u.n. security council agrees a landmark deal on syria's chemical the solomons but the permanent members reaching a consensus for the first time since the start of the bloody conflict is expected on friday. peace campaigners will remain in custody for two more months. to board an off shore oil rig is investigating that could be charged with. the poll suggests the majority in britain support a ban on the muslim women covering up using burkas kneecaps as the debate over traditional religious clothing back into life.

in la for moscow twenty four said mrs out. u.n. security council's permanent members have finally agreed on a draft resolution that would rid syria of its chemical weapons and document imposes legally binding obligations on all parties of the syrian conflict with no penalties for noncompliance will not be automatic. way that with the details of an agreement being seen as a diplomatic breakthrough. but how did second rest ambassador to the u.n. has said that the council couldn't vote on friday on this resolution the five permanent members of the u.n. security council reach an agreement on thursday over the wording of binding and forcible text to eliminate syria's stockpiles of chemical weapons now the resolution doesn't allow for immediate chapter seven action of the u.n. charter which allows for military and nonmilitary action in case of noncompliance

but would need to be reviewed and put to a vote if that becomes the case here foreign minister sergey lavrov is allusive go to the resolution that will be submitted to other u.n. security council members conforms to the geneva agreement on the destruction of syria's chemical weapons it does not provide for any chapter seven actions the resolution includes an agreement that was reached in geneva stating that the security council can go back to reviewing the resolution only in the case of a breach of its proceedings by any of the sides including the opposition or in the case of chemical weapons use by any side if that happens the council can act on those cases under chapter seven as well but only in accordance of the degree of that violation and if it is one hundred percent approved. now as the foreign minister mentioned the draft resolution backs the agreement reached in geneva regarding serious commitment to place its chemical weapons stockpile under international control if there's any violation by any party as the resolution calls

on the opposition to assist in the disarmament process this is an important point for russia that both sides hold accountability and really this is a major breakthrough when you think about how western a month ago it looked like russia and the u.s. would never agree and obama was ready to bomb damascus now with russia and the u.s. that put forward this resolution on syria and the steps to eliminate its chemical weapons and it's important to point out that it also endorses fully the. nieve a communique which was put forward in june which for one that calls for all members all sides actually say in the syrian conflict to me as soon as possible to discuss a possible transitional government which have full executive power and that would be able to have members of the current government so really this is a breakthrough in the two and a half year both conflict and deadlock on the syrian crisis or

eugene per year from the antiwar coalition says the agreement on syria's disarmament doesn't mean some of the diplomatic successes should be expected to get shows there were turning towards a diplomatic solution at least on the issue of chemical weapons but the other issue that still remain outstanding is what will happen outside of the issue of chemical weapons will diplomacy be pursued by the united states or will they continue to find as they have the opposition or of the opposition it still a day that happening and trying to deepen the conflict over there was it another way i think certainly the security council reconvenes and this chemical weapons agreement is off track we could be in a place where we're going to happen again but i would like to hope that we see that the syrian regime has been far more willing to rebel forces to engage in diplomacy on many issues if you remember it was the syrian regime that accepted the russian and american proposal for the geneva two peace talks and the rebels that rejected it so i certainly think that despite what we hear in a lot of united states media there's no reason to think that syria won't hold up

there is a bargain particularly after they so enthusiastically pursued the russian proposal very diplomatic solution. or conflict in syria is also the focus of the latest. you know not so efficient or not so talk to the. chief to discuss how the long lasting conflict is affecting his country. syria shattered into pieces the wall has left nothing intact little remains of the peaceful past little capital for a peaceful future. as rebels fights the government and each other the ones who suffer the people. how does it feel to share the border with such a neighbor. lebanon's ex chief commander. in

another major breakthrough at the un general assembly us under rainy and officials held one of the highest level meetings in more than thirty years of frozen relations the american secretary of state and his iranian counterpart that's face to face as part of seven nation talks on reviving the stalled negotiations over tehran's nuclear ambitions for the rainy and foreign ministers of these countries both deal on the contested issue can be made within a year u.s. and british diplomats raising the tone and spirit of the meeting however he said sanctions against tehran were counterproductive and expressed hope they would be lifted in the near future the u.s. warned there would be no major concessions on sanctions until tehran that makes its nuclear program completely transparent but it's fight this apparent passion and prudence experts say the newly adopted approach of conciliation is bearing fruit.

iran feared a fairly comfortable position and they felt that the policy of ahmadinejad the previous i thought of mr rouhani was not helping at all from a legal standpoint iran feels that it has done everything it could and if there is anything it wants to gain public opinion it knows that the media has waged a war against it it has verified it. and it has portrayed it in a position of a threat to the international community now it is trying to make a case to the international public opinion and they have changed the tone. coming out the bolivian president calls for a trial against barack obama and the sound of the interview to the arts in spanish that i'm around is explains why he thinks the u.s. leaders should be courts for crimes against. us us

skeptics on one side brussels and burning on the other france feels the pressure to take more radical steps to combat become a. british judge ordered that a woman cannot testify in court while wearing a muslim veil covering her whole face except her eyes filled debate recent polls suggested that sixty seven percent of britons support a ban on muslim women covering their faces but about has been to gauge public opinion in london was a subject which is proving i devise a. two weeks ago students at a college in birmingham accused their teaches of religious discrimination when the college try to impose a ban on full face veils nine thousand students signed a protest petition and the ban was subsequently dropped but the war of opinions isn't dying down i don't think it helps their integration by using

a full face veil you know as long as the face can be seen. to some extent you know expressions country a lot they shouldn't be judged because you can't see their faces just their religion and that's what you and us would do in the us he should have been wearing a mission banner so. it's up to the people or they were just any and like any other type of clothing yeah i think there should be a law for example airports or even just shops places where they interact with people especially people who don't know them because it's it's very difficult to speak to buying the sort of surface you you want to speak to someone you know want to speak to just ice or to talk about the issue i'm joined by columnist and be live from danny could be that france and belgium have imposed a blanket bans on the cab in public spaces but britain prides itself on being a multicultural nation how do you think the government is supposed to respond on

the issue here well the experience in france has proved to be a complete failure it has really pitted communities against each other and it has led crucially to an increase in the suspicion and indeed hatred against muslim communities and i firmly believe that it's not in the d.n.a. for me put it that way of the british. to indeed stifle liberties do so the banning itself is an assault against fundamental human rights but surely this isn't a religious issue this is a professional issue and surely there are some circumstances when the cab simply isn't appropriate for example when you're teaching children providing evidence in court or treating a patient in hospital i'm by no. means an advocate of the niqab and i do think that there should be residue restrictions against in the curb in certain situations like you've just pointed out and but we were talking about is the expression of prejudice against a religion. there's a tiny minority of women wearing the niqab at that it would be ridiculous to

legislate against an entire religion effectively nebular and any thank you very much for your comments well while britain prides itself on its individual rights and ethnic tolerance the debate is waging on and the government may find that it can no longer maintain an official silence on the issue reporting from london i'm poly. britain is not the only country pulled into a debate over muslim clothing in recent years a number of european states have moved to prohibit the full face veil takes a look now. who would have expected a dress code to become such a heated topic of political debate and yet the issue of the muslim veil and variations thereof has gripped not one not two but several european states france home to the largest muslim community in western europe with some five million followers became the first country to ban the full face veil in public places in two thousand and eleven a new woman breaking the rule faces

a penalty of around one hundred fifty euro and a lesson in citizenship those forcing a woman to cover her face or looking at a much stiffer fine of up to thirty thousand euro neighboring belgium followed suit just months afterwards with a similar ban on the muslim veil that covers the full face though the fine here is slightly lower than maximum punishment could result in a seven day jail term a similar ban on face covering in public is to become effective this year in the netherlands home to roughly million muslims although scholars say out of that number only a few hundred women wearing the carbs are workers which either leave the eyes open or cover the entire face within three and three and a half million muslims live in germany the second largest islamic population in europe after france there is no universal ban here but this it has banned its civil servants from wearing head scarves and veils following an eight year old ruling from the federal constitutional court which left the issue up to individual states to decide both in spain and italy moves have been made in the past to outlaw the

carbs and workers as well as head scarves for muslims but in those both predominantly catholic countries supreme courts or legal ministers have thrown such propositions out citing them as unconstitutional and this was country enough to cino two thirds of the population voted in favor of a ban on face covering veils and the ban is currently waiting approval by the federal parliament these developments across the european constant are raising the question is there a broader clash with the liberal values themselves when the right to religious identity is pinned against the need for all to respect the law. and that would back off the brake. british.

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of the twenty two people arrested during a green peace protest in the arctic last week should remain in custody pending an investigation. to be held for three days until the next hearing of the activists were detained last week. after tending to scale an oil platform in protest at drilling in the russian. twenty two people who are on board the arctic sunrise will remain in jail for the next two months says investigation continues that's not a sentence that's basically time that the court gives for investigators to do their job and present their case there will be another hearing on monday as we understand and the court the more minds will decide what to do with the other eight members of the crew on board the greenpeace ship with their words thirty people citizens of seventeen countries including russia canada and the united states the captain of

the ship is an american citizen they were all detained now the greenpeace activists so were detained last week having ignored russian authorities warnings while trying to climb the russian oil platform greenpeace says they acted in peaceful protest against oil drilling in the arctic russian authorities believe whatever their intentions the activists technically broke the law russian authorities maintain that the greenpeace international ship had ignored many warnings including not to enter the restricted northern sea route piece has drawn a lot of attention to their cause and some suggest they probably knew what to expect given all those multiple warnings they've been warning shots that were fired but the activists went on anyway possibly knowing how much public attention the action would generate especially ahead of the arctic conference this week where leaders of arctic nations experts with you know who together with experts from oil

industry were discussing ways to explore the resources in the arctic as well as ways to minimize the damage to the environment and the russian president was asked about the detained activist and he said to me of course they are not high rates but he said greenpeace had clearly violated international law by sending activists from the ship in inflatable boats to try to shore it was the russian oil box where the president suggested that the activists should choose other forms of dialogue. well there over at our website we have much more few standing up for brothers in arms online that we have the story of one u.s. soldier who's launching a crusade for. his american visa revoked all three years of service and i'm sorry u.s. troops. left newquay arrested sixteen year old boy in suspicion of being involved in what's being called the biggest cyber attack in history of the internet

for details on life. in general assembly new york livia's president of iran is called for barack obama to be put on trial for crimes against humanity but even him for aggressive foreign policy. sees a spanish child i should say managed to speak to him shortly after his comments and here's what he said. i want to remind you all that when obama was elected president is able his aim was to end all wars but during a time of his presidency the number of words only increased libya for instance the u.s.

organized an outrageous military intervention that was followed by the killing of the country's president and after that libya's oil wells are forming under their control they financed rebels would fight against the rulers and don't support imperialism and capitalism on top of that they run a worldwide surveillance network we need to establish a court where world powers and international human rights organizations take the rule of judges we need to file a collective lawsuit aimed at putting an end to this genocide i think that the threat exists for any country with vast natural energy resources especially well in gas i understand that this is a direct threat to venezuela in order to secure energy resources for his own country obama will invade any other country but he's not the leader of the world or some other world news in brief two blasts have roughly fifty st in yemen sat out at least twenty people there almost hurt in the first explosion the faster crowd began to gather a second bomb went off injuring bystanders it comes just days after the nation's

president vowed to eradicate terrorism there it has been plagued by turmoil since twenty eleven of the local branch seized control of some towns and surrounding areas and countries south. people have rallied across to this year one for the really business to step down and next in this process was staged off the circular opposition plane that talks aimed at ending a political stunt gone wild that's contentions in the country was the birthplace of spring when the rise since the assassination of a prominent political opposition leader john. and then kenya militants from the islamist movement have a tyrant two towns on the border with somalia at least three people have been killed including two police officers a smaller base group which skews schools of people to nairobi last friday said in

the message that the talks will continue until troops withdraw from the country today it is close to the people of the mosques where the u.s. actions have in fact used to terrorism in the region you can watch the food debate lenten here's a quick preview we are meddling in somalia targeted assassinations air strikes drone strikes all of affected to billions there. they've scattered. groups but also created new ones and cluing al shabaab which has been which has taken responsibility for what happened in kenya. the united states has worked with ethiopia and kenya to bring invading forces into somalia which have been responsible for brutal human rights violations create united states has created an intelligence infrastructure in somalia the notorious jail or prison interrogation center in at the airport there as reported by jeremy scahill so yeah the idea of

blowback here is a surprise we are we are seeing. the remnants are of the outgrowth of what our policy the united states' policy it's been in the last twelve years there. on batting industrial decline while boosting economic growth the french government faces a tough agenda in the coming years as president alone tries to maneuver his country out of financial turmoil and pressures coming from both brussels underlain to make sure he fulfilled his promises and a growing you know skepticism this also has a story. this year where your promises are come on where are they the boiling over frustrate ssion caught on camera priority is employment we need to

eat but at this point the bad news no longer come a surprise to many french the popular self-styled mr normal condemned for having no power to stop economic uncertainty from becoming the new normal at the resentment is palpable with only eleven percent of the french thinking their economy will improve over the next twelve months running out of economic administrate at home a laundry simply unveiled a three point five billion injection into thirty four key sectors hoping to spur a third industrial revolution that the same time eighteen million euros from next year's budget cuts so. for now ordinary people have managed to survive the crisis why because france has been a rich country for the past ten twenty thirty years and older generations have proportionally more money than the younger ones so in the family the transfer phenomenon is common meaning the grandparents are helping their grandchildren

finances studies but we can't go on like this for much longer. and then there's your skepticism it's rises reflected not just in opinion polls but increasingly in the election outcomes as well so i ask the president to hold the referendum in january two thousand and fourteen and ask the french do they want to stay in the european union do they want to stay with. do they want european lewis to be stronger the national polls. it is right here the decisions on everything from public finances investment unemployment and the euro zone are debated and made the problem seems to be that there are more debates than decisions prompting the french foreign minister to say that this place needs a boss but france cannot afford to stall as french president francois hollande is still under great pressure from berlin and brussels to deliver on his economic promises in a draft text in april alone socialist party attack merkel and her selfish

intransigence and called for a confrontation with germany over policy or. if the economic situation in france dramatically worsens compared to germany it will take france on a different political course that will divert from the german one this will create a complicated conflict inside the e.u. if that happens tensions will get worse a collision course that will rock an already unstable boat as germany itself is dealing with a growing add to your frustration over having to bailout the naturally on healthy neighbors so we seem to stick to germany only because anglo merkel never said publicly the front's belongs with southern europe not yet at least to us are cilia r.t.e. paris. well coming up our team looks at the latest state of the oh it's a science breakthroughs in technology updates.

i bet anyone who lives in the united states knows a few people or just dismal geography a certain small percentage of the country just can't get it that canada is above us but how important is knowing geography anyways what one author on the washington post blogs recently wrote that knowing geography really doesn't matter that much he was writing in response to the game where is damascus which challenges people to find syria's capital on a blank map he said that whether americans can find syrian a map doesn't affect the wisdom of a punitive strike meant to uphold international norms against the use of chemical weapons and often disasters draw our attention to places we had never heard of before like pearl harbor or columbine or syria but let's look at this way i don't exactly know where persons kidneys are or how exactly they work so by all normal logic that means i'm not qualified to have an opinion about whether we should

remove john doe's kidneys my opinion doesn't count because i am kidney ignorant so if you know so little about syria that you can't even find it on a map then you are more likely to believe from a guy in a suit on t.v. that there must be an intervention to save the people there you have no idea who they are or why they are suffering or how to save them but gosh started that intervention sounds nice knowing at least where a country is on the map is the first step in building in informed opinion but that's just my opinion. in a wakeup call to america for the labor secretary robert reich takes his lifelong fight for economic fairness to the big screen in the documentary inequality for all he

believes the growing income gap threatens the american way of life unless citizens . you lay out the problems the potential solutions and explain why some as things are still optimistic about the united states robert reich on politics with. politicking with larry king and joining me from new york old friend robert reich she was bill clinton's secretary of labor also served under gerald ford and jimmy carter and he's now professor at the university of california berkeley and the bestselling author of more than a dozen books and the start of a brilliant new documentary inequality for all inequality for all opens across the united states this friday and it's already picked up

a special jury award at the sundance film festival we'll talk a lot about that film a little while robert joins us from new york for some other things robert the federal government shutdown looms will the government be open after september thirtieth yes or no well mike betting is yes larry because the republicans don't really want the fall out they know what happened in one thousand ninety five ninety ninety six people are looking for a way out on the other hand the very conservative tea party republicans don't want to compromise so inside the republican party there is a civil war going on and the result of that civil war will probably dictate what happens after september thirtieth. you know the economists this is a hypothetical if this shutdown what happens how does it affect joe citizen well it depends on how long it's shut down a shutdown this time around would be worse than the one nine hundred ninety five one thousand nine hundred six the town because then about six appropriation bill.