the u.s. agrees to see damascus chemically design and will decide on its tripe while afterwards raising questions over whether obama has lost his appetite for me to support balls at. a u.n. report to don's ba'ath regime forces and rebels for shelling and not securing civilians coming out with speaks of those making a pilgrimage to syria to join the great jihad. also the odyssey of a crew from the international space station successfully comes to an end as they say cops your lungs in the concept that. china looks to brighten its economic start saying it wants to turn the yuan into

a fully fledged alternative to the dollar and you are. russia on the wrong the wall this is our she with me. hello and welcome to the program it looks like president obama is stunning 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 against america getting involved into a brand new war has agreed to give way to diplomacy fast. chicken reports now 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 with whispering to russia's proposal for syria to give up its chemical weapons pickle misses 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 beat you was not going along the u.n. has been against such unilateral 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 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'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 assad to give up his chemical weapons and to ultimately

destroy them under international control. 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 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 real interest in resolving the crisis in syria and making sure that the weapons are not used again. the prospects of american strike against syria has revealed

deep public and political chasms within the u.s. pushing president obama in a very uncomfortable position that's to believe. has been extensively writing on the last well we see the most the most powerful man in the birth the u.s. american president being complete lonely with his position we see the mongering is coming from the western governments especially from the u.s. government but he doesn't have any support of the population we see all to the wall mongering by the way by the mainstream media but barack obama knows very well that even if the congress permits a military strike military aggression against syria it would be made with a very small my jaw rooty so he would have to govern a split nation already no use governing the split nation so he has to delay so that this doesn't come out now he's in the very very difficult in

a very weak position right now. president obama's seemingly reluctant a yes to the diplomatic option could be an optimistic sign but according to russia this can only work out if washington. plans all season isn't our latest perceptions. 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 when the doors are closed early as 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 while syria's chemical weapons design and as widely seen as a good idea there's still no complete here and see a big un security council russia has rejected attempts to involve chapter seven of the un chance the document which would allow the handover all the arsenal to international control that's because it implies the use of force and here is how it

was used in the past let's now have a low gate so nasal warplanes bombing libya to get ago under the pretext of humanitarian intervention it also gave the green light to involvement in iraq and kuwait conflict in one thousand and ninety one as well as the invasion of iraq twelve years later 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 were simply means that president obama is unlikely to be able to deliver the same call to arms as his predecessor my fellow citizens my fellow americans i want to talk to you about brutal massacre of iraq kosovo have been on the market our armed forces against reich you 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 your country. and all who defend the. rebels

for in jihad is and government troops have been condemned by un report which found them guilty in a war crimes including civilian massacres and indiscriminate shelling meanwhile international mercenaries and militants continue to flood the country convinced that carrying out of the will of god but also is meant to such extremes are his more if a national has been investigating for. 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 walls of the central prison in aleppo syria and then explode sending him to paradise according to his beliefs these clips were found on the laptop taken from one of the men seen in the food age who is now in a syrian prison he calls himself rush on 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 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 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 analytical prison bowman last may the man you saw in the fan well he was driving the 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 military at porting damascus in the cells. to me all. the prisoners here are mainly charged with by the terrorists 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 an kind of ties calling for jihad 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. says as a son of the a 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 aides 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 really men with many causes remain free to continue their fight. t. damascus syria. and it's your opinion we're always interested in joining our discussion at r.t. dot com where asking what they result of syria's chemical design moment could be so far the majority are viewers and readers saying that the u.s. and its allies are just going to wait until toxic arsenal is removed and will strike anyone any way around seventeen percent of those who voted say that the international measure won't prevent the further use of illegal agents in syria some believe that the war will continue but without chemical weapons and only seven percent of those who voted saying the syrian government and its opponents will engage in peace negotiations use our comments section to express your view if none of the options you can hear you can see here is close to your thoughts and i do say

with us after the break when we hear about the crew space capsule getting their feedback on solid ground and how election hopefuls are going after the grassroots vote in germany. stumbling in syria there can be no doubt feel balmy administration would very much like to strike syria and strike a hard problem is if you actually bought into the administration's so-called commonsense 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. right on the scene. first street. and i think picture. on our reporters later. instagram.

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almost half a year elsie's told boston hospital tales for. 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 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 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. as politicians in germany get serious about getting out the vote she speaks to comes it's from groups trying to peers device like a group of the major parties hold our national politics ahead of parliamentary elections later this month that's coming up. and turkey's slips back into violence as hundreds of in the country blaming the police for the deaths or an anti government acts against and urging the public to restart

anti-government riots. not content with its already spectacular economic rise china is vowing to reform a poor reform to guarantee continued fortune according to the country's premier cutting red tape understand wishing the yuan as a world currency other top priorities today will also see the opening of the seventh annual meeting of the new champions and it will because summit that's become synonymous with china as a rising star to people being host of venture capital reports. china's fishing town of dahlia will welcome global leaders and finance heavyweights today for what has come to be known as the summer 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 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 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. the foundations of the one hundred billion dollars bric development bank we decided now this bank would rival the i.m.f. the world bank will concentrate on supporting the developing world 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 among the reforms farmers by the new government our efforts to combat corruption improve infrastructure and deregulate markets and force and work from the university of wales there's still a long journey ahead for beijing. i think so though they corner me grow it's actually been a lot of other things in china like the political maturity and social problems that still loom at large in china and one of the topics 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 china is

taking a leap forward actually. and to replace it with a yes. there's always plenty online for you including pretty shocking the public since two thousand and nine read about the latest report on the relationship between the u.k.'s bobbies and tasers has been growing at a closer in recent years. measures for this russian from the republic of dagestan who's seen as one of the top climate holds that as police seize his rocket launcher fearing it could be used to create a big group all the details for you to talk to dot com. right to see. her story. and i think the true.

borders would. be and. there's been another night of clashes in turkey as hundreds of persistence took to the streets after the funeral of a student who died of what was claims to be pleased personality demonstrators accuse security forces a firing a tear gas canister that phrase and they hate the twenty two year old in the head after he participated in one of the anti-government rallies the students killings sponsored calls to ring you to government riots that have calmed down as cheering and. associate professor at the university of oklahoma believes the government is playing with fire applying so much force to taco public discontent. it is becoming increasingly clear is that there are government cannot tolerate any dissent what's real are and they have no problem using the police while us as long as they are the

perpetrators and are and here we are again their government is again as in the police aren't sure if you tear gas and water cannons and in fact the initial autopsy results of the latest step shows clearly did she was shot by or in an outside object rather than falling from a building killing himself i think there's only one point it's of limited to girl and one supposition of peaceful protests or but i must say he's playing with fire and did the country's high do i did now if not more than your german is comparing season as in full swing two weeks from national parliament transactions and politicians are out and about squandering the votes in the political field as dominated by them major groups like the leftist socialist democrats and of course christian democratic union but as all of our reports now candidates for some smaller parties making inroads in rural areas as a look to force their way into the national stage. on the campaign trail

hoping to strike a chord. and officially what i want as 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 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 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 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 end bailouts home along this bank is still as 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 stablished political parties. in big parties this is flow from top to bottom and that with these guys everyone can bring their ideas to the table and each person's opinion counts yeah putting in order i'm finished goods are just the 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 their 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're aiming to go further the others they have a lot of monies 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 oliver r.t. the very. now for some more world headlines this hour and we'll start with news just in unconfirmed reports claim six rockets have hit the bunker on air base near balad stance capital kabul the taliban has reportedly claimed responsibility and there have been no reports of casualties so far as the largest military base for u.s. troops in afghanistan the reporter that time comes on the twelfth anniversary of the nine eleven atrocities which led to america's invasion of the country. are reported karbala has ripped through the foreign ministry building in the libyan city of being ghazi the blast also damaged

a branch of the central bank of libya on the city's main street nobody was hurt in that time it comes a year to the day after the american ambassador and three star were killed during an assault by militants on the u.s. consulate in the same city. the side bomb has rammed his car into egypt's military headquarters in the sinai peninsula killing at least three people twenty more were injured in that tague a second blast rocked anaamika checkpoint nearby though it's not clear if anyone was hurt as talks in sinai have gone up significantly since the muslim brotherhoods mahmoud morsy was deposed in a military coup just over two months ago. in a new four men convicted of the rape and murder of a young woman could face the death penalty when they are sentenced on friday the twenty three year old victim was officially assaulted on a bus and in december last year the judge said he reached a guilty verdict based probably on

a statement given by the victim shortly before she died. on the magic or even in australia fighting for major fires sweeping close to the west of sydney helicopters have been brought in to try to douse the flames they're being funded by strong winds and high temperatures and investigation has been launched into what sparks the blazes it's called a five control of ration would be to play. i'm next to crosstalk debate through the options which lie ahead for syria.

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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 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. to cross-talk the continuing crisis in syria i'm joined by flynt leverett in washington he's a professor of international affairs at penn state university and co-author of going to tour around why the united states must come to terms with the islamic republic of iran also in washington we have ivan eland he is a senior fellow and director of the center on peace and liberty at the independent institute.