calls for unilateral strike on syria gets the cold shoulder from q world leaders as russia accuses the syrian rebels of trying to provoke military intervention. if this isn't de down and as millions of australians are choose their next parliament with fugitive whistleblower julian assange mungo's after a seat in the senate also. is we all useless and i want to give us some bite. the just isn't right so commissioner wants to strike at n.s.a. surveillance with supranational legislation after the latest edward snowden leaks suggest there's no longer any data privacy online.

you're watching r t live from moscow if you've just joined us a very warm welcome to you i'm to ban would say. the global chorus of voices against a unilateral u.s. strike on syria has grown louder not of the g twenty summit in st petersburg in france which earlier backed unconditional u.s. action now says it will wait for the results of the un's probes into the less use of chemical weapons in syria the leaders of ten countries did agree with washington that some sort of action needs to be taken the british prime minister also on the list despite being rebuffed by his own parliament russia's call against intervention was strongly backed by six nations including economic heavyweights like china and india but when it comes to the voice of the people the u.s. finds itself of all sleepy outnumbered world leaders opposing the war represent nations of more than three billion people while the politicians in favor of a strike stand on the shoulders of less than

a billion even in the us itself the latest polls show most americans are against intervention while congress remains split over the volatile issue for more on the outcome of the g twenty summit let's cross over to alessio incident petersburg island so good to see that again the russian and u.s. positions on syria certainly went head to head there last night president putin and obama any closer to seeing eye to eye. now indeed that the summit the g twenty summit is over everyone is speculating who won the standoff putin or above on the syria syria issue indeed i went to the press this morning in the majority have been saying that if put in its initial plan was to disrupt a bomb us plans of plans of a military intervention into syria then indeed putin has prevailed in that sense we do know of course that he has been a lot of discord between the g twenty countries on whether a military strike against syria is leadership and clearly the biggest concern was

whether putting on a battle will have a meeting at all because officially they have no meeting scheduled something unprecedented for the president of the united states and russia would have. cording to budget approaching and obama themselves they met for a twenty thirty minute our twenty thirty minute friendly conversation during which of course they discussed syria indeed obama had high expectations of the summit coming here he was hoping that he could persuade the countries of the need to attack syria that he would provide the substantial evidence of bashar al assad using chemical weapons against the rebels but said but clearly judging by what the russian president said on that matter it seems that obama failed on that sense. 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 u.n. 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. by the press conferences of the president of the states will support the attack against syria went almost similar dangerously yesterday and still david cameron barack obama and france are all on the french president they still tried to play hardball saying that the u.n. security council decision may be overruled if they believe that attack against syria is needed well to that russian president said that this may generate a great feeling of fear among the smaller countries obviously suggesting that bigger states may actually do whatever they want overruling the mandate of the

united nations obviously now that the g twenty summit will enforce some several very interesting weeks to see how the future of syria will be resolved. sharing the outcome of the g twenty summit where he also discussing syria. i despite franzl promising to wait for you in conclusion on syria paris remains a strong supporter of america's calls for military action but a form of french intelligence chief told us both countries approaches jumping over international. personally i am against military intervention firstly it is a question of principle because it is a little bit like surgery in medicine an operation is the last solution and when you are putting in one fin to a wound you don't know what is going to happen so it is first of all question of principle then there is the question of opportunity the western governments now have a habit of ignoring international regulations and the ruling of the un to make interventions

everywhere and to apply what was called in the nineteenth century as gunboat diplomacy a gunboat is a boat with guns is almost the same thing now except that missiles have replaced the gunboat i think we should not start the process the fact that we need to intervene on the soil of a sovereign state syria a member of the un declaring a war without a un resolution where is international law this means there is no international law the most reasonable thing to do is to stop the conflict we need to evaluate the military situation which might be complicated to do but the only way to stop the fighting is through dialogue it is not by launching bombs that will not stop the fighting it will only intensify it and while the white house pushes for the cost of intervention isn't now being carefully weighed on capitol hill this inkatha not

reports on how the expense could easily outdone lawmakers estimates. after careful deliberation i have decided that the united states should take military action against syrian regime targets the obama administration is seeking to punish president bashar al assad's government for its alleged use of chemical weapons this while avoiding a messy intervention in the country's civil war it's now up to the u.s. congress to decide whether america will intervene we will either send a message to syria iran north korea has blockade and any other non-state actors at the world will not tolerate the senseless use of chemical weapons by anyone or we will choose to stand silent in the face of horrific human suffering we need to consider the consequences of not acting both military action and in action come at a price there are political costs diplomatic costs and of course human costs but what about the actual costs in dollars of intervening in syria well the answer

depends on the scope and the nature of the fight here's the u.s. secretary of state there will be no american boots on the ground. the president has made crystal clear we have no intention of assuming responsibility for syria's civil war ten years after the iraq war it's easy to see while there's little appetite for the risks and the costs that come along with a full scale invasion according to one think tank intervention involving on the ground forces in syria could require up to three hundred thousand troops and up to three hundred billion dollars a year instead the white house wants what it calls a limited action lawmakers are looking at a plan that would set a sixty day limit for launching military strikes with an option to extend the mission by thirty days the combat use of american troops on the ground is strictly prohibited the weapon of choice is likely to be pursued guided munitions tomahawk cruise missiles are one example now they were used in libya and have a range of nearly one thousand miles but they cost up to one point four million

dollars each the u.s. navy has four destroyers within the range of syrian targets each can carry up to ninety cruise missiles nuclear powered attack submarines can also fire tomahawks are likely to be in the mediterranean as well while the pentagon says it can absorb the costs of war by cruise missiles isn't cheap the libyan intervention cost u.s. taxpayers six hundred million dollars the first week alone now unlike libya there's been little talk of establishing a no fly zone over syria that option would dramatically escalate the price according to u.s. general martin dempsey a syrian no fly zone would cost five hundred million dollars to start and one billion per month just to maintain now without syria the pentagon is on pace to spend about five hundred seventy four billion dollars this year while officials say the military can't afford what's on the table now there is fear of an escalating commitment not to mention other unexpected outcomes that after all the bush administration predicted it would cost fifty to sixty billion to oust saddam

hussein the final iraq war tab by at least one estimate six trillion bucks in a war expectations don't always match reality this account for all of our t.v. moscow. meanwhile in syria itself the government forces are conducting an operation against al qaeda affiliated rebel fighters who have beseeched the ancient christian village of the army says the extremists have taken strategic positions on nearby hills and are still rebel forces inside the village has been gripped by heavy clashes and when state our correspondent maria for national is in syria he hasn't been allowed into the village for safety reasons you can follow her for the latest updates on the battles. australians are very taking for their next government or with polls suggesting that opposition leader tony abbott the coalition is on course to end six years of labor control but not the only ones running among them as the party of we can be said to julian assange

is using a means for senate seat the movement spearheaded by the fugitive whistleblower promises to bring transparency accountability and justice to australia's a parliament that is aiming towards letting the public oversee government practices as well as calls against corruption and pledges to provide people with a range of what it calls twenty first century freedoms that includes the free flow of information internet liberty protection for whistleblowers national sovereignty and integrity in the global community julian assange has primary running made binoy company mager says that the party is that in a president just by taking part it looks like tony abbott will be the next prime minister a conservative government but even if that is the case it's imperative according to the weak links are to the upper house remain in the hands of smaller parties to prevent having absolute control that's one of the idea is that. we collect

a party were regarded as a considerable success to actually have started each stage but not at least one. across the line obviously a sundress a mile away from the leaders on this race. the opposition and the ruling labor party would that sort of. what's the future for the weekend leaks party that history was made the moment the party was formed to create a political process of if you like an activist or whistle blowing group called wiki leaks organization which is itself a publishing when. it insulted the triumph of the moment it was for self it was a transfer moment people started to join a volunteer started coming together to. some to come out with some presence on the ground that in itself is making history it will continue membership numbers are growing started this year and i actually do see it developing a more formal political structure of course. the australian electoral

commission estimates more than three million have already cast their votes opinion poll suggests a victory for tony abbott with his coalition expected to gain anywhere from twenty two to thirty two seats pushing out kevin andrews the labor party will keep you posted on what happens. by coming up on i t as new ed was snowden disclosures as show how even encrypted data isn't safe from the n.s.a. spy system spying ways commission on privacy rules us says she wants to tackle the snooping through blog widen the walls will tell you more about what she had to say . ok. i do have

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i. thank you back with us on r.t. for more international news now if he's thinking crippling online data could save it from the playing eyes of the n.s.a. abrasions a g c h q edward snowden's latest legal disappoints you to say the least it shows america's spend the billions of dollars in the piles decade on breaking protective codes opening up a what you thought was private not the european commission of what just as fundamental rights and citizenship has spoken out on of the n.s.a. the global snooping as paid to all of our reports. the e.u. justice commissioner is spoken about the leaks from edward snowden as a wakeup call to europe and says that new legislation must be put in place to protect the privacy of e.u. citizens other stands up at the moment each of the twenty eight member states interprets the current framework in a different manner some of which contradict each other she wants to see

a one continent one law system put in place but when it comes to debating what will be in that law she suggested that the united kingdom might not be a part of that saying that london's loyalties appear to lie elsewhere. i don't pay attention to britain anymore they're a lost cause they're acting only together with the americans and they absolutely don't want to have european laws but in this case all we need for this vote is a simple majority and if they don't want to work together constructively we don't need them but i need france and i need germany if i want to do something concrete in europe. she also warned the u.k. about sitting on the sidelines when it comes to deciding what will be in this legislation saying that whether they like it all not the united kingdom is part of the european union and this law would affect them then. once this proposal turns into law everybody must follow it and that includes great britain whether they want

to or not wants the majority decides the minority becomes irrelevant from a political point of view it is not an intelligent position to sit in the corner and complain it would be more intelligent to work with us and make their opinion count once the text is approved this becomes a law for all twenty eight states and more than five hundred million people. commission's remit doesn't allow it to deal with security services however what vivian reading is proposing is a law that would tackle companies which freely provide private information on the e.u. citizens to. security services she's put forward legislation that would see a fine of around two percent of profit imposed upon those companies that give information of e.u. citizens over to security services as a venn and sand when you're it's useless tiger all you can do is to rule but not bite at this point we are toothless and i want to give us some bites so we can

efficiently enforce our european rules. and one final point this law that's being put forward would affect any company doing business with you in the european union it doesn't matter if you're based in america you're based in japan or you're based in india if you do business in europe you would have to stick to this new legislation on privacy. earlier i spoke to the director of the center for investigative journalism at london city university and he thinks that the sheer scale of the data harvesting that people has been going on a long time people forget that in the seventy's. aspire 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 the major security companies and social networking companies have opened their effective back doors to the n.s.a. even commercial confidentiality as an area of secrecy has been violated completely

by this hoovering up of everything and so i think people are alarmed because they realize it will affect them personally it's not just political opponents but the possibility of black. some beside them the federal employee could easily sift this material find something terribly damaging and then use it for personal gain or political gain it's been over one hundred days as president obama again pledged to need eight hundred prisoners from the notorious guantanamo bay the man mostly yemeni nationals away cleared for release the is ok. it's you know breaking the set in just about ten minutes. the us government's trusting in yemeni government to carry out drone strikes weekly it seems but they cannot trust the government to take prisoners from getting out because they say oh there they're going to be terrorists we can't trust to release them however many people have been released from guantanamo bay in the past and they are just living out normal lives they just want the chance to have

a free life and not be detained indefinitely absolutely and that's one of the really sad aspects of this is because i feel like the the vast majority of americans are under the impression still even after ten years that this facility has been open that these are the worst of the worst these guys are all terrorists they deserve to be there they deserve to be tortured or whatever first of all yes these people are being tortured secondly you half of these men are innocent there are no charges against them. they have been for the most part been cleared for release in the vast majority of them are yemen and the problem is that there are no countries that are currently wanting to host these these prisoners because there's so much red tape associated with that here in the united states the united states promised the yemeni people that there would be facilities infrastructure there to help former guantanamo inmates re assimilate into into society that infrastructure is yet to exist it's not there we have covered this on the show in the past we've had activists we've had journalists that have traveled to yemen that have explained

to us what it's like for people that are around these drone bombings and all these horrible things that are happening in yemen and on top of that. there's there's all there's the guantanamo aspect that the. men will never return and will never see their families and that's it's heartbreaking and the p.t.s.d. of just these communities being terrorize our daily bases and also the people who are let out of prison being assimilated back into society after being decimated him for so long. and so it's a travesty and also it's not so black and white words either you're guilty or not there's layers of you know association with located there it's almost like a gang force. a look now at more of the world the main news at this hour clashes have erupted in the egyptian city of alexandria between muslim brotherhood activists and supporters of the army backed interim government found of members of the islamist movement have been reading across the country demanding the reinstatement of the os the president mohamed morsi early a report and

a state run newspaper claim to the leadership planned to dissolve the brotherhood which officials deny. nigeria's military has raided an islamic insurgent camp in the north eastern borno state and killing around fifteen militants the operation was launched as a response to a suspected attack on a market which claimed fifteen lives government forces have spent more than four years fighting boko haram rebels who demand the creation of an islamic state in the country's north. a long time for a lot of the not so the new multimillion dollar moon mission that it stands for look at those fear and dust environmental explorer and its task is to solve the mystery of moon dust which you know in offset like thin atmosphere it's called that a better understanding of unit conditions which are the most common one in the solar system will be used on knowledge of other planetary bodies. more than half a century after eureka garron became the first man to travel beyond earth's

atmosphere going into space remains a dream job for many but it's not to be for another called an old cold do you read abandoned his twenty fifteen space mission swapping the chance of extraterrestrial adventures for what he calls a more exciting job on the ground the stories that r.t. dot com. also online from sky high to deep down we tell you how the u.s. is looking to expand its drone warfare into the oceans with an amended crop called high drugs that just took the seat. right from the sea. first street. and i think the trip. on our reporters were very. instrumental.

in the. ride to the number of america's highest paid c.e.o.'s being fired or being fined for fraud has by dramatically in the last two decades according to a recent study on a just over in our financial guru max kaiser takes a girl boy girl. i've explained this many times before a board of directors of any s. and p. five hundred companies. america today wants to see implicated in some crime committing malfeasance committing fraud subpoenaed or in jail because it shows initiative they want to push the edge they want to go that extra mile they want to break the law and then they want to throw it to the justice department to say i didn't mean it and that eric holder can't catches. and then if they do get caught they change the law they modify the law they rewrite the law and that's what it's all about breaking the law for law and order bring back the death penalty bring it

back where you. can catch it and the next hour up next as promised to look into obama's failed promises over the fate of the guantanamo detainees and breaking the set. many gay bars are starting to refuse to sew russian vodka as a means of protesting the homosexual propaganda laws in russia as i've said before boycotts are a great way to put pressure on people but are they putting pressure on the right people not only is it racist to assume that hurting the vodka flow will deal

a massive blow to the russian economy but it is also racist to think that any vodka with a russian sounding name is itself russian and many videos angry gay bartenders were pouring stolichnaya vodka which should be put out by the way onto the ground in a fury but if those bartenders would take a closer look at the labels they would see that exported stoli is produced in bold in latvia by the s.p.i. group not in russia also according to the n.p.t. group beverage alcohol report the most popular vodka in america with a russian sounding name is smeared off which is british own and produced and bottled in various countries around the globe including the usa itself we do support the american worker people of the panic over the hip and trendy scandal of the month but everyone seems to be ignoring the fact that homosexuality itself is legal in russia and this punishable in many other countries including a death sentence in some of them and yet russia gets all the attention if people really wanted to effectively boycott any country with any laws even

a hinting against homosexuality they would have to hit them where it hurts and stop getting natural resources imported from countries like russia saudi arabia venezuela and iran and so on and so on that is a vastly more difficult proposition than pouring american made vodka onto the sidewalk. but that's just my opinion. hey guys i'm abby martin welcome to breaking the set sad news to report today prominent yemeni activist even a human has died at the young age of twenty four of unknown causes during his all too short yet remarkable life to him fought for a better yemen and begin a crusade against an illegal and a horrifying u.s.

drone war that has killed as many as four thousand four hundred people to date cord in the bureau of investigative journalism his words from a two thousand and twelve op ed in new york times still resonate with the exact same power and today and he writes quote drone strikes are causing more and more yemenis to hate america and join radical militants they're not driven by ideology but rather by a sense of revenge and despair rather than winning the hearts and minds of yemeni civilians america's alienating them by killing their relatives and friends unfortunately before even it's even had the chance to be buried the u.s. launched a brand new drone strike on pakistan today that's killed at least six people rest in peace you know him and know that your words and actions have shed a great light on a policy of covert global murder tired yet of america's sick game of drones and join me and let's break the set.