poisonous politics in the u.s. hands that intervention in syria is a possible option suspecting assad government used chemical weapons but those struggling to find any firm evidence. lenders are heading to the polls in their second to general election says the financial question of two thousand and eight when the country let its banks fail but it later made a stunning turnaround to growth we exploited successful story. and americans say no to t.v. news networks a recent study shows the audience is for the major broadcasters are plummeting we try to find out why.

they're watching r t a live well from moscow with me to say it's good to have your company to sign up to new. while the u.s. is yet to decide whether the red lines been crossed in syria president obama's reiterated the use of chemical weapons would be a game changer washington claims there's a growing evidence of the mill was deployed by our thoughts forces with some american lawmakers now pushing for direct action in the country. has the details u.s. president barack obama was delivering some fierce words in the aftermath of 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 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 at. allies for chemical and biological contaminants however you came 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 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. you as a syrian gerald horne says it looks like washington wants to repeat the iraq invasion scenario with recent allegations leaving plenty of room for a provocation from the syrian rebels. 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 leopard stories

and 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 that security divisions within the military is driving the conflict in both syria and iraq how do we know that someone agave soldier in the syrian military who is actually collaborating with the rebels what these chemical weapons so as to provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions that must be answered and we're asking you online what's the reason behind the allegations of syria's chemical weapons that you use right let's take a look so far what you've been saying online to life sixty four percent of you say that there's nothing but an attempt by western states to start an invasion on the

pretext of chemical weapon use fourteen percent of you believe that the rebels plotted to topple assad but intervention while only thirteen percent of the think that bashar al assad the finally crossing the red line only have nine percent they believe that they'll be no change anything in the course of war of course we want to know what you feel and if you want those numbers to change go to r.t. dot com and cost if it. today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations through the day. iceland and some other change for the next parliament to leave the island economy

further along the path of recovery what has been a step the following since the spectacular meltdown in two thousand and eight back then it allowed its enormously indebted banks to fail saving him deposited from the burden of the bailout ever since island's been iceland's been making an impressive comeback. and that's guy has more on the financial success story. 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 of 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 slung the deficit to g.d.p. ratio was twice that of the pigs yes iceland allowed its banks to collapse under their own debt weight 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 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 if some think it's iceland that was humiliated the world over they should definitely think again. however polls show many in iceland now are turning away from the ruling coalition which let the economy to steady growth many voters have been learned away by the opposition and as you know skepticism icelander apply for membership up to two thousand and eight a banking crisis but since then locals have been pulled off by the own financial troubles dr steven mccabe from the birmingham city university believes iceland independence from the e.u. is only helping it to recover or iceland is the fact that it's in relative terms

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 children very slim which was never on the. it has been up to sort of to look to its own sort of friends to look after itself if you like for other european economies such as i mean i heard you mention ireland portugal much more interesting to europe does not and so what he's been able to do is to sort of concentrate on reinventing the sort of things it's good up which it's an answer so it's vigilance industries there was talk about joining the e.u. but i think that that's the question that they realize that the best strachan for recovery is truman isolated or to sort of to be independent as it were europe does not offer salvation and with the european economy languishing president of letter

mode of putin though said he's been concerned about a possible recession hitting russia he stressed on whether the country's budget reserve funds make for a solid safety cushion but a bell and his guests debate the prospects of russia's economy in on the money here's a preview. at the end of the day russia doesn't have all the problems that they do in europe i mean it doesn't have to this. has a consumer demand this so there are plenty of credit sectors very. serious a sentiment that we can go back to actually concentrating on at the same time we've actually kerman which is more committed to reform that has been you know any time in the last five years so those are all positives it's just a question of when they kick in and time should be soon if you like the prognosis in the big surprises you know all eyes will be will be in russia russia this year because over the working on the budget through and i hope to continue begin effect on this here because the main the main oversea earth comes from this year but longer term it's always

a very right thing to do you know we we much appreciate it saying that really are the numbers for the look forward for for more reforms to get in the pension reforms will help a lot you know. and you can watch the full edition of on the money in about an hour and fifteen minutes right here on r.t.e. . flight coming up of the province of life in light of the bangladesh factory tragedy we take go either way the safety is being ignored in the relentless try for profit. and tuning out a recent study indicates american media news giants are using view is we examine why great. skis on may the second to be money in stevia to choose which is both a cultural contemporary i don't take no logic east of the auditorium so join me to

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internationally and in the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching our team rescue operations on the collapse factory building in bangladesh and now entering the fourth day hundreds on dead and hopes running on for the families of those still missing thora g.'s of a recipe owners of one of the factories inside the doomed to building up to workers flooded the streets demanding their negligence be punished they story structure came crashing down on the more than three thousand people many working in several gone and factories located almost two and a half thousand workers have so far been pulled from the rubble including one woman who'd given birth while trapped working conditions are coming under fire in bangladesh which supplies eighty percent of its textiles to europe and america

global trends addle is the general solenn to says a safety is optional when it comes down to profit margins. 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 what you hear 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 they just show is really no security there's really no really no hard. institutions in place that are monitoring these kind of factory so there are no regulations 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 plans or better it meant that

comes secondary to a lot of noise 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. now let's take a look at some other stories making news around the world a police station has been bombed in the libyan city of being done saturday morning the attack destroyed half of the building but so far there have been no victims reported the country continues to be plagued by violence despite the ousting of actually that gadhafi and the u.s. military intervention on choosing a a car bomb devastated from the embassy in the capital. the taliban's announce the opening of it's a quote a spring offensive in quotes on the country's u.s. backed government led by hundred cuz i evolved a crusade of nationwide attack targeting international air bases and diplomatic buildings with the aim of inflicting as many human casualties as possible this

comes as foreign troops and their withdrawal from the country after battling the taliban for twelve years nevertheless the group's violence is still flourishes claiming lives weekly inside afghanistan and neighboring pakistan. north korea has announced an american citizen who will be put on trial for conspiring to topple the country's rejean page on who admitted to the charges after being caught in the amber last year with an increase in criminal eating hard to according to authorities this comes as washington announces a new draft bill containing iran that like sanctions on banks north korea uses to conduct its business relations between the u.s. and pyongyang recently hit an all time low with one tensions and an increasingly military presence on and around the peninsula. debris found a new york could be part of one of the two planes they used in the nine eleven

attacks on the world of trade center the various found a piece of landing gear from a boeing jet wedged between two buildings on a thing and islamic community center close to ground zero officials are reportedly now planning to examine the soil around the building for possible human remains. there's bad news for major t.v. news networks in the u.s. whose audiences are dwindling according to an american thing tank its study shows there was a turning away because of painted coverage of carefully selected stories a place of actual news reporting i manage it examines the phenomena. it shouldn't come as a surprise to anybody that all media are opinion it 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 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 like you what is your personal appeal and why is the viewership down do you agree with that but probably i agree i agree totally i mean you have people who are not getting full news right now they're getting slow 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 supply of hard news is shrinking it's being replaced with opinion and 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 killed her boyfriend i'm going to be and that day out live coverage every day and then there was this rape case of two young men and raped a sixteen year old awful thing bright eyed. follow ups live coverage day in 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

a young girl raped and so this this this sets off a lot of emotional forces but to to 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 like that that was a lot of depth in that story i was actually more worried about what was left out but first amber what i was wondering about why wouldn't they pay for example that one ton of the 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's the art of it i mean it it does it doesn't have the word sex in it or something. or a hawk that a whole can people emotionally and it's a very difficult issue politically legally and culturally for the american people to handle went on a most always been that kind of an issue so the difficult there is also has two

strikes against it already i mean and the third strike is that there's no breaking news none of the none of the people that the hunger strikes have died or maybe rioted in take the 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 in the sense among executives of what viewers want to. 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 chicken. well every mountain and comedian the campaign have their own humorous examples of how the us media over exaggerated news stories in search of for better ratings that's coming up at fifteen thirty g.m.t. and it's available at any time on our website r.t. . you know officials whose names were put on the so-called magnitsky

black list as well publicly for the first time since the band came into force they have rejected all the allegations against them washington accuses the people on the list of being linked to the death of lawyer surrogate magnitsky in police custody more than three years ago or does madonna caution about tells us more about the russian response. they say that the publication of this list was a politically motivated this and that the u.s. was not objective 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 mug musical law was a drop to the beast on political motives and the law has no legal force and no legal consequences and the country really 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 obvious sixteen of these officials are 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 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 the last ten 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 legalising torture at guantanamo detention facility and the second part of this list involves those people who are responsible for numerous human rights violations of those russian. over there are reports it's useless are only you sure it's version of the list and that there are extended versions off the list so that both countries presides and reportedly a u.s. extended for the list even includes some really high level top russian government officials. what do american kids are gary in their bags of books hands and arm up this comes in the wake of increasing gun violence which is even more students in the u.s. stocking up on bulletproof uniforms and trying on new backpacks allied with ballistic material find out more on our to dot com. and another click away online

at die in the souls of the financial services this is how some experts are now branding british banks which are turning their backs on the people in need and thus the elderly and they themselves from the next generation of payday lenders find out the war i am to serve deeper and are to die. after the break max kaiser tells us why some hospitals in the us are interested in making mistakes which can cost patients their lives. the movie world war z. b which stars britain's 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 in 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 the usa the thing that is interesting is not the censorship is the fact that they will censor movies for whoever's got a lot of cash big markets won't be offended because with all that's what 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. today. these are the images the world. can. show you corporations are. i am max kaiser welcome to the kaiser report never go to the hospital for

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