this. is why you should care only on the. foreign minister sergey lavrov says russia is ready syria to give up its chemical arsenal to avoid a foreign intervention an idea put forward by u.s. secretary of state john kerry. but shortly after john kerry made that statement in london the u.s. state department backtracked saying it was never intended as a real offer. in the battle for moscow is over. and is elected for a new term in office but opposition runnerup alexina valley refuses to concede defeat calling for a mass rally to demand a recount. you're

watching tape with me and. now russia's foreign minister says he's ready to negotiate with syrian president bashar al assad to try and get him to hand over his chemical weapons stockpile to the international community he was responding to a statement from his u.s. counterpart john kerry will thomas joins us live from more on this show on this issue here isn't there because washington then withdrew that statement from kerry saying this rhetoric but russia have taken him up on the offer believing it could be a way forward indeed it's going to be interesting to see how all of this plays out as sergey lavrov says that they're ready to move forward with this this actually comes after john kerry met with william hague his counterpart in london in that meeting he said that syria if they hand over their full arsenal of chemical weapons by the end of the week well they can avoid attack he also said in that conference that there was strong evidence compelling evidence that the assad regime used

chemical weapons and that any strike by the u.s. would be unbelievably small limited in scope and he also said that the u.s. is not going to war possibly playing on the fact that congress has to go to a vote this week and it's only congress that can declare war possibly opening the way for obama to strike as white house as the president outside of congressional authority but about this big news about. russia working with syria sergey lavrov says he promises to support kerry's initiative and he will work with the syrian government to make that happen earlier sergey lavrov met today with while lead the syrian foreign minister they promised to work together towards a peace listen to what sergey lavrov had to say about these latest developments about the kerry revelations. we saw the sequence by john kerry who. that would be no strikes to moscow's hands

over its chemical weapons arsenal to the international committee. we don't know where the serial would. be for it. to. international community control over the chemicals weapons and use that helps to avert a strike then we're rigid soon you go share it with damascus. from and john kerry the u.s. state department did kind of backtrack a little bit they released a statement saying that this was a rhetorical statement by john kerry on the in possibility of the assad regime turning over chemical weapons that he refuses to admit that he actually has we also we also don't know about the syrian response to this or whether. he's interested in working with the russian government and the u.s. on this we know that he was in town meeting with sergei lavrov so we're expecting a lot more information as this plays out will

a off the cuff remark turn into actual diplomacy we will wait and see ok thank you and that's artie's sean thomas. now michael maloof is a former senior security policy analyst the u.s. the park bench new joins us live now from washington to discuss these latest developments now the russian foreign minister says that he'll push for assad to hand over chemical weapons and avoid a military strike like john kerry said does that mean that the sides have found finally found common ground or they could find common ground given that washington then later tried to retract that comment from kerry. well i think that mr lavrov calling kerry on his proposal really shows what and then having the state department back track really shows true intention of the state department and indeed the obama administration if they were not serious and if they claim it

was rhetorical then i think it really shows that. a a u.s. bombing and intervention is greater than just the chemical weapons issue it clearly shows that it's aimed more at iran. playing to the tune of the saudis at this point but i think i think that mr lavrov should pursue this and and certainly the damascus government should. agree to it and and and try to bring in and try to bring this to this war tempo to it to a halt because there is no there is no support for it in the united states and i think that and certainly syria is one of seven countries in the world that is not a signatory to. the chemical weapons convention and i think if they agreed to this i think it would be a very. strong statement by the government that they intend to curb

it everybody knows they have chemical weapons by the by the mere fact that mr lavrov has asked that the damascus government to to bring them under international control implies of course they do in fact have so what. can washington do is. what can washington do now because it doesn't pay it has got a go in its face doesn't it i mean what will be it's not yet given that these developments have happened and people are putting it forward as a serious proposal in the hope of getting pace. well i think if the syrian government comes around and says yes we're going to go ahead and do that and mr mr obama goes on t.v. tuesday night and says he intends to still bomb then i think that this clearly shows what this administration's goal was all along and that was something beyond just chemical weapons but to try to destabilize and replace the the syrian government and of course that's going to bring on all other kinds of of

ramifications which are just going to be which is going to bring total instability to the middle east so the trade off is dramatic and i think that if. mr obama does not go along with this then i think that we will seriously have serious problems but on the other hand this could be another way for the obama administration to back its way out of the corner that it boxed itself into with this red line notion and high g. think these latest developments could affect the congressional vote on syria that's coming up. well i think it's if if the if first of all i don't think the support is there but secondly if the if the government in damascus agrees to it and missed a lot of russ proposal then i think that. i think it's all but dead but you've got to keep in mind one thing just because mr obama went to the president and i

went i'm sorry went to the congress and if they turned him down he still has authority as commander in chief to proceed with bombing all he has to do under the war resolutions is report back and inform the congress what his intentions are and how many days it's going to take and all that he still has he still has authority to go ahead and initiate and not notwithstanding any congressional vote he would like to have congressional support he's not going to get it but on the other hand if he were to ignore this latest proposal and go full steam ahead and follow the dictates of the of the saudis and to try and who are really after. iran and its influence in syria then i think they really will show this administration's hand and i believe that it will then show just how bankrupt the whole notion has been on what the motivation was in the first place ok thank you we

do have to leave it senior security policy analyst for the u.s. defense secretary michael no they thank you. or president obama is sharpening his case for military intervention before a crucial congress vote has been said and he'll be making a string of media appearances later today before meeting democratic lawmakers and addressing the nation on choose day the senate could vote as early as wednesday and the house of representatives may take another week to make a decision or many in congress aren't convinced by obama's speech they want to see more evidence of assad's involvement in last month's alleged chemical strike according to a washington post estimate a majority in both chambers of congress are undecided and here's how the senate vote would play out if it took place right now the house of representatives could prove to be obama's biggest challenge it's dominated by republicans who are overwhelmingly against the military plan and gauge the mood on capitol hill but her

report does contain images which some of you might find disturbing. the upcoming vote in congress might not be as slam dunk as many thought it would be considering the support for military action in syria that congressional leaders have previously expressed members of congress admit that they are being bombarded by calls from their constituents ninety nine percent of whom demand that they vote no to the administration's plan to bomb syria ministration has failed to show me the direct threat to the united states of america we have absolutely no guarantee it will expand no guarantee of peace in the region the cia has prepared a video presentation that shows the aftermath of the brainless attacks in syria it's a collection of gruesome videos that were previously posted on you tube it's designed to sway members of congress to vote yes on bombing syria but the videos as gruesome as they are do not offer proof that the assad government has carried out the attacks nor does the four page on classified report released by the administration earlier members of congress are supposed to get the proving classified hearings but

as congressman alan grayson said they're being given intelligence briefings without any hard evidence to support administration's claims that the syrian leader has ordered the use of chemical weapons here's another members of congress are not allowed to discuss the classified hearings so we have no way of knowing what the administration has actually provided as evidence lawmakers are unable to discuss the evidence the classified evidence even among themselves unless they are inside an approved reading room and as congressman grayson says questioning the official account of events is quote actively discouraged is that the obama administration is doing what it calls flooding the fields in other words trying to monopolize the conversation dominate the discourse and provide only information in favor of an attack to members of congress and to the public i think that's unfortunate there's always two sides to the story when you talk about war and peace the public and congress definitely here deserve to hear about both sides the president's aides are

saying that he will listen to congress the president himself face hinting that. he might not be listening to congress which of course begs the question why this charade in congress then. while the country's civil war rages on war we are about to bring you a report from the frontline an ancient christian village in the mountains north of damascus has been besieged by syrian rebels who have now driven out government troops artie's witnessed all this is a report. we so what more lulu looks like right now this is a very sad picture which used to be picturesque a village surrounded by mountains in the central part of syria where you feel like time has almost stalled where people train in numerous churches all across the village inn and i make the language over jesus christ in greek in arabic and in french what also is home to dozens of.

mosques this now looks like a battlefield and i want to know how to take a look at what we saw. in the row militants and my little now and our. hotel this is the mountaintop hotel which was the. rubble. but as i say. the militants first of all. exploded the car at the checkpoint to enter the village and after that they took the mountain tops i feel. they are firing from this position and this is the highest point in the village and also the run milton's behind the mountain stood around in my little or so their position is very strong and

a very good in and no one can say for sure now for how long it will last my lul is a very symbolic place it's reflects how the entire syrian society used to be a very secular society and it very tolerant society and right now we can see that this society is shaken and this is exactly what is happening with the entire syrian community so it is a very symbolic a tux. and recently we saw a video posted on you tube where people who call themselves jihadist mujahideen who invaded malula they are in my loan this video they're saying that they came to my lula to protect people from brutal regime of bashar al assad how a cynic is this we were in mali last year in spring and i have to say that i haven't seen any place even here in syria where life is so calm and is so

peaceful. and you can follow in the area on twitter to get her updates on what's happening in syria and she's also got pictures from the new the way she traveled with syrian you can see how many three operation has been unfolding over the past few days and what makes that and say you need. to be in the cold. we're going to take a quick break now but coming up ugly echoes from the pop stuff to the bright to a place in south africa where the ghost of apartheid is very much alive.

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back i'm acting marius poised for a second term in office after winning sunday's election with just over fifty percent of the votes his main rival election a valley put up a tough challenge though securing twenty seven percent and is demanding a runoff he's called on his supporters to gather for a mass rally in sent from moscow to contest the results which he say's rigged let's cross live now to peace can i think he's in the center of the capital eagle what can you tell us at the moment what's happening in downtown moscow well this rally was authorized for two and a half thousand people it is to start the officially at seven pm moscow time so just literally fifteen minutes ago police have been calling on moscow is to respect law and order they have warned that they are ready to curve any attempts not to

play by the rules at the same time position candidate who came in second place during sunday's election that it's you know while he is demanding a partial recount of the ballots he's also he also claims that the necessary percentage which was needed for acting mere sort of you said ban into a secure victory in the first round was added was fully and he is demanding a second round to be held he's awful warned that if his demands are not met he me start calling for his supporters to take part in actions of civil disobedience just to remind you at two years of use a ban on sunday secured just over fifty one percent of the votes while he's meanwhile already seen the wily got just over twenty seven percent now mr know while he is quite a controversial figure in russia here is one of the leaders of the opposition but the controversy around him is also connected to his links with the russian nationalists he's also the normal because of fears of various online anti corruption projects in july he found himself in the center. i was scared though he

was what was he will struggle to offer in battle mode and sentenced to five years behind bars he was released on bail this allowed him to quote in the selection he still planning to appeal that sentence but concerning monday's events we will be monitoring how here in central moscow of course we'll be bringing you the waiters yes ok all right thank you you go that's a piece going off in the heart of moscow. but we've got plenty more stories for you online also at r.t. dot com at the moment. big body art revelers get in touch with their wild side at the hindu harvest festival in southern india you can see all the best pictures in vision gallery at r.t. dot com. also there when the seventy bites impels to tighten why not wait a few billion dollars that's what's happened in the u.k.

military according to a spending report that has just been released r.t. dot com tells you how those costly blunders came about. and a russian lawyer who gunned down six people last year after breaking up with his girlfriend and posting a hate manifesto one line has been sentenced to life in jail you can get the full story on there are. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world is seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the day. for some in south africa apartheid is more than just a bad memory a small community just outside the capital is raising eyebrows with its return to

the racial segregation practices abandoned almost two decades ago. traveled there. a half hour drive north of south africa's capital and you'll be forgiven for thinking you've traveled back in time it might be two decades since nelson mandela was sworn in as the country's first black president but communities hankering after south africa's apartheid past when racial segregation was enshrined in law are starting to wave their nationalistic colors when white people first advanced into the interior of south africa and eighteen hundreds this is what they saw before them vast dissolute stretches of land and now one hundred fifty years later they were turning to the dreams of a forefathers to create an independent entity with their own laws flag and language welcome to claim fontayne an aspiring whites only enclave if you're black you can visit but only for a few hours and with special permission but there's a lot of those redistrict. we don't actually say that. if you go

to work you can come the first thing that greets you is you coming to claim from tain is a bust of hendrik for vote the former south african prime minister considered the architect of a party eight all over signposts are written off the cons the language spoken by the town's one thousand inhabitants who can all trace their lineage back to the european settlers who arrived here in the sixteen hundreds residents insist they are not racist it's just that they don't welcome jews catholics or any english speakers either merissa has lived in came from tain for six years she says she feels safe here there's no crime and she enjoys being part of a community that shares the same culture and history this is private property so we're not taking anything from anybody else so we don't think i think it's a great show but we are we feel strongly about our identity and we want to protect that and preserve it. claim for danes residents include professors engineers and

other middle class professionals they pay fees to a copper to avoid that. gives them water and electricity the community has survived largely without the help of the government it has its own water pumps and a natural reservoir and there's a shopping center a bank a school overtime and center and several small businesses it's residence aid self-sufficiency born out of necessity they dream is to create their own flag and currency the problem we have in south africa is that many of the laws are based on race the benefit of a certain racial group they speak of black economic empowerment and many of our young people that weren't even born in the a particular don't have access to work that don't have free access to education. iliza smith moved here after being unable to find work she now cleans houses a job she's very grateful to have my skin and all that i there is no i'm not black and abroad for work work and then my freedom get to work. and that's when

we come back you're. under a party to the white off economy of government forced black south africans to live in homelands now decades later the dices turned and many white often corners feel that white homelands are the only solution but many south africans fear their communities that came from tain a merely lingering outpost of the apartheid era threatening to return the country back to the dark days of its racist past policy r.t. came from tain south africa. some international news in brief and i in chile police have broken up an anti pinochet march using tear gas the massive rally in santiago was to mark the fortieth anniversary of the coup that brought the dictator to power crowds commemorated the tens of thousands of people killed and tortured by the military john to which ruled until ninety ninety riot squads moved in after groups of demonstrators built barricades and lit fires. and an explosion near

a primary school in china has left the dead and seventeen injured at least ten of the wounded are children witnesses say a three wheeled motorbike pulled up in front of the building just before the blast security had already been tightened at education institutions after in violent knife attacks. after the break we head to the u.s. state of virginia where rising water levels on threatening the life of the hoods on the. 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 and someone who lived in kazakhstan for two years i know there's a real meat eating country with deeply rooted traditions in life stock 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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