talks are. on our chief. u.n. security council agrees a landmark deal on syria's chemical disarmament with permanent members reaching a consensus for the first time since the start of the bloody conflict a vote is expected on friday. greenpeace campaigners will remain in custody for two more months while their attempt to board an offshore russian oil rig is investigated the activist could be charged with piracy. and a poll suggests the majority in britain support a ban of muslim women covering up using burgers and the cops as a debate over traditional religious clothing back into life.

for the young mosque you want your tea with me marina joshua welcomes the. u.s. security council's permanent members have finally agreed on a draft resolution that would rid syria of its chemical weapons the document imposes legally binding obligations on all parties of the syrian conflict although palaces for noncompliance will not be automatic here's a reason our way was the details of an agreement being seen as a landmark diplomatic breakthrough. can rest ambassador to the u.n. has said that the council could 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's foreign minister sergey lavrov is that 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 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 proof which schools 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 less than 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. a communique which was put forward in june which for one that calls for all members all sides i should say in the syrian conflict to me as soon as possible to discuss a possible transitional government would 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 jim breuer here from the anti-war answer coalition says the agreement on syria's disarmament doesn't mean similar diplomatic successes should be expected to get shows that

we're turning towards a diplomatic solution at least on the issue of chemical weapons but the other issue that still remains 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 of the silicate that happening and trying to deepen the conflict over there was in another way i think certainly is a cutie 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 you see that the syrian regime has been far more willing than does the 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

for a diplomatic solution and the conflict in syria is also the focus of the latest edition of sophie and co here on r.t. sophie shevardnadze talks to lebanon's ex army chief to discuss how the long lasting conflict is affecting he's country. syria shattered into pieces the wall has left nothing intact little remains of the peaceful pasta little kept for a peaceful future. as rebels fight the government and each other the ones who suffer the people. how does it feel to share the border with such a neighbor. told to lebanon's ex chief commander. now another major breakthrough at the un general assembly u.s.

and iranian officials held one of the highest level meetings in more than thirty years of frozen relations the american secretary of state and he is running counterpart that face to face as part of seven nation talks on reviving stalled negotiations over iran's nuclear ambitions the iranian foreign minister said these countries hoping a deal on the contested issue can be made it was a new year with the u.s. and british diplomats praising the tell and spirit of the meeting however he said sanctions against iran were counterproductive and expressed hope they would be lifted in the near future earlier the u.s. warned there would be no major concessions on sanctions until tehran makes its nuclear program completely transparent but despite this apparent clash of opinions experts say the newly adopted approach of reconciliation is bearing fruit. the around in a fairly comfortable position and they felt that the policy of. 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 if there is anything it wants to gain public opinion it knows that the need to have waged. war against it it has verified it is the devolution 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 of british judge who ordered that a woman could not testify in court while wearing a muslim veil covering her whole face except her eyes as fuel debate while a recent poll suggested that sixty six percent of britons support a ban on muslim women covering their faces gauging public opinion in london on a subject which is proving highly divisive. 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 dress were doing overseas they don't wear it in english bonnet 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 by for example airports or even just shop which places where the 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 don't want to speak to just starts 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 that 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 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 a 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

they should be resident restrictions against in the curb in certain situations like you've just pointed out and but we what we're 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 i'm jenny 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 pushing from london i'm poly. of britain is not the only country pulled into a debate over muslim closing in recent years a number of european states have moved so far have it a full say surveil their english takes. 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 to be bounded 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 what was in spain and italy moves have been made in the past to outline the carbs and workers as well as head scarves for muslims but in those both predominately catholic countries supreme courts or legal ministers have thrown such propositions out citing them as unconstitutional and in the swiss country enough to chino 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 continent 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. coming up to believe the president calls for a trial against barack obama later this hour in an exclusive interview to r.t.

spanish channel ever more all this explains why he thinks the u.s. leader should be up in court for crimes against humanity. because that's really where your promises are. on the other france's president feels the pressure to take radical steps to combat economic decline all that and more coming up after the break. wealthy british style it's time to rise from. the. market. find out what's really happening to the global economy is a report on. good leverage or.

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investigation and other aid campaigners are to be held for three days until the next hearing the activist were detained aboard a greenpeace vessel after attempting to scale on oil platform in protest of drilling in russian waters arches gannett should count as more. as of now twenty two people who are onboard the arctic sunrise will remain in jail for the next two months as 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 nord 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 activist 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 greenpeace has drawn a lot of attention to their cause and some suggest they probably knew what to expect given all those multiple warnings even 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 the 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 in t. said to us of course they are not pirates but he said greenpeace had clearly

violated into. to his from the ship inflatable boats to try to avoid the rush of the world clock for the president suggested that the activists should choose other forms of dialogue. but it's not only greenpeace activists who are being detained russian media staging protests by refusing published images for a day after a russian photographer was arrested along with others on the ship so go to our website r.t. dot com to find out more. boss we have a story of a u.s. soldier and was launching a campaign for former afghan interpreter who had his american visa revoked after years of service alongside u.s. troops.

now addressing the u.n. general assembly in new york believe his president adam raul is called for barack obama to be put on trial for crimes against humanity a link to an aggressive foreign policy battle channel managed to speak to him shortly after his comments here is what he said. the. i want to remind you of that when obama was elected president is a bit his aim was to end all wars we're joined in term of his presidency the number of wars only increased in 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 have fallen 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

judges we need to file a collective lawsuit aimed at putting an end to this genocide i think of the threat exists for any country with vast natural energy resources especially when 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 can watch the full interview with a believe in president our website r.t. for now though let's take a look at some other stories from around the world in pakistan city of peshawar at least seventeen people have been killed and dozens injured by a bomb attack on a bus carrying government employees police believe the blast was caused by a remotely controlled device and no one has claimed responsibility for the incident so far just last sunday over eighty people were killed by a suicide bomber at a christian church in the same city. more than twenty five people are feared trapped under a collapsed five story building in mumbai rescuers are trying to reach those still

thought to be inside at least seven people have already been pulled from the rubble in june at least five people were killed when a three story building fell down such incidents are not uncommon in india often due to poor standards of construction. blasts have rocked a busy street in yemen's capital sanaa wounding at least twenty people no one was hurt in the first explosion but after at. crowd began to gather a second bomb went off injuring bystanders it comes just days after the nation's president vowed to redick a terrorism yemen has been plagued by turmoil since two thousand and eleven after local branch seize control of some towns and surrounding areas in the south of the country. in kenya militants from the islamist movement have attacked two towns on the border with somalia at least three people have been killed including two police officers and somalia based group which killed scores of people at in iraq last saturday said in a message that attacks will continue until kenyan troops withdraw from the country

presence in somalia has played in the surge of violence is explained in today's crossed off program to watch the full debate later today but here's a quick preview i think we have to look at this in two ways first told as a somali issue going on here and then there's an international issue if you look at the statement made by al shabaab it about the westgate tuck one thing was kenyans you better get out of somalia poor as you face more than this and the second thing was the international community who brought us to stop supporting the kenyans and supporting the others in fighting in in somalia we are meddling in somalia targeted assassinations airstrikes drone strikes all of affected to billions there . they've scattered islamic groups but also created new ones and clothing al-shabaab 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 is spend in the last twelve years their. combat industrial decline while boosting konami growth the french government faces a tough agenda in the coming years as president alond tries to maneuver his country out of financial turmoil and pressure ease coming from both brussels and berlin to make sure he fulfills his promises and a growing europe skepticism that's our silly has a story. but you know that's where your promises are now man. the boiling over a frustrated caught on camera is the priority is employment we need to eat but at this point the bad news no longer come a surprise to many french popular self-styled mr normal condemned for having no power to stop economic uncertainty from becoming the new normal at the research

that is possible with only eleven percent of the french thinking their economy will improve over the next twelve months running out of economic admission that home alone recently unveiled a three point five billion injection into thirty four key sectors hoping to spur a third industrial revolution. ordinary people have managed to survive the crisis 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 find the study. for much longer. and there's your skepticism it's rises reflected not just in opinion polls but increasingly in the election outcomes as well. i asked the president to hold a referendum in january two thousand and fourteen and i asked 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 than national. 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. socialist party attacked merkel and her selfish intransigence and called for a confrontation with germany over policy if. it was if the economic situation in france dramatically worsens compared to germany it will take france of 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 was already

unstable he looked behind as germany itself is dealing with a growing antihero frustration over having to bailout the naturally on healthy neighbors. we seem to stick to germany only because an anglo merkel thing has said publicly that the front is belongs with southern europe. not yet at least to us are cilia r t paris. and coming out party looks at the latest state of the art science breakthrough in technology update. 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 the care of those above us

but how port is doing geography anyways what one author on the washington post blogs recently wrote that knowing geography really doesn't matter that much he was writing a response to the game where is damascus which challenges people to find syria's capital on a blank map he said that whether americans could find here on a map doesn't affect the wisdom of a punitive strike meant to uphold international orms against the use of chemical weapons and often disasters draw our attention to places we've 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 darn it that intervention sounds nice knowing at least where

a country is on the map is the first step in building informed opinion but that's just my opinion. hello and welcome to this special edition of technology updates where we look to the skies to see the peak of russian innovation on today's show because it's a glimpse of bush's latest stealth fighter. we find out that's a cross between

a battery and a combustion engine isn't just a load of. done in the ground we learn about the mysterious night. but first let's take a look at some of the highlights of this month's show. the international aviation space show is the highlights of the calendar not just for aviation enthusiasts but for anyone who enjoys a good day out show started off in one thousand nine hundred ninety three when the focus was mainly on entertainment since then it's evolved into an important business event given the high flyers of the aviation industry a chance to sell their wares this year marks smashed its own attendance record with over one hundred fifty thousand people braving the elements to visit the event in just one day business also proved with companies signing agreements and contracts with twenty one point two billion dollars which is significantly more than last time but even as has wider implications than just the aviation industry. the

aircraft manufacturing industry always drives innovation that throughout the world . because to be competitive in this industry you have to excel in a number of different areas that's why this industry receives so much investment some people say that for every ruble invested in new technologies for aircraft manufacturing you get a return of seven rubles because of the positive effect this provides for all the other industries. i'm sure that return on investment was the last thing on people's mind when the flight program started. the demonstrations give money fighters the opportunity to show off exactly what they can do this is especially important for military aircraft and mike says the perfect place for defense organizations to cooperate with. the most efficient helicopter. and the fact that the u.s. has purchased these machines for its.