well you. are a bit for a visit or a big don't call. the syrian army and the extremists a reign of terror in the christian village of ma lula our correspondent witnesses government troops are regaining control of the historic settlement. the use of force would be catastrophic and not just for syria president preacher addresses america's public and politicians as diplomats nice to find a way to deal with damascus chemical weapons. and ignorance is bliss' is a us university it borders its president cryptographer to take down an online investigation into n.s.a. surveillance threatening him with a lawsuit also he talks to the professor. and

welcome to our team twenty four hour news live from moscow i'm hugh national profile top story now the syrian army's bottlings small groups of rebels who remain in the ancient christian village of opposition fighters links to al qaeda have been in control of the area for almost a week reportedly looting religious sites and forcing residents to convert to islam at gunpoint she's more if a notion of made it to the village following reports that government troops have recaptured it but found pockets of resistance that. but. the mood is cheerful soldiers are

smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out. but there are some of them were killed some of them escaped but the. locals joined the army to defend the native town the soldiers in light colored uniforms of the so-called national defense. the terrain here is very difficult with mountains and caves but we know the area better so we are carrying on with the operation of that the way you shabbos would come across one grocery shop owner who we filmed back in two thousand and twelve then he told us that the armed rebels hasn't come to their village and why would they this time he's armed with a gun and a monster in soldiers and he has some question is again a story of thirty syria is a land of history and of love a sense terrorists here from all corners of the world to kill syrians and each other why i asked the world why if a european citizen is so much as slapped across the face they'd be

a scandal while in syria how many victims how many hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered why will it stop would quickly find out that it won't be today held by the militants for a week it seems that mountain tops of fear hotel still poses a threat that sufi hotel our goal was to liberate it and push on the mark tough one want to strike but we couldn't do it the snipers are everywhere milo is home to many christian toto is a monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we see either crosses on the rents now added to these we see blag jihadists flags. it's time to head back. but while in the car something goes wrong. we take cover in a place where we find dozens of army soldiers hiding from enemy's bullets.

the main road is being targeted and if he's our only way out we think over our chances when our engineer gets heat. much. thankfully it's not serious. but it becomes clear we can to a to minutes more. ok much shock russia shock when i'm stuck here in this corner and we're now trying to get out of here using this was. no no no no no. we must have been anything done to back then and there go yeah ok clear hello.

we. will focus off of the bullets did you hear them whizzing by. mean nothing if we really thank her. for her and who are with moving in general the business here in normandy. well through me through so you go. and we leave while governmental forces continue their frenzy for mandala village which despite the claims remains under siege. nasty reporting from syria meanwhile the russian president has expressed concern over the growing number of islamists within the theater in opposition warning that foreign mercenaries

eventually take the fight back to their own countries led to a person address the situation in syria in an article for the new york times where he expressed why he believes the use of force will only make matters worse off he's a sham thomas has that he's. a strong and hopeful article in the new york times called a plea for caution from russia in this putin directly address the u.s. people in what he calls a time of insufficient communication between the societies he talked about the need for the u.n. and providing international stability and talked about a u.s. strike saying that it would put innocent lives at stake spread the conflict deal real peace efforts between israel and palestine also hamper discussions on iran's nuclear problem and promote terrorism destabilizing the region as a whole he also talked about unilateral action from the united states under the u.n. charter would be seen as an act of aggression here's what he had to say about working

within the limits of international law if you cannot count on international law then you must find other ways to ensure security versus a growing number of countries six you acquire weapons of mass destruction this is logical if you have the bomb no one will touch you we left with talk of the need to strengthen nonproliferation when in reality this is being eroded. president vladimir putin also wrote about this idea of military intervention culture in the united states saying that is alarming and ask the question why would the u.s. want to repeat the mistakes of the past invoking the memory of iraq and afghanistan a conflict which is still on going now he also talked about the need to consider the u.n. investigation which we have not heard the results from yet saying that there are indications that it was the rebels who could have used the chemical weapons here's

what he had to say. no one doubts the poison gas was used in syria but there is every reason to believe it was used not by the syrian army but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by the powerful foreign patrons who would be siding with the fundamentalists reports that militants are preparing another attack this time against israel cannot be ignored we've been reporting on it here on our t.v. from local sources on the ground r t sources that an attack on israel from the rebels could happen something that they feel would be a strong a provocation to israel now the one thing that is very interesting president putin quoted obama on this idea of american exceptionalism it is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional whatever the motivation we are all different but when we ask for the lord's blessings we must not forget the court created just equal overall putin said that he was hopeful with

his relation with obama saying that it is marked with a growing trust and he is now pushing for diplomatic ties. these diplomatic ties will phase their first chance when russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov meets his u.s. colleague lacey in geneva they'll try to reach consensus on a u.n. security council resolution which will see russia's plan to rid syria of chemical weapons implemented on his party boy reports now from geneva. moscow has reportedly handed washington a proposal already that they're set to mull over later on today now thanks to leaks in the russian media we've got some details of that proposal it's reportedly set out in several stages the first stage is going to involve syria signing up to the chemical weapons convention thereafter damascus will have to declare all of its chemical weapons storage and production facilities after that they're going to have

to let chemical weapons inspectors into the country and finally they will have to decide together on how to destroy that stockpile of chemical weapons now we know that the russian and the u.s. delegations here are going to be accompanied by technical experts and by scientists are going to be advising both sides on how to implement any plan that they come up with hit we know that the u.s. president barack obama he's faced mounting criticism and opposition to his proposed military strike against syria so a lot of analysts saying that this diplomatic path that really came out almost accidentally through a throwaway comment that john kerry made on monday that it presents a sort of diplomatic escape hatch for the u.s. president to ultimately save face and potentially save himself the embarrassment of a defeat in crime gress over the issue mosco says that any proposal should mean that u.s.

military strikes are off the table now in fact russia has already rejected a french trough to the u.n. security council that involved a wording that threatened military action against syria and that blames the chemical attack on the twenty first of all guest on damascus so we're watching whether or not these differences can be reconciled here in geneva but at the same time we know that the cia has started to provide syrian rebels with weapons so on the one hand we've got talk of peace. on the other hand is a bit of a discrepancy in terms of action shots as i said earlier because of the situation that president obama is in back home it looks like there is a political will to thrash out an agreement to present it to the international clique community and to ultimately say face over the issue of syria while embrace around the wild russia's initiative to plays chemical stockpiles under international control is not welcomed by syria's opposition one of its main

functions the pre syrian army has constant couric they rejected the plan and even the removal of weapons does not mean they cannot be produced again one chemistry professor told my colleague bill dog but under certain conditions practically anyone can make them including. 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 so 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 in chemical suits 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 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. and coming up after the break edward snowden is nominated for human rights trial later this hour talks to a member of the european parliament a group that nominated the whistleblower and ask what the hands play. and also find out how a city of russia's far east is walking around the clock in a race against advancing floodwaters saying failure will spell total disaster that's right.

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had again this is the welcome back going leaks from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden and making some institutions very nervous john hopkins university in the u.s. made a resident cryptographer to take down a blog post about america's spying program warning he might need a lawyer if he didn't do as he was told an interview to green explained what he's found out about the surveillance program what we learned is that the n.s.a. has a hard time breaking encrypts and so what they've done is they've actually tried to take the products that that perform and corruption and make them worse make the weaker so that it's easier for them to break that encryption the n.s.a. is is willing to make us security a little bit weaker because remember it's not just u.s. citizens who are using these products it's americans too and they're willing to you know in a sense put our credibility on the line our tire industry on the line in order to access that communications of whoever it is they want to listen to we have

a big debate ahead of us how much spying i mean there is there's a range anywhere from zero percent spying to one hundred percent spying i think we have to figure out what the right balance is i think what we're learning is that the american public is not comfortable with what we're learning about that balance . so i was snowden has been officially nominated by european union lawmakers for the prestigious sahaba of human rights prize laureates include nelson mandela chinese dissident. and reporters love borders the winner will be decided in october and from all this i can talk through paul murphy and irish i may be from the parliamentary group that nominated snowden mr murphy welcome to aussie good to see you so what about snowden actually needed that help the you offered him little support and now you decided to nominate him for this prestigious human rights prize why. this nomination doesn't call unfortunately from the leadership of the european

union who i think would certainly prefer to avoid the embarrassment of him winning the prize and but it comes from the left in the european union which has consistently supported edward snowden he deserves to win the prize because he's a hero and he's a hero for putting his freedom on the line and it's still on the line in reality. in order to expose a mass of intrusive spying program by the us government both on their own citizens and citizens in europe and across the world and governments across the world so do then expect the e.u. members do you expect them they will let him win this prize. i think he's only likely to win and i think the greens are the green group inside the parliament also support edward snowden and but i fear that certainly that the big groups will not wants the so-called embarrassment of choosing edward snowden because of the impact that that would have on relations with the us what. the whole

thing i mean one of the things that's come out here is the extent of the spying that's taking place a e.u. governments and it's a line that the free trade negotiations between the e.u. and the u.s. are taking place at those negotiations from the point of view of european citizens are completely secret the mandate of european negotiators is not revealed to the public and yet the u.s. knows about them and so it shines a very very important on the way secret diplomacy is conducted and that the winners are the establishment parties and you know big business interests and if he doesn't win can we expect any kind of reaction from washington. i think there would be reaction there will be disappointment i mean the reason you know a very practical reason that we're proposing to him is to try to pressure on countries to grant him permanent asylum we don't think he should be a man without a visa is a visa for the goats of saw him for

a year now but after that he has. no definite future so it's designed to add pressure on to embarrass the u.s. i mean obama has used the espionage act from one hundred seventeen he's used it more times in just the time that he has been in power than in the entire time previously in its existence it's quite incredible you have this you know democratic president elected originally on the basis of opposing wars and so on and put is engaged in a massive stepping up and surveillance power of u.s. imperialism and there are also some recent revelations suggested that the u.s. has been sharing all n.s.a. spy data with israel including data on the e.u. a kind of reaction can we expect from europe. i'm not sure what reaction we'll guess from the likes of catherine ashton the high representative of you if we're lucky we might get a soft statement raising some questions about. the problem is i mean some of the

revelations have also implicated european governments in this there are very few governments around the world that are innocent in this respect the u.s. is props the best spying on its own citizens on others but i think certainly for all you know trade unions for all those campaigning for palestinian rights for human rights and so on there should be a strong reaction against the fact that it exposes the reality of the relationship between the u.s. and the establishment within israel and how that relates to put across the democratic will of the majority of people in europe for example on the question of the illegal israeli settlements all right. from the nordic green left to european parliamentary group thank you very much indeed thank. you. i'm have got plenty more stories for you on line including why the smoke nuclear plant exhaust white steam seat and pictures of a north korean nuclear site taken from space apparently suggests the reaction has

been read launched find out why the region on the wall does so on easy about that. and the mystery of a sudden glacial lake scientists discovered new life forms that on toxic dating back to around a hundred thousand years had to offer you don't come from all. right to see. the. first tree. and i think that you're. on our reporters with the. instrument. emergency crews have been joined by volunteers in russia's far east to reinforce

a major drama protecting people from the rising waters of the arm or reba over three thousand locals are being evacuated to safety in a region which has been struggling with devastating floods for over a month now lindsay france reports. the threat of these levees failing occurred overnight and that is when locals and military reinforcements rushed to the area to ensure these levees do not break if that were to occur the surrounding communities would be submerged in water and now these people have endured nearly two months of intensive flooding every time the situation appears to be under control it's worse in many cases setting new records nearly one hundred thousand people have been affected by the floods there this summer now the officials are trying to strengthen the dam around the clock it's just an intensive situation out there because not only are the people's houses in the way but this is a very agricultural community their livelihoods have been very badly affected by

this in many cases livestock wiped out and even their food supplies wiped out so these people are again dealing with a very difficult situation for reinforcements are there and they are monitoring those levees around the clock. to take a look at some other world news in brief in the philippines and muslim revels seeking to establish an independent islamic state in the south of the country have attacks the town of a lovely time at least two residents were wounded and five people are now missing that comes during a four day siege in the city of. where militants have taken over one hundred people hostage conflicting reports say over a dozen rebels as well as two soldiers have been killed in shooting. and unrest continues in turkey where police clashed with protesters over the death of a young student at a demonstration of the weekend before she resorted to tear gas to try to disperse crowds in the capital ankara the third night of violent confrontations that started

after a funeral was held for the twenty two year old man who died in disputed circumstances . in mexico thousands of teachers have taken those trees after the president signed into law a controversial new education reforms the ranis turned. yvonne and the demonstrators trying to breach the police cordons thing you know we'll see the firing and hiring a teaching stop taken away from the main teachers' union on the floor time to the government control. now stay tuned for the latest additional wells a pot shot at. wealthy british style. time to explain the first. night of. market why not. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

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. hello and welcome to worlds apart the responsibility to protect is a relatively new invention but already highly controversial one especially after being applied in how to make sure that the protectors don't and doing more harm than good while to discuss that i'm now joined by one of the architects of our to form our strategy and foreign minister garrett adams mr evans thank you very much for being here on worlds apart we are recording this program just hours after president obama called all of the banding military strikes against syria and he

didn't invoke r two p. formally but in his speech to the american people he talked a lot about america's responsibility in this world and i wonder what do you have a country or a set of countries that are prepared to do the lawn doesn't that ultimately make our two pete totally redundant what's the point of even trying for a collective action and why in the united states will do it alone anyway what if the united states will i think the united states is listening to world opinion it's listening to domestic opinion and it sure as hell not to go going to go down a military intervention and list those very strong and compelling reasons for doing so in a list that has a very strong and compelling measure of international and domestic support and i think that's not an unreasonable position to adopt we've been there before back in the ninety's.