tonight on r.t. 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 win but among those hoping for a seat in the senate is wiki leaks founder julian assange. also amid fresh revelations about n.s.a. snooping on europe proud to take the streets of them and demonstrate against privacy violations the report from the rally. for. very good evening is kevin owen here at r.t. tonight our top story the u.s.

secular state john kerry is on the european to trying to gather support for american strike against syria meantime the e.u. foreign policy chief has agreed that some form of action should be taken but her statement out of that any decision still has to be made through the u.n. president obama's been having a hard time trying to win over backers for an armed intervention over the past forty eight hours he failed to get allies on board at the g. twenty summit in st petersburg well we managed to fact to get was eleven nations backing a call for tougher action against syria but this statement then stopped short of explicitly approving military intervention which is what the u.s. wanted all along was demanding international opinion polls also show strong opposition to any armed assault in the u.s. for example fifty eight percent said no to any form of military intervention in syria over sixty percent of french people are against it the vast majority of those surveyed in the u.k. said any move must be green lighted by the u.n. and similar so. simmons shared in germany and turkey to the g.

twenty nations that were against the agreement to care for some three billion people in the day and with these latest figures it seems many of the rest of the world also do not want to see the u.s. plan carried through meantime protests have been held in several countries against an assault on syria what you're about to see now pictures from around the world over the past few days they've been protests in the philippines in russia plenty of other ones too in london and paris washington new york celebrities in the u.s. have been speaking out against obama's plans as well a handwritten note from madonna expressing her opposition to american involvement in syria has made its way to him. was in some papers burkey followed the meetings of those g. twenty leaders. everyone is speculating who won the standoff or a bomb 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 putin has prevailed in that 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 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 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 over ruling. nations in the us 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 well that's what a fun time stake a situation pace cheerless has been closely following developments in series on the line now either william so as we've heard and as we've witnessed a promise or not been getting the support he wanted he's it's been a difficult sell why is it being hard of him to sell intervention here than it has been in the past well i think we're witnessing remarkable moments in remarkable days. in international politics it's on the scene for a british balm and. for several decades effect since the second world war to oppose the united states in a very crucial matter lychee attacking syria or not so we see the united kingdom parliament with the majority not very great majority there with the majority saying no we see. other countries for instance my country belgium saying we can only

do something militarily when the united nations a great this completely contradicts frowns the united kingdom and the united states and israel which are four main are lies of belgium normally normal circumstance what i think. several reasons for this revolt first. many people see the united states is siding with jihad or creating problems in europe small problem compared to the middle east where you are creating a ready problems with terror attacks and so on trains. and so. then the attempt of the united states to install islamists so everywhere in the middle east in egypt in tunisia iraq in syria and so on as.

it's contradictory to what europe should want it looks like he's the opposition i'm sort of to patton is the opposition that we're saying then sinking in do you think we're going to see president obama taking a softer line than anytime soon for instance he's now said on friday that quote he's no it ching for military action but he sees few other signs as i mean he's pulling back a bit here do you think well if you're looking at. there again we see europe because europe. has to be afraid of a complete calles in the middle east because our neighbors that's one reason say for russia it's it's it's it's a danger for russia says danger for europe but you see also in united states congress in large numbers opposing it and. i wouldn't be surprised at all that the chamber of representatives. not said to vote against syria.

there's a great possibility when you look at the al devoted in the senate commission on foreign relations seven opposing. greying a lot of staining so. there's even with all the pressure got behind the scenes it's israel which is dictating events in the middle east or trying to dictate events in the middle east and. discount account persuade the population you see western media is full of propaganda at the moment of of a look at this evil man that's the biggest evil the world has ever seen somebody somewhere compared him to hitler other called him a gangster and so on. it's so the slum the a propaganda still the population don't bite don't know what cipro no says hello thirty seconds what should prognosis do you think that president obama is going to

go it alone eight even if his will not congress vote you think you'll go in well if he doesn't win if you lose congress roll he will go a. there would be political suicide then he would be really. was then bush jr was and. it would oppose congress it could the congress could say look. we we will impeach him because you are a yo yo yo you do things which we say you shouldn't the so there could be very big repercussions certainly political. within public opinion united states he will go down as a as a bad president when he comes here time function thought for a good leave it there international genesis hero when he found time on the line tell him much appreciate it yet thank you very much you're welcome by. syrian government forces battling to clear rebels from an ancient christian village called

malula we brought the story yes they were following it up now on to a financial saudi operation gathered pace in a remote mountainous zone that had been sheltered from the civil war until now. christian pilgrims from all over the world used to take this road it's traveled to one of the most significant trying and one of the maced holy places in syria its residents to speak aramaic the language just 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 the 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 of just 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 our libya which problem here but the thing is that the militants who are still inside that we can see us 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 sufi the hotel and from time to time their firing from this so to take place and they're also militants behind these 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 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 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 day the last level i guess the army you know we visited my lunar last spring in a christian arland in a mostly news the ocean the village was indeed unique and aside for the love that we used to live in peace muslims and christians of course where free people from outside the city and the concrete may come and destroy disunity 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

a unicycle 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 the rebels 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 to war on the ground will look like but certainly

this place will no longer look the same. reporting from syria. just a reminder for you can follow maria for national on twitter where she's keeping track of that mission in my lulu and giving regular updates on the developments in syria right now she says the reports of the syrian army finally entering the village will keep you posted this throughout the. day in the. straight his opposition is clinched the resulting victory in the country's general election barely results give a clear lead to conservative challenger tony abbott prompting the labor government to concede defeat of the six years in power among those running was the party of wiki leaks founder julian assange for though he's not likely to secure a seat in the senate well earlier my colleague andrew farmer spoke to us here in the fronts about his son's bid for office. 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 get attention 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 australia 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. 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 expand to manifest they can you outline what they've been saying 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 you does win if this does win you have to get back to stray 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 too to fill that seat if he were to make it and now we spoke with his running mate benoit camp 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 electorates or leftist streets and allow him to sit. in church. and it will be a public relations and that's 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 not a choice to envy still to come on out spying and politics probably go crying over the government's cooperation of us global surveillance threatens i believe merkel's reelection chances will be exploring about that and a lot more too but after this quick break hope you stay. down as terrorists they hide in the woods and prepare to become suicide bombers only their mothers still believe these young men can be saved. so you've got.

the mothers want to sleep at night they'll follow the sons into the woods find them and return them to a peaceful life where they killed almost everybody. had been able to take him away from maybe that was by chance. how does it feel to be a terrorist mother. if you have even the slightest chance to come home. my son takes terrorists on o.t. . choose your language. of choice we can with oh if you're going to. choose the consensus. choose the opinions that immigrate to. choose the stories that imply to. choose access to your office to.

follow and good of you with this. new revelations are still coming to serve spread 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 over the past decade to decode encrypted private data and everything from e-mails to banking transactions working closely with british intelligence at the same time the situation spreading anger across europe with the german election coming up it looks like i'm glad merkel may be losing supporters over it nazis paper all of our reports next and from an anti spying demonstration in. another saturday had another demonstration employee against the n.s.a. spying on europe europeans have been outraged at the amount of their personal details that have not only been clean through the spying scandal but also be just funded

over by certain companies that straw and hundreds of people out on the streets here of the german capital to campaign against that they say that they're unhappy at the u.s. looking into their personal lives made right nordstrom's any intelligence service act in germany must be subject to the law there are committees for that in the bundestag and they should be making sure that the german intelligence service operates in the interest of our citizens and doesn't cooperate with foreign services to spy on the dock in the six sided with the gulf is going to dot all the data should be protected and who should have access to information so we know what's going on at this moment everything was strictly confidential so have no way to defend ourselves from surveillance and today we would like to show them that we will not accept this. if all the western democracies after september the eleventh almost started an arms race like in the cold war but this time those arms

are used against their own citizens this makes me extremely angry so today i'm wearing a wedding dress that symbolizes love for democracy to which i say yes and i will love till death do us part i did this level of outrage which has 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 about the source and stop them from doing nothing and the hunting over the private information of european citizens to the united states. in the early documents the n.s.a. states its goal of gaining unrestricted access to cyberspace and it's the sheer scale of the data harvesting the scope 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 i 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 sift this material find something terribly damaging and then use it for personal gain or political gain ahead it's been over three months now since president obama vowed to free over eighty prisoners from guantanamo bay the men mostly yemeni nationals have been cleared for release from the u.s. military facility in cuba several years ago martin investigates the issue in breaking the set tonight. 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 get him out because they say oh 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 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 reassembly 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's

the guantanamo aspect that these men will never return in will never see their families and that's it's heartbreaking. if not tolerated they watch that program in full just over an hour's time that's to come right now though online if you want to check it we've got lined up shoot our t. dot com lying to lie detector is easy parenting is counting to three according to one instructor east toward his techniques to hundreds of people give him a jail sentence for his trouble for doing it you can find on our web site a giant away spewing ash and smoke over southwestern peru after years of silence he would want to be in the path of that check out this spectacular footage you know in motion which. update now from russia's far east is ongoing floods now a dam protecting a city of russia's far east has given way after more than a month of severe flooding there as you know if you're watching us it's four five hundred people to abandon their homes in this latest incident rescue crews are

helping to try to move families to dry land with buses then take them away from the flood zone water levels in komsomolskaya more and are rising by up to twenty centimeters a day several helicopters are on standby ready for a broader evacuation if needed those ongoing floods in russia's far east are the most severe incidentally one hundred twenty years is affected now at least fifty thousand people. will news in brief protesters in argentina given an unsettling welcome to britain 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 stamps of the falkland islands activist groups of post online threats to say they'll carry out further action against the world during his day. another protest this time in turkey has turned violent with police firing tear gas on a crowd in ankara students in the capital turned against to build a road through their campus ripping out three thousand trees on. the way fourteen

people were arrested during that demonstration back in may protest against the destruction of istanbul the park spiraled into deadly clashes with police across the country. in egypt a major military operation against islamist in north sinai it's left at least thirty militants dead the offensive was led by helicopters and tanks targeting villages housing militants fifteen people were detained during the operation just south of the egyptian border with gaza bloodshed in the restive region intensified to the ousting of president mohamed morsy. to bomb attacks in somalia's capital mogadishu killed fifteen and injured twenty three others first a car bomb went off near the entrance to a restaurant that's popular with local officials with a suicide bomber vent entered the building in death and they did his device among the customers the group linked to al qaeda said it carried out the attack. after the break r.t. investigates the hidden lives of the wives of mothers of militants in russia's

north caucuses it's our next program tonight your next news update with me kevin zero in just over half an hour from now. 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 see 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 and the petro dollar so if the u.s. backs down here what 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 the 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.

but you know i beg you please your father and your brother all here think of your wife and children think of your family you know please come out i promise you that not a hair on your head will be harmed would come out into the yard raise your hands take off your jacket and show them that you're not wearing a bomb belt but just walk slowly towards our people and let them search you understand me. become a police. a former minister of the republic of peel's to his son. who refuses to listen as his father has him to surrender. he would soon be killed in a shooting the special forces. here in the northern caucasus is the smallest and youngest republic of the russian federation for the past twenty you think you should he has lived through several conflicts their operations and history of retaliation.