the washington post is trying to getting syria on hold with russia's proposal that damascus give up its chemical weapons allowing president obama to postpone a congressional vote i mean the lack of public and political support. as a u.n. report implicates the syrian regime and opposition forces and war crimes will speak to those who came from abroad to fight not for democracy but for jihad. on the world economic forum opens in china as the country's government promises new reforms to turn its currency into a fully fledged alternative to the dollar and. international

news live from moscow this is r.c. with me. thanks for joining us voting on a strike against syria can't wait but the threat of military action should remain after weeks of rhetoric the u.s. president has agreed to give diplomacy a chance following russia's proposal to put syria's chemical weapons under international control barack obama made the comments in an address to a nation which according to recent polls is mostly against engaging in a new war he's going to check on reports now 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 insists 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 be you when he 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 fox themself into a corner we've heard a call to 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 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 and despite the international community in bracing the chance to end the diplomatic standoff over syria russia says it's designed and proposal will only work if plans are scrapped all together all she's

a nice an hour has more on the view from 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. it was literally 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 with those opportunities president

comes through most of the votes of we do 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 let's not discount the prospects for diplomacy in the syrian crisis with historian and middle east expert mark almond he joins us now live from oxford mr almond welcome to the show good to see you first how do you how do you are says obama's decision to put all of the congressional vote do you think it was triggered solely by the russian chemical weapons removal plan. i think that's been a vital ingredient but clearly there was such a lot of opposition in the house of representatives in particular in public opinion

in america but a bald faced of uphill battle to get a clear vote in favor of his. policy of course it would be much more disastrous for us strategic influence over the middle east if the congress had rejected any kind of military intervention even the short sharp bombing of almost seems to be proposing because it would make it very difficult for him to act in future this situation does leave open the door through its military action in the future. and what we're seeing now there's some sort of wrangling at the you are now with the design and proposal with russia rejecting or rejecting attempts to put forward a resolution under chapter seven of the un charter which allows the use of force do you think the western powers will ultimately agree to leave the town. i think they probably will first of all it does offer after all a way of avoiding obama having to go into military action possibly with. congressional approval or with a very small correction group it also has some american commentators pointed out

leaves the way open to do to assert what the americans did to gadhafi gadhafi after all agreed to give up his chemical weapons his various other conventional weapons and then a few years later he was attacked it's still after all official us british french call the c. to replace a sad with the regime based on the syrian national council so it may well be that there's some calculations in washington that although this is in some ways a huge blow to the prestige of united states as the go it alone sole superpower but it has to cooperate with the un but it has to listen to russia and china norm the less it might in certain ways actually facilitate the ongoing policy of supporting the rebels against assad and perhaps in a way in the longer term serve their interests and again we see that barack obama said the threat of a military strike should remain to keep pressure on that saddam regime while president putin insists it's hard to imagine a nation to design in the face of

a night time how do you how do you see this standoff well pan out. here well i think therefore that the likelihood is that the americans french and british will agree to some slightly weaker language in a resolution that enables the syrian weapons stockpiles both to be catalogued and in some sense put in safe keeping although that's difficult in a civil war but they may hope to find some ambiguity of the wording that might allow them to return to this issue in the future remember in two thousand and eleven the official u.n. resolution of libya was to stop an attack by colonel gadhafi forces on benghazi but that was then turned into a six month long camp. there was always the danger from the point of view of the. other members of council who want to see a peaceful resolution to this that any resolution that has i've been ambiguous language could be used for

a future strike on the other hand as i say obama faces the problem within the united states that entanglement would be deeply unpopular and if anything therefore he has every interest of the moment in agreeing to a resolution that seems to achieve his goal of disarming syria of chemical weapons without him having to use force which might not achieve that goal and if anything might complicate the situation in the middle east because of the risk of spreading the violence to lebanon involving iran iraq and so on. the margin if all sides agree do you believe it's possible for the international community to have full control of the syrian chemical arsenal what it. well it is possible that the syrian government can assets could be conveyed relatively risk free into the hands of an international commission though of course with a civil war that is not going to be easy the question is what about those assets that may have been territory that is either controlled by the rebels or chemical

weapons that the rebels could intercept as they're being moved and so it's very difficult to see that the rebels have an interest in this resolution clearly one thing that unites the disparate rebel groups is they hope that american bombing would weaken assad and make their chances of coming to power stronger so the rebels have no great interest in a successful outcome to this even if in practice it might be in the interests of all the members of the purity council to come to some resolution of this issue which saves everybody's face enables everybody to claim to be a peacemaker and could put this beast complicated part and potentially very dangerous part of the syrian equation out of service in our rights and mr our men thank you very much indeed for your insights and not our mental model historian and . but life from also thank you very much. thank you and as always we are interested in what you're saying about the stories we're covering and you can go to r.t. dot com to have your say on the possible outcome of syria's chemical dissolve mint

and so far let's have a look at how you've been voting the majority of our viewers and readers think that removing chemical weapons will only postpone the u.s. and its allies plans to. roughly fifty percent convinced the civil war will continue but without chemical weapons just one percent less say the move won't prevent the for the use of illegal agents in syria may remain unaccounted for and only seven percent of you think the syrian government and its opponents will engage in peace negotiations do go to r.t. dot com and const here about that. washington has started to supply rebels in syria with lethal arms according to the opposition as a yuan report accuses government forces and opposition fighters of carrying out a war crimes including executions hostage taking and civilian neighborhoods a significant part of the rebel forces are extremists who come from abroad to find

the assad regime has more if the notion vesta gates now what's making syria hardest battlefield. this may look like an ordinary farewell amongst friends but the man in the long as the 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 the laptop taken from one to the man seen in the food 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 necke to into syria last january through turkey in istanbul two men who said they were from al-qaeda and accompanied him to syria where he joined a large momently 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 fan well he did was driving the car that russian prepared russian brought his entire family to syria including his five year old son on this video in minutes and shows his boy how to make a bomb they say after a father dies the song should continue the jihad i don't know what allah prepared for me but we have to finish what we started we spoke to rush on at the air force

intelligence jail next to military at porting damascus in the cells. in new york. the prisoners here are mainly charged 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 as 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 and jihad 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. or says as a son of the a fundamental muslim he had to get involved with the so much sunni syrian brothers suffering here i saw in al-jazeera arabic and 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 middle. these are the instruments of global jihad that chose syria as a battlefield to bring foreign fighters and violence this prison may be full but beyond the walls iranian men with many causes remain free to continue their fight. damascus syria. and over the past week maria has also been reporting on the rebels for the ancient christian village of mali lula not far from damascus and her

latest tweet supposed to she says the settlement which is home to some of the walls oldest son has reportedly been taken from forces by government forces maria's on her way to check her twitter feed and our website for the latest updates back. with more news including a successful touchdown there so use cops chill brings the crew of the international space station. completing a months long mission in space. thanks to the small poles he's hoping to make a big impacts in germany's national election and also how they plan to take quotes from mainstream power is accused of boring the electorate that's coming out. or london. the whole world is. the true hero

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hello again this is our c. welcome back china's road to reform to make sure it's already a spectacular rate of economic growth continues its aiming to establish the yuan as a world currency alongside combating corruption and deregulating markets is likely to be discussed in the chinese city of delhi and which is hosting the world economic forum also become known as the sunlight divorce case to peel them host of venture capital takes on that. the three day annual meeting of the new champions of the world economic forum as it's officially titers will feature all the davos elements the global leaders the business heavyweights these save the world policy is just mind this is. with the forever of valving global economy and china's

increasing economic power in contrast to your stack of growth this asia event really highlights the economic shift east despite your recent slow downturn is economy is still posting enviable growth figures just this week china's industrial production rose by more than expected in august along with the 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 is astounded as 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 will drive all 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 finance in

the continue to warm up to asia. and there's always plenty line for you including british police are shocking the public since two thousand i read about the latest report on how the relationship between the u.k.'s bodies and tasers has been growing ever closer in recent years. and also online and on the ground adoption network in the uighurs slopes parents and world of children to new families using online advertising the details of this troubling story are to actually go. so use captured carrying three members of the international space station have successfully touched down and because our step among them was russian cosmonauts pavel vinogradov who marks his sixtieth birthday while on the ice says. reports now on what else the crew did during their homes here mission there. one u.s. astronaut chris cassidy and two russian cosmonauts grad off and alexander missouri

kiran are back safely on earth after their five months in space they seem well having been fished out of the 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 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. there is the largest u.s. in afghanistan has announced by islamist militants reports claim that six rockets hit the base near the afghan capital but there has been no reports of casualties so far responsibility for that time has been claimed by taliban insurgents u.s. forces carried out an ass trying that killed six suspected militants in eastern afghanistan the report of the time comes on the twelfth anniversary of the nine eleven atrocities which led to america's invasion of the country. and the symbolic david violence and other trouble green. in the libyan city of been ghazi

a powerful blast has ripped through a central street reportedly injuring one person the blast also damaged a branch of the central bank and the foreign ministry building it comes a year to the day after the american ambassador and three star were killed during ever sold by militias on the u.s. consulate in the same city. hundreds of protesters clashed with riot police in turkey in a fresh round of demonstrations overnight the rest were sponsored by the death of a twenty two year old man who some claim was killed by security forces tear gas canister fired from point blank range demonstrators are calling for a rerun of the massive way with anti-government demonstrations seen in the summer. it was less than two weeks before germany's parliamentary elections the kind of being accused of sending the electorate into a political coma but is also used peter on a report smaller parties are hoping to seize the votes of board citizens and to the big arena. on the campaign trail hoping to strike

a chord. if you send a fish to convince that we have to get a say and a higher level often 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 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 reissue their own currencies to help tackle inflation as well as end bailouts home this 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 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 yeah bring in the interim fifty heads or just 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 about the 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 variant states elections for votes is picked up just over ten percent of the vote this time to go for the others

they have a lot of money we have the members and we have the spirit how much that spirit into votes we'll find out on september the twenty second when germans go to the polls. are to the very. now let's say seem to recount. the most advanced securus again place terrorists still manage to stay off the radio documentary reveals all not. economic down in the find out all day long. and the rest.

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with fifty incredible cities all of human life. sediment patients of all of human history they all landscapes of power. london once the hearts of the british. along with new york and home culture still in the center of the global financial industry. symbol and driving force behind the international monetary flow. twelve million inhabitants over three hundred languages countless ethnicities and culture has london is a prototype of a global network mega city and a laboratory for security measures a lot of the changes in cities since the nine eleven terror attacks in new york and washington were already on the way before those attacks so it's important to destroy to sort of stress that the nine eleven attacks have led to certain.