russian officials are in damascus to thrash out the details of how syria will surrender its chemical weapons while there they received new evidence pointing to the opposition's involvement in poison gas attacks. the divorce of brazil pushes to unplug itself from us wanted to the internet seeking its online sovereignty this after america's national security agency was exposed spying on the brazilian government and oil companies. and greek public sector workers go on nationwide strike in protest over more cutbacks as the government sacrifices that jobs in exchange for more bailout cash from international creditors.

news in comments twenty four hours a day live from moscow this is. russian officials are in damascus to work out a plan for syria's chemical weapons surrender the u.n. resolution to go along with it isn't ready for members to vote on yet the use of force is still a major point of contention for the security council and more questions of also over who carried out a chemical attack in august when russia receiving fresh evidence from the syrian government the turning rebel involvement. has more. 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 following the mixed in with the syrian foreign minister russia's diplomat said that the talks were constructive and that damascus understands the importance of this list and is fully aware of the consequences in case it doesn't do it russian officials say they received what 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 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 their findings clearly states that the. warheads could have been emma to made north fact 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 has strongly opposed to the country saying that the reason mounting evidence that the ready. syrian rebels are behind the city in the interview to r t russia's deputy foreign minister said to get a quote who is now in damascus said that a un report is one sided for war story. conclusion drawn. we are we. are reaching. on that basis for what we believe is a record. of over that amount of information we're to question when this report was. secured for members or all before we begin

talking on what to do next we need to figure out why it is for a war and worry group you're. not going. to syria to continue. some members of the u.s. intelligence community who say that and they warned the white house about that that they're right indications that the rebels are behind this attack and also there are indications that they received nerve gas from abroad so do the syrian rebels even have access to chemical weapons but a former pentagon official says they do show doughty what he said was a classified u.s. intelligence document detailing how they kind of taint sarin gas michael. revealed where this compound was produced and you can see sign gasser allegedly manufactured in iraq and taken to turkey before going on to syria where the documents obtained by also statements on was confiscated from the. front radicals auntie's paul scott

has more on these claims now. in may there were reports coming out from suggesting that a two kilogram cylinder of sarin gas was discovered in the homes of syrian opposition rebels connected with al-qaeda through the al nusra front now at the time russia called for an investigation into the reports but. actually denied that the reports were true and said that no such weapons had been found and laced michael maloof explains that that is indeed a possibility i have. a report from a source who has direct connections with. classified information and he basically told me that 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 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 well it's a contact to the pentagon about the defense department said they don't comment on intelligence matters. brazil i want to go to loan from the global web uncreated very own some of the space if this isn't comes out of the n.s.a. spy scandal angered the latin american country even prompting president truman who

said to postpone her official meeting broke up in the u.s. there's a report now in our reports prison is determined to ensure its online security. 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 and 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 port niamh r.t. meanwhile the proposal has rattled the nerves of the internet giants recent statement from google said its name fair was not a violation of privacy and spying for the division of the global network for brazilian technology experts say it's too early to worry plans are far from complete there is a huge criticism here in brazil on the on this proposal the fact is the government wants to offer brazilian internet users a stronger protection for their privacy the government realized that it could be a way to do it 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 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. well coming up tonight on a program america's debt time bomb and son grows in congress over the government's

inability to cope spending national debts reaching double pretty close the specials details just ahead. unexplored antarctica what is it in this icy expanse that attracts the people who come here. but you know i only go to the dock. and antarctica. 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. how 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.

wealthy british style it's time to. market why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy in these kinds of reports on. a nationwide strike by public sector workers is entering its third day greece thousands are protesting against yet more spending cuts the government planning to slash public sector jobs in return for the latest installment of the country's bailout deal the country's economy has shrunk by almost a quarter since two thousand and eight and a further decline. acted so far greece has received two aid packages totaling up to

two hundred forty billion euros the country still needs another ten billion to cover a funding gap that says a minister promised that greece will be back to pre-crisis levels in six years' time you see careful reports from athens. well they've come here by the thousands teachers lawyers doctors and public sector workers they've gathered here nothin's to voice their fury with the government's austerity measures measures that they say put both their lives and livelihoods out of risk of the some inspiration as part of a week of mass strikes against job layoffs and salary cuts something the government says it has to do in order to rein in spending and to please international lenders thousands of teachers had walked off the job on monday with some schools and universities still shots across the country doctors and hospital workers joined in on tuesday now they're protesting plans to merge hospitals and to cut down public spending and now civil servants are entering the fray with some of the largest

public sector unions out here in full force and other people who have gathered here are angry that the government is planning to move workers into other jobs or to fire them in fact as many as twenty five thousand by the end of the year now this is in exchange for the next installment wrote reeses needed a rescue dollar all over the public sector is widely seen as a bloated and inefficient worker scarce say that across the board cuts simply aren't the answer now despite two hundred forty billion euros and bailouts this country has seen six consecutive years of recession shrink real conda me and unemployment nearing thirty percent two out of three young people can't find work and at sixty four percent youth unemployment in grief greece is the highest on the continent now a third bailout may soon be on the way but will that money help greek debt stands at three hundred five billion euros which is a hundred and sixty percent of its g.d.p. and the consequences for the people here have been devastating

a new report came out that shows that suicides have nearly doubled in the first four years of the financial crisis meanwhile right wing groups have tapped into the economic frustration attacks against immigrants have been on the rise and the radical golden dawn party is now poised to become the country's third largest political force for the p. all gathered here today the prices have taken a harsh told many here say they're simply tired of austerity tired of feeling like they're the ones paying for mistakes made by the government and banks it all started is the cost of sticking with the euro it seems that fewer and fewer greeks are willing to pay that price reporting from our. i'm lucy caught out you can catch all the stories we're covering and much more on our website including racking up discontent if you know is accused of routinely abusing its power inductively misleading congress more with decades on the whole story at dot com. and look at this very near miss for one australian. eye catching videos on

a million hits channel you tube dot com slash. news today. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. and u.s. congressional budget analysts say the country's national debt has now reached seventy three percent of g.d.p. the figures nearly double the average pre-crisis levels and the highest since world war two the spot a project to decline a federal debt in the coming years the nonpartisan bunches of office is warning that well that could still go up to hundred percent of g.d.p.

in twenty five years they also lead to a publisher of the trends journal so it's costly military ventures apart it's a blame. we're squandering our resources fighting all of these unwinnable wars that 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 one even saw the war will make a very bad situation much worse they'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 austerity measures you know they cut your pensions benefits they raise your taxes so it's a way of keeping it going until the people revolt. there are some other news making headlines this hour or wall street activists have been back on the streets of

downtown new york marking the movement's second anniversary protest as have announced a new goal introduction of a tax on wall street financial transactions police arrested several demonstrators who attempted to block or road after the first protest camp was set up in that twenty eleven rallies spread to other cities in the u.s. riding a wave of anger over corporate greed. over two thousand tourists have been airlifted from mexico's famous speech resort of acapulco and nearly forty thousand visitors remain runed many major routes out of the city buried under mud at least fifty seven people are believed to have been killed by flooding and landslides caused by a tropical storm manual and ingrid which struck the country almost simultaneously the cost of the damage so far is estimated at almost four hundred million dollars.

u.s. lawmakers are calling for a view into how the suspected shooter at the washington navy yard received a security clearance despite a history of violent episodes aaron alexis worked as a technology contract after passing a background check five years ago six a the instant shows serious flaws in the federal government's vetting procedures it's also a man was undergoing mental health treatment complained of hearing voices of thirty four year old but his convert was killed by police during monday's shooting left twelve others dead. car bomb attacks in iraq continue to cause terror in an already a turbulent region the country's capital baghdad has been the worst hit with at least twenty six deaths on tuesday alone total of thirty four people were killed nationwide shootings and explosions targeting mainly shia neighborhoods the past

few months have seen a spike in the violence with al qaida tended to destabilize the shia led government that's now i take a closer look at whether iraq's very troubling statistics indeed in fact the country hasn't really experienced this level of bloodshed in five years january terrorist attacks in iraq took the lives of over three hundred civilians in july this number tripled and while taking into account security personnel the number of dead exceeded a thousand. however isn't as bad as in two thousand and six when relentless sectarian brutality and experts to admit the nation had in fact descended into civil war. over two thousand eight hundred iraqis were killed on average every month then if the current trend continues the rate of killing could match those dark days again. christianity is a central place in british culture could be increasingly under threat with church

attendance and severe decline meanwhile the nation's second largest religion islam is growing faster than ever with some studies suggesting it could eventually become the dominant faith auntie's playboy has a story. half of brits say they're christians but you wouldn't know it glancing at this london service in. the us. 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 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 in the same way that. they are. what is it the world's going. to be questioned motivation is very very different for different people. very well bonded and families really try to nurture young people in the in the full of islam we have to us and congregation from the young people because we try to do. 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 totalling 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 brute's deejays who call themselves brothers and sisters talk about local issues in 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 lot of pressure 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 top of the of the music that we play on the radio station we want to have your mainstream music playing on every cause so what majority would isn't deemed islamic we would not have ties anything on islam in the sense that we would have any adverts while called you want having your idea was for say for example gambling or those kind of things according to academics it's the b.d.'s that islam demands from its followers that's made it more appealing to worshippers and converts from other religions islam says no this is no eiffel so. people find no 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 relation to the laws of the church i. think it may be swayed a good to make it more mellow and softer and i tracked more people into the church and in fact they've lost something that the church of england disagrees with the death of christian england has been greatly exaggerated despite a decade of naysaying and complaining by ses commentators and groups six out of ten people in england self identify as christians a figure which tries to more than two thirds when including people identifying with faith as a whole 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.

according to a study by an independent think tank the stated five sharia councils operating britain so norris a communications manager at the nabi group christian concerned believes a political ration of sharia law in the u.k. could provoke clashes in the legal sphere. the birth rate amongst muslims is significantly higher i believe and say those those children being brought up going to mosque and putting themselves muslims that there are many younger muslims that if shari'a law was going to be enacted which i believe it is in some parts of the country then that that that clashes with british law say british law and in most western democracies there's one law for all but in shari'a there are three fundamental inequalities one of which is between men and women one is between slave and free and the other is between muslim and no muslim so there will be certainly a big clash in it in the legal spirit and i think most citizens of of britain would

agree that one rule for all is a much better principle and a much fairer principle. start to follow the laws of research as an explorer's in antarctica stay with us. with a lot of kerry deal on syria's chemical weapons and like they would appear to the international system is returning to some kind of multilateral order the united states remains the world's only military superpower but that same power can now be put into check in washington cope with this new geopolitical reality. as the media leave us so we leave them to be. by the sea motions to in the way you're part of the physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all on politics only on our t.v. .

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