extranjero a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. report on our. latest news on the week's top stories washington fails to get the world onside for an attack on syria support from the g. twenty and the e.u. meanwhile russia takes a firm stand saying the rebels are provoking foreign intervention. marty sees a do targeting of that civil war first hand as the syrian army tries to clear out fighters from an ancient christian village. afghanistan's president condemns the latest nato air strike that killed up to nine civilians including children something itself denies. and moscow votes for a new man early results point to a victory for the acting chief and even opposition figurehead alexina down the training well behind the capital's first such election in nearly

a decade. says also his weekly news review on the very latest international. well 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 the regime's alleged use of chemical weapons but kerry presented no new evidence against the syrian government and few countries are willing to rush into action without u.n. approval now says president obama has made no final decision on whether to strike an apparent u. turn from last week so far turkey and france have been first in line to back u.s. action against syria but barack obama wasn't able to change the minds of the other world leaders at the g. twenty summit in st petersburg they agreed that tough action should be taken but

didn't endorse military intervention parties and they saw no it 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 there is no military solution there is no military 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 summit host 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. i

view everything that happened with the so-called use of chemical weapons in syria as a provocation by the 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. it's acceptable if it's done for self defense and we know that syria hasn't attacked the us and only if the un security council approves 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 un to respond because saddam regimes 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 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 now a r.t. . well tensions over syria didn't completely overshadow the talks instant pieces but originally aimed at tackling the world's economic issues and tomorrow we look to the main base for his achievements on the forum and also gets i.m.f. chief christian the gods first time the pain and the state of the global economy. the u.s. congress is still divided over whether to attack syria the first senate showdown

vote expected on wednesday now the first three of the nine eleven attacks. those were. in washington d.c. with crowds marching from the white house to capitol hill them to see paul has found that many. of americans think president needs congressional approval for any armed response against syria obama however says he would still not feel threatened to order a military strike even without the america's support. so far the polls are showing more than half of americans are against any strikes on syria and that figure is even higher in france and the u.k. where sixty eight percent respectively are against military action similar sentiments are shared in germany and italy the percentage of those against intervention in syria's neighbor turkey even higher. houses the u.s.

congress of this week expected to vote on how to tackle syria and while it is tentatively where they stand well right now when you add up both democrats and republicans in the senate twenty three senators are in favor of the president's plan for intervening in the syrian conflict and twenty seven are against any military involvement and if we look at the lower chamber of the u.s. congress the house of representatives here we go it's going to be twenty five there we go twenty five members support a military strike while two hundred twenty seven oppose intervention and just a reminder that two hundred eighteen votes in total are needed in the house and fifty one in the senate for any resolution on syria to pass on syria president bashar assad meanwhile says he had nothing to do with any chemical weapons attack and there's no evidence linking him to it in the u.s. that claim was backed up in a letter to the president written by former intelligence and military analysts in mcgovern there's

a cia veteran who signed that letter he told my colleague kevin knowing about the mood on capitol hill and why he thinks that ministration could be softening its stance. last friday kerry went before the cameras and said we got to do this and here's the not intelligence assessment mind you but the government assessment meaning the white has white house had a chance to massage it had it edited ok here's the a section it didn't hold up to scrutiny or apparently the military got to the president and i see some evidence of this next thing we know that the president has changed his mind on saturday afternoon and the only thing that really intervened was the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff martin dempsey telling the president look you know it's going to be really hard as we're going to be really hard to explain what we have to do this now we could do this tomorrow or next week or next month we don't really have to do it now and the president said that in justifying his delay now what's more evidence

lindsey graham and john mccain the next day just took off after the joint chiefs of staff chairman in a very personal and vindictive way because they know that finally the military leaders went to the president said look you know we know we know you've been told that this is going to be easy and limit all our stuff but these guys and these gals don't know a thing about war we do how do you think the congressional votes going to play out in the upcoming vote which way is it going to go i talked to a congressman last night for five minutes and it was very clear that he pledged to house leader nancy pelosi that he would vote according to what that what the president says because we have to protect the president and are you could have are you going to say that the president is why you don't have to say the president is lying when you do need to say according to our information is that the president being given the intelligence because john brennan the head of the cia and james clapper it can be confessed perjury or have thought it in their interest to

cater to the wishes of the white house which have been very clear this time we want to strike syria. well meanwhile in syria itself the violence continues with the ancient christian village of martyrdom having turned into a battleground government troops are attempting to clear al-qaeda affiliated rebels from the area which was overrun a few days ago. says that a trip inside. we entered my lunar through its ancient gages 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 because without stopping or even slowing down there are some parts of the road where we have to speed up officers still fear they could be snipers around we hear them shouting go go fast on one turn we suddenly stop. the other so.

it's hard to understand exactly what's happened we only hear a loud boom and feel the earth shake we get out of the car to take a look around when i was inside our lolo. the. 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 suddenly 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 that's what we're doing right now we're coming back to 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 by the last group stormed in and since then clashes have been continuing for three days and as sure as you can see they are considered now soldiers fire shots back but they can't even see enemy fighters who are cooped up in their hiding places. the real military model of the. hotel this is the mountain top tell what you want. but. also from behind a mountain. that's.

rocket grenade. was you can see the situation on the ground it's very hot. right now but. this is. where the american congress does. syria where the. you know the decision made thousands of kilometers away from the battlefield will in fact the set up at this military theater but exactly how it is not easy to predict. in syria. say that up to nine civilians including children are among fifteen people killed by the latest nato air strike in the country hasn't happened karzai has already condemned the attack. and the militants were killed while four afghan troops

died. on the entrance of a compound just outside the country's capital kabul head of the withdrawal of coalition troops from the country by the end of twenty fourteen. says the presence of foreign soldiers was called a spike in the levels of insurgency. the civilian death toll shows us over the over ten years that look nato is not winning in afghanistan that fighting militants is very very difficult and civilian casualties have been an increase even though nato called these position precision attacks not very precise with the afghanistan want of border regions of pakistan civilians are paying the cost of this war since the occupation started the taliban have seen an increase in support there it's almost that the movement has been revived civilians normal people are looking for someone to resist against the occupation and i think that as you see the increase of

civilian casualties if people's brothers sisters fathers homes are destroyed people are murdered family members killed they will turn to those people that say look we can free you of this oppression. more stories are still ahead including the battle for moscow the majority of votes counted things don't look promising for opposition hopeful. we'll bring you all the latest on that. the u.k. struggles to find the balance between security and press freedom on reporters without borders the country factory waiting at the four story after the break. people are scratching their head to keep. chemical weapons attack in the interests . given the fact that.

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the muscovites headed to the polls to decide who's going to be the man eighty percent of the ballots counted so far the latest figures indicate that the incumbent. has won more than fifty one percent of the vote position. a distant second more than twenty seven percent. initially it was widely expected that acting. in the would most probably beat his main rival and candidate from the opposition i don't see enough money in this election and the question was and still very much is is this going to happen in the first round or will there be a second round taking the voter turnout was around thirty two percent which is frankly much less of than initially expected now this election is being monitored by eleven thousand observers many of them a large part of them are actually independent activists also web cameras were

installed at over thirty six hundred polling stations across the whole city in an effort to ensure transparency this is the first time of moscow's choosing a mere since two thousand and three so lots of attention is being paid to do how fair it's going to be held throughout the course of the voting itself there were no reports of major violations but it's really the focus is really now on how these ballots are going to be counted since that's what's really going to decide whether or not a second round will be there and that will only happen if neither candidate manages to pass the fifty percent mark now six candidates are taking part in this election but clearly the main rivals are acting there said yes i've been and. now for mr bennett he's already been in charge of the city for over two years now but for i don't see now why this is really his first attempt at such a high political post he is quite

a controversial figure in russia partially due to his connection with the nationalist he did become one of the leaders of the opposition movement during last year's wave of mass protests he's also known as anti corruption online projects but he himself was found guilty of investment and sentenced to five years behind bars he was released. on bail many analysts actually say that that didn't. only allow him to take part in the selection but also may have served as additional public citizen is another i mean he's planning to appeal that sentence after the election he was also saying that no matter what the outcome of the vote would be he's already received the green light from the authorities to hold a rally on monday in central moscow to meet with his supporters and we are waiting for the final results in the final figures we have plenty more stories few online including wasteful spending britain's ministry defense has been found to have squandered about one point five billion pounds clerical blunders and accounting

errors it's r.t. dot com for the full story there. are one hundred seven year old man squares off against the swat team in arkansas on the food tragic story of the gunfight on our website. on the spike being overshadowed by the syrian crisis the g twenty summit still managed to address its core business of tackling the world's economic issues among those where tax avoidance unemployment and emerging economies trouble to support themselves and a host of artie's venture capital program katie pilgrim as details now. we did have a big financial decisions that were made and we know the only official agenda it was to do with g.o.p. race 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 is 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 stimulus do you think these measures have run their course and it simply doesn't work that we need pain in the short term in order for help 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 could today and he referred to these cash injections as almost like a drug or work america or the world's economy its current state can be characterized as being on life support for its vital functions are being kept

running by the federal reserve the european central bank and other banks it's like a constant cash in directions this should only be temporary if a sick man goes through treatment and it doesn't help there's no point continuing it but there's something else i want to talk about is the brick 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.m.f. and the world bank it would add 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 the g. twenty in st petersburg. chile's capital santiago crew of artes spanish channel has been caught up in the turmoil that erupted of an issue

a peaceful march commemorating the victims of general goes to pinochet's in one nine hundred seventy three this is a footage we received from them and what you're seeing is the police chasing hughes who crashed the rally right throwing stones and building barricades at the spanish correspondent was a guest described the actions of the authorities as brutal supporters anniversary of the career that overthrew the socialist government later resulted in thousands of people being killed and detained by the military rulers which means thirty to sixty thousand people relatives of the missionaries victims moment to part initial march. international news this hour for a group of armed men stormed several bars in a remote city from guatemala doing at least fifteen people leaving scores wounded assailants escaped from a seized car after all stalled read the attack related to gang violence in the region. india has deployed hundreds of troops to

disperse riots between hindus and muslims in the state of utah pradesh have claimed twenty one lives so far ballance erupted in komal village of the killing of three villagers would have directed the young woman was being brutally abused the curfew has been imposed off the turmoil spread to several neighboring towns. testers have blocked roads leading to one of the world's largest oscars and london one thousand three hundred military and security companies will be displaying their hardware at the event so to launch on monday police were called in to manage the situation and clashes have been reported to groups in which is arms sales to countries poor human rights records. and the u.k. struggling to find the balance between security and press freedom when experts believe the situation is being ignored what is sarah for three points on how laws can sometimes be used to stop journalists doing their job and active 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 of newspapers you organization felt compelled to right 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 a rifle 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 our press freedom department does which is which has a global reach one of the issues that we have because the united kingdom is saying

about. freedom with a very strong record on ensuring that it. can write the new and so so for us it does appear that the press freedoms which are. in the united kingdom is the 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 slips for nineteenth in two thousand and ten to its current ranking of twenty ninth many are concerned servant 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 police to stop examine and search passages

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 difficult job. and the state clearly has a duty to protect. those people living. at the same time i think they must recognise the role of the media. and you have to have to be in line with the appropriate use the appropriate. response of the government said it's 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 us and that the disclosure of some of that material could put lives at risk or critics of the

government's actions that despite these alarmist planes aimed at justifying the blurring of the lines between terrorism and journalism it's 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. with the u.k. seemingly struggling to strike a balance between national security and press freedom sarah firth r.t. london. coming up we'll take a closer look at the rising number of suicides for u.s. soldiers the break or not. fans of the shocked your football club and kind of gonda kazakhstan believe that a certain special ritual help them achieve victory against the world famous

scottish team celtic this ritual was sacrificing a sheep at the stadium as someone who lived in kazakhstan for two years i know there's a real meat eating country with deeply rooted traditions in livestock racing so this news is unusual but maybe it's not completely bizarre for the culture of course defenders of animal rights who don't seem to realize that the sheep would be turned into people of the next few days anyways demanded that you a full officials punish the shock to a club for the actions of individual fans this is the same logic as if someone wearing a sexy tim kirby t. shirt went around robbing liquor stores i am not responsible for the actions of people like this program and it's not like i'd ever advocate robbing liquor stores and i doubt the shocked your management secretly arranged for fans to slaughter the sheep at the stadium when the slaughter of animals is acceptable to you or not well that's one thing but we don't need to regulate the morality of individuals in other countries via soccer especially if that regulation means punishing the football clubs who are responsible for the actions of individuals but that's just my opinion

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