boy's in his politics the u.s. hints that intervention in syria is a possible option perspective assad's government used chemical weapons but struggling to find firm evidence. iceland is head to the polls in their second general election this is the financial crash of two thousand and eight when the country let its banks fail but later made a stunning turnaround to growth we take a look at the success story. americans tuning out a new study showing cable news audiences dropping off as analysts say viewers are getting burned out from too many use and not enough news. eleven pm in moscow good having you with us here on our top story while the u.s.

is yet to decide whether the red line has been crossed in syria president obama reiterated the use of chemical weapons would be a game changer washington says there's growing evidence the arsenal was deployed by assad forces with some u.s. lawmakers now pushing for direct action in the country or he's a marine important i has more. 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 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 the 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 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 see. because of the experience of foreign intervention into iraq now we all know that 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 and ask it says organised organizations including al qaida have repeatedly threatened to use chemical arms while fighting with the opposition so here you have a scenario where in syria the opposition groups and the government are pointing fingers at one another and you have the u.s. and its western allies presenting this harsh rhetoric of the use of chemical

weapons by the syrian government but they don't have all the full facts in place. now u.s. statements on the use of chemical weapons by the assad regime's forces starts with them saying they have various levels of confidence that they have been used and ends with them saying so far that they cannot the u.s. kind of allowed the systematic use of chemical weapons in the country was take a look at the allegations so far washington still trying to verify these claims independently first that chemical weapons were used by at least the rebels or the assad forces not sure yet in an attack that happened in the city of aleppo in syria both sides though pointing fingers at each other rebels and government as to who used them against whom also two instances of alleged chemical attacks in durai which is a damascus suburb that's also being investigated by outside forces at this moment and being evaluated well right now one of the commanders of the syria free syrian

army opposition forces saying that he has his soldiers infiltrated into areas military in order to secure any stockpiles of chemical weapons that they have and make sure that they are not used against rebel forces well all of this leaves a lot of wiggle room according to u.s. historian gerald horne for any kind of doubt and also even maybe provocation. 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 of 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 vattel field of syria to leopard stories of london and in washington was there was there the possibility of contamination or file 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 syrian 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 who is actually collaborating with the rebels looks these chemical weapons so as to provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions that must be answered we're asking what you think is behind the allegations of syria's use of chemical weapons click on r.t. dot com and cast your vote see how the figures stack up this hour so far sixty eight percent of respondents saying nothing but an attempt by some countries to start an invasion on pretext of chemical weapons use twenty percent think it's the rebels attempts to push for foreign intervention the rest about evenly split between those who think it won't change anything in the course of the conflict and those who say that the red line put forth by president obama has been crossed by the syrian regime what do you think a lot on the r.t.

dot com and click your say. today. these are the images of the world on the streets of canada that. operations rule the day. iceland is voting for their next parliament to leave the island economy further along its path to recovery which it's been steadily following since the country's spectacular meltdown back in two thousand and eight now back then it allowed its enormously indebted banks to fail which saved home depositors from the burden of a bailout and since iceland's been making an impressive comeback or he's natasha has more on this financial cess story. iceland has seen it all its banks crashed its government resigned its currency devaluated and its businesses all all sizes

have collapsed and that of all came 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 it right take a look at this more to go greece and spain continue to spiral deeper into their 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 slew of

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 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. but polls show many in the country now turning away from the ruling coalition that lead the economy to steady growth

voters being lured away by the opposition and its euro skepticism now during the two thousand and eight banking crisis when i suppose economy was on the brink of a breakdown the e.u. seemed a safe haven parliament voted in favor of joining the block and the island nation applied for membership since then the eurozone has been bogged down by a great deal of its own troubles and now more eyes leaders feel they may be better off without joining especially since they already into a free trade agreements and are part of the travel area dr steven mccabe from birmingham city university things iceland's independence from the e.u. is helping it recover. the fact that it's. on the edge of the world i mean it's in the it's an isolated nation. and indeed is an island so it's effectively as we say in this country it stuck its fingers up at the rest of the world and so we're not giving your your money back home what can you do short of invading iceland which was never on the agenda it has been up to sort of

to look to its own sort of look after itself if you like. european economies such as i mean i heard you mention ireland portugal they're much more interlinked into europe iceland is not and so what he's been able to do is to sort of concentrate on reinventing the sort of things it's good at. industries there was talk about joining the e.u. but i think that that's out of the question that they realize that this is their best strachan for recovery is to remain isolated or to sort of to be independent as it were europe does not offer salvation still to new twist in the ukrainian thriller coming to light possibly out of the country's former prime minister yulia timoshenko just had her bid for a pardon rejected and now could be charged with murder and more after a short break.

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international in the very heart of moscow. thirteen minutes past the hour now t.v. news networks in the u.s. seeing a slump with new research polls saying audiences are turning out in greater numbers the pew study shows viewers are starting to shy away from cable news networks that devote more air time to opinion and partisan analysis than the hard facts and on the ground reporting are he's guy has more. 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 channels 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 sharply on the amount of actual reporting on 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 you were or less complete stories present chris chambers is here to talk about this thank you so much for joining me q what is your personal opinion 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 fluff 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 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 is being replaced with opinion and not just any opinion but opinion about a lot of nonsense and i 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 and then that day out live coverage every day and then there was this rape case the two young men raped a sixteen year old awful thing right again fall. live coverage day and day out why do they pick these stories to follow up on well with the arias case it's obvious because 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 steubenville rape it 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 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 churning a lot of a lot of things a lot of opinions basically but that that was a lot of depth in that story i was actually more worried about what was left out but for example what i was wondering about why wouldn't they pick for example the guantanamo hunger strike to follow up on it was it because 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 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 example 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 at 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 prosecutor 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 but 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. be a martin and comedian league camp have their own examples of how the u.s. media is covering the news stories in search of better ratings here's a peek at what they talked about in breaking this. is a north korea the biggest threat facing this country two weeks ago what the hell

happened they just need somewhere to point the frantic america they just want to keep you scared because it's good ratings writes every whether it's real or not it's everything you put on there like be afraid be afraid all right crappy upright and then every commercial break do you have anxiety and of course the threat of domestic terrorism take its place really quickly what i found most interesting is how some lawmakers tried to limit immigration is finally figured out if they just wear a sombrero and eat it taco that's all it takes to get through i mean is this really the respect he has for our f.b.i. that all you have to do to. commit an attack on the u.s. is where lucia lieber a t. shirt. full edition coming your way in a little more than an hour here on our team and you bailable anytime on our web site. take a look now at some other stories making headlines across the globe. hundreds of

protesters descended on a while air force base in the u.k. after unmanned drones started remotely being piloted from there a british newspaper revealed the r.a.f. had discreetly relocated its mission control to washington airbase from a u.s. drone to be used against taliban militants in afghanistan critics say drone warfare has led to countless civilian deaths and fuel resentment against coalition forces. a nato plane crash in southern afghanistan get afghanistan killing four servicemen and initial reports by the block didn't stay where it came down but it did indicate there was no enemy activity detected at the region at the time the deputy governor of the zabul province claim before an aircraft crashed into shah joy in the area was immediately surrounded by international troops the. us military says another three detainees have joined the hunger strike at the u.s. guantanamo bay detention center bringing the total number of protest inmates to one out of one hundred sixty there the strike started eighty one days ago over growing

abuse allegations and indefinite detention without charge and it coincides with the obama administration's recent decision to keep the facility open despite election campaign pledges to close the controversial site. russian officials recently blacklisted by the u.s. spoke publicly for the first time since the ban went into force rejecting the allegations against them washington uses those on a list of being linked to the death of lawyer sergey magnitsky in police custody more than three years ago or he's medina coach you know what they say that the publication of this this was a politically motivated this mission. 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 magnitsky a law was a drop to be used 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 answering the united states and their asses and now according to be a 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 order to 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 morse 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 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 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 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 those russian citizens abroad however there are reports of the. lists are only you sure it were not the list and that there are extended versions off the list so that both countries and reportedly a us extended first in up the list even includes some really high level top russian government officials it's the ukrainian paul thriller that's far from its final chapter as a jailed ex prime minister yulia timoshenko is pardon request has been turned down and on top of the seven year sentence she's already serving for abuse of power she

may now be prosecuted for murder her defense team calls the charge baseless artie's like the reports 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 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 nine hundred ninety six ukrainian member of parliament to bring 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 but shared when skilling was ordered by a man nicknamed it was obvious to us that under pasha he meant by no laws or in

ukraine's prime minister. was that in could never face charges for those allegations he spent twelve years behind bars in the united states for tax evasion and fraud and is now seeking political asylum across the atlantic but in the typical ukrainian rollercoaster style twist he's name has recently surfaced again together with tymoshenko. there should be at this stage we have proof that lives are in co-pays the first five hundred thousand dollars to the dying. 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 acts evasion and money laundering in the ninety's when she led the united energy systems of ukraine company that could seriously increase her prison term but if any connection to sharon's murder is proved she would remain behind bars for life her lawyers were quick to describe the accusations as nonsense

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

a preliminary stage it is still unclear what kind of evidence investigators have against her but they seem confident there is enough to press charges before summer the thriller which is the tymoshenko case has been rocking ukraine for almost two years now and all this time supporters of the former prime minister have been think you think the essential street all the recent developments in the saga are clearly suggesting they will not believing anytime soon. let's see russia reporting from kiev in ukraine the manchild scandal and more coming up next with max kaiser and kaiser report stay with us.

i am no 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 alina 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 might ask well the reporting showed that ammonia and other rough chemicals were doused on to the meat to kill equal i bacteria and make it safe for consumption although this product is for some reason legal the film is about to create public backlash and many companies gave up ordering the mysteriously unfairly textured beef ok while the mainstream media for once actually did something valuable for society and what did they get in return sued yeah the pink slime crew decided to sue a.b.c. news and forced them not to divulge their company secrets punish them for defamation against their product which led to profit losses and guess what they won

the lawsuit well the faming products that on mass could destroy the health of millions of americans is no blasphemy in my book but that's just my opinion. down the. street corner and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. any time anyway.

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