the syrian army ends the extremists reign of terror in the christian village of correspondent witnesses government troops regaining control of the historic settlement. the use of force would be catastrophic not just for syria president putin addresses the american people as diplomats meet to find a way to deal with chemical weapons. the white house is accused of gagging big corporations with the c.e.o. of yahoo suggesting that even talking about the n.s.a. spying program could amount to treason top stories this hour.

live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned eight pm this is r.t. with international news and comment the syrian army is battling small groups of rebels who remain in the ancient christian village of. opposition fighters linked to al qaida had been in control of the area for almost a week reportedly looting religious sites and forcing residents to convert to islam a gun point. made it to the village following reports that government troops have recaptured it but found pockets of resistance remaining. but. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out. but some of them were

killed some of them escaped 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 and. 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 a month during soldiers and he has some questions again. that 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 that 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 them push onto my tough climb on a street but we couldn't do it there snipers are everywhere my lul is home to many christian toto is an 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 now. 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 its eggs are 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't wait a minute more. when i'm stuck here in this corner and when i'm trying to get out of here we'll miss what. was of no oh no. those have been anything don't back then they go well ok clear hello.

it's off to do the boots did you hear them whizzing by. now and if we really take harry. if i mean you're behind the scene. when you're told that this is so you know me again. that's how do you do this so you get there. and we leave while governmental full says continue their frenzy for marla village which despite the claims remains under siege. she reported from syria. meanwhile the russian president has expressed concern over the growing number of islam a swim in the syrian opposition warning that foreign mercenaries could eventually take the fight back to their own countries let me address the situation in syria in

an article for the new york times where he explained why he believes the use of force will only make matters worse 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 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 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 seek to 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 us want to repeat the mistakes of the past invoking the memory of iraq in 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 their 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 us equal overall putin said that he was hopeful with his relation with obama saying that it is marked with

a growing trust and he's now pushing for diplomatic ties. r.t. sean thomas there in 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 he also claimed a chemical attack near damascus was a provocation most demanded by the us or more details of that interview on our website run our own r.t. dot com well russia and the u.s. are 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 sergey lavrov is meeting the u.s. secretary of state john kerry later on thursday in geneva. reports. 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 who 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 patch 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 august 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 if you present it to the international

cricket community and to ultimately say face over the issue of syria when you book are reporting that well one embraced around the world russia's initiative to place chemical stockpiles under international control is not welcome by syria's opposition one of its main factions the free syrian army has categorically rejected the plan and even the removal of weapons does not mean they cannot be produced again one chemistry professor has told me that under certain conditions practically anyone can make them including 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 again 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. heading into a break now but we'll be back with more news in just a moment including an interview with kevin mitnick he's one of the world's most wanted hackers from the one nine hundred ninety s. he tells us why hardly anyone is safe from on line surveillance. that find out how a city in russia's far east is working around the clock in a race against advancing floodwaters over concerns that failure could mean disaster that after the break.

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news continues here on r t the c.e.o. of yahoo says internet companies are being put under serious pressure by the u.s. government not to talk about what information intelligence agencies are requesting she said even talking about the prism spy program could see her facing charges of treason. has the details of the developing scandal. 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 companies to work within the system of 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 our 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 of knowledge ing the wealth of information that was provided to the n.s.a. and acknowledging that 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. when i would snowden has been officially nominated by european union lawmakers for the prestigious soccer all for human rights prize the recipient is to be decided in october paul murphy he's an r. and b. p. from the parliamentary group that nominated snowden believes he won't win the prize but it's not about winning. 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 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 and i think he's only likely to win and i think the greens are the green group inside the parliament also supports edward snowden and what i fear that certainly the big groups will not wants the so-called embarrassment of choosing edward snowden because of the impact that that would have in relations with the us the reason you know very practical reason that we're proposing to him is to try to pressure on countries to grant in a permanent asylum we don't think he should be a man without a visa is a visa for the courts of asylum for a year now but after that he has. no definite future so it's designed to add pressure on to embarrass the us you know i'm going leaks from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden cause more anger every time they have people across

the world are being shown just how much their private lives and private data being monitored by intelligence services well you. discuss this issue with kevin mitnick he's one of the world's most renowned computer hackers. according to edit snowden's revelations e-mails phone calls messages a role being tracked so how can the government cause i think they 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 wi-fi is use of the pm 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 a boycott of time to train like i pod and phones like the rise in i'm good go and i said. to and i say. 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 data out or or try to profit it was more about the intellectual challenge and the adventure and the curiosity to having you on the death row 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 you know that's not interesting the interesting part is here this is actually a tool set right so this is

a lock picks 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 to have you on the show thank you thank you for it thank you for having me come. when you can find out what kevin mitnick thinks of the latest i phone and whether it's ok to bank online in the full interview on our website dot com also that whether it's smoke there's a nuclear plant like steve seen in for a north korean nuclear site taken from space parity suggests the reactor is being relaunched you can find out why the region and the world is so uneasy about that. that's the mystery of a subject glacial lake scientists discover a new life forms in antarctica they seem back around one hundred thousand years you have to want people to come more on that. right to see. first rate. and i would think that your.

orders without. incident. the. emergency crews have been joined by volunteers in russia's far east to reinforce a major protecting people from the rising waters of the imu river over three thousand to being evacuated to safety in a region which has been struggling with devastating floods for over a month now lindsey 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 communities would be submerged in water and now these people have endured nearly two months i'm

intensive flooding every time the situation appears to be under control it's 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 agricultural community their livelihoods have been very badly affected by this in many cases our 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. now look at some of the world news this in the philippines muslim rebels islamic state in the south of the country have attacked the town of at least two residents were wounded and five people are now missing that comes during a four day siege in the city of zamboanga where militants have taken over one

hundred people or stitch conflicting reports over a dozen rebels as well as two soldiers have been killed in shooting that. unrest continues in turkey where police clashed with protesters over the death of a young student at a demonstration at the weekend resorted to tear gas to try to disperse crowds in istanbul and the capital ankara the third night of violent confrontations started after a funeral was held for the twenty two year old man who died in disputed circumstances . thousands of teachers are taking to the streets after the president signed into law a controversial new education reforms the rallies turned volunteer after demonstrators tried to breach the police cordons. will see the firing and harming of teaching staff taken away from the main teachers' union and brought government control. brings out today for the moment i'll be back with more in just over half an hour from now. discuss whether the dollar is america's blessing. after the break.

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kaiser this is the kaiser report we started our journey down on wall street but that's not really the heart of darkness of this financial armageddon this apocalypse it's actually in midtown manhattan which you see on me so we've come up river looking for colonel kurtz who we will attempt to exterminate with extreme prejudice stacey on to tell us more max i assume that you mean colonel kurtz is jamie diamond who works at j.p. morgan he's the c.e.o. of j.p. morgan which you might see behind the chrysler building right there on the horizon j.p. morgan is full of and i understand you're going to go scouting them later you're going to go deep into the heart of darkness but the question is this is america's occurs not really a question but a statement and that headline is from zero heads and they look at the participation rate happening around the west.