reports say syrian rebels have seized control of a northern army base in a deadly assault fears mounts that the country's chemical weapons could fall into militant hands. damascus says it's being framed by the way which is trying to create a perceived threat as a pretext for intervention all the details coming up. and rival rallies in egypt are set to escalate ahead of saturday's referendum on the new constitution after gunmen attacked opposition crowds in chorus square. last stirring up trouble for the tax avoiders the british public fight back against the giant corporations profits instead of paying a fair share. with

live news and much more around the clock this is r.t. . reports claim that syrian rebels led by the islamist radical front have seized control of an army base in the country's north killing thirty five soldiers the u.s. backed still position movements but has placed the militant group on a terrorist list and is porous lyrics planes there are increasing fears syria's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands some of the images in this report of a graphic nature. 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 themselves 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 in 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 in his hands they all they said he 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 new truth 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 face faces as well as and incredible lose to their bodies there is of course also videos of rebels reportedly using chemical weapons on them 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 shaming while at the same time quote assad activists have been posting on you tube videos of rebels making a child behaves a number of prisoners now according to the information this reportedly did happen in homes what we do so you know the video is a number of the hated victims we see the child actually beheading this person but again no way of indicating all verify 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. but with u.s. sources saying washington is training rebels to secure and handle chemical stockpiles if the syrian government should fall many commentators like antiwar activist ken stone believes it's just another step towards intervention. 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 insurgents 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 that would be

counterproductive the weapons of mass destruction argument used so effectively in two thousand and three and later found out to be a complete hoax they've just they've tried it out of the dustbin and their plan to rerun it again. well leading bahraini human rights activists now believe our job as how does it present cut from three to two years chad has been imprisoned just on charges of organizing illegal gatherings and inciting violence he said to have been expecting to be released the international pressure is mounting on the monarchy to stop political activists the uprising in bahrain has been ongoing for almost two years now the shia majority demanding democratic reform in the sunni. geopolitical honest passion henson doesn't believe anything will change. really genuine democratic reform in a country like bahrain it is housing the u.s. naval fleet at the same time in washington or london or in tel aviv we're talking

restively. into a military conflict. makes it a huge problem to see any real reform happening. but you know the opposition movement has been for the most part peaceful the danger is that a radical element could see through like we've seen in countries like syria and that's normally done from the outside the range is not an open society there's a lot of foreigners running around countries like syria and certainly libya during the nato campaign there are a lot of foreign fighters in that country stirring up trouble so again if it's not an open society the media's control and the government is open about what's going on jailing protesters for just showing up in some cases peaceful protests you're going to have a massive problem and separating the wheat from the chaff is it worth finding out what's what in the country. there's a financially frosty christmas ahead in britain with

a bump of taxes and welfare cuts not everyone is feeling the pinch profit churning multinationals i am as an unstoppable managing to exploit tax loss to the fullest the public wants payback on this effort reports telling the government it's not doing enough. well people from all of the people tend not to protect this country with this company just like starbucks and apple and 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 argue to discuss these companies do not a very taxation which is a criminal offense but are void taxation basically use existing facilities and legal loopholes in the different regulation and taxation between different countries to their advantage companies like amazon they head office is based in

luxemburg which they claim is the center of the economic operations which is handy as luxembourg the well known tax haven where companies can enjoy a low tax rate but hang on a minute here one of alison's much of this to be sentence is based in the u.k. in fact the reality is that many of our customers to their employees and many will distribution centers like this one are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see the relatively small luxemburgo there is nothing in fact is they say at the heart of their operation and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise it as ordinary british taxpayer is willing to go out at a time illegal on the face of it to run because you could register your transaction in different country and the place of destruction is the place of taxation whereas

you can have your activities actually taking place here is legal. surely then in the midst of a flat lining economy ek government would be eager to plug the holes it's listing billions of much needed tax plans you can count. it in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the pelisse on welfare in the government's firing line why has this government decided to clamp down on benefits for clamping down on 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 and then i'm going down now that people know. him or see or doing their thing and now that people know that they've been avoiding

paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it are not paying well there's a difference between people who are. of voiding tax through legitimate reasons and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when we were only still avoiding paying where interested me again. let me actually answer the question once before you actually interop tax avoid is ok to legally tell you what starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok is that you're saying 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. egypt is on tenterhooks protests are expected between those backing in the posing present most of these moves. says. cairo right now the picture there demonstrators gathering near the presidential palace ahead of saturday's deeply divisive constitutional referendum shortly we examine the risks of the country plunging into civil war. the story of an american woman who was forcibly sterilized as a teenager as part of a government program to build a so-called healthy nation it's all here in a couple minutes time. on the march under guard these men and women are walking one of the longest and probably the loneliest road in the world they reenacting the march into exile made

by thousands and czarist russia. if i was here three hundred years ago i may have disappeared my local lord i may have deserted from the army or a variety of other crimes the result was the same like my fellow prisoners around me i've got a long and very cold walk ahead into exile in siberia yet it took them years to get there summers and winters entire years a lot of people died on the way this group in the western siberian region of omsk discovered the living on the only surviving stretch of the original nine thousand kilometers of the siberian exiles track that's had no modern changes made to it began to discover that he's descended from some of these exiles and decided to build a museum telling the story he and his re-enact is now receiving letters from all over the world to show them what it was like when these two are you going to stop it's scary to put the shackles on of course but it's interesting if we don't remember our history we will have no future. it's

a monument to one of the czarist russia cruelest chapters. the city serves as the capital of anticommunist white rushed. in leader admiral culture in the civil war from one thousand nine hundred to nine hundred ninety whilst in residence he lived here though the study of the man like the maintenance of this building has remained to blue right up until the present day. we still receive hate mail saying that he hanged a lot of people and was famous for severe punishment it's all true but it was a time of civil war both sides were monstrously cruel it is sadly the theme of cruelty which links so much of history to the rest of russia's particularly of exile where they were an apple or a criminal. or

international news for you now well egypt is braced for more rival rallies between opponents and supporters of president morsi ahead of saturday's referendum on a new constitution at least nine people were wounded on tuesday when unknown gunmen fired shots and threw petrol bombs at protesters camped out in cairo's central tahrir square well this is what's happening right now in cairo live pictures here in r.t. of demonstrators gathering at the barricades near the presidential palace but most he gave himself extensive new powers last month but quickly backtracked in the face of rising public anger it's fear the upcoming referendum that will erode civil liberties attend the country into an islamic dictatorship where journalist khalid al shami says egypt's courts are powerless versus draft is putting the nation on the brink of civil war. as far as judges and the judiciary system is concerned this law exists between these boiling tonight in egypt and

that's why he retreated in his cream because when you wouldn't couldn't. if you're going to do tional court cannot actually make any judgment. he insisted on the referendum. that you shouldn't have to actually has not been discussed. by the people of. actually the country. will probably be off. the speed for the first time ever in the history of egypt but the country is on the edge of the. point we don't even know will be in them because many judges are still refusing to supervise it which will make it illegal if it happens in full judiciary supervision is no point.

he's insisting on. the. real threat to the unity of the people. of egypt. to the people of egypt feel. well online for you now droning on america reveals a futuristic new weapon in the fight against terror u.s. manufacturers in wales the next generation of unmanned drones fitted with a so-called death rate meaning they never out of ammunition find out more at r.t. dot com. also want to website a real cost of education in the u.k. skyrocketing prices for hiring cation soon rise to one hundred thousand pounds. from. europe drop out tefl put itself out of the economic

well documented but it's not alone japan has now entered its fifth recession in fifteen years it comes just days before the country's election which is expected to sweep the current prime minister from power but current affairs journalist james corbett any change in power could see a more militarized japan in a region where tensions are already high. it seems that almost inevitable that the l.d.p. is going to be put back into power next week and with that comes not only big changes in the economic policy but i think there is going to be some some very big changes geopolitically speaking as. the leader of the l.d.p. is quite a hard liner on a number of issues and is even thinking about revising that the japanese constitution to allow for greater military use of the japanese military overseas this is his second kick at the can as prime minister if he does get it in fact elected next week and while the first time around he was interested in revising the japanese constitution it's a deeply deeply unpopular policy here in japan which tends to have

a mostly pacifist population but because of these rising tensions in east asia generally speaking with north korea and with china and some of the other tensions flaring up it's definitely an idea whose time seems to have come geopolitically speaking and i think the united states will be quite happy to see more hardline japanese parliament getting into power we could expect to see some some some of the change that i think will have to take place culturally here as well as a population that since the end of the second world war has been trained into passivism will likely have to be trained into militarism if gets its way. well into some other world news now opposition activists in bangladesh capital detonated homemade bombs violently in force in a day long general strike riot police and a car to forcibly disperse protesters smashed vehicles and held rocks will be arrested erupted after accusations of government sponsored killings during recent

protests against unpopular political reform. north korea has taken its long range rocket off the launch pad an apparent move to fix a technical problem long maintains it will be launched by the end of the month this included state insists it's sending a satellite into orbit but many countries believe it's conducting a ballistic missile test north korea is banned from using such weapons technology on the u.n. sanctions japan keeping a patriot anti-missile system deployed to shoot down that rocket if it goes off course. the u.k. based bank has b.c. has agreed to pay a huge following to the u.s. department of justice for lapses in money laundering regulations bax controls and or policing of suspicious transactions left the u.s. banking industry exposed to mexican drug cartels the bank was also accused of violating sanctions on iran the five in two billion dollars is the largest ever of

its kind comes as british standard chartered bank also agreed to pay a second fine for similar charges. thousands of american men and women were denied the chance to have children on government orders it was a decades long program of forced sterilization of those thought on fit to be parents were in a portnoy i met some of the victims that are being considered for compensation who say it's too little too late. you won't want to pay if the eighty four year old virginia brooks was just fourteen years old when north carolina's widespread eugenics program would forever alter her future then why do 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 it took me down there and they did surgery i didn't know what to 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 degree to be inferior in america it is targeted mostly by 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 phone and. she says well. now you know by and you won't have no brigade of said what a way to make it what do you mean she said you you won't know hannah. and that's when they want they handed to me this is an angle of this it did renaldo brock's 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. or the way she was free

from modern should be a order. of this day 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 them. except they were born this kind of janice day. this.

shame. 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 in third 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 kid of the people. a life changing question that u.s. state officials refused to answer for marina port archie north carolina.

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