russia says are you one must investigate new evidence suggesting syrian rebels were behind last month's deadly nerve gas attack on a suburb of damascus. brazil by the bag after learning that enters they have been spying on her government president dilma rousseff cancels a much anticipated visit to the us and good by washington's refusal to take action on the issue even apologize. and greek public sector workers the pressure on the government with a nationwide strike now in its third day as prime minister some are as admitted the country may need another six years to mend its lately economy.

this is r t a live from moscow you are with me to moment it's good to have your company with us this morning to our top story now. russian officials into maskers to hammer out an action plan to syria's chemical disarmament in line with a deal to avert a u.s. military intervention those threats are followed last month sarin gas attack and blame by west's impalas on the assad regime but russia says there's no fresh evidence implicating syrian rebels in that war crime our correspondent maria for national is in damascus with the latest. russia's deputy foreign minister is now in damascus to discuss the deal that moscow and washington agreed on earlier in geneva code into which syria has to destroy or remove its chemical weapons by me two thousand and fourteen and before and that is maybe even more important over who

least of its stockpiles with and we will be in the mix with the syrian foreign minister russia's diplomat said that the talks were constructive and that damascus understands the importance of this listing and is fully aware of the consequences in case it doesn't do it because it was agreed that if syria fails to comply the deal could be enforced by a u.n. resolution backed by the threat of sanctions or military force russian officials say they received awards syrian government calls the evidence that the radical rebels are behind the deadly chemical attack last month that the reportedly killed hundreds of civilians including children and you and probe a recently confirmed that sarin gas was indeed used here in syria but it didn't answer the question exactly who was responsible for that although that this is a very important question also a location from where the rockets were launched was neither pinpoint by u.n. investigators although their findings clearly states that the sarin team warheads

could have been amateur made north fact to produce but despite all this these questions that still remain open in this case u.s. and its allies were very quick to claim that this u.n. report was enough to blame the assad government for this attack last month this is something rushing strongly opposed to the country saying that the reason mounting evidence that they're ready. syrian rebels are behind the truck city in an interview to r.t. russia's deputy foreign minister said he had a quote who is now in damascus said. that's a u.n. report a one sided reporter or distort the. conclusions drawn by reporters for which are not for sure we. say that we easy from reaching. previews them on the basis for what we believe

record. amount of risk for mention with the. question of where three fourths was discussed among security council members before we begin talking on what to do next we need to figure out why it is and why the group for your for is not going. to continue investigations some members of the u.s. intelligence community who say that and they will and the white house about that but the right indications that the rebels are behind this attack and also there are indications that they received no guys from abroad meanwhile and then to food to pay it own line allegedly showing a syrian a jihad just wearing gas masks and firing rockets and. shalvey in the middle of the night and this video was set to be shown on the twenty first

of august the date of that's attack that killed many civilians and provoked a huge international residents but of course this media is very had to be very fired and still the raw many questions in the story and this is why most is calling for a full and complete u.n. investigation in order to determine exactly who is responsible for the attack here in syria last month. pentagon veteran michael maloof is among a group of u.s. intelligence insiders who suspect the rebels all castrated the damascus serin attack he says chemical weapons have been smuggled to al-qaeda linked extremists in syria from neighboring turkey 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. sea 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 makes it much more problematic for this

administration. has requested an official response from the pentagon on that leaked document but the department of defense simply said it was fuses to comment on matters off intelligence now say with us here on r.t. for the latest on this developing story on air and online. brazil's president has called of a visit to the united states in response to washington's refusal to take action against the n.s.a. the surveillance practices this comes after whistleblower edward snowden revealed that the latin american nation is being spied on by american operatives with personal communication from ordinary citizens and even president dilma rousseff herself being intercepted artie's marina and i has the story. as the n.s.a. spying scandal continues to undermine america's global standing one u.s. ally is not willing to forgive and forget brazilian president dilma rousseff who has canceled her scheduled visit to the white house next month pulling out of what

was supposed to be the first official state visit of u.s. president barack obama's second term it would have also been the first for a brazilian president in nearly two decades in addition to breaking dates for cilia is also taking steps to divorce itself from the u.s. centric internet while seeking its own sovereignty in cyberspace president rousseff has ordered a series of measures aimed at greater brazilian online independence including storing citizens data locally to protect from n.s.a. snooping according to reports the brazilian government is also planning to lay underwater fiber optic cable directly to europe and also link to all south american nations currently most of brazil's global internet traffic passes through the united states now experts say if other nations follow in brazil's footsteps the us cloud computing industry which stores data remotely could lose tens of billions of

dollars in business by two thousand and sixteen brazil's path towards internet sovereignty follows revelations that the n.s.a. intercepted president rousseff communications hacked into the network of the state owned oil company and spied on brazilians in trusting their personal information to u.s. companies like facebook and google president rousseff says she intends to push for a new international rules on privacy and security in hardware and software next week when all the heads of state gather in new york for the u.n. general assembly on tuesday the brazilian leader is set to open the u.n. g.a. debates and her u.s. counterpart president obama is set to take the stage immediately afterwards reporting from new york marina r.t. . some experts believe the future governance of the world wide web will be shaped to a large extent by the events surrounding the n.s.a. scandal. that's

a great opportunity not only for brazil but for many countries to really take a stand on internet governance and really try to understand how the future of the internet in communications as a whole will end up coming out of this huge scandal about the n.s.a. leaks so internet freedom has being like the flagship the discourse from the u.s. government when it deals with and with internet governance well now that you have a situation like this one is clearly momentum that is building up for brazil for other countries in the global south and for other countries as well to really take a stand on that and try to come up with forbearers solution in a way which you could in a truly moved stakeholder way discuss the future of the internet because it's clear that the way that we are going now it allowed a situation like this one that we had with the n.s.a. and that's certainly something that created a huge impact for a number of fundamental rights and it is definitely

a good opportunity to discuss and to reflect upon a new way to do with internet governance. and that i had this hour reshaping the religious landscape christianity is in a steep decline in the u.k. claw islam is gaining follow us like never before putting it on the way to becoming the country's leading religion in just a decade. unexplored and talk to go what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. from love which is why now i only go to the doctor. that i see. and enter into. a new generation of polar explorers is coming. we have a new group of specialists here now all of them are young how are they going to get along with each other and i don't know. who. i used to be

a bureaucrat. seriously. what adventures await in this mysterious land where do they live want to eat and what are they actually doing it on top to go. with the law prof carey deal on syria's chemical weapons and boy it would appear the international system is returning to some kind of multilateral order the united states remains to world's only military superpower but that same power can now be put into checks can washington cope with this new geo political reality. the. more probable war the most complex and difficult to.

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to notice. the faces change the world lights now. full picture of today's leaves. on to and from around the globe. dropped. to fifty. thanks for staying with us here on r.t. for more international news a five day mass strike by public sector workers in greece is not entering day three with thousands flooding the streets to vent their anger addressed exchange spending cuts the rallies come ahead of a visit later this month while the country's international creditors meanwhile prime minister antonis samaras has recently claimed the country needs another six years to return to pre-crisis living standards greece has already received two

bailout packages totaling two hundred forty billion euros. more details on how the greeks are coping with their bleak economic situations out on r.t. dot com also the if we use country right just across the water that's home to some of the world's largest oil reserves is also crying out for cash i'll find out what's happening in libya on our way. to meet your writer that landed outside the city on. tell me i believe in russia's urals in favor him has given birth to what looks like a new religion to find out what all the fuss is about at the r t dot com. right to see. first street. and i think the true.

on our reporters were very. instrumental. in the. how far governments prepared to go to keep critics at bay it turns out that for buffy lanes of slower. jeez even children are valid targets the human rights watch cleans out security forces they routinely round up threaten and abuse children suspected of participating in anti government activities the group is the group's press release says that there's evidence from victims family members and local rise activists that young people in bahrain a suffer the same brutality as adult detainees and they can make them again who is out one although the office of the statement revealed some of the alarming details it's part of a broader. society of arbitrary detentions already corman mistreatment of detention

is common and it often rises to the level of torture what we found is that there is a failure to distinguish between tributaries and adults so the children are mistreated in the same manner as ours are those i think the most alarming concerning issues referred 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. of a police station was only stopped or a lesson when a senior officer was brought onto the boss and he reportedly said beat them but do it quietly the evidence that we produced would appear to be perhaps only the tip of the iceberg unfortunately. america's debt bomb is taking congressional budget analysts is are voicing alarm over the government's failure to rein in the budget

deficit with the national debt now at seventy three percent of g.d.p. which is double the two thousand and seven level. the publisher of trends journal says america's a many foreign military commitments are simply making matters worse. we're squad during our resources fighting all of these on where noble wars never end and so the nation is going down economically ninety seven percent of the jobs that have been created this year ninety seven percent are part time jobs you're looking at this so no we even saw the war will make a very bad situation much worse we're going to keep taxing the people just as they did as the roman empire did they tax the people more and it's not only the states by the way look what they did throughout europe they called it or sterile measures you know they cut your pensions benefits you raise your taxes so it's

a way of keeping it going to the people revolve and our world update this combo my tax continue to wreak devastation in iraq but country's capital has borne the brunt of the latest violence with at least twenty six deaths on tuesday alone a total of thirty four people were killed nationwide in shootings and car bombings targeting mainly shia neighborhoods the past few months in iraq have been the deadliest in five years with al qaeda fighting to destabilize the shia led government. ok by wall street activists are back on the streets of downtown new york marking the movement's second anniversary protestors have announced a new goal the introduction of a half of the centex on wall street financial transactions after the first protest camp was set up in twenty levon the rallies swiftly spread to other cities in the u.s. and around the world riding a wave of anger of anger over a comic inequality and it could create.

austrian police hunting for a man who shot dead four people have found charred remains of the killer after storming a farmhouse the fifty five year old man shot two police officers. paramedic earlier on cheers say the gunman then fled in a stolen police car to a farm building to the west of b.n. or taking another office the hostage then barricaded himself in the basement building that officer was later founded near the form of. angry street protests heads of bangladesh after the country's supreme court sentenced to death islamic opposition leader abdul there he was found guilty of crimes against humanity during the war of independence with pakistan four decades ago supporters assert the charges were politically motivated and called for forty eight hour nationwide protests from wednesday to denounce the ruling.

christianity's a central place in british culture is looking increasingly under threat with church attendance numbers in constant decline meanwhile the country's second largest religion islam is growing faster than ever with some studies suggesting it's on the way to becoming the dominant faith artie's part of boyko has the story. i half of brits say they're christians but you wouldn't know it glancing at this london service in. the us the way. the new figures show that the u.k. is official religion is declining faster than was previously thought worship as a raging on for the first time ever fewer than half under the age of twenty five described themselves as christian the decline of churches in the u.k. is a long term it just happens to be now approaching really rock bottom so ninety five percent of people don't attend church on an average sunday while the church of

england struggles the office for national statistics says that the number of muslims in england and wales has surged by seventy five percent and their young half of british muslims are under the age of twenty five and not be swayed man. they are. what is it the world's going. to be questioned motivation to it is very very different for different people. very well bonded and families really try to nurture young people in the in the fall of islam we have to assume congregations from the young people. so they feel part of the mosque establishment religious think tank the pew forum estimates that if present trends continue the muslim population of the u.k. will swell to almost double within twenty years totaling five and a half million according to these figures it means that by twenty thirty britain

will have more muslims than kuwait it's projects such as this community based muslim radio station that could provide the clue as to why the religion is flourishing in the u.k. in that period deejays who call themselves brothers and sisters talk about local issues and education from the point of view of islam. inspire started out as a special transmission during the holy month of ramadan it became so popular that it was established as a permanent radio station it's actually a no pressure becomes an islamic ethos but we won't do anything which is deemed a non islamic on. the musical and one may question by the five thought of the music that we play on the radio station we won't have your mainstream music playing on there because so what majority would isn't deemed islamic we would not have toys anything. you want having i did was say for example gambling was one of things according to academics it's the b.d.'s that islam demands from its

followers that's made it more appealing to worship and converts from other religions islam says no this is no. people find a sense of direction in the because their religion over a gene has lost that not because that would be them have it in neutral. they sort of became believe me and in the relation to the laws of the church. i think it may be in this way big wood to make it more mellow and softer and i tracked more people into the church and in fact they've lost people something that the church of england disagrees with. they claim that the death of christian england has been greatly exaggerated and that the statistics don't reflect the true faith of the population and yet there are demographers that say that if current trends continue islam could eclipse christianity as the dominant religion in the u.k.

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