syrian government forces regain control of an ancient christian village that's been besieged by al qaeda linked rebels for days we bring you a detailed report from the site in just a couple of minutes. washington puts a strike against syria on hold with russia's proposal that damascus give up its chemical weapons allowing president obama to a congressional vote amid a lack of public and political support. and 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 your top stories. live

from our studios in moscow was just turned nine pm this is with international news and comment where we start in syria where government troops have 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. has made it to the village and joins us from there by phone. that's it we have. it not to the village in central syria we need the army and god now and need soldiers. earlier to say the army are controlling the situation the only big one we are consentual to a square right now. could have been impossible to get the courage to do consent to aid. the visibility is not controlled by the army but we are told that the

rostrum in a turn to two hundred has also because it's public knowledge i didn't been trying to knock down trees that are surrounding mali the village and this is why it pays to kill a dangerous to be here and that's why they decided they will only unlock journalist a garbage bag full sun for the. hour or so that the army is controlling the situation right now on the ground that they say they need some time to finish its conflict they told her feel how tall the troops taking on the first day of the taj by the minutes and i'm not shocked by the end of one day 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 talks on

the basement of the post child and they are now freed and they last thing to call to to the capital cost sensitive situation maybe you can hear it from time to time on the rock we we hear shelling though we hear her shots into the army yes to talk to change the she hates being held by the military situation from the ground when i look at village it's a known world wide as one of the few places on earth where they kill each other to make life. which language from has been caught by. a number of. monetary christian monetary fund can. run the group. so i may be the members. who are. thinking. on the operating model of actually although

i'm not. in the market driven market the ball wasn't. told 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 rose 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 russian 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 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 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 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 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 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 one kind of ties calling into hard in syria. i volunteered i went to turkey in a refugee camp there i met

a salafi group and i trained with them for about two and a half months and then we illegally crossed the border into syria. under 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 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 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 really men with many causes remain free to continue their fight. damascus syria. and maria risk keeping us updated from inside syria via her twitter feed and in her most recent post she says she and her

crew were caught in a crossfire or trying to reach him on a street in manila and the engineer was slightly injured by a ricocheting bullet all the latest updates for you right now maria underscore. well voting on a strike against syria can wait but the threat of military action should remain after weeks of belligerent 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 the made the comments in an address to a nation which according to recent polls is mostly against engaging in a new war or he's going to come reports now from washington we saw president obama engaged in verb or acrobatics with a message that many americans will find very confusing he was forceful in 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 to kill it since 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 did 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 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 the 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. we'll 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 u. 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 really interesting resolving the crisis in syria and making sure that the weapons are not used again. well despite the international community embracing the chance to end the diplomatic standoff over syria russia says it's disarmament proposal

will work only if war plans scrapped all together well he's and he said no he has more now 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 you're one of these president comes through most of the by the votes of we did talk about the since you had the g. twenty summit and we agreed that 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. as the u.n. security council debates ways to carry out the chemical disarmament of syria also a chemical weapons expert about how difficult it would be to just produce new ones professor james told me that under certain circumstances it could be done by anyone including the rebels. anybody with access to some raw materials the raw materials are not gotten into at a grocery store but they can they can come in very easily one can buy on the

chemical market items that are just one step away from sarin easily two steps away saw a chemist with about a masters level of training can produce sarin quite easily but the rebels in syria could easily have used chemicals and cells in an attack of that kind. they could if they if they had recruited some chemists with with a few years of training and chemicals many different types of chemical weapons that are available some of them easier to make than sarin not quite as effective as sarin is but easily made and easily brought in easily transported no i understand that you conducted and explain the prove that making chemical weapons is very easy to do if that's the case why haven't we seen more terrorist attacks using chemical weapons well one of the reasons is probably because of natural selection those that try to make it are if they don't know what they're doing they're going

to die in making it and so it's risky business if you don't know what you're doing if you know what you're doing if you have a good about a masters level of training we did several tests to assess what level of training one would need and one can pull this off really quite easily and access to the chemicals is easy and then the dispersion is easy why there have been not as many attacks with with chemical weapons i'm not sure but there are there are actually dozens of documented chemical attacks i know in the united states they don't receive a lot of attention but there are are documented attacks. we're interested in what you think about the stories we're covering and. to have your say on the possible outcome of syria's chemical. the question on our home page of. results the majority of our viewers and readers think that removing chemical weapons will only. the us. to attack. the civil

war will continue without any use of chemical weapons just one percent or less saying that the move won't prevent the. agents in syria. may remain unaccounted for a handful think that the syrian government and its opponents will engage in negotiations. with more news including a successful. the soyuz capsule brings the crew of the international space station back to earth after completing a months long mission in space plus. he speaks to the small parties hoping to make a big impact national election and also how they plan to take votes from mainstream powers accused of boring the electorate that.

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that spanish find out more visit. news continues here and i'll teach is ready to reform to make sure it's already spectacular rate of economic growth continues its aiming to establish the world currency and on the side combating corruption and regulating markets this is likely to be discussed in the chinese city which is hosting the world economic forum what's become known as the summer devil's auntie's katie pilbeam host of venture capital takes it up. 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 and the save the world policy is just

minuses. 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 this is about the foundations of the one hundred billion dollars bric development bank we decided now this bank will drive all. our 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 critical being there while the choice is commonly has been one of the forces growing in the world but for most impact from peking university believes there is still much to be done by beijing if it wants to continue. there are a lot of things the economy it's actually faster than a lot of other things in china like the political maturity and social problems that still loom 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 sign at the moment is for purchasing more and more gold this also plays into this sort of china

. for what actually took control of our currency and to replace it with a yes i. just remind you there's always plenty online including 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 bobbies and tazes has been growing at a clue in recent years. on the website of the members underground adoption network in the u.s. let's parents hand over unwanted children to new families using online advertising the details of this troubling story about it all to call. a soyuz capsule carrying three members of the international space station has successfully touched down in the kazakstan among them was russian cosmonaut pavel vinogradov who marked the sixtieth birthday while the us reports on what else the crew did during the off yet 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 onto 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. 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 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. time now for some more world headlines in chile's capital santiago protesters clashed with police on the fortieth anniversary of or gusto pinochet's military coup dozens have been arrested and at least one officer was reportedly injured security forces used tear gas and water cannon after being attacked with stones and petrol bombs the nine hundred seventy three coud oppose the democratically elected president salva to an end 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 last also damaged a branch of the central bank in the foreign ministry building 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. in india prosecutors are seeking the death penalty for four men found guilty of fatally gang raping a young woman as sentences are expected to be announced on friday twenty three year old victim was viciously assaulted on a bus in new delhi in december last year it sparked a nationwide outcry of prompting the government to make the death sentence of clickable in rape cases. now with less than two weeks before germany's parliamentary elections the candidates are being accused of sending the electorate into a political coma result of reports smaller parties are hoping to seize the votes of bored citizens and enter the big arena. on the campaign

trail hoping to strike a chord. just interface that i want 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 voters we don't have the big money the other parties have for commercials for leaflets etc we mostly paid ourselves the candidates pay it because we cannot raise so much funds. also because we don't tolerate lobbyists 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 is bailed out by the state we don't want this any longer we don't want banks to be bailed out by the taxpayer small parties like this one are unlikely to cause too much concern for chancellor angela merkel however three voters are convinced that they can draw support from those who've become disillusioned with the more established political parties. in big parties this is flow from top to bottom and that with these guys everyone can bring their ideas to the table and each person's opinion counts yet being in the interim finance with us 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 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 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 so we have the members and we have the spirit how much that spirit converts into votes we'll find out on september the twenty second when germans go to the polls peter all of a r.t. the very. i'll be back with more news with the news team and just have a half an hour from now meantime with c.c.t.v. cameras watching every step and the most avant security gear in place how did terrorists still manage to stay off the radar or documentary reveals all after the break. this immediately though so we leave that maybe. i will see bush's security for your party physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you

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