russia urges the united nations to investigate new evidence suggesting syrian rebels were behind last month's deadly nerve gas attack on a suburb off damascus. brazil by its back to the country moves to create its very own internet to protect itself from american online surveillance following edward snowden's revelations on the scope of the you were spying activities. and greek a public sector workers pile the pressure on their government to with a nationwide strike and now in his third day as prime minister some are as admits the country may need another six years to mend its plundering economy.

it's just composite midday here in of the russian capital you along with us on our t. you with me tom would say let's take a look at our top story. russian officials are in damascus to hammer out an action plan for syria's chemical disarmament in line with a deal to avert u.s. air strikes intervention threads are full of last month's air and gas attack a blamed by western powers on the assad regime but russia says those are not 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 hand over

a full list of its stockpiles with a week of in the meeting 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 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 you

investigate this although their findings clearly states that the sorry empty warheads could have been amateur made north effect you could use 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 russia is strongly opposed to on the contrary saying that the reason mounting evidence that the ready. syrian rebels are behind the city in an interview to r.t. russia's deputy foreign minister said to get a quote who is now in damascus said. that's a u.n. report a one sided four wars story. conclusions drawn by spurs are not. easy

for reaching. previews from on the basis for what we believe. about them on the wrist for mention with their. questions three four tours discuss among security council members before we begin talking on what to do next we need to figure out why it is and what the group for your effort is not going. to continue investigation some members of the u.s. intelligence community who say that and they will and the white house about that that 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 went to food paid own line allegedly showing a syrian a jihad just wearing gas masks and firing rockets and. sheilds

in the middle of the night and this video was set to be shown on the twenty first of august the date of that attack that killed many civilians and provoked a huge international resonance 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 says of as evidence to suggest chemical weapons have been smuggled to own kind of link to extremists in syria from neighboring turkey. i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with two to classified information and he basically told me that the u.s. military did an assessment based upon fifty indicators that 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 cern 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 the ability to be able to. distinguish who gets what and where is it makes it much more problematic for this administration. has requested an official response from the pentagon on that leak document but the department of defense is simply said it refuses to comment on

matters of intelligence say with our chief of the latest on this developing story on air and online. brazil is moving to fracture of the worldwide web of interest sponsor revelations on n.s.a. secret surveillance which have also prompted president dilma rousseff to call off a visit to the united states itself america's largest country now in to create its own cyberspace out of reach of the american secret services archies marina 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 there 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 and 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 trademark of all 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 still ahead this hour by reshaping the religious landscape while christianity itself was a steep decline in the u.k. islam is gaining follows like never before putting it all the way to becoming the

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. thanks for staying with us here on our chief for more international news a five day nationwide strike by public sector workers in greece is now entering day three with thousands flooding the streets to vent their anger over drastic state spending cuts now the country's economy has a shrunk by almost a quarter since two thousand and eight and four cars indicate a further decline this year and despite having received two massive bailout

packages from international lenders athan still needs about ten billion euros more to close a funding gap meanwhile prime minister antonis samaras has admitted that greece will need six more yes or return to pre-crisis living standards are g.'s you think reports now from the greek capital. certainly a big day here in greece as some of the largest protests crowds hit the streets now thousands of schoolteachers have walked off the job on monday those protests resulted in some clashes with the police doctors follow suit on tuesday and some of the largest public sector unions are joining in today's in fact many secondary schools and universities remain shut around the country now what they're furious about is the latest round of austerity measures greece is due to move or temporarily slashed the salaries of some twenty five thousand workers in addition to cutting thousands of jobs by the end of the year now workers will either have to accept new posts or spend months working on reduce our use with no guarantee of

actually keeping their job and this is of course in exchange for the next installment of its much needed rescue loans now this is a country that's and that's been in recession for six years in a row and while the economy is still shrinking many here say that they're simply tired of austerity tired of feeling like they're the ones paying for the mistakes made by governments and banks in the previous years now the country has gotten two hundred forty billion euros worth of help in two separate bailouts so far but the problem is that it's still unclear whether it can stand on its own and that of course is cold comfort to greeks who see more austerity in their future and we have to keep in mind here on employment is nearing thirty percent two out of three young people are out of work and at sixty four percent youth unemployment that's the highest on the continent we also are hearing according to a new report that suicide rates have increased by forty five percent in the first four years of the greek financial crisis that number set to rise and some radical right wing groups have also been able to effectively gain more support so

a very mixed picture for the people on the ground and certainly it doesn't look like the protests are going to seize any time soon. want details on how the greeks are coping with their big economic realities out on r g eight dot com also live for you a country just across the water that's home to some of the world's largest oil reserves is also crying out for cash find out what's happening in libya on our website. meter that landed earlier this year alcide. in russia is a year old has given birth to one looks like a new religion to find out what all the fuss is about to head to our tea dot com. right to see. her story. and i think the true. on our reporters were there.

the. america's dead bomb is ticking congressional budget and voicing alarm over the government's failure to rein in spending which has pushed the national debt up to seventy three percent of g.d.p. double the two thousand and seven level gerald cilento the publisher of trends journal says america's costly military venture is a party to blame. we're squandering 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 or 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. 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 stared measures you know they cut your pensions benefits raise your taxes so it's a way of keep going until the people revolt. and our world updated this car bomb attacks continue to wreak devastation in iraq of the country's capital has borne the brunt of the latest violence with at least twenty six deaths and choose to learn a total of thirty four people were killed nationwide in shootings and car bombings targeting mean the sheer neighborhoods the past few months in iraq have been of the deadliest in five years of our kind of fighting to destabilize the shia led government. occupy wall street activists have been back on the streets of

downtown new york among the movement's second anniversary the protesters have announced a new goal the introduction of a house of percent tax on wall street financial transactions but he said arrest the several demonstrators who attempted to block a road after the first protest camp was set up in two thousand and eleven the reading swiftly spread to other cities in the u.s. and around the world riding a wave of anger over economic inequality and corporate create. chaotic street protests have swept in bangladesh after the country's supreme court sent of an islamist opposition leader. death by hanging. was found guilty of crimes against humanity dating back to the war of independence from pakistan four decades ago his supporters say the case is politically motivated in the country's was demonstrations turned violent as police fired tear gas to disperse crowds and in the south one man died after being struck by a rock through by

a pro opposition right. how far our governments are prepared to go to keep the critics and buried it turns out that for boxer emus authorities even children are valid targets and human rights watch claim security forces the routinely round up threaten and abuse children suspected of participating in anti government activities the group's press release us says of these evidence from victims family members and local riots activists that young people in bahrain suffer the same brutality as adult detainees because mcgranahan who is one of the authors of the statement reveals some of the disturbing details. it's part of a broader crackdown on 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 is a failure to distinguish between child detainees and adults so the children are

mistreated in the same manner as as adults i think the most alarming concerning 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 or lessened when a senior officer was brought onto the bus 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. christianity central place in british culture is looking increasingly under threat with the church attendance numbers and constant decline now meanwhile the nation's second largest religion islam is going faster than ever with some studies suggesting it's on the way to becoming the dominant faith archies playboy as the story. i half of brits say they're christians

but you wouldn't know it glancing at this london service. over. the new figures show that the u.k.'s official religion is declining faster than was previously thought worship as a raging and 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. . 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 to 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 congregation 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 essentially a lot of pressure a lot of the movie becomes an islamic ethos but we won't do anything which is deemed a non islamic on their hands 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 every cause so what majority would isn't deemed islamic we would not have a toys anything on islam in the sense that we were not well call you want having i did was say for example gambling was one of things according to academics in the p.d.s. that islam demands from it's followers that's made it more appealing to worshippers and converts from other religions islam says no this is no force so. people find no sense of the action in the because their religion already jean 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 you both want to make it more mellow and softer and attract more people into the church and in fact they've lost 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. in as little as ten years' time. r.t. london. in just a few minutes here on our t.v. every martin what's behind america's love affair with guns breaking in the sand.

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are filled picture of today's events my own demand from around the globe can drop to. fifty. hey guys i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so yesterday that medical woke up to yet another mass killing spree right here in washington d.c. in the coming days you'll probably hear the same superficial debate playing out across the corporate media the n.r.a. will blame it on anything but guns in the far left will demonize the entire gun holding population but considering how the u.s. is policed itself as the military capital the world cup is no surprise that many americans have chosen to militarize themselves there eighty nine firearms per

hundred people in this country nearly twice as many guns per capita than the next highest gun toting nation for every one hundred thousand people in the u.s. more than three will die at the hand of a gun by far the highest rate in the industrialized world so what's to blame and so unique problem and one that requires a more thoughtful analysis of how and why these things happen here in america and it begs the question just how many more mass shootings will we have to endure this debate is fueled by reality and not politics. the look gives her a. very hard to take. the long. have you ever had sex with her they're looking. for the.

september seventeenth two thousand and eleven or the wake of the financial collapse people were losing their homes and unable to pay their debts part of the top one percent remained completely unaffected so on that day americans decided to stand up to corporate greed and let wall street bankers know that it's time for real change . i think.