the latest news on 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. calls the conflict our teammate's imprisoned foreign extremists who have been fighting on the side of the syrian opposition to find out why they joined the civil war. and the debate on academic freedom we talked to a professor at a leading u.s. university who says the administration ordered him to retract his criticism of the n.s.a.'s method of decrypting data.

there it's good to have you company you're watching the weekly here on r.t. with me and tree farm. 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 ground breaking agreement 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 and if syria doesn't comply it could lead to a chapter seven u.n. security council resolution which does allow the use of force but as artie's in these now 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 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 automatically will first have to verify and review such reports for release 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 a war rhetoric from the white house obama seemed more than ready during tack at 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 it 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 noncommercial 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 did 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 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 at the reasons saying such a move would not only be ineffective but also dangerous and there's already a response being planned by one of america's high profile politicians lindsey

friends 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 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 garnered 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 lord'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 a 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. the syrian opposition consists of many stream is factions whose numbers include fighters from abroad parties rif an ocean a spoke to two of those foreign rebels to find out how and why they joined opposition forces in the syrian civil war i this may look like an ordinary farewell amongst friends but the man in the lawn is llama coat is a suicide bomber leaving on his final journey. this is his last conversation with his elder brother in a car that is supposed to take him to the walls of the central prison in aleppo syria and then explode sending him to paradise according to his beliefs these clips

were found on a laptop taken from one of the men seen in the food age who is now in a syrian prison he calls himself around shown and says he came to syria from a former soviet republic to fight. a group called approach me a year ago and convinced me that muslims in syria are being oppressed and killed and that i should go and take up arms against assad for world jihad and help establish a caliphate that will extend worldwide to europe america and everywhere his necke to into syria last january through turkey in istanbul two men who said they were from al qaeda met him and accompanied him to syria where he joined a large mormon brigade run by an egyptian jihad is my job was mainly to prepare bombs for cars the rim any people all from different countries our teachers showed us how to make bombs which ingredients to use and how exactly to cook it. one of

his recent assignments was a letter to prison bowman last may the man you saw in the fan well he was driving the car that russian prepared russian brought his entire family to syria including his five year old son on this video the militant shows his boy how to make a bomb they say after a father dies the son should continue the jihad i don't know what al are prepared for me but we have to finish what we started we spoke to russian at the air force intelligence jail next to military at porting damascus in the cells. in new york. the prisoners here are mainly charged with by the terrorists for spying this newly built unit can accommodate up to two hundred people and already it's almost full. in the jails backyard an officer tells us not to get too close as the prisoners could be dangerous there are people here from syria yemen iraq jordan egypt and

palestine but many came from europe as well. algerian with a french passport ammar has spent most of his life in france where he married a french woman and leave a normal life that changed after he was recruited by an islamic group with all kind of ties calling for jihad in syria. i volunteered i went to turkey in a refugee camp there i met a salafi group and i trained with them for about two and a half months and then we illegally crossed the border into syria. or says as a son of the a fundamental muslim he had to get involved with so much sunni syrian brothers suffering here i saw an al-jazeera arabic another channels the kids are also suffering i took up arms and i was ready to use them but when i came here i didn't see the enemy. in a separate building they show west weapons including handmade bombs and green maids seized from militants these are the instruments of global jihad that chose syria as

a battlefield to bring foreign fighters and violence this prison may be full but beyond the walls many men with many causes remain free to continue their fight. notion r.t. damascus syria. 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 all the developments in. the be in the. on. the leading american university johns hopkins has ordered one of its 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 well we spoke to professor green who told us what was behind his message. but 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 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 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 . we modern britain university students are having most of their electronic life

and that's causing not only privacy concerns but also sparking a debate about high be collected data could actually be used artie's or smith has the 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 are our allies the electronic trail of students how often they use the library what books they guess out even where they parked their cars to create a picture of them and how they learned they use the data in different ways the different you need the marketing courses but also to predict which students are likely to fail or dropouts and here's where it fits into nineteen eighty-four territory in the dystopian novel any negative thoughts is thought crime every party member has 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 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 things that went on i think people are much more kind of them. to be more violated i don't think it's right it's a kill if you can say so you wouldn't do it in denmark where i come from i think people would like that i would mom my e-mails to that money. i mean the private e-mails to should have exclusive right to see mayes. university do you have a good track record. 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. coming up later in the private home we take a look at europe's drift to the political right that is a populist anti immigration policy no way which one has had mass murder and is graphic as a member is set to play a key role in the country's government the story off a quick bright. the main competitor girl on the market is mother nature. may customers

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welcome back to that we clean air norway has elected a new parliament with a 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 anders breivik 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 muslim views that underpinned his act of terror the n.c.a. immigration progress party saw support 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 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 programme of the one nine hundred ninety s. were going 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 fav 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. now i do have a look at our web site if you get the chance there's plenty on there at the moment

including raising the red 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 at r.t. dot com 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 worldwide. vote for moscow's mayoral seat has ended with inaugurated for

a second term as city chief he was sworn into office at a grand ceremony attended by president putin however opposition activists alexina valley is refusing to concede defeat he's found a lawsuit demanding a recount of the vote claiming the election was rigged the valley came in second with almost a third of the ballots and thousands showed up for a peaceful rally in support of the opposition leader last monday. with a general election looming in june a small parties are struggling to get the public's attention the political field is dominated by the major groups like the leftist social democrats and angela merkel's christian democratic union but peter all of the reports candidates for some smaller parties are making inroads in rural areas as they look to force their way onto the national stage. on the campaign trail hoping to strike

a chord. and efficient with us we're convinced 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're opposed to the major german parties they claim look out for the interests of big business over those voters we don't have the big money the other parties have 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 and most of their support comes from rural areas where people feel ignored by the bureaucracy in berlin the party has its eye cast on 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 established political parties. in big parties this is flow from top to bottom but with these guys everyone can bring their ideas to the table and each person's opinion counts yeah yeah being in india i think small parties that are not spoiled yet are very important we need different points of view out there. but i know these small parties are not playing their game if they can get into a coalition me they can have a real influence. in the two thousand and eight varian state elections free voters picked up just over ten percent of the vote this time they're aiming to go further

the others they have a lot of money so we have the members and we have the spirit how much that spirit converts into votes we'll find out on september the twenty second when germans go to the polls peter oliver r.t. the very. quick some other world news happening is our 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 and accounted for thousands have been forced to evacuate from the deluge areas president barack obama signed a major emergency order for the battered state approving federal disaster aid the catastrophe has been branded and historic a one year one hundred year flood with the cost of repairs estimated fifteen times the state and your budget more damp or to still forecast. in iraq 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 in parking lots and mostly shiite dominated cities across the country it comes less than twenty four hours after a suicide bomber attacked a funeral in northern iraq the country's weathering its deadliest back to violence in half a decade with more than four thousand deaths since april. in cambodia one person has been killed in clashes riot police fired smoke grenades and more to canada 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 for all 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. coming up as our documentary on how you can become

a billionaire just buy bottled water. we talked before about people getting in trouble throughout the usa just for gardening in fact according to the christian science monitor a couple in florida has been fined five hundred dollars a day until they dig up their vegetable garden which is on their own property immediately people who write these articles draw comparisons to communist russia where people weren't allowed to grow their own food unless the state allowed it yes the revolutionary period in russia forced agriculture to change rapidly and often against the will of many of those involved and this did lead to starvation revolution isn't fun but what about after that while stalin and khrushchev gave out a lot of which are private summer houses where people garden and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to sell to

see all these pictures behind me these are people in the soviet union selling food they produced privately and legally but there were some moments in soviet history when there were some taxes placed on the sale of your personal goods from your personal labor which according to russian website history of taxes was around ten percent whether you love or hate communism more than anything doesn't matter this half truth about shooting soviet gardeners birds like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact in the us government for every reason in various forms clamps down on private gardens it isn't the same as communism but it's actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its life span where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary period but that's just my opinion.

ah. the population of pakistan totals one hundred eighty million and it's still growing in lahore love there are ten million people clean drinking water is in short supply. for nestle introduced pure life bottled water was a rare sight in pakistan now nestle dominates a vast market that it created itself i grew up in a city where you could go just about anyone else but you also water and you would get a glass of water for free without any fear of its quality or it sounds and what's happened over the last ten to fifteen years i mean in my own consciousness is that i have seen and witnessed a replacement of drinking water a commodification of drinking water.