poisonous politics the u.s. hence their intervention in syria is a possible option suspecting the assad government to use chemical weapons but struggling to find any firm evidence. by its lenders i heading to the polls in their second general election since the financial crash of two thousand and eight when the country let its banks have failed but later made a stunning turnaround to growth we explore its success story. and americans will say no to t.v. news networks a recent study shows the audiences for the major broadcasters are plummeting through try to find out who want.

the six pm here in the russian capital your lot of us on our team with me. while the u.s. is yet to decide whether the red line is being crossed in syria president obama's reiterated the use of chemical weapons would be a game changer washington claims or there's growing evidence the arsenal was deployed by assad's forces with some american lawmakers now pushing for direct action in the country archies marina point ny has the details. 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 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 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 as a masochist says organised organizations including al qaida have repeatedly

threatened to use chemical arms while fighting with 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. u.s. statements on the use of chemical weapons by us us forces began with various levels of confidence and reached the point of president obama saying the world cannot allow the systematic use in the country washington still checking with claims of a such attacks let's take a look at how these came about how the samples used to make these assessments with said to be have been collected near aleppo which is just right here after the march incident the opposition and the syrian government are making claims and counterclaims. that attack now dawn here just next to damascus durai were

true reports of cases of chemical weapons being used to a suburb that is just near damascus this is one of the commanders of the free syrian army recently claimed they have a position point is among the government top school with security syria chemical weapons now u.n. u.s. is general don says that all this leaves plenty for the room for probably cation. 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 the next security and 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 and well asking you online of what's behind the allegations of syria's use of chemical weapons let's take a look now as you watch of said safe sixty four percent of you believe that it's nothing but an attempt by western state that to stop an invasion on the pretext of chemical weapons use well then twenty percent twenty one percent of you this say that the rebels attempt to push for foreign intervention only eight percent appeal

it will not change anything in the course of war while almost the same number say that the red line drawn up by president obama has already been crossed by the syrian government we want to know what you think cost if it at our dot com. today. these are the images the world seen on the streets of canada. during operation to rule the day. iceland for two full day makes parliament to be iceland island economy further along the path of recovery which has been steadily following since the spectacular meltdown in two thousand and eight baghdad that allowed is enormously indebted

banks to fail having saving the home depositors from the burden of the bailout ever since iceland's have been a making an impressive comeback arches natasha f.b.i. has more on those women 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 then a volcano erupted 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 times it does seem once the only country in europe has got it right take

a look at this or to go on a limb to greece and spain at the country's 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 iceland's 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 that's 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 are now turning away from the ruling coalition which left the economy to steady growth many voters have been eroded away by the opposition and its euro skepticism iceland applied for your membership up to the two thousand and eight banking crisis but says that locals have been put off by the e.u. zone financial troubles but more on that let's talk to iceland again founder of the rainbow partly gets lost on mr guest last year or advocating for ice lends itself dependent development and i gave the e.u. membership but hasn't the two thousand and eight crisis proved to iceland doesn't need help from outside it didn't turn to buy meth after all yes but

it's a nationalist trait to all the world not the isolated europe it's a little particles a whole lot not so little but a little one so we will trade with every country in the war and not only who is isolated and isolated market and are not treating africans or that they look developing countries well enough in my opinion we've seen that the u.k. calling for reform of the e.u. to make it more flexible will i fled to be more interested in membership then. my party not at all because i think we will lose our independence be evolution or influence in the north and part of the atlantic and we would lose a lot through the fisheries and the resources we would. only.

rule everything else in the market in the free market we would say i do not like so iceland is better of not in the e.u. or say. they want peace repeat iceland is better off not in the e.u. you're say most spector's much but. all right i'm going to move on to the next question many iceland still i'm happy with the economy despite the impressive figures of your economic growth are others still bearing the burden i was staring date is i flew success story just a maple is it truly growth a mekon of me there are two sides on that bond because the owners are happy but family sent home for more we have more poverty no than

for five four five six years we have. three or four or five each state many people who after two after the crisis lost their capital in the floods show the homes having a bath and that's the main issue. in the election today the homes individuals poverty has care and cetera et cetera et cetera so there are two sides on it. gets lost on the m.p. and founder of the euro skeptical rainbow party thank you very much for being on r.t. . coming up a new tool within the ukrainian thriller may soon come to light that as the country home of prime minister you go ahead how big a full blooded rejected and moreover she could not be charged with murder the stories coming up after this play.

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about international airport in the very heart of moscow. welcome back you're watching r.t. if they ukrainian political thriller that fall from reaching the final chapter that has jailed as prime minister yulia timoshenko pardon requests says just been turned down and out of the seventy a sentence she's already serving paula she may not be prosecuted for murder a defense team branded the charges as nonsense as. the reports from being allegedly beaten up by prison guards to seeing her supporters stormed the hospital where she's on the go in treatment ukraine's former prime minister

yulia timoshenko has been in a lot of trouble lately she has no 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 that shared by instilling it was ordered by a man nicknamed pasha it was obvious to us that under pasha he meant by it was a ring for 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 same has recently surfaced again

together with the machine goes. there should be a should we have proof that lives are in co pay the first five hundred thousand dollars to the gang which. then another two point three million dollars were transferred to the assassins by yulia tymoshenko. to michigan who is currently on a second trial for alleged attacks evasion and money laundering 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 without her lawyers were quick to describe the accusations as nonsense because. the testimonies of the so-called witnesses had 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 and some were involved in corrupt schemes but as long as they obey the rules of the political game they're not prosecuted which is like calling the president and the government illegitimate after the change of power went beyond the boundaries of a democratic political gain and hence the rules of the game were changed which they will use. this third case against the machine code 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 case has been rocking crane for almost two here and all this time supporters of the former prime minister have been think you think. all the

recent developments in this saga are clearly suggesting they will not be leaving any time soon. let's see yourself we are reporting from q in ukraine. now let's take a look at some other stories making the news around the world a police station has been bombed in libya's rebel benghazi and some 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 exley that gadhafi and the u.s. military intervention on tuesday a car bomb devastated france's embassy in the capital. the taliban's announce of the opening of its quote just spring offensive end quote on the country's u.s. backed government led by jaime because i'm it's about a crusades of nationwide attacks targeting international air bases and many buildings will of inflicting as many human casualties as possible this comes as foreign troops near their withdrawals from the country after battling the taliban

for twelve years nevertheless the group's violence still flourishes claiming lives a weekly inside afghanistan and neighboring pakistan. north korea has announced an american citizen will be put on trial for conspiring to topple the country's regime page in home admitted to the charges after being called in november last year with an incriminating hard disk according to authorities this comes as washington announces a new draft a bill containing iran like sanctions on banks will create uses to conduct business relations between the u.s. and pyongyang recently hit an all time low with rising tensions and increasing military presence on and around the pin insula. the us military says another three detainees have joined the hunger strike in america's notorious one ton a bay detention camp the total number of protesting inmates one hundred out of

a total of one hundred and sixty six held they started eighty one days ago over growing abuse allegations and indefinite detention without charge it also coincides with the obama administration's a recent decision to keep the facility since despite election campaign promises to close the controversial site. russian officials recently blacklisted by the u.s. have spoken publicly for the first time since the band came into force they've rejected all the allegations against them washington accuses the people on the list of being linked to the death of lawyers and game in police custody more than three years ago medina question of are has more. they say that the publication of this list was a politically motivated decision and that the u.s. side was not objective in making its decisions as it couldn't be possibly aware of all those documents that surround this case as the documents are still in court and never became public and that the new skill 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. 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 as 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 us us magness kill 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 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 lest involves those people who are responsible for numerous human rights violations of those. russian citizens abroad however there are reports these lists are only you're sure it's version of the list and that there are extended words off the list so that both countries presides and reportedly a u.s. extended first end of the list even includes some greedy high level top russian

government officials. fred what do american kids carry in their bags of books pens and all up this comes in the wake of increasing gun violence we're just seeing more and more students in the u.s. stocking up on bulletproof uniforms and trying a new backpacks lined with ballistic material find out more on our t.v. dot com. and another clue go away online a dinosaur of a financial services of this is how some experts are now branding british banks which are turning their backs on the people in need and thus and the united themselves for the next generation of payday lenders find out why and so deep into . rescue operation on the collapse factory building in bangladesh are now entering their fourth day hundred dead and hopes are running out for the families of those still missing authorities have arrested two factory owners and two engineers are working in the gym to building up to workers

flooded the streets demanding their negligence be punished they story structure came crashing down on more than three thousand people maybe working in several garment factories located they almost two and a half a thousand workers have so far been pulled from the rubble including one woman who would've given birth a while while strapped working conditions are coming under fire in bangladesh a witches supplies eighty percent of its textiles to europe and america global trends analysts that gerald's the lenders says 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 who are more expendable so that it's just a lot of talk what 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

the edges 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 of 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. find out about the world this computer is taken out of the ab date is next.

the movie world war z. z. being from b. 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 hollywood this is not the first time that there hasn't been a ship 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 countries 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.

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