serious initial data of its chemical weapons program to the hague watchdog a roadmap agreed by washington and moscow. palestinians whose homes were destroyed by the israeli army will not be getting crucial aid to the military trucks with supplies and force accompanying european diplomats to lie face down on the ground. the u.s. denies airspace to president nicolas maduro of venezuela allegedly using visas to blackmail his government's u.n. delegation. and the standoff in the arctic russia's coast guard captures a greenpeace ship. board saying they threaten the lives of oil rig workers by trying to disrupt their work.

live from our studio center here in moscow where it's just turned eleven pm this is r.t. with international news and comment the hague based chemical weapons watchdog has received data on syria's toxic arsenal this comes as part of the country's chemical in a transition plan hammered out by top russian and u.s. diplomats last week paul scott has the details. well under the deal of brokered between washington and moscow in geneva last weekend to syria. today to disclose its arsenal of chemical weapons and the process has begun the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or o.p.c. short a spokesman for that organization says we have received part of the verification and we. spectrum or that's what the spokesperson was quoted as saying it's believed

that the initial declaration outlining syria's chemical weapons program has been handed over however when contacted by our p.c. w. did confirm that a meeting on syria that was sunday has been postponed no reason was given and no future date has been set now it's believed that syria has one thousand tons worth of chemical weapons dotted around the country making it logistically difficult for this process to be carried out president bashar al assad was quoted in saying that the process could take over a year just about over a year of course under that deal struck in geneva syria has until the middle of two thousand and fourteen to complete the process for the united nations are set to discuss a possible u.n. resolution in new york next week on the syrian crisis that will give a legal backing to the deal struck in geneva however the two sides have slightly different views on the wording of that possible resolution with the united states

britain and france king for the threat of military intervention to be on the table to remain on the table if damascus fails to comply with the u.n. resolution russia saying that any threats of military intervention is counterproductive and not needed in the initial resolution russia says that only if damascus fails to comply should the matter then be taken back to the united nations those discussions are due to take place in new york next week but the early signs are that damascus is keen to comply with that deal struck in geneva last weekend. reporting there are al qaeda linked groups in syria which by some estimates make up to fifty percent of the forces have turned against their more moderate rebel. troops earlier this week radicals pushed the free syrian army out of a village they were in control of when i spoke to security expert gregory copley who says that there's never been a conventional civil war there. there was not

a civil war there to begin with certainly there was discontent with but shadow assad's government by many elements of the population but largely this was not a civil war which was naturally occurring and if you remove the foreign elements of the foreign funding there wouldn't be a civil war there today we spoke to a free syrian army spokesman about this and this is what he had to say the understudies that are the syrian regime is recruited extremists to discredit the revolution and explain to the west that there's no revolution we are fighting radical groups syrian government recruiting mercenaries jihadist is there an element of truth in that you think well i don't think so i think the syrian government's got enough on its hands right now particularly when we see the qataris the saudis and the turks each sponsoring pretty radical groups. and then having very little effective control on the outcomes they've poured money into really.

al-qaeda or pro al-qaeda or certainly jihadist and salafi groups all along basically with the intent of destroying bashar regardless of the outcome and that's the problem and it seems that our cardiff brigade to being boosted from within as well hundreds of rebels have declared their law to al qaeda affiliated groups in northern and eastern syria what is more information has more on the dark consequences of rising extremism she visited the ancient christian village of which hasn't yet recovered from a siege. the syrian village of my luna is where the aramaic language believed to have been spoken by jesus christ was in daily use but not so much these days. after jihadists attacked this mostly christian village in syria more than two weeks ago local residents were forced to flee the battlefield that was once their native land and calm organized life. many of them to graph huge with christian families in

old damascus we try to meet them only the thirty hours vocal music stores for us so that. many refused to talk because their relatives remain missing they say is the missed kidnapped people and they fear this could put them in even more danger and these people know well about danger three members of an two on its family were killed on the first days of the violence siege. not in the morning by the shouts of a lot closer the doors and all gathered in one area i thought i was the one that and we won't harm you and one may call and shyly went in there and surrounded they pointed their guns at them and started shooting i was intending my chest and our way down one of them offered to say but i ignored him and the other one said let the man die but hundreds gathered for the funerals of the three men who they now call mall choose those muslims and christians the attack on malala village syrians

say was an attack on their country and its way of life. for the family what's going to be there a mother that didn't work in that area that would live and christians live in mar luna but it's surrounded by one of five muslim villages lidl maybe they see their last obstacle and they're packing them with here on to on it's father in law is eighty eight years old he says nothing like this has happened in his lifetime. we were living in peace and now it seems there. into through all the christians out of the country who prayed to god that would defeat them and kick them out another relative who's afraid to show her face says it's hard to say how many people were killed in our new ruler because militants holed in the village often keep bodies for further rennison and to instill fear their goal is not assad their idea is to establish an islamic emirate in all of the middle east however fine countries are

helping them with weapons money whatever they need helping them destroy the country and people obvious region special sweet sanctified bread is served in the family to commemorate the dead. in church they held special ceremonies for several days. and again are the syrians equally shocked prayed together for their dead and alive the ancient language in my lower united people for thousands of years they held now is that it can sustain them for a little longer and all over the country the two and a half year long conflict is taking lives language and shattering people's hope. not see from damascus in syria r.t. live here in moscow coming up this hour reviving relations between iran and the u.s. president rouhani calls on a bomber to join efforts and work together to bring peace to the middle east he takes a thorough look at just what they might have to overcome to achieve that. first

israeli security forces of seized an emergency aid convoy accompanied by a delegation of european diplomats these supplies were intended for citizens of a palestinian village whose homes were demolished by the army after a court ruled that people didn't have proper building permits and that's a good mornings from ortiz paula slayer so put up what exactly happened here between these diplomats and the army. well this particular incident happened on finding from the information we have a group of european diplomats were driving in a truck when they were fired at by the israeli army now they say that they were targeted by sound grenades that a french diplomat was literally yanked from the truck before the army drove away the diplomats had inside the truck tents as well as emergency supplies that they were trying to deliver to a bed one community that earlier in the week had seen its homes its kindergarden

and its stables demolished by the israeli army now we've been unable to get any kind of comment from either the israeli police or the israeli army what i can tell you is that this is one of three they've been communities that in the last six weeks has been targeted by the israeli army for this particular community that comprises of some one hundred twenty people in the west bank they want to hold given a court order given by the israeli high court to the army to demolish their homes saying that they were illegal but it does point to a much bigger problem that you have here in the west bank among between communities and that is that the communities themselves say that they need the land for the grazing of the cattle that they families have lived there for generations and that they simply have nowhere else to go in this particular community there were two attempts earlier in the week by the european community to try and reach the bad ones they did manage to get to them and put up some tents before these were forcibly taken down by the israeli army now the european diplomats who come from

countries such as bush and so on spain ireland and australia as you can well imagine are furious they say that there's been a complete disregard for the diplomatic community and they are calling on the international community to apply and pressurizes role to that hearing to international law paula thanks very much indeed for that ortiz paula slim live here altie thanks. human rights activist peter tatchell i spoke to him a little earlier on this and he said the international law obliges israel to protect those living in the west bank not break them every aspect of this incident is in defiance of both israeli and international law the starting point of course is that this incident happened in the occupied territories which the global consensus is that israel is illegally occupying since there were c. in the one nine hundred sixty seven war so israel shouldn't even be there but if it

is going to be there as the occupying power it has a duty to safeguard the welfare and interests of all the people in that territory and quite clearly denying a two destitute palestinian found who've had their homes demolished by the israeli military that is quite clearly not fulfilling their obligations under international law to safeguard people in the territories they control. caracas has declared america's decision to deny airspace to the venezuelan president is nothing short of an act of aggression nicolas maduro was on route to china for a state visit when he was reportedly turned away from puerto rican airspace more than that venezuela says its delegates could potentially be denied american visits ahead of a major u.n. meeting next week what is more important are is following the story for us. after initially denying airspace to the venezuelan president the us did an about face and granted approval for mr nicolas maduro to fly over puerto rico on his way to china

as spokesperson for the u.s. state department so the u.s. initially denied them as well as requests because it was submitted only one day in advance instead of the mandatory three days but nonetheless he was u.s. authorities ventral he granted over flight approval to the venezuelan leader now this happen only after as we earlier reported venezuelan foreign minister elliott howard told the media that the aircraft carrying majority china was forced to find an alternative flight plan because washington for him it is the plane from passing through u.s. airspace over quarter rico president or was due to arrive in beijing this weekend for bilateral talks with the chinese government now in addition to this fall out the venezuelan leader while speaking on state television also is accusing the u.s. of attempting to set visa conditions for one of his ministers who is planning on traveling to new york next week for the united nations general assembly debate see

this the animal you don't know your brain is where you can delegate she will attend the u.n. summit but the u.s. do sions don't issue a visa to one of my ministers we're not going to be u.s. tourists but is delegates representing our country so the u.s. embassy must issue visas for the entire delegation people have to take diplomatic measures against the u.s. government will take them to the most drastic level if necessary but i'm not going to accept any type of aggression the united states government must understand it doesn't own the u.n. . these latest incidents will likely add more animosity to the already strained relations between washington and caracas let's remember that the u.s. and venezuela have not had a masters in each other's capital since two thousand and ten president maduro announced that his government was halting taps. tends to improve relations with the u.s. the move was in response to comments made by newly appointed u.s.

ambassador to the u.n. samantha power who told a senate committee that her new role would include challenging the crackdown on civil society abroad including in venezuela the biggest reaction is coming from bolivian president evo morales who has called on latin american countries to recall their ambassadors from the u.s. in response to this recent incident our viewers may remember that president or alice was caught in a similar situation this summer when several european union countries denied their airspace to his jet allegedly because the u.s. suspected that n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden was on his plane so this latest incident against the venezuelan president demonstrates according to evo morales he says the u.s. is predisposition to humiliate other governments and gregory will put he's co-founder of venezuela analysis don't call me and i spoke to him and he believes this incident was a veiled show of force by the united states i think it's basically just a show of force of muscle and this comes at

a time when the united states is increasingly isolated and this is really one of the few resources that has to show its its its power internationally my fact if we look just last week brazil's president. cancelled the trip to the united states that it was planned a long time ago over the whole spying scandal that the u.s. was involved in in brazil and other shows that more and more countries are resisting the exercise of u.s. power around the globe and in other words the united states is becoming increasingly isolated. so this is another story actually that is the denial of the airspace is another story furthers u.s. isolation internationally i think because other countries who are rejecting well are in solidarity with us where a lot of the old. twenty years of euro skepticism already paying off on a rainy at least for the united kingdom independence party coming up we report from

the party's annual convention where mendoza celebrating two decades of politics and all time high supports from the public baths and the stories. of the. science technology innovation called in these developments from around russia we've got the future covered wealthy british style. market. come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune in to kaiser report.

continues here in r.t. iran's new president hassan rouhani has reached out to barack obama through an article in the washington post urging him to join hands and work together towards a peaceful middle east it's the latest in the recent a ray of steps taken by turan to fall the current icy relations with washington but this is likely to become a thorny path for the country's lets some of the why is how the tensions have been building up over the past it all started over a decade ago george bush labeled iran an axis of evil allowing

a cia report claiming tehran had one of the most active nuclear programs in the world three years later the white house started making its first threats that the us was considering an attack in two thousand and eight bush went as far as accusing iran of being the world's biggest sponsor of terrorism and urging the global community to confront the danger before it's too late two years later the u.s. joined with israel in launching a cyber attack in a bid to derail its nuclear program and then in two thousand and twelve the u.s. forced world banks to stop completing oil transactions were to run out of this dealt a major blow to iran's economy aggravating inflation and accelerating the nation's currency devaluation this september a bomber is rated that he still considers military action against iran along with other options to apply pressure while artes in the somali try to find out whether iran's offer of cooperation is likely to find a positive response in america. the u.s.

and iran haven't had diplomatic relations for over thirty years but recently both sides have suggested that steps could be taken to change that next week the new iranian president will visit the u.n. general assembly and the obama administration is preparing for high level talks between a rainy and u.s. officials possibly even a direct exchange so could this be the beginning of a fall after three decades of failed foreign policy towards iran well joining me now to speak more about that is hillary mann leverett and flynt leverett co-authors of going to tehran why the united states must come to terms with the islamic republic of iran. who's seen as much more open to work with the u.s. he has a softer line on israel he has come out and said that iran is not going to seek nuclear weapons is that enough to change u.s. policy towards iran the obama administration is very fortunate in terms of the incoming that the new iranian administration both president rouhani and his foreign

minister mohammad job and three have a lot of experience in dealing with the west dealing with international law they both have ph d.'s in international law they we work very closely i in particular i personally fall i was working for the state department negotiated with the iranian officials including the foreign minister zarif over afghanistan to overthrow the taliban set up a new government there the problem really is on the u.s. side you don't have that on the u.s. side you don't have a real serious understanding of what you want interests are what their needs are how to work with iran in the framework of international law and the u.s. makes demands for concessions that have no basis in international law so in to there can be a real change on the u.s. side to work with other countries especially iran within the framework of international law i'm afraid any negotiations aren't going to get far i think that particularly for president obama it's been it's been two things one is a sense that he doesn't really appreciate that. at this point the united states

needs an improvement in relations with iran at least as much as iran can benefit from an improvement in relations with with america but that gets to the second big flaw is obama really prepared to accept the islamic republic as an enduring and legitimate political entity representing legitimate national interests if he is then the possibilities for improvement in relations. but if he's not prepared to do this you know whatever nice meeting he might have with rowhani next week in new york whatever other nice exchanges there might be that's not really going to be substantive well we will certainly be watching very closely next week in new york thank you so much for your analysis like i said in the spotlight next week very much so iran and the u.s. people will be watching very closely to see if possibly

a step towards diplomatic relations is possible reporting from washington and he said now a. just remind you always plenty on line for the moment including paying a high price for design independence scotland could face a major hike in texas if it breaks away from the u.k. find out if citizens there think it will be worth it it's also. this a dream job read about how you can cash in on your bed time and never worry about oversleeping with this career opportunity for the full details right now on the website. of the russian coast guard has seized a greenpeace ship and they all take arresting the twenty seven activists and board the action was taken after the environmentalists try to disrupt the work of an oil platform say the protests threaten the lives of the recruit activists may now face charges of piracy as the details greenpeace say that at the moment

thirty on. there activists are being held at gunpoint all nerved boat the arctic sunrise in the barents sea they say that fifteen mosques men with guns that they believed to be from the russian security services stormed their boat and arrested them on it that comes after dramatic scenes yesterday asked for greenpeace activists tried to board the oil rig up their own by gastronomy first attempt to try and drill for oil in the barents sea greenpeace say that that operation threatens very dangerously a very delicate environment up there shots were fired across the bow of that that greenpeace ship up there and those activists were removed from from that from that oil rig the foreign ministry takes a very different view to greenpeace it calls their activities aggressive and provocative and says that it threatened people's lives on board that oil rig and

that is why they took the action they did there is also another potential dimension to this is that the the arctic sunrise that greenpeace ship is flying under a dutch flag the dutch ambassador has been called to the foreign ministry in moscow over the issue and the dutch foreign ministry says that it is giving this issue its full attention greenpeace has in the past been criticized by various governments for some of its more direct protest methods. at least tom barton there the political faction that has scared europe kratz far and wide is celebrating its twentieth anniversary today in london to add flair to the celebration the united kingdom independence party today enjoys unprecedented popularity polling around twenty five percent in local elections but what's in its future is it merely a protest party or does ukip have the makings to rule britannia as a city or reports from its party convention. it was known as

a fringe party marginal when its members even dismissed by prime minister david cameron as fruitcakes a loonies and a closet racist but today members of the u.k. independence party or you could for gathered inside to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of the party and its enjoying its strongest public support to date now it's known very much for its your skepticism wanting to leave the e.u. as well as a strong stance on immigration and it has averaged about twenty six percent in the local elections earlier this year march of this war was being felt by david cameron's conservative party and its every party chiefs have admitted that about half of their members have with us since david cameron became the leader in two thousand and five you could leader nigel farage had said that the success of the party is because of the total disconnect between those in power and ordinary people and you keep is there filling that gap however criticisms still come their way a lot of it focusing on the fact that people are voting for this party because it

was simply a protest vote and not necessarily agreeing with their policies we spoke to some of the members and this is what they had to say if we're afraid test it's because there's a hell of a lot to protest about how the old established parties are not listening to old married people one. politics is a marketplace we believe in certain things we sell our ideas and people are buying those ideas but i think the reason that we do it so well is because we represent what a lot of ordinary people actually think of one crosses on our crosses we're going to get bigger even the european union is just the beginning we want to change britain we want to britain where you have individual responsibility where people are free from high taxation where we have academic selection in schools where we control our borders where people feel safe to go out of an evening what we want is a better britain and leave in your opinion you. if you keep changing this culture the rise of ukip has been well noted in the country but also outside the most

recent of which is in germany where the a conservative finance minister wolf i'm sure the have warned german voters against voting for a similar party in the country this so why is it showing this in chapman with establishment across europe has been translated into votes much faster than those in power might have expected reporting from london i'm tests are sylvia. of about with needs to move in just over half an hour from now up next what beat major powers are really up to in syria solti's debate show cross talk after the break. i got some angry but polite messages after i came out in favor of the foreign adoption ban of russian children by people in the usa this is not

a dig on america i think russia or any country that respects itself should export any children to anywhere at all people tell me that i'm paranoid that the decision to stop the foreign adoptions punishes the children while a massive reuters investigation called the child exchange has exposed some dark secrets about adoption of foreign children they expose it often by using the term re homing which is normally about finding new homes for animals people are basically advertising adopted children they don't want like baseball cards on e bay readers found out that on just one yahoo group of child a week was offered up to the public my wonder what kind of people want to discreetly get children off the internet the thing is that in the us adopting a child from overseas is hard but transferring them to someone else later on is a breeze all you need is a notarized power of attorney document to clearing the child is another adult's care so for those of you who think that i am a cruel nationals because i support russians the option been then take a look at the child exchange and you might just start to see my.