if you care about humans and really rich is why you should care only on the dog. no u.n. resolution on the handover of syria's chemical weapons should allow the use of force according to russia's foreign minister meanwhile his deputies in syria discussing the deal is new reports of possible rebel involvement in chemical attacks emerge. a mass shooting in the u.s. capitol leaves thirteen dead with a learned gunmen targeting a heavily guarded naval facility the motives behind the attack still unclear. and are taking speaks exclusively to the lawyer of whistleblower edward snowden this week pieced together the details of the fugitives every day life months after his revelations lifted the veil on the n.s.a. sweeping snooping activities.

hello good evening it's good to have you company watching r.t. coming to life from moscow. now russia's deputy foreign minister is meeting syria's foreign minister in damascus as reports say the syrian government gave its allies crucial information about the use of chemical weapons in the country. has more from damascus. there's a negation between russia's foreign ministry and syrian minister for foreign affairs here in damascus was behind closed doors and no statements were made after that but it is expected of course that the deal russia and america agreed on over the weekend in geneva according to reach syria has to destroy or remove its chemical weapons by mid two thousand and fourteen and before hand over a full list of its stockpiles and we talked and we expect that the diplomats of the

two countries have been discussing exactly how technically this process could be completed and how exactly chemical weapons could be and should be and will be destroyed this deal is very important for syria and for the entire world because it became peaceful turn a two to a military response to the use of chemical weapons here in syria now confirmed by the u.n. investigators backed by america's president barack obama just ahead of this meeting we heard from regional media quoting syria's deputy foreign minister that syria has proves that chemical weapons were used here in syria by militants by the opposition side and legibly this information was handed over to syria's allies it's not clear exactly what kind of allies. meant and we don't know many details

over this information but we can expect that this also could top the agenda of the meeting with the russians indication here in damascus. the u.n. secretary general has meanwhile reiterated that the chemical weapons report by his inspectors doesn't say who carried out the twenty first attack that after the u.s. u.k. and france saw a clear indication of the syrian government's involvement in the document the french foreign minister was in moscow earlier talking to his counter his russian counterpart sergey lavrov about how to move syria's disarmament process forward artie's paul scott has. russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov had a little fun with his counterpart from france in. the eye to eye over the possible wording of a u.n. resolution the u.n. resolution that would see syria dismantle its chemical weapons arsenal that france along with the u.k. arm the united states acting for the threat of sanctions and force to the name on

the table in case damascus doesn't reply with any resolution where russia says that's not what was agreed in geneva and is also unnecessary. the u.n. security council resolution on syria's chemical disarmament won't be under chapter seven we clearly stated that in geneva and the document we signed there doesn't mention chapter seven but the u.n. will definitely control the entire disarmament process and will take measures if the process is not followed and it determines there haven't been any provocations well it seems that one thing is certain at the moment is by the fact that a deal has been agreed in principle it looks as if the diplomatic wranglings are going to continue for some time yet well the u.n. security council member states are meeting to put together a draft resolution on syria's chemical disarmament so let's talk further about this political analyst chris bambery who joins us live from london and mr barry thanks for coming on to the program this evening we hear that the security council is looking to put forward

a draft resolution tonight but what will be the sticking points do you think iran the table right now. i think the sticking point will be any talk of military intervention by on behalf of the united nations i think russia will say that's not on the table and will use its veto if necessary to do that because that was not always signed up to in their costs in russia and the united states over the whole. chemical weapons issue and i think the bell calls words coming out of the united states that london and paris are actually a bit of a cover for the fact that really the west has been humiliated over the question of syria i mean just two weeks ago this u.n. report would have been the cause as bella's for a military strike against syria no it's not the main item on the news in this either side of the airline ticket either in britain or the united states and it's clearly not going to be the cause for a military strike in the short term and that is because russia wrong footed the

americans and also because public opinion in america and in europe is so strongly against any military strike on syria and growing and despite the words of people john kerry clearly trying to appease the republicans are up in arms of what they see is a sell out to more school lunch with the west is not in a position at the moment to strike against against syria and therefore the best game entirely sure way would be to continue down this road of pursuing the agreements reached in switzerland getting there there west of chemical weapons that the acid regime has moving towards disarming those chemical weapons and also talking about a second round of talks geneva bit to in geneva to actually get the kid sides committed to the peace to peace around the table when discussing and i think as well the very strong words which are being used by william hague by john kerry etc also disguise the fact that there are other and just that the free syrian army and other groups among the rebels have rejected any deal whatsoever whether it's

a chemical weapons or any possibility of peace process and that also weaves the western strategy in tight. so i would say at the moment despite strong words coming from washington london and paris actually they're not in a strong position and they have been worsted in this diplomatic game game so far and rather than continuing to sort of play the the threats the bullying and the rest of it i think we're better trying to make this process work because it does seem to be the only game in town at the moment to stop the slaughter it's terrible that chemical weapons have been used by anyone but this report does not stand by the regime used them it says they probably came from this side of assad lines of battle. and he was of life is deeply deeply regret it was a horrible way to die but it's also clear that chemical weapons are not being used in the syrian civil war as a decisive military force that's conventional weapons ok let me ourselves from let me ask you this the u.s. has refused to lift its threat of a military attack on syria. a u.n.

resolution or not do you think there's any chance that the u.s. might receive death threats if they see that chemical weapons are being destroyed. i don't think the americans are going to take that threat away because i think that's too much of a noise for them but i think actually to be increasingly looking like a bit of a dead letter because obama is facing massive opposition to any military strike if you just said we're not going to take any military action that really would be a complete u. militia of the united states and many of his critics are already saying that this is a weak presidents a bumbling president who's not known how to act and react to this things has been matched by president putin of russia at every step and clearly he must be looking it's only there were many years of his presidency and hopefully this issue goes away and rather than starting a war i think he's obviously inquiry was desperate to get off the hook having promised military action or chemical weapons how he still has it realized that he

was facing a possibility of a congressional defeat that public opposition was massively against this he wanted a way out so i think it's quite difficult for obama know to turn around and say yeah we're going to carry out military strikes the words will remain or if you like but the reality is going to be very different we do have to leave it there thank you day for your time that's political analyst chris bambery thank you thank you want maloof has worked for the u.s. defense department for nearly thirty years and he showed us what he claims is a classified u.s. intelligence report indicating that al qaeda linked rebels from the al nusra front were in possession of sarin gas the document also states that the poison could have been used in an attack on syria's largest city aleppo in march. i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with. classified information it's one

one page i mean expecting others it's classified secret no foreign it's from the n g i c or the national ground intelligence center the u.s. military did an assessment based upon fifty indicators and clandestine interviews that the sourcing siren originated out of iraq into turkey before some of it was confiscated in may in turkey and that there has actually been a more significant amount of crn production both in iraq and in turkey going to the going to the opposition principally al-qaeda and we've had separate reports now that al qaeda elements are rather significant numbers and have and now have permeated into the opposition so the ability to be able to. distinguish

who gets what and where is going to makes it much more problematic for this administration meanwhile seven people have been killed in a car bomb blast in syria in the country's border with turkey at least twenty more have been injured in the explosion which happened at a rebel controlled checkpoint will bring you more details as we get them. last week the united nations human rights council issued a report detailing widespread war crimes and crimes against humanity in syria blaming both sides for the atrocities committed on a boy spoke to a member of the u.n. independent commission that led to inquiry. this is the tenth reported that your commission issued on syria and reading them is becoming increasingly more difficult of the footage and their testimonies of their chastity's are getting more and more brutal by the month the coverage that we are for encompasses all groups both government and non-government and the humanitarian message that it's relate is one

that's relate to all sides so that the nondiscriminatory aspect of our work in terms of covering all actors inside syria as well as a message for those backing them i think it's very important that we relay that message that the actors the perpetrators may have some backers what we call constituencies behind them and so our message also is to invite to and influence the constituencies behind the various groups and troops and so on to abide by human rights in metairie and law as well as to ensure that the people they give money to comply with human rights and humanitarian law. and there's more and more is going on in syria on our website right now we're

reporting about the obama administration waiving federal rule provisions in order to supply the syrian rebels to head to r.t. dot com for more on that. i'm a shooting at a heavily guarded u.s. naval command center has left thirteen people dead including the gunman himself the shooter is believed to be a former navy reservist but it's still unclear what drove him to carry out the attack the washington navy yard is the navy's largest on the. establishment president obama has described the latest shooting as a cowardly act meanwhile the u.s. has witnessed numerous going to tax in recent years in november two thousand and nine thirteen people were killed and thirty two injured in a rampage carried out by an army psychiatry's to fort hood in texas two years later twelve people were shot dead when a gunman entered

a movie theater in colorado and less than six months after that adam lanza attacked the sandy hook elementary school killing twenty six mostly children then in march this year another shooting spree at a military base left three dead including the attacker who opened fire on fellow service personnel and a few months later an unemployed twenty three year old killed five people including his own father in santa monica. or the latest shooting left the country's capital into more government facilities and schools were placed on lockdown and flights were suspended from a nearby airport in the targeted navy command center is just blocks away from capitol hill and the white house as you can see here on this map political analyst gordon duff says that such incidents highlight major flaws in america's security systems. the issue we have i think is that we have a massive amount of security in places where it's highly visible where the threats

are really very very low they're done for appearance sake only. america is it is a country with maybe two hundred million or more privately owned weapons. the idea of increasing security in the united states the people are very much against it they're tired of. being followed catalog wiretapped apparently all our mail being read. people are tired of that. there is no amount of violence that's going to bring the american people to a point where they're going to want more government more watching more security more big brother. here with this evening we're going to take a quick break now but let me come back human rights watch point to child abuse in a report says children are being detained and tortured in the same manner as part of a broader crackdown on antigovernment protests we'll have the story just that. the

. economic downturn in the final. days. and the rest. will be everything. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the end. the world from the streets of canada. operations are all.

welcome back now human rights watch claims there's evidence that bahraini security forces routinely detain and abuse children suspected of participating in antigovernment protests that is according to this press release that was issued today and here's a quote from it it says bahraini authorities often hold children for long periods in detention and subject them to similar forms of mistreatment as adult detainees including beatings and threats of torture well nicholas mcgee can one of the

authors of this press release shed some of the alarming details. it's part of a broader crackdown on bahraini society in arbitrary detentions already corman mistreatment and detention is common and it often rises to the level of torture what we found is that there was a failure to distinguish between trail detainees and adults so the children are mistreated in the same manner as as are those i think the most alarming in the serenading issues referring to in this brief research that we conducted was the children being threatened with rape children being threatened with electrocution and children being beaten one point. beating outside of a police station was only stopped or lessened when a senior officer was brought on to the boss and he reportedly said beat them but do it quietly with the evidence that we produced would appear to be perhaps only the tip of the iceberg unfortunately a month has already passed since russia granted asylum to fugitive american

whistleblower edward snowden he hasn't been seen in public since then or any details of his current life revealed my colleague about not say spoke to lindsay france for more on the mystery. so where is the snowden well that's the question everyone wants answered as quickly as possible there was word when he left the airport initially that he was actually staying with american friends so we sat down with anatoly kuchera now which is to be a lawyer assisting him ever since he got here in russia we asked him that very question and this is what he has to say that it is impossible at the moment to feel where he's living will talk openly about it we believe the danger remains quite high and what sort of danger do you mean by. well what you have to understand is that he's being persecuted by a major power the u.s. government and we fear that they could be some very serious consequences. even within the russian territory you mean they can chase and catch him here in russia.

i don't think that is going to happen but we saw american special forces intervening in other countries also with regards to our own citizens they get detained to broaden transfer to u.s. attorney. this he goes. of course he does he walks he can travel he enjoys traveling and he's interested in our history has he been recognized in the streets were while he was traveling you know he hasn't been recognized not so far ok so he hasn't been recognized on the street so far but he is paying for his own private security team to watch out for him and his father is reportedly coming to visit him very serious gotta get all the paperwork taken care of so there we go speaking of security there was talk of him getting a job here so i'm guessing that he must be getting some kind of funding somewhere how's that going on for him i mean does he have any office on the table do we know that well there's plenty of offers the question is will it be a book deal that he takes up will it be work as a program or will it be

a talk show who knows we asked about this specifically and here's what he told us he's still receiving a huge number of offices and people are writing to him and calling the offer assistance because they understand that this. needs to settle here he also gets calls from business executives from different companies who want to give him a job have there been any offers which surprised you. yes there was a woman about fifty years old who couldn't suggest. i found that pretty amusing yet as you can imagine an adoption office pretty amusing and also when he was in the airport he was also getting marriage proposals from women here and as you can imagine any business executive it would increase the public attention on their company if edward started work to take a job there but that does mention that he is very interested in that snowden is interested in doing human rights activism here in russia especially in light of what brought him here to begin with so we'll be watching that closely so you got

a taste there of our exclusive interview with the lawyer assisting edward snowden and you can catch it in full next week here not in suffolk. others plenty to enjoy on our website at the moment including following in french footsteps as paris smells curbing religious symbols in universities a british m.p. calls for muslim veils to be banned in u.k. schools meanwhile in america one company's drones have been grounded for unauthorized mapping flights over colorado's flood zones you can read about these stories and more at r.t. dot com. to see. her story. and i think you're.

on our reporters. on. some international news in brief and i brazil's president has perspective on the planned visit to the u.s. over allegations that the national security agency spied on her government this comes amid a plan to divorce brazil from the u.s. centric internet the latin american country has ordered a series of measures aimed at gaining greater online independence the move however is not going to plug its citizens from the world wide web it just wants data to be stored locally and be properly protected experts fear it may be a dangerous step towards politically fracturing the global network. a series of car bombings across baghdad has killed at least twenty people bombs

went off in five different parts of the iraqi capital mostly in shiite areas dozens of people have been wounded iraq has experienced a spike in violence in recent months with tension escalating between sunni and shia communities. three police officers and the medic have been shot dead while trying to arrest a suspected poacher in austria the fifty five year old first turned his weapon on two offices and then shot an emergency worker who was treating the wounded at the scene he then took a hostage and drove to his farm after stealing a police car in woodland around one hundred kilometers west of vienna special forces special forces offices accompanied by an armored vehicle have surrounded the farm where the suspect is barricaded himself. i'm thousands took to the streets across bangladesh after the country's supreme court sentenced. a leader of an opposition party to death he was found guilty of

committing crimes against humanity during the nation's independence war against pakistan about forty years ago when our claims the verdict is politically motivated his supporters have a forty eight hour general strike on wednesday. the ruling. the bolshoi theatre has ushered in a new season after the summer break and its artistic director has returned to work eight months after an acid attack that nearly blinded him feelin has injured dozens of operations to save his sight and the incident exposed bitter rivalries inside the world of russian ballet and cost reports worldwide media question of which at the bolshoi theater for us. seems that said the tough times for the bolshoi theater are finally over and it is completely ready to face it the new season this specially after the artistic director is back at the holiday was indeed

a long awaited comeback with a mystery fill in look smart and now again ten feet was also wearing he has a huge job ready usually accessory sunglasses now if this is just so troops reunion there was no mention of this horrific passage of time that really shattered the controlled world of the russian capital in january of this year now one of the tom dancers so the bolshoi theater piebald make the change who actually used to play billions on stage is now on trial on torture so we're doing this a time in our troop months and months so freely long treatment and to dozens of operations to be fillin says that he might still need further medical treatments but still for now the artistic director is back at the theater. that's coming up to help us turn here in the russian capital i'll be back with more news in about half an hour's time up next though is abby martin i'm breaking as.

we talked before about people getting in trouble throughout the u.s. so you just regarding in fact according to the christian science monitor a couple of florida has been fined five hundred dollars a day until they dig up their vegetable garden which is on their own property immediately 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 through evolution to appear in russia forced agriculture change rapidly often against the will of many of those involved and this did lead to starvation revolution is a fun. but what about after that well 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 do you see all these pictures behind me these are people 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 is actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its life span where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary period but that's just my opinion.

what's up guys welcome to breaking the set i'm having all of the weekend america's grossly over militarized police force once again showed its true colors first in the charlotte north carolina where police killed twenty four year old football player jonathan ferrell who is seeking help after miraculously surviving a car crash the homeowner called nine one one and told the dispatcher is that a man's repeatedly knocking on her door or a relief when they arrived at the scene fairly hard at them but something tells me that by charge they meant stumbling injured so naturally want to cops fired a stun gun when that failed to stop another police officer opened fire and killed him not to be outdone in the police brutality department on the same day in new york city the n.y.p.d. opened fire in times square toward a man pretending to point a gun at officers that hit in the crazed man who was later found to be an armed police truck two female bystanders attacked and served more like shoot first ask questions later.