branchless the. fear that. is on our key. the syrian army and the extremists will reign of terror in the christian village of our correspondent witnesses government troops regaining control of the historic settlement. the use of force would be catastrophic and not just the syrian president putin addresses the american people as diplomats means to find a way to deal with and sounds chemical weapons. and the white house is accused of gagging big corporations with c.e.o.'s suggesting that even talking about the n.s.a. spy program could amounts to treason. this

is our c coming to you live from moscow hello and welcome to the program the syrian army is battling 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 of reportedly losing religious sites and forcing residents to convert to islam at gunpoint he is more of a notion of made it to the village following reports that the government troops have recaptured it but found pockets of resistance still remain. the we're at. the top of. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out you know but there's 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 but 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. we 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 amongst their own soldiers and he has some question is again a story of thirty if syria is a land of history and of love they sent 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 with 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 the liberated them push on the mark tough love ministry but we couldn't do it last night bizarre everywhere malo is home to many christian churches and monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we see either crosses on the arrests now added to these we see black jihadists flags. it's time to head back right. to trial in the car something goes wrong the whole. world. 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 its eggs are our only way out we think over our chances when our engineer gets hit. on what we know your group you must

get your credit. but. thankfully it's not serious. but it becomes clear we can't wait a minute more. remember . when i was stuck here in this corner and went out trying to get out of here because this was. no no no. so. this has been anything done to back then they go clear a lot. more

focus off the dream the bullets did you hear them whizzing by. but now say that we've reached the safe area. the firing from behind this new three hundred fold of this is here now may get to be careful you don't like this too much so you gotta play. and we leave while governmental forces continue their frenzy for model of the ledge which despite the claims remains under siege. she reported from syria. meanwhile the russian president has expressed concern over the growing number of islamists within the syrian opposition warning that foreign mercenaries could eventually take the fight back to their own countries let me repeat an address the situation in syria an article for the new york times where he explained why he

believes the use of force would only make matters worse i was his chum thomas has the details a strong and hopeful article in the new york times called a plea for caution from russia in this. directly address the us 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 derail 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're 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 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. that an attack on israel from the rebels could happen something that they feel would be a stronger 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 on syria agreeing to give up its chemical weapons did not come as a result of the u.s.

threatening military strike president assad has told a russian t.v. channel more details of that interview at how website dot com. russia you are so trying to reach consensus on a u.n. security council resolution which will see moscow's plan to rid syria of chemical weapons implemented foreign minister sergei lavrov is meeting the u.s. secretary of state john kerry later on thursday in geneva to boycott reports. 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 head 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 source of diplomatic escape hatch for the u.s. president to ultimately save face and potentially save himself the embarrassment of a defeat in congress 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 to oprah. 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 if you present it to the international cricket community and to ultimately say face over the issue of syria and while embrace around the world russia's initiative to place chemical stockpiles under international control is not welcomed by see whereas opposition one of its main

functions the free syrian army has categorically rejected the plan and even the removal of weapons doesn't mean they cannot be produced again one chemistry professor told my colleague bill done that under certain conditions practically anyone can make them and creating web tools. 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. we're heading into a break now but we'll be back with more news in just a moment. coming out. with. kevin mitnick one of the world's most wanted from the nine hundred ninety s. he tells us why hardly anyone safe from online. right. so can find out how a city in russia's far east is working around the clock in a race against advancing. other concerns that could mean. the break. technology innovation all the developments around russia we.

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try again this says see welcome back yahoo's c.e.o. says internet companies are being pushed around a serious pressure by the u.s. government not to talk about what information intelligence agencies are requesting and she said even talking about the prison spying program could see her up on charges of treason yahoo has joined facebook microsoft and google in a lawsuit against the white house pushing for the right to disclose the number of n.s.a. requests they receive and marina joins us now live with more from new york marina so we are hearing some senior people from big corporation speaking out now so what's been said that. well yahoo and facebook are among the big internet companies that have been continue to face mounting criticism for violating users' privacy by complying with the n.s.a. surveillance program but yahoo c.e.o. marissa mayer now says that her hands are essentially tied and rejecting the

agency's request would amount to treason mayer made her comments at a san francisco tech crunch press conference where she and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg told the audience that they are obliged to comply with washington's spy programs miss mayer stated that it makes more sense for tech companies to work within the system and if any big internet company big data company attempts to release classified information without the government's approval they could be punished with jail term put it be by essentially being put in prison now mr zuckerberg went on to say that he believes the obama administration has done a very bad job of balancing balancing national security and citizens privacy rights the facebook c.e.o. said the white house's initial reaction to the n.s.a. spying revelations have worked against the interests of u.s.

tech firms operating abroad now this is the first time we've heard from the heads of such big corporations commenting on the n.s.a. scandal and acknowledging the wealth of information that was provided to the n.s.a. and the knowledge no request can be rejected but for the public every week citizens are receiving new details finding out more and more about these pervasive n.s.a. tactics what's been going on how deep the surveillance it has been and continues to be. much history to the government trying to silence a big corporations that. no one. it appears that these big data companies are beginning to follow in the footsteps of smaller companies that have stood up to the n.s.a. and refuse to comply with their spying requests for example. the owner of x.

mission internet the internet provider called x. mission he told r.t. that the only solution for keeping the government from spying is using encryption and having service providers that are willing to stand up against broad surveillance and wholesale monitoring now the email provider lavabit which was used by n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden that the owner of that email provider stood up to the n.s.a. by shutting down his company and stead of cooperating with government requirements . levinson told r.t. that he was no longer able to assure his clients that e-mail that the e-mails would be secure and private and if he refused to comply with the alleged u.s. secret surveillance order that was placed on this company. c.e.o. said that when you say no to the government they have the ability to take everything they have the ability to take your business your money and your freedom and that speaks to sort of what what the c.e.o. of yahoo was saying what the c.e.o.

of facebook is beginning to say but it looks as though these big data companies are beginning to speak publicly as you mentioned they have filed a lawsuit together to disclose classified information and maybe at the end of the day this will benefit users this will benefit citizens who feel that their privacy have been violated for so long. marina thank you very much indeed for that we appreciate it. from. the on going leaks from ana say whistleblower edward snowden cools rule every time they manage people across the world being shown just how much their private lives and private being monitored by intelligence services and i discussed this issue with kevin mitnick one of the world's most renowned computer. according to revelations emails phone calls messages a role being tracked so how can the government god i think have access to everything at least in the united states and probably britain great britain and now

it's there's been some revelations that they've been pretty resourceful at breaking crypto so now i think they have access to a ton of stuff scott mcnealy said i think about fifteen years ago you have no privacy get over it and talk about edward snowden is he a traitor or hero from your point i think is a whistleblower you know i don't look at him as a true i'm actually glad that he revealed what the national security agency was doing at least against americans by violating our constitutional rights to privacy but i do think you know i have some mixed feelings that he did cross the line when he revealed n.s.a. operations that we have against other countries because as we all know all countries spy on each other where state law is a question is hash tag ask make make the most popular one is how can citizens protect that data and communications while still using popular corporate software the first thing i would recommend to the average person on the street is use

whenever you're out in the public or using public wife values use a v.p.n. service because what that immediately does is it creates it takes your data and it kind of puts it in the encrypted envelope so people can really intercept and spy on that could have boy code of tag on to train like i pod and it sounds like the rise and i go and i said. to the n.s.a. . no no i mean this is like the form of hacktivism were you you have you know a group of individuals whether it's like lulz or anonymous and they break into stuff and they try to get the media to cover the message they want to send but at the end of the day it really doesn't change behavior of a government agency or a company basically they go out and try to prosecute the guys do you regret of being at. i regret any problems i caused companies or consumers you know like i caused damages because i hacked into their systems and they had to go in and figure out you know what did he do and they had to rebuild their systems so i would

consider myself as a what i call a pain in the ass hacker right now the guy that was out i was never the type of guy who would try to wipe out a war or try to profit it was more about the intellectual challenge and the adventure and the curiosity what do you have when you when you death oh earlier. one of the give you my business card and what's really cool about my business card . just has my name and address although that's not interesting the interesting part is here this is actually a tool. so this is a lot so if you lock yourself out of your house you lock yourself out of your office just think of kevin mitnick can open the door for you so here you go thank you so much kevin you're welcome it was great thank you thank you for the thanks for having me. and you can watch the full interview with kevin mitnick website www dot com and also that while there is smoke rising you can apply on. white steed seen in pictures of the north korea nuclear science taken from space apparently

such as the reactors being read nor inched find out why the region on the whole world is so on about that. the mystery of some delay so late scientists discover new life forms and on time dating back around a hundred thousand years had to come from. emergency crews have been joined by volunteers in russia's far east to reinforce a major down protecting people from the rising waters of the river over three thousand locals are being evacuated to safety in a region which has been struggling with devastating floods a month now. 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 i'm

intensive floody every time the situation appears to be under control it worsens 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 egg or cultural 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 but reinforcements are there and they are monitoring those levees around the clock and now look at some other world news in the philippines muslim rebels seeking to establish an independent islamic state in the south of the country have a time as a town over let me time at least two residents were wounded and five people are now missing that comes during

a four day siege in the future. where militants have taken over one hundred people hostage conflicting reports say over a dozen rebels as well as two soldiers have been killed interesting that. unrest continues in turkey where police clashed with protesters over the death of a young student at a demonstration of the weekend before his resorted to tear gas to try to disperse crowds in istanbul and the capital ankara the third night a violent confrontation started after a funeral was held for the twenty two year old man who died in disputed circumstances. day in mexico thousands of teachers have taken to the streets after the president signed into law a controversial new education reforms iranis turned violent after demonstrators tried to breach the police cordons the new look. will see the firing and hiring a teaching stop taken away from the main teachers' union and brought home to the government control. and coming up next is breaking the satellite has to be knocking him announcing.

david silver and president of american atheists initially had his request for a custom license plate with the word atheist on it rejected atheist written with a one as the i was deemed to be just too offensive after some pressure the new jersey motor vehicles commission caved in allowed the plate this is only logical because a properly spelled atheist point had already been in use i look at this two ways one if you're going to give people the freedom of choice of expression then some people are going to express themselves in an offensive way so if you're terrified of offending people then why not just give everyone a random plate with a random number and no one will be offended at all or to if you really believe in freedom of speech and expression all that then allow drivers to pick whatever they want and be responsible for themselves if someone throws a brick through their car window for having an ultra offensive license plate and if

you want to express yourself or express something really offensive on your car then you better be prepared for some blowback or at least a few people spitting on your windshield but the show just my opinion. you are a. very hard to take. to get along really well that he ever had sex with that her right there really really really really.

really. wanted. the jury please please please please please please. please. please. please as we reflect upon the tragic events of september eleventh there on doubt of the many who are still seeking answers about the last twelve years we've seen nothing but corruption and deceit echoed throughout the political media establishment all to perpetuate endless war and the erosion of our rights this government can no longer be trusted at its word about pretty much anything and stead we need to seek out the truth for ourselves unfortunately the act of questioning anything about this event now runs to the risk of being dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.