today's news and the week's top stories washington raises to muster support for a strike on syria but here world leaders slammed the attack plan as russia says the syrian rebels are trying to provoke military intervention. and our crew gets quarter in the crossfire in syria where al qaeda linked rebels have been besieging and ancient place christian village terrorizing the population. and today is a day moscow chooses its next mayor with the acting leaders again so beyond taking on opposition rival alex novel me.

everyone welcome to you to our g.'s a this week's the weekly and today's a top story are you with me tom would say. the american secretary of states are doing the rounds in europe to try and drum up support for a unilateral strike against syria as i'll take you world pause at the g. twenty summit in st petersburg spoke out against the use of force without a u.n. mandate while russia accuse the syrian rebels of unleashing chemical weapons to provoke foreign intervention and he said now reports. i was elected to end wars not start a u.s. military intervention in syria dominated talks that the g. twenty but if obama was looking to gather overwhelming support at the summit he didn't get it in st petersburg you know. there is no military service. we will not participate in military action. aside from france turkey and saudi arabia a few countries expressed outright support for obama's proposal of

a military strike in a joint statement they condemned the use of chemical weapons blaming the office of government and called for some kind of response but they stopped short of backing a u.s. attack on syria summit hosted president putin accused the rebels of being behind a chemical weapons attack near damascus in august that he says was carried out to discredit syrian authorities in the eyes of the west just the way. i view everything that happened with the so-called use of chemical weapons in syria as a provocation by the rebels who count on help from abroad from those countries that originally supported them that's the reason for this provocation i also want to remind you that the use of force against a sovereign state is acceptable only if it's done for self-defense and we know that syria hasn't attacked the u.s. and only if the un 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. obama continues to insist also it was behind the attack and he won't wait for the u.n. to respond the assad regime's brazen use of chemical weapons isn't just a syrian tragedy it's a threat to global peace and security the u.s. president is due to address the american public on tuesday and try to make his best argument for an attack on syria one that failed to convince global partners at the g. twenty this summit could have been a last chance for a political solution to the syria crisis or at least an attempt to push forward with diplomacy but leaders part of st petersburg split solidly on those for or against military intervention in the syrian war what has been called the worst humanitarian crisis in modern history reporting from the g. twenty and he's in that way r.t. china has vowed to help russia at the u.n.

security council in blocking any motion for a military strike on syria the chinese spokesman at the g twenty summit gave r.t. a break donald beijing's position. tyner is against the use of chemical weapons by any countries and organizations or. individuals. and give you what is reported. we believe that it is vitally important for the united nations to come stock to the investigation so ending. movement. has to be based. on the conclusion of the university case in which should be free from any pressures or disturbances china and russia has a very similar positions and we both. appealing for

countries concerned to be serious about the possible consequences of the use of a military being those resolved the mandate of the u.n. security council. syria wasn't the only topic being threshed out this week in st petersburg later this hour as the debt and joblessness way they have any are now g twenty members the head of the i.m.f. christine lagarde defends monitoring policy there are genes katie pilbeam she'll also have more firsthand inside on when next for the world economy. u.s. congress remains split on whether to attack syria and the latest polls show most americans oppose intervention there's been a fresh antiwar rally in washington as hundreds called for restraint from the white house. yes most of the public remains unconvinced over

washington's claims it has evidence and implicating the syrian government and the lethal use of chemical weapons the president obama maintains he still has the authority to order an attack even if congress votes against it u.s. marine veteran gordon duff us says there's no real appetite on the home front supporting the syrian rebels. fifty to seventy percent of americans are clearly opposed to up. against syria and members of the military particularly the last five thousand killed fighting the same groups in iraq that we are advocating that we support in syria so members of the military from either side and there are clear divisions in the military both the left and the right none of them have any reason to want to support syrian rebels president obama has got himself painted into a corner there is no way out. the u.s. case against syria stretches beyond simply just the white house versus damascus

according to political analyst chris abend bring. it goes is the 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 all know the present you knew axis of evil and they're saying this is why we have to intervene in syria after the obama is weaving to petersburg with his tail between his legs the los angeles times says he's going to go all the jews do 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 as of corporate via not just in st 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 were chemical weapons use the syrian army has sent

a reinforcements including tanks are to the ancient christian village of mount which has been besieged by al qaeda affiliated rebels since wednesday fighters from the al nusra front to have been firing on the population from nearby hills artie's marie of an arson or has gained access to the stricken area we entered my lulu through its ancient gauge burnt and demonstrate in recent attacks shortly after the syrian army announces that most of the militants were pushed back signs of the recent battle and destruction a reverie where we were told to move fast and to follow the military is the cause without stopping or even slowing down there are some parts of the road where we have to speed up offices still fear they could be snipers around we hear them shouting go go fast on one turned we suddenly stop. for a minute. it's hard to understand exactly what happened we only hear

a loud boom and feel the earth shake. we get out of the car to take a look around then outside our. christian community all over the world now it is a battlefield look at this. and then we realized we have landed in the heart of this battle as some live bullets started flying around us we've ended model of village with the army but just just a few minutes later they told us to get back the militants launch an attack fire an instrument explosives from the safety of high ground so this is what we're doing right now we're coming back to you to the entrance this is where. a car bomb exploded on wednesday morning and this is how it all started after a suicide attack militants mostly from

a job or the looser group stormed in and since then the question is have been continuing for three days and as you can see they are continuing now soldiers firing shots back but they can't even see enemy fighters who are cooped up in their hiding places. and yet the real militants in the amal little now and in the us i fear hotel this is the mountaintop hotel which was my. brother told me up. front. but also from behind the mountains surrounding the mall lula village and that's is where the danger lies because the wrong many snipers and the raw rocket grenades and the raw warms mortarboard well as you can see the situation

on the ground is very hard you can see that the army is rick rubin right now but the. is that tomorrow monday visitation could change dramatically because this is the day when american congress starts debates on syria whether to strike this country oh no it's the decision made thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield will affect the set up at this military theater but exactly how is not easy to predict racial sheltie from mali in syria it seems big brother has been getting dangerously devious and recent dia is a weekend exposing the crazy partnership between computer software companies and the intelligence agencies and getting i'm president of the private data of version the any internet is a we'll tell you all in a few minutes. with

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video for your media project free media all down to our t.v. dot com. thank. you watching our t.v. the fight to the mosque as the next mayor reaches its cassandre today the key battle and regional elections taking place across russia it's a landmark poll team as it's the first time in a decade that moscow's voters have been able to choose and the stakes are high art is easy friends is in the heart of the capital lindsey you've got more on the elections coming up we're very excited to know what is going to tell us the line up please. well in one corner we've got moscow mayor sergey so began and he was appointed in two thousand and ten and the last couple of years he has been known for his work an uptick in the city's infrastructure as it relates to traffic and even with the metro system making big plans to make it more driver friendly and of

course pedestrian friendly and public transport friendly and this is in a city that is just becoming more and more congested those have been his main platforms as well as well as really tightening in on illegal immigration and then his main opponent opponent is opposition activists. alexina who is well known here in russia he's a trained lawyer and a anti-corruption activist and many people know exactly who he is he's been on the cover of heavily in the media here for quite some time what's also interesting about his case is that he is out on bail right now having been sentenced to five years in prison for and bezel meant and he is all out on appeal at this point so it's a very unique case is he run again he runs against turkey so beyond and he's got a grassroots campaign very youth driven out handing out leaflets stump speeches all

that sort of thing a very western style approach to this election that has is the first election in nearly a decade for a mayoral seat here in moscow so it's definitely something new on the horizon and he's bringing another poll showed that at this point this is really race to lose according to our russian public opinion research center respondents ten percent of respondents said they would vote for me thirty eight percent said. and then of course they were asked to who would you never vote for i wanted to find out who they had a negative opinion about twenty three percent said no volley and fifteen percent said so brianna and then. the question was are you well aware of who these candidates actually are only had twenty seven percent and b.n. and of course sixty six percent much higher being the incumbent and so it's really going to be interesting to watch because the valley has definitely run a creative campaign and so b.n.

it has also helped his his rallies these two candidates have not actually debated or anything of that nature in this election but it has definitely been interesting to watch that unfold here in outpolls close at eight pm moscow time and we will be bringing you developments throughout the day as the voting proceeds here in moscow lindsey very interested to see who the public votes for into that very contentious seat up of the mayor of a moscow lindsay french there reporting for us live from moscow. as a british firms are being revealed as the brains behind invasive spying software which allows clients including governments to get limitless surveillance access to people's computers gamma international was named in the latest weekly leaks tranche of so-called spy files this week exposing close ties between intelligence agencies and private contractors when you boyko has the story.

say goodbye to the days of super sleuth skagit and surveillance bugs to invade a person's privacy listening to their phone calls and internet activity and emails all you need is spyware wiki leaks newest leak spy files three reveals that it's british companies that are pioneering the technology this is a promotional video for international about its advanced surveillance software the program boasts that the technology can be installed inside an internet server which in turn allows the government to infect any internet user in the country with spyware nothing you say. is safe and that includes. and use the names of the boys or government or just install. those browsing the web site.

behind me are international headquarters from where the company develops and sells the capability to tap into anyone's smartphone. reporters without borders have named the company one of the five corporate and the mes of the internet. the technology has marketed world wide to law enforcement agencies as a way of identifying and catching serious criminals but human rights campaigners say that the software is regularly sold to repressive political regimes where the definition of criminal can be somewhat different as one human rights campaigner in bahrain found out she says that gammas been spice of valence was used to target off the she took part in anti-government protests look like a genuine email addresses from another political activist saying that they were going to begin talks with the king of bahrain about the future of the country so i was in fact very intrigued very curious the manufacturer was government and

national just opened my eyes into this other world of surveillance technology monitoring so we know that the british intelligence carries out this kind of activities. allowing private apartment sextant to carry out these kind of activities for all the foreign governments researches have identified. around the globe you saw a big target against journalists last year. servers with spyware the. number of other countries such as turkmenistan quarter we also found a sample of the spyware by spyware appeared to be targeted back to ethiopia. from our perspective is that this technology in china work for it around the world without any sort of debris it may be the stuff of spy movies but campaigners say the british government needs to wake up and start regulating whose hands the invasive technology is falling into we need to start acting like the

weapons that can be used on line are exactly the same as the kind of weapons like bombs and guns that can be used to hurt people. whatever small distro you have beat it trendy i say you know a shiny black berry boasting high security standards the n.s.a. knows how to hack it on a website we report on how the notorious agency employs a special teams working on each of the popular mobile operating systems it was accessing private data on every phone anywhere. plus came egypt ever bring order to its place troubled region the army's in the midst of what it calls the largest offensive in yes' aimed at leaving sinai of islamic militants the details all at r.t. dot com. right.

first street. and i think the true. on our reporters were very. all right let's rounding up more of today's other top headlines for you now into media capitals images capital tens of thousands of people have turned up for rallies against the country's islamist government it also marks forty days of mourning for an opposition lawmaker who was murdered in july its death along with the earlier killing of another prominent politician have previously triggered mass protests the ruling and larger party denies any responsibility for the murders and pointed the finger of so often hardliners. clashes erupted in britain's the capital

true but this was over a march of the far right english defense league the group attempted to gather at an east london mosque this bike to being banned from the area this was followed by steam assures them with an anti-fascist protesters the leader of the e.t.l. was arrested as police tempted to contain the violence. protestors have faced off with police and squeezed in greece's second largest city with the prime minister always giving a speech on the economy and an international trade forum and told us to mars as the recession was easing and promised literally millions of reach that's it by years of punishing austerity but the crowds outside are way far less optimistic with the nation suffering from a record twenty seven percent unemployment. the g twenty summit over shared a as it was by the syrian crisis still managed to get around to its core business such as the push for job creation and tackling tax evasion charges kitty pilgrim

was in simply as burke. we did have a big financial decisions that were made and we know the only official agenda it was to do with job period and how to tackle the vast amounts of unemployment another big theme here was the volatility that the emerging markets and now currently faced with and that in light of ben bernanke the federal reserve chairman saying that he's going to be pulling the plug on his stimulus measures because of that investors have been pulling that cast out of what is perceived to be risky assets i managed to catch up with the international monetary fund chief christine lagarde and i asked her for her opinion on the current state of the global economy what about monetary stamina do you think that these measures have run their course and they simply doesn't work that we need pain in the short term in order for healthier what would you say that the monetary policy doesn't work because we believe that it does hard to free positive effects and certainly seeing the u.s. economy and the japanese economy pick up as they are at the moment despite the. you

know fiscal. door in place and that we would like to see improved a bit i managed to catch up with the former finance minister of russia alexei couldn't and he referred to these cash injections as almost like a drug at work america or the world economy its current state can be characterized as being on life support for you it's vital functions are being kept running by the federal reserve the european central bank and other banks but constant cash and directions this should only be temporary if a sick man goes through treatment in the doesn't help there's no point continuing it something else i want to talk about is the development bank because this was a breakthrough as well and we have the countries of course i'm talking about brazil russia india china south africa and they have set up this bank which just to put it into context for you would rival the likes of the i met on the world bank it was that as a safety net to support the struggling emerging economies so there was

a danger that the political tensions would completely override the proceedings but there was certainly plenty business deals on agreements made here at the g. twenty in st petersburg. boy because up next with the interview program oil for pot . will. come. if you need to review economic ups and downs in the find out all month day for the london new york sang i and the rest because life is going to be a few will be everything on our face.

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united states considers a punitive strike against syria and while u.s. politicians seem to be taking all of our bybee yes we can mantra the rest of the world is more on the side of do no harm we have the two is in service of human rights while to discuss that i'm now joined by can draw for executive director of human rights watch mr roth i really appreciate you being here if our viewers go to human rights watch website now and check some of the news releases that were issued over the last few weeks they can find all the usual suspects russia china zimbabwe libya even israel but what they wouldn't be able to find is any criticism of the proposed serious strikes against syria doesn't mean that human rights watch is in favor of these proposed attack but we've actually put out two statements on this subject and so i mean i do refer people to our website h r w dot org the we are

explicitly not taking a position for or against particular airstrikes our main focus as you can find in the statements that was we've issued is that our concern is with protecting civilian lives and obviously you know the issue on the table at the moment are the approximately fourteen hundred civilians who died as a result of the chemical weapons attacks in the damascus suburbs but obviously we're concerned about the tens of thousands if not hundred thousand civilians who have died during the conflict mostly at the hands. of conventional weapons and our concern is that while there is heightened attention to this problem of syria now we hope that the answer is going to address the plight of civilians across the board of the many who have died already the many more who might still die the two million refugees there's a lot to be concerned the absolute there you just mentioned that you're trying not

to take sides and the latest statement that i saw your issuing on the syrian issue was in late august when the organization put out a statement in which is sad that not gassing children in their sleep is a basic humanitarian norman obviously everybody would agree with you on that but the major disagreement in the world is who actually was gassing children in their sleep and it seems to me that despite positioning itself as an international organization standing up for universal human rights human rights watch seem to be taking the position of the american government in assuming that it was the assad regime who actually perpetrated that chemical weapon attack i wonder why is that if you are indeed an international organization why not wait for the united nations which is the main international body to conclude in its investigation and then decide and what the course of action should be well.