tonight a provocation by syrian rebels to trigger a foreign intervention that's what vladimir putin's called last month's chemical attack outside damascus and should be shot at the g. twenty summit. meanwhile global alarms raised over a surge of extremism within the opposition forces in syria after al qaeda linked rebels besiege an ancient christian village the latest in a wave of attacks on religious minorities. at a fresh insight into britain of america's confidential folder shows nothing can stop the government agencies from getting their hands on your personal data even

the most heavily encrypted information it seems is now vulnerable. to get even choose kevin oh and here in moscow this is r t it's nine pm here and it's nine pm in some petersburg as well where u.s. president barack obama has been struggling to gather international support for strikes against syria the issue divided world leaders at the g. twenty summit which is just drawn to a close in the last few hours in some petersburg we'll be bringing you tonight full coverage from russia's northern capital. g. twenty students it's been a very busy forty eight hours isn't it somewhat out of time today please. welcome

and thanks very much for that day to being today the wrap up of the g. twenty twenty thirteen summit here in the venice of the north it has been extremely busy we've seen the big players here making their speeches to those in the congregations also that have the press as well the russian president the american president as well i hate to sound redundant i hate to sound repetitive but yes syria has been taking a huge part of the focus away from what should be a global economic forum here at the g. twenty in fact late last night some of the delegates from the g twenty had a very late dinner with the russian president it went to about one in the morning as they were discussing what should be done with syria off to that finish at one am and then stayed on to talk with the u.k. prime minister david cameron all the way from england they did so perhaps over skype or over the telephone whatever we know that went till three in the morning now as i'm sure you remember david cameron he put to the parliament in the past week or so a vote to engage in some sort of a u.k. military strike against syria of allegations of the assad government using chemical

weapons paula and voted no so cameron's hands ultimately bound and. but the reverberations from the dinner last night certainly echoing throughout today delegations delegates from the china group they were saying there must be no interaction no strike with syria it would simply upset the region but also spike the global oil prices as well many of the e.u. representatives saying there shouldn't be a strike against syria a un chief ban ki moon the u.n. syria mediator that have locked up and he me all of them saying no to an intervention also the pope pope francis also getting involved and saying you're only going to cause more bloodshed in the war torn state. let's get some more details now from from the day to all of the g. twenty summit and across life to watch a nice way she's been right in the thick of it right in the convention center joining me live here on r.t. a nice day to reps up some of some of the major themes of today some of the general highlights what can you tell us. who or what was meant to be

a two day summit focusing on how to revive the global economy how to reverse economic global downturn turned into a two day debate on syria that's putting it lightly almost all of the round tables the discussions the bilateral meetings in one way or another came down to syria and whether or not a u.s. strike on damascus was in fact something that they should support a lot of different views here president putin sat down with obama despite speculation that the two won't meet and it has to be said their views not only of the chemical weapons attack back in august but in how to deal with syria as a whole couldn't be more opposing. that even if he's go back to the store can you show i was elected to end wars not start a u.s. military intervention in syria dominated talks that the g twenty but if obama was

looking to gather overwhelming support at the summit he didn't get it in st petersburg you know. who should do this you know. there is no military sort of. we will not participate in military action. aside from france turkey and saudi arabia few countries expressed outright support for obama's proposal of a military strike in a joint statement they condemned the use of chemical weapons blaming the office of government and called for some kind of response but they stopped short of backing a u.s. attack on syria so mad host president putin accused the rebels of being behind a chemical weapons attack near damascus in august that he says was carried out to discredit syrian authorities in the eyes of the west. i view everything that happened with the so-called use of chemical weapons in syria as a provocation by the rebels who count on help from abroad from those countries that

originally supported them 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 u.s. 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. obama continues to insist also it was behind the attack and he won't wait for the u.n. . assad's regime brazen use of chemical weapons isn't just a syrian tragedy it's a threat to global peace and security the u.s. president is due to address the american public on tuesday and try to make his best argument for an attack on syria one that failed to convince global partners at the g. twenty. one just to give you a better idea of who exactly is opposed to military action in syria along with

russia china india indonesia argentina brazil south africa and italy other countries' economies of the g twenty didn't find a joint statement condemning the attacks back in august. i do believe that also it was behind it and the joint communique go this far to really hand that they also support these countries by passing the u.n. vote russia and many other partners here think that's a very dangerous precedent that's going to be set up and what will happen then to smaller countries what will happen with north korea how will they see this kind of a brazen overstepping of international law what kind of precedent will that set up in terms of trying to convince north korea to say to get rid of their nuclear program so very hot debate here over the past two days but it should be said that leaders are leaving st petersburg with no kind of solution on how to move forward with syria. yeah absolutely and one of the one of the points i want to bring

up here is that a lot of the media around the world is ignoring the story that the saudis and qataris have said to washington that they will bankroll they will finance the entire military strike into syria if indeed the u.s. were to do it then they also said that if washington doesn't perform a strike against syria then the saudis and qataris will continue funding the extremist groups inside syria so perhaps a bit of a veiled threat there and they will check in with you a bit later thank you so much for that and the highlights of day two of the g. twenty oxys and he said no a thank you well i just a bit a bit earlier in the program here on r.t. i did speak a load of a new state for me the deputy speaker of the belgian parliament he said even if washington d.c. has undeniable proof that assad did use chemical weapons against the people of syria still it doesn't justify an outside intervention here's what he had to say. as united states stands alone against public opinion in the rest of the world

barring france and saudi arabia and even there in those countries us saudi arabian frons we're talking about the government not really the population i mean opinion polls in the us and france there's a majority against but apart from that there's a legal. aspect un charter is very clear that no country can attack another country unless there is an imminent danger to the country this is not the case it's pure and simple us cannot attack unilaterally and i countries can america go along of course they did before and they can they have the means to do it the question is do they have a legal grounds and that's the matter also the whole issue of proof even when a country has undeniable proof it has to go to the u.n. security council with that proof it does not give them a reason to attack even if the u.s. congress votes that does not give them the legitimacy to attack another country

that you are the u.s. congress is a bottom of that country and that's. and i miss a lot of a new story that he was also saying that at the end of the day he says this has nothing to do with any sort of chemical weapons attack it's all about it's all about changing the balance of power in the region regarding israel iran saudi arabia qatar and of course the israeli influence in washington d.c. as well so it really is a multi level issue here when it truly comes to what is the motivation inside syria and whatever the case to date to hear in some papers bug of the g. twenty summit is going up salute pleasure doing the artsy live broadcast here if you can stay with us i will be joined by katie pilbeam the host of artie's business program venture capital that will be coming your way very soon hope you can stay with us. sir. yes more later and as you were saying there predictably than

a lot of focus on syria the g twenty the latest from syria will government forces are battling al qaeda linked rebels who attacked a christian village earlier this week my lula's home to some of the world's oldest christian sanctuaries and is one of the few places where the the language of christ is still spoken rebels have no been forced out of it but fierce clashes are continuing in the area of financial reports from damascus tried to get to model a 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 well lucky enough to get. to the village the cloud. the rar still 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 the 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 the stormed in and we have online media and i hope you can see it right now showing the rebels. the. residents 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 model 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 lives they speak aramaic the language that jesus cries believed to speak so course the whole christian community not only here in syria but all over the world was shaken and our t. managed to speak to one another on from latar care about the situation and about the fears of the christian minority here in syria. i mean that in and here how can the international community ignore the brutal killing spree in the tank. the fifth and the tank that affected five hundred people including children and women and all

the people in the villages trever 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 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 broad center of smuggling here in syria just twenty minutes drive from my lower haunts the city known as the percent of the question is one hundred kilometers away from this village was the only one not taken not. touched by the rebels. or across them on the ground there in syria more news after the break.

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a lot again this is r t thanks for being with us now still think it's safe and sound online though it seems a new batch of all eyeopening documents are joint us but the surveillance program have been unveiled the show country snooping agencies are able to look pick any digital data you possess partly using the multi-billion dollar budgets they wanted to create no movies dropping super computers while lobbying that way as well to weaken some of the major brands software authors laura smith's got the story tonight. 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 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 these 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 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 and you can also encrypt your communications again not failsafe not foolproof but it will protect you slightly better another thing the security expert in the guardian is suggesting today is to have a computer that has never been connected to the internet also as we've learned don't trust commercial encryption software because that's likely had a backdoor inserted into his already by the n.s.a. or g.c. h.q. this is here's the expert in the guardian sums it up by saying look you know the n.s.a. . amazingly efficient at doing this it seems but ultimately they're not magicians they can't do everything and they're 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 your fingers. smith of london let's discuss is a government faith and is an investigative journalism directed london insident city university hi this is a face to be with us i'm sure these revelations and come out to be a big eye opener to a lot of people around the world and we'll talk about that in a minute let's talk about the motives first of all the us government insists its surveillance programs are vital for domestic security if that's the case then why is so so many people are happy about this in america. i think they're unhappy largely because of the scope of the operation it's been going on a long time people forget that in the seventy's. a spy system called echelon was uncovered over britain run by the united states what was different about that spying system in the present one is the sheer extent of it i mean now the hoovering up a vast amounts of materials on a scale that would've been unimaginable ten or fifteen years ago plus the major

security companies that and social networking companies have opened their effective back doors to the n.s.a. so there's a degree of information about the private lives of people and their business their medical records as we heard a little earlier just entirely true on a scale that none of us could ever of imagine even the most cynical journalist i know couldn't have imagined half of this and so i think people are alarmed because they realised it will affect them personally it's not just political opponents but the possibility of blackmail is enormous some dissident a federal employee could easily sift this material find something terribly damaging and then use it for personal gain or political gain it's extremely dangerous information is power and the we've given them a whole lot of it this is come to the forefront now of course because the revelations made would snowden but is america any worse than any of the government run the world. i think not so much they just have bigger resources that the cheapness of memory has enabled them to build these enormous facilities in utah and

other places in the united states to store for one hundred years enormous quantities of digital data about every once they've not set any kind of deter find limits as to which country they can spy on it's almost everything so the i think the alarm people feel is that it's been going on a long time but never on the scale of this mail is quite staggering and it begs the question have legal is it i mean looking back to the nine hundred ninety s. leaked reports suggest the n.s.a. resorted to these covert decryption techniques because they tried previously to get government backdoor access to everyone's information they would point blank so they decided to do it by stealth surely though that's illegal isn't it it is and it's also unconstitutional as daniel ellsberg has repeatedly said all of these intrusions into the private lives of citizens are violate the first amendment in the fourth amendment of the us constitution they violate all common practice even

commercial confidentiality as an area of secrecy has been violated completely by this hoovering up of everything it's on a scale it's the scale that makes it so distinctive i think you have a love in the programs like government faith investigative journalism directorate city university london thank you sir. thank you. now back to our top story tonight from russia at the g. twenty summit in simply. well it is now evening here in some petersburg and the live coverage on r.t. does continue with me rory sushi it has been well a very busy day perhaps not so much in the way of developments but certainly in the way of conversations and dialogue between the world leaders of the g. twenty here in attendance at this world economic summit of course the dreaded s. word syria was pretty taking center stage a lot of

a i should say metaphorical headbutts going on disagreements and a lot of disappointments as well is as to which way will some sort of western intervention go with syria if indeed it is cleared for the go ahead and i should really correct myself because the u.n. has already said you can go ahead with a strike on syria without our approval nevertheless washington says we don't need your approval well let's let's bring on to. the host of our venture capital joining us live lovely to see you you again today you all very pleased with yourself because this afternoon you hijacked the chief of the i.m.f. i did and it really didn't come to that because she's so in demand of course christine legarde we're talking about just here has got hold of her i wanted to get the lowdown as to what she thought of the events going on here in st petersburg and you know that one of the themes here has been known about off official growth we know the federal reserve is thinking of tightening those taps solving to pass these steroids injections that they've been spoken about but she disagreed with me when i said to her that the stimulus measures would not what he says have

a listen us as to what she has to say. what would you say that the monetary policy doesn't work because we believe that it does hard to ferry positive effects and certainly seeing the u.s. economy and the japanese economy pick up us as they are at the moment despite the. you know fiscal. policies that are in place and that we would like to see improved a bit so no i wouldn't say that the. they have not worked i would say that they have worked on no to question off holiday or tapered in such a way that it continues to work without producing negative spillovers that could not be addressed. christine legarde ok he was saying that she's actually a very charming in person she's very charming indeed quite proud to be a woman you know in finance and she does definitely have some sort of a little bit of an atmosphere around girl power yeah you know it's always

a spice girl fine you know no no you don't bring out often and she was wearing hills as well i can get impressed katie will be more host of venture capital very impressed today for the wrap up of the g twenty a day to all the annual economic forum here insipidus bug aussies coverage does continue for the meantime though will hand it back to moscow for all of us here though with some petersburg thank you very much for watching we hope perhaps you can join us next hour. back here in moscow coming up after the break kid with breaking this. 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 and the petro dollar 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 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. as syria's supply road deepens division. and recession rocks the global economy. really gather in st petersburg. the russia g twenty summit. more news today. games flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations or rude a.

coupe. of. a. what's up guys i am abby martin the suspect in this surprise here the serial war drums are still beating loudly in the halls of congress and the main man drumming that beat is none other than secretary of state john kerry has gone above and beyond this week here is where are the cell that syria war that's hard to believe that this rhetoric is coming from the same man who wants a very different tune. we wish that a merciful god could wipe away our own memories of that service as easily as this administration has wiped their memories of us. but all of you have done and all

that they can do by this denial is to make more clear than ever our own determination to undertake one last mission to search out and destroy the mosque vestige of this barbaric war to pacify our own hearts to conquer the hate and fear that have driven this country these last ten years and more wow that was vietnam vet john kerry in one nine hundred seventy one giving an impassioned appeal to congress for wanting to bring an end of that war fast forward forty years and he's done a complete one hundred eighty now pushing for a war of the same kind of chemical weapons attack that the u.s. inflicted on the vietnamese with the spraying of agent orange so you go from being a fervent antiwar activists who worked side by side with john lennon to now one of the biggest war hawks on the hill well done mr kerry you especially sold your selves out before even sell.