-russian bilateral relations that are undergoing some reassessment: european- russian relations also. there have been challenges both with visa liberalization questions, energy issues. and i think the europeans themselves are deeply examining what the health and future state of russian democracy, human rights, civil society and what it means for their relationship. so it's an important moment for consultation transatlanticly about russia as well. and i would suspect you'll hear, with the exception of norway, which is not a member of the eu, another strong statement for the transatlantic trade and investment partnership that will echo the theme of trade for the g-20, and i think you'll hear certainly from the swedish side how critical that will be for u.s. transatlantic relations. >> well, as i implied, but i guess i didn?t state explicitly, so thanks for the question - i wouldn't expect some major headline deliverables out of the g-20 summit. i think that has not been the pattern in the recent past and so certainly, if you're looking for large headline numbers or you know, initiatives

amid the russian sentence, the russians say, wait, wait, we have a peace plan now.he sirrans are going to give up their chemical weapons and the sirrans go, yep, we're going to do that. and he goes, look, let's have a united nations security council vote. sure. the president delays the vote in congress. we're going to wait, peace plan, peace plan, an hour before the u.n. votes on such a matter, we get the word that president putin says but, united states, you have to forego the use of military force if this is going to work. that's where we are. in the united states of america, the most powerful country on earth. the russians just threw a head fake and we bit. and we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] this is claira. to prove to you that aleve is the better choice for her, she's agreed to give it up. that's today? [ male announcer ] we'll be with her all day to see how it goes. [ claira ] after the deliveries, i was okay. now the ciabatta is done and the pain is starting again. more pills? seriously? seriously. [ groans ] all these stops to take more pills can be

once you call it the russian, then we're past it. to wait for the russians in their good time to produce a proposal that we will have a counterproposal -- it will go on ad infinitum. it's either to dismantle the weapons -- and the likelihood of that is like 1 in 100 -- when libya agreed to give up its weapons after being shocked by the iraq war, it took eight years. and when the civil war broke out in 2011, the inspection stopped entirely. so the idea of this being done is rathers small. but the russian objective is to either do it over a long period of time or tie us up and the momentum for any strike, any american involvement will dwindle to absolute zero. obama knows this and i think he sees it as a way out of a bluff he made that he can not carry out. >> mara, the president did five other interviews. one of them with pbs in which he was asked specifically about this idea and whether he had had conversations about this with vladimir putin and he said, quote, i did have those conversations. and this, meaning this proposal, is a con

hello and welcome to worlds apart from just built through an extraordinary vehicle for russian and american diplomacy that started with the threat of war and anger to be the major diplomatic breakthrough and while it is yet to produce any meaningful results in suppling the conflict in syria has clearly demonstrated how different peoples russians and americans view this war but can they find a mutual interest in putin and then to well to discuss that i'm now joined by one of the most venerated american diplomats who served as an ambassador to both the united nations and russia thomas pickering ambassador pickering it's a great honor to have you on the show think you are now i don't know if you would agree with me but i think these years russian clash over syria comes down not only to a difference of opinions or a difference of agendas but to significant extent a difference of diplomatic styles and the perception here in moscow is that. the united states sees russia as on call put it simply because russia wouldn't submit to the ten american position but diplomacy or negotiations and as i'm su

-russian diplomacy. >>> good day. i'm andrea mitchell in geneva where john kerry is about to open talks with his russian counterpart and trying to find out whether russia is really serious about getting rid of syria's chemical weapons. also how do you square that with vladimir putin's extraordinary op-ed in "new york times" denouncing the president's threat to use force against the regime and insisting the poison gas came from the rebels, not assad. new jersey senator bob menendez chairs foreign relations committee and joins us from capitol hill. senator, thank you very much. we're told that putin has privately been telling the president he knows who was responsible for that attack. lavrov has been talking to secretary kerry. but now you've got vladimir putin writing this op-ed. how did it make you feel? >> well, look, it turned my stomach. to read all of the elements of putin's op-ed, to suggest that, you know, he has a problem with american exceptionalism, the conduit to the path to peace when he has been the obstac

on the show thank you oxana well i don't know if you would agree with me but i think this year's russian clash over syria comes down not only to a difference of opinions or a difference of agendas but this significant expanded difference of diplomatic styles and the perception here in moscow is that. the united states sees russia as uncooperative simply because russia wouldn't submit to the ten american position but diplomacy or negotiations and as i'm sure you would know. is not about take it or leave it it's about give and take so my question to you is rather american diplomacy at this point of time is killed a quip and open to a dialogue a dialogue when it will treat russia any other country as equal i think oxana i would say in principle style plays a role but not the predominant role the predominant role is played by the positions of governments taken in their capitals often in response to domestic policy imperatives as well as foreign policy interests and to some extent helps to determine the differences in their approach i think what is quite fascinating is the degree to which the

what we've heard from te russian foreign ministry, this is not an exclusive russian, but something that has come about because of contacts between the two corrupts. they were reacting from the publicra, from secretary kerry yesterday. >> phil black in moscow, thank you. president obama has called this initiative a possible possible break through. that's what he told me yesterday. here's how senator john mccain reacted to all of this on cnn's "new day." >> i am very skeptical, very, very skeptical. but the fact is that you can't pass up this opportunity if it is one, but you've got to the right away determine whether it's real or not. >> it's bring in dana bash right now. the president's there up on capitol hill where you are, dana. he's making a personal appeal to senators from both parties. do we know how this russian proposal is actually impacting his message right now? >> it's thrown everything up in the air. and nobody knows exactly how things are going to fall. if i just can be set the scene for you, all of those people behind me, most of them reporters, some staff waiting for the

it can't be just russians. that's just not credible, given the fact that the russians have given them so many weapons for so many years. but the united states still cannot renounce the use of force because suppose that bashar al-assad, even though he is getting rid of his chemical weapons, uses other weapons, commits other atrocities. i mean, you just can't do that. so that would still be not viable for the united states to renounce action when we know that if this-- if it was progressing in a satisfactory fashion, the removal of those chemical weapons, the united states would not have a reason to use violence. >> ifill: so if this comes back to congress, if for some reason the diplomatic track peters how, how do you change minds in the senate, even your own party, and how do you change americans' means about getting involved? >> i think it's a tough slog. i think you have to identify more with american national security interest, particularly the threat to israel of us doing nothing, and the encouragement of i

test of the two countries as to whether they could reach agreement in my experience dealing with russian diplomats when we had a general approach that agreed in principle we were able to work out the details but ambassador pickering isn't it the case that since the early ninety nine his american diplomats have essentially been used to an idea of the united states being the one and only country calling the shots and a bad period is obviously coming to an end not only because a fresh of a because of many other countries coming to the fore so i wonder if they american diplomats have really made that man. until transition tyranny gauche ation rather than. you know blackmailing or coercion or deciding for either as you know real negotiation and power sharing international power sharing well i was a diplomat in russia from one nine hundred ninety three till the end of one nine hundred ninety six and then frequently dealt with russia when i was the undersecretary of state for political affairs into two thousand and my sense was that while there was a tendency particularly among political leader

from the russian of. homophobia is rife in this country one hundred percent true what i find it culturally interesting is that what is the why is the focus on russia when there are seventy six countries around the world that you know how far west laws to death penalty etc i guess is every single day from people saying how could you live in moscow the reality is that if two tourists or americans come to moscow if they have come in say the sense just like they were in any other country they will be safe. but i think you have a can i just we're not seeing we're not singling out russia we're not singling out russia here in london just in the last you can i not say but they went through the media is certainly is and i think i can tell you about some of his experiences that he's had with them not being interested. i mean i'm going to agree with that homophobia is rife in this country i absolutely agree also with your point of two americans living here and not expressing their sexual orientation openly will be a

but i spoke to a russian ambassador to the eu today.entually destroy syria's chemical weapons. so they're saying that publicly. >> that would be pretty good. that's a lot better than degrading and deterring. actually destroying those chemical weapons stockpiles would be ideal. but in the middle of a civil war, how complicated would be even assuming the russians and syrians are on board? how many people would be required? >> it would be extraordinarily complicated. first of all, you have to assume the syrians tell you exactly where the weapons are and all the weapons and all the information about the weapons. and that you don't have to play cat and mouse. but making that assumption, you've still got the fact that the rebels have a game going on, too. it's called their side of the civil war. they're not a unified command. i can't believe that they would agree to a cease-fire. in fact, some of the rebels have lusted after chemical weapons for years, the al qaeda elements. so i think this is something that if he were to do it and the syrian

and greenpeace protesters accused of piracy await their fate as a court herring kicks off in the russian port city of movements the activists earlier refused to give statements to investigators. focusing live from moscow twenty four seven you're watching out. thousands of people have thrown the streets of athens in protest against the far right golden dawn party police fired tear gas and stun grenades are outraged demonstrators who threw petrol bombs and stones at the party's headquarters with the latest wave of anger over the murder of an anti fascist rock musician starved to death by a man who admitted to being a member of golden dawn or polls show that since the killing of. greece's the largest party has lost considerable public support this comes as no great surprise the level of racist violence has jumped significantly in crisis play greece let's have a look at her on the map you can see the number of racist attacks several years ago but today there are hardly any empty spots on the map of racists crime from a discussion on a disturbing trend we're joined now by artist lucy craft of

of expression for russian peaceful people. the russian consul general you have russia and i have no idea where all that is trying to build their salience and. we they gaze opened the door of the european court for the public for the freedom of assembly of all the russian people on this issue there is no problem when they're going to russia well that's what you do there are seventy percent of people we have to change and we have to fight for the change of the public opinion we have to persuade the politicians to change their opinion and to educate the russian population this is very important and i am glad if you will have because i was reading in one of the moscow newspapers that that opinion here is so conservative this is very young country only twenty years old it will take about fifteen years for it to a change its attitude if we didn't start it in two thousand and six it would never change if we didn't start this fight in two thousand and six we would not have the disease not the european court we would not have the un de

and there is anger among russian journalists as a photographer is remanded alongside the greenpeace arctic oil rig protesters for two months. to start to come to life in moscow. welcome to the program. now there's 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 now we 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 t

a russian corps denies bail to a greenpeace protester accused of piracy used to remain in custody for two months as other activists that stormed in oil platform in the arctic await their fate. absences and gholston street violence police firing tear gas if you were trying to storm the offices of the far right golden dawn party following the killing of an anti-racism musician. chemical compliance the u.n. security council inches closer to resolution on syria's toxic weapons though the use of force has been a stumbling block. this is an idea coming to life from the russian capital i'm marina josh and welcome to the program and we'll begin with breaking news here an r.t.s. greenpeace activist accused of piracy has been denied bail backcourt and the port city of more mans and is to remain in custody for two months thirty protesters were arrested after trying to scale an oil platform over drilling in russia's arctic waters all of them have refused to give statements to investigators are just going to go on joining us now live for more on this. now while do you tell us what's behind the boa

somehow successful with the russians. can't -- i don't know how he can say never mind. >> he wants more of a coalition. he wants more allies. he wants more time to bring more people along. i'm not -- i could see a scenario absolutely where in the next few -- he creates a diplomatic opening and it doesn't work out and there is a strike by the u.s. but i think that there was enough wiggle room created here where we don't necessarily think this will happen. >> david kay said this takes a long time in iraq it took years. there was a deal we'll let the inspectors in it took literally years before the conclusion was drawn, okay, saddam's not really actually serious about this. this could theoretically. >> that is because they weren't there? >> that's a whole other thing. although he was claiming they were. >> they weren't. maybe that's why it took so long. >> there's a danger here also of making it seem too simple, right? we're going to strike. we're going to find the chemical weapons. and we're going to get rid of them. and th

it is it is surprising that the russian government kept. about it. for so long time without any comment have you spoken to president looking about this issue or. talked to look at. you and the reason we keep silent on this issue is because we want to resolve this question not take it. of course it has to be resolved and very final question. with the brush that. you met with david canterbury. you met with david cameron very late ok and b.b.n. minutes worth of russia in london you met with the british prime minister very late last night how would you characterize your relationship with david cameron and are there any problems all obstacles all it's yeah well as you say. well our understanding of the situation in syria is different but this is known to all. but we all sort of the word. russia u.k. relationship is. our trade relations improving our national reading some cream you see. our relationship with the u.k. . in a sense special politically because both the u.k. and russia are as a permanent member so the u.n. security council. and we regularly co

>> >> well, i don't know. >> how about russians?max fisher in the "washington post" interviewed michael doran, the middle east expert at brookings. >> yes. >> he is scathing. he has tweeted eight truths about how obama and the administration has been played by the russians. he says assad will never under any conditions truly relinquish his cw. he says that putin -- this is something i want to ask you. if it's not true that putin believed that the threat of force was going to be used an therefore came to this situation with syria, do you believe this would, mike doran is saying, putin, recognizing obama had boxed himself in provided him with an excuse to least battle field with honor? >> no. i have a very different interpretation. which is i don't think that actually secretary kerry necessarily meant to put this out there. but that once he did, i think the syrians are so afraid of these strikes that they grabbed onto it, then putin grabbed onto it. and actually i don't necessarily believe the russians have any intention of doing it.

the russians of course, themselves can help us.egime in syria claims, assert that they will be very forthright in making sure they take inspectors and representatives of the u.n. and international community to the sites. it has to be a complete and total removal -- >> you're talking about a relatively short timetable. do you have a number in mind? do you have a sense of how long the regime should be given to, at the very least, account for, you know, or open up bringing inspectors to their sites, you know, destroying them is a whole other issue. >> if it were up to me and i had to make my call, it would say it would be days for sure and not weeks. some have suggested a window of maybe two weeks. we'll have to work with the administration and those who can give us a better sense how long this might take. it has to be a reasonable length of time, but not such a length that you get into a delay and therefore the pressure and the urgency to deal with this crime is diminished or degraded. >> so you're saying you would want the syrian re

do you think the russians may be serious?ecause there's all kinds of historic reasons they would be serious. they want the regime of assad to survive. they don't want more islamist terrorists taking over in that region. they want to hold onto their proxy and ports. they don't want more crazy people -- islamist zealots heading into the former soviet union. >> you just laid it out. there is a rational argument as to why would trussians be serios here? why would they convince syrians to do this? simple. they've come to the conclusion that syria could do this without chemical weapons. and if they don't, they could degrade the military to a point where they won't survive. it seems to me it's obvious what the russians decided to do and what the syrians have also decided to do. which is this is the best path they have for that regime surviving. now, you wonder how's that going to play out right now? the most unhappy people politically it's been stunning to me that so many members of congress, many of whom do not have a single nice t

security council as ban ki-moon wants were to pass a russian resolution with russian and chinese support trying to destroy syria's chemical weapons stockpiles, that would certainly offer the president of the united states a way out of this crisis. he could come out and say look, there are not going to be any more chemical weapons attacks if all of this is serious. >> he could, wolf. it is a blow for the administration's strategy though because they really wanted to use this attack as a way of sending a signal, a very strong signal about the use of chemical weapons. he had point out secretary kerry says assad has used these weapons perhaps in the teens, that is several times. it is also clear that this was a -- an occasion, the administration was going to use to shift the balance of power away from assad and toward the rebels. so they lose that option and they loss that ability to degrade assad's air power in particular. six airfields they were planning to strike. the whole thing, however, does demonstrate, wolf, something very striking. that is, if you take this syrian acceptance of this

it was an amazing experience and that was a big jealous of those russian efforts who competed at the world indorse in two thousand and six i really wanted to compete here in moscow so that all my relatives and friends could see me in action everything was great and i was impressed to they'll deny zeeshan the support from the crowd especially in the last couple of this was just amazing. seven of us has been something of a late bloomer her first major international title could be aged twenty four of the world indoors in doha in two thousand and ten and a year later she would go one better winning the world our doors in daegu in a time of one point five five eight seven which still remains her personal bias. i think the early in my career i wasn't in the best possible physical condition however this is something i've been working on and by the time i reached twenty four twenty five i was approaching my true potential and this gave me the pledge from i needed to fight it out to win medals seven of ovals also named european athlete of the year in two thousand and eleven and things were go

nothing for the russian support. for us to call a very close negotiation and call the two gratian as well as the involvement of the experts in implementing this plan. working on all the areas that you all very well know. there's no need to mention them again. we are committed to working together with damascus. this decision stays. what about terrorism implementation the time frame for work. the geneva agreement says. until the end of the first quarter of the next year. which will cause injury and his soul is saying the numbers of lost in the one hundred ten thousand of people who died in a syrian conflict i decided to find out whether the numbers came from because the syrian government never even i found a website where the opposition post the names of their victims as you know i was captured so i found the names of people who are presenting the other side is the fact that the un keeps giving numbers of losses on one side only do you think it's an index of biased position by the un in terms of. do you think the un is

. >> i have instructed john kerry to talk directly to the russians and run this to ground and if we canaust these diplomatic efforts and come up with a formula that gives the international community a verifiable, enforceable mechanism to deal with these chemical weapons in syria, then i'm all for it. >> reporter: he is crediting the russians with the idea they turn over the chemical stockpiles to the community to be destroyed but it wasn't the russian's idea, it came from an off the cuff remark from the secretary of state, john kerry and he dismissed it as a possibility. >> he could turn over every bit of the chemical weapons to the international community in the next week, turn it over, all of it. without delay and allow a full and total accounting for that, but he is not about to do it. >> reporter: the president's comments seem to contradict what we are hearing from his own staff at the white house at the state department, they spent monday trying to distance themselves from kerry's comments saying it was not an official ultimatium and called it russia's idea. >> he was talking about

the russians yanked it back. now tonight president obama reportedly is going to call for a diplomatic pause. in his live primetime oval office address, he's basically going to accomplish what he could have done in a one sentence statement rather than having us whip sawed back and forth. now you have the president -- the international community, that's more academic speak. we must negotiate now with assad. before the united states policy was that assad must go. so does he -- he doesn't have to go anymore? we're supposed to trust president putin? who basically wants more influence in the middle east? you have assad, we're supposed to trust? he just two days ago said to charlie rose he didn't have chemical weapons. now they're saying they would turn things over? we're putting our trust in people who have proven to us that we cannot trust them. just a month ago president putin could not even do the one diplomatic thing that president obama asked for, which was not to move immunity to richard snowden. he did it. >> ed

what about the russians and the iranians? you have chaos if not a continued civil war maybe gets out of control. things will not return to what they were. they have issues to worry about. i just wonder whether there is not a little bit of wobble. quick summary reading too much into this? the supreme leader is staying on message. we saw his statements coming out also pretty much against the same line. are we reading too much into this or do you feel that they may be wavering haunted by chemical weapons? >> they're trying to be on the safe side just in case. i doubt iran and hezbollah will give up at this moment because they have supported him fully until this moment whether militarily, financially, or actual forces on the ground. i really seriously doubt there will be any change of position at this moment. however, i would like to comment on one point which is the ineffectiveness of specific strikes. nothing suggests so far that diplomacy could change position which is what we have seen in the last months, however we have seen

>> well, i don't know. >> how about russians?max fisher in the "washington post" interviewed michael doran, the middle east expert at brookings. >> yes. >> he is scathing. he has tweeted eight truths about how obama and the administration is being played by the russians. he says assad will never under any conditions truly relinquish his cw. he says that putin -- this is something i want to ask you. if it's not true that putin believed that the threat of force was going to be used an therefore came to this situation with syria, do you believe this would, mike doran is saying, putin, recognizing obama had boxed himself in provided him with an excuse to leave the battlefield with honor? >> no. i have a very different interpretation. which is i don't think that actually secretary kerry necessarily meant to put this out there. but that once he did, i think the syrians are so afraid of these strikes that they grabbed onto it, then putin grabbed onto it. and actually, i don't necessarily believe the russians have any intention of doing

, but the russians say the u.s.le or there's no deal. that's not going over well on capitol hill on either side of the aisle. last week a senate committee did approve a deal that authorized the use of force, and now senators from both parties tell us they are working on a new version. for that we turn to mike emmanuel on capitol hill. >> reporter: the options in syria was struggling with many lawmakers and a group of eight republican senators are working together. their plan is calling on the united nations to pass a resolution saying bashar al assad's regime used chemical weapons and that a u.n. team would be sent in to syria to remove those chemical weapons by a certain date. if not, the u.s. would be authorized to use military action. >> the idea of forcing assad to turn over to the u.n. the entire stockpile would obviously be a far more effective means of getting rid of these very dangerous weapons. >> reporter: one issue right now is nobody is certain the russians are truly serious about being helpful. >> there

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 ge

the response from the russians came afterwards.t was an american proposal, and the way he said it it meant this week, immediately, so why are we waiting? if this really is what obama had spoken with putin about which, of course, i don't believe for a second, when he was at the g-20, assume that it's true, why didn't obama seize the moment and say this is an american proposal. we're glad the russians agree, or at least in principle, and here's what the proposal s.you've got a week. we're not going to wait. a resolution that will go before the security council by friday and then we'll send inspectors by monday. that's the american proposal. why are we sitting around and waiting for the russian proposal that we know is going to be a meaningless one? >> why does samantha power not take a u.s. potential resolution to the u.n. security council? i mean, it seems like they had the votes if russia is signed on. >> well, i think she and kerry both are having trouble keeping up with the boss. i mean, think of what's happened to kerry here mor

discuss the russian peace proposal. designed to destroy syria's chemical weapons stockpile. certainly discuss dominating the discussions on syria right now, dominating those discussions from the kremlin to capitol hill hre in washington. joining us now, the house minority whip, steny hoyer, the democrat from maryland. congressman, thanks for coming in. >> glad to be with you, wolf. >> let's talk about this russian plan to destroy syria's chemical weapons. i assume you think this is all positive that potentially it could bear fruit, is that right in. >> certainly i think it's a very positive possibility. and if it bears fruit, it's going to be a very good resolution of this issue. as you said earlier, talking to fareed, not just the deterring, but the removal of chemical weapons and the inability to use them at all. that's a very positive prospect. let's hope it it's real and that's what, of course, secretary kerry is now trying to determine. the syrians have sent a letter to the united nations saying that they're going

and russian intelligence agree they have in their chemical weapons arsenal. so there's a lot of pressure that secretary kerry and the u.s. are trying to keep on the russians to follow through and get their bashar al-assad to hand over these chemical weapons. that's why secretary kerry travels from israel on to paris to meet with the saudi, the british, the french, and the turkish foreign ministers to say, "i know a week ago i was asking for your help in a u.s.-led strike. now i'm asking to you help support us at the united nations." but the obama administration says that threat of u.s.-led strikes still stands. it's still on the table. >> schieffer: all right, margaret. and all this will then shift in the coming weeks to the united nations once he gets back to this country. margaret brennan, thank you so much. we want to go now to damascus where cbs news correspondent elizabeth palmer has been reporting for almost three weeks now, the only american television reporter there. liz, what has been the reaction there to all these developments? >> reporter: the rem

and there's anger among russian journalists as a photographer is remanded alongside the greenpeace arctic oil rig protesters for two months. very good evening for me kevin owner of moscow if you just joined us this is r.t. international top story tonight for a minister sergei lavrov warned against hijacking crucial decisions and bringing them into action without the un security council's go ahead he referred to the situation in syria as he addressed the u.n. security council earlier on friday now this comes ahead of a landmark vote on a draft resolution overseeing syria's chemical disarmament and russia has long been insisting the motion doesn't contain any threat of outside military action our senior political correspondent in this in our report. one of the main points that foreign minister love rove brought up was the fact that chemical weapons is more than acceptable they cannot be used but you can't go around accusing and threatening action without any kind of proof when you have the west still blaming also for the attack and russia clearly saying that they have proof that it's much m

several russian news services removed photographs from their websites in protest of the detention of a photographer held together with greenpeace activists who tried to scale an arctic boil rick. u.k. ponders the role of the full face veil in british lives with a skeptical public unconvinced by arguments over religious rights and necessity. this is r.t. coming to you live from moscow with me marina joshing. now there's 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 or he said he's now has more on the deal which seemed to be impossible from the outset . that attack and wrestle 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 all

so it now appears that the russian plan to get syria to handle hand over its chemical weapons has been in the works for a while and wasn't just a random proposal following john kerry's london speech and comment to a question areas president obama told reporters at a white house press conference last summer that any use of chemical weapons in syria's civil war would be a red line essentially backed himself into a corner and he told the rebels here's all you have to do to get my attention and now it looks like a deal that the president discussed last week in private conversation with president putin may be the best way to get out of to get out of going to war with syria for more on this i'm joined now by michael ratner president emeritus of the center for constitutional rights michael welcome back to the program good to be with you again tom it's always great to see you michael i so value your opinions things are still sort of in flux with this russian plan but i'm curious your thoughts on this arc of the power of the previous week what's been what's been going on for the last few days w

focusing from the heart of the russian capital this is a young kerry just. now thousands of people have thrown the streets of athens in protest against the far right golden dawn party police fired tear gas and stun grenades at outraged demonstrators who threw petrol bombs and stones at the party's headquarters was the latest wave of anger over the murder of an anti fascist rap musician stabbed to death by a man who admitted to being a member of golden dawn ohs show that since the killing of problems for greece's third largest party has lost considerable public support for this comes as no great surprise the level of racist violence has jumped significantly in crisis play greece was have a look on the map you can see the number of races attacks several years ago but today there are hardly any empty regions on the matter that are free of racist crime earlier i spoke to artie's lucy kavanagh fu has investigated the disturbing trend. this is the first time this far right neo fascist group as it's been described to golden dawn actually targeted not a migrant and

greenpeace protesters await their fate as a russian court decides on piracy charges against them after activists tried to storm an oil rig in the arctic. costing lives twenty four hours a day you're watching. our thousands of people have thrown the streets of athens in protest against the far right golden dawn party police fired tear gas and stun grenades at outrage demonstrators who threw petrol bombs and stones at the party's headquarters what is the latest wave of anger over the murder of an anti fascist rapper musician stabbed to death by a man who admitted to being a member of golden dawn polls show that since the killing of power greece's third largest party has lost considerable public support this comes as no great surprise the level of racist violence has jumped significantly in crisis played greece let's have a look and on this map here you can see the number of races attacks several years ago but day there are hardly any empty spots on the map free of racist crime my colleague sean thomas discussed a disturbing trend with artie's lucy catherine off. this was the largest show

. ♪ >>> the russians happen to have a proposal to settle all of this. >> we accept the russian proposal>> this represents a potentially positive development. >> i'm sure some leader, somewhere, of a country went to this guy right here and said, you know what, he's gonna strike syria. you guys better get involved in this. >> the russians coming to the -- bringing to the table a proposal. the president deserves a great deal of credit for. >> turn over every single bit of his chemical weapons to the international community, in the next week, turn it over. all of it. >> these are conversations i've had directly with mr. putin. >> and puti says well, monday morning we'll probably do something about it. sure enough, here we are! >> now has muscle because of the prospect of a threat. >> we're skeptical, because we don't think the administration has a strategy for day two, day three, day four. >> and i have to say, that's just not the case. >> he should have watched fox news to tell him what he should have done. >> they're doing their strategery. >> or who he should have been. >> ronald reagan,

will sign up to that the russians propose. look, we know roughly the size of the syrian stockpile in tons of both classical mustard agent and nerve agent. sarin and the much worse agent vx. we're talking about ton quantities. you're right, it's a difficult environment. i would say it's an environment without parallel for international inspectors to operate in to find, determine, verify the truthfulness of a syrian statement as to what they have and where it is and then to even think about moving onto the dismantlement, degrading, destroying the chemical agent itself. how much it would take? look, this is a civil war going on. a lot of what it takes is going to depend on what the security situation, but even if he removed the statement that there is a civil war going on and you were talking about ton quantities scattered around a large country in which you depend on the host country to tell you where they are and you're going to move to verify and check, you're talking about a very large number of inspectors and don't forget, r

also to the degree that the russian proposal is accepted. >> that's what the russians want, too. for the u.s. to remove the threat of force. but the goal posts for american and russian leaders seems very far apart. they don't even agree on who fired poison gas on whom. russian president vladimir putin claims it was the rebels, not the regime. he said so in an op ed for the "new york times." he also challenged the idea of american exceptionalism, essentially telling everyone in the united states to stop thinking we're so special. the times titled it "a plea for caution from russia" but it actually reeds like machiavellian political pokings tucked inside a scolding wrapped in the illusion of a plea, truly the russian nesting doll of oppeds. all day reaction to it. but beyond the political reactions a ticking clock. there's not much time to get a workable solution down. the second and final scheduled day of the summit is already underway. our international correspondent jim sciutto is standing by live in geneva. how do things stand after the first day of negotiations there? >> repor

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