i run over. washington races to round up allies for its controversial intention to attack syria but key world leaders slam the plan as russia accuses the syrian rebels trying to provoke military intervention. it's decision day down under way destroyed votes now being counted while the former prime minister's party prepares for a hammering fugitive. sound hopeful of a seat in the senate also. at this point are toothless and i want to give us some bite. each justice and rights commissioner wants to strike at n.s.a. surveillance with supranational legislation after the latest edward snowden leaks suggests this is no longer any data previously online.

watching r.t. coming to you live from moscow with may and tree farm. now the u.s. secretary of state on a fresh bid to the european ministers in a last minute effort to drum up support for a unilateral strike on syria this after the international course of voices against the move grew louder at the g twenty summit in. even france which earlier backed unconditional u.s. action now says it will wait for the results of the un's probe into the legs 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 over a military intervention russia's call against the strike was strongly backed by six nations including economic. the way china and india but when it comes to the voice

of the people the u.s. finds itself vastly 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 u.s. itself the latest polls show most americans are against intervention while congress remains split over the volatile issue party's election. has more on the outcome of the g twenty summit. everyone is speculating. on the syria issue i went to the press this morning and the majority have been saying that if initial plan was to disrupt. the military intervention into syria then indeed. we do know of course a lot of discord between the g twenty countries on whether a military strike against syria is needed and clearly the biggest concern was

whether we'll have a meeting at all because officially they have no meeting scheduled something unprecedented for the president of the united states and russia but eventually according to. themselves they met for a twenty thirty minute. twenty thirty minute friendly conversation during which of course they discussed syria. the summit coming here he was hoping that you 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 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 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 still david cameron barack obama and. the french president they still try to play hardball saying that the u.n. security council decision may be overruled if they believe that again syria is needed. 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 and obviously now that the g twenty summit will enforce some several very interesting weeks to see how the future of syria will be resolved well let's get reaction from political commentator john why he joins us live thank you to

coming on to the program we've heard that john kerry is in europe at the moment trying to drum up international support. big chances in forming a coalition of the willing do you think. well at this point you look very very distant this is an increasingly desperate administration and what we saw at the g. twenty was the end of i mean you know you saw the end of washington's you know poll and you pull out of the world is no longer going to be in the need to a u.s. president and his new one and only acquiesce to the rest of washington with ever the sedes it must run so this is the end of anita john kerry in the obama administration in general is completely isolated in the court of world opinion and increasingly isolated in the opinion of its own people and their manhood according to the latest opinion polls because people understand or is that stick with us what we're talking about is the prospect of a u.s. administration a u.s. government entering into a military alliance with al qaida and syria that's what we're talking about the

people understand that those are the stakes involved and quite clearly the poll well this matter will go to votes in congress probably next week what are the chances do you think that they will vote in favor of intervention what's going to be very interesting is into the momentous tikkun by the british parliament last week was a well done to war sentiment to develop i mean can be in the us and within the us congress the only thing i would say is because the ships have already been deployed the aircraft at the floyd the plans that are in place nor congress i think will want to sap whereby it boxes and a us president and from people in military action i want to say the antiwar sentiment that is rising in the us amongst the american people is certainly being felt within the washington and essentially been the catalyst for increasing forces of dissent within the us military itself so it's going to be this is going to be the defining week of the obama presidency and she think he has to listen to all

that concern from the american people because the time he is giving is that actually he doesn't have to listen to anyone. well i think this. again reflects his desperation he's trying to appear strong whilst standing in quicksand political quicksand he isn't he has in reality between a rock and a hard place if he receives congressional approval and goes ahead with the us military strike doing that as a monday it will be a clear breach of international law however if he does not receive congressional approval and doesn't go ahead with the us military strike he will appear weak within the eyes of the hawks within the u.s. establishment and amongst his own people so he is really between a rock and a hard place and i think you'll hear you're trying to buy time by waiting for the results of the u.n. probably been to where the chemical weapons were yes yes this is clearly an attempt to create some breathing space so that he can persuade people within washington

people who are hesitant to come on board and to get their support and to try and make the case within the american south amongst his own people i think he's going to address the country at the united states on tuesday and this will be a last ditch effort to alleviate concerns that there will be boots on the ground and so forth but i don't think there are troops on the ground is the basis of the concern within the united states the attire of the over the heat of endless wars and the know it states involved in this particular situation this issue you certainly are talking about expanding a regional conflict and we're talking about the united states government entering effectively into a military alliance with the same ideology responsible for their atrocity on nine eleven the seven seven ballman london the madrid bomb and most recently the horrific month of leave or be a month of and you think the results of the u.n. pride will actually achieve anything because they're not actually trying to blame

anyone are they and that seems to be the whole debate he waits to blame no i think the u.n. investigation is it's time general to the way to the sure the obama administration if you recall was and came to take a military action. playing billions of neurons team how that should be revealed so the un investigation i think is just embroideries. clear from the u.n. investigation will not be capable of getting the provenance of the chemical weapons were allegedly used only that if they were used in war they were but we do know from a prior u.n. investigation led by going to special investigator color they are pointing at me that there was a strong way that the rebels had saddam and mr this is based on her questioning all of victims of the previous attack in turkey so this really does go we had all the hallmarks of a set up and it is preparing to make the stage for the military political disaster

and what should not be forgotten in the most important aspect almost is as we speak the syrian people are living with a gun to their heads in the shape of cruise missiles we don't know if these missiles are going to be fired or more and that's an awful thing to contemplate this is a form of torture with the city people who are undergoing well ok thank you mr bott we do have to leave it there that's john white political commentator live from edinburgh thank you. meanwhile in syria itself government forces are conducting an operation against al qaeda affiliated rebel fighters who have besieged the ancient christian village of maloof the army says the extremists have taken strategic positions on nearby hills and there are still rebel forces inside the village refinance reports me outskirts of million. christian pilgrims from all over the world used to take this road to travel to one of the most significant shrines and

one of the most holy places in syria its residents to speak aramaic the language does christ is believed to have spoken we are driving to mali but for another reason on wednesday the central syrian village which had been among the few in syria the didn't see any violence since the crisis here started in two thousand and eleven was attacked by rebel forces most of them reportedly members of have had the nuestra the war came here after a car bomb exploded at a checkpoint the militants of a radical islamist group considered terrorists by the un and us stormed in. the iman tells us that this is the closest point and we cannot go any further we can see mallalieu which claim here but the thing is that the militants who are still inside that we can see our eyes as well there are snipers inside the goods so it is

really dangerous to go there the soldiers say that they militants mostly from don't have the luther who took over the mountain top the sufi the hotel and from time to time their firing from this so to take place and there are also militants behind this mountain taking the soldiers say up to fifteen hundred people what is the situation right now. with the militants around three hundred people are hiding in severe hotel there are ancient caves there under the village they use them as well they're watching us and we're watching them but if we start moving they'll attack us. the soldiers show me the militants position armed islamists who are behind a number of violent killings and are believed to be the most aggressive force to confront and president assad almost surrounded the christian village. where these people came from. they came from the city of homes in the north and from the city

of grain food in the south this village is like an island in a storming ocean that is almost level i gather army we visited my lunar last spring a christian arland in a mostly mostly ocean the village was indeed unique and the site of the we used to live in peace muslims and christians of course were afraid people from outside the city and the country may come and destroy disunity and it seems the residents worst fears became a reality but why do you think the militants attack this village. they know that american missiles will not strike a unicycle site and the army will not dare hit it either it's a safe haven for them while we talk reinforcements arrive the syrian army plan an operation to clear malula from jet had a looser rebels they have been rumors that they have left the village but the army say the militants are still there and even if they leave they can hide in nearby

and return how do you think the situation will change in case of american strike will their rivals the militants from the last three years this opportunity to advance further of course they will america is supporting terrorism in this country we've been fighting with the u.s. in fact for these two and a half years and now we can face them directly but we are ready for that we will not give up if america strikes series major military facilities will be targeted and destroyed no one can say what the war on the ground will look like but certainly things place will no longer look the same. to reporting from syria. and you can stay in touch the rear is witnessing from inside syria all you have to do is follow up on twitter for regular updates. the people of australia have

finished voting for the next parliament and it's just been announced that opposition leader tony abbott is coalition has secured seventy six seats required for a victory over the labor party and then not the only ones who've been running among them is the party of wiki leaks and it's a june the sun choose aiming for a seat in the senate and it's get the details now if marty's in the front thanks andy wiki leaks party campaign for a seat in australia's senate has consisted mostly of social media blitzes virtual town hall meetings and a moment wig music video where candidate julian assange recorded his own version of oz icon john farnham's activist anthem you're the voice that's right the fugitive whistleblower belting it out to woo the hearts and minds of voters he hopes will get him in a senate seat in victoria state music manifesto aside the wiki leaks party formed just last month promises to bring transparency accountability and justice to australia's parliament by pushing for public oversight of government government

practices fighting corruption and providing people with a range of what it calls twenty first century freedoms that includes the free flow of information internet liberty protection for whistleblowers and national sovereignty on with integrity in the global community that's a tall order for any party but poll watchers are calling a songe a wild card candidate with the power to pull votes away from other australian anti establishment parties such as family first the pirate party and the sex party yes you heard that right so what if this wild card makes it in well he's got plenty of federal agents after him but he's got to get to australia his running mate benoit can mark tells us the responsibility for granting safe passage should fall on the shoulders of the australian government. doesn't feel very good certainly it would be a strain in government to allow a political figure who has been elected to the street in the elections of the tory

leftists and allow him to sit. stay in detention and so it would assist the case considerably and it would also be a public relations with the australian government would have to take very carefully in a stride but on the other hand what if they don't lift a finger as of now the australian embassy has done very little to protect its own said this in from an extradition to sweden on sex assault charges or to the united states for publishing classified material if elected assad has ten months to make it back to australia before a casual a causal vacancy excuse me is created by his lack of attendance in which case count more could take his seat if victoria's voters do swing julian assange has his way and he does try to make a dash to get home without help he will either end up in the senate or in the slammer. ok thanks lindsey. coming up on our new edward snowden disclosures show how even our encrypted data isn't

safe from the n.s.a.'s assistance by the commission to own privacy rules says she wants to tackle the snooping through why do we speak tell you more about what she has to say in a couple of minutes. please give us a little very hard to make out a little. longer. we have sex with her right there no.

zero. point. one of. a bubble. i. alone again now if you are thinking crippling online data could save it from the prying eyes of the n.s.a. all britain's g c h q edward snowden's latest leak will disappoint you to say the least it shows america can spend spins of dollars in the has spent billions of

dollars in the past decade on breaking protective codes opening up what you thought was private the european commissioner for justice fundamental rights and citizenship has spoken out on the n.s.a.'s global snooping as peter oliver reports the e.u. justice commissioner is spoken about the leaks from edward snowden as a wake up call to europe and says that new legislation must be put in place to protect the privacy of e.u. citizens other stands up 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 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 although not the united kingdom is part of the european union and this law would affect them. once this proposal turns into a law everybody must follow it and that includes great britain whether they want to or not once 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. commissions 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 citizens to those 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 then send when you're a toothless tiger all you can do is to rule but not bite at this point we are toothless and i want to give us some bite so we can efficiently enforce our european laws. and one final point this law that's been put forward would affect any company doing business with you in the european union it doesn't matter if you are 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. and

it's the sheer scale of the data harvesting that seems to alarm people according to the director of the center for investigative journalism at london city university it's been going on a long time people forget that in the seventy's. a spider system called on 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 that. social networking companies have opened their effective back doors to the n.s.a. even the commercial confidentiality area of secrecy is provided completely by this hoovering up of everything so i think people are alarmed because they realize it will affect them personally it's not just political problems 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 well let's have

a quick look at some other news happening this hour in the egyptian city of alexandria clashes between muslim brotherhood activists and supporters of the army banked interim government have claimed at least two lines of members of these alarmist movement have rallied across the country demanding the reinstatement of president mohammed morsi a report on friday in a state run newspaper claimed the leadership is planning to dissolve the brotherhood which officials deny. nigeria's military has raided an islamic insurgent camp in the northeastern borno state killing around fifty 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 the block around sect to demand the creation of an islamic state in the country's north. and launch time for the nasties new multi-million dollar moon mission it stands for lunar atmosphere and environment explorer and its task is to

solve the mystery of which plates in our satellites the atmosphere it's thought that better understanding of luna conditions which are the most common in the solar system will boost our knowledge of other planetary bodies. the number of america's highest paid c.e.o.'s being fired or being fined for fraud has spiked dramatically in the last two decades according to a recent study in just over an hour's time here in r.t. our financial guru max kaiser takes. yeah. i've explained this many times before a board of directors of any s. and p. five hundred company 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 ads 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 anything and that eric

holder can catch as. 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 that i don't bring it back pretty good. taste of the cars reports in the baton now this time up next they will be mocked and looks into the u.s. president's longstanding pledge to release one ton of my bank detainees. iraq afghanistan the balkans somalia haiti libya yemen and so on and so on the list

of engagements and airstrikes by post cold war nato just keeps getting longer and now it looks like it's serious turn a lot of people have written me asking me to predict what is going to happen next which for me is a possible i'm not good at predicting the future but i can say is that we are living in a very tense moment in history many argue that the u.s. economy with its unfathomable debt is really propped up by war in the petro dollars so if the 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 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. 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 been known causes during his all too short yet remarkable life to him fought for a better yemen and leading the crusade against an illegal and a horrifying us 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.