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into a fully fledged alternative to the. good morning to you from all of us here. in the russian capital with the hour's top headlines so it looks like a president obama is toning things down after weeks of bombastic statements and threats to the syrian government is a u.s. strike in an address to his nation to recent polls against america getting involved into a brand new war he agreed to give way to diplomacy. has this report from washington . we saw president obama engaged in verbal acrobatics with a 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
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support him at the same time he will say maybe they will not be necessary and maybe diplomacy can work he was referring 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 thought it's important to remember what preceded this proposal president obama was facing congress that was
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most likely to vote no on his war initiative because american people overwhelmingly oppose military action against syria and they've been barred at 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 model action given all this many saw this diplomatic opening as a life left 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 is dismissive for marg on monday which russia picked off on was not really a rhetorical gaffe and that there was a strategy behind it by the way here is 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.
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security council requiring assad to give up his chemical weapons and to ultimately destroy them under international control. i will also give you one inspectors the opportunity to report their findings about what happened on august twenty first it was interesting to hear president obama talk about the you when and inspectors 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 to 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. and that president obama's seemingly reluctant yes to the
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diplomatic option could be an optimistic sign that according to russia this can only work out if washington scraps its plans for war. or has more of the latest perceptions in moscow i just spoke to her a very short while ago on the program. 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 in a positive mood because that i mean we've heard of positive reaction from syria to the chemical weapons destruction offer that 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
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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 circuit love rove and john kerry but yet when the president comes through most of the votes i think 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 to 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. now the american government has found itself in a situation where it has to deal with what its own people think that's according to norman solomon the founder and executive director of the institute for public accuracy. 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
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acknowledged that he has neither the american people nor the u.s. congress behind them and so as is often as is routinely the case with leaders of governments the national interest that they define is there a very very different than the interests of the average working people the elderly the children it's not in our interests 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. and while syria's chemical weapons to some amount is widely seen as a good idea but there's still no complete unity at the u.n. security council russia has rejected france's proposal to invoke chapter seven of
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the un charter to the document which would allow the handover of the arsenal to international control though that's because it implies that the use of force here is how it's been used in the past let's just give you a bit of a backdrop here on it's all nato war planes bombing libya two years ago under the pretext of humanitarian intervention and it also gave the green light to involvement in iraq and the kuwait conflict back in ninety one as well as the invasion of iraq twelve years later also back in the early one nine hundred fifty s. this part of the u.n. charter also became the basis for the korean war but the turn of events recently means that president obama is unlikely to be able to deliver the same call to arms as that of his predecessor. my fellow citizens my fellow americans i want to talk to you today about brutal massacre in 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
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god bless our country. and all who defend her. now there was a measurable lol in fighting in syria following obama's threats of attack late last month but now that has dissipated with austerity is resuming across the board meanwhile international most areas and militants continue to flood the country can vince they're carrying out the will of god but what forces men to such extremes parties where if an option or has been investigated i this may look like an ordinary farewell amongst friends but the man in the long as lama 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 man seen in the fourth age who is now in
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a syrian prison. he calls himself round shown and says he came to syria from the former soviet republic to fight. a group called approach 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 met him and accompanied him to syria where he joined a large woman brigade run by an egyptian jihad ists 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 and a little present bowman last may the man you saw in the fan well he was driving the
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car that russian prepared russian 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 son should continue the jihad i don't know what al are prepared for me but we have to finish what we started we spoke to russian at the air force intelligence jail next to a military airport in damascus in the cells. in new york. the prisoners here are mainly charged with by the terrorists and spying. this newly built unit can accommodate up to two hundred people and already it's almost full. in the jails backyard and 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
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a french woman and leave a normal life that changed after he was recruited by an islamic group with an kind of ties calling to hard in syria. i volunteered i went to turkey in a refugee 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. under says as a son of the a fundamental muslim he had to get involved. with so much sunni syrian brothers suffering here i saw an al-jazeera arabic 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 west weapons including handmade bombs and green maids seized from militants these are the instruments of global jihad that syria as a battlefield to bring foreign fighters and violence this prison may be full but
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beyond the walls many men with many causes remain free to continue their fight. notion r t damascus syria. and if you can i do stay with us here on r.t. when crosstalk fires up the debate on whether syrian conflict is heading now the president barack obama has lifted his finger off the trigger about two hours time. i don't see bashar al 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 soon 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 knowing what he's turning into religion it is that it's too early you get to a degree i got a kid who was killed at one hundred five and let me go to you because name one arab leader who has killed one hundred thousand people peter please name. do you need
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and why is the number so important to you ok it's flynn pointed out there is legitimacy because i believe in this is we have one in various areas they are trying all ours you have to decide who used to really who are of syria. i want to very good morning to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow a successful space and mass demonstrations in turkey those are just some of the top world headlines in just. london. the whole world is. on the end. of the building at the end of the street another one more transparent society gets the money or the tears become real see.
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and for this false is mobilized against people who blend into the city the city the more people trust electronic devices the more. as a. hierarchy. least be called language. programs and documentaries in arabic it's. reporting from the world talks about six of the interviews intriguing stories are you. trying. to. visit. with me. a soyuz capsule successful three crew members from the international
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space station. landing on the steps of kazakhstan. wrapped up their mission that lasted for almost half a year a very short while ago i spoke to watch he was told bot. one u.s. astronaut chris cassidy and two russian cosmonauts grad off and alexander missouri qin are 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 in 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 the size of a football pitch that floating spacecraft and also in involved in around forty
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different experiments looking at everything from the effects of zero gravity on organisms and also on the on different materials to to physical experiments such as 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. there as a politicians in germany are getting serious about getting out the vote r.t.c. kind of votes from little known groups trying to pierce the vice like grip the major parties hold over national politics in all in just ahead of parliamentary
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elections later this month still ahead for you in the program also turkey slipping back into violence as hundreds wreak havoc in the country blaming the police for the death of an anti government activist and urging the public to restart anti government riot. it's. but for the meantime here on our not contend with it's already spectacular economic rise china is vowing reform upon reform to guaranteed continued fortune according to the country's premier cutting red you to excuse me red tape and establishing the u. one as a world currency are the top priorities today also saw the opening of the seventh annual meeting of the new champions an economic summit that's become synonymous with china's rising star and artie's kitty pilgrim the host of education at all just a bit earlier she filed this report. china's fishing town of dahlia will welcome
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global leaders and finance heavyweights today for what has come to be known as the sama doubles the three day annual meeting of the new champions of the world economic forum as it officially titers will feature all the double settlements the global leaders the business heavyweights the save the world policies just. bought with the forever 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 enviable growth figures just this week china's industrial production rose by more than expected in august along with factory 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
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the mountain tops added to this following on from the g. twenty summit is 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 stuff africa with five william so the tensions focus east the remote ski resort of dov also even more isolated is the finance elite continue to warm up to asia. always a plenty more for you on line including this hour for example british police shocking the public since two thousand and nine every day about the latest report on how the relationship between the u.k.'s ball and tasers has been growing at closer in recent years. and no measures for this russian made from the republic of
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dagestan police seize his rocket launcher very it could be used to create a big but those details also on the web site right now. the scene. first street. and i think you're. going to. be in the. so before we get to the world update for now we go to turkey where there's been another night of clashes as hundreds of protesters took to the streets after the funeral of a student who died of what was claimed to be that of police brutality demonstrators
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accuse security forces of firing a tear gas canister that fatally hit the twenty two year old in the head after he participated in one of the anti-government rallies the students killing spots calls for a new anti-government riots that. should say since june. the associate professor at the university of oklahoma he believes the government is playing with fire when applying so much force to tackle public discontent. it is becoming increasingly clear is that there are government. solar arrays a need to sense whatsoever and they have no problem using the police while us as long as they are not perpetrators and here we are again. their government is again using the police not sure if you tear gas and water cannons and in fact the initial took the results of the latest it shows clearly did he was shot by it's your gas for an outside object greater than falling from a building and killing himself i think there's only one particle
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a monster garlands one separation of peaceful protesters and i must say he's playing with fire and did the country's high do i did now if not more than an hour . now germany's campaign season it's in full swing just are two weeks now national parliamentary elections politicians while they're often about trying to scrounge up some votes and the political field though being dominated by the major groups like the leftist social democrats calls christian democratic union but as art is part of all of our reports candidates for some smaller parties are making inroads into rural areas as they look to force their way onto the national stage. on the campaign trail hoping to strike a chord. and official telling us we're convinced that we have to get a say and a higher level we end up having to pay for the big decisions so we want to be part of the process people free voters are a grassroots political organization they're opposed to the major german parties
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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 ourselves 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 its bailout 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
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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 but with these guys everyone can bring their ideas to the table each person's opinion counts yeah. i think small parties that are not spoiled yet are very important we need different points of view out there. but these small parties are not playing the game if they can get into a coalition me they can have a real influence. in the two thousand and eight varian state elections free voters picked up just over ten percent of the vote this time they aiming to go further the others they have a lot of money so we have the members and we have the spirit how much the spirit converts into votes we'll find out on september the twenty second when germans go to the polls peter all over the very well it's going to the r.t.
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world update now to india we go our protests have erupted outside the court where four men were convicted over the rape and murder of a young woman in the capital of a twenty three year old was viciously assaulted on a bus in new delhi in december last year and the judge said he reached the decision partly on a statement given by the victim shortly before she died before manager to be sentenced today where they could face death by hanging. on to australia where emergency crews are fighting for major fires sweeping close to the west of sydney and helicopters have been used to try and douse the flames there they're being fanned by strong winds and high temperatures and investigation has been launched into what sparked the blazes there were it's thought that a fire control operation could actually be to blame. well i was not a hall pass the al here in the russian capital i'm wrong research i live on artsy
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thank you for joining us today more news to come in about half an hour's time. told him a language of what i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. the pollution and no i will leave them to state clearly to comment on your latter point of the month to say. to carry out a car is on the docket no. thank you no more weasel words when you need a direct question be prepared for a change when you punch be ready for a battle freedom of speech and a little down to freedom to question. do we speak your
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