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from moscow you're watching our teaser the weekly and today's top stories with me to bomb what say. the syrian government has been given one week to fully reveal its chemical weapons capability which must be completed destroyed by the middle of next year that's according to a new groundbreaking deal reached by russia and the united states plans have persuaded washington to call off its a strike on syria fees for the time being and he said no it has more. signed sealed and if delivered it could see syria hand over its chemical weapons stockpiles russia and the us agreed on a six point plan after a week of talks i think the main factor is the willingness of russia to take responsibility and russia taking the lead russia making some proposal dis is

really changing the whole of figure of the whole or three young army of the of the situation the plan is seen as a last diplomatic push to prevent a military intervention into syria there can be no games no room for avoidance or anything less than full compliance by the regime in the event of noncompliance we have committed to impose measures under chapter seven within the u.n. security council all sides including rebel groups will be responsible for the safety of international inspectors and will have to provide free access to the sites. of course this does not mean every time a violation is reported actions will be taken an automatic plea will first have to verify such reports spirally because there are a lot of fabrications along these surrounding this issue and we have to be very

careful russia is still wary of u.s. threats of course but more than welcomes the u. turn in war rhetoric from the white house obama seemed more than ready during tack at all beyond words and he was forced to back off on a policy that very a week ago he was committed to launch a bombing campaign and i think the russian leadership and the american people have boxed a minute but some experts aren't convinced that this step by the ousted regime with u.s. and russian support will be enough it also has some american counters pointed out leaves the way open to do to assert what the americans did to gadhafi could offer after all agreed to give up his chemical weapons his various of the non-conventional weapons and then a few years later he was attacked and the rebels immediate rejection of these latest diplomatic efforts makes it clear their pursuit for foreign intervention is not over damascus now has until next weekend to provide the u.n.

with a complete list of its stockpiles if i also continues to cooperate will it be enough to push for peace without the cooperation of the rebels and their supporters and he's now a party moscow internationally supported deal on syria does not bind the hands of the rebels who will continue to fight against the regime that's according to the head of the syrian opposition is mainly that she wing of the western backed insurgents are growing increasingly desperate as they lose ground to government forces according to and to activists richard back. they cannot win they cannot achieve victory without the intervention of the u.s. . and perhaps other other nato allies they do not have the capacity on their own to win and that's why they were so ardently hoping for military strikes massive military strikes by the united states against the government forces and

there have been many reports about the armed opposition in syria possessing chemical weapons clearly the objective of the united states is to weaken the government the government forces in syria which it is seeking to overthrow while at the same time seeking to strengthen in every way possible the forces and up of the armed opposition forces that it favors the evidence is continuing to pile up against the syrian rebels the belgian right. to see me who went to syria under the protection of opposition itis but end up in captivity shortly afterwards has said the government had nothing to do with last month's chemical attack on the outskirts of damascus and so to my colleague bill dodds some viewers may find some of the images we're about to show disturbing. 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 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 yes 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 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 what. their motivation was unclear from the conversation but we figured that it would have been absurd for the syrian government to use chemical weapons if the regime had nothing to gain from the al guta 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 did 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 and 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 that. this week the syrian army successfully liberated the ancient christian village of mali but jihad is rebels are still holding strategic positions in the

nearby mountains arches maria financial i was in the thick of things. i don't relate. that to old. 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 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 amongst syrian soldiers and he has some questions again syria 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 just slapped across the face there'd be a scandal while in syria how many victims how many hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered why will it stop with quickly find out that it won't be today held by the militants for a week it seems that mountain tops of fear hotel still poses a threat that sufi hotel our goal was to liberate them push on them are tough them on the street but we couldn't do it there snipers are everywhere malala is home to many christian tocchet and monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we

see either crosses on the arrests now added to these we see blag jihadists flags. it's time to head back. 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 if he's our only way out we think over our chances when our engineer gets hit. it will know you're going through much. of pressure. but. thankfully it's not serious. but it becomes clear we can't wait a minutes more. when i was stuck here in this corner and we're now trying to get out of here

business was. well so no i don't know. so. those have been anything done to back then here they go there are clear a lot. more focus also drew the boots did you hear them whizzing by. but now say that we're pretty safe area. to fire and you're behind this new three hundred told that this is the syrian army get rid of it that's how do you make. sure you get there. and we leave

while governmental forces continue their frenzy for manohla village which despite the claims remains under siege. for a fortune from syria. and maria's pacing real time reports on the situation in mali on her twitter feed find out the latest by following her online. coming up a bit later in the program a tradeoff between privacy and success british universities start monitoring the students private data with the aim of improving academic results get the full story in a couple of minutes here on r.t. . london. the whole world is a. feature of the original one but the one on the end.

of the court that building at the end of the street another one a more transparent society gets the money or the proper tears become we see military and state and police forces mobilized against people who blend into the city hobbit the city the more people trust electronic devices the more defenseless the. fear that it is a thousand. on our key. speak your language. programs and documentaries in arabic. reporting from the world talks about six of p.r.p. interviews intriguing story. arabic to find out more visit our big.

welcome back you're washing our team a shift to the wind for no way the conservatives along with their white wing allies us up to paul in this week's general election i'll sing the labor party the incoming coalition includes the anti immigrant progress party which mass murder a and brave it was once a member off. set to take the helm as prime minister has called the victory historic and explains the rise of the right is being echoed across europe. two years ago norway suffered the worst massacre since world war two a brutal assault unleashed against a summer camp for young people claiming seventy seven lives the perpetrator was extreme rightist anders breivik who claimed to have political motivation for his atrocities at his trial he said he wanted to punish the ruling labor party for its

liberal immigration policies and to start a so-called conservative revolution he was a member of the progress party in his youth before he lost faith in it and in democracy and adopted the radical and views that underpinned his act of terror the n.c.a. migration progress party saw supported crumble in the aftermath of the attack but as norwegians headed to the polls monday for the first parliamentary election since the tragedy the tables appeared to have turned and the progress party is poised to enter government for the first time the party has since softened its radical image and tried to distance itself from braving its campaigned for tougher immigration and asylum policies and wants to reduce the number of immigrants from outside the e.u. in the face of economic uncertainty and voters in some european countries have rallied behind a far right nationalist ideas a few of the parties that have emerged have grown more popular others much less so or not at all well since the financial crisis several e.u.

countries including major european economies have seen a substantial rise of populist radical right electoral support let's take a closer look now in one of the biggest economies france after years of electoral decline marine le pen led the country's national front to its best ever results in the election of two thousand and twelve now some have claimed that xena phobia is still one of the country's party's trademarks although she has tried to soften the party's image since the more radical program of the one nine hundred ninety s. moving on to austria the freedom party of austria has focused on anti immigration anti islam and euro skeptic issues is even called for a withdrawal from the euro zone. and moving on to the true finns in finland they may share populist rhetoric with other nordic parties its supporters to are opposed to the e.u. and to globe globalism now the party leader hundreds sieved the highest number of personal votes for any candidate in the party has one thousand percent of the seats in parliament well the movement for

a better hungry entered parliament for the first time three years ago now the group describes itself as a radically patriotic christian party but it's described in a local pressed as neo fascist and in the far right national alliance brings together a coalition of conservatives ethno nationalists and economic liberals with fourteen seats in the legislature it's the country's fourth largest political party now at the same time some of the countries which do have notable far right parties there is a fairly even split between those that have seen an increase in support and those which haven't and as you can see right here support for right wing movements has gone down now in some ways the growth of right wing parties has been cyclical in europe some tend to gain power during economic downturns and fade during periods of growth but with economic stagnation continuing on the continent it remains to be seen what will happen to these political groups who see r.t. moscow it evades did use an aide to move ahead of france's national front of spain

to what he believes party's stand for. we're shifting to a new system where it's not a question of right and left anymore and actually we're not anti immigration we want to deal more seriously with massive immigration and we're not entirely we want to deal against. radicalization since the one nine hundred ninety s. . the eyes of the people by explaining more and probably in a better way what we were actually fighting for our days the polls indicate that we would be leading in the elections the next european parliament elections before the elections we will have local elections as will we will probably make very good. numbers and figures. head to our com for more on the story as a way of covering also online for you twenty one months is running aground a concept in court is that full rebirth find out what it will take to rescue the

cruise line them over one hundred ten thousand tons on our website. at the lever the home of the mona lisa could be leaving one two percent of its exhibits to safety over fears that a once in a century disaster could hit paris. and impassioned debate on academic freedom to sprang up this week in the u.s. after a research professor at john hopkins university matthew greene was ordered to take down a blog entry criticizing the n.s.a. from universities served up the interim dean who gave out the order apologized after receiving a barrett complaint for top of i though they cryptography rather told r.t. what was behind his post what we learned is that the n.s.a. has a hard time breaking crips and so what they've done is they've actually tried to take the products that that perform and corruption and make them worse make the weaker

so that it's easier for them to break that encryption the n.s.a. is is willing to make us security a little bit weaker because remember it's not just you know non-u.s. citizens are using these products it's americans too and they're willing to you know lead in a sense put our credibility on the line our tire industry on the line in order to access that communications of whoever it is they want to listen to we have a big debate ahead of us how much spying i mean there is there's a range anywhere from zero percent spying to one hundred percent spying and i think we have to figure out what the right balance is i think what we're learning is that the american public is not comfortable with what we're learning about that balance . in the meantime some i get them because situations on the other side of the atlantic have come under fire for spying on their students' private data a move that they say was designed to improve education standards i just saw a smith has a story remember the film minority report it's the one where tom cruise is the car in the future and uses paths in the day to stop crimes before they happen while the

fictional future is now universities or our allies 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 they use the data in different ways the different you need for 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 a 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 putting. 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 feel that one on one thing people are much more kind of them. to be more violated i don't finish right it's a kill that you can say sure you wouldn't do it in denmark where you come from i think people would like. the moniteur i mean the private email is sure to be cool right to receive may's ok it's again firewood universities do you have a good track record for keeping dates are 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 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 still to come this hour scrambling of our genius at the party's opening to impact germany's general election and ask how we plan to compete with this stablish players details are just ahead. now to some of today's main news of from around the world in northern iraq a suicide bomber has killed at least thirty six people and left dozens more wounded in an attack apparently targeting the shabak ethnic minority this follows a string of deadly shootings and bombings across the country iraq is currently in during the bloodiest period in years with more than four thousand deaths since april. across a us seat of colorado have left five people dead and hundreds missing thousands of residents have been safely evacuated the state suffering is the worst flooding in

decades with a the heart of the entire annual average rainfall in the pulse week alone will flash floods are expected in the coming days. after the mayoral election in the russian capital sort of young man has been sworn in at a grand serbian in moscow as local i hailed but the opposition can lose a lesson of all he has filed a lawsuit demanding a rerun came in second to securing or was a third of the vote he claims there were multiple violations during the ballot allegations that have been rejected by the central election committee on monday thousands attended a mass rally in central moscow in support of the opposition front. with a general election creeping closer in germany small parties are struggling to get the public's attention some of the less prominent contenders have however made strong progress in rural areas as archie's peter oliver found out.

on the campaign trail hoping to strike a chord. and official telling us we convince that we have to get a say and a higher level and we end up having to pay for the big decisions so we want to be part of the process. free voters are a grassroots political organization they are opposed to the major german parties they claim look out for the interests of big business over those votes is we don't have the big money the other parties have so for commercials for leaflets etc we mostly paid ourselves the candidates pay it because we cannot raise so much funds. also because we don't tolerate lobbyists most of their support comes from rural areas where people feel ignored by the bureaucracy and berlin the party has its own influencing decisions far beyond the very a though they want to see struggling eurozone countries be able to reissue their

own currencies to help tackle inflation as well as end bailouts to home loan this bank is still is bailed out by the state we don't want this any longer we don't want banks to be bailed out by the taxpayer small parties like this one are unlikely to cause too much concern for chancellor angela merkel however three voters are convinced that they can draw support from those who've become disillusioned with the more stablished political parties. in big parties this is flow from top to bottom and that with these guys everyone can bring their ideas to the table and each person's opinion counts yeah yeah being in the interim fifty years with us the i think small parties that are not spoiled yet are very important we need different points of view out there. but these small parties are not playing the game if they can get into a coalition me they can have a real influence. in the two thousand and eight varian states elections for you

votes has picked up just over ten percent of the votes this time they aiming to go further the others they have a lot of money so we have the members and we have the spirit how much the spirit converts into votes we'll find out on september the twenty second when germans go to the polls peter all of. the very. next day will look into the eyes of big brother and a special report coming. david silver and president of american atheists initially had his request for a custom license plate with the word atheist on it rejected atheist written with a one as the i was deemed to be just too offensive after some pressure the new

jersey motor vehicles commission caved in allowed the plate this is only logical because a properly spelled atheist point had already been in use i look at this two ways one if you're going to give people the freedom of choice of expression then some people are going to express themselves in an offensive way so if you're terrified of offending people then why not just give everyone a random plate with a random number and no one will be offended at all or to if you really believe in freedom of speech and expression all that then allow drivers to pick whatever they want and be responsible for themselves if someone throws a brick through their car window for having an ultra offensive license plate and if you want to express yourself or express something really offensive on your car then you better be prepared for some blowback or at least a few people spitting on your windshield but the surest my opinion.

cities of a culmination of globalization. nowhere else in the world a conflict so strongly concentrated as here. cities are of the ebus and to say via bustling with possibilities yet vulnerable. those wanting to harm a society ambushed the city and its daily life. in cities a defenseless against this form of terrorism. their inhabitants vulnerable. how do cities respond to this threat. and how does fit change our open lifestyle.