the latest news and the week's top stories sealed with a handshake moscow and washington agree on a roadmap to eliminate chemical weapons from syria averting for now a u.s. strike on the country. frontline fight r.t. brings you the latest from the syrian village of government troops have pushed the rebels out of the ancient christian landmark but they're still holed up in nearby mountains. and we take a look at europe's drift to the right is a populist anti immigration party in no way which mass murderer. was once a member of is set to play a key role in the country's government. coming

to you live from moscow you're watching weekly here on r.t. with may and. now syria's chemical weapons must be removed or destroyed by the middle of next year under a deal reached by the us and russia there are six key points in the groundbreaking green so let's take a look at what they are firstly the exact quantity of syria's chemical weapons will be determined and put under international control but first syria will have to submit a full list of its stockpiles within a week and after that these arms can be destroyed under the chemical weapons convention international inspectors will get immediate access to weapons storage facilities to begin the destruction process but if syria doesn't comply it could lead to a chapter seven u.n. security council resolution which allows the use of force but is artes and he said

now he reports this deal doesn't necessarily mean that the threat of a u.s. strike is no longer looming over syria 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 fiona me of the of the situation the plan is seen as a last diplomatic push to prevent a military intervention into syria there could 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 with a massively who first have to verify and use such reports it's not really because there are a lot of fabrications a law is surrounding this issue and we have to be very careful russia is still wary of u.s. threats of course but more than welcome you turn in your rhetoric from the white house obama seemed more in their brand tack at all what the r. word when he was forced to back off on a policy that very a week ago he was committed to want to 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 he also has some american politicians pointed out leaves the way open to do to assert what the americans did to gadhafi gadhafi 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 one on wednesday russia's president stated his case against military intervention in syria to the american people in an open letter published by the new york times putin laid out the reasons saying such a move would not only be ineffective but also dangerous. there's already

a response being planned by one of america's high profile politicians lindsey france has more now about what the russian president had to say. one of the biggest parts of it was the need for international law that the united nations should not go the way of the league of nations it's got to be valid then he went on to speak about the poisonous gas possibly used in syria itself and the danger surrounding the way we go in and deal with that let's listen to what he wrote about that no one doubts that poison gas was used in syria but there is every reason to believe it was used not by the syrian army but by opposition forces to provoke intervention by the powerful foreign patrons who would be siding with the fundamentalists reports that militants are preparing another attack this time against israel cannot be ignored another thing he addresses that to garner a strong reaction from many americans was what is so often heard in american

political speeches it's that of the so called american exceptionalism that since america is often motivated to act based on moralistic reasons it is therefore exceptional greater better or separate and he points out that that is a very slippery slope and a dangerous mentality for any any nation to have it is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional whatever the motivation different but when we ask for the little it's blessings we must not forget the gold created just equal media has turned out reports of senator mccain expressing a wish to pen his own editorial in russian publication prov that however a little confusion popped up because it wasn't known whether he was referencing probably the printed publication the communist party mouthpiece all through soviet times and it must be said not exactly in new york times of russian media however

there is another problem prob rue the news website at times very of on guard now however surprise the russian public may have been hearing this one person stepped forward to offer mccain a spot on television that's right a presenter with rosia television channel said he would like to offer mccain a spot on his interview show so mccain has many invitations. this week the syrian army successfully liberated the ancient christian village of malula from the rebels their battle went back and forth but government troops were eventually able to push the jihadists back into the nearby mountains artie's riff and i was in the war zone and this is the latest report. oh oh. 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 locals joins the army to defend their native town the soldiers in light colored uniforms of the so-called national defense but the terrain he's very difficult with mountains and caves but we know the area better so we are carrying on with the operation of that but we come across one grocery shop owner who we filmed back in two thousand and twelve then he told us that the armed rebels hasn't come to their village and why would they. this time he's armed with a gun and one 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 the european citizen is so much just 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 that mountain tops of fear hotel still poses a threat that sufi hotel our goal was the liberated them push on to mark tough climb on a street but we couldn't do it there snipers are everywhere milo is home to many christian churches and monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we see either crosses on the rents now added to these we see blag 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 enemies bullets.

the main road is being targeted and it's he's our only way out we think over our chances when our engineer gets hit we. know your group you must get your question. but. thankfully it's not serious. but it becomes clear we can to a to minutes more. remember . when i was stuck here in this corner and we're now trying to get out of here for years and this was. no no no no. so. this had been anything done to back then they go clear

a lot. more focus off of the bullets did you hear them whizzing by. but now say that we've reached ok fair. enough i mean you're behind this. and you're told that this is the syrian army get you know be careful you don't like this too much so you got to take. and we leave while governmental forces continue their frenzy for manohla village which despite the claims remains under siege. for fourteen from syria. i'm maria is one of the few international correspondents on the front line of the

syrian conflict and you can follow her on twitter to keep track of the developments in. the in the. on line. norway has elected a new parliament with the center right coalition winning a landslide victory over the ruling labor party the conservatives will now form a new government along with the anti migration progress party the populist group once had among its members the mass murder and is brevik who massacred seventy seven people in terrorist attacks two years ago and norway is just the latest state to join a european widely to the right artie's lucy caffein off as more. 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 end of the immigration 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 appear 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 zena 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 has 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. we're going to take

a quick break now but when we come back a debate on academic freedom a professor leading u.s. universities silenced up to criticizing the n.s.a.'s method of decrypting data. but all told him a language of what i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm not you know pushing the know i will leave that to the state department to comment on your latter part of the month to say it's secure yet a car is on the docket no god. thank you no more weasel words. when you made a direct question to me prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a. printout of speech and a little down to freedom to caution.

dramas the truth be ignored. stories others to refuse to notice. the faces changing the world lights never. filled picture of today's lives close to home to hear from around the globe. look to. again leading american university jones hopkins is awarded one of his professes to take down a blog post criticizing the national security agency professor of cryptography matthew green voiced his concerns over the methods the agency uses to defeat encryption the official who ordered the removal of the post later apologized for

the incident after receiving a barrage of complaints we spoke to professor green who told us what was behind his message 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 if you're 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 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. we know him britain university students are having most of their electronic life want to to

it and that's causing not only previously concerns but also sparking a debate about how the collected data could actually be used for smith has the story. remember the film minority report it's the one where tom cruise has the car in the future and uses pass in the day to stop crimes before they happen while the fictional feature is now universities are 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 is 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 a 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 the 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 if you can say sure you wouldn't do it in denmark where i come from i think people would like that i would him on my e-mail. i mean the private email is should have exclusive rights to the c m a's ok so again private universities do have a good track record for keeping dates a 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. and we've got plenty more stories at r.t. dot com for you including raising the wreck final preparations are being made to write the luxury cruise liner the costa concordia almost two years after it ran aground killing thirty two people find out what it will take to recover the eleven story ship on our website. news mate and it's not the america's national security agency that worries internet giant google but the division of the global network that's what its chairman eric schmidt claimed in his latest speech had to r.t.

dot com to examine his theory that the web could become far from world war. i. i. i i i. vote for moscow's mayoral seat has ended with b.n. in inaugurated for a second term as city chief he was sworn into office at a grand ceremony attended by president putin however opposition activist election about me is refusing to concede defeat he's filed a lawsuit demanding a recount of the vote claiming the election was rigged the valley came in second with almost of third of the ballots and thousands showed up for a peaceful rally in support of the opposition leader last monday. a quick now at

some other news from around the world a massive rescue operation is in full swing across the u.s. state of colorado where deadly floods have already killed six people and left hundreds unaccounted for thousands have been forced to evacuate from the deluge to areas president barack obama has signed a major emergency order for the battered state approving federal disaster aid. catastrophe has been branded in historic one hundred year flood with the cost of repairs estimated fifteen times the state's and new budget or dam pause are still forecast. in iraq where at least fifty three people have been killed in the latest wave of insurgent attacks no one has claimed responsibility for the blast which targeted commercial areas and parking lots in mostly shiite dominated cities across the country it comes less than twenty four hours after a suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northern iraq become trees weathering its deadliest back to violence

in half a decade with more than four thousand deaths since april. in cambodia riot police and fire. smoke grenades and water cannon and opposition supporters in the capital phnom penh twenty thousand people took part in a nationwide rally to demand an independent investigation into the results of july's parliamentary election the opposition claims the ballot was spoiled by fraud it comes just a day after the country's king gathered the leaders of rival blocks for the first time in years calling on them to resolve their differences in a peaceful way. and thousands have gathered in the city of montreal in canada to express their anger against a controversial proposed charter valley's the draft law is supposed to prohibit public employees from wearing the hijab and other religious clothing in the workplace protests organizers criticize the state premier poorly calling her plans

racist and discriminatory opinion polls however have shown that there's considerable support for the charter among cubics electorate. now with the week ending in an apparent diplomatic breakthrough on syria will yield real results on a boy takes a closer look now when worlds apart. fans of the shocked your football club and kind of going to kazakhstan believe that a certain special ritual help them achieve victory against the world famous scottish team celtic this ritual was sacrificing his sheep at the stadium as someone who lives 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 where 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.

hello and welcome to worlds apart from just been through an extraordinary week of russian and american diplomacy that's targeted at fratton war and angered me to maintain diplomatic break and while it is yet to produce any meaningful results in fact playing to conflict and and fear. has clearly demonstrated how differently both russians and americans view this war but can they find a mutual interest in putin and i wanted well to discuss that i'm now and joined by one of the most venerated american diplomats who served as an imbalance 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 oxana well 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 difference of opinions or

a difference of agendas but to significant expand 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 quick 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 is 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 lavrov and what secretary of state curious. i've 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 approach that agreed in principle we were able to work out the details but ambassador pickering isn't it the case that since the early ninety nine his american diplomats have essentially been used to an idea of the united states being the one and only country calling the and shots and.