the syrian government starts heading towards chemical design armond the details of which are being thrashed by top russian and u.s. diplomats in geneva after washington pres the pause button in its war drive against syria. but america is still sticking to its believe that damascus gassed hundreds of civilians in august a man who was held hostage by rebels in syria at the time this challenging this. all she caught up with. the n.s.a. online spying scandal spreads ever wider universities too are getting in on the action following secret sign posted. personal data from student.

patients and staff at a psychiatric hospital in northwestern russia called in a massive fire overnight with austin or an armed guard at cigarette suspected of causing the inferno. international news live from moscow this is a party with meet your national our thanks for joining us. so you were as taken its first steps along the path to chemical design element be you on house confirmed it's received documents from the syrian president bashar al assad on joining the chemical weapons convention which binds the use of production of poisonous agents this comes amid a u.s. war threats against syria although washington has it and agreed to try diplomacy

first. in the meetings of top russian and american diplomats in geneva so alterman achieved so far. hi there you know well three way talks have already taken place between sergey lavrov john kerry and international envoy to syria lakhdar brahimi now they were talking about meeting later this month at the u.n. general assembly in new york to further discuss syria they also spoke about outside the issue of chemical weapons about planning for a geneva two peace conference that would bring to the table all the sides in the syrian conflict in order to try and thrash out some sort of route towards a peace plan now we know that both delegations are here with large teams of technical and chemical weapons experts who are going to be advising both sides on the logistics of any plan that they come up with and we are expecting a press conference later on this evening to see if brits allegations of managed to

thrash out a deal and set aside their differences and these differences you just mentioned. well the timing is already becoming a major issue of the syrian president bashar al assad said in a t.v. interview just yesterday that damascus would start to provide information about its chemical weapons stockpiles about its storage facilities thirty days off to signing on to the chemical weapons convention which is the standard procedure in fact we've already received confirmation from the united nation. is that they've received syria's treaty papers but john kerry has already rejected that thirty day timeframe speaking earlier this week he said that he thinks assad should give up all his chemical weapons within a week and he doesn't think that damascus will be able to comply with that which has already led a number of international observers to question how constructive this type of u.s.

rhetoric really is when we're talking about a very dangerous and very technical procedure of chemical disarmament this also brings me to the next stumbling block which is the threat of the use of force we know that u.s. military forces remain poised to strike syria if they fail to come up with a deal here russia or in town he said that that is completely unacceptable they've said that a diplomatic solution can only be sorted for military strikes are off the table and as i said earlier speaking in that t.v. interview bashar al assad also said that he is going to work towards this proposal and he's going to give up chemical weapons only under the condition that the u.s. stop this very threatening rhetoric of a potential military strike against syria so let's take a listen to what he was saying right now. 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. to the united states to truly want stability in the middle east and once we see it from threatening us and pursuing intervention once we see them stop supplying weapons to terrorists then we'll consider this truly acceptable for syria and will look to foreign law as it does you want it russia should play a major role in the disarm. we don't trust washington and don't talk to them is the only party that can fulfill. well the syrian leader who accuses syrian rebels of carrying out the organist chemical attack in damascus also spoke of turkey saudi arabia and qatar saying that he believes that they're funding the opposition and providing them with chemical weapons he also spoke of his concern that the syrian rebels might try to launch

a chemical attack against israel as a father act of provocation so a number of tough and very different positions that need to be reconciled here in geneva if there is even a sliver of a chance that we're going to come up with a diplomatic solution to this crisis by the end of the day you're absolutely. live from geneva thank you very much and do whatever shade thank you. and former top ranking yorn officials have written an address to the international community warning against military action in syria and calling on soren governments to stick to the spirit over the u.s. official u.n. official. prado was one of those who put his name to the letter and he explained why you think governments should pull their military horses. or i'm officially they have been no help india the rebels i don't think this is it at the way due to

certainly the conflict in the middle east we have the experience in the us dead those awards they have been know done or carried out without any respect for the un charter and the example of iraq the. terms of mass destruction were not front so we don't have any proof for the time being and we have many examples in the past there this has been . and watches without any proof and even if there are any groups they have to be seen by the security council and they have to take it. and decision all the members of the international community. and there's been no official findings yet on who was behind the chemical attack which sparked america's aside for war and while washington accuses president assad of being responsible so

westerners who were inside the country had their time challenge this notion my colleague bill don spoke to belgian rice said pierre pick cheney and he came to syria under the rebels' protection but later found himself in that detention. balls . i don't think bashar al assad in the syrian government are to blame for the chemical attack and. during that time my italian friend and i had been taken hostage by jihadists from the alpha rupe group in syria we were held at one point in a room facing an office of the free syrian army in the oil for jihadist group we have been in the barracks of the free syrian army and of the oil for jihadist group with as well and we heard a conversation from this office the conversation was between one general from the free syrian army we knew him from earlier as he was the one who was in charge of our detention and another officer from the. kids were just. there was also

a third person who was speaking perfect english and they were talking to him via skype yes they were talking about the events of the in the damascus suburbs and from the conversation it was clear that the syrian government wasn't behind the attack but the but it also. was it clear to you what the motivation was to use chemical weapons to launch a gas attack on civilians in this way what was the motivation do you think was it mentioned. the motivation was unclear from the conversation but we figured that it would have been absurd for the syrian government to use chemical weapons with the regime had nothing to gain from that the massacre on the contrary it played into the hands of its enemies the u.s. france and the u.k. and it gave them a good reason to use force against the assad government to do the syrian government lost its mind but i don't believe that for the authors of the attack or the

opposition and it is clear that the rebels are the ones who wanted to benefit from the situation. let us remind you that the rebels already tried to simulate a gas attack a year ago and elms they made a video showing people on the ground acting as if they had been victims of neurotic gas attack it. representing half of the world's population and the shanghai cooperation organization will be looking at how it can lend its weight to peace in syria and about to happen is still iran will have to play a major role coming out were fought on the organization summit happening today in kyrgyzstan. the director of intelligence in the us has said the wide ranging leaks on the n.s.a. spying program have fueled an important debate on the tradeoff between privacy and national security but he says he's a warrior there are more revelations from whistleblower edward snowden on the way and earlier we spoke to renowned former hacker kevin mitnick here in our moscow

studio while he believes snowden's secretly can be criticized his still feels the revelations were crucial for americans. 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 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 that's dead very damaging right because this was you know it was kind of like how i felt in a lot of colleagues in the information security world felt we already felt this was already being done but there was actually no confirmation but now there is definite confirmation and now that the cat is out of the bag it should surely damages national security because now our adversaries now potentially terrorists know our methods of operation or at least have it confirmed so now they could change the way

they communicate with the revelations of snowden that allegedly the n.s.a. has approached and partnered with a lot of companies to develop security software that developed p.p.m. technology you might have intentionally weaken this technology so they could intercept communications but an average citizen probably if they're you know if they're not a terrorist they really are not concerned about is intelligence agency intercepting communications but more criminal organization i believe it's all about scott mcnealy said i think about fifteen years ago you have no privacy get over it and that was the axiom of sun microsystems and i think that quote is really holds true today and it's not just governments trying to pay into able to do online and universities stayed there are serious concerns about how the digital trials of students attract and gazed as institutions up and their goals for another semester or smith nick said they recent data collection. remember the film minority report

it's the one where tom cruise has the car in the future and uses paths in the day to stop crimes before they happen while the fictional feature is now universities are out of life in the electronic trail of students how often they use the library what books they get out even where they park their cars to create a picture of them and how they learn and they use the data in different ways the different you need the marketing courses but also to predict which students are likely to fail or dropouts and here's where it fits into nineteen eighty-four territory in the dystopian novel any negative thoughts is thought crime every party member has the telly screen in his or her home which the thought police use to watch them and record anything that resembles an unorthodox opinion or in the struggle now look for a university in the midlands says it's considering doing something frighteningly similar monitoring student private emails but negative comments on their university

experience to see if they're at risk of quitting. students at the london school of economics are not keen on the idea. that it would be an infringement of my integrity it sounds a bit cia now i think people are the things that went on i think people are much more kind of them. could be more violence is i don't think it's right it's a kill if you can say so you wouldn't do it in denmark where i come from i think people would like that i would mom my emails that money. i mean the private e-mails to shift could right they see a maze. university do you have a good track record for keeping data private but the worry here is that there's so much states and of course how it could be used ultimately the information could be used to allocate resources for example if it identifies the type of person most likely to fail universities could still procreating those people altogether or not

waste money on trying to retain that a student start returning for a new academic here they better beware big brother is watching them now more closely than ever. and right after the break we'll have all the details on the deadly fire and toward through a psychiatric institution in russia as a northwest. new york london. the whole world. of the original one a further one down the end. of the course out building at the end of the street another one a more transparent society gets the money or the public hears become we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the

city who inhabit the city the more people trust electronic devices the more new from. here that has a thousand on is on our t.v. . free. free. free. free. free. video for your media. free media r.t. dot com. again this is the welcome back iran's president has declared that any possibility of the use of force against syria must be condemned and averted the comments were made at the summit or one of the biggest organizations on the planet they shanghai

cooperation organization which represents more than a hobby humanity is meeting today in kurdistan aside from the usual talk or an ever tighter economic and military alliance syria is featuring a heavenly less now cross live to r.t. the group is going on who are trying this now from the bush igor nice to see is so there's been a flurry of statements coming from that today so some of them up for us please. well besides the six constant members of the shanghai cooperation organization which include russia and china iran and india are also here in the capital looking to become members of the organization as well so its future growth is also more on the issues here along with the situation of ghana stand on the korean peninsula the iranian nuclear program and others but it's definitely syria which is among the key issues on the table now we've heard from russia's president putin who serious

decision to sign up for the international convention on chemical weapons which basically bans their use and he reiterated once again that only a peaceful diplomatic solution is possible for that conflict and now iran's stance on the issues similar to that of moscow's and beijing's we've heard from the iranian president who called for international condemnation of the plans of a possible strike on the country. that any military intervention in syria would not only create more violence in the country itself would actually risk spreading it throughout the whole region now there's also a different side to this story and that is iran and hezbollah are our allies with syria and many analysts agree that syria is actually the key link in that chain warning that if it drops out for whatever reasons then that will lead to

unpredictable consequences first of all a power vacuum and the breakup of the current balance of forces so syria is very important in that chain and the whole situation is obviously very complex but it's widely understood now that iran obviously it's a key player in the region but it's widely understood including by senior u.n. officials that any peaceful resolution of the conflict in syria would not be possible without the iran's involvement. since the iranian president. russian president is here now the leader of china is here now as well so this is a great opportunity to get iran involved in. a live. thank you very much that. seven people have been killed over night blaze at a psychiatric facility in northwestern russia. through the debris for bodies while

twenty three people to safety. reportedly broke out in the evening hours and meet in a wooden annex of this facility in the northwest of russia in your the village of luka apparently this wooden and extent does the men's ward many of these patients were bedridden at the time and witnesses are saying that they saw a person within the facility who was engulfed in flames before the structure caught fire obviously investigators are taking a very serious look at this and trying to ascertain the cause of this blaze now crews arrived within minutes but it is said there was very heavy smoke and rescuers spent the morning searching the surrounding areas to find possibly any patients who escaped the fire and run out into the into the areas surrounding the facility in are possibly still hiding so many many concerned people out there trying to

find people who may have survived this blaze one nurse reported died trying to save patients now the him artists emergencies ministry has said that it's cited this facility for safety violations and the facility had until august first of twenty fourteen to fix those a so obviously that's being looked at very closely on the under very tragic morning in the village of luca what really brought fire safety into focus on the infamous lame horse nightclub in december of two thousand and nine one hundred fifty six people killed this was because of a pyrotechnics show on stage at the at the nightclub one leaf of the double doors was sealed shut. and let's now have a look at the biggest fires that have. care facilities here in russia a massive blaze in a psychiatric hospital occurred earlier this year on april the twenty sixth in the

run ins co north of moscow and killed thirty six patients and two star members two patients who were led to safety by a nurse or the only survivors there in august twenty ten nine people died in western russia after a retirement home caught fire also in two thousand and nine in the russian republic of kami a blaze in an elderly care home claimed the lives of twenty three people and in march she has before that flames claimed the lives of six to two residents of a retirement home in southern russia and in november that here a fire in the city of two lay again in an old age care home left so she two people dead while two hundred and forty seven people both patients and medical staff were rescued. and plenty more of course online for you including the military pausing and citizens push out sixteen thousand people evacuated from citizen in russia's far east as soldiers fight to hold back flood water. and what it takes

a first highly anticipated step towards of floating on the stock market by the company was an estimated ten billion dollars it's keeping the details tightly under wraps quote to dot com to find out more. and to some other world news in brief now a bombing at a you ask consulate in the afghan city of herat sparks and now a long gun battle between militants and security forces and military spokesman says the consulate has now been secured with the five attackers killed at least three other people have been reported dead with nine more injured in that time the taliban has claimed responsibility. crowds filled the bahrain streets on thursday as people lashed out at these security forces and accusing them of killing a protester they say a prominent young activist was run over by a police car wednesday the protest movement in bahrain has been pressing the government to implement human rights reforms and accuses the rulers of carrying out a plan. for taxes in the u.k.

wholesale blame for pricing activities have staged a rally at the world's biggest on spain london they say many of the items presented there will be used to climb down on the opposition in countries like bahrain the event is held every year to provide a platform for weapon manufacturers and their clients. oh man found guilty of raping and killing a young woman in the indian capital have been sentenced to death by hanging a virtual entente six place on a bus in need to any and love the victim with such severe injuries that she died two weeks later that vicious crime spunk nationwide triggering massive pressure as the man will be allowed to appeal the ruling. and coming up next is breaking to set with.

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 it 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 surest my opinion. with. science technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future covered. what's going on guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so sadly these n.s.a. leaks just keep getting more depressing hadamard snowden's latest installment reveals that you the u.s. shares americans raw data with its most trustworthy friend in our life you guessed it israel yes thanks to a memo just published by journalist glenn greenwald we now know that the u.s.

government gives unfiltered communications transcripts and metadata to israel and although the document says that the data cannot be used to deliberately target americans absolutely no legal binding enforcement is placed on the use of the data in other words nobody isn't forcing our right to privacy but wait it gets worse not only does israel hold on to information about americans up to a four year but this memo is from two thousand and nine which means for the past five years all of this information is just kicking it in an israeli database great so now i don't just have to worry about my own government spying on me thanks so remember guys next time you tweet send an e-mail or text make sure to give a shout out to our friends in israel and if you're sick of details from our private lives being stored in servers and networks around the world then join me it's time to break the set. the sadness of the terror

a. very hard to take that was the trigger. cloud have you ever had sex with the terror threat they're looking. to. cut cut cut cut cut cut. although months ago the obama administration announced they would be arming the rebels in syria today those weapons shipments became official the administration admitted that the cia has been directly delivering arms to syrian rebels for the last two weeks apparently the fact of these weapons may end up in the hands of al

qaeda extremists just isn't concerned enough for our government now one woman who has repeatedly spoke out against u.s. involvement in syria's civil war since the beginning is maybe all home known as syria girl mimi has become a viral sensation for her passionate antiwar speeches now in one video she says that if assad regime gives up its chemical weapons will be a grave mistake i asked her why she believes this to be the case. in my case i'm syrian nationalist so my country comes first before government before anything and i'm always looking out for the interests of the country as a little. those weapons exist were reason near an answer to the fog that israel developed chemical and nuclear weapons in the sixty's and they have signed the n.p.t. but they haven't right to find it so that's all.