the latest news of the week's top stories russia and america agree on a plan to rid syria of its chemical arsenal. by western powers on the assad regime but. fighting still continues. the syrian army is engaged in. the latest on the n.s.a. surveillance. talk to the man who was once one of america's most wanted.

norway a center right coalition government including a party that one. hundred people including many children. and recapping the week's top stories live from our studios in moscow. with us. now russia and of 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 what those are right now now the exotics quantity of syria's chemical weapons will be determined and placed under international control but

first the syria will have to submit to a list of its submit excuse me 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 have to get immediate access to weapons storage facilities to begin the destruction process if syria does not 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 a 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 along these surrounding this issue and we have to be very careful if 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 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 have pointed out leaves the way open to do to assert what the americans did to the. buffy cut off all agreed to give up his chemical weapons his various of the vulcan mentioned 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 to disagree belgian writer pierre pitchiness who 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 now just a bit of a warning you might find some of the images in this next report 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 route 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. the 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 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 the 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 and let us remind you that the rebels already tried to simulate a gas attack a year ago and alms they made a video showing people on the ground acting as if they had been. of neurotic gas the. syrian islamist rebels have been forced to out of the ancient christian village of after almost two weeks of fierce fighting that's as locals report looting executions and being forced by the hardest to convert to islam at gunpoint many residents have now joined of the syrian army to drive the invading fighters back artie's maria an ocean sent us this report from the front line of the battle.

the job. but. the mood is cheerful soldiers are smiling and relieved the jihadists have been booted out then look at this 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 most of 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 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 among syrian soldiers and he has some question is again syria thirty of 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 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 sufi hotel our goal was the liberated them push on to my tough climb on a street that we couldn't do it last night there's a reverie where my lul is home to many christian churches and monasteries as well as mosques everywhere we go here we see either crosses on the rx 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 sees our only way out. we think over our chances when our engineer gets hit. because it was a larger group of fishermen much. 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 we're now trying to get out of here for years and this was. no no no

no. so. this had been any think there aren't back then here they go there are clear a lot. more focus also drew the boots did you hear them whizzing by. but now i think if we really take care of. the fire and you're behind this. and you're told that this is here no may get to be careful how do you make. sure you get paid. and we leave while

governmental forces continue their frenzy form on the levee ledge which despite the claims remains under siege. for fourteen from syria. the battle is not over yet and you can follow me 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 this according to germany's spiegel newsmagazine information came from the classified documents leaked by whistleblower edward snowden it's reported the n.s.a. tapped into the databases of large companies like visa to search through their clients' private financial information gerald horne who's an attorney says it's a clear cut case of economic espionage. that's

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 the 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 and edward snowden's revelations have been the cause of considerable anger as people realize just how much of their private lives and data has been compromised by the intelligence services earlier artie's shop of allah spoke with kevin mitnick a one time he was america's most wanted hacker and he also told her that hardly anyone is safe from online surveillance anymore. according to 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 rise in our google who 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 that 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 we 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 is great to have you on the show thank you thank you for it thank you for having me. still ahead for you on our team liberty for turner day and solidarity and now a push for. domestic purchases. french politicians are trying to help out the economy by encouraging people to be patriotic in their financial purchases later this hour our tears tears are still looks at whether the move has met 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 the anti migration progress party the populist group

once had among its members the mass murderer braving who killed seventy seven people in terrorist attacks two years ago and the scandinavian country is just of the latest state to join a europe wide lean to the right as artie's was accountable for 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 for. 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 e.u. countries including major european economies have seen a substantial rise of populist radical right electoral support let's take a closer look now in one of the biggest economies france after years of electoral decline marine le pen led the country's national front to its best ever results in the election of two thousand and twelve now some have claimed that zena phobia is still one of the country's party's trademarks although she has tried to soften the

party's image since the more radical program of the one nine hundred ninety s. moving on to austria the freedom party of austria has focused on anti immigration anti islam and euro skeptic issues 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 is 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. member of france's far right national front party told r.t. how they plan to win even more votes for themselves in the future were 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 entirely we want to deal against. radicalization since the one nine hundred ninety s.

. 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 elections the next european parliament elections before the elections we will have local elections as will we will probably make very good. numbers and figures. well you can get a recap of 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 head to our web site for more on the race for missile defense dominance in asia plus. madrid versus barcelona off the pitch this time though as the spanish government struggles to hold back catalonia from becoming an independent nation and get all of that.

and to some other stories from around the world in brief for you this hour in mexico over twenty people have been killed as tropical storm manual ravages the country's pacific coast for a third day there could be more bad news on the weather front as hurricane ingrid threatens to make landfall in the west around fifteen thousand people have been evacuated to safety amid fears of heavy rains flooding and mudslides. rallies in turkey enter a sixth night 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 and tear gas the rest 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 evacuated from the daily news to areas president. obama has signed a major emergency order for the battered state approving federal disaster aid the catastrophe has been branded in a 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 weeklong clashes between the

on the group and the army. in the british capital more than three thousand members of greenpeace have staged a march against oil and gas drilling in the arctic the center piece of the rally involved a huge manmade polar bear which was operated by forty five activists it brought londoners of all ages out onto the streets to see the twelve metre high giant named aurora the prayed is a part of the global environmental action that's embracing seventy cities around the world. 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 as our reports many have been left skeptical about the move when fans industry minister i know monday blues struck a pose looking as french as one can be consumer affairs minister thought it was

a joke. this is a real photo of on new moon two. i don't believe it was only when the value. in fact of what it was message was serious choose french products over foreign made ones to help more of their countrymen and 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 for each month and amount that would stop these 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 for ninety five per kilo right 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. yes if i have the money certainly. somebody does know i think globalization allows us to find cheaper goods you know it's when you look at the product you know a. shirt or whatever a. bottle has been dug into in france but bottle over the been done as well in fact a french political parties have been accused of hypocrisy as a local newspaper's investigation last year she will lection campaign materials have been made in china bangladesh morocco you name it. musician is here for

example this little case is made in china so i'm not afraid buying sings in china that's of the point the point is we have. no hope in france at all as a d.c.m. is a brand that takes pride in having its manufacturing base in france its director says the study was an important point that paying more to support their own industries creates local jobs and is far less of an economic burden than the cost of three point two million unemployed big amount of those ducks. of course to pay. the social care we have in france and a big amount of the social care is employment so we'd move we would be much more healthier in france and with lower deficit public deficit if everyone was to have

a job the world trade organization has criticized this campaign as patriotic protectionism as france's economic why why it's getting trickier to manage politicians seem to be grasping at straws the government's new call to arms may look good on paper but as critics point out it could end up an economic for past. tense or sylvia r.t.e. paris. or she will have more international news and around half an hour's time up but before that authorities debate joe cross talk with host peter about stay with us.

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