freedom of speech little doubt the freedom to. friday is expected to see rare unity and the u.n. security council as members could vote on a syria resolution which has been elusive for years. several russian news services removed photographs from their websites in protest of the detention of a toggle for hell together with greenpeace activists who tried to scale an arctic oil rig. and living how to bring the beautiful game to doha human rights groups sports fans and footballers calling fifa to move the world cup after revelations of horrific conditions causing daily deaths among laborers.

in moscow watching r t m or even josh welcome to the program. now there's been much needed a breakthrough at the u.n. security council as a 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 milledge reaction arjun he said now has more on the deal which seemed to be impossible from the outset. 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 outlines 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 of binding and enforceable tax to eliminate stockpiles of according to the geneva according to the geneva agreement put forward by russia and the u.s.

now the resolution doesn't allow for immediate chapter seven action of the u.n. 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 signal 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 it's 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 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 violations of the resolution also fully enforced 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 it calls 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 is breast foreign minister sergei the pro will be addressing the u.n. to. assembly on a friday he will also be meeting once again with his u.s. counterpart john kerry and the u.n. envoy to syria and i think they do have a lot of reason to be a little more optimistic that there could be a way out it might be a bit of a different atmosphere at meetings this friday a way out of this two and a half year deadlock over the syria crisis. now media reports suggest that at least thirty 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 eugene puryear

who says that the furor over chemical weapons in syria should take attention from the rest of the fighting there 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 fund as they have the opposition an arm the opposition of the silicate that are happening and try to deepen the conflict over there was it 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 not 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 in the bargain particularly after they so enthusiastically pursued the russian proposal for a diplomatic solution. across 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 latest hour here on our t.v. sophie shevardnadze talks to a 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 that 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. to lebanon's ex chief commander. at

a spirit of diplomatic optimism at the u.n. also extended to a rare account or which saw the u.s. secretary of state made his iranian counterpart for they are a country's highest level talks in a generation their meeting centered on iran's atomic program and fell within the framework of a seven nation to give speaking to the washington post iranian president hassan rouhani expressed hope of more cooperation with the u.s. and that he wants to reach a deal within months the shift in tone was widely welcomed both sides remain cautious saying actions will speak louder than words international law professor and middle east expert. as iran is trying to win the hearts and minds of people worldwide. around fear of further be comfortable position.

the policy of. the pretty different sort of material hard. it 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 need to wage a war against that it has verified it is the revolution 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. of iraq obama going on trial for crimes against humanity that's what the president of believe is calling for he explicitly tells r t what's behind his harsh accusations that's coming up soon here on r.t. . meantime russian journalists are protesting against the detention of

a photographer who took pictures of the greenpeace activist attempt to scale an oil rig in the arctic ocean he's being held in remand with environmentalists most of whom will remain in custody for two more months pandering an investigation got each town has more on the story. the court in the russian city of mormons decided to twenty two people were onboard the arctic sunrise will remain in jail for the next two months is investigation tedious and that's not a sentence that's basically time that the board gives for investigators to do their job and to set their case there will be another hearing on monday as we understand and the court in the studio so for months will decide what to do with the other eight members of the crew 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 there were thirty people citizens of eighteen different countries among them was a russian photojournalist the nice seeing it all 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 russian journalists have signed a petition with these the photojournalist saying he was doing his job to one russian online news outlet in the dark you claim sinew golf was on board the ship on their assignment to the growing peace activists were detained last week maybe more russian authorities warnings while trying to line the clock for the world by

greenpeace says that after the peaceful protest against oil drilling in the arctic russian authorities believe whatever their intentions are the activists technically broke the law person authorities maintain the greek is international and ignored meaning putting one. not to. the restricted or the seat 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 the action 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 there 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 deaths people crammed into filthy shacks and long work days in torrid 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 doe into what some describe as a miracle city the government brought in a raft of immigrant workers to get the capital ready for the two thousand and twenty two van and investigations revealed laborers have been dying at a shocking pace because of atrocious conditions so far in the forty's only response is to bring in reinforcements and promise to look into the claims rights activists

football fans and players have been urging seesawed to strip qatar off the world cup full style the international trade union confederation has been at the forefront of a campaign to stamp about labor abuses its general secretary has been talking to r.t. . the months. many of them skilled workers they are forced to live in squalor nobody has been to those labor camps where you have i ten twelve sometimes more to roone would accept and certainly no c.e.o. would accept this son or daughter living in those conditions then of course they

are often abused underpaid the work is dangerous more than one worker a day will die and guitar and yet even if they want to leave they can't leave the country because they're basically the owner that they're owned by the employer who has to sign an exit visa or in data transfer of working right help their part passports are often held against the law it's appalling it's appalling and frankly it could be fixed we've offered the government solutions they have no political will to fix it. now the public is split the government's divided but religious instruction offers no alternative coming up poor and the case indecision over full face veils and british lives with skeptical citizens unconvinced by arguments over religious rights and necessity. and france's president announces eye watering cuts to next year's budget one more citizens point a finger at you are blaming the e.u. for dragging down france that's coming out.

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two types free. download free blog quality video for your media projects free media. dot com. welcome back you're watching r.t. a british judge has forbidden a muslim woman from covering her face while giving evidence in court to into. again rekindles the debate over just how far religious rights can be stretched a recent story found out sixty six percent and british people oppose full face veils leaving little doubt as to the public stance so what's the solution to find out r t gaged 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 one 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 out any 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 shop which places would be interact with people especially people who don't know this 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 just starts to talk about the issue i'm joined by columnist and be live

from danny to be there 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 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 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 this should be raised 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 and that it would be you know ridiculous to legislate against an entire religion effectively nebular ramdani 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. while britain ponders what to do with a full face veils other e.u. states are much less has it and some have outcry banned the cobs while their neighbors are looking to follow suit 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 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 belen 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 number only a few hundred women wearing the cobs of 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 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 to. against the need for all to respect the law. britain's got an idea that some military may believe will make wars look less lethal the

ministry of the fans hopes that using drones or series. anything that curbs the losses among soldiers will convince the public into supporting conflict read more and out online. and mars so really could be the web lands nasa curiosity rover finds water and martian soil by keeping food which is enough for a couple bottles of r.t.d. has the details. barak obama must go in trial for crimes against humanity believe us president at the u.n. general stanley in new york at a more always blamed his u.s.

counterpart for his aggressive foreign policy. spoke to him shortly afterwards and here's what he said. i want to remind that when obama was elected president has said that his aim was to end all wars but during a time of his presidency the number of wars only increased 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 with fight against the leaders 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 that the threat exists for any country with vast natural energy resources. especially when gas i understand this is a direct threat to venice whether 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 stories from around the world the number of people killed in the pakistan earthquake has now risen to five hundred fifteen with thousands waiting to be rescued the seven point seven magnitude quake hit the southwest on tuesday and 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. a residential building has collapsed in india's financial capital mumbai killing at least six people sixty nine others were rescued including a toddler but many more are still believed to be trapped under the rubble being blamed on poor construction a problem which has caused several buildings to come down in the area and the high demand for housing. police have used tear gas to disperse thousands of protesters in sudan's largest city and angry at a deadly crackdown by authorities here rights groups say security forces have

killed at least fifty protesters during nationwide demonstrations they say many died by gunshots to the head and chest there were hours began earlier this week against fuel subsidy cuts but have since widened with calls force advanced president to step down. as a terrorist group that slaughtered more than sixty civilians during an all out assault on a shopping mall in kenya has struck again says it's killed three kenyans after attacking two villages near the somali border at nineteen thirty g.m.t. artie's cross-talk looks at what's so the seeds of the violence. i think we have to look at this in two ways first sold as a somali issue going on here and then there's an international issue if you look at the statement made by osha about the westgate tuck one thing was kenyans you better get out of somalia or else you'll face more than this and the second thing was the international community you've got a substantial support in the kenyans in supporting the others in fighting in in

somalia we are meddling in somalia targeted assassinations air strikes drone strikes all of affected to billions there. they've scattered islamist groups but also created new ones and clothing al shabaab so yeah the idea of blowback here is it a surprise we are we are seeing. the remnants are of the outgrowth of what our policy in the united states policy it's been in the last twelve years there. the french president announced this week that you would fifteen billion euros from next year's federal budget francois alonzo already facing mounting pressure from the right over france's relationship with you or as the economy shows precious little sign of an upturn as this are so you know reports french citizens are markedly glum about the grim outlook. but you know

that's where your promises man. the boiling over frustrate caught on camera priority is employment we need to eat but at this point the bad news the 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 this 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 avoid 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 a family the transfer phenomenon is common meaning the grandparents are helping

their grandchildren find the study. for much longer. and then there's euro skepticism it's rises reflected not just in opinion polls but increasingly in the election outcomes as well. hold a referendum in january two thousand and fourteen the french do they want to stay in the european union do they want to stay with. do they want european lula's to be stronger than national levels. 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 or france 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 craze a complicated conflict inside the e.u. if that happens tensions will get worse on a collision course that will rock is already unstable the boat as germany itself is dealing with growing add to your frustration over having to bailout the naturally on healthy neighbors. seem to stick to germany only because an anglo merkel thing never said publicly the front is belongs with something you're. not yet at least to us are still your r t paris and coming out party sophie shevardnadze looks at the syrian conflict the consequences for the country's neighbors.

says the media leave us so we leave the baby. by the sea bush is secure. your party there's a. push is that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. to. this point be an expensive car sort of. like the new fashion show. also designed. in the best shop windows. but. luxury.