the u.s. agrees to. strike plan afterwards it's raising questions over whether obama may have lost his appetite for war amid a lack of support both at home. the u.s. . civil war. coming up here and speak to those making a pilgrimage to syria and what they believe is a holy war. a crew from the international space station successfully comes to a soyuz capsule. and try to look economics. to a fully fledged alternative to the dollar. a

very good morning to you from us here at. this hour's top local headlines now it looks like president obama is toning things down after weeks of bombastic statements threats that the syrian government u.s. strike. to his nation which according to recent polls is against america getting involved in a brand new war here agreed to give way to diplomacy. has this report from washington. we saw president obama engaged in verbal acrobatics with the message that many americans will find very confusing he was forcefully pushing the idea that strikes against syria are necessary asking the american people to support him at the same time he will say maybe they will not be necessary and maybe diplomacy

can work he was whispering to russia's proposal for syria to give up its chemical weapons take a listen it's too early to tell whether this offer will succeed in any agreement must to verify that the assad regime keeps its commitments but this initiative has the potential to remove the threat of chemical weapons without the use of force particularly because russia is one of assad's strongest allies. i have therefore asked the leaders of congress to postpone a vote to authorize the use of force while we pursue this diplomatic path the spin that president obama is now putting on russia's proposal is that a diplomatic solution only came because he threatened force but as much as the u.s. president is now trying to capitalize on that line of fog it's important to remember what preceded this proposal president obama was facing congress that was most likely to vote no on his war initiative because american people overwhelmingly

oppose military action against syria and they've been barred their representatives with calls demanding that they vote no so he had congress the american people against him on bad be easy you was not going along the u.n. has been against such in the lidl action given all this many saw this diplomatic opening as a life raft if you will for president obama who with his military threat says basically boxed himself into a corner we heard a call for strip him of the nobel peace prize for not showing enough initiative to find a diplomatic solution while now the administration is saying secretary kerry was dismissive for marg on monday which russia picked up on was not really a rhetorical gaffe and that there was a strategy behind it by the way here's more about the strategy i've spoken to the leaders of two of our closest allies france and the united kingdom and we will work together in consultation with russia and china to put forward a resolution at the u.n. security council requiring us to give up his chemical weapons and to ultimately

destroy them under international control. will also give you one inspectors the up to report their findings about what happened on august twenty first it was interesting to hear president obama talk about the you when and inspector is considering that his administration was largely dismissive of the u.n. effort all the way trying to discredit the work of u.n. inspectors and refusing to show the u.n. security council the classified evidence that washington says it has against the assad government but it looks like the future of this resolution of this proposal will be about who the judgment on whether or not the proposal is working will belong to is it going to be the u.s. which has a track record of jumping two bombs as a first option or the international community which has a really interesting resolving the crisis in syria and making sure that the weapons are not used again. president obama's seemingly reluctant yes to the diplomatic

option could be an optimistic sign according to russia that this can only work out if washington scraps its war plans we'll talk more of the latest perceptions of moscow let's join a nice and now way and get the latest on this good morning to you and me so you and i lost both at the g. twenty summit in st petersburg where the leaders apparently agreed to disagree what's what's changed since then. very much has changed since that concise yet constructive and i'm quoting both leaders here bilateral between president putin and barack obama syria has agreed to give up its chemical weapons this is a game changer it's a way out for the u.s. and also a chance for diplomacy in the syrian crisis something that seemed almost impossible just a week ago but according to russia in order for it to work the threat of force needs to be taken off the table. in with lou surely a positive move because that i mean we've heard a positive reaction from syria to the chemical weapons destruction offer we're now

hoping that our syrian colleagues will make a responsible decision to put their stockpiles under control agreed to destroy them enjoying the chemical weapons nonproliferation treaty no doubt it can only work if we get the u.s. and its allies to agree not to use force. clearly this option is being taken very seriously by the u.s. it was first discussed by putin and obama and will now move forward this week between surrogate love rove and john kerry but you will lose president comes through most of the votes of we did talk about the since you had the g. twenty summit and we agreed that it will work in that direction and we'll have the secretary of state and russian foreign minister to try and move this forward. it's up to top diplomats now to try to move this proposal forward this week what many see as a last chance for a step towards peace in the syrian conflict. but as he's only said our there live just in front of the kremlin thanks very much for that. let's talk more about the.

founder and executive director for the institute of public accuracy thanks very much for joining us here on the program this morning in moscow mr obama just bite from the g. twenty what why do you think he felt the need to address the nation at this time. well it was somewhat of a desperation measure and the context has shifted just in the last few days there's a saying that when the people need well beater's will follow and the people of the united states overwhelmingly have led in the direction of preventing an airstrike on the country of syria so it remains to be seen whether the democratic process can further restrain president obama who still in his speech on tuesday night sounded very interested in watching cruise missiles at syria but something i mean you bring up that issue of still eager to launch cruise missiles a syria i mean it's a really because it's possibly a u.

turn isn't it with obama trying now to to pursue the route of diplomacy. well i think it's more of a stall and a hesitation at an intersection rather than a u. turn the president has locked himself into saying that nothing less than a u.s. military strike on syria would be appropriate and yet reluctantly in his speech he acknowledged that he has neither the american people nor the u.s. congress behind him and so with a somewhat tepid. rather restrained enthusiasm to put it mildly he referred to the diplomatic opening that has been largely created by russia's president putin and apparently with some resonance from the leadership beginning with assad in syria so i think it's very important and it kind of leadership has put forward i certainly i'm a critic of putin in some respects of his policies but in this case i think the

kremlin has shown the way for a diplomatic solution and the question is at the moment whether president obama is will going in able to take this chance for peace rather than remaining attached to his vision of some version of shock and awe over damascus so the american president barack obama just back from the g. twenty summit in st petersburg where he did meet with the russian president he goes that banging his war drums rattling it say but he comes back to america now addresses the nation and says hold on a second let's try and do the diplomatic maneuver here one question i have for you is obama saying that the bombing of syria a bombing of syria would be in america's national interest what exactly does that mean national interest. well it's sort of a boilerplate lofty cliche that in this case has been rejected by most of the public although in the past it has worked it's a worked for decades whether the target being recommended and urged by the

president was iraq or afghanistan or various other countries in this case the american national interest it's a narrow interest it certainly as is often as is routinely the case with leaders of government the national interest that they define is very very very different than the interests of the average working people the elderly the children it's not in our interest to make war on yet another country but frankly it's in the interests of certain political elites in washington and that is the conflict right now between the elite policymakers in the nation's capital of the united states of america and most of the people in this country who do not want to initiate yet another war effort by the u.s. government always has all been put on perhaps the backbone of fanaa a possible military strike against syria we're going to wait and see if the diplomatic a move to move a campaign out in the end however if it doesn't work out with diplomacy if

a strike is implemented what kind of consequences could that be in america after that do you think. politically it would be i think a real difficulty for obama who has given rhetorical friends to the constitutional role of the congress and yet always reserved his right to violate the constitution by ordering unilaterally inside the us political context and attacked their reputations of such a assault on syria by the us military by the pentagon i think would be not only politically damaging to obama but also so yet another blow to the hopes of americans to spend our money where it is really needed as it is around the world health care education housing and taking care of people's human needs norman solomon of the founder and executive director for the institute for public accuracy joining us live here on our team many many thanks indeed for that. syria's

chemical weapons disarmament is widely seen as a good idea there is still no complete unity at the u.n. security council russia has rejected france's proposal to invoke chapter seven of the u.n. charter to the document that would allow the handover of the arsenal though to the international state of control though because the concern is it also implies the use of force let's show you how it's been used in the past around the world here it's old nato warplanes bombing libya two years ago under the pretext of humanitarian intervention it also gave the green light to involvement in the iraq and kuwait conflict of course that was back in one thousand nine hundred ninety one as well as the invasion of iraq just twelve years later and back in the early one nine hundred fifty s. this part of the u.n. charter also became the basis for the korean war however the turn of events recently means that president obama is unlikely to be able to deliver the same call

to arms as his predecessors. my fellow citizens my fellow americans i want to talk to you today about brutal massacre of iraq kosovo. our armed forces against writing selected targets of military importance to diffuse a powder keg at the heart of europe to help bring peace to get the food through my god bless our country. and all who defend her. in the meantime are there has been a measurable lol in fighting in syria following obama's threats of attack but that has now dissipated with hostilities resuming across the board meanwhile international mercenaries armed militants continue to flood the country are convinced they are carrying out the will of god or forces men to such drastic extremes. has been investigating i this may look like an ordinary farewell amongst friends but the man in the lawn is llama coat is a suicide bomber leaving on his final journey. this is his last conversation with

his elder brother in a car that is supposed to take him to the rules of the central prison in aleppo syria and then explode sending him to paradise according to his beliefs these clips were found on a laptop taken from london and seen in the food age who is now in a syrian prison. he calls himself round and says he came to syria from the former soviet republic to fight. a group comrade approached me a year ago and convinced me that muslims in syria are being oppressed and killed and that i should go and take up arms against assad for world jihad and help establish a caliphate that will extend worldwide to europe america and everywhere his necke to into syria last january through turkey in istanbul two men who said they were from al qaeda and accompanied him to syria where he joined a large woman brigade run by an egyptian jihad is my job was mainly to prepare

bombs for cars the rim any people all from different countries our teachers showed us how to make bombs which ingredients to use and how exactly to cook it. one of his recent assignments was analytical prison bowman last may the man you saw in the fan well the deer was driving the car that rush on three pant. brought his entire family to syria including his five year old son on this video the militant shows his boy how to make a bomb they say after a father dies the song should continue the jihad i don't know what allah prepared for me but we have to finish what we started we spoke to rush on at the air force intelligence jail next to military at porting damascus in the cells. to me all. the prisoners here are mainly charged with by the terrorists or spying. this newly built unit can accommodate up to two hundred people and already it's almost full.

in the jails backyard an officer tells us not to get too close as the prisoners could be dangerous there are people here from syria yemen iraq jordan egypt and palestine but many came from europe as well. algerian with a french passport ammar has spent most of his life in france where he married a french woman and leave a normal life that changed after he was recruited by an islamic group with the kind of ties calling to hard in syria. i volunteered i went to an of refugees camp there i met a salafi group and i trained with them for about two and a half months and then we illegally crossed the border into syria. says as a son of fi a fundamental muslim he had to get involved. with so much sunni syrian brothers suffering here i saw an al-jazeera our beer another channels the

kids are also suffering i took up arms and i was ready to use them but when i came here i didn't see the enemy in a separate building they show us the weapons including handmade bombs and green maids seized from mitt. these are the instruments of global jihad that chose syria as a battlefield to bring foreign fighters and violence this prison may be full but beyond the walls iranian men with many causes remain free to continue their fight for him or if nationality damascus syria. well you can please do stay with us here on r.t. when i cross talk fires up the debate on whether syrian conflict is heading now that president barack obama has lifted his finger off the trigger that's coming your way in about three hours and ten minutes from now. i don't see bashar assad winning look at him where you look at where he's been in the last two years he's basically now known in the region as the one of the biggest criminals in this

region in terms of killing muslim people and killing someone so there's a look at where his body is you know should look at is no shortage of criminals in the region there have been on today ok i wouldn't call that a victory not know what he turning into religion it is that it's too early you to agree on a good kid who is killed at one hundred i mean let me go to you because name one iraqi leader who has killed one hundred thousand people peter please name. do you need why is the number so important to you ok it's slim pointed out there is legitimacy because i believe in this is we have one in what i am saying is we are trying all ours it has to. be used to remove the syrian. no surprise there tempers flaring the people of ellis cross talking about three hours time for the meantime though here on the program a soyuz capsule has successfully returned three crew members from the international space station back down to landing in the kazakh steppes a three and a half hour journey from orbit wrapped up their mission that lasted for almost half

a year. now joining me live here with the details here on the program this morning good morning to you tom i wonder how the cosmonauts are doing considering things must have been on a rubber leg st was amount of time. when u.s. astronaut chris cassidy and two russian cosmonauts pawel vinogradov off and alexander back safely on earth after their five months in space they seem well having been fished out of their soyuz capsule which parachuted down on to the step . kazakstan they were then wrapped in thermal blankets and began their climatized ation back to conditions on earth up there for five months orbiting around earth they took part in a number of space walks to help maintain the international space station size of a football pitch that floating spacecraft and also in involved in around forty different experiments looking at everything from the effects of zero gravity

on organisms and also on the on different materials to to physical experiments searchers new equipment brought up to the to the space station and looking at how well the space station itself is doing and bearing up to the rigors of zero gravity and and orbiting around earth there are three crew members now remaining up on the space station they'll be joined by three more shortly bringing the space station back up to its complement of six but for the moment we can all be glad that those those three crew of the i assess are back safely on earth all right indeed artie's tom thank you. thank you for joining us here on r.t. today those politicians in germany are getting rather serious about getting out the vote here on r.g.p. we speak to candidates from little known groups trying to pierce the vice like grip

that the major parties hold over national politics it's all ahead of elections later this month that's just around the corner for you here on the program. in the meantime though not content with its already spectacular economic rise china is vowing reform upon reform to guaranteed continued fortune according to the country's premier cutting red tape and establishing the u. one as a world currency at the top priorities now today also saw the opening of the seventh annual meeting of the new champions and economic summit has become synonymous with china's rising star artie's kitty pilgrim now the host of venture capital this report. china's fishing town of dahlia will welcome global leaders and finance heavyweights today for what has come to be known as the devil's the three day annual meeting of the new champions of the world economic forum as it's officially titers will feature all the double settlements the global leaders the business

heavyweights the save the world policies just. bought with the forever of valving global economy and china's increasing economic power in contrast years growth this asia event really highlights the economic shift east despite a recent slow downturn as economy is still posting growth figures just this week china's industrial production rose by more than expected in august along with actually output and retail sales the latest signs that the world's second largest economy is still robust so with china demonstrating a resilient economy this begs the question why have a world economic forum in europe sure where greed is astounded is the flowers on the mountain tops added to this following on from the g. twenty summit is pieces about the foundations of the one hundred billion dollar bric development bank we decided now this bank will drive all the i.m.f.

the world bank will concentrate on supporting the developing world china will contribute the bulk of the money to reflect the size of its economy with forty one billion dollars india brazil and china with eighteen billion dollars and south africa with five wm so the tensions focus east the remote ski resort of dov also even more isolated as the final continue to warm up to asia. always i loads more for you online right now including for example british police the public since two thousand and nine you can read about the latest report on how the relationship between the u.k. security forces and taser is has been growing ever closer in recent years. also online for you know half measures for this russian republic of dagestan police see here's a rocket launch. could be used to create

a big. details also. and i think. thank you for joining us here on r.t. today germany's campaign season is in full swing just two weeks from national parliamentary elections politicians are trying to scrounge for votes in the political field dominated by the major groups like the leftist social democrats and christian democratic union but peter all of it now reports some smaller parties are

making inroads into rule areas as they look to force their way on to the national stage. on the campaign trail hoping to strike a chord. and efficient with us we convince that we have to get a say and a higher level and we end up having to pay for the big decisions so we want to be part of the process. free voters are a grassroots political organization they're opposed to the major german parties they claim look out for the interests of big business over those voters we don't have the big money the other parties have so for commercials for leaflets etc we mostly paid ourself the candidates pay it because we cannot raise so much funds. also because we don't tolerate lobbyists most of their support comes from rural areas where people feel ignored by the bureaucracy in berlin the party has its eye

cast on influencing decisions far beyond the very a though they want to see struggling eurozone countries be able to reissue their own currencies to help tackle inflation as well as end bailouts at home the longest bank is still is bailed out by the state we don't want this any longer we don't want banks to be bailed out by the taxpayer small parties like this one are unlikely to cause too much concern for chancellor angela merkel however three voters are convinced that they can draw support from those who've become disillusioned with the more established political parties. in big parties this is flow from top to bottom and with these guys everyone can bring their ideas to the table and each person's opinion counts yeah yeah being in. i think small parties that are not spoiled yet are very important we need different points of view out there get on line about these small parties are not playing the game if they can

get into a coalition me they can have a real influence people. in the two thousand and eight varian state elections free vote is picked up just over ten percent of the vote this time the aiming to go further the others they have a lot of money so we have the members and we have the spirit how much that spirit converts into votes we'll find out on september the twenty second when germans go to the polls peter all of a very. and into the world up there we go straight to india now to start if four men have been convicted of rape and murder of a young woman on a bus. the judge said he reached the decision poppy on a statement given by the victim shortly before she died and the four men could face the death penalty by hanging when they are sentenced later today. there's been another night of clashes in turkey as hundreds of protesters took to the streets after the funeral of a student who died of what claimed was a police brutality

a demonstrator secu security forces were firing tear gas canister that fatally hit a twenty two year old man in the head after he participated in one of the anti-government rallies for that demi associate professor of the university of oklahoma he says the government is playing with fire applying so much force to tackle public discontent it is becoming increasingly clear is that their own government cannot tolerate any dissent what's trailer and they have no problem using the police while us as long as they aren't rich richer and and here we are again their government is again is in the police not sure if you tear gas and water cannons and you fact the initial took some results of the latest it shows clearly did he was shot by it's your gas or an outside object greater than falling from a building and killing himself i think there's only one targets of lehmann's to girl and one suppression of peaceful protesters and i must say he's playing with

fire and contrie is highly divided now if not more than you are so right on the verge of turning a half past eight on wednesday morning here in moscow it's r t with me more recent shame you can stay with us in a moment it's breaking this. stumbling in syria there can be no doubt the obama administration would very much like to strike syria and strike a hard problem is if you actually buy into the administration's so-called common sense reasoning surrounding assad's alleged use of chemical weapons what is the administration's real aim and has it painted itself into a red line corner. you

know i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so even though it is solders agreed to give it give up its chemical weapons arsenal a bomb and his team of one man there's a new danger closer to the night in a powder keg in syria as a result of two thousand speech from the then state senator obama started to attract attention and his campaign web site posted a video in two thousand and seven to highlight his fierce opposition to military intervention during the run up to the iraq war conveniently only thirteen seconds of the original two thousand and two speech exists online take a listen i don't oppose war in all circumstances and when i look out over those clouds of day i know there is no shortage of patriots. or patriots there's a what i do oppose is adult war interesting lee only a transcript remains for the rest of the speech and it's not hard to see why the obama p.r. machine isn't keen on making this particular video viral here's what obama goes on to say.