a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. as russia and america's top diplomats meet to discuss how to disarm syria president assad says he is ready to hand over his chemical weapons but only after the u.s. gives up its policy of threats. to syrian army ends the extremists reign of terror in the christian religion our correspondent with this is government troops regaining control of the historic settlement. and other news this hour the white house is accusing big corporation with the c.e.o. of yahoo suggesting that even talking about the n.s.a. spying program could amount to treason the latest developments here.

live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned ten pm this is r.t. with international news and comment 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 the interview took place as russia and the u.s. try 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 lavrov is meeting the u.s. secretary of state john kerry in geneva and the two have just spoken to the media and joins me live now to give us the latest. so what was said at that media briefing and what do you think will actually be said what will be the conclusion of that meeting later between the two between john kerry and lavrov. well john

kerry and sergey lavrov have just been speaking to the press before launching into these very tough negotiations join kerry speak for quite a long time he reiterated the usa and said that he believes that the u.s. believes that it still holds just syria and the syrian government interest the chemical and. really. was planted for this crisis now but he also spoke about the fact that they would like to try and find a diplomatic solution is the price of oil to the issue. on the other hand it was much more he said that he didn't have a pair of legal studies that everybody knows the russians returned both said differences remain between the two sides and they're going to try very hard to try and hammer out a deal but the point you already see is to just song syria chemical weapons arsenal so we know that sticking points remain it's a question of whether or not they can reconcile them over the next day or so when

they're going to be discussing it one particular major sticking point is because the rest of course we know that the u.s. the u.k. and france are have said that any resolution that goes to the united nations must be backed up by the threat of force against syria if they don't comply with any plan or any deal that's how much out now russia says that that's unacceptable we also know that bashar assad has said that that would be a game changer he wouldn't agree to either that the threat of force by the u.s. must be off the table in order for this plan to proceed so they can reconcile their differences here so it's going to be a tough couple of days of negotiations we're going to be following it and see if they can hammer out those different says those different sticking points of course were touched on during that interview with russian television with bashar assad the syrian president what did he have to say moral knows. difficulties sticking points

. here will he spoke about the russian proposal to disarm syria of its chemical weapons stockpile and he said that damascus will start providing information about where their chemical weapons are stored and where they're produced a month after they sign the chemical weapons convention and he said crucially only if the u.s. starts arresting to use force against syria let's take a listen to what he said right now is that look this won't be about syria signing a protocol and delivering it with no positive feedback it has to be a mutual process and above all the united states has to give up its policy of threatening syria once we see the united states truly want stability in the middle east and once we see it refine from threatening us and pursuing intervention once we see them stop supplying weapons to terrorists then we'll consider this process is truly acceptable for syria and will look to finalize it as your new russia

should play a major role in the disarmament process we don't trust washington and don't talk to them moscow is the only party that can fulfill this role now. he's. also spoke about turkey saudi arabia and qatar and accused them of supplying the syrian rebels whom he accuses of using chemical weapons he also said that it could be the usa behind the chemical weapons attacks and that countries that have similar also to the series of their arrests before the withdrawal is called. to take responsibility for. playing a little president said it isn't fair is that why so many battles to try to state what i can recall at all is that you have rail about as a father and somewhat of a case and after you ordered it pulling those developments. twenty four guys thanks very much indeed for about more from you no doubt over the next few hours. but we 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 putin 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 shawn 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 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 west 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 that 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. sean thomas there and in syria itself the army is battling small groups of rebels who remain in the ancient christian village of opposition fighters linked 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. made it to the village following reports that government troops have recaptured it but found pockets of resistance remaining. don't relate. that to all of. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out you know what 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 but 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 and a monster and 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 that 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 to mark tough one one a street that we couldn't do it last night bazaar everywhere milo is home to many christian churches and monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we see either crosses on the rents now added to these we see black jihadists flags. it's time to head back. to trial 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 it's he's our only way out we think over our

chances when our engineer gets heat. for what you know you. must get if you scratch. but. thankfully it's not serious. but it becomes clear we come to a to minutes more. than one. shot when i was stuck here in this corner and we're now trying to get out of here because this was. well no no no no. so. this had been anything done back then they go there are ok clear a lot. more

focus off of the boots did you hear them whizzing by full. now say that we're rich safe area. they're firing from behind this. and her told that this is the syrian army get to be careful you don't like this too much so you get paid. and we leave you. i'll give him until forces continue their frenzy from out on the levee which despite the claims remains under siege. see reporting from syria. well we're heading into a break now but we'll be back with more news in just a moment including an interview with kevin mitnick now 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 and. also find

out how a city in russia's far east is working around the clock in a race against advancing floodwaters and concerns that fadia could mean disaster those are the stories after the break. please. choose your language. make it without any federal subsidies still some. choose to use the consensus here to. choose the opinions that invigorating to. choose the

stories that impact the life choose the access to your office. these continues here on our to yahoo c.e.o. who 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 spying program could see her up on charges of treason or to report as the details. well yahoo and facebook are among the big

companies that have faced mounting criticism for violating users' privacy by complying with the n.s.a. surveillance program but according to yahoo c.e.o. marissa mayer her hands were tied and rejecting government requests would have amounted to treason mr mayor made her comments at san francisco tech crunch press conference where she and facebook c.e.o. mark zuckerberg were told the audience that they were obliged to comply with washington spy programs this mayor told those in the crowd that it makes more sense for big tech companies such as yahoo to work within the system and fighting the n.s.a. through lawsuits have so far proved unsuccessful she also. she's only allowed to disclose a limited amount of data because releasing classified information surrounding n.s.a. programs is punishable with jail mr zuckerberg went on to say that the obama administration

has done a bad job at balancing national security and citizens privacy rights the facebook c.e.o. said that the white house's initial reaction to the n.s.a. spying revelations have worked against the interests of u.s. tech firms that are operating abroad now this is the first time we've heard from the heads of such a big corporation speaking publicly about the n.s.a. scandal while acknowledging that the spy agency requests use user data and those requests can't be rejected in the meantime it seems that every week the public is receiving new details about how pervasive the n.s.a.'s taxes tactics have been and how much authority this agency actually wields in all of this is an indication of the n.s.a.'s power and that power actually recently came to light this week when a cute computer science professor at john hopkins university a prominent university in the united states was out. really forced to deal take

down one of his blog posts on the university's site after he posted an article about america's spy program now the post was written by cryptography professor matthew green it was highly critical of the n.s.a. specifically how why he says the reckless reckless behavior of the agency and attacking online security astonished him now green said the acting dean of the engineering school of the university told him that he doesn't take down his post his critical posts of me and i say he would need a lawyer and this of course left us professor fearing for his academic freedom. i wrote a post about these new revelations that came out last week about the n.s.a. breaking encryption breaking. that's my research area so one of the things i do is i write a blog that's focused at technical people but also good journalists and people who aren't you know cryptographers themselves so i tried to take a pass at this story and explain what it meant that the n.s.a. was breaking this technology and that led to the blog goes which

a lot of people read somebody somewhere made a decision that there might be classified material on this blog the instinct was to shut the blog down rather than to sort of investigate that i think that was a mistake i don't think i'll ever know exactly where that came from and i hope it never happens again. now according to some reports the n.s.a. and the department of defense has strong connections to part of the job john hopkins university not what led to this pressure to be put on the professor but after it became public according to recent reports the university has backed off and now has allowed this professor to publish whatever material he wants to. report that will be on going leaks from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden cause more anger every time emerge people across the world are being shown just how much the private lives and private data being monitored by intelligence services when audio. 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 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 made to make the most popular one is how can citizens

protect that data and communications while still using 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 thought is 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 a boycott of time to train like i pod and phones like the rise and i'm good go and i said. to and i say. no no i mean this is like the form of activism 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 to 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 but 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 i think it just has my name and address although yeah that's not interesting the interesting part is here this is actually a tool set right so this is a lot of pics 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 left and i thank you so much kevin you're welcome it is great to have you on the show thank you thank you for it thanks for having me come. we can find out what

kevin mitnick thinks solve the latest i phone and whether it's ok to bank online and the full interview on you tube channel and go to our web site also for more stories there including whether the smoke is a nuclear plant white steam seen in pictures of a north korean nuclear site from space apparently suggests the reactor being. put out why the region and the world so uneasy about that. plus the mystery of a subject glacial lake scientists discover a new life forms in antarctica dating back around one hundred thousand years had to come from all. right to see the. first tree. and i think the church. recorders put their. instrument.

in the. emergency crews are being joined by volunteers in russia's far east to reinforce a major protecting people from the rising waters of the river of the three thousand to being evacuated to safety in a region which has been struggling with devastating floods for over 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 of intensive flooding 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 agricultural community their livelihoods have been very badly affected by this in many cases a livestock wiped out and even their food supplies wiped out so these people are again dealing with a very difficult situation where reinforcements are there and they are monitoring those levees around the clock. now look at some other world news this hour world updates in the philippines muslim rebels seeking to establish an independent islamic state in the south of the country attacked the town of limits on at least two residents were wounded and five people are now missing not comes during its four day siege in the city example where militants have taken over one hundred people hostage conflicting reports say that over a dozen rebels as well as two soldiers have been killed in the shooting that.

unrest continues in turkey where police clashed with protesters over the death of a young student at a demonstration at the weekend the soldiers resorted to take asked to try to disperse crowds in istanbul in the capital ankara the third night of violent confrontations started off the feed that was held for twenty two year old man who died in the speech which seems. to mexico now and thousands of teachers have taken to the streets after the president signed into law a controversial new education reforms rallies turned violent off the demonstrators tried to breach the police cordons you told will see the foreign haria teaching staff taken away from the main teachers' union and brought on big government control. well out to bring you up to date for the moment i'll be about with a news team with more free in just over half an hour from now stay with us though we have the latest edition of worlds apart a discussion program after. this

immediately though so we need to be. by the sea oceans secure. for your party isn't the. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. i know c.n.n. 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 when full attention and the mainstream media works side by side the joke is actually on you.

and our teen years we have a different brain. because the news of the world just is not this funny i'm not laughing dammit i'm not high. if. he doesn't have a job we'll handle that. bush is the perpetrator is our older son is driven by the hatred of the government. as a religious fanatics. kind of society protect itself against the income killable how should it react to attacks with retaliation. or like the citizens of norway and spain who opted for freedom openness and.

london two thousand and five. on july the seventh four bombs exploded three in underground trains one in a double decker bus the result fifty six deaths and seven hundred injuries the attack is not from the outside nor from the end. the four young assassins of muslims three of them born in the u.k. . a traumatic experience for the metropolis in the blink of an eye the entire city fell out of step it's about her ability visible tool. and they seem to live on in the collective memory they become sources of mourning and more and they have formal memorials and song.