cio since one thousand nine hundred seven and over all these years i have never seen a moment a moment not a year a moment when three tensions were not there. the latest news and of the week's top stories are russia and america gree on a plan to rid syria of its chemical arsenal of verging for now a strike by western powers on the assad regime but despite the diplomatic success. the fighting still continues our reports from the front line where our team came under fire at the ancient christian town. where the syrian army is engaged in a fierce battle to us forces. and the latest on the n.s.a. surveillance is that america's spies are now apparently snooping on financial

transactions both at home and abroad we talked to one of the world's first hackers about the agency's activities. and norway alexis center right coalition to government including a party that once had anders breivik as a member just two years after he murdered nearly eighty people including many children. and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team with our weekly report i'm sean thomas glad to have you with us now russia and the u.s. have come up with a roadmap to completely disarm syria of its chemical arsenal by the middle of two thousand and fourteen the plan consists of six key points let's take a closer closer look at what they are right now now the exact quantity of syria's

chemical weapons will be determined and placed under international control but first we syria will have to submit a full list of its stockpiles within a week after that these arms can be destroyed under the chemical convention weapons . vention international inspectors will get immediate access to weapons storage and then begin the description just struction process if syria doesn't comply it could lead to a chapter seven un security council resolution which allows for the use of force but as artie's and he said 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 the 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 that every time a violation is reputed actions will be taken with a massive plea will first have to verify and review 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 to wring tack at all costs 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 the men 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 assad what the americans did to gadhafi gadhafi after all agreed to give up his chemical weapons his various of the 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 had 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 r.t. moscow meanwhile washington continues to blame president assad for the deadly attack in august but those with firsthand experience of the conflict disagree and belgian rider pierre peach in who was held hostage by the syrian opposition claims he overheard his captors discussing the attack earlier he told my colleague bill dodd about his experience and just a bit of a warning you 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 in 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. just. there was also a third person who was speaking perfect english and they were talking to him via skype they were talking about the events of the in the damascus suburb and from the conversation it was clear that the syrian government wasn't behind the attack but it. wasn't clear to you what the motivation was to use chemical weapons to launch a gas attack on civilians in this way what was the motivation do you think was it mentioned 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 that to massacre. hands of its enemies the u.s. france and the u.k. it gave them a good reason to use force against the assad government 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 who wanted to benefit from the situation. let us remind you that the rebels already tried to simulate a gas attack a year ago and gnomes they made a video showing people on the ground acting as if they had been victims of neurotic gas. and syrian islamist rebels have been forced out of the ancient christian village of after almost two weeks of fierce fighting that says locals report looting executions and being forced by the jihadists to convert to islam at gunpoint many residents have now joined the syrian army to drive the

invading fighters back artie's marouf notion and sent us this report from the front line of the bat. the at. the top of. the mood is cheerful soldiers a smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out you know what 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. 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 a monster and soldiers and he has some question is again the story of the 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 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 one one a street that we couldn't do it last night there's a referee where 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 black jihadists flags. it's time to head back right. to trial in the car something goes wrong the whole. world. 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 we thought it was not your group you clearly must. pressure. but. thankfully it's not serious over water but it becomes clear we can't wait a minute more. remember . when i was stuck here in this corner and went out trying to get out of

here for years and this was. no no no no. so. this has been anything they want back then they go there are ok clear a lot. more focus offered you the boots did you hear them whizzing by. but now say that we really should take care of. the fire in your behind this. when you're told that this is here no man can do. that's how do you

make sure there is too much so you gotta play. and we leave while governmental forces continue their friend see from our new levee which despite the claims remains under siege. for a fortune from syria. the battle for is not over yet and you can follow maria for national on her twitter feed for the latest developments. in the. the national security agency has been monitoring international payments as well as banking and credit card transactions according to germany's der spiegel newspaper it's reported the n.s.a. successfully tapped into the visa network to search through their clients' private financial information for more on this and the dirty details we're joined live by financial advisor margaret bogan refund you for being with us here on our team now

in response to this spiegel inquiry viso ruled out the possibility that the n.s.a. could take data from their company's servers do you think that the n.s.a. access this information i do i really don't understand why any. government funded organization. or you know united being worth anything. now what do you think the implications could be if these alleged activities i mean for the regular people for you people who use credit cards on a daily basis. you know i mean it's my and saying it's not me really highlighted and beat conversation about how much security and how much are we americans willing to give in and ever since crime or me do i think it will impact every day oh no not

a lot of government activity goes on behind the scenes and people. here have no idea what's going on or what. i do think. that going into the next election this is really if that's even whole lightning you don't need to see what happens. now you know of course government spies i mean it's something that all governments do but the n.s.a. has defended this they say it's all for national security but how can you say that our private personal financial data is for national defense and again at the end of the damn lot of this has just become what are you willing to give. the united states is routinely a step behind a lot of the really international forces that are looking to attack it so like i was saying it's a day for people like us now and it's not going to the fact and but i do think it's interesting because it does open up this entire conversation about what are we

doing is it making sense are we any safer today than we were a decade ago i don't know now according to the report the n.s.a. spy network has access to sensitive information from other countries as well. how complicit were other governments were they helping them what were they cooperating . well european country has certainly come out today and that is an anathema. and they are a little overly. your god. i mean little. lives. aren't. really. there. now in terms of people protecting themselves do you think that there's going to be a movement to given these revelations the people going to start using cash now. no i have to like before this doesn't really drastically act like really and.

that it's ok that we're. i mean that i have not. only are more the government will certainly koinange asked another are like that yes probably but no i think overall i'm an american and even you know out. early in the i was. if you have nothing to hide and wired or now kind of taking that cash idea a little bit further the f.b.i. has reportedly suggest that gun shops and like institutions kind of monitor cash transactions do you think if people even do pay with cash could they be labeled as dangerous if they even use that as an alternative is that another way of monitoring people and then we might treat people but if you look at the gun control debate in this country i don't think that's really something that's going to be coming issue particularly where if you look at the time to meet that right gun shot another tool

of destruction. i don't think and. i think. all right appreciate your thoughts on the subject margaret bogan reef a.c.m. partners and for being with us here in r.t. . all right. now fresh documents from edward snowden's n.s.a. leaks keep surfacing providing new details of america's far reaching surveillance program people across the world are now being shown just how much their private lives and data are being monitored by intelligence services earlier artes you shop of all of us spoke with kevin mitnick at one time america's most wanted hacker you told her that hardly anyone is safe from online surveillance. according to edit snowden's revelations e-mails phone calls messages

a role being tracked so how can the government cause i think they have access to everything at least in the united states and probably britain great britain and now it's there's been some revelations that they've been pretty resourceful at breaking crypto so now i think they have access to a ton of stuff scott mcnealy said i think about fifteen years ago you have no privacy get over it and talk about edward snowden is he a traitor or hero from your point i think is a whistleblower you know i don't look at him as a true i'm actually glad that he revealed what the national security agency was doing at least against americans by violating our constitutional rights to privacy but i do think you know i have some mixed feelings that he did cross the line when he revealed n.s.a. operations that we have against other countries because as we all know all countries spy on each other where state law is a question is hash tag ask made to make the most popular one is how can citizens protect that data and communications while still using corporate software the first

thing i would recommend to the average person on the street is use whenever you're out in the public or using public wi-fi is use a v.p.n. service because what that immediately does is it creates it takes your data and it kind of puts it in an encrypted envelope so people can really intercept and spy on that could a boycott of time to train like i pod and it's like the rise in our google selling . to and i say. no no i mean this is like the form of activism were you you have you know a group of individuals whether it's like lulz or anonymous and they break into stuff and they try to get the media to cover the message they want to send but at the end of the day it really doesn't change behavior of a government agency or a company basically they go out and try to prosecute the guys do you regret of being at. i regret any problems i caused companies or consumers you know like i

caused damages because i hacked into their systems and they had to go in and figure out you know what did he do and they had to rebuild their systems so i would consider myself as a what i call a pain in the ass hacker right now the guy that was out i was never the type of guy who would try to wipe k. to our door or try to profit it is great to have you on the show thank you for it thank you for having me. stay with us after a short break as we look at how a right wing populist party it once had a mass killer as a member is about to form part of norway's government. syria and the neighborhood is washington stumbles its way through the syrian crisis there are those who see this horrific conflict as a perfect opportunity to topple assad then move on to turn around at the same time iran in the us are said to engage in direct talks so what's ahead more conflict for the start of pragmatism compromise. on their way to and talk to the crew of the i

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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 and brave it who murdered seventy seven people in terrorist attacks two years ago and the scandinavian country is just the latest state to join europe wide it lean to the right as lucy kaffir ports. 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 time muslim views that underpinned his act of

terror the anti 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 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 campaign 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 countries including the. ajor 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 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 while 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. around the globe to look at some other international stories for you this. hour 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 daily huge

to areas president barack obama has signed a major emergency order for the battered state approving federal disaster aid the catastrophe has been branded and historic one hundred year flood with the cost of repairs estimated at fifteen times the state's annual budget more downpours are still forecast. in the philippines at least sixty people have been killed after government forces launched an offensive against armed separatists in the south of the country earlier rebels took around one hundred people hostage apparently to use as human shields most have now been freed thousands have fled the region amid the week long clashes between the armed group and if the army. japan has shut down its last nuclear reactor for intensified security checks becoming at least for the time being a nuclear power free country might last until december which would be the longest

period the country has gone without nuclear energy since the one nine hundred sixty s. public concerns over the use of atomic energy were sparked after the fukushima meltdown that followed a devastating tsunami and earthquake in two thousand and eleven. in just a minute we had to virginia in the united states where a small tightly knit community could soon see their island home disappear under water between two watching arctic. we've talked before about people getting in trouble throughout. just for gardening in fact according to the christian science monitor a couple of florida has been fined five hundred dollars a day until they dig up their vegetable garden which is on their own property and mediately people who write these articles draw comparisons to communist russia

where people weren't allowed to grow their own food unless the state all out it yes the revolutionary period in russia forced agriculture 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 well 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 burns like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact when the u.s. government for ever 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 lifespan where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary period but that's just my opinion. today. the world. can. change corporations rule the day. ok. welcome you and your oliver. it's a little while.