you're watching our t.v. tonight washington's efforts to drum up support for an attack on syria met with staunch international resistance with russia saying the syrian rebels used chemical weapons to provoke a foreign intervention. australis opposition coalition sweeps to victory in the general election with most of the results no in and among those hoping for a seat in the senate is wiki leaks founder julian assange. also has nearly documents point to the n.s.a.'s massive decryption operations to try to harvest private information the issues tarnishing germany's political elite we report from a rally in berlin. no

one here in moscow tonight just past eleven pm in our top story u.s. secretary of state john kerry's on a european tour trying to gather support for an american strike against syria meantime the u.s. foreign policy chiefs agree that some form of action should be taken but a statement added that the decision still has 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 or so days he failed to get allies on board at the g. twenty summit in st petersburg all he managed end of the day was to get the eleven nations backing a call for tough action against syria but this statement stopped short of explicitly approving military intervention which is what the u.s. is demanding international opinion polls meantime also show strong opposition to any armed assault in the united states as take a look fifty six. percent said no to any form of military action in syria over

sixty percent of french people are against it the vast majority of those surveyed in the united kingdom said any move must have the green light from the united states similar sentiments to from germany in turkey the g. twenty nations that were against the agreement account of course for some three billion people and with these latest figures it seems many of the rest of the world also don't want to see the u.s. carry its plan through meantime protests have been held in several countries against an assault on syria you're about to see here's some pictures from around the world war sentiment being felt in washington as you can see also a crowd. setting a message to congress and similar rallies in new york and on the other side of the atlantic in london paris celebrities in the u.s. have been speaking out against obama's plans as well as a handwritten note from madonna expressing her opposition to american involvement in syria and his election jessica was in st petersburg the last couple of days he followed the meetings of the g. twenty leaders. 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 friendly conversation during which of course they discussed syria. 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 here among the smaller countries obviously suggesting that bigger states may actually do whatever they want overruling the mandate of the united nations in the us obviously now that the g twenty summit is done will enforce some several very interesting weeks to see how the future of syria will be resolved soudan a distinct lack of support for the u.s. led initiative on attacking syria well even terms of belgium place germans has been closely following developments in the country telling but earlier than e.u. nations are wary of empowering radical elements of the syrian opposition if they support a u.s. operation. witnessing remarkable moments in remarkable days. in international politics it's on the scene for a british palm and to oppose the united states in a very crucial matter tacking syria or not we see other countries saying oh we can only do something militarily when the united nations

a great many people see the united states is siding with how this are creating problems in europe small problem compared to the middle east where they were creating a ready problems with terror attacks and so on german trains the attempt of the united states to install islamists so everywhere in the middle east in egypt in tunisia iraq in syria is. it's contradictory to what europe should want. more of us are now brought yesterday but syrian government forces battling to try to clear all kind of rebels from an ancient christian village called my lula refreshen and took a trip there to see how the army's progressing this is a report. 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 maced holy places in

syria its residents to speak aramaic the language 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 the 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 marlee which problem 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 good 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 they're firing from this so theatric place and they're 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 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 foods in the south this village is like an island in

a storming ocean there is almost little i gather armenia that we visited my lawyer last spring in a christian arland in a mostly news their action the village was indeed unique and aside from the other we used to live in peace muslims and christians of course were afraid that people from outside the city and the concrete may come and destroy this unity and it seems the residents worst fears became a reality 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 just 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 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 see what to war on the ground will look like but certainly things place will no longer looks the same. to reporting from syria. those militants are still occupying that mountaintop hotel you just saw according to his latest tweet you follow on twitter of course. the latest on a syrian army mission only of the new country to.

the. straightly as oppositions pledge the resulting victory in the country's general election early 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 two was the party of wiki leaks founder julian assange although he's not likely to secure a seat in the senate l m a colleague andrew farmer spoke to out in the fronts about a songes 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 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 australia's senate as you mentioned has consisted mostly of social media blitz is in 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 explain a manifest that 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 but also a very tall order if you does win if there's no chance and he 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 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 the largest leftist streets and allow him to sit. in church. 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. still to come on spying and politics

a public outcry judge many of the government's cooperation with us global surveillance is threatening our chances of reelection exploring that after the break. wealthy british. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike's concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines in two counties a report. new

revelations are still coming to light about the scope of the n.s.a.'s online snooping according to the latest leaks my but snowden the u.s. has spent billions of dollars over the past decade to decode encrypted private data everything from e-mails to banking transactions the situation spreading across

europe with a job an election coming up on happy about the government's role in the scandal peter all of the reports next from a demonstration in. another saturday another demonstration mbo against the n.s.a. spying on europe europeans have been outraged at the amount of their personal details that are not only being gleamed through the spying scandal but also be just handed 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 be made to write or trumps 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 who spy on the dock in the ship's side of 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 and this moment everything is strictly confidential so have no one to defend ourselves from surveillance and today we would like to show them that we will not accept this. after 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 there will come but companies they give forward information about the source and stop them from doing nothing and the handing over the private information of european

citizens to the united states. in the early documents the n.s.a. states his goal of getting unrestricted access to cyberspace and that's the sheer scale of the data harvesting the skull people worried according to the director of the center for investigative journalism at the the city university who spoke to me a bit 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 is provided 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 blackmail is enormous some dissident

a federal employee could easily sift this material find something terribly damaging and then use it for personal gain or political gain. it's 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 and. martin tonight investigates the issue in a latest breaking news set. the u.s. 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 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 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 is the guantanamo aspect that these men will never return and will never see their families and that's it's heartbreaking. in the full shows about two hours from now if you want to take a look at what's online you do then tell causality dot com tonight the top of the bill if lying to law you detect it as it's apparently these kinds of three according to an instructor who has been teaching his techniques to hundreds of people then go to jail because of it you can find out how it's done on our website . and other giant awakes spewing ash and smoke over southwest in the rule of two

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dam protecting a city russia's far east has given way after more than a month of severe flooding forcing five hundred people to abandon their homes rescue teams are trying to help families to get to dry land where buses are taking away from the flood zone water levels in fact incomes of all scope on a moor are rising by up to twenty centimeters every day now several helicopters are on standby if needed ready for a broader evacuation the ongoing floods in russia's far east the most severe and hundred twenty years of affected at least fifty thousand people so far. more world news clashes have broken out at a rally of the far right english defense league in the u.k.

the group attempted to march to an east london mosque despite being banned from the area fighting there broke out with anti fascist protesters to rioters were arrested as police attempted to contain the violence. another protest in turkey to violence with police firing tear gas in a crowded ankara students in the capital of turned against plans to build a road through their campus ripping out three thousand trees along the way fourteen people were arrested during the demonstration there back in may protest against the destruction of istanbul's gezi park spiraled into deadly clashes with police across the country. egypt's launched a military operation against islam is in northern sinai helicopters and tanks are said to be leading the onslaught targeting villages housing militants sources say dozens are already dead or injured bloodshed in the rest of region intensified with the ousting of president mohamed morsi in july. two bombs in somalia's capital killed fifteen people injured twenty three others in mogadishu first a car bomb exploded near the entrance of

a restaurant popular with local officials there a suicide bomber detonated his device among the crowds who hid inside the al shabaab group linked to al qaeda and is claimed the attack. looking at a bit later tonight the number of american business executives implicated in fraud a soared over the last two decades according to recent survey we've got our financial guru max kaiser on the case then after the break. oh 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 to the justice department to say. eric holder can't catch us. and then if they do get caught they change the law they modify the law

they rewrite the law that's what it's all about breaking the law for law and order bring back then. bring it back where you. move from cousin co that couple of minutes after the break you know hopefully see it maybe for the next use of that just over half an hour from now here on international. iraq afghanistan the balkans somalia haiti libya yemen and so on and so on the list of engagements and airstrikes by post cold war nato just keeps getting longer and

now it looks like it's serious turn a lot of people have written me asking me to predict what is going to happen next which for me is impossible i am not good at predicting the future but i can see is that we are living in a very tense moment in history many argue that the us economy with its unfathomable debt is really propped up by war and the petro dollar so if the us backs down here would could be the beginning of the end for the world's only hyper power but if they do attack syria there will probably be some sort of reaction from iran russia and china if you haven't noticed. nato has been trying to encircled these nations and had russian internet conspiracy land a lot of people are saying that russia is next you see if there is no resistance in syria then one by one all resistance to the un ending hunger of nato will be smashed out one by one the reason syria is so important and so scary is that you have one massive military force that could be very motivated to attack for its own self interest while you have a group of massive military forces how they bill defeated to counterattack for

their own self interests this is a very tense standoff that could lead to a major moment in history military history but that's just my opinion. strasser this is the car. all right stacey 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 the 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. them 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 old bring it.

then the biggest yet you know criminal in the news the biggest bang bang or in the news this past few months in 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 j.p. 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 claimed that loans back in 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 cries report cover this years ago where at the time to mark was saying that they were only putting aside reserves of one billion dollars for this put back claims from the f.h. f.a. and terry buell our guest said that it would be closer to nine billion.