welcome to the big. take here moscow time tonight l r t reports say syrian rebels have seized control of a northern army base in a deadly assault while fears mount of the country's chemical weapons could fall into militant. damascus says it's been claimed by the way which is trying to create a perceived threat as a pretext for intervention all the details coming up. rival rallies in egypt are said to escalate at the saturday's referendum on the new constitution after the government attack opposition crowds in cairo's tahrir square. and stirring up trouble for the tax avoiders the british public fight back against the giant corporations who crave more profits instead of paying their fair share.

of the r.t. new scent of moscow our top story tonight reports claim syrian rebels led by the islamist radical front of seize control of an army base in the country's north it's killed thirty five soldiers the u.s. backs the opposition movement that has placed the militant group on a terrorist list and is fall asleep or explains now there are increasing fears that syria's chemical weapons could fall into the wrong hands some of the images coming from this report are 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 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 the declaration of its chemical weapons and this is why at this stage because exactly what is the extent of the chemical weapons and in his hands and 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 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 face faces as well as memes and incredible wounds 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 are innocent victim aerial bombings as well as shaming while at the same. making a child behave in a number of prisoners now according to the information that's what this report it did happen in homes what we do say you know the video is a number of the headed on its own as 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 there 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 paula slee there with the u.s. sources saying washington's training rebels to secure and handle chemical stockpiles if the syrian government should fall many commentators like antiwar activists can stone believe is 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 the which we use 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

productive the weapons run it again. he chip's braced for more rival rallies between opponents and supporters of president morsy ahead of saturday's referendum on the new constitution while the egypt judges club say they want to preside over the controversial vote and this is what's happening in cairo right now demonstrators apparently have breached barricades near the presidential palace morsi given himself extensive new powers last month but then quickly backtracked in the face of rising public anger is fear that the proposed constitution could erode civil liberties and turn the country into an islamic dictatorship now spoke to journalist khaled mashal me he told me egypt's courts a powerless though and that morsi is draft is putting the nation on the brink of civil war. as far as judges and the judiciary system is concerned

this. is the existing point in egypt and that's why he retreated because he knew the. court cannot actually make any judgment. point he insisted on the referendum on the fusion draft and that actually has not been discussed. by the people of egypt. after but actually the country in a. civil war will probably be. precious and it's experience to speak for the first time ever in the history of egypt but the country is a joke that i am more than at this point we don't even know you will be in them because many judges are still refusing to supervise it which will make it

illegal if it happens with full judiciary supervision there's no point to. be spoiled if he's insisting on. this committee if you shouldn't be afraid of the unity of the people. or egypt or. even to the people of egypt feel that i didn't i didn't think it. there's a financially frosty christmas ahead in britain with bumper taxes and welfare cuts but not everyone is feeling the pinch profit churning multinationals like amazon and starbucks emerging to exploit tax laws to the fullest the public wants payback then and as sarah first reports they're telling the government it isn't doing enough. well people from all of the people tend not to this conference with 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 companies and the wealthy have been dodging paying their fair share most people are due to discuss these companies do not the 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. the head office 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 lower tax rate but hang on a minute we're here one of amundsen's much of this service incentive based in the u.k. in fact the reality is that many of our customers most of their employees and many will distribution centers like this what 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 as they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognise it as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out to saddam illegally on the face of it to run because you can register your transaction in different country and the place of great 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 billions of much needed tax pounds you can count. it in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the penniless on welfare he went 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. their accounting and now that people know that. 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 are not paying well there's a difference between people. who voiding tax to legitimately. and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when we were. paying where interest. let me actually answer the question once before you actually interact tax avoid is ok to legally starbucks and amazon and google have been doing is ok's 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. bahrain's leading human rights activists is staying behind bars but nothing about jobs got a three year sentence reduced on appeal despite international pressure on the mall . he to stop persecuting political activists we talk more about that but later the story of an american woman who was forcibly sterilized as a teenager is part of a government program to build a so-called healthy nation as a couple of the many and very stories we got ahead of this.

an artist was arrested for putting up posters critical of drone usage all over new york city the poster show a menacing drone shooting a missile at innocent children with the words drones protection when you least expect it written at the bottom these posters definitely reflect a lot of americans fears that a big brother skynet will completely eliminate the very concept of privacy and free speech so to prove that americans live in a free country without any government spying he had why p.t. hunted down the anonymous artist and arrested him for expressing himself having arrested him at his residence they charged him with fifty six counts of criminal possession of a forged instrument grand larceny possession of stolen property and weapons possession for having a deadly terrorist weapon and unloaded twenty two caliber pistol although being in

jail won't be pleasant perhaps arzt as some actually in the end got what he wanted he proved to the world that big brother surveilled him and arrested him all for throwing up a few posters looks like he proved his point but that's just my opinion. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you know. i'm tom harpur welcome to the big picture. mission. critic a should three. four judges three. three three. three. three.

three braun video for your media projects free media r.t. dot com. leading bahraini human rights activist said his prison term cut from three to two years spent in prison since august on charges of organizing illegal gatherings and inciting violence he's a said to of pain expected though terms being released as the international pressure is mounting on the monarchy to stop persecuting political activists the uprising in bahrain has been going on for almost two years now with a shia majority demanding democratic reform from the sunni ruling family but said jip political analyst patrick henningsen told us he doesn't believe anything is going to check. really genuine democratic reform in a country like bahrain it is its state housing the u.s. naval fleet it is the same time washington and london are talking and we're talking

restively dating i read into a military conflict perhaps makes a huge problem to see any real reform happening in bahrain but you know the opposition movement has been for the most peaceful the danger is that a radical element could see through like we've seen in countries like syria and it's normally done from the outside the rain 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 in 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 are going to have a mass of problems separating the wheat from the chaff is it worth finding out what's what in the country. on life droning on america reveals

a futuristic new weapon in the fight against terror we're talking about that money like wells the next generation of on drugs now fitted with a so-called death ray laser meaning they say they are never going to run out of ammunition when we don't more home also want it so you can find out about the real cost of education in the u.k. sky rocketing prices for higher education may soon rois to one hundred thousand pounds. europe strolled out efforts to try to pull itself out of the economic model 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 of current affairs journalist james corbett told us he believes any change in power could see a more militarize japan and 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 a be the leader of the l.d.p. is quite a hard liner on a number of issues and is even thinking of revising the 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 the day's headlines supposition activists in bangladesh's capital of detonate homemade bombs after violently enforcing a day long general strike riot police and to forcibly disperse protesters who smashed vehicles and hurled wrongs your restaurant did after accusations of government sponsored killings during recent protests against an popular political form. there's been further street violence in northern ireland there a group of people thought to be loyalists through a petrol bomb into a car in belfast in which a policewoman sitting office is treating it as attempted murder sporadic incidents across the city saw gangs use fireworks blocked roads and attacked police vehicles there's been more than a week of trouble this insidious cision to restrict one in the u.k. flag from belfast city hall. north korea now has taken its long range rocket off the launch pad in an apparent move to fix it technical problem with it young people

young maintains it will be rocky by the end of the month secluded state insists it's sending a satellite into orbit but many countries believe it's instead conducting a ballistic missile test banned from using such weapons technology in the u.n. sanctions with japan keeping a patrick anti missile system deployed to shoot down that rocket if it does go off course. u.k. based bank h.s.b.c. as agreed to pay a huge fine to the u.s. department of justice for lapses in money laundering regulations the lax controls and poor policing of suspicious transactions left the u.s. banking industry exposed to mexican drug cartels the bank was accused of violating sanctions on iran to finally 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 in for sterilization of those thought unfit to be parents is more important some of the victims now being considered for compensation but who say it's too little too late. you won't want to see 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 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. 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 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 phone. she says well. now you know by and you won't have no brigade of said what a way to make it one day you mean she said you you won't know when. and that's when the one handed to me this is an angle of this that the grand bronx 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 order way she will marry somebody should be. a fresh 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 us except that they were born this kind of thing. can't get better than this. shame. to this day not one victim throughout the united states has been compensated for their life long suffering in june north carolina state senate rejected proposals to allocate funding for the compensation program some argue that paying

victims for what was illegal 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 its worst state officials took virginia brooks and dozens of other young girls to undergo mandatory sterilization surgery today in 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. of the people. there. a life changing question but u.s. state officials refused to answer for marina port archly north carolina. because reports next picking through the financial headlines to expose what the world's banks are really up to the next programmer on our team was go joy.

as his day starts at five am even earlier in the winter tending to his flock of story hundred sheep in the mountains and plains of t.v. thirty five years old it wasn't the life he dreamt of having studied accounting but he dition and familial duty dictated that he would take on the care of these animals after his father has just made camp at their winter found stage setting up his ute judicial to fenian round tent made of diskin. his p.c. back amongst his family as his job is a lonely one and tough going out in all weathers braving streams of plus to minus forty degrees celsius it's just that i just don't there are certain difficulties there's not enough time for everything i'm almost alone my sister works with my

mother my mother is seventy five she's very old and i miss mountains when i'm in town and i spend a lot of time here right now probably so on most of us simply carrying out the work that his father did and his father before him nothing has changed over many many centuries and that's half the problem it's hard work and many people don't want to come into in stream now and it's really fit there could die out altogether. it's difficult to manage everything alone i used to have people who helped me but they were no good they didn't take care of the sheep with all the halts they hurt the cattle through the squirrels and through europe with people leaving them coming to the countryside the region's government is having to act making the life of a herd and more attractive than promising largest subsidies for countryside and livestock and organizing cooperatives for the sale of day put out to ensure the herd it gets a high a fair price i sympathize with those youngsters leaving for an easier more profitable life they in their publics capital. but he no longer wishes to join them

he enjoys his pasta way of life now looking for a helper who shares his enthusiasm but more time on his hands he says matter of fact we can start to look for you wife.

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jamie have spoken they say that into their cold in a perpetual bubble will forever go your toil and trouble and that your economies and your wealth will burn in the fire of your witches or. stacy yes max believe it or not after years of zero percent interest rates just as we predicted world the risks fresh credit bubble switzerland's be i s warrants asset prices across the world have risen to the heady levels not seen since the credit boom five years ago and maybe losing touch with economic reality yet again the bank for international settlements is war and that's exactly what i had as my top story i love when we're thinking like exactly the same run this. week they see you right there i took this out of the paper today this is.