and. the u.n. security council is huge debate a resolution to enforce the chemical the some of the disarmament of syria the u.s. military remains in position ready to strike at washington's a discussion. meanwhile the civil war shows no signs of dying down on cars one and company's a syrian army on a daily operation in the embattled al scares off damascus. and the latest revelation courtesy of edward snowden is that the national security agency has been trolling through plywood financial transaction both foreign and domestic.

and it's a very good morning to you if you just joined us here on our t.v. you're with me to bum once a full this week's main topic news. i did later on monday the united nations will present the results of its probe into last month's alleged deadly chemical attack in syria the findings are not expected to assign blame but could shed light on the region of the toxins which reportedly killed hundreds of civilians this comes as the u.n. security council prepares to hammer out a resolution to enforce a deal on syria reached by russia and the united states the plan requires the syrian government to disclose full details on its chemical weapons within a week and allow the stockpiles to be destroyed by the middle of next year but u.s. military forces remain in position to strike syria if damascus fails to comply with france of backing up washington's threat and attack would bring huge wrists but also stellar profits for u.s.

arms firms as lindsey france reports. raytheon is the manufacturer of the b g m one o nine better known as the tomahawk missile individual units sell for around one million dollars it's been the weapon of choice for the u.s. military and has been used in each of america's conflicts over the past twenty years raytheon is the largest manufacturer of guided missiles in the world statistics from the wall street journal show the company raked in more than twenty billion dollars in arms sales in two thousand and ten it's already delivered two hundred fifty two missiles this fiscal year and engagement in syria would likely mean a future increase in tomahawk orders and profits for raytheon its share prices when talk of a four re in syria intensified reflect that between april and august this year stock surged by a third another big shot in the world of weapons lockheed martin the biggest arms maker in the world in two thousand and ten it grossed just under three billion

dollars think advanced combat missile rocket manned and unmanned systems as well as aeronautics in two thousand and twelve it reeled from the us budget sequestration and fiscal cliff just before the last presidential elections lockheed threatened to lay off vast amounts of its one hundred twenty three thousand employees the white house intervened and lockheed martin back down again a stock surge with the beat of more drums then there is boeing it's not only concerned with passenger aircraft like the seven forty seven or the dreamliner just under half of the company's total sales in two thousand and ten came from strategic missile systems g.p.s. and electro optical systems all potentially used in syrian conflict should washington decide to act and to tie it all nicely together it pays to look at the top three contributors to federal candidates parties and outside groups boeing lockheed martin and raytheon all shelling out nearly three million dollars each in

the two thousand and ten election cycle. to people who make or break us foreign policy the numbers can't be ignored the more conflict america gauges and the more money can flow into these companies coffers the talk may be about saving the world from tyrants but the actions and the figures also point to big money. the russian u.s. agreement on syria has brought hope but not peace to the war say in a way the rebels say they'll keep fighting regardless of international court the chemical disarmament deal came as a major setback for the opposition forces who are counting on a foreign intervention according to middle east expert jeremy salt the number of people around the world who've taken the fact that syria agreed to kind of hand over control of its chemical weapons stop the united nations complicity or build in fact i would see it as part of a much broader kind of strategy which is preventing an american attack which would be totally disruptive and totally destructive and if that attack is not carried out

in the syrian army can get on the job of protecting the rebel groups who are. fighting across the country and we know that in the past six months in particular have been very brutal back and very much of offensive if there is no military attack and they're able to get on with the job of protecting these groups. you know they're going to be very strong position over the next few months to kind of rewind the. meanwhile as the syrian army steps up its offensive against rebel forces arches maria fanaa got to see a daily military raid on the outskirts often ask us now and barrett just a few kilometers from the central damascus it used to be a nice and beautiful very picturesque town where the population of up to three hundred thousand people but it's been torn by clashes between the governmental forces and the rebels from most two years now the result you can see everything is ruined the residents left the only people we can meet here either the army all the

militants. fighting against i guess i can hear it all now we're going with the army to one of their operations. during a is self or the capital is sponsored a powerful militant belt around damascus known as eastern ghouta the scene of recent fierce clashes it is also where a chemical attack last month brought international resonance in its wake all weapons smuggled to syria through jordan in the south come through here providing local militants with a secure supply line for. fire . this is what the syrian war looks like today urban battlefield provides dense cover and a network of underground tunnels also shields the militants there is no defined

front line and you don't know when your enemy is watching. those who are not told you say they could be snipers there and they pull curtains like this one just to protect to prevent snipers from seeing what's going on here. the simple system helps save many lives every day where it doesn't work soldiers just wrong. and for two minutes with travel from one district to another we follow the army as you can see through the buildings through the holes in the walls like this one all the swan they're everywhere. because you. can do something for once a. candidate you salute is here in the mornings he needs no. more life. in this war snipers are from both sides of the frontline.

is what they do most of the time waiting for the enemy. in the woods in the dead of an office assures me the map they update every day this is where we are the militants are in this big building the army liberates the town street by street building by building very slowly and very carefully has always just addressed militants to surrender their homes promising that they will be safe sometimes they leave their weapons and try to escape but sometimes they refuse and we have no other choice but the quite. this soldier shows me where he was injured his three bullets haven't come to him down. i'm on or to defend my country to defend the syrian people even if the us attacks us with its aircraft and tanks and everything we will make our land their cemetery an american strike seems to be on

the back burner at least for now but syrian civil war goes on and on. damascus suburbs syria. and sharing firsthand reports on the militia operations around damascus on her twitter feed you can find out the latest by following her online. i am an. online. washington says the syria chemical disarmament deal should serve as an example for neighboring iran which is on the verge of direct talks with america over its nuclear program coming up in cross talk with peter level experts debate how the syrian crisis has influence of the u.s. position in the middle east obama knows not only isolated himself internationally and destroyed whatever was left of his public diplomacy capabilities as a result of coming to power with

a slogan of change but also in addition to its leading himself. cross the world he is isolated himself in the united states as well not only is the u.s. public opinion deeply against the war but also the senate and congress they have been forced to think twice about endorsing aggression against the syrian people and i think that we can and his position significant me while on the other hand the iranian position has been strengthened right now just over the last few days we see that the iranian president has met both the russian president as well as the chinese president and the relations have warmed as a result of american actions and. the u.s. national security agency is facing more unwelcome attention the german magazine der

spiegel has a published report detailing the n.s.a.'s practice of tracking private financial transactions all over the world and my colleagues john thomas spoke attorney general gerald ford who explained how access to such information could be of useful personal green. 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 how will this affect us using our credit cards and regular banking services on a daily basis if in the us a is able to penetrate these so that raises the question of what other agencies and cities are able to penetrate visa and that opens up a pandora's box that can lead to all manner of fraud coming up later in the program at reigning in the special interest groups the u.k. attempts to regulate lobbying members to frustrate all parties involved and the mind the work of charities get the details in a couple of minutes here on our team. on

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list. that's the same with us here on our team the british government has moved to preempt a new scandal by tighter regulations on lobbying however the proposals have been roundly condemned by both lobbyist and the opponents. explains why. being in the u.k. and people think. it began in one nine hundred ninety four with cash for questions and newspaper claims of parliament brought to conservative m.p.'s into asking questions in parliament then last year that was cast for cameron when a conservative party treasurer was filmed apparently offering dinner with david cameron and the chance to influence government policy snit just two hundred fifty thousand pounds and most recently three lords and an m.p. accused of apparently offering to do polling meant to work in exchange for cash in the sunday times sting so david cameron's had enough in

a bid to prevent yet to know of a scandal his party's introduced a bill to regulate lobbying but the proposals are third week that anti-doping campaign is and themselves are united in their opposition what the ridge does is that it provides transparency it doesn't stop politicians behaving badly we have nothing to fear from such a rush of lobbyists in fact we've been calling for it and that's why we're so disappointed with the government because the definition of lobbyist. that is going to cover less than is already on the existing public. being registered on the register as proposed would exclude around eighty percent of lobbyists and lobbying activity and that's only the half of it the second part of the bill puts charities and voluntary organizations in the spotlight applying it can to their spending in an election year just raising awareness of the public policy issue could fall into

that category in a down indictment of the bill the government's own election regulator the electoral commission says it will have a downplaying effects on public debates the bill's already had its second reading and industry insiders are worried it'll be rushed through it won't prevent more scandals they say but when the next one does happen the government will be for. forced to hit back with something far more draconian. israel has never confirmed or denied being a nuclear power a recent report in the american board of the lives of the bailiff secrecy with the details for you online at r t. hundred faces off with off of the page and this time as the spanish government take steps to prevent got the money from becoming an independent nation read more on our website.

while you know paul for economies crumble it's china that's picking up the pieces the country measures one of the world's top three investors last year and a significant cash benefit to european firms. becoming increasingly dependent on beijing to settle cilia explains. in burgundy and gold though including one will shut a stone so iconic french brand in holding resorts and so parisian fashion brand sonia rykiel eighty percent sold to hong kong investors the tip of

the iceberg as far as chinese money in french firms is concerned but if you want french president francois long and his army of trade ministers and mrs exact there's always room for more especially as recent grim industrial output figures cast doubts on paris's cloying of economic recovery. france accounts for a tiny portion of china's foreign trade just one point three percent versus germany's five percent and france buys more from china than it so so much so that there is a twenty six billion euro trade deficit with the asian giant is the short term. probably we need more chart out of the chart of these where francis cooler industries are concerned another one of those with increasing chinese investment in the billions is a nuclear energy sector france's expertise as a crucial position within the street giants are divided e.d.f. leading the pack bot and gaining access to china's massive market and investment

dollars france finds itself straddling a delicate balance of opening up its wealth of knowledge and protecting its relevance which means once the know how it was passed what stopping sharon or from going it alone should we stay old search results do exist and should are always caruso's carrillo exist. to desert the country called the party and it's called about this is a. village across there a consequence that's already raised fears of compromising france's national interests prompting the finance ministry to launch an investigation earlier this year and we. owe so many chinese people the we eat us the full they didn't want to get this through. you know we cannot stop very movement of the story of the world. by the that's the beauty of our technologies to

make every day every more every your new projects new credit t.v. but we will be completely again an uphill battle for a country and internal german mental described as europe's biggest problem child and image it will have to clean up if it wants the chinese to keep heading its way . just are still your art harris. on to some other international stories in a world of data iraq has been hit by over a dozen car bombings over the last twenty four hours killing at least fifty eight people most of those attacked a targeted ship populated neighborhoods they rocky branch of al qaeda has recently been stepping up its efforts undermining the authority of the shia led government all torn countries now witnessing its most severe blood shirts and two thousand and eight. rallies in turkey turned violent as a police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at thousands of anti-government protesters

the clashes broke out overnight in istanbul when demonstrators said i was to barricade while security forces tried to force the crowd back again after the death of the twenty two year old student involved in a sit in against a construction project affecting his university. soft korean workers have returned to the quay song industrial park in north korea for the first time in five months it's the only remaining joint project between the countries and involves over one hundred companies from the south employ more than fifty thousand workers from the communist operations with frozen following a political crisis between pyongyang and saul in the wake of a nuclear test by north korea in the relaunch of the case on complex to months of tough he gives us. a week of tarantula rains across the u.s. state of colorado has claimed the lives of at least six people around five hundred

people are unaccounted for and up to a thousand are waiting to be evacuated heavy storms on sunday prevented rescue helicopters from reaching residents trapped behind walls of debris colorado is suffering its worst flooding in over three decades. in the british capital more than three thousand. embers of greenpeace have staged a march against oil and gas drilling in the act the centerpiece of the rallied volved a huge manmade polar bear which is operated by forty five active is a broad londoners of all ages out onto the streets to see the twelve metre high giant named aurora the parade is a part of the global environmental action that's embracing seventy cities around the world. in just a few minutes time a is the latest edition of safety. allen

welcome to sophie and co the shevardnadze well look at the global economy today and how i would speak this players the world trade organization is finding its way in the changing circumstances. in the storm and on safe ocean for the global economy it's thought there is safety in numbers. the world trade organization was called on to study the shift coordinates direction and help participants communicate. in the turbulence of recent years because

these giants lost it's called for dense while its members become more selfish the rich dominate even the poor imposing full and fair rules for obtaining better deals . how can the w t o restore come among its ranks and extinguish fierce trade conflicts doesn't know where it's heading where is it safer to be now within the w t o or without it. and our guest today is it all back to as of that though the director general of the world trade organization who just assumed office at the beginning of september this year mr as a veteran it's great to have you with us on the show. so in your first address. general you said the w t o and the multilateral trading system aren't important crossroads well in fact the w t o is thought to be going through a major crisis and many even doubt its viability what can you do to change that do

you have any concrete solutions. well we have been in this situation for a long time and we have to change it this simple as that. has been in place since one thousand nine hundred ninety five and since then there has never been one single negotiated agreement multilaterally we have to change that now bali is an opportunity we're going to have the ministerial conference at the end of the year in december and we are negotiating now with smaller package it doesn't mean that it's not significantly affect it's a very significant package but it's something different from what we were doing before so who knows this next approach would begin to yield some fruits and we can not only harvest something significantly bali but also open the door for future agreements but in your approach to changing things in w.t. what would be different from your proudest predecessor because he was saying the

same thing you were saying that things have been stagnating and he wanted to change stuff but he couldn't do anything really. well this is the first time that we actually try to approach something different from the whole round. we have still a few weeks to go this is an opportunity i am talking to members engaging with them i think we're trying to build some trust and confidence in each other and this is a very personal process whether we believe it or not in such a big organisation of it's very personal to we have to understand where each other come from and we're in i think we are in position to do something it's very it's going to be extremely difficult it doesn't look easy but. it's possible it's doable i'm sure that well the doha round that you just brought out those global trade negotiations which were supposed to lower trade barriers across the globe right now is considered as good as debt are you still going to pursue it. i don't think it's

as good as that frankly what we want to do in bali is part of the doha growth it's not the hold over rome but it's part of it it's a partial package which is within the doha role and my whole you said if we can be successful in bali we're going then to only log the negotiations and maybe will knows try to approach the room from different angles from different perspectives and begin to move in the right direction if you look at w t o today right the way it's wired it's not exactly fair since we're ever joined later has to follow the rules set by the founding members right so putting them in developing countries who joined later in an underprivileged position what are you going to do about this inequality. well the purpose of negotiations is precisely to lower and to have more disciplines which apply to everyone i think those who exceed the.