the latest news on the week's top stories russia manages to avert a u.s. attack on syria as moscow and washington shake hands on a deal for damascus to give up its chemical weapons. might give you. an arty film crew is targeted again as a syrian army wrestles the christian son tree of knowledge from jihad forces. and two years after and does brave the world without her if it massacre in norway the anti immigration party he was a member of is poised to take power as part of a right wing coalition we look at the fate of multiculturalism across europe.

we're watching artie's weekly news review with me carrie just. the syrian government has been given one week to fully reveal its chemical weapons capability which must be completely destroyed by the middle of next year that's under groundbreaking deal reached by russia and the us well under the six point roadmap syria's entire chemical arsenal must be quickly put under international control after stockpiles are revealed the decommissioning process will begin the syrian government is obliged to provide full access to all its chemical sites so they can be securely destroyed compliance will be ensured by chapter seven of the un charter which threatens the use of force in the deal has persuaded washington to call off its strikes on syria at least for the time being and he said no way has more.

signed sealed and if delivered it could see syria hand over its chemical weapons stockpiles russia and the u.s. 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 this is really changing the whole figure of the whole 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 well

of course this does not mean every time a violation is reported actions will be taken with a massively who first have to verify and review such reports because there are a lot of fabrications along these surrounding this issue and we have to be very careful most of russia is still wary of u.s. threats of course but more than welcomes the u. turn and war rhetoric from the white house obama seemed more in their brand 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 to many but some experts aren't convinced that this step by the ousted regime with u.s. and russian support will be enough he also has some american commentators pointed out leaves the way open to do to a sad what the americans did to. off you get off the after all agreed to give up

his chemical weapons his various of the vulcan actual 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 un 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 i r t moscow or international support to deal on syria does not bind the hands of the rebels who are valid to continue fighting against the regime who have a middle east experts generally salt thinks the settlement is a major setback for the opposition forces who are counting on a foreign intervention the number of people around the world who've taken the fact that syria agreed to kind of hand over control of its chemical weapons stock to the united nations complicity or guilt whereas in fact i would see it as part of

a much broader. strategy which is preventing an american attack which would be totally disruptive and totally destructive and if that attack is not carried out then the syrian army can get on the job of protecting the rebel groups who are. fighting across the country and we know that in the past six months in particular they have been very moving back in very much of an offensive so if there is no military attack and they were able to get on with the job of protecting these groups then. you know they're going to be very strong position over the next few months to kind of rewind the. evidence is continuing to mount against the syrian rebels belgian writer chain in who went to syria under the protection of opposition fighters but ended up in captivity shortly afterwards so the government heard nothing to do with last month's chemical attack on the outskirts of damascus he spoke to my colleague bill dog some viewers may find some of the following images disturbing. you know. 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 free syrian army and the alpha 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 her detention and another officer from the. just. the was also a third person who was speaking perfect english and they were talking to him via skype it says 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 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 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 or see 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 or the authors of the attack or the opposition and it is clear that the rebels are the ones. did you ation. let's remind you that the rebels already tried to simulate a gas attack a year ago and. they made a video showing people on the ground acting as if they had been victims of neurotic

gas. well this week the syrian army successfully liberated the ancient christian village of mali that the jihadists rebels are still holding strategic positions in the by mountains maria for national was in the war zone brings us this report. but. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out then look at this 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 among syrian 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 they'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 at mountaintops a fear hotel still poses a threat that sufi hotel our goal was the liberated them push on to mark tough them on the street but we couldn't do it last night there's

a reverie where milo is home to many christian churches and monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we see either crosses on their rents now added to these we see black jihadists flags. it's time to head back right. 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 sees our only way out. we think over our chances when our engineer gets hit is that what will float your group you must. pressure. but. thankfully it's not serious for water but it becomes clear we can't wait a minute more. i. remember

. when i was stuck here in this corner and we're now trying to get out of here because this was. no no no no no. they always had been anything done to back then here they go there are clear a lot. more focus also drew the bullets did you hear them whizzing by. but now say that we've reached the safe area. the fire and you're

behind the scene. and you're told that this is the syrian army get you know. that's really only going to make sure you get paid. and we leave while governmental forces continue their frenzy for model of the ledge which despite the claims remains under siege. reporting from syria. is posting real time reports on the situation in mali on her twitter feed find out the latest. on. the in the. coming up a bit later in the program a tradeoff between privacy and success but this university's began monitoring this week's five a day with an academic results will stall in

a cup. minutes here. they all told me my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports like the pushing the no i will leave the stake to comment on your latter point to say. to carry out a call is are you talking no gonna. take you no more weasel words. when you made a direct question the prepared for a change when you. get ready for a. critical speech. down to freedom to. dramas that can't be ignored. stories others refuse

to notice. places changing the world right. so picture of today's news. from around the globe. dropped. to fifty. about to the program now there's been political shift to the right for norway the conservatives along with their allies swept to power in this week's general election ousting the labor party the incoming coalition includes the anti immigrant progress party which mass murder and is brave it was once a member of conservative leader in a song but set to take the helm as prime minister has described the victory as historic and as explains the political mood in norway 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 anti immigration progress party saw support and 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. well belong 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 we've gone 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 no nationalist and economic liberals with fourteen seats in the legislature is 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 favor and 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 on the devic done there who's an aide to marine le pen the head of france's far right national front explained what he believes such parties stand for. we're shifting to a new system where it's not a question of right and left anymore actually we're not anti immigration we want to do more seriously with massive immigration and we're not entirely we want to do against. radicalization since the ninety's. the eyes of the people by explaining more and probably the better way what we were actually fighting for our days 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 will have to r.t. dot com for more on the stories we're covering also that today reports on how tens of thousands of web users are trying to force a flaw in the high school. first grand wizard of the trucks had to get rid of its controversial name. thus i think that the move home of the mona lisa could be moving ninety percent of its exhibits to safety and it is that a once in a century disaster. and impassioned debate on academic freedoms has sprung up this week in united states a few green the research professor at johns hopkins university was ordered to take down a blog entry criticizing the n.s.a. from universities. in turn dean who gave out the water has since apologized after

receiving the biologist complaints cryptographer told r.t. what was behind this 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 them 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 u.s. citizens who are using these products it's americans too and they're willing to you know 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 i mean while some academic institutions on the other side of the atlantic have come

under fire for spying on their students private data and move that they claim was designed to improve education standards auntie's laura smith has a story. remember the film minority report it's the one where tom cruise is the cost in the future and uses pass in the day to stop crimes before they happen while the fictional future is now universities are out allies 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 to 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 violated i don't think it's right it's a kill that 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 to money. i mean the private email is should have exclusive rights to receive may's case against her university do you have a good track record for keeping data 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 beware big brother is watching them now more closely than ever. in one corner of burlington that christmas has been cancelled and centuries of public celebrations put aside for more neutrally named winter festival it's not just christmas nicol muslims have been so the right time the mark ramadan instead of getting a summer festival that is part of the reports we may just be approaching the start of autumn here in germany but already minds are turning towards christmas and in particular the traditional german christmas market these markets which pop up all over the country that sell handmade christmas toys and mold wine generally regarded

as fun for all the family and they've become a major export from germany popping up as well all around the world however this year in berlin they could be in for something of a change of name in one particular region in the area of the capital councillors there have ruled that the public celebration of religious festivals isn't allowed which will see the christmas market become the winter festival market now this rebranding has ruffled a few feathers but it does have its roots in it decision made earlier this year the islamic community in this part of town had wanted to hold public celebrations to mark the end of ramadan they were told that they couldn't and now next year's celebrations may go ahead under the name of the summerfest to go alongside the winterfest in a move that critics are saying could just end up upsetting everybody. what we've ended up doing is not just prohibiting ramadan celebrations we are prohibiting the

soul of all religious holidays under the pretext of equality but i think we are forgetting that some of our cultural traditions are based on christian traditions i'm interested to see if they're also prohibit the jews from celebrating hanukkah i wonder if our multiculturalism will go far. so over the coming months we're just going to have to wait and see how locals and tourists alike take to the rebranding of a centuries old german tradition. over the weekend in an apparent diplomatic breakthrough in syria but it really results some avoid takes a closer look in well its opponents things. fans of the shocked your football club and kind of gonda kazakhstan believe that a certain special ritual help them achieve victory against the world famous

scottish team celtic this ritual was sacrificing a sheep at the stadium as someone who lived in kazakhstan for two years i know there's a real meat eating country with deeply rooted traditions in livestock racing so this news is unusual but maybe it's not completely bizarre for the culture of course defenders of animal rights who don't seem to realize that the sheep would be turned into people of the next few days anyways demanded that you a full officials punish the shock to a club for the actions of individual fans this is the same logic as if someone wearing a sexy tim kirby t. shirt went around robbing liquor stores i am not responsible for the actions of people like this program and it's not like i'd ever advocate robbing liquor stores and i doubt the shocked your management secretly arranged for fans to slaughter the sheep at the stadium when the slaughter of animals is acceptable to you or not well that's one thing but we don't need to regulate the morality of individuals in other countries via soccer especially if that regulation means punishing the football clubs who are responsible for the actions of individuals but that's just my opinion

. come on and welcome to worlds apart from just been through an extraordinary peak of rushed. an american diplomacy that started with the threat of war and ended with a major diplomatic breakthrough and while it is yet to produce any meaningful results unsettling the conflict in syria has clearly demonstrated how differently both russians and americans view this war but can they find a mutual interest in putting and well to discuss that i'm now joined by one of the most venerated american diplomats who served as an inbound there to both the united nations and russia thomas pickering ambassador pickering it's

a great honor to have you on the show thank you now i don't know if you would agree with me but i think this year's russian clash over syria comes down not only to a difference of opinions or a difference of agendas but to significant extent a difference of diplomatic styles and the perception here in moscow is that. the united states sees russia as uncooperative simply because russia wouldn't submit to the ten american position but diplomacy or negotiations and as i'm sure you would know. is not about take it or leave it it's about give and take so my question to you is rather american diplomacy at this point of time is killed a quiver and open to a dialogue a dialogue when it will treat russia any other country as equal i think oxana i would say in principle style plays a role but not the predominant role the predominant role was played by the

positions of governments taken in their capitals often in response to domestic policy imperatives as well as foreign policy interests and to some extent helps to determine the differences in their approach i think what is quite fascinating is the degree to which the differences of the last two years in syria have begun to become translated into what seems to be at this point. a cooperative effort in geneva and i don't want to be too overly optimistic but i've been very pleased by what foreign minister lever off and what secretary of state kerry have been saying about their talks and to me there is now a test of the two countries as to whether they could reach agreement in my experience dealing with russian diplomats when we had a general of pro-choice that agreed in principle we were able to work out the details but ambassador.