingness to attack syria on this issue is a minority position and that's also why trying to find an alliance which is going around united nations security council claim to have previously criticized. yeah indeed we see the u.n. chief ban ki moon saying no to some sort of intervention without a u.n. mandate the pope saying no china delegations the g.

twenty saying no to a strike in syria but when it comes to a use the use of chemical weapons who should be held to account is this a regional issue or is it a global issue. i think it's important issue for the moment in syria and we also think that the any use of non-conventional weapons if it's chemical weapons the pleated uranium white for sort of whatever should be banned and should be excluded to be used in the world as weapons are not allowed that's for one secondly the question is so why do us is willing to to go. to attack city hall right now and how do they use what happened on the ground without knowing who were that's and i think that's a key issue to. speculate is right now what about mr mr france and what about true motives here every time the russian president has asked his american counterpart to halt proof solid evidence of the assad used chemical weapons every time he asks the white house turns its back to

moscow so so when it comes to that we're hearing you know a lot of reverberations about iraq but what to do where is the proof if america is so convinced where's the proof or perhaps the question is what are the true motives in this. question to ask i think about the proof we know that it's not always the most important thing to start a war so other reasons why the u.s. is going off to war something that we have to look back to for more than two years when people say to us now we have to do something because of these chemical weapons use but don't forget that the united states with its allies is involved already for two years and so destabilizing syria on the t.v. going after his g.'s change has been the agenda from the beginning and i think now push could be giving in favor of the rebels fighting on the ground in attacking syria at this moment but. you can never underestimate the united states so it's

hard to guess what they. want to marry in france and from the social solidarity movement called intel joining us live here on r t from all of us here about c. in moscow and st petersburg at the g. twenty thank you very much for joining us here on the program today and our coverage will continue here from the twenty thousand g. twenty summit in st petersburg. we'll be back with more in a short while thanks for joining us. but how you would test that the intentions of somebody and how would you know the intentions of george w. bush one can launch that war on false pretext it's now recognized internationally that saddam hussein never had weapons of mass destruction i think that sharing your point of view in any circumstance is

a good thing so if you want to open up another country to a different source of government or a different type of government or a different type of authority i think that being open minded in taking it in perhaps there are better ways of doing it than through force like i just said being invasive but i think that to be open minded is to get. the. economic down in the final. day to do your shanghai and the rest because i was doing the case you believe every week. we.

welcome back you're watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow i'm marina josh and we start in syria were government forces are battling al qaeda linked rebels who are attacked a christian village earlier this week malala is home to some of the world's oldest christian sanctuaries and is one of few places where western army the language of christ is still spoken for rebels have now been forced out but fierce clashes are continuing in the area our correspondent to mask has more. 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 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 in and we have online and i hope you can see it right now showing the rebels. in the city of residence have been telling media that the same day the militants managed to

take over a mountain top saffir hotel and they've been firing from that strategic poor into what we know is that my little village is a very special place not only speaking. in terms of syrian reality but internationally speaking eighty's home too and also talks trying for century catholic church and dozens of more scs where residents local residents in the shops and. during their daily life they speak aramaic the language share that jesus christ believed to speak so course the whole christian community not only here in syria but all over the world was shaken and. managed to speak to one another on from latakia about the situation and about the fears of the christian minority here in syria i mean that in and yet how can the international community

ignore the brutal killing spree in the time earlier on august the fifth and the tank that affected five hundred people including children and women and all the people in the villages travel that they massacred all the residents and burned down the houses 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 the 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 home the city known as the percent of the question is one hundred kilometers away from this village was the only one not taken nor. touched by the rebels and coming up here in our two worlds apart with a convoy comes. iraq

afghanistan the balkans somalia haiti libya yemen and so on and so on the list of engagements of 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 possum. well i am not good at predicting the future but i can see 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 and the petro dollar so if the us backs down here would 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 build evaded 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.

russian writer friday the day after that one that beauty will save the world but more than a century i have played and this is yet to be the end what is beauty and what is that place and it was well discussed that i'm now in joined by miss universe two thousand while. olivia culpo thank you very much for your time olivia of course how would you define beauty. beauty is defined by something that is not only outward i really think that being beautiful is making other people feel good in whatever way you can and that's something that you can achieve just by being pretty it's about what's inside and about what you can give to others what you can make them feel interesting i know that what do you stand for because i understand that you know

part of your job is promoting certain brands now but is there anything more to the title then just being your beauty to you particular product absolutely i work closely with me awareness and something that has been carried on for every title there and but for me another important thing is just being able to be a role model for girls i came from a school that was all girls so having that camaraderie is really important to me and i feel like i can help a lot of girls that don't have a role model it's interesting that you say that because. pageant is actually be very social scientists. bias you know. people have an easier time getting a job or getting a loan and there is even some studies in your own country in the united states that more attractive people get. what do you make of it.