you know what's really happening to the global economy. the march on march. syrian government forces reportedly regain control of the ancient christian village that's been besieged by al-qaeda linked rebels for days we'll bring you a live report from the site in just a couple of minutes. washington versus trying to gain 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. on the world economic forum opens in china and the country's government promises new reforms to turn its currency into a fully fledged turning to the dollar and you're. coming

to live from moscow hello and welcome to the program was started in syria where government troops have reportedly forced al-qaeda linked rebels out of the ancient christian village of the settlement which is home to some of the world's oldest religious sites was overrun by opposition fighters last sunday following days of heavy fighting and she's more if a notion or has made it to the village and she will be joining us live very soon later in the program meanwhile voting on a strike against sea where i can wait but the threat of military action should remain after weeks of biliteral and retrieve 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 again during and i knew

she's going to check our 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 it was whispering to russia's proposal for syria to give up its chemical weapons because this is 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 at their representatives with calls demanding that they vote no so he had congress the american people against him on bad beats e.u. was not going along the u.n. has been against such in the 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 boxing self into a corner we've heard a call for stripped him of the nobel peace prize for not showing enough initiative to find a diplomatic solution while now the administration is. carer's 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 will also give you one inspectors the opportunity to report their findings about what happened on august twenty first it was interesting to hear president obama talk about the you when and inspectors considering that his administration was largely dismissive of the u.n. effort all the way trying to discredit the work of u.n. inspectors and refusing to show the u.n. security council the classified evidence that washington says it has against the assad government 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. as i said before. is preparing to join us later on in just a couple of moments from syria from the christian a village of. despite the international community embracing the chance to end the diplomatic standoff over see where russia says its desire and proposal will work only if plans are scrapped all together all season isa now a 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. 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 given that was accused of these president comes to most of the by their 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. so assays or if an ocean has made it

to the ancient christian village of melinda and joins us now live by the phone so what's happening in the village now has the army food never gained control that. that's it we have and. it's not to live in a jeep to talk to the army and right now indeed soldiers heard you say the army are controlling the situation here i mean the ground we are essential to a square right now. could have been impossible to get the courage to do consent to its. visibility is not controlled by the army but we are told that the rostrum in a turn to two hundred has also for the public not hiding behind not enclaves that are surrounding mali the village and this is why it pees kill a dangerous to be here and this is why they decided they will only allow

journalists to come here for some thirty. one hours so that the army is controlling the situation right now on the ground that they think they need some time to finish it frankly i just told her feel her towel to take it on the first day of the taj by the minutes and i'm not shocked by that but seven days they say the army played the eighty's right now and again there are no military. there and they were kicked out of this hotel by the army and also we were told that they were up to thirty five bucks to take local residents who were held hostages in the top of the basement of a tall tower and they're now freed and they think who will take to the capital because this is the key to a should maybe you can hear from time to time on the rock we we hear shelling though we hear separate shots which is the army yes to target change the shoes they

think are held by the military because the situation from the ground there and why is this village the village of la liga so important to both sides there. when i look at village it's a known world wide as one of the people who are they still make language the language of different cries. oh it's only told to you and number all a very ancient one of three christian monetary value of the current catholic church but it's neither very solid quite stole the entire theory because it is a christian dominated the role to do this. sort of thing sure it was in community and christian community they have been living together in harmony and p. and you know in this country doing these two you do not need the village of malala

where all the knowledge to remain away from battle and it was a piece of a symbol of her peaceful and the car drive to iraq this is why this attack canard to the village is not just an attack on a christian communique by a girl a militant but also an attack to. peace as transparency about syria knew before the crisis started at the school it was one of the last places mean syria. although because it will come you know large would continue to keep the relative peace for the this is why it's a symbolic religious a very cool term but not only. here. for a long period. of. oh. 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 roles 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 one man 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 woman brigade 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 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 new york. the prisoners here are mainly charged with by the terrorists and spying. this newly

built unit can accommodate up to two hundred people and already it's almost full. in the jails backyard 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 al qaida 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. under says as a son of fi a fundamental muslim he had to get involved. with so much sunni syrian brothers suffering here i saw an al-jazeera arabic another channels the kids

are also suffering i took up arms and i was ready to use them but when i came here i didn't see the enemy. in a separate building they show west weapons including handmade bombs and green maids seized from militants these are the instruments of global jihad that 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. notion r t damascus syria. and don't forget to check our twitter people the latest updates from our cities where you have a notion out in the village of r c underscore. our talks on their proposed were mere will of syria's chemical weapons have begun among the un security council members and they are proving to be

a tense affair russia has rejected attempts to put forward a resolution under chapter seven of the un charter which implied the use of force for noncompliance historian and middle east expert mark almond believes even of the u.n. security council agrees on the or the resolution it will be difficult to implement because of the syrian opposition actions. it is possible that the syrian government 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 though 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 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 to 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. and of course we're interested in all to think about these stories we're covering go to r.t. dot com to have your say on the possible outcome of syria's chemical design moment and so far the majority of our voters and readers think removing chemical weapons will only postpone the u.s. and its allies plans to roughly a fifth of the eighteen percent think the civil war will continue but without chemical weapons just one percent say the move won't for the use of illegal agents in syria some may remain unaccounted for and only about seven percent of you saying that the syrian government and its opponents are willing gauge in peace

negotiations so do go toe to toe hold on to cast your vote. break with more news including a successful touchdown the soyuz concert brings the crew of the international space station. after completing a month long mission in space plus hours he speaks to the small polities hoping to make a big germany's national election and how they plan to take votes from mainstream powers accused of boring the electorate as carry out. stumbling in syria that can be no down to obama administration would very much like to strike syria and strike hard probably is if you actually bought into the administration's so-called common sense reasoning surrounding assad's alleged use of chemical weapons which is the administration's real and has it painted itself into a red line corner she. could make it with oh if. she

was going to consider. the great. truths the access to. i. was allowed and this is all she welcomed back china is ready to reform to make sure

it's already spectacular a rate of economic growth continues its aiming to establish the yuan as a world currency alongside combine chain corruption and deregulating markets this is likely to be discussed in the chinese city of dollywood which is hosting the world economic forum or what's become known as this summer doubles his case of people being host of venture capital takes a look at the three day annual meeting of the new champions of the world economic forum as it's officially tied and this will feature all the devil settlements the global leaders the business heavyweights. but with the forever of valving global economy and china's increasing economic power in contrast to your stagnate 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 pieces 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 so the tensions focus east the remote ski resort of dov also even more isolated is the financing the continue to warm up to asia the chinese economy has been one of the finances growing in the world but for certain part burge from packing university believes there's so much to be done by beijing it wants to go on. there are

a lot of things the economy is actually fos than 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 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 are fair 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 work currency they supply and of course at the moment it's for purchasing more and more gold there's also plays into this sort of take. for what actually took control of the world currency and to replace it with the euro yes there's always plenty online for you including where to billy's shocking the public so it's just not read about the latest report on how the relationship between the u.k.

is both ways and tasers has been wowing ever closer to race in the kids. and also online and on the ground adoption network in the last let's parents hound unwanted children to leave families using online advertising the details of this troubling story are stuck to dot com for you. so use cops show caring three members of the international space station has success when it touched down and they can step among that was russian cosmonaut vinogradov who mocks his sixtieth birthday while on the ice as his tongue but also reports now what else the crew did during their mission. 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 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. different materials two to physical experiments searchers 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 over to the round earth there are three crew members now remaining up on the space station they'll be joined by three more shortly bringing the space station back up to its complement of six but for the moment we can all be glad that those those three crew of the i assess are back safely on earth. and now for some more world headlines this hour in china's capital santiago protests as clashes with police on the fortieth anniversary of augusta pinochet's military coup dozens have been arrested and at least one officer was reportedly injured with security forces use tear gas and water cannon after being attacked with stones and petrol bombs in one nine hundred seventy three crew depose they don't quite elect as president salvador allende and led to seventeen years of military rule. in the libyan

city of benghazi 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 a sold by militants on the u.s. consulate in the same city. in indiana prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for found guilty of fatally raping a young woman their sentences are expected to be announced on friday the twenty three year old victim was rishis there assaulted on a bus in the delhi in december last year is parks and nationwide outcry prompting the government to make the death sentence in rape cases. hundreds of purchases clash with 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 wave of government demonstrations seaven the summer. and with less than two weeks before germany's parliamentary elections the kind of the being accused of sending the electorate into a political coma but as also his piece in all of our reports a smaller parties are hoping to seize the votes of board citizens and enter the big arena. on the campaign trail hoping to strike a chord. and efficient with us 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'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 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 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 the aiming to go further the other they have a lot of money so we have the members and we have the spirit how much that spirit into votes will find out on september the twenty second when germans go to the polls peter all of. the very. that next. debate show goes through the options which lie ahead for syria.

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intriguing stories are you. trying. to find out more visit our big. hello and welcome to crossfire where all things considered i'm peter lobo 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.