visit. the brazilian president. general assembly. and demanding an apology from. russian investigators. they may have endangered the region's environment or they try to shore oil platform in protest against drilling in the arctic. the top officials in the. flock together in russia. countries are beginning the oil and gas being revealed by the.

international news and comment. speaking at the un general assembly in new york barack obama has defended america's foreign military interventions and stressed that washington must remain heavily engaged in the middle east that's after his counterpart took the chance to criticize the u.s. for the recent global spy scandal. has more from new york. u.s. president barack obama called on the international community to enforce a ban on chemical weapons in in syria the u.s. leader said the security council should issue a strong resolution to ensure the syrian government complies with the deal which was brokered by russia and the u.s. now obama insists that there must be consequences if the mask is fails to keep its word instead of specifically mentioning military intervention the u.s. leader said that all options are on the table to ensure u.s.

national security interests in the middle middle east no ball addressing the world body president obama said that if the u.n. fails to act on syria it will mean that the institution is incapable of enforcing the most essential international law which prohibits the use of chemical weapons the u.s. leader told told the general assembly that thinking syria could go back to its pre-war status quo is a quote fantasy and he said it's time for russia and iran to realize that insisting on. rule would lead to the rise of extremism but here is where some faction is necessary because since the start of the syrian conflict russia has always maintained support for the syrian people and said that it's up to them to decide the fate of their nation and president assad's political future moscow maintains that this should just be done without outside forces brazilian president dilma rousseff jump straight into criticizing the u.s.

for for its spying practices surrounding you know the national security agency she said those practices are meddling in a manner of the lives and affairs of other countries and she called that a breach of international law and she said it's an affront to the principles that should otherwise govern relations among countries the brazilian leader is very clearly angry about relevation revelations concerning the the n.s.a. spy program not just domestically but clearly international those revelations coming to light through an essay whistleblower edward. in she said president rousseff said that without the right to privacy there is no real democracy or freedom of speech she also used her opening speech the un general assembly debate to announce that brazil would adopt legislation and technology to protect itself from illegal interception of communications she also called for the establishment of a multi lateral internet government framework at the un that would prevent the type

of global spying that america's national security agency has been exercising president rousseff last week if our viewers remember she called off a high profile state visit to the white house that was scheduled to take place in october that she did that over reports that the u.s. the u.s. national security agency had been spying on her personal communication as well as communication belonging to her aides tell her visit to the white house it would have been the first official state visit during president obama's second term and it would have been the first visit brazilian leader in nearly two decades so clearly that just shows how angry the brazilian president and other latin american countries are to that are about the n.s.a.'s surveillance program brazil's leader dilma rousseff urged the u.n. g.a. to protect cyberspace from spying activities and some intelligence and said brazil will equip itself with legislation and technology to protect its own line uses well

let me marshal she's a former intelligence officer says the collection of private data even for security reasons goes against global human rights. many internet pioneers many internet activists of years now been talking about moving away from the need to move away from prior tree american owners software companies and i think that the revelations from the snowden papers about the shift scale and in faith spying that's been going on again and presumably the usa and its allies will hasten that thought obama is response to her speech which was quite a definitive one liner about the fact you've got to balance america's security would have the rest of the people of the world with quite equivocating it would be nice to have seen him put up a more robust defense of democracy too sure there have to be a balance but it has to be proportionate in any democratic society and overwhelming and endemic data mining of all our information of all our communications is not

proportionate so that of the road the basic principles of human rights stay with us here in r.t. for the latest from the un general assembly in new york. thirty greenpeace activists are facing charges of piracy after trying to board a russian oil platform in protest against drilling in the arctic both russian and foreign activists are among those being investigated. the details. this could entailed up to fifteen years in prison and up to a half a million fine now also from the russian investigators that after the boat the arctic sunrise was seized in the waters in the economic waters of the russian federation close to the oil rig. also they found some kind of electronic equipment on board that vessel the equipment which is used according to investigators for an identified means and also the biggest irony here according to

the investigators is that the activists of the greenpeace organization the organization which has always been fighting to prevent any kind of ecological disasters and catastrophes could have created such a catastrophe or a disaster by breaching the security of this oil rig and thus it could have endangered the ecology of the entire region well of course that is yet to be determined whether their actions could have led to such drastic consequences which we do know from the head of the investigative committee of the russian prosecutor general's office. at the moment that the arctic sunrise vessel was told to the bay of the city in the north of russia and the crew is on board as well as the activists are on board the ship and they're not allowed to leave the ship until the all the investigative procedures have been completed now obviously the greenpeace organization is not a stranger to controversy we've seen over the years that sometimes there are peaceful protest involved unlawful means actions in two thousand and six the very

same ship the arctic sunrise try to ram a japanese fishing boat which. described as the protest against whaling we also have seen several sit ins when the greenpeace activist block the entrance to different ministries ecological ministries and different governmental bodies across the planet not letting the employees inside and we've also seen over the years how the greenpeace activists have been breaching the perimeters of different nuclear power. across the blood if we go back to the year nine hundred eighty six when the chernobyl disaster happened the greenpeace activists infiltrating the area and staging a protest in the cooling bond literally just meters away from the burning reactor of the chernobyl nuclear power plants obviously this is the latest link in the whole chain of controversial events surrounding the peaceful ecological are going to zation such as the greenpeace. and staying in the region the untouched beauty of the arctic may soon be

a thing of the past many nations are craving to get their hands on the vast resources hidden beneath the ice which is rapidly melting away russia has convened the third international arctic forum hoping to draw attention to the region's ecological security where those with the strongest foot in the polar door of the eight states would territory in the frozen region of the arctic council consists of those eight countries with russia canada and the u.s. boasting the biggest bites or to report on what's being done to protect the ecology amidst the race for the black gold. initially the idea was foot forward by the president here in silly thought all the city located exactly all of the arctic circle. is definitely the most important issue being discussed we've got over four hundred experts international experts who arrived here to discuss these problems and the general understanding is that the climate in fact has changed

temperatures have in general warmed up in the arctic melting the ice caps and opening new opportunities clearly for different countries to develop its vast natural resources and also new trade routes like the northern trade route which is actively now being used by countries like china with the help of russia since well just the figures tell the story by themselves four ships heading say from beijing to rotterdam it takes around two weeks quicker then say if they take the traditional south and routes up to seven hundred participants all together including experts geologists explorers and others all sitting down and a diplomatically deciding how to work out the situation how to deal with the arctic how to preserve its energy resources and the environment as well. the arctic's promise of business opportunities is really what's luring the palace some of them who are not even close to the area itself building investigates.

as a climate he soften the all it takes urges the scramble to secure multi-billion dollar deals and it's no wonder when you consider according to the latest estimates there's enough to supply the entire world for three years china with a growing energy demand and increasing gas guzzling population is the unlikely contender in the race to secure a foothold in the el sick china has been wooing russia providing bow and transact with a twenty five billion dollars to build an oil pipeline from siberia to china as well as paying ross nast an additional sixty billion dollars to develop offshore fields in the arctic and china has also struck up a business relationship with iceland and as a result these tactics managed to secure a place on the arctic council for china along with the founding members the likes

of norway and canada which of course have a geographical right to the area or is critical be viable for more perspective will be crossing live to canada and talking to a well known or to research journalist i hope to be doing that after this short break. technology innovation. developments in. the future. play. favorites with economic ups and downs in the final months day the london new york

sang i and the rest of the life during the making it will be everything we can all pay. continues here on r t kenya's president has announced the end of the operation in nairobi's westgate mall the site of kenya's worst terrorist attack in fifteen years five members of the islamist group responsible for the assault were killed during the standoff eleven are in custody meanwhile kenya's foreign minister says at least

two americans and a british citizen are among the al qaeda linked insurgents that carried out the atrocity while there are reports that a british woman samantha lewthwaite may have spearheaded this attack she converted to islam as a young woman i married a man who later became among the seven seven suicide bomber unconfirmed reports say she's among the militants killed at least sixty one people died in the hostage crisis with iran one hundred seventy in just. minutes and said they carried out the attack in retaliation for kenyan military operations in somalia brian levin he's director of the center for the study of hate and extremism says young people from somali american communities are an easy target for extremist recruiters. there is a somali community in the minneapolis area which is very much against what's going on here. but that is being demeaned recruiting spot or the small splinter groups of you that still have been stuff you extremist dear did that

even to convince others to join them there's also been an effort over the internet and through other unlined publications to recruit young westernized muslim youth from throughout the world to come to that area i think it's also kind of this youthful anti-establishment anti western military response and they also feel if something else is jihadi cool which is proven you did some of the social media as well and al qaida has been successful with using that. we'll keep you updated on this ongoing story remember you can always get more by logging on to our website right now get access to the latest pictures updates and witness accounts from the scene of the tragedy all of that is waiting for you. dot com.

now we return to one of our top stories this hour here in r.t. and that is the arctic and its hidden treasures and who will lay their hands on it first the current the top officials and ecology experts of flock together in russia's north to discuss this with the arctic form taking place now as promised we're going live now to canada because that well known research and journalist. all of these countries simply blinded by the dollar signs here all could there be other motives as well. oh i think there are a number of different motives and they're all over the place i think there are there's a lot of political posturing there's boundary issues but i think that right when it comes right down to it what everybody is looking to get a piece of the arctic and largely oil and gas energy that's the future and everybody knows it and everybody's trying to make

a play right now and the fight to get a piece of the arctic and those treasures just how devastating could it be for its environment. well if it's done right i think it can you know if the environment won't be affected but you know that's the that's the big question is that we've never really seen a major spill in arctic waters. we know from what happened in the gulf of mexico that even under ideal conditions clean ups can be very very costly time consuming and there's a loss of confidence among the public we saw with the exxon bowl d.s. of it the impacts you know from decades ago are still occurring if you have a spill in the high arctic where there's a lot of ice still moving around in that oil gets underneath the ice and starts migrating there's really nothing you can do there's no engineering solution to this

you're just simply going to have to watch it go and it's not going to break up easily it's going to be a big costly mess could it happen many a saying with new technology that an oil spill such as the examples you just quoted wouldn't happen that but is that being unrealistic. i think i think the odds are that it will eventually happen i mean it happens in different parts of the world all of the time you know what happens right now in the tar sands in alberta there's a there's a spill occurring right now in cold lake that they're having difficulty getting under control what happened in the gulf of mexico it happened with the exxon valdez . to think that it wouldn't happen the arctic i think is very naive and but i think that to add to that is that it's probably more likely to happen in the arctic because of the conditions up there these are conditions that no one has worked on

before so it's really a new frontier and also the the infrastructure and the human presence surrounding all of this exploration couldn't. more dangerous coming from that all of that than the actual exploration itself with all that shipping going on and all the and similarly impacts that could happen with as we see for example in the jungles in south america could that be more damaging in the long term. i think that you know it could be but i think those are things there are those are risks that you can control if it's planned properly you can get on top of those because we do have the technology we do have the risk management options that we can put into play and i think that to a great extent the mount of infrastructure in the noun of people that you would need that are required for these kinds of efforts would be fairly minimal in the arctic i don't think you're going to see huge cities growing up in that part of the world it's going to be kind of a fly in fly in operations it's going to be

a very transit workforce so i think that can be planned i don't think that's the really really the big concern the big concern really is an oil spill or a gas well blowout great to talk to you thank you very much indeed for joining us live such a generous live in canada thank you. well now to some other international news in brief in our world this hour the eastern part of pakistan has been struck by a powerful seven point eight magnitude earthquake at least forty five people killed according to local authorities the deaths occurred in a district near the epicenter were almost a third of the buildings are said to have collapsed tremors have been reported all around the region as far as india's capital new delhi hundreds of kilometers away. a fourth day of nationwide protests in bangladesh turned violent as police clash with clothes factory workers demonstrators three stones at security forces responded with rubber bullets and tear gas hundred fifty people injured in the arm

rest as protest to set fire to several factories demanding higher wages some employees claim they have to endure hour shifts and are not in their place of work than latest government has been under pressure to reform the industry after the collapse of a factory building in april which killed up to a thousand people. a car bomb blast has been reported in damascus spight syrian t.v. state media says at least three people have lost their lives in what was described as a terrorist attack the opposition currently puts the death toll at seven explosion hit the capital southern district it's been a fierce battle ground between the rebel forces and the army for months. a french appeals court may have stripped nicolas sarkozy of the chance of a political comeback it's ruled an investigation should proceed into accusations the former president joop the heiress of the l'oreal cosmetics giant liliane bettencourt into funding his election campaign back in two thousand and seven its leader allegedly used the mental credibility of france's richest woman who suffered

from dementia court's decision made to a trial in the long running scandal in which i suppose he denies any misconduct. he continues to bind family budgets in portugal which is making many people find it increasingly difficult to put food on the table aid programs are also being cut making the situation in the recession hit country even worse and the number of people in need rises local volunteer charities are coming to the rescue. with a little of the chile they way. this mother and her son and now alliance and the consuls hunger and make this this increasingly common in today's lisbon thankful eighty two china she could rethink the danger to a low you think it's almost a million people in the country estimated to be severely materially deprived and struggling to put food on the table charities like this become essential to plug.

we joined at the start of the evening shift i think now because of the crisis we have a lot of families we do. we do it in a sense the tea or food because. sometimes there are more good and all that is only meant to hear exactly things that you claim it has actually dropped a little bit that you think are getting better slowly here i'm an economist myself so i think right now in portugal i don't believe. this strategy that we are taking because we should. we should focus on getting more employment then starting to have. some kind of. money he's going to hold these all stare at the kind of way your doing stuff is one of the rich foods. to have like the first city in the world not wasting food

so you think you'll achieve it yeah we believe so we feed operate so what they call the micro local level they signed up restaurants and cafes in this area today may be that they have left a closing time. here some of them some of them a long series good for some sometimes we are lucky it depends on the very thing. today. it's great because the leftover fear is not being thrown into the garbage and. back at headquarters and it's all hands on deck to prepare the food parcels this is the brainchild of this learned a lot of the people who receive food have always struggled with crisis. and then we have people who are suddenly don't have work and don't have income.

it. harder thing for them to take you know the middle class to a situation of needing food assistance so we see those people. when leafy first started it was just one man one site said around thirty restaurants have agreed to date a little over a year and a half later and take a look at this they've got hundreds of volunteers they've expanded to sites they've got more than a hundred and fifteen west falls cafes in supermarkets no more than half a day late to the call with the country struggling under the weight of a storage devices placed under arrest seventy eight billion. and with spending cuts to the feed program rationing provisions already in place in the future of this local volunteer programs looks set to become increasingly important and say that's nice at least some will not go hungry so. it's been.

about with the news he would move in just over half an hour from now the mean time we travel to an island the size of a football field which has become a place of pilgrimage for many russians that special report after the short break. the macmillan family in canada has decided to defy time itself and keep their family trapped in one thousand nine hundred six sort of like new age only for one year and not their whole lives so they live in one nine hundred six the family forbids the use of any technology developed after the mid eighty's they want their children to experience the world they grew up in when you had to read books and if

you're outside no one could call you and there were no tablet computers to stupefy children at a moment's notice as a paradigm some sympathy with this idea because i like all of you have seen that technology is dumbing us down a lot i mean how often do you have to memorize a phone number nowadays and we've all seen bad parents just sit their kids in front of the technology and ignore them to chat on facebook about what they saw on netflix but on the other hand for the first time in human history you have the power of knowledge at your fingertips there is an instructional video to do anything you want on you tube and getting basic information on any scientific or historical topic is one click away if you find the idea of the self-made man romantic the now is your time because anyone who has the will to learn can learn you know i don't come from money without the internet i would definitely not have this job and i'd probably be worshipping at the feet of rush limbaugh deluded by the mainstream media modern technology can make your mind with information or break it with cat videos and dumb trendiness but that's up to you and this is just my

opinion. i want to live here when i grow up and you are now is about this place so sacred. they say the church was built here in the twelfth century it was destroyed in the 1930's. people constantly chose this place to pray and by doing so they created an atmosphere of holiness you can't commit a sin here even if you want to. and that's i didn't

want to come here one tyrant what would i do there but they came and stayed. until it changes every one little by little bit in the lake and in the sea of life . the island is so small but for me it's the center. the center of the universe. if i'm in the summer i go to the island by motor boat that was in winter when lake freezes over i go by car from the town of all of this nearby also skied there for a one time for the island isn't very far from the lakeside about twelve kilometers which i've become so used to this route that it's the way home.