the latest news in the week's top stories washington fails to get the world on its side for an attack on syria with scant support from the g twenty and the e.u. russia is taking a firm stand against saying the syrian rebels are provoking foreign intervention. and he sees the brutality of that civil war firsthand as the syrian army tries to clear an ancient christian village of al-qaeda linked rebels. also the battle for moscow is in full swing with the acting city chiefs. and opposition activists events in their valley facing off as the key contenders in the capital's first mero that nearly a decade. i

welcome you watching the weekly here on our team coming to you live from sky. now the u.s. secretary of state john kerry has been trying to get foreign ministers on board for a military strike against syria they did agree that the syrian government was the most likely culprit for last month's chemical attack but won't rush to action before the u.n. releases its report on the issue kerry will now be meeting with arab leaders in london to try and get their support including palestinian president mahmoud abbas president barack obama also failed to get the international endorsement he was hoping for this week at the g. twenty summit in russia parties are now it was that. i was elected to end wars not start a u.s. military intervention in syria dominated talks at the g twenty but if obama was

looking to gather overwhelming support at the summit he didn't get it in st petersburg there is no military solution there is lot 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 a military strike in a joint statement they condemned the use of chemical weapons blaming the after government and called for some kind of response but they stopped short of backing a u.s. attack on syria from it host to president putin accused the rebels of being behind a chemical weapons attack near damascus. that he says was carried out to discredit the syrian cities in the eyes of the way. if you were going to comment about the so-called use of chemical weapons in syria. by the count on help

from abroad from those countries that originally supported them that's the reason for the 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 has to attack the u.s. and only if the u.n. security council approves its. as one of the participants of our discussions on the usual did 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.s. to respond assad's regime 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. 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 splits 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 our way our. well syria certainly overshadowed the talks and simply just this week but the future of the world economy was also discussed venture capital caught up the head of the international monetary fund christine legarde to get her take on montreal policy on the global economic outlook in the show coming up right after this news bulletin in just over twenty minutes time here on our. i. know the u.s. congress is still divided over whether to attack syria or not the first senate showdown vote is expected on wednesday the twelfth anniversary of the nine eleven

attacks but a reuters poll says fifty six percent of americans don't want their country to use these armed forces against syria and some have been making their voices heard in the capital. those were the chants ringing out in washington d.c. with crowds marching from the white house to capitol hill an n.b.c. poll has found that nearly eighty percent of americans think the president needs congressional approval for any armed response against syria obama however has said he does still have the authority to order a military strike even without lawmakers support political analyst chris bambery believes washington's case against syria is part of its broader regional agenda. 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 the present you knew 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 as time 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 difficult for a viable not just in peter's world 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 chemical weapons use. and we have been following the latest developments in syria itself and there's an ongoing operation in the ancient christian village of moola which was stormed by al qaeda linked rebels a few days ago artie's raef an ocean it was able to enter the village with the help of the syrian army and brings us this report. we entered my luna through its

ancient gates burnt and damaged 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 turn we suddenly stop. 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 right now inside our little. 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 in and throw in 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 the looser group stormed in and since then clashes have been contained in for three days and you can see they are considered now soldiers firing shots back but they can't even see enemy fighters who are cooped up in the hiding places. and. the

real militants in that mile of the now and. us a few hotel this is the mountaintop hotel which was my. brother told. me from. also from behind the mountains surrounding the ma lula village and that's is where the danger lies because the wrong many snipers and the raw rocket grenades and the rock warms mortar boards was even see the situation on the ground it is very hard you can see that the army is rick rubin right now but this. is that. one day she could change dramatically because this is where american congress starts debates on syria when. this country you know what the decision made thousands of kilometers away from this

battlefield will affect the set up at this military theater but exactly how it is not easy to predict. ask t. from in syria. is giving all the latest updates on how that standoff is progressing over on twitter she's just been giving us reports on the ongoing clashes in that historic christian landmarks to follow her to keep up to date on that. day in the. regional elections are underway around russia and the key vote is taking place in moscow where candidates are battling for the post of city the incumbents are going to be on and he's facing a strong challenge from opposition hopeful alexina valley it is the first time in nearly a decade that muscovites are getting to choose their let's get more now from our. he's been following it for us you've got the still

a few more hours to go of voting but what can you tell us about the race so far well definitely of your action is in full swing at least still a few hours are left before the polls the court the polls rather close and so far only around twenty by always have been reported officially. judging by the amount of the polling stations in the city in general that's over thirty six hundred this is not a big amount most of the violations are being reported by independent activists why it would or other social networks but officially this comes from all the candidates including the team of independent. that from the opposition i don't see why only they say that in general elections so far has been going smoothly now about what to expect obviously the lots of different opinion polls have been holding studies

of who is in favor of whom which candidates and well according to a center they've asked their responded school will have a vote for thirty eight percent said that they were planning to vote for acting mayor so yes i've been in and around ten percent said they were planning to give their voices to alexey and eileen which basically reflects the general expectations that the acting mare is most likely to win the vote while i don't see sebag is expected to come in second place another pinioned poor respondents who would be never vote for. the answered. twenty three percent said they'd never planning to vote for an hour and fifteen percent said that they were planning to vote never planning to vote for. and said well this other interesting question i think it would be nice to introduce to you is that well how many people are actually aware of who the candidates are and here we've got twenty seven percent who said that

they knew. it was and sixty six percent said they knew who city guess i've been in was which is a very interesting because the campaigning has been a really held on a really wide scale involving all the media platforms possible source will networks twitter accounts basically the whole internet that was being used quite actively by all of the candidates but waltzer had flyers in the metro on the streets there are actually reports that. there were adverts political adverts for people to vote for x. you know why only shown in monte carlo since well we know that writes a lot of russians. gold there for their vacations so it's really it's really actually it's gone beyond the borders of the city even though we are talking about a local election so that's quite interesting but it's no actual secret why because

this is the first vote for moscow's mir in around ten years the last one happened in two thousand and three and many analysts do agree that the authorities have been trying to make it to turn it into an example for the rest of the country and for these reasons they are trying to conduct it as transparent as possible we've got video cameras installed over thirty six hundred polling stations across the city which are feeding life. into the web eleven thousand observers for their present watching it live being there monitoring looking after everything is done in four quarters we also know that this is the most expensive. election ever in moscow where it's really hard to count how much money was spent by all the candidates but it's already been established that because of such wide scale campaigning we're still going to find out the figures later but it's already clear

that this is the most expensive one in moscow's history. ok go thank you as we say people are still casting their votes and they got a few more today say thank you. we'll bring you all the details on moscow's merril that's happening right now in the capital we're going to take a quick break now but when we come back silencing the messenger the british government comes under fire for its use of anti terror tactics in the fight against whistleblowers and. nelson mandela's health may be failing but that hasn't stopped his family from getting caught up in scandals a new reality t.v. show sees his granddaughters crashing in the former leader's heritage we'll have more on those stories after this.

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video for your media project free media r t v dot com. welcome back rights groups are accusing the u.k. government of using anti territories to curb press freedom the tactics came under fire after britain security service ordered the guardian newspaper to destroy information passed on by whistleblower edward snowden. expects. an act of intimidation that could have a chilling effect on press freedom in the u.k. and beyond not quite what you'd normally expect from a letter to the prime minister about press freedom in the but those strong words coming from the world association of newspapers you organization felt compelled to write after the guardian newspaper was forced by british security services to destroy information received from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden and then the partner of one of its journalists

suspected of carrying information the government deemed sensitive to national security was placed in detention upon arrival at heathrow airport david miranda partner of guardian journalist glenn greenwald was held for nine hours is the maximum time a person can be held using laws designed to catch a terrorist you know one of the reasons why we're so concerned and when i look at the work chris freedom department does which is which has a global reach one of the issues that we have united kingdom is saying about. freedom with a very strong record on ensuring that it. can write the new and so so for around. here. the press freedom situation in the united kingdom is this sliding and this is of great concern it is twenty thirteen freedom of

speech seen here reporters without borders gives the satisfactory situation rating but for freedom of the press britain slipped from nineteenth in two thousand and ten to its current ranking of twenty ninth many are concerned that should chill serving of the terrorism act the law used to detain miranda is actually being used to stop journalists doing their job of holding people in power to account rather than being used to prevent terrorism. than allows for. to stop examine and search passengers that travel terminals there's no need for any suspicion that they are linked to terrorism it's a very difficult problems the security services have a difficult job of difficult job. the state clearly has a duty to protect its citizens and. those people live living. in the u.k. at the same time i think they must recognize the role of the media.

and you have to have to be in line with the appropriate law and use the appropriate norms responsibility the government said it had to a scheme that copies of the information held by mr snowden could now be held by foreign countries to see mr snowden's travel since leaving the u.s. and that the disclosure of some of that material could put lives at risk well critics of the government's actions that despite these alarmist planes aimed at justifying the blurring of the lines between terrorism and journalism is thought a full hearing into the legality of david maraniss detention and the seizure of that data will take place in october but in the meantime expect to see that war of words continue with the u.k. seemingly struggling to strike a balance between national security and press freedom sara. london.

and don't forget we've got plenty more stories for you on our website to it r.t. dot com at the moment. if your smartphone be it an i phone android or black berry your security settings are no match for the n.s.a. which is fully capable of accessing your data you can head to r.t. dot com for the details. he. and cheers have been echoing across tokyo is the city was awarded the twenty twenty summer olympics leaving rival. high in the full footage of the celebrations and the reaction of other countries can be found on the website of artie's new video agency broccoli dog. and also their holiday spirit in russia's capital watch how music flooded the streets of central moscow on its eight hundred sixty six anniversary.

news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to rule the day. let's have a quick look at other news making headlines around the world this hour officials in afghanistan have accused nato of killing civilians during an operation in the east of the capital they say that the fifteen victims over half were not insurgents nato's defended the precision strike reporting that only ten died all confirmed militants back in february the afghan president banned attacks on residential areas but estimates put the civilian death toll at over one thousand for this year alone

. protesters. police faced off in greece is second largest city after another round of and to a stereotype broke out after the pm delivered a speech promising that economic recovery was on its way its government has backed the steroids the measures in a relentless push for a lack of financing while recent statistics say even countries unemployment could stay over twenty percent for another decade. independence day celebrations spiraled into chaos in brazil protesters gathered in cities across the country against rampant corruption as well as overpriced and ineffectual public services in rio de janeiro police dispersed the crowd with gas and stun guns to stop them from interrupting the military parade demonstrations started back in june over the mass mismanagement of public funds. prisoner turned president nobel prize laureate and father of the nation nelson mandela whether he likes it or not

is also the face of an international brand but while he remains bad banter relatives have been fighting to get a piece of the money pile artie's porous layer reports. as reality t.v. shows go this one is right up there sibling rivalry and feuds and family gossip but it's not any old family we're talking about here it's for mandela and it's clearly not a not someone project it's someone that in a family project is very uncomfortable. or is image being associated with commercial projects so the question becomes where do you draw the line the reality show follows the lives of two of my dearest granddaughters as they spin didn't lose money on extravagant business ventures and gone wild shopping sprees it's a far cry from the humble background mandela grew up in all the grim reality facing millions of south africa's poor black citizens argument it is children it's been

made. and they have a right to use it however they see fit i think that he has paid his dues to society and i think his family who very often we don't mention the prize that they've had to pay to be without a father a husband. who was behind bars all these years. and yet it's disgusted most south africans that while the icon lay for months in a hospital bed many of his family are cashing in on his famous name two of mandela's daughters took him to court for a share of his legacy it hurt him deeply and dragged the country's moral compass to a new low is absolutely an outrage that's why the i understand why they're doing these a lot of money and after all if you have that name i suppose your few remarks were kept last month but i think it's wrong is like the followers of the ordination actually so all of these that i have pretty right now i'm not really sure if this

is appropriate for people to be using this but iraq to use the mandela name it is their family name you cannot go far in south africa without being reminded of the ninety five year old nobel laureate he is everywhere on t. shirts banknotes bookshelves smiling down from up above more than just a man he's become a global brand one that's estimated to be worth millions of dollars. an extension of a brand has to be almost more of the same it has to respect the qualities and the fathers about ground into all those other areas so it's a tricky area that nelson mandela was being stretched and tortured and pulled in different directions but for most south africans nothing can match the man himself who lived inside this house this is the mandela family home for weeks people have been leaving here flour was gifts and cards the crowds might have gone but their messages and hopes remaining graved on small stones it's

a sad irony that the father of the nation who bought south africa back from an almost certain civil war has seen his own family descend into but a fighting within itself policy r.t. johannesburg south africa. coming up next as promised a french a capital made international monetary fund chief christine lagarde. just after a quick break.

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