laurie. returns to iraq to become trees wrongs by the worst violence since the us was drawl as a way with bomb attacks leave more than a hundred different after a kind of announces its resurgence that. is syria insurance that chemical weapons be used in its internal conflict create a media scare stories with hype on whether stockpiles might be deployed against a foreign aggressor. the eurozone debt crisis is beginning to puncture the u.k. with the wealthy europeans investing in london property as a safe haven driving out property prices for local. news for russia and around the world this is she was me huge national profile and

thanks for joining it's first a string of coordinated a bomb attacks in iraq have hate more than a dozen cities and killed over one hundred people the was to violence in the country since the u.s. troop withdrawal the blasts were mainly targeting security forces government officials and showing neighborhoods deference to the code only days after al qaeda announced a major comeback in iraq while she's gained their chicken legs not all 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 base all cried a leader also warned the syrian rebels not to accept a new rule or constitution but god's will and. korea islamic law otherwise quote

you will lose your blast the revolution end of quote also in his message of support to the syrian rebels he says quote we taught the world lessons of courage and jihad and proved that injustice could only be removed by force and 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 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 but 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 know about 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 were they are in a wreck to day 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 world powers that call for a military intervention in syria know how divided syria is i certainly hope that they take these things through these factors like that and consider. for the

lessons of record there for the world to see michael o'brien thank you sir. there is 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 karega 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 for the us tear it 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 out. so the presence of terror groups. in syria has led to major fear is that the country's chemical weapons might end up in the wrong hands the syrian government has only recently acknowledged of the existence of stockpiles that insisted they are secure but never be used in the

current internal conflicts she's a ton of boyko brings us the details from damascus. and monday's news conference here in damascus foreign ministry spokesman didn't mean that syrian possesses chemical weapons something that nonproliferation experts have suggested all along and that the syrian authorities have a number straightforwardly deny damascus has never signed the chemical weapons convention so technically it's a. 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's similarly non admitted nuclear weapons program in terms of keep abilities syria is believed to be seen as nervous agents and mustard gas as well as missile capabilities to do leave very doosra burns those chemicals are believed to be produced five facilities.

around the country including two locations in han's and home of those c.d.'s as you probably 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 while the syrian authorities hausler to downplay this 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 policymakers should consider that as one of the negative of concert of support for the opposition forces now over the past few weeks this in. speculations in western media suggesting that. the

assad government may use those chemicals in its fight against armed groups and the suggestion was country gauri 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 were part of a major media can be made to prepare international public opinion military intervention in syria and did it pulls pretext of weapons of mass destruction similar to the one that toppled saddam hussein. and american radio talk show host dr kevin barrett believes the international meeting is hyping up of chemical weapons to pave the way for possible extent. missteps 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 having a false flag events in syria to be blamed the assad government and it seems that perhaps that's what's in the cards it may be that there is a and attempt to pave the way for this by preparing public input the idea that this evil syrian regime uses chemical weapons. and you can always get updates on the situation in syria by following the tweets or news team and our correspondent at some point carr is in damascus and currently she's describing how live in the syrian capital is getting back to normal and one of the signs of that is the return of traffic jams which she says is actually encouraging after days of empty roads so for the county at sun avoider underscore.

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 israel with the help of egypt five years ago after hamas took control of the palestinian territory but who the president from the muslim brotherhood now leading egypt they move is widely seen as a friendly gesture to hamas and offshoot of the brotherhood which operates independently now middle east correspondent policy a small. 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 mask and the spread of islamic militancy but what we've seen now is a change largely in part because of separate 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 forms 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 every of on 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 two tel aviv. and plenty more still ahead for you this hour let's cross over now to the business desk to find out what they have for us casey. drama is coming to a head with the rest is all made to rule yes expressing interest in buying the state ready to start negotiations all the details in about ten minutes time to this instead of him and me. but before that fable of america's rules of brood on mom drones might soon be he's to spy on the country's citizens by twenty

fifteen the computer controlled jets will have access to aspace he she resentful piloted planes a direct hit from a u.s. drone a training company supporting that increase he says that if you have nothing to hide you have nothing to fear but trivia team and activist at the electronic frontier foundation says that document no longer holds watch 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 the kind of a false use of an idea that we have about five a city and that 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 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 the 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. and remember there's always more news and comment of a level any time you want on our website. call. like a grim discovery in russia's ewell's almost two hundred and fifty human embryos were dumped in a forest and later discovered by tourists the full details at all call. the class of zero pictures of a stunning sculpture based on one of london's most famous icons just days before the city host there live begs that it can't even do pushups said check it out.

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mark in bond this is fearing the end of the single currency many wealthy europeans are investing in property wealth london one of the favorite markets that's pushing up prices for locals and meaning ordinary people are struggling to get a feet on the housing ladder. explains. economic distress breeds financial refugees and as the eurozone limps to what may be its debt wealthy greeks italians and spaniards a 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 the 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 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 is 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 two bedroom and if we downsize to a one bedroom probably less than what we're paying now but it's the deposit you

know of not the best credit rating. is not really got a credit rating having not really taken credit out and 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 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 face saying a housing crisis the housing market has broken every level we're not building enough 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 you 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 before we have like babies and stuff like that. it just seems a long way off you know. it doesn't seem realistic at the moment 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. the rate fixing scandal among told by a skin team is to unravel after london's barclays 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 and other banks all to escape punishment and for the details wash the kaiser report later today on r.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 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 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 offense of not being a bank and then when the crisis or they decided oh no we are a bank and you know that they treat the law as a plastic movable feast you know as whatever they write the laws themselves when we're talking about. some other stories making news around the world a series of u.s. drone strikes on a suspected militant base have killed at least eleven people near pakistan's border with afghanistan american officials say the base was linked to a well known command of fighting nato and u.s. forces drone strikes have caused serious tension between washington and islamabad often killing pakistani civilians and this man. the man accused of a massacre at a screening of the new bassman film in the u.s. has made his first court appearance james holmes was charged with the catering of twelve people and injuring fifty eight more in the shooting in aurora colorado the

twenty four year old didn't speak at any point points during the hearing the prosecutor said holmes could face the death sentence if found guilty. over one hundred people have been injured by the most powerful typhoon in over a decade straight hong kong many flights were canceled at the main airport while main transport services were suspended all run at reduced capacity the hong kong stock exchange was also postponed during this storm. and that's now get over to casey on the business desk so there's another major player in russia's high oil stakes katie absolutely you know where it's going on and on the drummer really is now russia's all major ross expressed is interested in buying b.p. stake in t. and k. b.p. now the state companies says it's already agreed to commence negotiations with the british sub now earlier on the b.p.

said it wanted to sell its halls in the venture due to a collapse in relations with the current partners the last week russian co-owners who have preferential rights to buy shares of a ten billion dollars behalf of b.p. stake in the company. believes the possible outcomes issue would be in the best interest of both companies i would lead to further development of b. earlier on i spoke to an oil and gas from where they was capital having this. baby has been a great opportunity for minorities and this is a big step in russia decades that it was a world that a lot. getting growth as well as. you know with the north and toward. the cheap eleven dollars so you don't need to come. here it's now coming back to your question the future it seems to us that you know

current status quo will likely make sense that the corporate structure does not look like a really interesting. sides it has to change it either one of the partners has to while the other or the new shareholder comes in and the reason i'm saying this is because to have a pure people parents in. equal terms in the management. in own season making is almost impossible and we've seen it in the last in the past that on the one hand b.p. had some influence initially and which wasn't making a are bad now they are trying to put some additional pressure and that is not making b.p. and so clearly one of the two has still give away anything that would base. it seems to us that you know b.p. . sees a rush as if there is to teach you can long term place also for russian government

it is hard to imagine that they would want such be experienced major to leave russia so we do things b.p. and the russian government would be would find some mutual interests. together. let's stay with russia for now and check out the markets and see what the artist in the mice is doing at this hour we'll be able to see because it's been out really as you can see with negative territory on your screen is just there it's a red color spectrum the r.t.s. around nine ten percent down the mice it's very much the same movie all of the exchange rates we see how the ruble is perform in the russian currency as you can see that it is indeed managing to gain against a basket of cars disaster the euro dollar is going to change of food which is this hour want twenty one zero loss going on in europe today as investors really digest the information that germany the neverland's luxembourg they've all been put on negative watch so they're really taking their in today and demonstrate in their

disapproval to their around a quarter of percent down the dax edging towards home four percent in negative territory as the asian markets i was shopping a day of trends. there we go in the carrier and quarter down the line saying around nine tenths of that in negative territory having said that though they did stage a recovery at some point where we had chinese manufacturing a private survey said that it's set to contract but a slow up i use i was adding a bit of momentum as you can see that didn't last i can move on to the oil markets and we'll be able to see they all still managing to rebalance and that's from a one week a lot of moving on rush's energy regulates is considering a project of this century was twenty billion dollars the country intends to link its european and siberian grid systems which historically separated russia into two energy markets and the move is

a huge increase competition between power companies lower consumer prices this one the implementation would be false own ass because of high prices on the scale of the project itself. drama from a year in about fifteen minutes. if you can forward to it thank you very much to wrap up our top stories coming your way in just a few minutes here in our city. if

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