he starts on t.v. dot com. terror returns to rome and the country is run by there was violence is the u.s. was drawl as a wave of bomb attacks leave most of the hundreds dead after al qaida announces its resurgence that. syrian government statements that chemical weapons won't be used in its internal conflict great media scare stories with hype on whether stockpiles might be deployed against or for an aggressor. and palestinians are allowed free entry into egypt a landmark move easing a long time located on gaza and seen as cairo under its new islamist president of warming to come on. international news and comment live from moscow this isn't he was me thanks for

joining us first a string of coordinated bomb attacks in iraq who hate more than a dozen cities and killed over one hundred people do was to violence in the country since the u.s. troop withdrawal the bloss to a mainly targeting security forces government officials and shiite neighborhoods that has occurred only days after al qaida announced a major comeback in iraq she's again ashton looks at what they say 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 not to accept a new rule or constitution by. god's will in sharia islamic law otherwise quote you

will lose your blast revolution end of quote 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 loss and the 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 considered. 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 oh 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 led to where we were they were in a wreck 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 do you think those will powers that call for a military intervention in syria know how divided syria is i certainly hope that the take these things these factors like that into consideration here for the lessons of iraq the lessons of iraq are there for the world to see 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 where we just communities it's a power to carry sensually and 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 after the u.s. 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. it so the presence of terror groups linked to al qaida in syria has led to major fears 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 that they are secure and they'd never be used in the current internal conflicts. 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 nervous agents and mustard gas as well as missile capabilities to delivering those weapons those chemicals are believed to be produced at five facilities around the country including two locations in hans' 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 house or 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 concept of 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 fire against armed groups. these suggestion was kind to goree could deny these press conferences 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 are part of a major media can be to prepare international public opinion of course military intervention in syria how did it pulls 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 meetings hyping of the show chemical weapons to pave the way for possible external. missteps remind us so the focus be empty 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 having a false flag in syria to be blamed the government and it seems that perhaps that's what's in the cards it may be that there is an attempt to leave the way for this paper appearing 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 ration in syria by following the tweets of our news team there and our correspondents on the boy goes in damascus and currently she's describing how life in that syrian capital is getting back to normal and one of the signs of this is the return of traffic jams and what she says is actually encouraging after days of empty roads paula oksana boyko underscore c. egypt is allowing palestinians 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 how must take control of the palestinian territory but with the president from the muslim brotherhood now leading egypt the move was widely seen as a friendly gesture to hamas an offshoot of the brotherhood which operates independently middle east correspondent policy. 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 law applying to palestinians in the west bank and jerusalem this unprecedented move effectively lifts travel restrictions that have been imposed on gazans 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 for her mass and the spirit of islamic militancy but what we see now is

a change largely in part because of secret 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 will 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 for that is strange in themselves and isolating themselves not only from the region but from the egyptian neighbors paullus there are two tel aviv. plenty more through ahead for you this hour as the eurozone debt crisis in parts on the u.k. . theories of a complete currency collapse forced wealthy europeans to invest in british property hotspots i doubt how that's coming as a high social cost for local people struggle to buy. children is hailed by many outside as one of the world's best young democracies but we hear from only one signed a very different story. a staple of america's wars of ruled a monstrous might soon be used to spy on the country's citizens by twenty fifteen the computer controlled jets will have access to aspace usually resentful piloted planes and directed from a u.s.

drone training company supporting they increased yes' says that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear but treva team and actually stand a electronic frontier foundation says that you meant no longer holds water this is been used countless times in the past to justify a war email surveillance or g.p.s. location on your phone cops getting it without a warrant and it's all actually just of kind of a false use of an idea that we have about five a city 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. do you remember there's always more news and comment available anytime you want on our website which results he dot com i'm alex is out of touch transparency report reveals the world's ultra rate over twenty one trillion dollars in offshore havens. plus a grim discovery in russia as you rolls on with two hundred and fifty cumin embryos were dumped in a forest and later discovered by tourists the full details that are called for you .

fearing the end of the single currency many wealthy europeans are investing in property with london one of the favorite markets that's pushing up prices for locals meaning ordinary people are struggling to get a food on the housing ladder laura smith explains. 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 hearing 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 buying property is probably contributing to. the 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 been hewitt's knows all about that a teacher and a recruitment consultant he and his fiance live in a rented flat on shore when they'll be able to scrape together the sixty thousand dollars deposit they'll need to buy their own home. i think the main thing though 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 to downsize to a one probably less than what we pay now. you know i've not got the best credit rating. not really got

a credit rating having not really taken credit out and so the deposit is high. 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's broken every level we're not building enough new homes and many younger people neighbor 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 to variously where 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 to 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. the rate fixing scandal among toll banks continues to unravel up to london's barclay's bank was fined hundreds of millions of dollars for trying to manipulate interest rates and on the heels of that some american financial firms are ready to dish the dirt on other banks or to escape punishment for the details

which the kaiser reports later today are not. 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 with sanford 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 wanted suits them just like remember back during the crisis. they were not a bank they wanted to go about afraid of not being a bag and then when the crisis or they decided oh no we are

a bank and you know that 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 reform the georgian leadership is cast as a fledgling democracy a success story but it's by the western media and by the state channels at home however some journalists working in the country see a very different picture as if he's a rino going to found out. that's exactly what we're seeing in my culture the well you my part of the world you know you are leverage that you know 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 really 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 at you know 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 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 know 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 some unknown news agencies and ask me questions why do we form 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. 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 he minds is the effect his their answers may have in tbilisi georgia. now it's time to join katie for the business news how that case is so it's a different story for the asian markets right now that is completely different actually yearly i would go to a change of fortunes really particularly for the japanese boss and really for the asian stocks in general now says nothing the biggest two day job in a way and that's really after comments made by the bank of japan's governor on the yen the japanese car is safe and we know the exports as they desperately will the currency strength addressed in hours after the euro we can to the lowest level against the yen in more than eleven years so that's encouraging we're watching the

situation seeing how al falls as you can see they tell you now in the green that we've also had fresh data that chinese manufacturing activity recovered slightly injured a law. now they're trading balls that she delayed until the afternoon session that's due to a typhoon actually the asian markets were suffering earlier in the session and that was because of mood is the investors service cutting the credit outlets for germany the netherlands luxembourg on the grounds of contagion. see the u.s. markets to see how they performed in the session yesterday will be able to see the losses of the stores did manage to limit the losses somewhat before the close. down two point nine percent that was actually the worst performer on the dow yesterday off disappointing second quarter profits they're blaming the stronger dollar slowing international economic growth let's have a look at the dollar the now shall we the exchange rates where we see how the year

at all is performing and it is pretty flat out one twenty one twenty eight that trade is five hours for the russian ruble this is that close that yesterday it managed to what is weak u.s. dollar and the european currency as for the case here in russia we saw significant losses the sponsor my five percent while the mises was then with bats around three percent in the red that will move in a shaken in the next i have the figures for you as for oil the clover is they took a basin right now though we have got them gaining a fraction as you can see on the screen just. moving on russia begins construction of the biggest ports in the yaml condensor with over twenty billion dollars of investment coming from the states and private gas producers novacek. believe the new old seaport will help make the noble sea route attractive for businesses and will help lower way

a substantial part of call go shipments from all the transit very. isolated prices haven't. i am now walking along the shore to see passage connecting the east and the west part of our planet the northern sea route the water here 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. you mean advantage of the northern ca route 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 navigation 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 sea route to avoid long queues and possible pirate attacks however one obstacle remains icebreaker and score its. breaker

as course because not much more or less than the shipment itself how expensive it will be for the company will depend on whether the icebreaker companies 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 this area's talk 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 timber and metals so the more the arctic ice that melts and the more gas from rosner flow of tech new cool and the author of 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 are to the arctic. for us is the energy regulators consider

a project of the century worth twenty billion dollars the country intends to link its european and siberian grid systems which historically separated russia into two energy markets the move is ancient greece competition between power company is a lower prices as well the implementation won't be false and the high price on the scale of the projects here next hour i'm going to talk about the figures for the russian market looking forward to katie thank you very much indeed now i remind our top story this coming in a couple of minutes. tolls

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