russia's foreign minister says washington is trying to blackmail moscow with us threatening to suspend work on syria's chemical disarmament to fresh it doesn't support a u.n. resolution allowing the use of force. both now and in all of germany's polling stations saying little merkel is set to serve a third term as chancellor after her party scores a sweeping victory in germany's general election. angry protesters call for justice in greece for the killing of a prominent anti-fascist it sparked an uproar as thousands marched in a nationwide strike against and was austerity. seven am in moscow i am at present bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news russia's foreign minister things western states

could be looking for loopholes to unilateral action against syria but don't care enough about peaceful efforts to resolve the country's conflict that's the impression sergey lavrov says he has after several weeks of diplomatic work to avoid possible strikes against the war torn state. has more. two weeks ago it seemed like the united states are ready to essentially strike syria then it looks like things are going to ease up just a bit and now again russia seems to be facing some sort of alamo city especially head of the un general assembly which is to take place in new york next week so the russian foreign minister in an interview to russia's channel one has used to the point that he's made before but in a very different or rather harsh manner especially when talking about the way that the west is approaching the syrian crisis. compartments are starting to blackmail us if russia does not agree to egypt the seven resolution in the un to see stop

working with the chemical watchdog in the hague this completely counters what we agreed on was john kerry namely the chemical watchdogs decision and then are supporting their solution from the u.n. but without a chapter seven. the russian foreign minister said that the team of u.n. experts who were in syria last month investigating reports of alleged chemical attacks actually couldn't complete their job in its entirety caving into the pressure from the likes of the united states who seem to be determined to push their agenda in only one direction. which our partners a blinded by an ideological goal to remove the assad regime they want to show the big can call the shots in the middle east. they are mostly concerned with proving their own supremacy and not the task that we are driven by which to solve the syrian chemical weapons problem. on top of that russian foreign minister has said that there is a high chance that the syrian rebels themselves could produce chemical weapons and

homegrown laboratories has also said that those who have essentially created the syrian army are continuing to cover its tracks only hold power mr lavrov has said that it does not seem like the western powers are interested in pursuing a diplomatic solution off the matter right now. western partners are trying to forcefully push forward it to syrian resolution. because they understand that if chapter seven is mentioned in the show as a chance for them to get approval of the un security council unilateral action which took them to keep calm and stop coming up with. the convention for the prohibition of chemical weapons on the back burner and that ties us girls according to the russian foreign minister of france and the united states and they didn't really need the report from the u.n. inspection team their minds were set up long before that and they have only used that report as yet another attempt to insist that in fact it was just the syrian government that was using chemical weapons in syria even though there is absolutely

no such indication in the u.n. report as my colleague mr now we now reports. chaos and violence continue in syria so does the diplomatic battle surrounding the conflict this week the u.n. investigation concluded chemical weapons were used on august the twenty first the environmental chemical medical therapy that the u.n. investigators collected provide clear and compelling evidence that the surface to surface rockets used in this attack contained the nerve agent sarin we know. and there is not a shred of evidence however that the opposition does. this isn't complicated when we said we know what is true we meant it for the un report done playing the acid regime for the attack or mention other chemical weapons

attacks allegedly carried out this summer russia claims there is still no evidence the syrian government is guilty and rather many suggestions the attack was a clever attempt by rebels to push for foreign intervention we have every reason to think that it was a provocation to the small provocation of course but the technique was very simple they use an old soviet missile which are no longer in service with the syrian army the key thing is that the missile carries the label that he made in the u.s.s.r. russia says the u.n. report was rushed and ignores relevant evidence of other chemical attacks in syria the deputy foreign minister called in damascus this week confirmed un inspectors were informed of this material which was killed by the syrian authorities was he's not me and it will work to focus else drum the head of u.n. mission here mission of experts which came and investigated the incident but never

did so on the three subsequent incidence and then sell strong was asked to look into the and eventually factor this new evidence into the final report of self from his mission you can never happened in fact still the u.s. is pushing for a response based on this u.n. investigation just last week the u.s. and russia agreed to a six point plan to rid syria of its chemical weapons the mask is pledged to move forward and has so far complied a chemical weapons ploy if you like by the west and by the by the jihadist was. was countered effectively. rusher is not in damascus saying ok you want the chemical weapons you've got the chemical weapons it's interesting to note is that the free syrian army disavowed that agreement and will not. and in the middle of

the other tools you will not give up their chemical weapons in this whole dispute and john kerry the u.s. navy state is not even pushing on that instead he is pushing on the u.n. security council to sign a strong resolution possibly even mandating force what recently seems like a small victory for diplomacy in the syria crisis a new road is slowly going back to old ways as washington continues to threaten force and moscow push for compromise the battle continues and he says now a r.t. washington leader of the al qaeda wing in syria and iraq al baghdadi has been reportedly killed it's claimed he died in northwest syria this is a battle between rebel forces and extremists who once fought side by side me anti assad push have become more frequent in the area with the rise of radicals violence increasingly turning sectarian christians coming under fire artie's worry if an ocean or reports on the aftermath of

a jihadi attack village of mosul. syrian village of fallujah is where the aramaic language believed to have been spoken by just driest was in daily use but not so much these days. after the harvests 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 because it was going to lose its doors for us so that. took many refused to talk because their relatives remain missing they say is the best kidnap people and they fear the escaped with them in even more danger and these people know well about danger three members of on two on its family were killed on the first days of the violence siege it's not

marla not in the morning by the shouts of a not clear at the doors and all gathered in one interview i don't get out of the run that and we won't harm you and one may call and shyly went there and surrounded by pointed their guns at them and started shooting i was intending my chest and our way about the town one of them offered to say but i ignored him and the other one said let them die let hundreds gathered for the funerals of the three men who they now called walters those muslims and christians the attack on malala village syrians say was an attack on their country and its way of life. the formula was going to be there a game other than the didn't work in that area that i was worthless and christians live in ma luna but it's surrounded by one of five muslim villages my the maybe they see their last obstacle in their park and the stone with it 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 they want to throw 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 the new learn because militants holed in the village often keep the 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 find countries are helping them with weapons money whatever they need helping them destroy the country and people of this region special sweets sanctified bread he 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 the dead and in the ancient language in my lunar united people for thousands of years the hand now is that it can sustain them cruelly cologne. and old over the country the two and

a half year long conflict is taking lives language and shattering people's hope. from damascus in syria. a mortar shell also hit the compound of the russian embassy in damascus after rebels carried out a strike on the capital at least three injured all the details on r.t. dot com. christian democrats won an impressive victory in the german general election according to official preliminary results the party got more than forty one percent of the vote with merkel to now serve her third term as chancellor her main challenger a leader of the social democrats got a little more than twenty five percent of the ballots but the election results dramatically you leave out of the parliament merkel's previous main coalition partners are his peter all of the reports. we've seen jubilant scenes at the christian democrats headquarters angle of merkel taking to the stage there and thanking her supporters those that have voted for her husband and then well the

party really started then she told her supporters enjoy yourselves tonight because the hard work starts again tomorrow they greeted her by chance of on g. and g. and g. it all looked a little bit like a football game at some point there in the crowd there very different scenes though at the s.t.p. headquarters the social democrats well they had been the main challengers to angola merkel their lead to peace time but it took the stage a little earlier to give his concession speech in which he said he really expected a lot more from the from they said this campaign it had been a really riddled campaign from him which even included the s.p.d. leader giving the middle finger to journalists during a photo interview with a newspaper here elsewhere the center left parties the left body on the greens have seen a few losses but they've done pretty well ok the ones that are going to be coming

away from this slightly disappointed well small and slightly disappointed are the free democrats now going into this election they were the junior coalition partners they were in government and we saw the party chairman philip. looking inconsolable on stage as he as he addressed his followers there another policy that we're hotly anticipated going into this vote were alternative for the alternative for germany party euro skeptic party and euro party they just miss out on the only five percent needed their leaders though luke said that just by getting this far in this election and bringing up the issues of the euro zone and germany's role within the euro that they had reached a democracy and brought strong issues in the election. editor in chief of compact magazine your d.l. sasser says that smaller parties could have capitalized more on the recent n.s.a. surveillance scandal that hit merkel's government the german population is very

much upset because of the spying of the n.s.a. and cia on drummond citizens tramon industry. it had no impact on the elections because the opposition parties one of the willing to bring this topic on the top of their election campaigns because. the green party and good social democrats they are also all following the american agenda and they are also from the table all trends orientation and they did not make much of this. population useful for a reason they didn't win this elections they could have more. europe's been watching how the german elections panned out with much interest and apprehension not only germany being the powerhouse of the european economy also the purse behind

the bailouts keeping the struggling euro nations afloat none of them more dependent on berlin's good graces than greece. reports from athens when it comes to finances decisions made in germany are often felt right here in greece and allan's may be the birthplace of democracy ballots cast by german voters have a huge role to play in this country's future that despite two bailouts and across the board spending cuts is still struggling through one of its worst recession since the second world war unemployment just soaring and two thirds of young greeks are without work and despite two aid packages for some two hundred forty billion euros revenues are still short of expectations what's more the growing consensus is that greece is unlikely to get back on its feet without more help so little third term for chancellor angela merkel mean more austerity as well as harsh for greece and how do people here actually feel about a potential change in leadership in europe's largest creditor nation but we decided to hit the streets of athens to find out take

a look. you see. it's in there. it's been the local markets policies hurt the greeks as well as the germans but regardless of who wins the result will be bad for us because our politicians are weak let me just repeat what i was really intervene so much in my country that it feels like greece is controlled by foreign politicians germany in general that's a good. comment and. i don't believe what some greek state. says good so as you just heard a mix of views there although germany contributed to to bailout loans to greece michael's austerity policies are widely blamed for future spending cuts and whichever way germans and up voting it certainly is likely to be felt right here. in greece reporting from athens from r.t.e. and this is nothing of. a general strike in greece turned ugly this week when a prominent fascist was stabbed to death his killer apprehended at the scene and

reportedly found to be a member of the far right golden dawn party the killing set off a chain of riots around the country with running battles between police and protesters officials quickly jumped on the bandwagon to hinting they may shut the party down as police raided its offices golden dawn known for terrorizing immigrants and attacking political opponents george tatar gallus a professor of constitutional law thinks the rise of extremist sentiment in greece is directly linked to the state of its economy. the majority of the. measures that unfortunately the idea to introduce fear you speak to those who did eyes of the new fascists in the first is a strong minority now we've got a message there must be some of the public sector. in to a close look at the volume of most of them but all of that because we really lay the matter to those like young babies a new fascist group the only school to greece is that. these are students or does

it come back to that amount of. money more stories for you a click away on our dot com including this careful what you name your donkey in egypt a farmer arrested for writing an army chiefs name on his donkey and putting a military cap on the animal's head like an r.t. dot com for the full story there plus. thousands raise their glasses to october a fast on the in motion page on a website videos of those celebrating the first day of the world famous festival in munich and. latin america's taken revelations of n.s.a. surveillance to heart brazil in particular has made no secret of its anger at washington which is thought to have been and which is thought to have secretly unfurled a world wide digital surveillance way. now the brazilian president proposing to rebuild its country's internet cutting off u.s. agencies and compliant technology companies or reports. 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 marine upper nile r.t. now inside the violence in iraq with sixteen killings reported sunday deaths coming just a day after more than one hundred civilians were killed in a ferocious wave of bloodshed vast majority of the victims died mystery of blasts that rocked shiite neighborhoods where than fifty five hundred have been killed in iraq this year alone journalist aside baig who's been extensively covering matters of the region thinks iraq won't see peace for a very long time i think if you look at this year so far it's been the deadliest year since two thousand and eight and this started in april when the shia led government broke antigovernment protests and this is kind and good some of the sudanese in the country and giving fuel to the fire for the al qaeda militants so we've seen an increase in state care in attacks taking place and i don't see an end in sight the u.s. really messed up stuff in in iraq they had no plan no foreign intervention hasn't worked and it's given

a fuel truck load of militants i don't think the international community has any say in what's taking place now i think that they've done the damage that they've done you know that they had ten years and i think that what we're seeing now is internal sick tyranny she's taking this take a look now at our world update beginning with the ongoing hostage crisis in kenya as capital nairobi the nation's armed forces have started have stated or rather have a standoff is coming to an end with most of the hostages rescued about ten people still being held inside according to the kenyan military spokesman for army personnel also reportedly injured in the latest rescue operation which led to military forces regaining control over much of the shopping center today a deadly standoff claimed sixty eight lives so far and injured more than one hundred seventy the somalia based al qaeda linked group al-shabaab has. claim responsibility for the attack saying its response to the presence of kenyan troops in somalia. the twin suicide bombing in northwest pakistan killed at least seventy

eight people including women and children blast went off outside of churches worshippers were leaving after sunday prayers more than one hundred twenty people injured in the attack eleven among them in critical condition the wing of the pakistani taliban has claimed responsibility militants threatening to continue targeting non muslims in the until the us stop drone attacks in the country's travel northwest. he's hit southern china killing at least twenty five people about eighty thousand evacuated to safety extreme weather led to hundreds of flights canceled in hong kong the city's seaport one of the world's busiest also closed we saw he brought heavy rain and fierce winds to the region is considered to be the most powerful typhoon so far this year. that israeli soldier has been killed in the west bank city of hebron he was apparently shot in the neck by a sniper during a jewish festival and later died in a hospital i.d.f. troops are searching the area for a shooter this a few days after a palestinian admitted to killing an israeli soldier and planning to trade his body

for the release of his jailed brother. iran's new president hassan rouhani seems to be persistently knocking on the u.s. store urging washington to break more than three decades of diplomatic silence between both countries the white house is sending mixed signals whether it'll answer in kind it's recently hinted that is the chance for a change of heart to take a look at how tara is trying to win over sympathies of the u.s. president rouhani global attention when he vowed iran won't seek a nuclear weapon saying this strictly civil atomic program is a subject of national pride he also reached out to the white house who an article in the washington post calling to leave frosty relations in the past and focused on warming things up sticking to election pledges of a moderate approach he also released around a dozen political prisoners including prominent human rights activists and finally exchanged correspondence with president obama describing it as positive and constructive assistant professor at the a masada university mohammad hassan economy says both obama and rouhani may have their own troubles at home if they decide to revive diplomacy you long for some how the concert isn't with the outs but more

calls out to tonga it won't really. be a mistake for do was to think that you were not for a concert only weakness the skeptics are all both sides will in turn on washington those who are not the most up to mystic about the possibility of such a great that will even look one community. and it will be all thought i could throw one solution to conley's their own people did own factions their own political parties that this is in the business the interests of both sides so the huge reward here is common it's as many european economies struggle investments by asian countries could prove to be a lifeline but there are those fears that financial injections could also be a double edged sword or he's tests are a sillier reports. vineyards in burgundy including well known.

sold iconic french branded holiday resorts club med sold parisian fashion brands. eighty percent sold to hong kong investors the tip of the iceberg as far as chinese money and french firms is concerned but if you ask french president francois lauded his army of trade ministers and business x x there's always room for more especially as recent grim industrial output figures cast doubts on paris's claim of economic recovery france accounts for a tiny portion of china's foreign trade just one point three percent of vs germany's five percent france buys more from china that it sells so much so that there's a twenty six billion euro trade deficit with the asian giant. i think the. more . there france's core industries are concerned another one of those with increasing

chinese of well what in the billions is a nuclear energy sector france's expertise as a crucial position within the st john's are. leading the pack bot and gaining access to china's massive market and investment dollars france finds itself straddling a delicate balance of opening up its wealth of knowledge and protecting its relevance which means once the know how it was passed on what's stopping china from going it alone there appears to be a price of doing business with asia's booming economies. old third. no in the crew fellows carrillo in vietnam i don't know but it will be. the plan for thought it comes to policy and it's called about this is a. technology transfer although the chiefs of these two nuclear giants moved to reassure the public about what technology they've given china deals and denial still caused enough fear that national interests were compromised leading the

finance ministry to launch an investigation early this year and maybe even oh so many chinese people are they will it be folded even flaunted american investment but you know we cannot stop the movement of the story of the world by entities by the bullets the beauty of our technologies to make every day every more every year new products new credit to v.t. by the way we will be completely people again an uphill battle for a country of internal german memo described as europe's biggest problem child and image it will have to clean up if it wants the chinese to keep heading its way does our sylvia r.t. paris. cross talk coming your way next what you know about stay with us.

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