friday is expected to see you rare unity as a u.n. security council as its members vote of the syria resolution which has been elusive for years and. several russian news services removed photographs from their websites in probus and the detention of a photographer held together with greenpeace activists who are trying to scale an arctic oil every. living hell to bring the beautiful game to doha human rights groups sports fans and football is called ceasefire to move the world cup after revelations of horrific conditions causing a daily deaths causing daily deaths among laborers.

five in moscow you watching r.t.i. marina josh welcome to the program while there has been a much needed breakthrough at the u.n. security council as its permanent members agree on a draft resolution overseeing syria's chemical weapons disarmament and as russia has long been insisting it doesn't contain any threat of outside military action lived. in new york and used to tell us more about this resolution and what else do we know about it and in fact how much of a breakthrough is it. really this is a major break for her when you think about how less than a month ago it looked like russia and the u.s. would never agree and obama was rallying support and getting ready to bomb damascus the resolution vote on syria's chemical weapons is expected friday and outlined a legally binding compliance but no threat of sanctions or military action and the five permanent members of the u.n. security council reached an agreement on thursday over the exact wording

a binding and enforceable tax to eliminate stockpiles according to the geneva. according to the geneva agreement put forward by russia and the us now the resolution doesn't allow for immediate chapter seven action of the un charter in the case of noncompliance but it would need to be reviewed and put to a vote if that does become the case in the future here is russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov. it is a go to 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 is not happens on 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 of. the resolution so the resolution also calls on the opposition to assist in the disarmament process this

is an important point for russia that both sides be held accountable for violation of the resolution also fully of course as the geneva communique which was outlined in june and supports a transitional government which would have full executive power and not be closed off to members of the current government because for a meeting with all syrian sides as soon as possible now the vote comes as u.n. chemical inspectors have resumed their work in syria they're investigating seven cases of the use of illegal agents and hope to deliver their findings by the end of october so really a lot of reason to be a bit more optimistic that there could be some way out of this too and i have here deadlock on the syria crisis. and he's thanks very much indeed for bringing us the very latest from new york. now media reports suggest that at least twenty people have been killed in a car bombing near damascus observers in a nearby town say the explosion took place near

a mosque soon after friday prayers we spoke to anti-war campaigner region for a year who says that the furor over chemical weapons in syria should take attention from the rest of the fighting there. it shows that we're trending 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 fund as they have the opposition an arm the opposition and so that day that happening and try to deepen the conflict over to our side in another way i think certainly is a cutey 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 that's 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. across in neighboring lebanon more than a quarter of the population is now made up of syrian refugees the country has already poured in billions of dollars to try and cope with this massive influx and is appealing for help from the un next hour here on our talks to former lebanese army chief about how the long lasting conflict in syria is affecting his 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. the

spirit of diplomatic optimism at the u.n. also extended to a rare account or which saw the u.s. secretary of state meet his iranian counterpart for their country's highest level talks in a generation while their meeting centered on tehran's atomic program and sell was in the framework of the seven nation negotiations speaking to the washington post raney and president hassan rouhani expressed hope of more cooperation with the u.s. and that he wants to be to deal with in months shift in tone was widely welcomed both sides remain cautious saying actions will speak louder than words international law professor a middle east expert says iran is trying to win the hearts and minds of people worldwide. 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 your own fear that it has done everything it could if there is anything you want to gain public opinion it knows that the need to have waged a war against that it has verified it is that devolution 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. obama going trial for crimes against humanity that's what the president of believe he is calling for exclusively tells our kids what's behind his harsh accusations that's up soon here on our team.

now russian journalists are protesting against the detention of a photographer who took pictures of the greenpeace activists attempt to scale an oil rig in the arctic ocean is being held in remand with the environmentalist most of whom will remain in custody for two more months pending an investigation that has to count as more on the story. the court in the russian city of mormons decided that twenty two people were onboard the arctic sunrise will remain in jail for the next two months as investigation continues and that's not a sentence that's basically time that the board gives for investigators to do their job and to set up their case there will be another hearing on monday as we understand and the court in the city of some more months will decide what to do with the other eight members of the group it would be safe to assume the same decision will be made with regard to those individuals russian investigators explained that the activists will will not necessarily have to spend exactly two months in jail they could be released earlier it all depends on how fast the

investigation goes the judge decided against releasing the individuals on bail citing the concern that they could leave the country before the investigation is over we know that the detained activists refused to answer investigators question seemed poking their right under the russian constitution to remain silent and not to testify against themselves on board the greenpeace ship they were thirty people citizens of eighteen different countries among them was a russian photojournalist the nice seeing you he was detained with everybody else on board the ship a number of fortune media outlets have blacked out all photographs on their websites this friday in protest against evolves arrest over three thousand russian media workers much uncertainty posts have signed a petition with these the photojournalists saying he was doing his job they want russian online news outlet live they don't argue claim sinew ball falls on board a ship on their assignment to going peace activists were detained last week that we

need more russian authorities mornings while trying to find the plot for the oil greenpeace says they are to be peaceful protest against oil drilling in the arctic russian authorities believe whatever their intentions and the activists technically broke the law personal stories maintained the greenpeace international had ignored . living why. not to the restricted or didn't see that it decision was made to detain the activists when they started to climb the russian oil pot for using ropes and grapples of course having carried out this protest greenpeace has drawn a lot of attention to their cause and some suggest they probably knew what to expect given multiple warnings so but the activists went on anyway possibly knowing how much public attention he actually would generate an aid has generated a lot of attention especially ahead of the arctic conference this week where the leaders of the arctic nations together with experts from oil industry were

discussing ways to explore the resources in new york as well as ways to minimize the damage to the environment and the russian president was asked during the conference about the detained activists and he said obviously they are not pirates but greenpeace has clearly violated international law by sending activists from the ship in inflatable boats to try to board the platform the president suggested that the activists she'd choose other forms of dialogue. almost daily death spiegel crammed into filthy shacks and the long war days in toward air this is the dark side of bringing qatar's football world cup dream to life the gulf state is being hit with criticism for human rights violations as it turns doha into what some describe as a miracle city the government brought in a raft of immigrant workers to get the capital ready for the twenty twenty two van bought and investigations revealed laborers have been dying at a shocking pace because of atrocious conditions so far as he is or he's only response is to bring in reinforcements and promise to look into the claims rights

activist football fans and players have been urging c. four to strip qatar off the world cup host title the international trade union confederation has been at the forefront of a campaign to stamp about labor abuses its general secretary says has been has been talking to r.t. as take a listen. so you are now in the twenty first century but.

the public is split the government's divided but religious instruction offers no alternative coming out we would pour it on the u.k.'s decision over full face veils and british life with skeptical citizens unconvinced by arguments over religious rights and. and france's president announces eye watering cuts to next

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economy cause a report on. good lumber jury to mccurry was able to build a new most sophisticated robot which fortunately doesn't give a darn about anything tim's mission to teach creation why it should care about humans in the world this is why you should care only. welcome back you're watching our t.v. as british judge has forbidden a muslim woman from covering her face while giving evidence in court the incident again rekindles the debate over just how far religious rights can be stretched while a recent survey found that sixty seven percent of british people oppose full face veils leaving little doubt as to the public stance so what's the solution to find out r t s point gauge opinion in london. 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 by 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 we shouldn't be judged because you can't see their faces just their religion and that's what you and dress would do in the us he should have been wearing i don't 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 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 ice or to talk about the issue i'm joined by columnist and 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 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 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 that it would be ridiculous to legislate against an entire religion effectively nibble around 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. while britain ponders what to do with full face veils other e.u. states are much less hesitant some have outdrive banned the cobs while they are neighbors are looking to follow suit in english cup takes

a look. 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 in 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 may bring 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 a million muslims although scholars say out of that 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 both in spain and italy moves have been made in the past to outlaw new 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 then this was come to one of the 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. britain's got an idea that some military make believe will make wars look less lethal the ministry of defense hopes that using drones mercenaries and anything that curbs losses among soldiers will convince the public into supporting conflict read more of that online . maurice really could be the planet nasa curiosity rover finds water in martian soil a cubic food which is enough for a couple bottles of liquid has the details. barack obama must go on trial for crimes against humanity says believe he is president of the u.n. general sam lee in new york ever more all us blamed his u.s. counterpart for his aggressive foreign policy r.t. spanish chalte spoke to him shortly afterwards here's what he said. i want to

remind your that when obama was elected president is there was to end all wars but during a time of his presidency the number of wars or lean creased libya for instance the us 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 that 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 of the threat exists for any country with vast natural energy resources especially willing 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 of the stories from around the world human rights groups say security forces

have killed at least fifty protesters during demonstrations across the dam they say manny died by gunshots to the head and chest reports are now emerging that authorities are shooting at demonstrators in the east of the capital hard to their rallies began earlier this week against fuel subsidy cuts but have since widened with angry citizens calling for an end to corruption and the sudan's president to quit. the number of people killed in the pakistan earthquake has now risen to five hundred fifteen with thousands waiting to be rescued seven point seven magnitude quake hit the south west on tuesday and it was felt more than a thousand kilometers away in new delhi it also led to the formation of a small island which is emitting flammable gas just off the coast. the french president announced this week that he'll gouge fifteen billion euros from next year's federal budget francois lon's already facing mounting pressure from the

right over france's relationship with europe as a commie shows precious little sign of an upturn as tests are still in our reports french citizens are markedly glum about the green outlook. yes you know where your promises are in the long run. the boiling over of frustration 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 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 an initiative at 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

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 this do they want european lewis to be stronger than national laws. 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 then 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 reforms. if the economic situation in france dramatically worsens compared to germany it will take france in a different political course that will diverged 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 on 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 after the break examines the terrorists who are behind kenya's wave of deadly violence this. 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 the can of those above us but how important is knowing geography anyways well 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 of where's damascus which challenges people to find syria's capital on a blank map he said that whether americans can find here on 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'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 started that intervention sounds nice knowing at least where a country is on the map as the first step in building informed opinion but that's just my opinion.

hello and welcome across all things are considered. to be inevitably of blowback in the perverse logic of terrorism ever since the us embarked on its so-called war on terror acts of terror and terrorist networks of political raided the recent deadly massacre in kenya is a case in point so is washington's anti-terrorist strategy like a cure that is worse than the disease. to the war on terror i'm joined by richard barrett a new york he is the senior vice president at the soufan group in washington we have to leave.