the syrian government takes its first step towards chemical design element with washington's threats of force remaining one of the main stumbling blocks for the top diplomats meeting in geneva. america's accuse ations that bashar al assad is to blame for the chemical weapons attack in august is challenged by a man who was held captive by rebels in syria explains why. and their say has reportedly been disguising itself as google to trick online users into surrendering private dates are using techniques from the world's finest hacker .

international news live from moscow this is r.t. with me your leadership of our thanks for joining us syria has made a key step towards implementing russia's plan to remove its chemical weapons the yuan confirmed it has received documents which will see damascus joining the chemical weapons convention this comes amid a crucial talks between top russian and u.s. diplomats who are in geneva discussing the plan to put syria's chemical arsenal under international control point a boycott reports now on what the sides have agreed on and what sticking points remain. 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 of peace

plan now we know that both delegations they hear 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. managed to thrash out a deal and set aside their differences timing is already becoming a major issue 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 up to the chemical weapons convention which is the standard procedure in fact we've already received confirmation from the united nations that they've received syria's treaty papers. 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 to 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 has said that that is completely on except. well they've said that a diplomatic solution can only be sought if military strikes are off the table and as i said earlier speaking in that t.v. interview basher 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. 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 refrain 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 we'll look to finalize it russia should play a major role in the disarmament process but we don't trust washington and don't talk to them moscow is the only party that can fulfill this role now. so number of tough and very different position is that need to be reconciled here in geneva if there is even a sliver of a trance that we're going to come up with a diplomatic solution to this crisis by the end of the day. and coming

up later this hour a group that represents part of the world's population meets in korea stung with middle east peace the top issue. and also later this hour r.t. is bringing a live report from the shanghai cooperation organization and all it hopes to do to bring syria's vicious civil war turned. so no evidence has been made public as to who was behind august chemical at the time was triggered course for intervention from the west america and its european allies insist there is no. no doubt our sons to blame but some westerners who were in syria during that sign have challenge that. belgian rights. and went to syria under the opposition's protection but spent months held captive by rebels and he told my colleague bill daubed why he doesn't believe assad is behind that. 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 oil for root group in syria we were held at one point in a room facing an office of the free syrian army and the elf jihadist group we have been in the barracks of the priest syrian army and a jihadist group 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 group. which is. the result of a third person who was speaking perfect english and they were talking to him via skype they were talking about the events of the in the damascus suburb and from the conversation it was clear that the syrian government wasn't behind the attack but it. wasn't 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. their motivation was unclear from the conversation but we figured that it would have been absurd for the syrian government to use chemical weapons 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. it gave them a good reason to use force against the assad government either the syrian government lost its mind but i don't believe that or 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 alms they made a video showing people on the ground acting as if they had been victims of neurotic gas. and peter lavelle and his guards on our seas crossed off again

address the syrian issue later and this time they debated the recent chemical design with a proposal made by russia's president and the full show is coming your way next hour but here's a little taste. not just mr putin but many other people have been saying is this matter has to be dealt with in accordance with international law while all the great powers discuss everything with security council there are a hundred thousand syrians dead last time i came on this program i told her twenty eleven there were three thousand syrians dead mark my words if this is not it will be another one hundred years of time i appear and a hundred thousand after that what is extremely dangerous is when certain countries the united states bruton to some extent fronts claim that they have a special prove to all rights which no one else has to intervene in those situations where they judge what they call international law norms being violated.

by the n.s.a. in google's clothing media reports a jazz the spying agency has been gathering private data through a stealth site they allegedly do so by carrying out a so-called man in the middle at times which hope trick users into giving away information voluntarily and here's how it works imagine you want to find something online so you log on to a computer open up a search engine and type in the details and now the interesting part when clicking on the go button your data is being directly transferred to the agency remotely connected to your internet service provider and after that information is checked your request it reaches its final destination in the blink of an eye so you wouldn't notice and a britain's g c h q is believed to be practicing the same technique but it's not

only governments tracking your online steps university is trey's students' private data claiming this could improve the education experience nora smith looks at where good intentions may lead. remember the film minority report it's the one where tom cruise is the cost in the future and uses paths in the day to stop crimes before they happen while the fictional feature is now universities or our allies in the electronic trail of students how often they use the library what books they guess 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 that different you need a 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 had 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 is 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 the cia now i think people are the things that went on i think people are much more kind of them. more violence is i don't think it's right it's a kill if you can say sure you wouldn't do it in denmark where i come from i think people would like that i would mom my emails moniteur i mean the private e-mails should have the school right. ok it's private universities do have a good track record for keeping dates are private but the worry here is that there's so much data 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 stop recruiting those people altogether or not waste money on trying to retain them as students start returning for a new academic year they'd better be where big brother is watching them now more closely than ever. the shanghai cooperation organization is missing in kurdistan the group resents more than hostile money kind and this summit of series dominating. joins us now live with the details hyundai's or so tell us also special about this summit today. well the russian president vladimir putin met with the iranian leader for the first time since little funny was elected and obviously syria was in the spotlight both countries are completely on the same page when it

comes to understanding that any foreign military intervention would not only lead to more violence in syria itself but would risk spreading it throughout the whole region also both leaders to welcome serious decision to sign up for the international convention on chemical weapons which basically bans the use and the fact that it agreed to the proposal to move control over its chemical arsenal to the international community in fact mr rowhani added that the way this proposal's been acting out so for greece feel chances for a peaceful solution in the meantime is now widely recognized including by u.n. senior officials that iran is a key player in the region it's a close ally of. there is no way a diplomatic peaceful solution would be possible there without it getting involved and this summit here in kyrgyzstan is a great opportunity for tehran to start doing so. thank you very much indeed for that and right out of the break we'll have all the details on the deadly fire that

rolled through a psychiatric institution russia's northwest. says the media leave us so we leave the media. pushes secure. your party there's a goal. for shoes that no one is asking with to get that you deserve answers from. politics. wealthy british style. tied to the tireless let's go. to the. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy because the reports on our t.v. . critic take three. or four charges

three. three. three. three. the old free blog video for your media project a free media r t v dot com. wolf . this is all see coming to life for most co welcome back a blaze in a psychiatric clinic in northwestern russia has claimed a set of seven lives including a nez who died trying to rescue out that is twenty three people manisha escaped the file which witnesses say had been caused by one of the patients his lens of france has the details. the fire reportedly broke out in the evening hours and meet in a wooden annex of this facility in the northwest of russia near the village of luka apparently this wooden and extent does the men's ward many of these patients were

bedridden at the time 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 who 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 and are possibly still hiding so many many concerned people out there trying to find people who may have survived this blaze one nurse it's reported died trying to save patients now the martis emergencies ministry has said that it's. safety violations and the facility had until august first of twenty four to be to fix those so obviously that's being looked at very closely on and on

a very tragic morning in the village of luca what really brought fire safety into focus 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 nightclub one leaf of the double doors was sealed shut and that really brought fire safety into focus here in russia and unfortunately tragedy has struck again last night and this morning in the northwest. fortunately fires that care facilities are not uncommon in russia in april this year a massive blaze hit another sake a trick hospital east of moscow killing so she aged people two patients had led to save sea by a nurse were also the survivors the only survivors i should say in august twenty ten nine people died in western russia after a retirement home caught fire and early in two thousand and nine in northwestern

russia twenty three people fell victim to a blaze an elderly care home in march two years before that a fire swept through a nursing home in southern russia claiming the lives of six to two people and in november that same year and inferno near the city of again an elderly care home left such two dead over two hundred were rescued. over the line for you residents go to higher ground as waters approach sixteen thousand people have been evacuated from cities in russia's far east while soldiers fight to hold back a deluge caused by the river at home for you. and the flames ravaged a seaside tourist park in the american state of new jersey devouring fifty businesses and creating an ice cream shop the dramatic footage is on our website.

there are some other global headlines this hour the four men found guilty of raping and killing a young woman in the indian capital have been sentenced to death by hanging the brutal attack on a moving bus in new delhi last december the victim with severe injuries that led to her death two weeks later the vicious crime sparks nationwide outrage and triggered massive protests the death sentence ruling can be appealed in the supreme court. the operational the crippled fukushima nuclear plant says this is rationing days out of control wide smoke has been seen rising from our reality site tepco claims it's steam coming from a puddle on top of the plant but the company hasn't explained why vapor has been

appearing randomly since july recently there have also been leaks of highly radioactive water at the compound. in the al good city of tehran security forces have fought off a taliban attack on the u.s. consulate that started with a huge blast at the compound two are going to police officers and security guards along with a tigers were killed u.s. officials said no americans were hurt in the incident that are highlighted turned security situation ahead of the planned was droll over international troops in twenty forty. red wine hundred cheese and fog ron they're all products strongly associated with quality french produced and devoured in masses across the country but key political figures are now going to great lengths to get french consumers to buy more homegrown products to boost the economy to associate reports now on a new push to buy local and think national. when france's industry minister struck

a pose looking as french as one could be consumer affairs minister been one more thought it was a joke this is a real food of on new moon to be. i don't believe it. in fact what it was message was serious choose french products over foreign made ones to help more of their countrymen keep jobs and appeal to french patriotism in the face of a thirteen year high unemployment rate with the number of jobless hitting three million for the first time a move that comes as france talks about reforms to restore global competitiveness a critical priority says the international monetary fund a recent study suggests that if consumers were to buy only french made goods they would have to spend between one hundred three hundred euros more each month and amount that would squeeze an already weakened purchasing power because of all the publicity the french are even more aware now are made in france products versus

those coming from the outside but most of the time the difference could really be seen in the prices of the goods of this one for example is peaches from spain it costs for ninety five per kilo rather this one which is clearly marked made in france cost six and ninety five per kilo that's a two year old difference so the question here is how well it will decide do you sell to the french. differently no i won't spend three hundred years extra you have to find this money first. yes if i have the money certainly. just. no i think globalization allows us to find cheaper goods you know it's when you look at the product you know some of those sharlto whatever you go got bought over he has been dug into in france but part of it as been done elsewhere in fact french political parties have been accused of hypocrisy as a local newspapers investigation last year showed election campaign materials had

been made in china bangladesh morocco you name it. here for example this little case is made in china so i'm not afraid buying things in china that's the part the point is we have. no hope in france at all as a p.c.m. is a brand that takes pride in having its manufacturing base in france its director says the study noise an important point that paying more to support their own industries creates local jobs and is far less of an economic burden than the cost of three point two million unemployed big amount of those ducks of course to pay. for social care we have in france and a big moment of the social care and employment so we'd move we would be much more healthier in france and with lower deficits public deficit if

everyone was to have. a job the world trade organization has criticized this campaign as patriotic protectionism as france's economic why why is getting trickier to manage politicians seem to be grasping at straws the government's new call to arms may look good on paper but its critics point out it could end up an economic forecasts. tesser sylvia r.t. paris. back with more news in around and it's time that's coming up it's a point to take with legendary host larry king that's after the break when i was. 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 and 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.

as president obama takes his case for strikes against syria to the american people russia makes a last ditch effort for diplomacy would work former u.s. . embassador to the u.n. bill richardson joins us next on politicking with larry king. i heard this in a politicking with larry king having news about syria and the united states this week and joining me from santa fe new mexico is the former united states ambassador

to the u.n. an old friend bill richardson he's also the former governor of new mexico and a former congressman and a former energy secretary under bill clinton he's held so many government post thank you for joining me governor we really appreciate this thank you larry it's great that you're back and by the way i can't keep a job that's why i have all those jobs. let's get right at it and i would i do you assess the president's speech. it was a good strong speech he focused on the need to have the military option on the table he focused on the diplomatic solution he was strong his comments were heartfelt and he basically took a gamble with seeing what the russians and the syrians have to offer. i think you want to try a diplomatic solution and at the same time postponing

a vote in the congress this would have been a really tough phone larry you and i have been through these votes before i think the president would have gotten the votes officially but again it's a very volatile situation things change every day but i think the president has handled the crisis well even though the country is very war weary afghanistan iraq people want funding to go to education to jobs to health care so it's a very turbulent period. what do you do you the president and both sides the hitting of the public is tired of war the left attack sure the right attack you and us says him is handling this well i do larry i think he's calm cool collected it's a very tough job it's a very lonely job you're right out in the country there's no support out in the congress these congressmen senators are back home they're finally back in

washington they're hearing from their constituents internationally you know the u.n. and international entities they don't want to see military strikes they want to see diplomacy but when president obama tried diplomacy at the u.n. on the syrian issue the russians killed it the syrians weren't serious they tried u.n. envoy is and they couldn't get a political settlement but i am hopeful that there is something about the military strike that scared the russians and the syrians hopefully this means that they will engage in a political settlement that gets rid of the weapons in a timely fashion that also maybe leads talks towards a political settlement a cease fire hopefully assad giving up some power. there's a reason why they proposed the russians and the syrians this.