terror returns to the wrong the country's wrong to find it was to violence since the u.s. withdrawal as the way with bomb attacks leave multiple hundred dead to al qaida announces a resurgence that. the syrian government statements that chemical weapons won be teased in its internal conflict creates a media scare stories with the hype on what the stockpiles might be deployed against a foreign aggressor. bad palestinians or hundreds the rise of the free entry to egypt a landmark move easing a longtime blockade on gaza and seen as cairo under its new ease them as president of the warming to hamas.

hello and welcome to r.c. twenty four hour news live from moscow i am you know ship of our timeline story now a string of coordinated bomb attacks in iraq more than a dozen cities and killed over a hundred people there was to violence in the country since the u.s. troop withdrawal the blastula mainly tarnishing security forces government officials and shiite neighborhoods the offensive occurred only days after al-qaeda announced a major comeback in iraq. what this means for the country and the whole region. the self-appointed leader of the iraqi branch of al qaida abu barker all baghdadi has announced the resurgence of terror in the country and clearly indicated there is more to come moreover he dedicated more than half of his online speech to the uprising in syria they happen to be staunch supporters of the rebels they are various organizations are pointing at the expansion of terrorist networks in syria which effectively fuels civil war there so this iraqi based all cried a leader also. warned the syrian rebels quote not to accept

a new rule or constitution but god's will and islamic law otherwise quote you will lose your blast revolution end of quote so there he is the mastermind of the horrible attacks in iraq that in his support for the rebels in syria to talk a little bit more about the lessons of iraq i'm joined by michael o'brien author of the book called america's failure in iraq sir you were based in baghdad at the height of the insurgency there so with the u.s. invasion in iraq six tarion war blossomed rampant insurgency terror which still continues to kill iraqis on a regular basis in june alone nearly two hundred people were killed in similar attacks across iraq when the u.s. decided to go in do you think they they didn't know how divided iraq was and what the consequences the regime change would lead to it was never really seriously consider. and i say this because of the very simplistic attitude the very cavalier

attitude of the bush administration of which i was in the bush administration for two years so the know about it though they knew about it they just i don't they really don't think they factored it in at all everything the united states did lead to where we are where they are interact today it was totally destabilized. and then you get the tension between the sunni and the shia saddam was a sunni which is a minority of the population al qaida all they want to do al qaida in iraq is they'll kill sunni's so that the shiites take the blame bill kill shiites so that the sunni will take the blame they really don't care all they want to do is kill people and foment unrest michael o'brien thank you sir. there's terrible violence going on in syria and it is now an all out civil war those who are against military intervention there remind how divided syria is. between different ethnic groups

really just communities it's a politic character sensually in many war and if a solution is forced on them from outside from out of syria the powder keg could blow into a never ending civil war iraq is an example of the us carried out regime change their civil war broke out and killed more than a hundred thousand civilians not to mention millions of refugees as the recent attacks road to iraq still remains a hotbed of terror in washington i'm going to check on. so the obvious presence of terror groups linked to own kind in syria has led to major fear is that the country's chemical weapons might end up in the wrong hands they syrian government has only recently acknowledged the existence of stockpiles but insisted they are secure they'd never be used in the current internal conflicts oh she's on a boy who brings us the details from damascus. monday's news conference here in damascus foreign ministry spokesman did mean that syria indeed possesses chemical weapons something that nonproliferation experts have suggested all along and that

the syrian authorities have a number. deny damascus has never signed the chemical weapons convention so technically it's admitting to having those chemical stockpiles is not a while ration of any international treaty which all of that syrian officials have long suggested that they need some sort of deterrent against israel similarly non-attachment its nuclear weapons program in terms of keep abilities syria is believed to possess as nervous agents and mustard gas as well as missile capabilities to deliver those weapons those chemicals are believed to be produced five facilities around the country including. in hundreds and home of those c.d.'s as you will have seen major fighting between the opposition forces and the army. several israeli and western officials over the past few months have raised concerns

that if bashar assad's regime indeed falls those chemicals would fall into terrorist hands and that while the syrian authorities hausler to downplay this thread they're saying that all the weapons including chemical weapons are now under direct supervision and control of the syrian army despite those. statements it is believed to be a considerable threat and the western policy makers should consider that as one of the negative outcomes of the support for the opposition forces now over the past few weeks. speculations in western media suggesting that. the government may use those chemicals in its fight against armed groups. these suggestion was kind to goree quick deny these press conference in damascus and monday the foreign ministry spokesman says that no chemical or biological weapons

will ever be used during the crisis in syria no matter what developments inside syria he also said that all these speculations were part of a major media can be made to prepare international public opinion or military intervention in syria and did it falls pretext of weapons of mass destruction similar to the one that toppled saddam hussein. and american author and radio talk show host dr kevin barrett believes the international media hype thing of the issue of chemical weapons to pave the way for possible external action. misters remind us of the bogus accusations that were floating around prior to the unprovoked invasion of iraq there have been all sorts of stories and rumors over the past couple of months about the syrian opposition training with chemical weapons in turkey with the intention of setting up

a false flag events in syria to be blamed. government and it seems that perhaps that's what's in the kurds it may be that there is a and attempt to pave the way for this by preparing public with the idea that this evil syrian regime uses chemical weapons. and don't forget that you can always get updates on this is to ration in syria by following the tweets about a news team that and our correspondent is on a boy case in damascus and currently she's describing how lives in this here in capital is getting back to normal and one of these signs of that is the return of traffic jams which change that has is actually encouraging after days of the roads so follow her talks on a boycott underscore r.t. . egypt is allowing palestinians a free entry to its territory in a landmark move ending part of a long time blockade on gaza it was imposed by a zero with the help of egypt five years ago after hamas won democratic elections

to take control of the palestinian territory but with the president from the muslim brotherhood now leading egypt the move is widely seen as a friendly gesture to how much as an offshoot of the brotherhood which operates independently middle east correspondent. cairo is allowing palestinians a free entry into egypt effectively ending a five year blockade on the gaza strip what this means is that palestinians can now leave gaza with the same will apply to palestinians in the west bank and jerusalem this unprecedented move effectively inlets travel restrictions that have. been imposed on gaza as for the past five years they've been penned into this tiny mediterranean coastal city by a blockade imposed by israel but also assisted by the egyptian authorities egypt's interest was because of its fear of for her mass and the spirit of islamic militancy but what we see now is a change largely in part because of stupid meetings that were held in the past few

days between the palestinian president mahmoud abbas the new egypt president dr mohamed morsi of the muslim brotherhood as well as the leader of hamas which controls the gaza strip khaled mashal so this certainly is a gesture of support by the egyptians to the palestinians in a separate and unrelated move israel has just announced that it is demolishing eight palestinian villages in the south hebron hills now the announcement says that the land is needed for training by the israeli defense forces by exercises that they carry out what we understand is that the farmers we still have access to their land to work the land when the soldiers are not there so this would be on the weekend and on jewish holidays but the rest of the time the land will be used by the idea of so you are seeing this almost parallel but completely opposing effort by cairo and tell everyone the one hand the egyptians extending

a hand of friendship while the israelis further is strange in themselves and isolating themselves not only from the region but from the egyptian neighbors paullus there are to tell of is. still ahead for you this hour as the eurozone debt crisis impacts on the u.k. fears of a complete currency collapse forced wealthy europeans to invest in british property hotspots find out how that's coming at a high social cost for local people struggle to buy. guns georgia was hailed by many outsiders as one of the world's best young democracies but it will. from those on the inside tell a very different story. a staple of america's war of rude drones that might soon be used to spy on the country's citizens by twenty fifteen the computer controlled chats will have access to a space usually reserved for a pilot had planned to say it's a direct hit from a u.s. drone training company supporting the increased test that if you have nothing to

hide you have nothing to fear but try the team an activist at the electronic frontier foundation says that argument holds water this is been used countless times in the past to justify a warrantless e-mail surveillance or g.p.s. location on your phone cops getting it without a warrant and it's all actually just of the kind of a false use of of an idea that we have about five a-c. and you know i'm sure if we asked the head of this drone industry whether he would like a law enforcement drone following him around twenty four seven or if we would like him to give up his password to his email address to to us so that we can reuse e-mails or cameras in his home he would be very uncomfortable with that and that's the real problem with this argument because he's using it to try to deflect criticism that these surveillance drones are going to inflict on people's privacy which they are because there's actually no laws that really cover this type of

surveillance and you know it's not that people are arguing that drones shouldn't be used at all that's that's not at all the case he's using kind of a straw man to hold it up but all we want our privacy safeguards to prevent americans from being spied on without a warrant or without court oversight. remember there's always more news and comment available any time you want on our website i. got more analysis i think type of transparency report reveals the world's ultra rich out hiding over twenty one trillion dollars in offshore havens. in glass a grim discovery in russia's year olds almost two hundred fifty cumin embryos were dumped in a forest and later discovered by tourists who their full details at r.t. dot com.

fearing the end of the single currency many wealthy europeans are investing in property with london one of the very rich markets but that's pushing up prices for locals meaning ordinary people are struggling to get a food on the housing ladder. now explain. economic distress breeds financial refugees and as the eurozone limps to what may be its death wealthy greeks italians and spaniards are desperate for a safe haven for their cash many have chosen london bricks and mortar the list of locations where europeans are choosing to buy a property reads like the priciest squares on the monopoly board chelsea knightsbridge mayfair here in kensington but as rich foreigners lose faith in their own economies and snap up property at the top end of the london markets down at the bottom ordinary brits are struggling to get on the housing ladder at all bernard

clarke of the council of mortgage lenders reckons european cash is making an already tight housing market harder for everyone in property is probably contributing sort of. to difficult conditions but in london which is one of the most difficult places for people to buy in any case because property prices in london not that much higher than the rest of the country then hewas knows all about that a teacher and a recruitment consultant he and his fiance live in a rented flat unsure when they'll be able to scrape together the sixty thousand dollars deposit they'll need to buy their own home this year we're tricky and i think the main thing. i don't think the cost the mortgage would be much too much more than what we're actually paying now especially if we downsize because it's too if we downsize to a one probably less than what we're paying now that oppose it you know i've not got the best credit rating is not really got

a credit rating having not really taken credit out and the. it's hard since the credit crunch banks are unwilling to lend to anyone with a less than perfect credit rating still a recent survey by the mortgage association shows eight out of ten british adults hope to own their own homes within ten years but aspirations particularly among the young less and less likely to be fulfilled with four million eighteen to thirty s renting by two thousand and twenty fundamentally england's facing a housing crisis the housing market has broken every level we're not building in the new homes and many younger people nabl to afford to buy their own home they're forced to live with their parents into their thirty's to scrape together a deposit or they're struggling to afford expensive rents in the private rented sector so ben and millions like him lacking the security of homeownership means putting other life plans on hold. because you know if you go

a mortgage or print money is almost an investment money is you know not going into a landlord's pocket so it's really important the way we buy a house and something that we want to do for you and stuff like that. it just seems a long way off you know. it doesn't seem realistic you know the british dream of owning your own home is alive and well but the dreams of many will be dashed by steadily rising prices and unavailable credit and an influx of euro cash puts youngsters dreams of owning any property cheap or chic further and further away laura smith r.t. london. as the line the rate fixing scandal among toll banks continues to unravel some american financial firms are ready to dish the dirt on other banks or to escape punishment for the details wash the kaiser report later today on l.t. . goldman sachs and morgan stanley are among financial firms that may bring

lawsuits against their biggest rivals as regulators on three continents examined whether other banks manipulated the london interbank offered rate known as libel or said bradley hints an analyst was censored c. bernstein and company now the only reason why they would do this according to hints is that goldman sachs and morgan stanley manage money market funds so they by law would be obliged to you. well as if the law ever stop these guys from doing whatever it is they want to do but now they're hiding behind the skirt of the law suddenly when it suits them just like remember back during the crisis goldman sachs they were not a bank they wanted to go about affairs of not being a bank and then when the crisis that they decided oh no we are a bank and you know they they treat the law as the plastic movable feast you know

as whatever they write the laws themselves when we're talking about. praise for preaching freedom and the georgian leadership has cost as a fledgling democracy a success story but by the western media and the by excuse me by the state channels at home however some journalists working in the country see a very different picture as i found out. that's exactly what we're seeing in my culture the well you my part of the world you know you are liver and begin your energy by giving people more freedom freedom is the key word find words from the georgian president some western officials like hillary clinton continuously praised me truly for his supposed program of reform but journalists in the country are less impressed and say talk of freedom doesn't extend to the media made it through that were being a journalist is now a dangerous profession in georgia there's always a risk of being accused of being a spy journalist get beaten up frequently all of this is happening in front of the

entire country and. the chances are that most people in georgia won't find out about these cases from their evening news according to the latest polls more than eighty percent of georgians depend on t.v. as their main source of information yet georgians only have free access to three channels all of them controlled by the state one way or the other. one channel is owned by saakashvili eight another his friends relatives so all people get really is just state controlled propaganda and we think so what if the georgians don't get the full scope of their country's events from the t.v. sets after all there is always the internet but still they have to understand a lot of people here still live in rural areas and for a lot of them the world wide web is simply not available readily at their fingertips independent channels like of cossey or channel nine are available only

to those who have satellite dishes and other luxury for most georgians. sometimes i have friends or relatives visiting from other parts of georgia and they watch these channels and say what is this really happening in this country we knew nothing about it but operating an independent media outlet isn't easy here journalists say their cash flow has run dry since advertisers were told by authorities to stay. we from channels which may be affiliated with the opposition on top of that their every move is being closely watched by authorities here. i constantly find myself facing over the top control from local officials i'm always being followed by some strange people who say they're from someone no news agencies and ask me questions why do we film stories about political prisoners for example first of all just it's about the state officials don't feel comfortable coming to us because we ask questions they don't want to answer but state controlled media never ask those questions of a gulf war president saakashvili is

a frequent guest on various american t.v. channels but he's never made an appearance on any of the opposition channels at home perhaps it's not so much the questions that hugh minds is the effect his their answers may have in tbilisi georgia it is. time for business with katie now katie great to see you so global stock markets to hit on monday but how are they doing now absolutely. i'm going to talk about asia for now because it's very much the same in the asian markets they're really down in the wake of those sizable losses that you just mentioned particularly the ones on wall street and that was really fresh worries over spain taking center stage with the prospect that europe's fourth largest economy might need a sovereign bailout and that may include a for some of its regional governments so that was really taking its toll you see the asian markets reacting just now also responding to the news that moody's the

investors credit outlooks for germany the netherlands luxembourg on the grounds of contagion also want to mention as well there was a natural disaster going on in china as well so they've had a few delays in their trading session stores stores are concerned on the neck a we've got intend the video games maker calcine europe for thirty four percent of its cells is down around. two percent as well big technology dropping nearly three percent over honorable that is course the loss will be around one point three billion dollars that some of the biggest losses in the senate so i mentioned wall street so let's have a look at the close yesterday and see what we're looking at here because it was big a loss is the source did manage to kind of limit the losses so before the end of the one point you know we were looking at dissolves just levels it was really european worries as well as our i did mention china there was news coming out yesterday that

a chinese central bank advisor cited slowing growth of the world's second biggest economy that was taking its toll as far as stocks are concerned to wall street those mcdonnell's. up a lot of headlines down two point nine percent she the worst performer on the dow jones yesterday that was because of disappointing second quarter profits. ok let's move all my one have a look at the dollar see the exchange rates. just have a society op was pretty flat at the moment while the russian ruble we can see the major cars is in the session that the trading oil is going on through the exit markets here in russia and see what the price is and yesterday as we can see that taking its toll we got problems to almost five percent on the mice it was a. around three percent in the rads i tell a check of your prices that now with the global markets really taking a hit yes a taking a battering oil was down but as we can see right now this is managing to stage

a comeback just. now moving on russia begins construction of the biggest all to port in the yaml pendency thirty billion dollars of investment will come from the states from the private gas producer novacek. l. and g. shipments from yemen also all over the world experts believe the ports will help make the northern sea route attractive to businesses away a substantial part of called shipments from all the transit. police. i am now walking along the shortest sea passage connecting the east and the west part of our planet the northern sea route the water here is like ten degrees now but most of the year if i was bound and that's the main reason why it cannot compete with the main cargo transit route. the main advantage of the northern syrup

is that it is two times shorter than the suez canal nor is it both carriers which will become the biggest user of the routes this year says not a geisha through the northern sea instead of the canal shortens the trip to just twenty three days compared to forty three through the canal it also saves one thousand tonnes of fuel or more than six hundred thousand dollars vessels going through the northern ca route will avoid long queues and possible pirate attacks however one obstacle remains icebreaker as chords. as courts because not much more or less than the shipment itself how expensive it will be for the company will depend on whether the ice breaker accompanies just one ship or a convoy however there are no fixed rates on offer in the sector yet last year just thirty four ships use the passage nothing compared to the eighteen thousand vessels passing through the suez canal annually and this area still to hold a third of our planet's oil and gas reserves which makes the northern sea route the

most efficient way to supply western europe and china with fuel team for an metals so the more the arctic ice that melts and the more gas promo rosner flow of tech luke will and the others drill here the sooner the cargo ship can take advantage of this once frozen sea passage and become a real alternative to this wealth can all but help a core business r.t. the arctic. versus energy regulators consider a project of the century worth twenty billion dollars the country intends to link its european and siberian grid systems which has story. separated russia into two energy markets the move is aimed to increase competition between power companies lower consumer prices meanwhile analysts warn the implementation won't be false to the high price and the scale of the project. back in about fifteen minutes where you will the latest business. thank you very much indeed for that on tape here

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