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the dollar. the world's top headlines for their lives. today it looks like president obama is toning things down after weeks of bombastic statements threats that the syrian government deserves a u.s. strike in an address to his nation which according to recent polls is against america getting involved in a brand new war he agreed to give way to diplomacy reporting 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

support him at the same time he will say maybe they will not be necessary and maybe diplomacy can work with whispering to russia's proposal for syria to give up its chemical weapons pickle this it's too early to tell whether this offer will succeed in any agreement must 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 you know little 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 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 of mars on monday which russia picked up on was not really a rhetorical gaffe and that there was a strategy behind it you know there by the way here is more about the strategy i've spoken to the leaders of two of our closest allies france in 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 assad to give up his chemical weapons and to ultimately

destroy them under international control. laws will 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 u. 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 and what 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 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 walked him self 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 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 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. now president obama's seemingly reluctant yes to the diplomatic option could be an optimistic sign of courting to russia though this can only work out if washington scraps its plans for war are to use anything now it has more on the latest perceptions right here in moscow. 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 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 meet those opportunities present them soon 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. and our reporting right there and while syria's chemical weapons disarmament is widely seen as a good idea there's 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 which would allow the handover of the arsenal to the

international state of control it's all because though it implies the use of force here's how it was used in the past let's give you a bit of backdrop here and say it's all nato warplanes are bombing libya. pretext of that of a humanitarian intervention it also gave the green light to involvement in the iraq and kuwait conflict in one thousand nine hundred one i was what is the invasion of iraq just about twelve years later and back in the early one nine hundred fifty s. this part of the un charter also became the basis for the korean war but the turn of events recently means that president obama was on likely to be able to deliver the same call to arms as that of his predecessors 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 god bless our country. and all who defend her. in the meantime there was

a measurable low in fighting in syria following obama's threats of attack late last month but now that has dissipated with hostility is resuming across the board meanwhile international mercenaries and militants continue to flood the country convinced that carrying out the will of god what forces men to such extremes. has been investigated. i this may look like an ordinary farewell amongst friends but the man in the lawn is lucky 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 explained sending him to carradice according to his beliefs these clips were found on the laptop taken from a wanted man seen in the food age who is now in

a syrian prison. he calls himself round shown and says he came to syria from a former soviet republic to fight. a group called murat 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 nicht 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 mormon 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 a little present bowman last may the man you saw in the fan well he did was driving

the car the 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 song 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 need of. the prisoners here are mainly charged with either terry smith 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 into 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. or says as a son of the fundamental muslim he had to get involved. with so much sunni syrian brothers suffering here i saw in 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 chose syria as a battlefield to bring foreign fighters and violence this prison may be full but

beyond the walls many men with many causes remain free to continue their fight for . damascus syria. and it's always our your opinion we're hungry for here at r t you can join the discussions at r.t. dot com it's where we're asking what the result of syria's potential chemical disarmament could be here come the stance for this hour from ati dot com right now still though the majority sixty three percent ultimately saying of her the u.s. and its allies are just going to wait until the toxic arsenal is removed and then they'll strike anyway seventeen percent now saying that her the international measure won't prevent the further use of illegal agents in syria some believing that the war will continue but this time without chemical weapons and only a very small handful thinking now the syrian government and its opponents will engage in peaceful negotiations well you can always accost your vote here go to the

comment section of our website expression of you there if none of the options offered are close to your opinion or for the meantime here on our successful space landing and mass demonstrations in turkey a lot more of the world's top headlines for you after a short break. london . the whole world is. going to be true of the original one the one on the end. of the court building at the end of the street another one a more transparent society gets the money or the public tears become we see military and state police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city the city the more people trust electronic devices the more

defenseless the. fear that the. economic down in the final. days. and the rest. will be every. time it's. a soyuz capsule has successfully returned three crew members from the international space station back to landing on the steps of kazakhstan three and

a half hour journey from obit wrapped up that mission that lasted for almost half a year with dot com by. one u.s. astronaut chris cassidy and two russian cosmonauts pawel the no grad off and alexander missouri kin 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 onto 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 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 crewmembers 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. are still to come here on r t as politicians in germany get serious about getting out the vote here about the kind of it's from a little known group trying to pierce the vice like grip that the major parties hold over national politics all ahead of parliamentary elections later this month that's coming your way shortly here on the program. but for the meantime not

contend with its already spectacular economic rise china is vowing reform upon reforms are 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 and today we'll also see the opening of the seventh annual meeting of the new champions an economic summit that's become synonymous with china's rising star artie's katie pilbeam the host of venture capital has 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 pharma doubles 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 minuses. but 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 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 as 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 stuff

africa with five william so the tensions focus east the remote ski resort of dov also even more isolated as the final continue to warm up to asia. and he's keeping right there now the chinese premier will personally speak at the summit today slated for nine o'clock g.m.t. the plan is to lay out beijing's economic issues for the future but for now let's get some more perspective on china's current situation dr thought and work from peking university joining us here on the program a big hello to you from all of us here at r.t. moscow do you think with china saying that it wants to make the you want a global alternative to the dollar is there any possibility of that happening at some point. well first of all the how to russia it's a pleasure to be on the program yes i think it's perfectly reasonable to think that the chinese want to see their currency to become the next work currency they supply

and and of course sign at the moment is for her safety and more and more gold this also plays into this you know we had this recently presented several tons of hundred tons of gold through long kong the trading hot and of course if you go in like small the dragon this is a lot about pristine the mere presence of gold in your country gives rise to a bit more self-confidence and to this blink blink sense that sensation that china is really up to something you know the man our attention to buy more gold in the future i will certainly have an impact on the rise of gold prices in the world for china to take a leap forward actually to control the world currency and to replace it with the euro yes so as you say that china is taking a leap forward when it comes to trying to control the global currency but at the moment the chinese leadership is is very much focused on issues of reform why is that i mean isn't china in a pretty good pretty good state of economic shape at the moment. it

is still growing by seven point five percent that's enough for the current leadership and of course the trying naturally it's a reform based society to announce reforms regularly the new government is pursuing a range of new reform. tax reforms obviously they want to transform presently that want to transform an investment led economy into a more interest to me that it's more for course the mess that their consumption but you think at this point you think china and i'm sorry i'm running low on time did you think china can actually keep up with this current economic growth. oh yes of course i know this i believe that it will keep it up for the next ten years at least. i thought enough to perk up china export of a peking university thank you for coming on so quickly and joining us here on the morning program on our timor sky thank you. for your program. i will still to come here on r.t.

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 was claimed to be a result of police brutality demonstrators accuse security forces of a tear gas canister that fatally hit a twenty two year old in the head of the participated in one of the anti-government rallies of the students killings calls to a new anti-government riots that had just come down since june and if the associate professor at the university of oklahoma he believes the government is playing with fire and applying so much force to tackling 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 are not perpetrators and and here we are again their government is again using the police not sure if you tear gas and water cannons and you. took the results of the latest it shows the only dead she was shot by it's your gas or an outside object rather

than falling from a building and killing themselves i think there's only one point of a layman's to girl and 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 you are . you're watching r t now and germany's campaign season it's in full swing just two weeks from national parliamentary elections and politicians are out and about trying to scrounge up the last votes of the political field though dominated by the major groups like the leftist social democrats and anglo merkel's christian democratic union as artie's put it all over reports candidates for some smaller parties are making inroads in rural areas as they look to force their way on to the national stage. on the campaign trail hoping to strike a chord. and if we convince 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. free voters are a grassroots political organization they are 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 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 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 and each person's opinion counts yeah putting in. i think small parties that are not spoiled yet are very important we need different points of view out there. but i know 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 vote is 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 of a r.t. the very. are still to come here on r t with c.c.t.v. cameras watching your every step and the most advanced security gear in place how can terrorists still stay off the radar and carry out their deadly actions documentary is next. i know c.n.n. the most n.b.c. fox news have taken some lots lately but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think.

it's because one full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on you. and our teen years we have a different brain. oh yeah because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not high. but if. you get to the jokes i will handle them. busch's the perpetrators are older than is driven by the hatred of the government. as a religious fanatics. kind of society protect itself against the encounter healable

how should it react to attacks with retaliation. or like the citizens of norway and spain who opted for freedom and openness. london two thousand and five. on july the seventh four bombs exploded three in underground trains one in a double decker bus the result fifty six deaths and seven hundred injuries the attack is not from the outside nor from the end. the four young assassins of muslims three of them born in the u.k. . traumatic experience for the metropolis in the blink of an eye the entire city fell out of step it's about her ability visible tool. these things live on in the collective memory they become sources of mourning and

memorial and they have formal memorials and solemn but this is nothing actually new you know london has a two thousand year history of disasters of plague of wall of strife so there is a pragmatic culture to this city as with many other cities that you know you grief you move on you go through trauma and shock and then life goes on and what is the alternative to have one just stay at home. and bunker themselves off from the future of the world and the life of the city it's not an option. the police quickly identified the perpetrators and their accomplices naturally with the help of surveillance cameras. in a second series of attacks fourteen days later and innocent man was shot george sheldon s.s. he had dark skin.