the syrian government completes the handover of chemical weapons data to a hague based watchdog. says its approach to the assad government may change if he does not play by the rules. of. european diplomats and rights activists lash out at israel soldiers rough them up in the west bank giving a thought about international law. one year until. to ditch the united kingdom but as the days dwindle the rhetoric is ratcheting up with oil the centerpiece of disagreement. reporting the new york academics demand the release of students and detained by police during a street protest against a former cia chief being appointed professor. from

our studios here in moscow where it's just ten ten pm this is r.t. with international news and comment. the international chemical weapons watchdog says the syrian government has complied with its promise and handed over the last remaining details of its toxic arsenal to the agency now this comes as part of syria's chemical disarmament plan hammered out by russia and washington last week. has the details. maskers has fulfilled its obligation to send all the documents regarding its chemical stockpile to the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons or the p.c. w now of course the w. has to work out a framework in order to deal with the procedures of the disarmament of syria they

were supposed to hold a meeting on that on sunday but they have a postponed that indefinitely of course that was before it became known that damascus has already sent the entire package of documents and needed to all p.c. w so we'll have to wait and see exactly what will transpire now but the united nations is slated to hold a discussion in new york in the coming week in order to devise a deal hammered out between moscow and washington about a week ago in geneva according to bad deal damascus has until the middle of two thousand and fourteen in order to completed disarmament program now there is of course some difficulties involved there with that and that is the fact that the chemical stockpiles are the syrian chemical stockpiles are actually distributed between various points in the country and not all of those parts are controlled entirely by the official damascus and of course there is also some disagreements

when it comes to the wording of the potential u.n. resolution where is london washington and paris that want to see the threat of military intervention be included in the provisions of the potential u.n. resolution that moscow says such a provision would be counterproductive we had a russian presidential administrations that gave the north when speaking in stockholm earlier on saturday said that russia is not going to veto any u.n. resolution on syria out of principle but he said that there is absolutely no excluding the possibility of russia changing its stance we're not doing the syrian government we're predicting international and if in future for example talking ridiculous and you pathetically but if we become sure russia will become sure that for example. we might change your position but so far we don't have such evidence but again russia has been adamant about about

the necessity of the diplomatic solution of the syrian crisis and it has been pushing the syrian government towards the discussion table russia has done its part under the russian american initiative on may seventh we have secured the mascot's commitment to send the league to geneva conference. american partners so far failed to do this in the talks with the opposition it also looks like according to mr gavan of that the syrian opposition doesn't seem to be so interested in getting to the discussion table on top of that it is notoriously dishrag mantid with some inner scuffles happening sporadically over the past several years as a matter of fact and also we must not forget about the fact that there are also numerous groups within syria itself which are fighting supposedly for the opposition but at the same time they are openly affiliated with al qaida and of course issued a military involvement in fact put in place by states such as the united states or

france or the united kingdom of course that would mean a competing. in syria something which has we we have already seen happening in countries such as libya and although the u.s. more apparently push more moderate rebels towards the negotiating table it's not in control of those fighting government troops on the ground that's according to syrian political analyst. we spoke to him earlier today. they have they do have an influence on this seem to have an influence on the politicians who say the represent to the syrian opposition or to form the syrian opposition or some of the middle east because they're definitely fragmented but where america doesn't really have much leverage is on the forces on the ground those who carry on weapons of the sea and already have seed probably this sort of agreement as a threat to their existence why would they comply and we've seen them destabilize a lot of agreements or a few agreements that have been reached before throughout the u.n.

framework for example like the brain or coffee iran's plan so is it really the americans you know is it in their capability to push them for going to geneva talks we don't know i think this will have to be done through the major regional players or patterns like the saudis and like the turks and those people actually control more of the forces on the ground because they are the ones who are supplying them with fund with intelligence and with military equipment much more than the americans are doing or the e.u. is sounding the alarm over the influx of refugees from syria one official say the stream of asylum seekers has been manageable so far there are fears that as the conflict drags on the numbers of those fleeing will swell among those concerned the most that italy and bog area now italy's already accepted four thousand six hundred refugees this year alone and it's now preparing for sixteen wells and more bug area says it struggling to cope with more than two thousand it's taken and it's even

asked for help so far this year most asylum requests to be made in sweden with four thousand seven hundred then comes germany with four half thousand and france has received seven hundred requests while britain says it's not planning to take in syrian refugees offering financial aid to other block members instead with the asylum system put under such pressure. some states are urging a review however most insist they can be no easing of asylum rules. israel is investigating accusations its army mull treated a group of european diplomats and human rights activists in the west bank on friday they were accompanying an aid convoy on route to a palestinian village that had previously been demolished by israel soldiers also seized one of the trucks. reports on the events that have caused such fury. video has just been released showing israeli soldiers manhandling a group of european diplomats as they tried to bring supplies emergency aid as well

as tents in a truck to a community of bad winds living in the west bank this particular community just a few days earlier had their homes destroyed by the israeli army if you look at the video you can see the diplomats being surrounded by huge group of israeli soldiers as one french diplomat later complained she was physically dragged from the truck she was forced to the ground without any kind of a god to fall for diplomatic immunity not the idea of her said that it is launching a probe but at the same time the army has said that this was a provocation and also to quote the idea of a disturbance of the peace the e.u. diplomats deny this they say that there was a blatant disregard for international law that they were physically manhandled and at the same time to quote them what happened was shocking and outrageous the e.u. diplomats saying that the israeli army has

a moral responsibility that is also bound by international law to look after him as well as asserts people who are living in occupied territory now at the same time we're talking here about a community of bad ones this is one of three communities that in the last six weeks has seen it has its homes destroyed earlier the israeli high court will that this particular community which is known as the kid a bit maku community comprising some one hundred twenty people were living illegally on land that was israeli and as such they gave the order for the israeli army to bulldoze their homes the kindergarten as well as this stables but the argument from the community as indeed has been the argument from other bedwyn communities who have faced a similar type of scenario is that they have nowhere else to go they've been living on the land for generations and that the land is also needed as. ground and balun for their cattle to graze in the same street that is their source of livelihood

they will attempts earlier in the week by the e.u. to try and assist this community falling trees day and wednesday they did manage to reach the community they managed to put up some tents but these were later taken down by the israeli army who also hearing from european union diplomats who were involved in this unfortunate incident is that what israel is doing is not helpful to negotiations let me remind you that just last month the israelis and palestinians off to a three year hiatus returned to the negotiating table and certainly these kind of incidents are not going to do anything to push the peace process forward. major parties in germany making their final pitch for votes chancellor merkel is a shoo in to win one little known group to put a spanner in the works when political wrangling to form a coalition government begins that's coming up short here this hour nancy. is now less than a year to go before the scottish independence vote and supporters are marking the

date with a mass march through the northern capital edinburgh but even though time is ticking it's far from clear which way the vote will swing separatists a huge oil reserves will guarantee the country's fortunes while london says the north and south a better off together first reports now from the scottish capital. see a flag here. independence rally underway in edinburgh thousands of people turning out in this procession going through the streets where lend hello well have won the scottish first minister alex salmond earlier on i was talking to the head of the campaign blair jenkins he said that there is still a long way to go well in fact when they mark one year to go till the eighteenth of september twenty fourth seeing when scottish faces will be arsed to vote yes or no is it beggars belief to me why people would want the government for to make

decisions about themselves you know we've completed a government and we've got to get work that is a policy to be dictated. that doesn't seem like a democracy to me there's a lot of risk i think today is about a show of confidence today is about the people of scotland saying we're not afraid a lot of the no campaign or the better together campaign has been very negative. the people of scotland just say we're not afraid we are a strong independent nation we will take the opportunities that are there and a lot of people have come here with that show. and it's a family event and you can see the crowd coming down with their signs one of the signs i was reading earlier saying yes takes courage well it certainly does this going to take a look more than courage to get the amount that they need to see scotland become an independent country and there are some big questions this still need to be answered now we're going to see the government publishing its white paper in the event but

that is thought will address the really crucial issue is for the yes campaign no question of currency what scotland would do to become independent the well the north sea oil would play all of those things will get clarification to that chunk of the population that is as yet still undecided as we said this march one year to go to scotland will be asked to have that yes no vote everything to play for. independence. the british government and unionists have no shortage of reasons as to why scotland should stay among them is the argument that the north as a small country simply wouldn't be able to make it on its own oil or not but adam ramsey he's coeditor of the political blog find that argument insulting.

the same population. is big country the no way in fact if you look at a list of countries population in the world is the same size as the median country so the idea that a normal sized country can survive is insulting to those of a smaller countries who do very well and certainly i mean obviously can do very well it's a very very rich country or richest country on earth and i don't see any good reason to see why scotland can make it like. george eaton he's editor of the staggers blog at the new statesman is against the independence bid and he tells us the cultural and economic ties between scotland and britain are just too ingrained i think an independent scotland would certainly be economically viable but i think the wider arguments for why the rest of the you can scotland are better off together outweigh the arguments put forward by the nationalist side the cultural

and social ties between scotland and england the rest of the rest of the u.k. incredibly vital and important part of our history and i think we i think you that's something that will be diminished for scotland to become an independent country i think it's quite sensible to devolve greater powers to scotland in the future but i didn't see the need for it to become an entirely separate country with its own army its own foreign policy its own embassies and so on. more to come for this hour including the protest against the appointment of a former cia chief as a university professor and all the stories after the break. we'll talk about language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports for. the pollution and no i will leave them to state clearly to comment on your point. to carry out

a call as i'm going to talk you know. no more weasel words. when you need a direct question are you prepared for a change when you when you should be ready for a. freedom of speech. down the freedom to watch. down to the final. and the rest. will be if we.

use continues here in r.t. dozens of academics at city university in new york a backing protest against the appointment of the former cia chief david petraeus as a teacher that they will sign the petition for charges to be dropped against six students arrested during an earlier street protest video has emerged showing police beating up the activists while detaining them. all four star general and former cia director david petraeus recently began his new career here in the big apple as an adjunct professor for the new york city public university known as but his attendance has been met with broad criticism from students faculty and staff members who say they don't want their colleagues to most of the man who oversaw the wars drone strikes and allegedly torture topics in the middle east now for the past few weeks this anti professor pre-trained his movement has been gaining traction recently to this tell me that there are there campaign has been met with heavy

handed tactics from the new york city police department there earlier this week about seventy five people were marching right around here i'll cross the street from that building where professor betrayers was allegedly timing fundraiser and that's when a fight broke out between new york city police officers and protesters cops who've been. trying to barricade the activists who then spilled out onto the streets witnesses say students were punched slammed against the vehicles and onto the pavement by the cops eventually six people arrested and have been charged with obstruction of governmental administration riot resisting arrest and disorderly conduct twenty four year old denise ford is among the six students that were arrested during the protest and spent twenty eight hours in police custody she joins me now to talk about her experience denise tell me what led to your arrest i

believe that some of us were to be targeted by the police already know who they were going to runs and then i mean they pushed us into the streets and they just started from there with they grabbed one of my palmer about like seven to fifteen pounds slams his head against the car and we're just all on top of him so then i went to try to help him and within the process i ended up pulling him between two callers to the back of my head and then up the cd to get all and then when i looked at a back of me there's another about like. cars on top of my other car. and which they picked up his shirt. and a plain clothes officer just take. loads so his kids and then the cop just came and grabbed me pull me. and then just called i believe

this was also an intimidation tactic used by the n.y.p.d. why is it that so many people are so on happy with his new position as a visiting professor and what he thinks is what we're getting it's not his character it's what he represents and. capitalism. war. to wait. dozens of academics have signed on to a petition calling for all charges against the six students to be dropped in the interim according to reports a growing number of staff and faculty members are also calling on america's former intelligence chief to resign from his position as a visiting professor reporting from new york on r.t. . and to a world update now and a suspected islam is the target an upscale shopping center in kenya's capital has left at least thirty people dead and dozens injured will be home grenades and firing automatic rifles the fighters are alleged to have ordered all muslims out

saying only nonbelievers will be targeted for shoes have since declared the situation under control the somali based militant group al-shabaab has claimed responsibility for the attack. at least fifty people have now been killed in a series of blasts in the shiite muslim stronghold of sort of a city in baghdad a suicide car bomb was set off near funeral when security forces and medics arrived at the scene another explosion occurred a police station north of baghdad was attacked claiming the lives of six officers more than five thousand people have been killed in sectarian violence since the start of the year. clashes have continued for a second day in indian controlled kashmir amid ongoing protests over the killing of five people in paramilitary shootings the shopian region is also ground to a halt after a general strike was called in reaction to the deaths the area has been under curfew for the past two weeks following the killings. in germany now the annual march of life has been disrupted by dozens of pro-abortion and gay rights activists

they want to mung those participating in the anti abortion really chanting and carrying slogans several of them clashed with police officers eventually the officers managed to push them out of the crowd. staying in germany chancellor angela merkel looks set to win a third term when germans go to the polls for a fop parliamentary election on sunday germany has largely managed to dodge the economic problems that have crippled a number of its european neighbors but many of its citizens are bitter at a decline in personal spending power and a rise in insecure part time work. has more. it's billed as europe's economic success story the german voters feel the country is split between the haves and the have nots germans are rich yeah ten percent of germans are only fifty to sixty percent of all the capital and the gap is getting bigger. our society is divided here pretty soon in germany like here in more homes that are so

poor the streets are industry pair and the theaters have to shut down this town is broke. for most people the financial situation isn't good which isn't the image many of germany's european partners have of the federal republic. and i think if you were to ask someone from spain they would tell you germany is an economic land of milk and honey where that just isn't the case perhaps thirty years ago but after reunification and the pressure is of staying competitive globally those days are gone. one of the ways germany has stayed competitive is by trying to keep wages low. and plenty of spain here isn't greeks who come to berlin looking for work they are scandalized by how low our pay is it's not enough to survive in the run up to this election the main opposition is campaigned on a platform of introducing a minimum wage of eighty euro fifty per hour the current german government has

dismissed those calls i believe merkel's party insists that the introduction of a minimum wage would destroy job creation however these people here say they just want a fair day's pay for a fair day's work. we need a minimum wage here and it has to be at a level that people can live on to provide for their family. there are so many jobs around that's pay a barely enough so you can survive. fifty proposed by the s.d.p. is too low i think it should be closer to twelve per hour. so-called mini jobs have also grabbed voters' attention ahead of sunday's ballot almost. a quarter of the workforce are employed in these part time and often low paid jobs if you believe jobs are no good and you can contribute to pension was four hundred year old these days everyone in a family has to work i sit with my roommate realize we make too little cash it's a case of either we give up our studies and find moving work or we lose our flat.

whoever comes out on top from sunday's ballot is going to face the continuing task of keeping germany's economy on track while at the same time trying to please a workforce which feels underpaid and under appreciated peter all of the r.t. germany so some people are concerned about their financial situation but business and government consultant crystal forstall says the major parties are seriously concerned about the level of apathy amongst the german electorate people in germany by a large numbers very frustrated so frustrated that all the media are coming out these days with you know please take part in the elections or two were to go to vote. the government is very clearly afraid the whole system in germany is afraid that more than fifty percent of the germans could abstain and that would be a very bad sign for the system obviously right now many germans only move that they

would be ready to get out to vote for dirty or donkey to get rid of the euro eighty percent of the germans don't want to pay any. more tax payers hard earned money into the supporting the currency euro. so i'm all for me and the news team in just a half an hour from now in the meantime off to the break abby martin looks at the quicks of the u.s. justice system stay with us for that's if you can. we talked before about people getting in trouble throughout the usa just for gardening in fact according to the christian science monitor a couple of florida has been fined five hundred dollars a day until they dig up their vegetable garden which is on their own property and

mediately people who write these articles druck comparisons to communist russia where people weren't allowed to grow their own food unless the state allowed it yes the revolutionary period in russia forced agriculture to change rapidly and often against the will of many of those involved and this did lead to starvation revolution isn't fun but what about after that while stalin and khrushchev gave out a lot of documents which are private summer houses where people guard and also there were markets in the soviet union where people could bring the food they grew to sell to see all these pictures behind me these are people in the soviet union selling food they produced privately and legally but there were some moments in soviet history when there were some taxes placed on the sale of your personal goods from your personal labor which according to russian website history of taxes was around ten percent whether you love or hate communism more than anything doesn't matter this half truth about shooting soviet gardeners burns like wildfire on the american side of the internet the real truth is that in fact when the us government

for every reason in various forms clamps down on private gardens it isn't the same as communism but it's actually technically worse than communism for the majority of its lifespan where you could guard it up as you like excluding the brutal revolutionary period but that's just my opinion. please. the the. today guys i mean martin and this is breaking the sad truth is you never tom de lay you know the former republican house majority leader had to resign in two thousand and five after being indicted on federal money laundering charges on

a rare window for the justice system de lay was convicted in two thousand and ten for illegally funny funneling corporate money to texas candidates and was sent to three years in jail now because of a lengthy appeals process delay has managed to stay out of prison and yesterday a three judge panel made sure he'll never see time behind bars that's right a texas appeals court entirely overturned his sentence acquitted him of all charges but don't worry the two republican judges that voted for the acquittal had an awesome reason to overturn his sentence in a majority opinion one of them wrote quote the evidence shows that the defendants were attempting to comply with the election code limitations on corporate contributions as long as the lay was attempting to comply with the law while legally helping the g.o.p. control the texas government that's a ok now it's estimated that delay spent more than twelve million dollars on his legal fees i don't want to tear justice thing i was talking.