seaward denies claims that he used chemical weapons as the johnson his allies drum up a case for him to luncheon based on unverified intelligence from the rules are. russian authorities detained one hundred sixty people in moscow all suspicion of involvement with islam is the militant groups in the north caucuses. iceland heads to the polls expired how the tiny nation stood up for its people during a financial meltdown and refused to rest and. this is also you coming here live from moscow hello and welcome to the program with

sewer and government has denied allegations it has any chemical weapons and says even if it did it wouldn't use them on the home front u.s. officials claim to have sketchy and unconfirmed intelligence that damascus has used a chemical agent on its own people. has some basis. u.s. president barack obama was delivering some fierce words in the aftermath of tables comments he indicated that washington will conduct its own independent investigation into syria's alleged use of chemical weapons and a separate probe will be conducted in conjunction with the united nations america's leaders said the world can't stand by and permit the use of chemical weapons obama has previously stated that the use of chemical weapons by damascus would be a game changer in the u.s. position on military intervention into syria is civil war now according to white house press secretary jay carney he has confirmed that military force is one of

many options that president obama is currently considering carney said as a general principle the united states retains the ability to act unilaterally now these revelations of course come just one day after u.s. defense secretary chuck hagel claimed that the u.s. intel that u.s. intelligence officials believe with some degree of varying confidence that the syrian government has used chemical weapons against members of the opposition specifically sarin gas u.s. officials claim the attacks in question took place last month and in the outskirts of damascus however a letter that the white house has sent to members of congress states that washington cannot confirm the origin of the chemical weapons allegedly used acting in lockstep with the u.s. british prime minister david cameron has come forward insisting that his government has limited but growing evidence of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian military according to reports m i six agents operating in syria smuggled soil out

of the country to be analyzed for chemical and biological contaminants however u.k. military scientists reportedly said the soil contain treece is of some kind of chemical weapon though it could not positively identify the type of weaponized chemical now in an interview with the b.b.c. cameron said he worries that western leaders might fail to act in syria. because of the experience of foreign intervention into iraq now we all know that britain france france have been voicing unconditional support for syrian rebels and reportedly providing the opposition with military and financial aid in the meantime the syrian government is now is blaming the opposition for the march attack near aleppo which killed several people damascus says organised organizations including al qaida have repeatedly threatened to use chemical arms while fighting with the opposition so here you have a scenario where in syria the opposition groups and the government are pointing fingers at one another and you have the u.s.

and its western allies presenting this harsh rhetoric of the use of chemical weapons by the syrian government but they don't have all the full facts in place. us also tauren journaled who says the sectarian conflict in syria. provocations by the rebels even rogue functions in damascus itself. it's deja vu all over again we will remember the disaster as an adventurous u.s. and british invasion of iraq in two thousand and three based on allegations really weapons of mass destruction that proved to be faulty therefore we must ask some very difficult and searching questions for example what was the chain of custody with regard to the samples taken from the battlefield of syria to laboratories of london and in washington was there or was there the possibility of contamination or foul play or hanky panky with these samples and how can you show that the regime

rather than the rebels actually used these alleged chemical weapons and since we already know that security divisions within the military is driving the conflict in both syria and iraq how do we know that some renegade soldier in the syrian military was actually collaborating with the rebels watch these chemical weapons so as to provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions that must be answered. hundred sixty suspected extremists have been detained and a large scale police raid on an islamic house of prey details now from. one hundred forty people have been detained in southern part of russia's capital moscow for suspected ties with extremist islamist organizations and more than thirty of them are reported to be foreigners although we don't know what countries that coming from or which nationalities they are that's following

a special operator russia's federal security service the detention has happened at the time with deliveries gathered to in. one over a residential areas in that part of morse code for their friday prayer as we know the most important prayer for all muslims it hasn't been in a mosque we know that that built in a situated in the residential area of moscow so apparently towards kind of an apartment maybe a private party that's been used for as a chapel where deliveries have been gathering to prate police to say that most of those who've been regularly attending this place have a late to join the ranks of militant groups active in northern caucasus and russia and some of them have been involved in preparing carrying out extremist and terror attacks in russia counterterrorist operation in russia is continuing and terrorism remains a big and serious threat for our russia as well as for the entire world people in

iceland are voting in the second parliamentary election since the financial collapse have to sign and then days lead the nation stricken the country has been slowly but steadily getting back on its feet after making a conscious decision to let the banks go bust rather than rescuing them at public expense. reports iceland has seen it all its banks crashed its government resigned its currency devaluated and its businesses of all sizes have collapsed and that of all came over up to grounding planes all over europe air making the island nation the headliner for weeks on end but that was. years ago while today thanks to timely precise policies of the health from the international monetary fund it boasts some of the healthiest growth rates in europe one point six percent and it's no small triumph considering that back in two thousand and eight its banks debt was eight times the annual g.d.p.

so the people took it into their own hands and negotiated major debt write offs at times it does seem like it's the only country in europe that's got it right take a look at this or to go our england greece and spain at the countries known as the pigs continue to spiral deeper into their excruciating financial mess their current deficit to g.d.p. ratio is just under three percent they have no money and plenty of debt but the borel war to serve their bond obligations back in two thousand and eight i slow deficit to g.d.p. ratio was twice that of the pigs yes iceland allowed its banks to collapse under their own debt wait technically bankrupt the island nation managed to get an impressive job of turning its economy around its banking sector return to profitability its businesses restructured their debt and it kept growing and many

of their people were able to keep their homes and five years after the most devastating financial down in that's history in both the lowest jobless rate in europe less than five percent now the euro zone's strongest economy germany has five point four percent so if some think it's iceland that was humiliated the world over they should definitely think again. on this story we're now joined live by dr stephen mcconaughey from birmingham city university dr mccarthy welcome to the program iceland is widely seen as an economic recovery success story do you agree or not. well it's recovered there's no doubt about it. it was able to in effect if not what the debt so to sort of to ignore the money to produce in dutch banks but actually we're hearing that people are not content do you think it's

a real possibility that the people who were in charge of iceland's economy back in two thousand and eight when all the problems actually started could be returned to power if it was such a success then just repeat that because i didn't quite catch that story absolutely is that a real possibility that the people who were in charge of iceland's economy back in two thousand and eight when all the problems started could really turns to power if it was such a success then were in the sense we talk about success but for the average iceland or the. population have sort of suffered because of the fact of high inflation what we could remember is that the violence a pretty small country we're talking about a third of a million people. but the reality was that it became seduced by the belief that banking was going to be at salvation so the fact the sort of banking a bit like cyprus which of course has been in the news recently it became so ten

times the size of its g.d.p. so it was out of proportion so promised a grimace and called it. a phony economy yes and if those people who were in charge of iceland's economy back in two thousand and eight if they make the bank into office look changes their thing they would seek to make. well i mean to be fair that promise christmas is twice voted against returning money to british depositors who so invested money in icelandic banks i mean it was for it's a pretty short period an incredible success story people could not cannot believe their luck as it were there was of giving money to other people and making phenomenal rates return but as i say it was a miracle so in the sense that what iceland has done is concentrate on the fact that it's its digits economies it's individuals industries such as fishing farming and course our union smelting its return to some of the basic trades what it's also been able to do is that in the sort of the good times as it were banking they were

able to provide lots of jobs. that sector prices graduates they've had to look elsewhere and what iceland is able to do now is to sort of give jobs to survive opportunities for young entrepreneurs so it's concentrated on the sort of the fact that this was plenty of innovation there but it's not into sort of the financial sector. one of the same model what can other struggling countries with much bigger populations. well the answer is probably not i mean what iceland does have is the fact that it's in rhode who's on the edge of the world i mean it's in the sort of the it's an isolated nation. and indeed is an island so it's effectively as we say in this country it's stuck it's fingers up at the rest of the world and so we're not giving your your money back home what can you do short of invading iceland which was never on the agenda it has been up to sort of to look to its own sort of

look after itself if you like for other european economies i don't know such as you i mean i heard you mention ireland portugal they're much more interlinked into europe iceland is not and so what has been able to do is to sort of concentrate on reinventing the sort of things it's good at which it's as i say it's indigenous industries and of course it is famous for sort of certain things such as the i don't know if you've mentioned this that makes prosthetic limbs which we warm by the. athletic or the athletes at the given pics in london such as of course oscar pistorius according to the latest polls the majority of people in iceland are posed to e.u. membership but wouldn't joining the e.u. give the country a safety net briefly can one no i mean there was talk about joining the e.u. but i think that that's out of the question that they realize that this at their best strachan for recovery is to remain isolated or to sort of to be independent as it were europe to offer salvation all right stephen mccann they doubt so recession

bank city university. you know. coming up later here on our upping the pressure ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko could be charged with murder at any moment she's already serving a seven year prison sentence and this could see her behind bars for life the details coming out. of. my skis and mavis that going to be a big new money in stevia to choose what is both a culture of contemporary i don't take no logic east of the auditorium so join me to all must say on our t m a the second as we bring you the glitz the glamour and the best of the best in the performing arts right here at marines had to cheat.

the government international airport in the very heart of moscow. this is all she welcomed by russian official and blasted the u. was hovering jumpers all the allegations against them washington accuse the people

of the list on the list of being responsible for the death of noise sergei magnitsky in police custody while those three years ago well he's meeting of course no one has the details now on the russian reaction. they say that the publication of this list was a politically motivated decision and that the u.s. side was not objective and making its decisions as it couldn't be possibly aware of fall those documents that surround this case as the documents are still in court and never became public and that the magnitsky law was to drop to the beast on political motives and that the law has no legal force and no legal consequences and the country and only represents an additional political pressure on russia now the u.s. magnitsky list was published on the twelfth april and includes eighteen russian officials who are banned from the united states and their asses now according to the washington's version of the events sixteen of these officials i directly

responsible for the death of. the game of new ski worked as an auditor and an accountant at hermitage capital management and was the main suspect in a major tax evasion case and he died in a pretrial detention facility back in two thousand and nine the russian officials opened a legal case over his death however in more two thousand and thirteen russia's investigative committee dropped to the investigation into data. as it had determined that no crime had taken place before the. u.s. magnitsky list was published russia warned that the response would be similar and really in accordance with the rules of parity and then didn't last them twenty four hours russia responded with the same list with the same number off officials also eighteen american officials there are banned from entering the russian federation however the russian list consists of two parts now the first one includes those

people who are involved in human rights violations and legalizing torture at guantanamo detention facility and the second part of this list involves of those people who are responsible for numerous human rights violations. those russian citizens abroad if i were there reports these lists are only you're sure it's version of the list and that there are extended versions off the list said that both countries pizzazz and reportedly a u.s. extended version of the list even includes some greedy high level top russian government officials. authorities in bangladesh home arrest of the owners of a fine train that collapsed on wednesday the says more enraged textile workers flooded the streets to demand harsh punishment for them fall says the people say the employees made the despite knowing the building was unsafe they eight story frank tree came crashing down and move on three thousand people with officials saying the death toll could exceed three hundred fifty rescue teams are working nonstop putting survivors and troops is from the rubble almost into homes from

wasn't walkers have been rescued so far the incident prompted a fresh wave of criticism western companies are placing profit before safety and a nation known for churning out low cost products i'm global trends analyst general sentence has any standards and just for. the it's an international trend that we see growing more and more as profits are put before people people who are more expendable so that it's just a lot of talk with you year from these companies in the west for example that say they watch the standards were going on in the sweat factories around the world is just show is really no security there's really no really no hard institutions in place that are monitoring these kind of factory and there are no regulations that in most countries and the countries that do have regulations is softening them so

that profits could go higher and less money is gone for checking the people and improve the plants get profits come before people and if you have to spend more money on building better plants we're better equipment that comes secondary to the bottom wall and again when you look at what's going on in america and see the conditions that are declining here they really don't care what's going on over there. check some other world news and read this hour and the u.s. lawmakers want more sanctions against north korea a new dr bell is modeled on current iranian restrictions on does aimed at chinese companies and banks beyond young uses to conduct its business meanwhile north korea says it will soon decide the fate of a detained american accused of trying to overthrow the government the top rate of korean descent was arrested last year in a special economic zone bordering china and russia which has been through a seven minutes earlier this month with each thrashing to a top of the. a bombing in karate pakistan has left at least

nine dead and schools injured the target was thought to be an office belonging to the awami national party a ton of money has claimed that two weeks ago a suicide bombing against the party's senior leaders in the city of the shah what code sixteen people violence has increased in the run up to the parliamentary elections next month. debris found in new york could be part of one of the two planes used in the nine eleven attacks on the world trade center so we'll have a survey is found part of a growing trend by chaunce whilst inspecting an islamic community center close to ground zero officials are reported now planning to examine the soil around the building for possible human remains. as more bad news for ukraine's former prime minister on top of a seven year prison term she is currently serving for use of power grid soon face murder charges two that could put her behind bars for life her legal team alleges

foul play but as all season exceed explains now some believe ukrainian politics simply steen will lose anyone who challenges the status quo. from being allegedly beaten up by prison guards to seeing her supporters storm the hospital where she's undergoing treatment ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has been in a lot of trouble lately she has now serve eighteen months of a seven year prison term for abuse of power when she signed gas deals with russia in two thousand and nine but this could get a lot worse because of her allegedly to an assassination almost two decades ago in one thousand nine hundred ninety six ukrainian member of parliament you gave a shit about was shot dead in eastern ukraine back then a confession by one of his killers shocked the country. the man who painted for the job mentioned that shared bones killing was ordered by a man nicknamed pasha it was obvious to us that under pasha he meant by the laws

the rank of ukraine's prime minister. was that him could never face charges for those allegations he spent twelve years behind bars in the united states for tax evasion and fraud and is now seeking political asylum across the atlantic but in a typical ukrainian rollercoaster style twist he's name has recently surfaced again together with tymoshenko as. there should be at this stage we have proof that lhasa rinko paid the first five hundred thousand dollars to the gang which. then another two point three million dollars were transferred to the assassins by yulia timoshenko. tymoshenko is currently on a second trial for alleged attacks solution and money laundering in the one thousand ninety's when she led the united energy systems of ukraine company that could seriously increase her prison term but if any connection to sharon's murder is proved she would remain behind bars for life her lawyers were quick to describe

the accusations as nonsense because on the testimonies of the so-called witnesses and nothing concrete they all refer to what they were told by other people who died or were killed ten to fifteen years ago this is all i've seen that they have against this case was made up by the ruling elite when they understood that the gas case against him is falling apart. but political analysts say that in the case of ukraine's politicians you just can't rule anything out as most of them do have skeletons in their clothes that. almost every politician in ukraine can go on trial some didn't pay tax some were involved in corrupt schemes but as long as they obey the rules of the political game they're not excuse it by calling the president and the government illegitimate after the change of power went beyond the boundaries of a democratic political game and hence the rules of the game were changed that was the. this third case against the machine who is now in

a preliminary stage it is still unclear what kind of evidence investigators have against her but they seem confident there is enough to press charges before summer the thriller which is that you must go case has been a walk in ukraine for almost two years now and all this time supporters of the former prime minister have been think you think the central street all the recent developments in the saga are clearly suggesting they will not believing anytime soon. let's hear ourselves reporting from kiev in ukraine and remember all our news stories on just a click away head to our team for the latest stories in these areas let's now take a look at what's waiting for you that was. a member of russia's influence punk band peace who riot is denied early release on the grounds that she's been badly behaved in prison get the details on our website. and then i rested hunka waits extradition to the netherlands for an unprecedentedly serious time on

an anti spying no profit organization the details of the international cyber war all right off the dot com. and up next on the mountain takes on the mainstream media in breaking the set. voth is a mystery to. him no this is not a fifty's beside fi movie slogan it is what a.b.c. news is trying to find out what they investigated how lean finally tech should be produced this type of quote beef has become very widespread throughout fast food restaurants and supermarkets in the usa and has led to its south dakota based menu

. factor of posting profits in the hundreds of millions of dollars but so what's wrong with some processed before you might ask well the reporting showed that ammonia and other rough chemicals were doused onto the meat to kill equal i bacteria and make it safe function although this product is for some reason legal the films have power to create put backlash and many companies gave up ordering the mysteriously and finally took should be ok while the mainstream media for once actually did something valuable for society and what did they get in return sued yeah the pink slime crew decided to sue a.b.c. news and forced them not to divulge their company secrets as well as punish them for defamation against their product which lead to profit losses and guess what they won the lawsuit well the faming products that on mass could destroy the health of millions of americans is no blasphemy in my book but that's just my opinion.

to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how bad the less and less. i mean . i know that i'm still really messed up. very closely. worst superglued. but i'm sick of the. radio guy minutes from. what you call for about six years you've never seen anything like this until. i'm out in martin welcome to breaking it so today i had the rare opportunity to share good news for once to start the show samaras see me in political prisoner will and his eight month hunger strike. in exchange for an early release from

israeli jails to solve he was first arrested for taking part in military activities against i.d.f. vehicles back in two thousand and two and was sent to twenty six years in prison he was then released as part of a prisoner exchange but was arrested last july and since august of two thousand and twelve salvi has been protesting his detention by refusing food and only taking water vitamins and sugars for two hundred and sixty six days for the last two months of health has been a tear your eating his heart beats slowing forcing him to put on artificial ventilation at the same time the unrest among palestinians with escalating to the point of fear of a third intifada samara was allowed to die while the great news of his.