u.n. investigators ignored crucial evidence potentially implicating syrian rebels in chemical attacks that's according to russia's deputy foreign minister the data which was handed over by the syrian government will now be given to the un security council. to gas fired at protesters in greece with our correspondent caught in the turmoil as activists and riot police clash in athens gripped by a nationwide strike against more cutbacks. phrase almost a dozen political prisoners including prominent human rights lawyer nastiness the today is iran's president makes good an election campaign promise.

hello and watching r.t. with me andrey farmer. now u.n. inspectors had data which could have been which could have pointed to a chemical attack by the syrian rebels but they didn't take it into account when making their report that was the message from russia's deputy foreign minister who was meeting president assad in damascus to work out the details of syria handing over its chemical stockpile artie's aleck's year chef ski has more. the bottom line of what mr recorder just said is that russia does not believe the accusations and claims by the united states and several western countries that the chemical weapons were in fact used by bashar al assad's forces in fact of course as that different definitive proof of rebel forces using the chemical weapons were handed over first to the u.n. inspectors some some time ago or so weeks ago and this was not taken into the

inconclusive as he described it reported by the united nations inspectors now this evidence and this is not we're not talking about some. gases or just you know inconclusive evidence this is according to records factual evidence by a samples and documents proving that the chemicals were in fact used by the rebel forces now they've been handed over to the russian side and all they're waiting now for is these documents to be completed translated from arabic into russian before moscow can fully assess what's in this proof and make it completely public but definitely has been very regretful about the fact that the u.n. inspectors are not taking this kind of evidence into consideration let's listen to what mr record had to say. we have indeed received additional evidence of what they believe is proof for use of chemical weapons by insurgents bulls. on august twenty first. also

on august twenty second twenty third and twenty fourth's this evidence was earlier handed over to the u.n. and we are disappointed that there is no deal with tencent to this evidence in the report which the group presented so according to mr up call for this kind of evidence can actually change the whole course of negotiations can actually change the whole geneva two concept. well let's bring in dr lou she is a political analyst and professor at university in jordan thank you very much for being with us this evening we've just heard they're having way that russia's deputy foreign minister said that the u.n. inspectors it no ignored crucial evidence possibly implicating syrian rebels in marriage port why do you think they ignored it. well historically speaking the united nations before the rise of brics countries

the comeback of russia into the international arena has been the plaything of the united states. government so this report was meant to justify their military strike against syria. the fact that they have ignored some evidence especially if you look at the dark on can that last. in aleppo countryside i think that tells you something of the amount of bias that is. into the work of these inspectors this is highly politicized and at this moment to justify the actions of belligerence by nato countries the u.s. government france and of course the syrian rebels who are the primary culprits

in the you also those of chemical weapons in syria ok you say that you say it was a biased report but in the u.n. inspectors defense they say that they haven't blamed anyone. well they haven't blamed anyone that's for sure but at the same time they have ignored crucial evidence and that's the point of the russian deputy foreign minister naturally the report was not meant to point fingers at anyone but the fact that it ignored certain elements and the investigation that are crucial to finding out who is using chemical weapons in syria is itself highly problematic and highly political this data that russia says it has from the syrian government and they claim it is factual if it's handed to the security council and it's saying that it is valid proof that rebels have been using chemical weapons too how could that change the

dynamic of these proposed geneva two peace talks. i don't think that over them and of itself will change that by mehmet simply because the united states has been arc think acting highly selectively and using double standards and dealing with different cases and different countries for example if this is for attacking al qaida and mali but at the supporting al qaida and syria so the weight of what i saw that and thought of national weight in the security council would lend more credibility to this of of thems that would otherwise be ignored why the united states brought them and france so the point is not only the house of evidence the point is to be able to have that evidence looked up and studied and taken into consideration and what you make of

the current allegations that is say kill a sing that actually sarin gas that was made for the rabbi who was actually made in iraq and sent see syria three k. is that something. i definitely think that the rebels have opened some advanced weaponry over the last few months there's been reports of shipments of rockets. do you estimate that were bought by so the l a bia and given to that of those who knows what those rocket heads were loaded with it's highly possible that they were loaded with chemical weapons or chemical agents at the same time we know the story about the plight of people and turkey of the al qaida affiliate that people who are arrested on the legations of trying to obtain or make chemical weapons so these people they they have a history of that us action and the terrorist activity so this war the. come as

much of a surprise the opposite would be true the syrian government would not. be with government what happens especially if you take the farts and to concentrate from the fact that many syrian soldiers are in the area of use. and the moscow's fucked up mobiles. this syrian government would not attack its own throats for goodness sakes yet the international media with the exception of a few many of the closer today are lying and lying and lying constantly trying to convince international public opinion that the syrian government is behind this dark but hey look at the story of iraq and you would know who is telling the truth and who is lying here ok we do have to leave it there but thank you for your

opinion that is dr you put him political analyst and professor in a university thank you. to gas is finding creases protesters clashed with riot police in the country's capital thousands of public sector workers took to the streets today in a nationwide strike to protest more spending cuts and a separate rally a group of demonstrators marched against the fascist golden dawn party after the killing of an anti fascist activist yesterday rocks were thrown at police who responded with tear gas well our correspondent caught in the crossfire. large group of protesters have clashed with the police the police are holding their ground right now as you can see there's fires behind me tear gas is in the air it's a little bit difficult to breathe here as you can see in front of me the police are trying to hold their territory on the other side there's basically a group of anarchists black bloc kids whatever you want to call them many of the protesters here have been picking up stones along the side of the road in fact if

you can pan down you can see someone trying to pull out a fire stones on the ground from the clashes now. basically. we're basically where we're standing is in between protesters on one side and fires and protesters on the other side the police have secured this radius but in some ways were blocked in. it was very hard to breathe at one point they've been throwing around tear gas and of course the smoke is and the wind is making it get in everyone's faces that's in part helped clear the crowd as you can see what my cameraman showing right now is the protesters hurling stones here at the police in fact towards. again this began as a peaceful rally and has really escalated into. a standoff between the riot police here. and the demonstrators were effectively stuck between the.

protesters behind us and the ones you're seeing in front of us who are who are throwing anything they can get their hands on really pieces of clay pieces of brick advancing to some degree the cops are holding their positions when i was there she fall that report just a few minutes ago and she is on the line with us now live to give us the very latest. well unfortunately after after those vigils that you saw there that did not end the clashes basically that shriek calmed down a little bit we crossed we were finally able to leave that area and coughed into another one only to find basically numerous small clashes between protesters and police breaking out all over that neighborhood again this is a working class neighborhood where they anti-fashion hip hop artist was murdered just the night before basically what we encountered were small groups of protesters taking anything they could really get trashed tires lighting fires all across the

area and then you would see groups of riot police comment trying to essentially drive them out of that area so it turned into a game of cat and mouse and meet literally just got to the studio away from that area just about twenty minutes ago and we're still hearing from our contacts this is going on and not just in this neighborhood but in several cities across greece basically what we're what we're hearing instance of not likely to die down tonight and it's probably going to go on until the wee hours of the morning until the protesters give up and it's really interesting because again today was supposed to be calm largest anti austerity rally by the trade unions to protest the the economic policies here in greece and really what we've seen is that while the economy is at the root of the tensions here it's really transformed into essentially social tensions it what i mean by that is the desperation that has pushed pushed people to the brink in some ways has started to divide neighborhoods

we've seen a lot more popularity in some pockets for the right wing golden dawn party but also seeing the anti-fascist back to come out in a much stronger force and so the result of that is going to economic problems has essentially pitted greeks against greeks then and it's it's become in many ways. an emotional issue you know it's not really the bailout that drove. drunk people emotionally now it's really a random act of perhaps not a random tragic act of violence like what we saw being that young musician on tuesday evening in the early hours of wednesday morning so it's a very tense situation and it really just you're looking at finding that you really struggling to grasp and grapple with it economic and social problems that don't need to be dying down the moment ok thank you lucy for this artie's lucy reporting live there from athens. while the country's economy has shrunk by almost

a quarter since two thousand and eight and the further decline is expected so far greece has received two aid packages totaling up to two hundred forty billion euros the country still needs ten billion more to cover a funding gap that is prime minister antonis samaras promised that greece will be back to pre-crisis levels in six years' time while george cut through loss a professor of constitutional law believes anger over the sterett see is needing to broader social unrest. the majority of the people knew this or measures it unfortunately the idea that this fear is food in. the new. limit for us is a strong minority now we know that more than most of them was through some of the above except up really come to be useful and of course a lot of vitamin d.

much to some but all of that has been leaps eclipsed by the miracle also i don't know if i salute the only call for goose is a storybook use. in the comfort of the little monolithic of the utopian socialist state. prominent iranian human rights lawyer and a sack of prize winner now that means that today has been released from jail in toronto along with at least ten other political prisoners she was arrested in twenty ten on charges of spreading propaganda and conspiring to harm state security international groups criticized her imprisonment calling it politically motivated political scientists cavil say says it's not a not the only positive move in iran's policies. there's been a lot of positive signals coming from tehran there's a meeting with the represented is a day international atomic energy agency on september twenty seventh and there's

also talk of nuclear dialogue between damian for minister and catherine ashton the foreign policy chief underside of the g eight summit in new york next week and you know there's been all sorts of possibilities of presidents who are heinie and obama leading we. don't put too much bed on that nevertheless all the all the signs are positive and indicate a new leader any and willingness to negotiate and. sure more nuclear transparency et cetera but we're going to take a quick break now but when we come back we will try to find out how islam may be on its way to becoming the dominant religion in the. with a lot of kerry deal on syria's chemical weapons employed 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 check can washington cope with this new geo political reality. on their way to antarctica the crew of the i can to make sure that if face many challenges. here you have to look out for yourself crashing on to rocks trapped in pack ice in extreme conditions anything can happen and article always comes up with surprises you have to keep your eyes open because if there's always something going wrong the ship carries huge reserves of water food fuel as well as helicopters and people able to survive extreme conditions they're ready for anything even an apocalypse she's really an incredible ship calling all antarctica stations this is academic a field of radio check please respond.

again brazil now wants to go it alone from the global web and create its very i'm cyberspace the decision comes after the n.s.a. spy scandal angered the latin american country even prompting president seth to spy on her official meeting with barack obama in the u.s. and as marina portnoy and i reports brazil 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 it 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. the u.n. g.a. debates and her u.s. counterpart president obama is set to take this stage immediately afterwards reporting from new york marina port nine r.t. but it's not only in latin america where people are going offline from the u.s. is all seeing eye but also its own citizens more and more facebook users are deciding to commit so-called virtual identity suicide by deleting their accounts from the social network and according to a survey facebook lost two million active users in britain and the situation looks even worse in america with nine million people watching the network and for almost

fifty percent the main reason given was concerns over privacy and the feeling that data is being put under the microscope and you can catch all of the stories we're covering plus plenty more on our website at the moment including racking up discontent the f.b.i. is accused of routinely abusing its power and actively misleading congress for more than a decade you can find the whole story at r.t. dot com. and look at this footage is very near miss for one astray and on a railway line we've got plenty more eye catching videos too on our brilliant hit channel you tube dot com slash r.t. . christianity central place in british culture could be increasingly under threat with church attendance in 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. has the 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 one 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 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 i'm looking at the way that. they are.

what is it the world's going. to be questioned motivation is very very different for different people. very well born into it 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 the spigot as 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 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 lot of pressure becomes an islamic ethos that we will do anything which is deemed a non islamic on their hands the musical and one from a question about the five thought of the music that we play on the radio station we want to have your mainstream music playing on there because the majority of it is in deemed islamic we would not wear ties anything on islam in the sense that we were not called we want having i did was say for example gambling was one of things according to academics. 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 . 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. they sort of became believing and interlace into the laws of the church. think it may be swayed it would make it more mellow the son and i tracked more people into the church. and the 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 face as a whole and yet there is just more proof is 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. . well according to

a study by an independent think tank there are at least eighty five councils operating in britain peter norris a communications manager the lobby group christian concern release a proliferation of sharia law in the u.k. could provoke clashes in the legal. the birth rate amongst muslims is significantly higher i believe. those children being brought up going to moscow and calling 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. that clashes with british law so british law 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 more muslim so there will be certainly a big clash. in that in the legals and i think most citizens of britain would agree that one rule for all is a much broader principle a much fairer principle

a quick look at some other news now. a passenger train has collided with a city bus in the canadian capital ata were during the morning rush hour six people have been reportedly killed in the crash and thirty one injured the train derailed after hitting the double decker bus at a level crossing firefighters now says were quickly at the scene witnesses say the burst appeared to drive straight through a loaded crossing barrier. warning shots have been fired after greenpeace activists attempted to scale an oil platform in the arctic the greek tried to board the rig owned by russia's all giant gazprom two of them were arrested and are currently in custody on a coast guard vessel the project is russia's first effort to extract oil from the bering sea but the action was aimed to protest against the potential threat to the environment caused by drilling in the arctic scenic nature. and in bangladesh chaotic street protests are vented

a second day in the country's west rallies turned violent as police fired tear gas to disperse crowds and in the south one man died after being struck by a rock thrown by a pro opposition riot or the country has seen unrest since this imprisoned court sentenced in islamist opposition leader to death abdul qadir moola 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. now be back with more news in the headlines in about half an hour's time coming up next so it's pay to the bell and crosstalk. world. science technology innovation all the news developments

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