absolutely. the latest news and the week's top stories russia and america gree on a plan to rid syria of its chemical arsenal averting a strike by western powers on the assad regime but despite the diplomatic success. the fighting still continues reports from the front lines our team came under fire at the ancient christian town where the syrian army is engaged in a fierce battle. for sins. plus the latest on the n.s.a. surveillance 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. norway

elects a center right coalition to government including a party that wants. a member just two years after he murdered nearly eighty people including many children. and broadcasting live from our studios in moscow recapping the week's top stories this is our t.v. the week we 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 now take a closer look 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 within a week after that these arms can be destroyed under the chemical weapons convention international inspectors will then get immediate access to weapons storage facilities to begin the destruction process if syria does not comply it could it 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 us 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 un 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 allies surrounding this issue and we have to be very careful for 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 assad what the americans did to the. but off the grid 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 un 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 i 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 writer pierre was held hostage by the syrian opposition claims he overheard his captors discussing the attack he told my colleague bill dodd earlier about his experience and just a bit of a warning you might find some of the images in this next report a bit disturbing. false. 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 oil for root group in syria we were held at one point in a room facing an office of the free syrian army and the elf jihadist group we have been in the barracks of the free syrian army and 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 the regime had nothing to gain from that massacre on the contrary it. emmy's

the u.s. france and the u.k. it gave them a good reason to use force against the assad government either 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 and 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. syrian islamist rebels have been forced out of the ancient christian village of mola after almost two weeks of fierce fighting there that's as locals report a looting executions and being forced by the jihadists to convert the to islam at gunpoint many residents have now joined the syrian army to drive the invading fighters back artie's marie of national sent us this report from the front line of the battle. the job.

but. 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 none of 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 months to run soldiers and he has some questions again sort 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 ask the world why if the european citizen is so much just slapped across the face they'd 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 sofie hotel our goal was the liberated them bush on the mark tough climb on a street we couldn't do it last night bazaar everywhere my lul 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. to trial in the car something goes wrong.

we take cover in a place where we find dozens of army soldiers hiding from enemy's bullets. the main road is being targeted and it sees our only way out we think over our chances when our engineer gets heat. from. much. pressure. but. thankfully it's not serious. but it becomes clear we come to way to minutes more. when i'm stuck here in this corner and we're now trying to get out of here because this was. well no no no no.

those had been anything they want back then they go clear a lot. more focus off the jew 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. and are told that this is the syrian army get to be careful you don't like this too much so you get back. and we leave while governmental forces continue their frenzy for model of the luge which despite the

claims remains under siege. see from syria. the battle around is not over yet and you can follow him or if an ocean on her twitter feed for the latest developments. in the. now the national security agency has been monitoring international payments as well as banking and credit card transactions this is according to germany's spiegel newsmagazine it's reported that the n.s.a. successfully tapped into the visa network to search through their clients' private financial information we're going to be bringing you more live analysis on that later in the program meanwhile the ongoing leaks from n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden seem to provoke more and more anger each time they emerge that's with people across the world discovering it just how much of their

private lives and data has been compromised by the intelligence services earlier artie's your shop of allah spoke with kevin mitnick at one time america's most wanted hacker he 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 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 make make the most popular one is how can citizens protect that data and communications while still using popular 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 wife thought 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 phones like arisan and good 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. gratz 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 wipe data out or or try to profit it was great to have you on the show like you thank you for it thank you for having me. and still ahead for you on r t liberty fraternity and solidarity and now by domestic producers. politicians are trying to help out the economy by encouraging people to be patriotic in their purchases that's later this hour parties as are the looks at

whether the move has met with any success. 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 of the anti migration to progress party the populist group that once had among its members 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 lucy caffein off 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 end of the 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 xena phobia is still one of the country's party's trademarks although she has tried to soften the party's image since the more radical program of the one nine hundred ninety s. women onto 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 living on to the true finns in finland they may share populist rhetoric with other nordic parties its supporters to are opposed to the globalism of the party leader hundreds sieved the highest number of personal votes for any candidate and 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 let's not return to the fresh details of n.s.a.

spying that were reported in beagle news magazine they allege american spies have been monitoring financial transactions across the world including clients of the visa credit card company for more on this we're now joined live by attorney gerald horne thank you for being with us as always here on r t now the. newspaper reports have been dismissed by visa after the company said that it was impossible for them to gain such access do you think that the agency accessed clients private information. i think it's highly possible this latest revelation from that word snowden gives an idea of why the us authorities were so keen to detain arrest perhaps indict him first of all there's the question of privacy that is to say the n.s.a. is well known for not vetting and investigating to contract tours that they hire they can get access to the personal data of various individuals and that can lead

to identity theft that can lead to various kinds of fraud but the other aspect of the der spiegel story i think is more fascinating you may recall that der spiegel has also reported that s f t which is the interbank entity based in brussels belgium also was penetrated by n.s.a. that smells like espionage on the economic level that is to say that the n.s.a. can gain details of what a german bank may be doing what a russian bank may be doing what a chinese bank may be doing and pass that on to their u.s. competitors thereby giving the u.s. competitor an advantage in the financial market now on the basic level you and i the people on the street how will this affect us using our credit cards and regular banking services on a daily basis. well i would recommend that anyone using

a credit card and this is well known this is no revelation but to be very careful where you're passing that card and we're using that card because if in us a is able to penetrate. that raises the question of what other agencies and entities are able to penetrate visa and that opens up a pandora's box that can lead to all manner of fraud now kind of going down the rabbit hole if you will. using credit cards can be a dangerous game but then it seems that cash can be a dangerous game as well there are reports that claim the f.b.i. has warned gun shops to be on their guard for people paying with cash only does this mean that people who are using cash are now also a target of investigation and you're not safe either way cash or plastic well as well known in the united states that if you make a deposit at a bank of ten thousand dollars or more in cash that opens you up to

investigation and vetting so yes i do think that there are there is a certain downside to using large amounts of cash and it's well known if you step back and look at the big picture that the u.s. treasury department supposedly in pursuit of what they refer to as terrorism has been investigating all manner of financial transactions from their point of view they say that they're trying to keep track of terrorist transactions but as these recent revelations and der spiegel tend to suggest there are other possibilities that cannot be ignored as well now what about the privacy side of things are going to see people starting to keep their money in a proverbial mattress if you will away from the banks so that they can have some sort of privacy. well first of all it's no accident that this story was reported initially in a german publication germany for historical reasons that need not detain us here

has a particular sensitivity to matters of privacy given the fact that german elections are taking place within days it would not surprise me at all if this becomes an issue in the german elections we know that chancellor merkel has raise recent revelations about n.s.a. spying on germans with president obama and it would not surprise me at all if she does the same thing with this recent dispy go revelation above and that's debbie i.f.t. all right appreciate your thoughts on the subject thank you very much for being with us here on our t.v. attorney gerald horne thank you. now you can recap any of our top stories online at our t. dot com here's just some of the stories we have lined up for you right now. 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. madrid versus barcelona but this time it's off the pitch as the spanish government. from becoming an independent nation

can get all of the details. take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour in mexico over twenty people have been killed in a storm menu well ravages the country's pacific coast for a third day there could be more bad news on the weather front as hurricane threatens to make landfall from the west around fifteen thousand people have been evacuated to safety amid fears of heavy rains flooding and mudslides.

rallies in turkey and. with seeing renewed clashes between demonstrators and security forces protesters set fire to barricades while police tried to control the crowd by firing plastic bullets into tear gas was triggered by the death of a twenty two year old student involved in a sit in against a construction project affecting his university. 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. 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 in the 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 a hundred people hostage apparently to use as a human shield have now been freed thousands have fled the region amid the weeklong clashes between the armed group and the army. has shut down its last nuclear reactor for intensified security checks becoming at least for the time being a nuclear power free country tests 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. some politicians in france have called on the population to show more patriotism in a bid to boost the economy lawmakers believe that purchasing more homemade products will help french finances however. a reports many have been left skeptical about

the move when fans industry minister struck a pose looking as french as one can eat consumer affairs minister thought it was a joke. this is a real photo of on new moon. i don't believe it was only when the value. in fact of what it was message was serious choose french paddocks over foreign made ones to help more of their countrymen to keep jobs and appeal to french patriotism in the face of a thirteen year high unemployment rate with the number of jobless hitting three million for the first time a move that comes as france talks about reforms to restore global competitiveness a critical priority says the international monetary fund. a recent study suggests that if consumers were to buy only french made goods they would have to spend between one hundred three hundred euros more each month and amount that still needs an already weakened purchasing power because of all the publicity the french are

even more aware now are made in france products versus those coming from the outside but most of the time the difference could really be seen in the prices of the goods now this one for example is peaches from spain it costs a fortnight in five per kilo rather this one which is clearly marked made in france cost six and ninety five per kilo that's a two year old difference so the question here is how well it will decide d.s.l. to the french. we definitely know i won't spend three hundred extra you have to find this money first he says yes if i have the money certainly. it is no i think globalization allows us to find cheaper goods you know if you look at the product you know a. little short or whatever your goals are part of it has been done in the in france but part of the been done.