the latest news and the week's top stories russia and america on a plan to rid syria of its chemical arsenal for now a strike by western powers on the assad regime but despite the diplomatic success. the fighting still continues r.t. reports from the frontline where our team came under fire at the ancient christian town of where the syrian army is engaged in a fierce battle to oust islamist forces. the debate on academic freedom and we talked to a professor at a leading us university who says the administration ordered him to retract his criticism of the n.s.a. method of decrypting data. and in norway

a 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 from our studios in moscow this is our team with our weekly recap i'm john thomas going to have you with us. now russia and the us 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 look at those right now now the exact quantity of syria's chemical weapons will be determined and placed under international control but first syria will have to submit a full list of its stockpiles and within a week 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 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 of 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 reputed actions will be taken automatically will first have to verify and review such reports fairly because there are a lot of fabrications and laws 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 attack at all beyond words 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 assert what the americans did to gadhafi cut off 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 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 r.t. moscow meanwhile washington continues to blame president assad for the deadly

attack in august but those with firsthand experience on the conflict disagree a belgian writer pierre to chain 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 images in this following report disturbing. balls. showed us that 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. from the group. which is. the result of a third person who was speaking perfect english and they were talking to him via skype yes they were talking about the events of the in the damascus suburb and from the conversation it was clear that the syrian government wasn't behind the attack but it also. was it clear to you what the motivation was to use chemical weapons to launch a gas attack on civilians in this way what was the motivation do you think was it mentioned what. their motivation was unclear from the conversation but we figured that it would have been absurd for the syrian government to use chemical weapons the regime had nothing to gain from that 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 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 that. syrian islamist rebels have been forced out of the ancient christian village of after almost two weeks of fierce fighting there that says locals report looting executions and being forced by the jihadists to convert to islam at gunpoint many residents have now joined of the syrian army to drive the invading fighters back artie's more of an ocean of santos this report from the front line. the let's listen to old.

but. the mood is cheerful soldiers are 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 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 that be a scam going on in syria how many victims how many hundreds of thousands have been slaughtered why will it stop would 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 that we couldn't do it last night desire everywhere malo 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 blag 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 it's he's our only way out we think over our chances when our engineer gets hit is not about you know your group you must. i mean. thankfully it's not serious for 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 because this was. no no no no no. so.

this had been anything done back then have a go ok clear a lot. more focus off the jury in the boots did you hear them whizzing by. but now say that we've reached the safe area of. the fire and you're behind this new three hundred told me this is here no me again you know. that's how do you make. sure you get back. and we leave while governmental forces continue their frenzy for manohla village which despite the claims remains under siege. reporting from syria.

the battle around i'm a little is not over yet and you can follow maria for motion on her twitter feed for the latest developments meant. to be in the. leading american university johns hopkins has ordered one of its academics 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 earlier professor green 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 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 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. 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 being shown just how much of their private lives and data are being monitored by intelligence services earlier artie's yuliya tshabalala spoke with kevin mitnick

a one time at one time america's most wanted hacker he told her that hardly anyone is safe from online surveillance anymore. according to at snowden's revelations e-mails phone calls messages a role being tracked so how can the government god i think 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 the encrypted envelope so people can't really intercept and spy on that could a boycott of time to train like i pod and phones like the rising are good to go and i said. 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 away then figure out you know what did he do and they had to rebuild their systems so i would consider myself as a what i'd 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 white data out a war or try to profit it is great to have you on the show thank you thank you for everything for having me well still to come helpless small fry or potential big fish. in the members and we have the spirit of new german political parties don't usually have much money but what they do claim to have is grass roots support that can be converted into votes check back with us in a couple of minutes for more on that the new force in germany's public affair.

with the economic downturn in the final. days. and the rest because i. believe if we. had been negotiating in being a participant to the cio since one thousand nine hundred seven and over all these years i have never seen a moment a moment to motor a moment when three pensions were not there.

and welcome back you're watching the weekly here on our team 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 migration progress party the populist group once had among its members of the mass murderer anders breivik who killed seventy seven people in terrorist attacks two years ago and the scandinavian country is just the latest state to join a europe wide lean to the right as artie's lucy craft reports. 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 it it's 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 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. these 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 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. a member of france's far right national front party told r.t. how they are planning to win even more votes in the future we're shifting to a new system where it's not a question of right and left anymore and actually we're not anti immigration we want to deal more seriously with massive immigration and we're not. we want to deal against. radicalization. the eyes of the people by explaining more and probably in a better way what we were actually fighting for our days the polls indicate that we would be leading in the european elections the next european parliament elections before the elections we will have local elections as will we will probably make

very good. numbers and. you can recap on any of our stories online at r.t. dot com here's just some of the stories we have lined up for you right now. india successfully launches a new rocket capable of delivering a nuclear payload you can head to our web site for more on the race for missile dominance in asia plus. the grid versus barcelona off the pitch this time as the spanish government struggles to hold back from becoming an independent nation and get all of that.

muscovites chose the man who's going to lead the city for the next five years moscow's acting mayor sergey so beyond and retain his position after victory over opposition rival alexina volunteered to be on the one in the first round with over fifty percent of the vote came in second getting over twenty seven percent of the ballots however the opposition activist and blogger refused to concede defeat and has filed a lawsuit demanding a recount alleging vote rigging on monday thousands showed up for a peaceful rally in support of the opposition leader. and germany is set to head to the polls for its federal election in around a week's time the obvious front runners are the left wing social democrats and angela merkel's christian democratic union but they are not alone new parties have emerged in recent months and they are just as keen to win votes often by striking a chord with those who feel ignored by berlin artie's peter oliver has the story.

on the campaign trail hoping to strike a chord. and official telling us we convince that we have to get a say and a higher level and we end up having to pay for the big decisions so we want to be part of the process. free voters are a grassroots political organization they are opposed to the major german parties they claim look out for the interests of big business over those 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 arts 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 home 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 the game if they can get into a coalition with 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 all of a r.t. the very well after a short break we've got some business perspective in venture capital with kitty pilgrim and yours truly. 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 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 allowed it yes to reduce their appeared 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 doctors which are private summer houses where people guard 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 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 lifespan where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary period but that's just my opinion. british style it's sometimes. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report on are. you watching veggie cap so i'm katie filled with bits calling a.t.m. results coming state by speaks to the brains behind.