as radical islam as a claim or a new victory in syria fears among the country's chemical weapons could fall into the hands of terrorists. damascus says it's being framed by the way it switches trying to great a perceived threat as a pretext for intervention all the details coming up. while searching forces u.k. taxpayers to tighten their belts are to look at how big corporations are using legal loopholes to avoid paying their share. securities. in the capital as in braces while clashes between supporters and opponents of the country's new constitution.

they're watching r t live from moscow with me to bomb would say in syria radical islamists have reportedly captured a key military base in the country's north they claimed advances stalled fears the country's chemical weapons stockpiles could potentially fall into militant hands arches a middle east correspondent policy that has the latest. now this comes as the damascus regime increasingly accuses both the e.u. and the united states of conducting a smear campaign against it in terms of falsely accusing damascus of using chemical weapons the syrian foreign ministry has written a number of letters to the united nations in which it says that it is afraid that countries backing both terrorists and terrorism might them selves provide those countries with chemical weapons and then shift the blame and point fingers towards syria there is of course growing concern that the chemical weapons stockpiles

within syria could land up in the hands of extreme militants in here we've been hearing reports of both al qaida as well as has been in the south operating and lending their support to the insurgency and so there's concern that these weapons could land up specifically in their hands the united states for its side says it has intelligence that the syrian army may be preparing to use chemical weaponry and again the u.s. has pushed the line that this would be a red line if indeed it was proven and that this would bring in the shift reaction and the immediate involvement of the united states we are hearing from a u.s. official as well as senior administration officials that the u.s. and the european union are training rebels both within jordan and turkey in terms of trying to secure these stockpiles of chemical weapons within syria now it is important to make note that none of these reports in terms of chemical weapons can be verified what we do know is that so your has one of the world's largest chemical

weapon arsenals so it has never joined the chemical weapons convention and as such it is never given any kind of information in terms of the extended to and the declaration of its chemical weapons and this is why at this stage it is exactly what is the extent of the chemical weapons and indeed in whose hands there are there certainly is an information war out there and we are witnessing an increasing number of videos be. posted on you tube you have a situation where both sides the damascus regime as well as the rebels are accusing the other of blood chilling atrocities as well as war crimes and let me just warn our viewers that the videos you're about to see are disturbing there is a video that is circulating on you tube that shows that assad troops are using chemical weapons and when you look at this video you see disturbing pictures of both adults but also children with disfigured faces as well as and an incredible news today of bodies there is of course also videos of rebels reportedly using

chemical weapons on bunny's as almost a great against the assad regime that this is just what they planning on doing the rebels have also been posting videos of innocent victims of aerial bombings as well as shellings while at the same time pro assad activists have been posting on you tube videos of rebels making a child behaves a number of prisoners according to the information this reportedly did happen in homes what we do so you know the video is a number of beheaded victims we see the child actually beheading this person but again no way of indicating or verifying exactly the truth of this although some sources say that they were people with saudi accidents being heard inside this video all of this is extremely disturbing footage again no way of verifying its authenticity but it certainly does show that tensions on the ground are increasing and increasing and alarming rate. as you as sources say washington is training

rebels to secure and handle chemical weapons in case the syrian regime collapses some observers on convinced that a foreign intervention is in the making. this period right now and the talk of weapons of mass destruction chemical weapons in syria is very reminiscent of the run up to the anglo-american attack on iraq in two thousand and three one of those videos purported to show syrian insurgence funded by the west preparing chemical weapons which were used on rabbits but could be used on syrian civilians and then blamed on the syrian government the assad government is not suicidal it has been playing its cards very carefully and there is no basis in fact. for the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government it would be counterproductive the weapons of mass destruction argument you saw affectively in two thousand and three and later found out to be a complete hoax. they trotted out of the dust and their plan to rerun it again.

while ordinary people endure life in austerity red britain it seems some corporate giant will stop at nothing to get out of paying their share tax have already and cost the debt stricken country tens of billions of pounds a year a figure that's no longer being tolerated as sara for its reports. where people from all over the border can not to come to this country because companies like starbucks and apple google at the moment it's really part of a much larger picture welcome to the world of tax avoidance illegal but morally suspect way the companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people are due to discuss these companies do not a v.a. taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities.

in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like amazon their head on. this is based in luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg so well known in tax haven where companies can enjoy a low tax rate but hang on a minute we're here at one of amazon's must've distribution centers based in the u.k. in fact the reality is that many of our customers to their employees and many more distribution centers like this one are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing fact is they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise as ordinary british taxpayer is willing. to really go on the face of it to run because you can register your transaction in

different country and the place of great distraction is the place of taxation where as you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy the u.k. government would be eager to plug the holes it's letting billions of much needed tax pounds leak out. but in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the pelisse on welfare he were in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on benefits for clamping down on a multi-million pound tax avoiders. well i think that the government is clamping down on that there's been a lot of money allocated by him but now that people know that. morsi

or doing their thing it now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it of the pay and there's a difference between people who are. voiding tax through judum it remains those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when you're a citizen on us to lose weight in paying we're interested me again i wanted marriage and let me actually answer the question once before you actually made a legally tax avoid it's ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's that you say i said there's a difference between tax avoidance and tax evasion tax evasion is illegal tax avoidance people are using the law to their benefit now if the law is wrong we need to change the law but for now the law continues to allow an exodus of profits made in britain meaning companies like amazon can keep getting away with paying less

than the tax payers they're profiting from sarah firth r.t. london. they are opinions three presidents have received this is a nobel peace prize some behalf of member states has been given the award in recognition. for fostering peace even before the prize was handed out to the decisions barred to mass indignations to argue over several previous winners wrote an open letter to the nobel foundation demanding that the blood be stripped of the ward ahead of sunday's ceremony hundreds marched through the norwegian capital in protest john lochlann from the institute of democracy incorporation believes peace is one of the last things the e.u. should be rewarded for. has not been peace in europe for the last sixty years as the president of the european council said everybody knows that there was a war against yugoslavia eventually don't you know in which european states e.u. member states participated very fully they attempt to. reduce europe so one cannot

say that there has been peace of europe since there in any case if we look further afield with syria the european union's policy the actual policy of the european union as an organization never mind its member states has been in my view to fan the flames of the conflict in syria and not to act as a peace broker so there is literally no way in which we can say that the european union as foster peace. also i have for you this hour of security tightens in egypt as more protests loom supporters and opponents of president mohamed morsi are said to confront each other again as a nation readies for this weekend the referendum on a draft constitution plus. she said well you won't have no bread he. said why a way to may one day you mean she said you will never know. barger from having a baby we see the victims of a u.s. eugenics program have any chance of having their personal tragedies recognize this

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here watching are to deny the chance of a baby a decades long program of forced sterilization in america left tens of thousands of women and able to have children once promoted as a way to build a healthy nation it's only recently that traumatized victims of a eugenics program on being considered for compensation are just learning about why i went to meijer one of those who had their lives changed by compulsory birth control. you won't want our pay of eighty four year old virginia brooks was just fourteen years old when north carolina's widespread eugenics program would forever

alter her future and why don't i have to go to the hospital i'm not saying rocks was with two other girls when a social worker picked her up she said we're gonna take you pin. down there and they did surgery and in no way do was doing to me eugenics is a pseudo science aimed at improving the so-called quality of the population by forcibly preventing reproduction by people thought by some to be inferior in america it targeted mostly young poor minorities the mentally disabled or those otherwise deemed unfit to raise children like brooks who was an orphaned teenager she came in my chart was on the for the money. she says well you know what you know biden well you won't have no bread they. said what a way to make it one day you mean she said you know hannah.

and this woman want me handed to me this is an angle of this that they ran brooks went on to adopt a little girl and mary howard her husband of forty two years between them they have four grandchildren five great grandchildren and the unfortunate legacy of suffering under the shadow of mandatory sterilization. we or her or or we're no way she would marry somebody should be able of today that anything. they should. probably one of the most infamous uses of this theory was the radical purity programs in nazi germany. while north carolina's eugenics program reportedly claimed seven thousand six hundred victims before being dissolved in one thousand nine hundred seventy seven north carolina was one of thirty two american states that practiced eugenics and this year it was on track to

be the first state to compensate living victims like brooks with a payout of up to fifty thousand dollars they were going to kind of us. except that they were born this kind of genius they. can do better than this. shame has happened to this day not one victim throughout the united states has been compensated for their lifelong suffering in june north carolina state senate rejected proposals to allocate funding for the compensation program some argue that paying victims for what was a legal program could lead to subsequent payouts tied to america's other historic atrocities such as slavery seven decades ago this building served as baker senatorial it's where state officials took virginia brooks and dozens of other young girls to undergo mandatory sterilization surgery today it serves as an

apartment complex where families are living routine lives this as others still bear deep scars over how their lives were forever changed here they had a baby and kiddo the people. my be like yeah. a life changing question which u.s. state officials refused to answer for. archie north carolina. minority dot com a right now we reveal the suspect behind the recent leak of floor data aimed at separate targeting iran's nuclear program. that after granting asylum to top whistleblower julian assigns aghadoe continues its open door policy and find out who is next on the country's most welcome list on line. nine people have been hurt time after an unknown attackers fired at protesters camped out in cairo central to the square this comes as egypt gears up for another

day of protests by the opposition and supporters of president morsi. was bald after morsi granted himself extensive powers and put a new constitution to the vote later backtracked on some of the create but left the referendum intact there gyptian leader has now given the military temporary powers sure as civilians in the run up to the vote raising opposition fears the country is turning to an islamist dictatorship earlier my colleague kevin overindulge a journalist. things morsi is draft constitution nation on the brink of civil war. the. situation. actually has not been discussed. country. will probably.

be. we don't really know. because. judges are still refusing to revise it. which would make it illegal if it happens on. judiciary supervision what's your view on the opposition and their stance that way when the government dividing the country but why can't they make some concessions and agree to dialogue instead of pushing for more protests as there is no point. he's insisting on. the unity of the people in. egypt. to the people of egypt feel that. we always have weak and weak political parties and we have a strong civil society in egypt and he says the. people of

egypt have after. we became free now be prepared to give in to any. peaceful. someone who want to be in you know we have. to fight. to have our freedom and we are not going to leave. the legal woes of the former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn over sex abuse is asians in the u.s. have apparently come to an end the new york hotel maid that i q's the frenchman of sexual assault has withdrawn her civil lawsuit for an undisclosed sum it's really unsure montu up to six million u.s. dollars the scandal cost royals are can his position at the top of the international monetary fund and stifled his presidential ambitions at home he could

still face other charges of being behind an alleged prostitution ring in france. the prime minister of mali has resigned in a state of t.v. broadcasts just hours after his arrest late on monday shaken moby jersey are all was detained by members of a citizen's group backed by the country's military he was promoting the un backed resolution for international military intervention to help regain control of mali's north al-qaeda linked militants took control of the area during a march. police in belfast northern ireland are treating the petrol bomb attack on a police officer as attempted murder a group of fifteen suspected loyalist targeted the unmarked vehicle smashing and torching it outside the offices of an alliance party m.p. it comes after the local council had the union flag removed from the city hall causing massive protests and sporadic violence across belfast police had to use water cannons to disperse the writing crowd. shortly of talk

to one of the architects of russia's our foreign policy about the controversial magnitsky law that's in spotlight coming up in just a couple of minutes. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for langley you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom harvey welcome to the big picture.

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the. mission would be soon which brightened if you knew about song from phones to freshen these. screens for instance on t.v. dot com. hello again the welcome to spotlight the interview show on our prime now we're now been my guest on the program today is just left when you could. last week the

russian aircrew lation suffered the having blood following the november decision of the house of representatives the us so passed the tonsil version of my goodness q a law banning some russian officials from entering the us the russian foreign ministry and the parliament are getting ready to respond which may add fuel to the fire so we'll discuss it would be just laugh when you come out of the russian state duma foreign affairs committee. since early childhood but your slotnick enough was immersed in the world of politics his grandfather was stalin spray most. naked of himself became a prominent academic an expert on international relations but he's close encounter in the field of politics left unimpressed you know early ninety's only at. to two years in the state duma he quit to run his own political foundation since then as head of a recognized think tank you can have has been frequently lecturing in universities

at home and abroad in two thousand and eleven he returned to the state duma and became a vice chairman of its foreign affairs committee. home with a new kind of welcome to the show thank you very much for being with us today michel how well and of course i'd like to start with the latest news coming from across the ocean from from the state dual city mosque i mean the magnitsky act and all that's going on around it well. there's been lots of talk that as a response to the legislation adopted in the united states russia would retaliate russia will will also also pass some symbol or do you already have a draft did you know what is going to be yes there is a draft as far as i understand it will be supported by all members of the state duma.