the u.s. agrees to see damascus chemically disarmed and will decide on its strike plan afterwards it's raising questions over whether obama may have lost his appetite for war all amid a major lack of support both at home and abroad. u.s. strike ease off their civil war picks up coming up here on r t we speak to those that making a pilgrimage to syria to fight in what they call a holy war. also the opening of a crew from the international space station successfully comes to an end as a soyuz capsule lands on the steps of. trying to look to broaden its economic star saying it wants to turn into a fully fledged alternative to both. thank

you for joining us today here on our. live in moscow. it looks like a president obama is toning things down after weeks of bombastic statements and 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 into a brand new war he agreed to give way to diplomacy first reporting 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 would 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 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 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 beat you was not going along the u.n. has been against such 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 boxing self into a corner we've 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 of mars 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 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. security council requiring assad to give up his chemical weapons and to ultimately

destroy them under international control. will also give you one inspectors the up to him 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. and the u.s. activist norman solomon he believes it's not a u.

turn but perhaps just a delay to america's war ambitions and he feels that at the end of the day it's the american people who should make the decision 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 feet he acknowledged that he has neither the american people nor the u.s. congress behind them and so as 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. and of president obama's seemingly reluctant yes to the diplomatic option could be an optimistic sign according to russia though this can only work out if washington scraps its plans for war r.t.c. needs to now it has the latest now on the perceptions 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 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 circuit love rove and john kerry but you're with believes president comes through most of the votes 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 a 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 attempts to invoke chapter seven of the un charter to the document which would allow the handover of the arsenal to international control though that's because it implies the use of force let's take

you back a bit and see how it's been used in the past it's all nato warplanes bombing libya two years ago under the 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 as well. 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 but 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 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 may god bless our country. and all who defend her. now in the meantime there was

a measurable lull in fighting in syria this following obama's threats of attack late last month but now it has dissipated the hostilities are resuming across the board meanwhile international most scenarios of militants continue to flood the country convinced they're carrying out the will of god but what forces men to such extremes were for national interest. i think 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 us 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 called 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 and accompanied him to syria where he joined a large commingling gate 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 family 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 that minute

and shows his boy how to make a bomb they say are very father dies this song should can get you high i don't know what al are prepared for me but we have to finish what we started we spoke to rush on at the air force intelligence jail next to a military airport in damascus in the cells and can read all. the prisoners here are mainly charged by the terry smith of 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 in of 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. says as a son of the fundamental muslim he had to get involved. with so much sunni syrian brothers suffering here i saw an al-jazeera arabic on other 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 chased syria as a battlefield to bring foreign fighters from violence this prison may be full but beyond the walls really men with many causes remain free to continue their fight. notion r

t damascus syria. as usual here on r.t. it's your opinion or always hungry for you can join our discussions r.t. dot com and so we're asking basically what the result of syria's potential chemical disarmament could be let's see how most of our viewers are voting this hour marty dot com still though in blue sixty three percent saying that washington will simply wait for the weapons to be removed then it will strike in the heart of damascus a very distant second position saying that or the unaccounted chemical weapons will still be used down to thirteen percent the syrians to get on though with a conventional war it's going to be the bare minimum with only a handful of thinking now seven percent of the syrian government in his opponents will engage in peace negotiations where you can still card your vote or even in the comments section of our website you can express your full view it was not representative right here on the board from r.t.

dot com all right i'm back with more of the top world headlines for this hour here on r.t. in just a moment. stumbling in syria there can be no doubt fuel bomb 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 which is the administration's real aim and has it painted itself into a red line for no. right to see. first strike. and i think you're. on our reporter's twitter. instagram. d m o o o.

thanks for joining us here and. across talking about twelve minutes time but for now here on the program a soyuz capsule has successfully returned three crew members from the international space station back to earth of course landing on the steps of kazakhstan it was a three and a half hour journey from obit that wrapped up that mission that last if a nearly a half a year. has details. one u.s.

astronaut chris cassidy and two russian cosmonauts pawel than a 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 on to the step in kazakstan they were then wrapped in thermal blankets and began their climatized sation 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 and 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. right there now as politicians in germany get serious about getting out the vote speaks the kind words from little groups trying to pierce the vice like grip that the major parties hold over national politics it's all ahead of parliamentary elections later this month still to come here on the program. and in turkey slipped back into violence as hundreds wreak havoc in the country blaming police for the death of an anti government activist and urging the public to restart an anti government riots.

but for now here on the program not content with its already spectacular economic rise china is vowing reform upon reform guaranteed continued fortune according to the country's premier cutting red tape in establishing the u. one as a world currency other top priorities and today will 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. pilbeam the host of our business program venture capital has this report. those 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 officially titers will feature all the double settlements the global leaders the business heavyweights the save the world policies just minus

a sniper but with the forever of valving global economy and china's increasing economic power in contrast years back in a 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 the mountain tops added to this following on from the g. twenty summit is that this is about the foundations of the one hundred billion dollars 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 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. now among the reforms promised by the new government efforts to combat corruption improve infrastructure and deregulate markets i talked to thought in part book from peking university i spoke to him just a bit earlier he feels that there's still a bit of a long journey ahead of beijing but there are a lot of things they cornered me it's actually found then a lot of other things in china like the political maturity and social problems that still loom and lots in china and one of the toppers actually at the global forum in this these days is also work ethics you know china wants to have

a stakeholder in making the rules of the game and shaping them in the future i think it's perfectly reasonable to think that the chinese want to see their currency to become the next word currency they supply and and of course sign at the moment is for purchasing more and more gold this also plays into this sort of china you take. for what actually took control of the currency and to replace it with a yes. well there's always a plenty more for you online including for example british police shocking the public since two thousand and nine you can read about the latest report on how the relationship between the u.k.'s ball and tasers has been growing closer in recent years. also no half measures for this russian man from the republic of dagestan he's. seen as one of the top crime lords as police sees his a rocket launch fairing it could be used to create a big boom those details also on the web site right now.

the scene. searched for. and i think. foreigners. instrumental. in the. it's good to have you with us here on r t today there has been another night of clashes in turkey as hundreds of protesters took to the streets after the funeral of one student who died after what was claimed to be a case of police brutality demonstrators secu security forces are firing a tear gas canister fatally hit the twenty two year old in the head after he participated in one of the anti-government rallies the students killing sparked

calls to renew anti-government riots that had just come down since june and they fear that they mirror the associate professor at the university of oklahoma you believe the government is playing with fire applying so much force to tackle public discontent it is becoming increasingly clear is that they are on government and not tolerate any descents what's real are and they have no problem using the police while us as long as they aren't perpetrators and and here we are again their government is again using them all this. gas and water cannons and even. some results of the latest it shows the only dead he was shot by it's your gas or in an outside object rather than falling from a building and killing himself i think there's only one part of the lamest girl and one in 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. already here on are to becoming to live from moscow is germany's campaign season is in full swing or

two weeks from national parliamentary elections politicians are out and about trying to scrounge up the last of the votes in the political field though dominated by the major groups like the leftists social democrats and angela merkel's christian democratic union but as artie's put all of the reports candidates for some smaller parties are making inroads in the rural areas if they look to force their way onto the national stage. on the campaign trail hoping to strike a chord. and official telling us we convince that we have to get a say at 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 votes is 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 and most of their support comes from rural areas where people feel ignored by the bureaucracy in berlin the party has its eye counted on influencing decisions far beyond the very a though they want to see struggling eurozone countries be able to be issued their own currencies to help tackle inflation as well as in bailouts home the us bank is still its bailout by the state we don't want this any longer we don't want banks to be bad 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 stop political parties. in big parties this is flow from top to bottom and that with

these guys everyone can bring their ideas to let's say brighton and each person's opinion counts yeah putting in or interim fifty heads with us the i think small parties that are not spoiled yet are very important we need different points of view out there more you get on line but i don't and what are 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 voters picked up just over ten percent of the vote this time they're aiming to go further the others they have a lot of money 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. r.t. for their. white world update time here on the program to india we go where protests have erupted outside the court where four men were accused of the rape and

murder of a young woman in the capital the twenty three year old was viciously assaulted on a bus in new delhi in december last year the judge said he reached the decision partly on a statement given by the victim shortly before she died and the four men are due to be sentenced today when they face death by hanging. and emotions the crews are fighting for major fires sweeping close to the west of sydney the helicopters are being brought in to try and douse the flames but they're being fanned by strong winds and high temperatures and investigation has been launched into what sparked the blazes though it is thought that a fire control operation could be to blame. for an hour before that car bombers ripped through the foreign ministry building in the libyan city of benghazi it's not yet known if anyone was hurt in the attack and it comes a year to the day after the american ambassador and three staff were killed during an assault by militants on the u.s.

consulate in the same city and the libyan foreign minister told r.t. before the blasts that security is the cornerstone of a functioning state. it is extremely important that the government and the national congress he's capable of capable of responding to the table for challenges we have at the moment not only the internet security and peace but also in relation to border security. this is not going to happen unless you have a proper defense in place you have a proper police in place and you have a proper intelligence in place we are not going to expect any to turn for the return of investment in libya can the absence of security so the latest news on syria the american president delays a type of military strike against the war torn state what is next for though that's to be discussed crossed.

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the spanish find out more visit to our. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things are considered i'm peter lavelle 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 so rounding assad's alleged use of chemical weapons what is the administration's real aim and has it painted itself into a red line corner. to .