mission to teach me. why you should care. syrian government forces regained control of an ancient christian. 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. 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 the euro top story.

live from studio center here in moscow where it's just turned ten pm this is international news and comment so we start in syria where government troops have forced rebels out of the ancient christian village. 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 and. it's not the village in central syria we need the army and right now and we need soldiers. early to say the army are controlling the situation here all the big ones are 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 or the village and this is why it pays to kill and dangerous to do here and that's why they decided they will only unlock journalists to garbage to sunset. in one hour so that the army's can challenge that situation right now on the ground that they think they need some time to finish it frankly i just told her i feel how tall the troops taking on the first day of the taj by the minutes and i was shocked by the end but seven days they say the army played the eighty's right now and again there are no military that are there and they were kicked out of the hotel by the army

and also we were told that they were up to thirty five bucks to take local residents who were held hostage and they told harm the basement of the falls house and they're now freed and they last thing to call to to the capital city to a should maybe you can hear it from time to time on the rock we we hear shelling though we hear separate shots which is the army yes to try to get change of position face being held by the military situation from the ground when i look at the large it's a known worldwide as one of the people who are they still make quite. which language so you can cry. a number of. monetary concern monetary bone cancer like. i'm a guru. so i may be a member of. the world. thinking.

on the operating model of actually although i'm not. in the. market wasn't. told by. this may look like an ordinary farewell amongst friends but the man in the long as lama coat is a suicide bomber leaving on his final journey. this is his last conversation with us elder brother in a car that is supposed to take him to the loser 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 round and says he came to syria from the 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 he's sneaked 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 jihadists 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 a little prison bowman last may the man you saw in the fan well the deer 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 a military airport in damascus you know the cells. in new york. the prisoners here are mainly charged with by the terrorists or 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 all 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. under says as a selfie 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 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 many men with many causes remain free to continue their fight. damascus syria. maria is 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 the cross fire while trying to reach them on a street in and the engineer was slightly injured by a ricocheting bullet all the latest updates at the rear that notion or underscore r.t. . 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 barack obama made the comments in an address to a nation which according to recent polls is mostly against engaging in a new war well if he's going to con 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 it was worth going to russia's proposal for syria to give up its chemical weapons pickler says 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 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 be easy you was not going along the u.n. has been against such in the lidl 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 was dismissive for marg 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 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 inspector 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 or despite the international community embracing the chance to end the diplomatic standoff over syria russia says disarmament proposal will work only if war plans scrapped altogether well he's in the tsunami 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. it was literally a positive mood 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 yet when the president comes through most of the votes i think 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. well as the u.n. security council debates ways to carry out the chemical disarmament of syria i also a chemical weapons expert about how difficult it would be to just produce new ones chemistry professor james tool from rice university 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 there's 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 get 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 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. coming up to the break you are not renewing the calls for statehood stick to the streets on a national holiday madrid to give the full scale independence of the prospects

all the way to sovereignty. plus. make a big impact in germany's national election. take votes from mainstream accused of boring. those stories coming up. new york london. the whole. town the end. of the street another one a more transparent society gets the money or the tears become we see. unfairly falses mobilized against people who blend into the city the

city the more people trust electronic devices the more. fear that has a. hierarchy. we can with. the consent you. choose to. choose the stories to to. choose . news continues here on r.t. the spanish region of catalonia is celebrating its national day with a call for a break from madrid millions joined demonstrations last year to demand independence and the cattle and president has promised

a referendum on the issue in twenty eight fourteen. is in the separatist region. well they did say let's just. do it let's say it. was a lady up in the blue with the lights so they have to live through i mean even the oak this action to put pressure on the spanish government could close catalonia independence referendum and instantly of course catalonia to become an independent state that sort of thing to thousands of people taking part in this action today the big question for everyone watching this around the world why do you guys want independence in the ben. culture language and history and also because we have economic reasons why you are young as seventeen

years. you haven't had independent sanity three hundred years exactly what is still such an issue among. a different from splash spanish people. we are always working working for free so thank you very much for that. cut out today now undoubtedly the economic crisis in europe has this new ways to believe all these cool cool independent. cats are looking at the richest region. by the economically they would be better off independent be economically. very much discreet a bit earlier on today i spoke to at least that's a bold economics of the of the of the light. blue sea and she told me she had no doubts the calculation here would be better all right to become independent with.

access. higher. revenue for our government because at present only fifty cents of euro that we face taxes came back to investors. so even though the prices isn't very complex and it's not going to be easy to get out of this rises he's going to be easy to get . if we are able to draw on first of all the last big. bold loud have made it very clear that whether to gain independence they would want to remain a part of the the believe they be looking they tell us what happened in scotland to the fact that wanted the power to hold an independence referendum they say it's nothing can fill it so you can they will. be getting it any time soon well

the thing for an independence referendum by twenty forty poll shows a majority support for independence in the guns of the politicians in the parliament have all private enterprise that might not happen as early as twenty fourteen but one thing seems clear with move than a million people turning out in support of independents last year hundreds of thousands to take in part this the momentum ahead calling for independence doesn't look like it's fading any time served on a. just remind you there's always plenty online for the moment including british police shocking the public since two thousand and nine you can read about the they reported how the relation of the u.k.'s. could be growing ever closer in recent years. also more than underground adoption network in the u.s.

let's parents hand over children to new families using online avatars. tells of this troubling story a very hearty welcome. china is ready to reform to make sure its already spectacular rate of economic growth continues its aiming to establish the one as a world currency alongside combating corruption and deregulating markets this is likely to be discussed in the chinese city of delhi which is hosting the world economic forum or what's become known as the summit davos or to kill people in the host of venture capital takes a look at 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 these save the world parses just minuses. but with the forever of valving global economy and china is 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 as stunted as 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 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

a finance and they continue to warm up to asia. time now for some more world headlines at least thirty five people being killed and more than fifty injured in a double bomb attack on a shia mosque in the iraqi capital a suicide bomber blew himself up as worshippers were leaving after prayers and then a car bomb exploded nearby no one has yet claimed responsibility for the attack but similar assaults are carried out by sunni militants on an almost daily basis the country's witnessing the deadliest wave of sectarian violence in years with over five thousand people killed since january. in chile's capital santiago protesters clashed with police on the fortieth anniversary of augusta 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 coup deposed the democratically elected president salvador allende and led to seventeen years of military. well with listen to weeks before germany's parliamentary elections the

candidates are being accused of sending the electorate into a political coma it was obvious peter all of the reports smaller parties are hoping to seize the votes aboard 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 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 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 to home loan 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 yeah being in india 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 they aiming to go further than the others they have a lot of money so we have the members and we have the spirit of how much that spirit into votes will find out on september the twenty second when germans go to the polls peter all of a r.t. the very. about with the news team with wolf you just have a whole phenomenon i mean time more on why terrorists managed to stay off the radar despite c.c.t.v. cameras watching every step that's after the break.

i know c.n.n. on the m s n b c news have taken some not slightly but the fact is i admire their commitment to cover all sides of the story just in case one of them happens to be accurate. that was funny but it's closer to the truth and might think. it's because one full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on we're going to be coming. at our team we have a different approach you should look up the phone because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not i. but.

if. i could get a sense of the jokes i will hand over the stuff that i'm. ambushes the perpetrators are older learners driven by their hatred of the government. others are religious fanatics. can a society protect itself against the encounter level how should it react to attacks with retaliation. or like the citizens of norway and spain who opted for freedom and openness. to. london two thousand and five. on july the seventh four bombs explode three in underground trains.