latest news in the week's top stories now washington fails to get the world on side . syria scant support from the g. twenty and the immune in modern russia takes a firm stand saying the rebels are provoking foreign intervention. r.t.c. is a brutality of that civil war first hand the syrian army tries to clear out coddling fighters from an ancient christian village. afghanistan's president condemns the latest nato airstrike that killed up to nine civilians including children something aligns itself denies. and moscow votes for a new man early results point to a victory for the acting chief even opposition figurehead alexina valmy training well behind the capital's first such election in the decade.

crossing live from moscow this is artie's weekly news feed. 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 and 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 and i want to strike an apparent u. turn from last week but so far turkey and france have been first in line to back u.s. action for a cabal wasn't able to change the minds of the other world leaders at the g. twenty summit in. tough actions should be taken but didn't endorse intervention

auntie's and the dollars 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 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 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 august doing that he says was carried out to discredit the syrian authorities in the eyes of the west just as. 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 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. 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 been that way r.t. . the tensions over syria didn't completely overshadowed the talks in st petersburg richly aimed at tackling the world's economic issues. now only look at this this is chief in seoul before him and also gets i.m.f. chief christine the gods first time opinion on the state of the global economy. i. the u.s. congress is still divided over whether to attack syria for the first senate

showdown vote expected on wednesday on the first two of the nine eleven attacks. those with a chance of being out in washington d.c. with crowds marching from the white house to capitol hill n.b.c. poll has found nearly eighty percent of americans think the president needs congressional approval for any armed response against syria obama however says he would still have the authority to order him and. not support. also for the polls are showing up more than half of americans are against any strikes on syria that figure is even higher in france and the u.k. where sixteen eighty percent respectively are against military action and similar sentiments are shared in germany and italy the percentage of those against intervention in syria's neighbor turkey even higher or both houses of the u.s. congress this week expected to vote on how to tackle syria let's have

a look at tentatively where they stand at the moment all 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 against if we look at the lower chamber of the u.s. congress the house of representatives where it comes there we go in the twenty five member support a military strike of two hundred twenty seven oppose intervention just a reminder that two hundred seventeen votes in total are needed in the house and fifty one in the senate for any resolution on syria to pass. all syrian president bashar assad meanwhile says he had nothing to do with any chemical weapons attack now there's no evidence linking him to it and the u.s. that claim was backed up in a letter to president obama written by former intelligence and military analysts they mcgovern is a cia veteran who signed that letter earlier he told my colleague kevin owen about the mood on capitol hill why he thinks it ministration could be softening its

stance. s. 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 s.f. and 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 and 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 cooked up intelligence because john brennan the head of the cia and james clapper 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. those calls for an intervention in syria go back to the alleged sarin gas attack outside damascus last month it's now emerged that british firms have supplied chemicals to syria that can be used to make the deadly nerve agent u.k. government this week admitted to proving the sales which ran for six years up until twenty ten just before the civil war broke out. after you asked the government's department of business innovation and skills to comment on the situation where they said on monday the syrian company which ordered these chemicals provided proof that they would be used for entirely innocent purposes leaving the window frames and. showers. nevertheless intelligence experts have condemned the deliveries as grossly irresponsible let's see sarah ferguson details business secretary vince cable certainly going to be facing some tough questions these revelations that the british government has granted export licenses as yet as yet unnamed british

company now this first for a substance has to be sent to syria and it was due to so-called killed substances and that was seen for their eyes and sodium fluoride in both these agents can be easily 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 tabled in parliament where they weren't through and scrutinize exactly how these licenses for chemical agents that could be used in the types of weapons that the syrian government big accused of using on their own people were granted for a british company to send to syria. meanwhile in syria itself the violence continues the ancient christian village of my life having turned into

a battleground government troops are attempting to clear al qaeda affiliated rebels from the area which was overrun few days ago where for national president a trip inside. we entered my louis through its ancient gauge 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 offices still fear they could be snipers around we hear them shouting go go fast on one turn we suddenly stop. the movie 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 sighted our lord of. 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 some live bullets started flying around us we've ended model of illusion when 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 by the looser group stormed in. and since then clashes have been contained in for three days and as 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 . that the row militants in that model now and. hotel this is the mountaintop hotel which one my. brother told me that. was. probably. also from behind the mountains surrounding the. village and that's is where the danger lies because the route many snipers and the rah rah could grenades and the raw. mortar bombs while as you can see the situation on the ground is very hard you can see that the army is recruited right now but this 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 these battlefield will affect the set up at this military theater but exactly how it is not easy to predict ration from milo in syria. more stories to go ahead including the battle for moscow the majority of votes counted things done the opposition hope for me bring you all the latest on that. bus when you can't keep quiet coming out we have the story of a londoner who frequently takes his megaphone to the streets to shout his grievances and one has to listen. an authority say that up to nine civilians including children were among fifteen people killed by the latest nato air strike in the country president hamid karzai

has already condemned the attack the alliance insists the militants were killed meanwhile four afghan troops died when how about a militant set of bomb at the entrance of a compound just outside the country's capital kabul all this is ahead of the shuttled withdrawal of coalition troops from the country by the end of twenty fourteen investigative journalist said vagueness is the presence of foreign soldiers has caused a spike in the levels of insurgency the civilian death toll shows us over the over ten years look nato is not winning in afghanistan the fighting militants is very very difficult and civilian casualties have been an increase even vul nato call views position precision attacks not very precise they are in afghanistan want a border regions of pakistan civilians are paying the cost of this war since the occupation started the taliban had 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 and say look we can free you of this oppression muscovites headed to the polls to decide who's going to be there but more than ninety percent of the ballots counted so far the latest figures indicate the incumbents case of the on it holds a clear lead with more than fifty one percent of the vote while the opposition candidate in the valley is a distant second in just over twenty seven percent article pissing off reports. 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 is this going to happen in the first. or second round

not always 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 amir since two thousand and three so lots of attention is being paid to do how fair is 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 their surrogates i bag and and. now for mr sobran and he's already been in charge of the city for over two years now but for i don't see now why in 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 select. 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 and the final figures of thirty more stories for you online including wasteful spending britain's ministry defense is said to have squandered about one point five billion pounds blunders and counting errors and to r.t. dot com for the full story there. was a one hundred seven year old man squares off against a swat team in arkansas the food tragic story of the gun fight on a website. despite being overshadowed by the syrian crisis the g twenty summit still managed to address its core business of tackling the world's economic issues when those were tax avoidance unemployment and emerging economies struggle to support themselves the host of artie's venture capital program. and citizens. 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 amounted 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 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 us 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'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 by constant cash and directions this should only be temporary if a sick man goes through treatment and it doesn't help there's no point continuing it is 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 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. sherry's capital santiago the t.v. crew of r.t. spanish channel was caught up in the turmoil iraq to that an initially peaceful march commemorating the victims of general custer pinochet's coup in one thousand nine hundred eighty three or as the your foot is received from them what you're seeing is the police chasing radical views that hijacked the rally by throwing stones and building barricades onto spanish correspondent was tear gassed and describe the actions of your forty's as brutal as the fortieth anniversary of the coup that overthrew the socialist administration and later resulted in thousands of people being killed and detained by the military government around sixty thousand people relatives of missionaries victims among them took part in the initial march . now it's us some other international news a group of armed men have stormed several bars in a remote city you've got amala killing at least fifty people leaving schools

wounded a sense of scale a seized car after the onslaught officials believe the attack could be related to gang violence in the region yesterday she's on the way. philip in the port city of zamboanga has been overrun by suspected muslim rebels according to reports one soldier has been killed and six others wounded in clashes with the national liberation front group is holding at least twenty hostages in four different districts and a decade's old insurgency by muslim rebels in the south of the mainly catholic country has claimed one hundred fifty thousand lives. the tester's of blocked roads leading to one of the world's largest arms as london one thousand three hundred military and security companies will be displaying their hardware at the event set to launch on monday police were called into manage the situation but no clashes have been reported and he will groups say the ferry crowd

is arm sales to countries with no rights records. and india has deployed hundreds of troops to disperse riots between do's and muslims in the state of which are pradesh claimed twenty one lives so far violence erupted in chorale village after the killing of three villages who objected when a young woman was being overly abused the curfew has been imposed after the turmoil spread to several neighboring towns. sharing your opinions could land you in court the least if you use a megaphone than you will shine has been summoned to court for being too loud in his speeches on london's busiest streets montes playboy spread to citizens to head the movies on the line between freedom of speech and public disturbance johnny shines got an unusual addiction the father of three likes to take his megaphone to central london and talk to passes by about things like why way here and the perils

of consumerism i'm. sorry. i'm sorry i'm. sorry i'm going to call it stream of consciousness of the deaf and we call it verbal diarrhea yeah it's the spoken word form of earlier this year westminster council confiscated danny's megaphone and summoned him to court. what are you looking for and like i know your right also stockholders like you let me. let you know this is legal. so it is illegal. to push for everyone but. danny's being prosecuted for breaking a by law banning anyone from making any noise which is so loud or so continuous

over peterhead as to give reasonable cause for annoyance to other persons. not so i took away his medical. but chris i mean this is more than just about public speaking it's about his semen right freedom of expression to me who should really shut up now doesn't that threaten freedom of speech in a country that is the current that is the problem i think it's good for the passive consumers as you and i to our free our minds from the back to. something of this humorously but i saw you complaining about the decibels a little earlier i know so much can see me as my subconscious self coming out of my mind it's like you're in a demon i mean to make a pretty penny mug and is like raining on my parade many i'm afraid for some fans time he's a ray of sunshine i mean i've never been like you know i don't need to but you know you know you can't wait for the night you know you got burned out you have a crush on him you know like i have a crush on him i'm just like he's beautiful what he's doing his life about what he

really cares about danny's doing cool way he set to argue that the westminster council a prosecuting him and he infringes his human rights. for the first chorus listen i actually took a perfect four years of attention. hard anytime irish for our profession have a private conversation. i think i think it's completely wrong because if they do manage to corning then where's that going to stop i mean we're all just going to be suppressed into not talking not speaking you know i just think that's going to be a bad thing so i think well don't need to danny to keep the flag point from freedom and while westminster city councils have told us that their conflict with danny is merely a question of decibels danny shine is planning to get even louder if i had the resources one day i'd be quite be quite nice to go out with it like a really could be a system and do it in a really nice light and i would get

a reaver maybe five or ten people in transition asking him. yet which i know is right. they're eager for more serious the end off the breakouts investigates the hidden lives of the wives and mothers of militants in russian's north caucasus. escalation agenda u.s. president barack obama has ordered the pentagon to double be a task force and expand the target list as part of his assumed assault on syria it was specter of international opinion in polls at home the us on its own is poised to carry out forced regime change in damascus well at least that's the plan. choose your language. we can't know if they still some of us.

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