syria denies claims that he used chemical weapons as the u.s. and its allies to drum up a case for intervention based on unverified intelligence from the war zone. and as iceland head to the polls our deal of baghdad how the time evasion sort of points people during the financial meltdown and refused to rescue the banks. that still russian officials are blacklisted by the u.s. over the death of a lawyer while in prison play the allegations against among groundless and politically motivated. oh. you're watching r.t.

live from moscow with me to bomb would say the syrian government has denied allegations it has any chemical weapons and says that 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 arches marina 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 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 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 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 weapon ischemic will 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 in fact 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 as a masochist 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 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. u.s. author and historian gerald honda says of the turn conflict in syria leaves a plenty of room for publications why 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 of 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 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 the next six divisions within the military is driving the conflict in both syria and iraq how do we know that someone a gay soldier in the syrian military who is 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 people in iceland saying in their second parliamentary election says the financial collapse of two thousand and eight eight that 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 rather than rescuing them at public expense is not tells us enough that reports. iceland has seen it all its banks crashed its government resigned its currency devaluated and its businesses of all

sizes have co-ops and that of all can 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 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 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 deep 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 slid the 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 business was 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 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. political science professor a wrinkle bagmen says moderation and

a sense of proportion where the key to success is saying is that iceland was able to avoid very strict authority measures rather there were mixed measures of easing in peaceful consulate dacian in this country and that costs are. sort of a term created some safeguards for people in this country and perhaps they are more willing to go back to the old days if you really i stump there's a fantastic case for kountry door in a different way in this crisis. ice time did not saw last month's types mayer's pay its money against poland banks simply because the banks here were too big for rescue after the crisis hit iceland did not implement stricter stary to.

get out to you seeing more. in the toolkit so if i cannot make recoveries and in this way we were able to keep the real source of the economy growing russian officials blacklisted by the us have rejected all the allegations against them washington accused the people on the list of being responsible for the death of lawyer said game with team in police custody more than three years ago it is made in acosta has the details of the russian reaction. they say that the publication of this list was a politically motivated this vision and that the u.s. side was not objective in 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

a 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 of april and includes eighteen russian officials who are banned from answering the united states and their asses now according to the washington's version obvious 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 the 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 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 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 of the. russian citizens abroad what were their 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. coming up on paying the pressure we claim form of my way to say you go to michigan could be charged with murder at any moment it is already serving a seven a year prison sentence and this could see her behind bars for life. so we'll look into why americans are losing faith in the world are presented to them by the u.s. media policy the details of that just ahead. mind ski theater on may the second to be over the money in stevia to choose which is both a cultural contemporary i'll tell you logically serve the auditoriums so join me to almost 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 trying to get marines to teach.

you about international airport in the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching our teen authorities and by desh of arrested two

owners and two engineer. it's from a factory that collapsed on wednesday the small and raced textile workers flooded the streets to demand hans punishment for they have bosses the people say the employers made them work despite knowing the building was unsafe they a story fact came crashing down on more than three thousand people with officials say the death toll could exceed three hundred and fifteen rescue teams a full two and a half thousand workers alive from under the rubble the incident prompted a fresh away from christmas of them of western companies placing profit before safety in a nation known for twenty products global trends analysts a general to lend to says any standards just to show. it's an international trend that we see growing more and more as profits are put before people people are more expendable so it's just a lot of talk with you year from these companies in the west for example that say

they watch the standards or the going on in these sweat factories around the world gauges show is really no security there's really no really no hard institutions in place that are monitoring these kind of factories there are no regulations that 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 or better equipment that comes secondary to the bottom line 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. some other world news in brief and the u.s. lawmakers are wanted more sanctions against north korea

a new draft bill is modeled on current iranian restrictions and aimed at chinese companies and banks on young users conduct its business we know north korea says it will soon decide the fate of the detained american accused of trying to overthrow the government and operate of korean descent who was arrested last year in a special exeunt bordering china and russia relations between the us and the balls commented earlier this month with each of writing to attack the other. a bombing in karachi pakistan has left at least nine people dead and schools injured the target was thought to be an office belonging to the one main national party the taliban has claimed to be a tank two weeks ago a suicide bombing against the party's senior leaders in the city of peshawar killed sixteen people violence has increased in the run up to the parliamentary election next month there's more bad news for ukraine former prime minister on top of the

seven year prison term she's currently serving for abuse of power and you had to machine could soon face a murder charges too and that could put her behind bars for life our legal team alleges foul play but as art is a let's hear a chef ski explains as some believe ukrainian politics politics simply steamrolls anyone who challenges the status quo. from being allegedly beaten up by prison guards to seeing her supporters stormed the hospital where she's on the growing treatment ukraine's former prime minister yulia timoshenko has been in a lot of trouble lately she has now served 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 bed share bones killing was ordered by a man nicknamed pasha it was obvious to us that under pasha he meant by no laws a 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-pay the first five hundred thousand dollars to the dying wish. then another two point three million dollars were transferred to the assassins by yulia timoshenko. tymoshenko is currently on a second trial for alleged acts of asian 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. 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 her this case was made up by the ruling elite and 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 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 which they . this third case against a machine who is now in a preliminary stage it is still unclear what kind of evidence investigators have against her but they seem confident the reason i have to press charges before summer the thriller which is the tymoshenko carries has been working 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 this saga are clearly suggesting they will not believing anytime soon. let's see russia reporting from key here in ukraine. a spokesman for five a bank the group accused of orchestrating one of the biggest fiber attacks in history has been arrested in spain spend all of company also is expected to be extradited to the netherlands they tried again suspend house an international organization which tracked a spamming was carried out last month r.t.

webber producer andrew blake explains. cyber bunker allegedly launched on spamhaus spamhaus is a anti-spam nonprofit biggest all over that had put in geneva and logged in 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 data also 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 but there's already attempts between between washington and some of these big telecom providers to actually censor and monitor traffic that's going over 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 the major t.v. news networks in the u.s. on using view is titled pain united coverage and company selected stories that's according to a recent study by an american nonpartisan think tank which is granted you can look into the phenomenon. it shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody that all media or opinionated to a certain extent we all are a study by the pew research center gauges the extent to which the three major us channels are opinionated on m.s.m. b c opinion fills a full eighty five percent of the channel's air time according to this study fox forty five percent c.n.n. about the same the study says since two thousand and seven they have all cut back sharply on the amount of actual reporting on their airwaves what filled the void

was relatively cheap provocative debate the studies suggest that by becoming more and more opinionated the channels have been losing their viewers this annual state of the media report says nearly one third of consumers that they surveyed said they have abandoned a news outlet because it no longer gave them what they had counted on either with fewer or less complete stories professor chris chambres is here to talk about this thank you so much for joining me q what is your personal appeal and why is the viewership down do you agree with that are pro-choice agree i agree totally i mean you have people who are not getting full news right now they're getting slower and sensationalism of the news packages that they are getting in the hard news that they're getting the time is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking and a lot of media outlets including the large ones like c.n.n. are cutting back and laying off reporters researchers producers closing foreign bureaus around around the world so the hard news is that it's being replaced with

a peter not just any opinion but opinion about a lot of nonsense and i don't want to ask you about the percentage of actual reporting that they do for weeks for several weeks in a row c.n.n. and other news channels have been covering this story you know with jodi areas there with the girl who told the boyfriend every day and then that day out live coverage every day that it was this rape case that two young men raped a sixteen year old awful thing right. again follow ups live coverage day and day out why did they pick these stories to follow up on well with the arias case it's obvious you have a beautiful young woman a dead boyfriend who had kind of a shady past i mean it's taylor it's almost a hollywood movie script the other one is the steubenville rape that touches a nerve around the country of two teenage boys and young girl raped and so this this this sets off a lot of emotional forces but to. cover this day in day out without giving any

depth to it i mean it does both stories an injustice and it masquerades as hard news because it really isn't hard news when you're rehashing and turning a lot of a lot of things a lot of opinions basically back that powers a lot of depth in that story i was actually more worried about what was left out but for sandra what i was wondering about why wouldn't they pick for example the one tunnel hunger strike to follow up on it was it because they the story didn't have the words sex and rape in act two it was made on t.v. that spirit of it i mean it it does it doesn't have the word sex in it or something . or a hook that a whole can people emotionally and it's a very difficult issue politically legally include for the american people want to animal has always been that kind of an issue so this difficult there is also it has two strikes against it already i mean and the third strike is that there's no breaking news none of that none of the people that the hunger strikes have died or

maybe rioted and taken some guards hostage so the breaking news is strike three so it's out i mean there's no coverage of it in the mainstream media outlets so it's just not anything they want to touch unfortunately thank you thank you to cameras thank you very much well it's difficult to conclude what comes first here financial considerations editors personal preferences or the sense among executives of what viewers want. if you believe the study and their statistics whatever they're doing has to change because they're losing viewers in washington i'm going to check out. up next our very own everyman ten takes on the mainstream media in breaking the sun .

does a misty's see. him know this is not a fifty's beside fi movie slogan it is what a.b.c. news is trying to find out when they investigated how lean finally textured beef is 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 manufacturer 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 on to the meat to kill e-coli bacteria and make it safe for consumption although this product is for some reason legal the films about to create public 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 pick slime crew decided to sue a.b.c. news and forced them not to divulge their company's secrets as well as punish them

for defamation against their product which led to profit losses and guess what they won the lawsuit well defaming products that on mass could destroy the health of millions of americans is no blasphemy in my book but that's just my opinion. download the official locations to your cell phone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorite if you're away from your television. with your mobile device you can watch all it see any time anywhere.

you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food. you know how. i mean. i know i'm saying the same thing really messed up. and we're all very so i personally apologized and said. worst sure we're going to fly down superman to a radio guy in fort lauderdale minutes from a quick profit i want you to watch quote for about fifteen years you've never seen anything like this i'm cold.