syria denies claims it used chemical weapons as the us and its allies drum up a case for intervention based on un verified intelligence from the war zone. and as i was learned heads to the polls are she looks back at how the tiny beijing stood up for its people during the financial meltdown and refused to rescue the banks. last saw russian officials blacklisted by the u.s. over the death of a lawyer while in prison for the allegations against among groundless and politically motivated.

international news analysis and reports of this is our duty coming live from you from moscow with me to one would say the syrian government has denied allegation 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 i'm confirmed intelligence that damascus has used a chemical agent on its own people are just more in a part my has the latest. 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 serious 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 in new york 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 act again lock step 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 which he reports m i six agents operating in syria smuggled soil out of the country to be analyzed for chemical and biological contaminants however you came military scientists reportedly said the soil contained 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. 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 ripley providing the opposition the 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 masochists as 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 of 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. he was author and historian gerald hall now says the sectarian conflict in syria leaves plenty of room for provocation by the rebels or even rogue factions 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 in wonder and in washington was there or was there the possibility of contamination or

foul play or hanky panky with samples and how can you show that the regime rather than the rebels actually used these alleged chemical weapons and since we already know next 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 want these chemical weapons so as to provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions that must be answered. people in iceland voting in their second parliamentary election says the financial collapse of two thousand and eight left 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 or rather one rescuing them at public expense or does not others and that's why i 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 in over up to grounding planes all over europe making the island nation the headliner for weeks on end but that was years ago while today thanks to timely precise policies of the help 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 a right to take a look at this or to go on a limb to 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 play ball more to serve their own 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 meltdown in the history it boasts the lowest jobless rate in europe less than five percent now the euro zone's strongest economy germany has five point four percent so some think it's iceland that was humiliated the world over they should definitely think again. and we're now joined live by

every kind of bag men they profess sometimes undergrad to listen to for european studies at the before us university musselburgh meant you were part of the assembly that revise the atlantic constitution after major antique license protest back in two thousand and eight i contend with the state of other country the way it's in the. mode it has been great progress in this country be still have a long way to go stan go for a complete recovery we can say that the economy is quite run on track again are almost up to the pre-crisis level when it comes to growth in the g g p they in unemployment costs come down but quite many houses households here are still quite urgent. there are hospital not in the same

political reform if you will. as much as there hostin economic recovery but today we don't go to the polls to vote on new. parliaments. eventually merging with government so would the economy on such a good track i mean iceland the recovery story is seen as a success to many but some voters apparently very wary of a ceratin and i'd turning to those who lead the country into financial ruin in the first place so why does the truth lie. well the truth lies somewhere in the middle saying is that iceland was able to avoid a very strict to store story. starring t mattias rather they were to mix measures of easing in peaceful calm solem in this cause.

three at that. sort of term created some safeguard people in this come to them perhaps they are more willing to go back to the old base and if you really because of the successes this government has made it so given to other countries who are struggling through extreme measures of austerity what's left is can other struggling countries learn from iceland well i think i sent this a fantastic case a concrete door in a different way in this crisis. ice time did not saw last month's talks may as hey it's money against poland backs simply because their banks here were too big and there caressed you. we didn't have the means to back them up so they were taking into ministration rather than the taxpayer all bases shouldering all of the

ring all of that that curtains and then after the crisis hit iceland did not they implemented stricter stary t. v. e you seeing and more. in the toolkit so if i can all make recoveries than all this forcing through. the message off of the classical sort of neo liberal rejean and in this way we have are a pull to keep the real source of the economy growing and the economy is quite robust. and also getting kind of back on its feet but that has also very much to do with writs export industry in the country it's us helped end of it quite a lot of our fight and revenue about it ops not something all companies. fall

back on the like iceland was able to but i do believe that iceland stumbled really accidentally on the more successful route for recovery. most other states in this financial crisis so would you say that. i mean given the idea that some of some countries in the e.u. and a lot of us started t. measures they have to deal with a lot in terms of economy. iceland was the idea of actually joining the e.u. back in then was very popular and now you've dealt with the crisis very well for some see it would you be willing to go back into the e.u. or had an age is applying for e.u. membership one of the main problem in the country is the currency even though the economy has turned around quite

a bit there is the lying difficulty is off but i think such a small currency like the icelandic krona it's only backed up by three hundred thousand people and it's not sustainable iceland is thus locked behind conference all controls and this distorts very much the economic growth in this country iceland definitely needs to break out of these constraints and one rate of doing that is to join in. a stronger bigger currency currency that this actually trade the abroad gets the icelandic krona is not at the moment so they're either you question is really a question of sort of read joining. the international economy. but it depends very much on how that would be. done and what sort of an agreement

iceland could come strike with the e.u. on oxes seeing. the union adopting their currency this is the main underlying problem still unsolved in iceland that's the that's the problem there on the currency and better than store in ordinary households if we can get those two out of the way i iceland is heading for a remarkable recovery let's say bagmen a professor of political science and director of the center for european studies at before us university thank you thank you. coming up op ing with the pressure ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko could be charged with murder had any moment she's already serving a seven year prison sentence and this could see her behind bars while life details of that are just i hate.

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the international airport in the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching our team russian officials blacklisted by the u.s. have rejected all the allegations against them washington like hughes the people on the list of being responsible for the death of lawyer game mechanics keep in police custody more than three years ago artie's made a question about has the details of 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

follow 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 are directly responsible for the death of need ski 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 in two thousand and thirteen russia's

investigative committee dropped to the investigation into the 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 indeed in less than twenty four hours russia responded with the same list of would same number off officials also eighteen american officials they're 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 violation. 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 presides and reportedly a u.s. extended version of the list even includes some greedy high level top russian government officials. authorities have arrested two owners and two engineers from a factory that collapsed some wednesday this is morning range and textile workers flooded the streets to demand hans punishment for they both the people say they employers made them work despite knowing the building was unsafe the eight story fact she came crashing down on more than three thousand people with officials saying the death toll could exceed three hundred and fifteen rescue teams are working nonstop of pulling survivors encompasses from the rubble around two and a half thousand workers have been rescued so far the incident prompted a fresh a wave of criticism of western companies will place in profit before safety and a nation known for churning out a low cost product google trends analyst gerald celente says instead of just for

the show. 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 new year from these companies in the west for example that say they watch the standards or the going on in the sweat factories around the world they just show is really 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 a softening them so that profits could go higher and less money is spent on protecting the people and improving the plants again profits come before people and if you have to spend more money on building better plants we're better that come sorry to the bottom. 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. there's mall bad news for ukraine's former prime minister on top of the seven year prison term she is currently serving for abuse of power you know to michelle could soon face murder charges too and that could put her behind bars for life the legal team alleges fall play but as art is explain some believe you will create ukrainian politics simply stream rolls 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 tymoshenko has been in a lot of trouble lately she has no 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 by killing it 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 in can 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. we have proof that lives are in co-pays the first five hundred thousand dollars to the guy and. then another two

point three million dollars for transfer to the assassins by yulia timoshenko. tymoshenko is currently on a second trial for alleged attacks evasion and money laundering in the one nine hundred 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 but 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 having this case was made up by the ruling elite when he understood that the gas case against him it 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 put. 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 prosecuted 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. this third case against a machine who is now in a preliminary stage it is still unclear what kind of evidence investigators have against but they seem confident there is enough to press charges before summer the thriller which is that carries has been a walk in ukraine for almost two years now and all this time supporters of the former prime minister have been picketing the central street over recent developments in this saga are clearly suggesting they will not believing anytime soon. let's see russia reporting from kia in ukraine. a spokesman for cyber banco the group accused of orchestrating one of the biggest

cyber attacks in history has been arrested in spain spend all of can be also expected to be extradited to the netherlands the attack against us spamhaus an international organization would try to spamming was carried out last month r.t. web producer andrew blake explained. cyber bunker allegedly. spamhaus spamhaus is a anti-spam nonprofit biggest all over the world headquartered in geneva and in london what they do is they provide a service that filters e-mail filters web traffic so by creating some sort of blacklist they would say these are places that can operate on the internet and these are places that cannot you know by definition that is a form of censorship and that according to representatives for cyber bunker at least that is a form of censorship that prompted these details to tell us it's no surprise that the laws are on the books across the world right now and that there's new attempts everywhere to kind of change the way we use the internet as

a civilization because there's already attempts between between washington and some of these big telecom providers to actually censor and monitor traffic that's going old for the web this is absolutely a case of where we're seeing people sacrificing their privacy for so-called security and it's happening right underneath our noses and people aren't aware of it yet because the back rooms deals in places in the united states and across the world that are making the internet less free technology date is next here on our t.v. stay with us. the movie world war z z being for zombie which stars brad pitt as one hundred seventy five million dollar budget has been recalled by paramount executives not because

this is probably yet another stupid violent zombie movie but because the chinese might get offended according to the wrap dot com china was supposed to take the blame for starting the evil zombie apocalypse this time but china becoming the largest foreign market for american movies made artistic integrity fly out the window to protect the bottom dollar as is tradition and hollywood this is not the first time that there has been pro-choice censorship in hollywood the remake of red dawn which was originally a cold war era a minstrel show against russians was supposed to show a chinese invasion of america this time however they have changed it to north koreans who can't even defeat the us military in south korea let alone at an away game in usa the thing that is interesting is not the censorship in the fact that they will censor before whoever's got a lot of cash coaches the big markets won't be offended but countries with small markets will this is a complete prostitute mentality show that love to any guy who's got bills in his palm you know i was always pretty sure there were

a lot of prostitutes working in hollywood i didn't know they actually started making the movies but that's just my opinion. news today. again flared up. these are the images from seeing from the streets of canada. operations are all today.

hello and welcome to technology update living in our computerized world everything is driven by the push to be both smaller and faster at the same time nowhere is this more evident than with the cream to the crim or super computers if you like the world's fastest from just a decade ago when even cracked the top five hundred today super computers are actually a part of our everyday lives even if we aren't aware of it for example at places like russia's main media or logical center these powerful machines are put to the test every day to crunch unthinkable amounts of data in order to give us a better glimpse of what weather awaits us they can be used for.