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 a foreign intervention. and are things 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 impulse wing with banking city chiefs and opposition activist alexina valmy facing off as the key contenders in the capital's first marilyn action in nearly a decade. alone

are you watching a weekly here in r.t. good to have the company now it's been a tough week for u.s. secretary of state john kerry he's been trying to convince the european union to get on board with a military strike on syria over the regime's alleged use of chemical weapons because he presented no new evidence against the syrian government and very few countries are willing to rush into action without u.n. approval and he now says a man has made no final decision on whether to strike an apparent turnaround from last week so far turkey and france have been first in line to back the united states against syria present a land has however backtracked on his earlier hawkish stance now saying that the u.n. security council needs to approve any action president barack obama wasn't able to change the minds of the other world leaders the g twenty summit in st petersburg though they agreed that tough act. should be taken but didn't endorse military

intervention and he said was that. i was elected to end wars and 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. that he says was carried out to discredit

the syrian in the eyes of the west just the way. i view everything in the contract the so-called use of chemical weapons in syria. by the way it was the count on help from abroad from those countries that originally supported them that's the reason for their 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 it such action as one of the participants of our discussions on the issue put it yesterday and those who do otherwise put themselves above the law. obama continues to insist it was behind the attack and he won't wait for the u.s. to respond to assad's regime so 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 pop. 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 been that way r.t. well syria says me overshadowed the talks and simply just this week but there were also burning questions about where the global economy is heading to venture capital called some of the head of the international monetary fund christine legarde to get her take a monetary policy and the global economic outlook we'll take a closer look later in the program and you can also catch the full edition of venture capital at sixteen thirty g.m.t. .

the u.s. congress is still divided over whether to attack syria or not the 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 its 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 a bomber however has said he does still have the authority to order a military strike even with 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 and keep both here from nine eleven the original axis and we've all know the present you knew right then you go no see this is why we have to be so 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. 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 chemical weapons use that it's

a merge that british firms approved the sale of chemicals to syria that can be used and that was the substance allegedly used during last month's attack near damascus and licenses for it were apparently granted ten months after the civil war broke out in the country become calls weren't delivered jury in the conflict but this week the british government admitted that these substances did reach syria at an earlier date. well we initially asked the government department of business innovation and skills about this situation and they told us on monday that the company which ordered these chemicals proved to them they were only going to be used to make window frames and aluminum showers but the government later said that sodium fluoride was indeed delivered to syria between july two thousand and four and may twenty ten r.t. sarah firth has the details business secretary vince cable certainly going to be facing some tough questions over these revelations that the british government has

granted export licenses as yet as yet unnamed british company now this first for substances to be sent to syria and it was due to so-called tool use substances and that was potassium for their eyes and sodium fluoride and both these agents can be used as precursor chemicals in the manufacture of nerve gas or those export licenses granted by the department for business innovation of girls it's reported in january the seventeenth and eighteenth there are going to be questions table that the parliament really working through and scrutinize exactly how these licenses for chemical agents that could be used in the types of weapons that the syrian government is being accused of using on their own people who granted. we have been following the latest developments in syria itself is. going army operation in the ancient christian village of moola which was stormed by al qaeda

linked rebels a few days ago artie's rif an option i was able to enter the village with the help of the syrian army and bring us this report. we entered by lula 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's vehicles 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. to understand. 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 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 a job or the last group stormed even and since then the question is have been continued for three days and you can see they are considered now soldiers fire

shots back but they can't even see enemy fighters who are cooped up in the hiding places. and. the real militants in that model of the now and in the us i fear hotel this is the mountain top hotel which was the. rubble. 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 rah rah could grenades and the rock warms mortarboard was even to the situation on the ground it is very hard come you can see that the army is rick rubin right now but this. is that. they. are going to because this is. what

the american congress starts in. syria where. this country you know the decision made thousands of kilometers away from these battlefield will affect the set up at this military theater but exactly how it is not easy to predict. asti from in syria. maria is giving all the latest updates on how that standoff is progressing on her twitter account she's just given us a report on the ongoing clashes indeed in that historic christian mark so do follow to keep up to date. the. regional elections are underway around russia and the key vote is taking place in moscow where candidates are battling for the post city may be incumbents is facing

a strong challenge though from opposition hopeful alexina valley it is the first time in nearly a decade that muscovites is getting to choose their mess so we can get more on this now live from. he got people been voting since early this morning they've still got a few hours left to vote have things been going smoothly so far today well last choosing the mayor of the city was back in two thousand and three so obviously there's a lot of attention to this vote and many analysts do agree that it is in favor of the authorities to conduct the vote transparently as possible to be able to turn it into an example for the rest of the country and for these reasons video cameras have been installed over thirty six hundred polling stations across the city they're feeding live for it into the web eleven thousand observers are there at the polling stations monitoring the course of the vote and so far no major violations have been reported now five going. are taking part in this election

obviously the acting mayor said again. opposition hopeful one of the leaders of the opposition alex enough wiley and three candidates from the communist party the fair russia party and the liberal democrats but it isn't widely agreed that it's a city and that it's you know widely and enjoy more influence and support than the others and so what are the issues that they've been campaigning on now what's been at stake for the public. well since i've been in has been the head of the city for over two years now his main points of the war to continue his established policies to continue improving infrastructure to fight traffic problems to fight illegal immigration and so on. points and targets of his campaign are somewhat similar to those of valiant's but he since he is known initially as an opposition figure as one of the most influential

oppositional bloggers known for his online anti corruption project he does target mainly anti corruption projects in his campaign the biggest difference between these two candidates campaigns is that. campaign was a very western involved to a lot of social media social networking grassroots campaigning and so on lots of independent activists and in general it is a very a western looking campaign but actually obviously before the election several opinion polls have been conducted studying help popular are these candidates in reality and well judging by the results that they've managed to get it's clear that the. still enjoys more popularity than i looked for instance according

to an opinion poll conducted by a little at a center only around ten percent of muscovites said that they were planning to vote for despite his widespread popularity among the internet community and among the opposition movement according to the russian public opinion research center twenty three percent of its responded said that they were never planning to vote for. it while fifteen said that they were not planning to vote for somebody and so here he's also. twenty seven percent of its respondents said that they were well aware of his personality and his campaign promises while sixty six percent when it came to sort of he said so these are only opinion polls obviously not exit polls not preliminary results so everything still may change and we are expecting to find out the first results of this election as early as by the

end of the day ok thank you very much igor though it does look like at the most business again in victory with thank you very much and she goes you know piece of life. will be bringing all the details and the updates on the merrill vote as it's happening in the capital. coming up after the break big brother gets digitally vs wiki leaks exposes the cozy partnership between computers software companies and intelligence agencies and getting i'm president of access to the private data of virtually any internet means that we will tell me more in a few minutes. there's

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welcome but now british firms revealed as the brains behind invasive spying software which allows crimes including governments to get limitless surveillance access to people's computers international was named in the latest tranche of so-called spy files this week exposing close ties between intelligence agencies and private. as the story. say goodbye to the days of super sleuths gadgets 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 leaks 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 internet use it in the country with spyware nothing you say type cap is safe and that includes your online passwords and usernames boys or government or just install in. those browsing that website. you can inject spyware. behind me are gamma international's 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 enemies of the internet.

the technology is marketed. 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 criminals can be somewhat different as one human rights campaigner in bahrain found out she says that gammas been spice was used to get her off to she took part in anti-government protests looked like a genuine email address these three men 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 of allowing private the private sector to carry out these kind of activities for other foreign governments. have identified. around the globe.

activists journalists last year. servers were spyware it appears from the number of other countries so. called are you also a sample of the spyware by spyware appeared to be targeted to ethiopia the scary thing. is that this technology in china were created around the world without any sort of debris it may be the stuff of spying movies but campaign is say the british government needs to wake up and start regulating whose hands the invasive technology is falling into we need to stop 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. on. thanks for being with r.t. today we've plenty more stories on our web site to you including if you're

a smartphone. 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 head to our team dot com with the details. thank you and cheers have been echoing across tokyo as the city was awarded the twenty twenty summer olympics leaving rival east ball behind the full footage of the celebrations on the reaction of other countries can be found on the web site of artie's new video where you can see roughly t.v. . the g twenty summit overshadowed as it was by the syrian crisis managed however to get around to its core business such as the push for job creation and tackling tax evasion artie's was in some. 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 was 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 legarde and i asked her for her opinion on the current state of the global economy what about monetary stimulus do you think that these measures have run their course and that is 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 very 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 job at work america for the world's 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 by 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 which just to put it into context for you would rival the likes of the i.m.f. and the world bank if 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 still's on agreements made here at the g.

twenty in st petersburg. he would say today up next a special report on u.s. soil would you say what sites like. 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 say 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 won't 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 voted 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.

i know c.n.n. the m s n b c news have taken some lots lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because one full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on here. at our teen years we have a different approach. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not. good. at.

you guys have to be jokes while handling the stuff that. looks. so it's all about a comeback.