we are to do center of reports say syrian rebels have seized control of a northern army base in a deadly assault while fears mount that the country's chemical weapons could fall into the militant. damascus says it's being framed by the west which is trying to create a perceived threat as a pretext for intervention all the details coming up. opposition demonstrators apparently breach barricades move the presidential palace in cairo ahead of saturday's referendum on a new constitution. is stirring up trouble for the tax avoiders the british public fight back against the giant corporations who cream off profits instead of paying a fair share.

and here tonight at r t good evening reports claim syrian rebels led by the islamist radical front of seize control of an army base in the country's north killing thirty five soldiers the u.s. backs the opposition movement but has placed the militant group on a terrorist list and result is paula's leader explains now there are increasing fears 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 it is unknown exactly what is the extent of the chemical weapons and indeed in his hands there are 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 limbs and

incredible wounds to their bodies there is of course also videos of rebels reportedly using chemical weapons on bunny's as almost a third rate 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 when this shellings while at the same time close aside activists have been posting on you tube videos of rebels making a child behaves a number of prisoners now according to the information this reporter who did happen in homes what we do say you know the video is a number of the hated all victims we see the child actually beheading this person but again no way of indicating all verify exactly the crew 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. a middle east correspondent there with u.s. sources say washington's training rebels to secure to handle chemical stockpiles if the syrian government should fall when he called traitors like going to war activists could stowed believe is just another step towards intervention. this period right now and the time 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 the 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 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 used so effectively in

two thousand and three and later found out to be a complete hoax they just they tried it out of the dust and their plan to rerun it again. in egypt thousands of opponents and supporters of president morsi of gathered in cairo ahead of saturday's referendum on a new constitution protesters of apparently breaks the barricades at the presidential palace this is what's happening in cairo right now as you see there with more and more people gathering for a mass rally morsy gave himself extensive last month but then yes they quickly backtracked in the face of rising public anger is fear the proposed constitution could erode civil liberties and turn the country into an islamic dictatorship i spoke to journalist khaled mashal me tell me he's of course a powerless in that morsi is draft is putting the nation on the brink of civil. affairs judges and the judiciary system is concerned this. is existing. in egypt and that's why he retreated in his cream because

when you don't confuse your court cannot actually make any judgment. point. is that you shouldn't. drafter that actually has not been discussed. by the people of egypt security and. after that actually what the country in that range of civil war will not fall invasion of. and sixty million estate for the first time ever in the history of egypt but the country is on the edge of the unknown at this point we don't even know you've been will be put in them because many judges are still refusing to supervise it which will make it illegal if it happens with full judiciary supervision is no point. at least point if he's insisting on.

this going to be a threat to the unity of the people to their. identity the people of egypt feel that i didn't identities being. there's a financially frosty christmas ahead in britain with bumper taxes and welfare cuts but on everyone's feeling the pinch profit churning multinationals like rams and starbucks are managing to exploit tax laws to the fullest the probably want to pay about going to sara first reports they're telling the government it's not doing enough. people for all of them not to come to this country because companies like starbucks and airplane 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 evade 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 we're here at one of amundsen's much of this to be sentences 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 why are in fact based here in the united kingdom so it's not hard to see that the relatively small luxembourg office is nothing in fact

is they say at the heart of their operations and yet the u.k. tax system doesn't seem to recognize as ordinary british taxpayers who are losing out that's entirely legal on the face of it to run because you could register your transaction in different country and the place of great distraction is the place of taxation where as you can have fewer 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 plans you can't. put in the chancellor's autumn statement last week and it was the pelisse 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 him but there are now that people know that. or doing that now that people know that they've been avoiding paying that amount of tax i mean it's no good doing it after not paying there's a difference between people. who voiding tax to legitimately. and those who are illegally doing it there is a to do when you're a citizen or not i still avoiding paying where interested me again. let me actually answer the question once before you actually interlock tax avoid is ok to legally tell you what 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 he would rights activist stays behind bars but now has got his three year sentence reduced on appeal despite international pressure on the monarchy to stop persecuting political activists we hear more about that a bit later also got the story lined up for you to an american woman who was forcibly sterilized as a teenager as part of a government program to build a so-called healthy nation whole story so just a couple of. if you're passing through rushes to be

a region you really can walk on the wild side thousands of kilometers of unspoilt countryside make up an area where it's still possible to live off the land such spectacular scenery makes it a paradise for fisherman and provides a business opportunity for hunters there are defined hunting seasons in russia but lax enforcement means many animals are killed out of the a lot of times which can leave young animals orphaned and unable to survive the heart of just u.s. forest provides a sanctuary for the most famous beast in russia it's home to a group who rescue often bear cubs and raise them when they're old enough to fend for themselves the cubs a target taken to a remote location and released back into the wild but it's not just bears who find a haven here this is wolf island here wolf pups have been captured by hunters or bought from zoos have a second chance at life and conservationists have a unique opportunity to observe them these walls are all around four months old and

they'll stay in this area for up to three years then most will go back to the wild for good just viewing them from the car was an experience in itself but then after a bit of a bumpy ride came an opportunity i just couldn't pass up. this is what i was hoping for when i heard i was coming to a place called wolf island a chance to get close and personal with the locals and it's these guys going to act as pasta parents for the next generation will come here using the older walls as surrogate parents has already proved a successful technique. every year i placed infant wolves with one year old wolf cubs whose parental instinct is totally shaped and they take them as their own cubs it's going to continue to take time and money to rehabilitate the wolf's reputation in russia. but the keepers here hope their research and dedication will mean that wolf island remains a place where visitors can truly understand the call of the wild.

this is artie leading a bull ready he would write sex now bill rodgers had his prison term cut from three to two years rajib spent in prison since august charges of organizing and legal gatherings and inciting violence he said to have been expecting though to have been released since the international pressure is mounting on the monarchy to stop persecuting political activists the uprising in bahrain has been ongoing now for almost two years with a shia majority demanding democratic fold from the city really family but you have political analysts part of having said it does even if anything's going to change any time soon. to really genuine democratic reform in a country like bahrain it is a state housing the u.s. naval fleet there the same time washington and london are talking and television were talking restively baiting i read into a military conflict perhaps makes it

a huge problem to see any real reform happening now in bahrain but you know the 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 in the media's control and the government is not open about what's going on jailing protesters for just showing up in some cases at peaceful protests you are going to have a massive problem and separating the. is it worth finding out what's what. online if you do not just look at yourself at r t dot com droning on america revealing a futuristic new weapon in the fight against terror we're talking about that

there's going to a lot of clicks tonight if you want to check it out please do us manufacturer vales the next generation of unmanned drones fitted with this so-called death ray laser meaning they say they'll never run out of ammunition is that about mortality dot com if you want to get up to speed on it also the to the real cost of education in the u.k. sky rocketing prices for higher education may soon rise to one hundred pounds. europe strawn out efforts to try to pull itself out of the economic my are 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 current affairs journalist james corbett believes 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 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 the 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 they get this way. well news in brief opposition activists in bangladesh capital detonated a homemade bomb as well violence forcing a day long general strike the right place and darker how to forcibly disperse protesters who smashed vehicles and hurled rocks and restaurant today after accusations of government sponsored killings during recent protests against one popular political. further street violence more marland group of people thought to be loyalists through a petrol bomb into a car in belfast in which a police will be sitting at the time of teaching that is attempted murder sporadic incidents across the city saw fireworks blocked roads and attacked these vehicles has been more than a week of trouble since the decision to restrict flying the u.k. flag from belfast city. north korea's most take it is long range rocket off the launch pad in the pirate move to try to fix a technical problem maintains it will be launched by the end of the month before

the civil state says it's sending a satellite into orbit but many countries believe it's conduct conducting instead a ballistic missile test north korea is banned from using such weapons under u.n. sanctions with japan now keeping a missile system deployed to shoot it down if the rocket does goes off calls. u.k. based bank h.s.b.c. is agreed to pay a huge fine to the u.s. department of justice for lapses in money laundering regulations life controls and poor policing of suspicious transactions left the u.s. banking industry exposed to mexican drug cartels but was also accused of violating sanctions on iran finally two billion dollars is the largest ever of its kind it comes as british standard chartered bank also agreed to pay a second fine for similar charges. next reporting tonight thousands of american men and women were denied the chance to have children on government orders it was a decades long program of in forced sterilization of those thought fit to be parents

artie's more important i met some of the victims now being considered for compensation who say it's too little too late. you won't want to pay it eighty four year old virginia brooks was just fourteen years old when north carolina's widespread eugenics program would forever alter her future so 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 i didn't know what to do was doing too many 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 is hard and 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. she says well you know you nobody you won't have no bread. said what wait a minute what do you mean she said you won't know hannah. and that's when they want they handed to me this is an angle of this grand 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. or the way she will free somebody 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. except they were born this kind of thing. this. shame. to this day not one victim throughout the united states has been compensated for their lifelong suffer 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 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. of the people. a life changing question that u.s. state officials refused to answer for marina port archly north carolina. on the way our regular financial check up for washington with tonight's program stuff.

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sprott about that and about silver too plus u.s. and u.k. regulators have reportedly published a joint paper they wrote about it on the pages of the op ed pages rather of the financial times to deal with too big to fail banks that need to well bail it's a first cross border plan it includes losses for shareholders removing senior management and converting debt into equity to provide capital now capital is one solution to mitigate the liability of massive credit expansion only we had hard money though we'll break that down for you a word of the day and while we're on all that glitters check out this trip to the vault. it's enormously impressed see it's it's a big brother like a movie with. the day. waiting for people to remember it. from a funny video you'll never guess where that was we'll tell you and have more in loose change let's get to today's capital account.