washington's efforts to drum up support for an attack on syria are met with staunch international resistance with russia saying the syrian rebels used chemical weapons to provoke a foreign intervention. studies opposition coalition sweeps to victory in a general election with most of the results no in item on those hoping for a seat in the senate is wiki leaks founder julian assange which. made fresh revelations about n.s.a. snooping on europe we report from a protest in berlin. just a short time to go before the general election here in germany i'll be looking at why angle of merkel shouldn't necessarily rely on the youth vote.

over getting to you just joined us is kevin owen here at r.t. h.q. in moscow just after eight pm now tonight our top story u.s. secretary of state john kerry's on a european two are trying to gather support for an american strike against syria meantime the u.s. foreign policy chief has agreed that some form of action should be taken but her statement out is that any decisions tell us to be made through the u.n. president obama has been having a hard time winning over backers for an armed intervention over the past two days he failed to get allies on board at the g. twenty summit in st petersburg. everyone is speculating who won the stand. 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 friendly conversation during which of course they discussed syria indeed. the summit coming here she was hoping that you could persuade the countries of the need to attack syria provide 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 russian president. 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 that is obviously now that the g twenty summit is done we're in for some several very interesting weeks to see how the future of syria will be resolved. so that murph to have two days of tennis discussions all above most to

get was eleven nations backing a call for tougher action against syria but their statement stopped short of explicitly approving military intervention which is what the u.s. is demanding international opinion polls also show strong opposition for any armed assault in the u.s. fifty six percent said no to any form of military military intervention in syria over sixty percent in france voted against the vast majority of those surveyed in the u.k. meantime said any move must have the green light from the u.n. and similar sentiments to shared in germany and turkey the g. twenty nations that were against the agreement account for some three billion people in fact in these latest figures it seems that many in the rest of the world also don't want to see the u.s. carry through its plan meantime protests have been held in several countries against an assault on syria you're seeing some of the latest protests now in the philippines as well as russia london paris washington and new york celebrities in

the u.s. meantime of been speaking out against obama's plans as well hand-written note for madonna expressing her opposition to american involvement in syria and france has been the main power standing by the u.s. converse the president to learn now those he wants to wait for a u.n. report on alleged chemical warfare in syria first political analyst chris bambery told us why he thinks the u.s. is have an increasingly hard time rallying support ahead of a crucial congress vote next week. it's not just a question of syria it is a question of iran it's a question of his bar they're kind of painting a new axis of evil if you remember way back in two thousand and three after nine eleven the original axis and we've all know they're presenting a new axis of evil and they're saying this is why we have to intervene in syria i have to say i think obama is leaving st petersburg with his tail between his legs the los angeles times says he's going to go all the jews need to address what it

calls a skeptical nation with an appeal for the public in america to rally behind a military strike but it seems to me that the public in america just as the public in britain is appalled to any strike and it's becoming more and more difficult for avaya not just in petersburg not just elsewhere internationally but even the whole know to win support for a case for a military strike on the basis of these allegations of chemical the chemical weapons use syrian government forces are now battling to clear al qaeda link rebels from what one particular ancient christian village called. artie's near for national saw that operation gathered pace in a remote mountainous zone that set been sheltered from the civil war till now. christian pilgrims from all over the world used to take this road to travel to one of the most significant trying and one of the mace totally places in syria its residents to speak aramaic the language does christ is believed to have spoken we

are driving tomorrow. but for another reason on wednesday the central syrian fields which have been among the few in syria they didn't see any violence since the crisis here started in two thousand and eleven was attacked by rebel forces most of them recruited the members have had the nuestra the war came here. after a car bomb exploded at the checkpoint the militants of a radical islamist group considered terrorists by the un and us stormed. the army tells us that this is the closest point and we cannot go any further we can see from our libya 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 the militants mostly from dukkha the luther took over the mountain top sufi the hotel and from time to time their

firing from this so theatric place and there are also militants behind this mountain taking the soldiers say up to fifteen hundred people what is the situation right now. the militants around three hundred people are hiding in severe hotel there are ancient caves they're 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 is the mists who are behind a number of violent killings and are believed to be the most aggressive force confronting president assad almost surrounded the christian village. where these people came from. they came from the city of homs in the north and from the city of grain food in the south this village is like an island in a storming ocean there is almost little i gather armenia that we visited my lunar

last spring in a christian island in a mostly misdirection the village was indeed unique and the site for the other we used to live in peace muslims and christians of course where free people from outside the city and the country may come and destroy this unity and it seems the residents worst fears became a reality and why do you think the militants attack this village. they know that american missiles will not strike the u.s. go site and the army will not dare hit it either it's a safe haven for them while we talk reinforcements arrived the syrian army trained an operation to clear malula from death had the initial 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 three use 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 follow reflection on twitter where she's keeping track of that mission in malula and giving regular updates on the developments in syria right now in fact she says there are reports of the syrian army finally entering the village we'll keep you posted. the in the. online.

straightly as opposition is clinched the resulting victory in the country's general election early results give a clear lead to conservative challenger tony abbott from to a labor government and to concede defeat of the six years in power and among those running also was the party of wiki leaks said it said julian assange gaming for a senate seat early my colleague andrew farmer spoke to out his lindsay france about a sound his chances in the race. he's got the power to pull votes away from other australian anti establishment parties such as family first's the pirate party and the sex party you heard that right those three opposition parties he has the power to to to get good tension away from them just with his name alone and also with his campaign because it's been very colorful hasn't yes it has absolutely his campaign for a seat in the senate as you mentioned has consisted mostly of social media blitz is a virtual town hall meetings along with a mullet wig music video where the candidates recorded his own version of oz icon

john farnham activism and i'm sure the voice of that you know. didn't please the president of ecuador too much that this was shot in the ecuadorian embassy but that's another story altogether but i have been making some serious points to the haven't they that we can experience you know manifest they can you outline what they've been doing and absolutely now it was just established last month and it wants to bring transparency accountability and justice to australia's parliament by way of pushing for public oversight of government practices fighting corruption and providing people with a range of what it calls twenty first century freedoms and that includes the free flow of information internet liberty protection for whistleblowers national sovereignty and integrity in the global community which is as you can imagine a very tall order for any political party and also a very tall order if he does win if there's no chance and he does win we'll have to get back to strongly wax and how is that going to be possible well if there's a lot of twists and turns that could take he's got plenty of federal agents after him but he's got to get to australia of course to to fill that seat if you were to

make it and now we spoke with his running mate benoit kept mark who told us that the responsibility for granting safe passage for him back to australia should fall on the shoulders of the australian government doesn't feel very good certainly it would be australian government to allow political figure who is being elected to the street in the largest. streets and allow him to sit. in. determination and it will be a public relations not the australian government would have to take very carefully if elected he's got ten months to make it back to australia before casual vacancy that would be created by his lack of attendance in this case the running mate we spoke with would then take his seat so if the tories voters do swing joining us on his way though 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. there's a choice still to come on out spying on politics

a public outcry in germany over the government's cooperation with u.s. global surveillance threatens re-election chances will be exploring. a lot more to offer the short break. wealthy british. time to. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's cancer for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports.

with economic ups and downs in the final month a deal and the rest. will be every week. elegance course prostate now here in moscow new revelations are still coming to surface about the scope of the n.s.a.'s online snooping according to the latest round of leaks from whistleblower edward snowden the u.s. has spent billions of dollars. for the past decade to decode encrypted private data from even miles to bank in trunks of transactions working closely as it is with

british intelligence the situation is spreading anger them across europe and with the german election coming up looks like angela merkel may be losing supporters of her it. reports from an anti spying demonstration. another saturday another demonstration and against the n.s.a. spying on europe europeans have been outraged at the amount of their personal details that have not only being claimed to the spying scandal but also be just handed over by certain companies that's drawn hundreds of people out on the streets here of the german capital to campaign against that they say they're unhappy at the u.s. looking into their personal lives and if this level of outrage which is prompted the european commission to say that well edward snowden's leaks have been a wake up call and that they need to put forward some kind of legislation that will come but companies they give forward information on the source and stop them from

doing nothing and the hunting over the private information of european citizens to the united states. well in the league documents the other say states its goal of getting unrestricted access to cyberspace that's the she scale of the data harvesting this got people worried according to the director of the center for investigative journalism at london city university who spoke to me earlier. 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 did what was different about that spying system in the present one is the sheer extent of it the major security companies that 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

realized 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 slip this material find something terribly damaging and then use it for personal gain or political gain soon on this challenge but over three months now since president obama vowed to free over eighty prisoners from guantanamo bay the men mostly yemeni nationals being played for release from the u.s. mission facility in cuba several years ago martin investigates a bit later the issue in breaking a sec. the u.s. government's trusting them yemeni government to carry out drone strikes weekly it seems but they cannot trust the government to take prisoners from the get no 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 our normal lives they just want the chance to have a free life and not be detained indefinitely there are no countries that are 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 would have 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 is the guantanamo aspect that these men will never return and will never see their families and that's it's heartbreaking. don't miss thought when the full show on it is time for now let me take you through a couple stories that are online talking about today r.t. dot com they've got lined up for you and lying to the taxes it is easy apparently is counting to three according to one instructor has told his techniques to

hundreds of people and has been given a jail sentence for his trouble you can find out i was down there when i website and a giant awakes of a spewing ash and smoke over the southwest of peru after years of silence check out the spectacular volcano footage in our in motion page got lots of other great footage that.

i. adown protecting a city in russia's far east has given way after more than a month of severe flooding it forced five hundred people to abandon their homes rescue crews are helping trying to help families to get to dry land with buses to take them away from the flood water levels in constables going to more of now rising but to twenty centimeters every day several helicopters are on standby their body for a broader evacuation the ongoing floods in russia's far east the most severe floods indeed in one hundred twenty years will now face at least fifty thousand people.

other news in briefs making headlines so protest as in argentina given them settling to britain's princess and her arrival was met by the burning of union flags an effigy of queen elizabeth in the capital princes and was condemned for the monarchy stand shameful with guidance to this group supposed to remind threats of further action against the world during a stay to. another protest in turkey's turn violent with police firing tear gas on a crowd in ankara students in the capital have turned out against plans to build the road through their campus ripping out three thousand trees along the way fourteen people were arrested during a demonstration back in may a protest against the destruction of istanbul gives you part spiraled into a deadly clashes with police across the country. egypt's launched a military operation against islamists in northern sinai helicopters and tanks are said to be leading the own slow targeting villages housing militants sources say

dozens are already dead or injured bloodshed in the rest of region intensified by the ousting of president mohamed morsi in july. more world public attacks in somalia's capital have sparked fears that the long running islamist insurgency there is gaining force fifteen people died in a car explosion at a popular restaurant in mogadishu place or also. investigating a possible suicide attack at the scene two a year ago last targeting that same restaurant also claimed fifteen lives. the number of american business executives implicated in fraud has soared over the past two decades according to a recent study we've got our financial guru much keyser on the case he's here after the break is a quick look. 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 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 and. 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 it back then. bring it back. more from a couple of minutes tough act to follow up about just over an hour of these fish see that hopefully.

many gay bars are starting to refuse to sell 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 pronounced 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. deep grew. beverage alcohol report the most popular vodka in america with a russian sounding name is smirnoff which is british own and produced and bottled in various countries around the globe including the usa itself way to support the

american worker people love to 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 is 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 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.

strasser this is the car. all right stacy herbert what do we got bang bang you might say this is the theme of the show max because lots of banging going on in the markets here and of course led by the c.e.o.'s and bankers right behind us in the city of new york highest paid u.s. c.e.o.'s are often fired or fined study about forty percent of the highest paid c.e.o.'s in the united states over the past twenty years eventually ended up being fired paying fraud related fines or settlements or accepting government bailout money according to a study released on wednesday the report was by the institute for policy studies max and it appears that a lot of c.e.o.'s the top paid ones you get paid to defraud explain this by a 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 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. 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. bring it. then the biggest yet you know criminal in the news the biggest bang bang or in the news this past few months and fact has been jamie diamond and he's in the next headline uncle sam comes call and ask jamie dimon for another six billion dollars so the federal housing finance agency f.h.a. and f.a.a. is. asking for six billion dollars from jamie dimon stupid morgan for defrauding the taxpayer about mortgage backed securities these are put back claims so the f h

f a said the bank j.p. morgan falsely claim that loans backing thirty three billion dollars of mortgage backed securities complied with underwriting guidelines and that it significantly overstated the ability of the borrowers to repay their mortgage loans of course tries report cover this years ago where at the time to mark was saying that that they were only putting aside reserves of one billion dollars for these put back claims from the f.h. f.a.a. and terry buell our guests said that it would be closer to nine billion dollars here we have six billion dollars j.p. morgan itself is refusing to pay this so it will still be in billions that they have to pay well it could be one billion it could be ten billion it could be one hundred billion it could be a trillion it doesn't matter because they just go over to the fed they print more money and then they will of course debase the currency and to keep the currency from inflating too badly they'll start a war and have a lot of service by going to kill that's the deflationary offset of the inflation that helps jamie diamond sleep at night.