international at the very heart of. poison is politics the u.s. claims that damascus has used chemical weapons. that an intervention is possible but admits that the proof is far from solid. early results and parliamentary elections suggest that euro skeptic parties are likely to come out on top at the ballot box as the nordics moves farther away from the bloody euro zone. too many views not enough news a recent study shows u.s. cable channels are suffering a ratings slump as the audience is repelled by opinion dominated reporting.

broadcasting live from our studios in moscow these are two young sean thomas glad to have you with us and what has that claim to there is growing evidence poison gas was used by assad's forces in syria and while washington admits the proof is not strong enough to vote an immediate response president obama did it reiterate the use of chemical weapons would be a game changer. brings us more from new york 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 leader 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 through your civil war now according to white house press secretary jay carney he has confirmed that military force is. one of many options. 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 at 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. 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 my six agents operating in syria us most 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 masochists 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 opposition groups in 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 this year. government but they don't have all the full facts in place

and he's a marine a point of reporting for us there from new york now historian joe torre and says speculation from london and washington about weapons of mass destruction is all too familiar and people should be skeptical 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 these allegations of weapons of mass destruction to be faulty therefore we must ask some very difficult to searching questions for example what was the chain of custody with regard to the simples taken from the battlefield with syria to leopard stories of london and washington was there was there the possibility of contamination or foul play or paint with the snow and how can you show that the regime rather than the rebels actually use these alleged chemical weapons and since we already know. that this is within the military is driving the conflict in both syria and iraq how

do we know that some renegade soldier in the syrian military was actually collaborating with the rebels want these chemical weapons so as to provide a rationale for intervention by london and washington these are difficult questions that must be answered on our website we've asked for your thoughts on the latest developments concerning syria let's have a look at how your opinions of stacked up so far this big orange piece of the pie here sixty six percent a majority of you think that western black ops are going to are gearing up for a war the next level down the pink group twenty one percent say that this is part of a rebel plot to spark western intervention because they want the west to come in and help them seven percent in green on important and that this will actually change nothing in the course of the conflict and then the smallest percent say president assad has actually crossed the red line and has used chemical weapons in syria of course. you can have your say and let us know what you think there are two dot com

. news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images of the world from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule the day. in iceland ballots are being counted in the general election as voters hope the next government will sustain of the country's economic revival following the crisis of two thousand and eight the island state quickly got back on its feet as regulated allowed banks to fail which was probably from a bit of a bailout ever since iceland has been making an impressive comeback maintaining growth or to use it natasha has more on this financial success story iceland has seen it all its banks crashed its government resigned its currency devaluated and

its business is all sizes have collapsed and that of all can over up to grounding planes all over europe i am 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 the let me be right to call this portugal greece and spain continue to spiral deeper into their excruciating financial mass their current deficit to g.d.p. ratio is just under three sound they have no money and plenty of debt they borel.

more to serve their bond allegations 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 way technically bankrupt the island nation managed to get an impressive job of turning its economy around its banking sector return to profitability its business is 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. despite the rapid recovery after the economic meltdown people are burning their backs on the ruling coalition preliminary results suggest that voters have chosen the more euro skeptic

opposition now during the two thousand and eight banking crisis when iceland's economy was on the brink of a collapse that you seemed like a safe haven the parliament voted in favor of joining the e.u. you and the island nation applied for membership but since then the eurozone has been bogged down in a great deal of trouble itself and now icelanders feel that they are better off outside of the bloc and that is especially so since they already enjoy free trade agreements and are part of the schengen travel area dr stephen a carryover from a british city university believe independence from the e.u. is only helping iceland to recovery. but iceland is 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'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 short of inviting iceland which was never on the agenda it has been to sort

of to look to its own sort of look after itself if you like. other european economies such as you 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 concentrates on reinventing the sort of things it's good at its indigenous industries there was talk about joining the e.u. but i think that that's out of the question that they realize that they're sort of their best strachan for recovery is to remain isolated or to sort of to be in the end as it were does not offer salvation and later in the program we'll be reporting on the saga of ukraine's jailed former prime minister the news that is not good for yulia timoshenko who has just been denied a pardon and on top of that she is now facing a life in jail after being charged in connection to a murder case that's after the break.

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systems ensure neither you nor the globe's top super computers break us. here on. the future of. your watching our team nor glad to have you back cable news networks in the u.s. are seeing a stunning according to a new study by the pew research center which says some of america's biggest outlets are becoming increasingly opinionated and the reporting of hard facts with more analysis and commentary is causing viewers to switch off or he's going to church again as commentary. it should 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

five percent c.n.n. about the same study says since two thousand and seven they have all cut back shortly 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 and channels have been losing there is a 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 present chris chambers 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 approach me totally i mean you have people who are not getting full news right now they're getting slow and cessation lism of the news packages that they are getting in the hard news that they're getting the time is shrinking and shrinking and shrinking. a lot of media outlets including the large ones like c.n.n. are cutting back and laying off porters 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 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 the story and will be areas there with the girl who killed her boyfriend i'm going to be in and out a out live coverage every day and then there was this rape case of two young men great old awful thing again follow ups live coverage day and day out why do. pick the stories to follow up on well with the arias case it's obvious because of the four young woman the 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 it touches a nerve around the country of two teenage boys

a young girl raped and so this is the set 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 is 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 for sandra what i was wondering about why wouldn't they pay for example that one part of the hunger strike to follow up on it was it because they didn't have the words sex that rape in act two was made. out 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 that if they were doing it 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 for the cameras thank you very much but 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 this study and there's a test takes whatever they're doing has to change because they're losing viewers in washington i'm going to check out. two weeks. after the u.s. a blacklisted a group of russians and the officials in question have spoken publicly for the first time to deny allegations against them washington accuses the eighteen people on the list of being responsible for the death of lawyers magnitsky in police custody more than three years ago artie's at medina question has the story. they

say that the publication of this list was a politically motivated decision and that the u.s. was not objective and making its decisions as it couldn't be possibly where all the documents that surround that he's asked the documents are still in accord and never became public and that the magnitsky law was a drop to the based on political motives and that the law has no legal force 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 and now according to the washington's version of the sixteen of these officials are directly responsible for the death of. the game of the 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 two thousand and thirteen russia's investigative committee dropped to the investigation into the data. as it had determined that no crime had to be. u.s. magnitsky list was published russia word that the response would be similar and really in accordance with the rules of parity and indeed in the us then twenty four hours russia we signed it with the same list with the same number off officials also eighteen american officials there are banned from entering the russian federation a lot of the russian this 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 those people who are responsible for numerous human rights violations of those russian citizens abroad a well there are reports that these lists are only you're sure it's a version of the list and that there are extended versions off the list so that

both countries possess and reportedly if you asked extended for. high level top russian government officials. u.s. officials claim that russia's security services that wire tap to one of the boston bombing suspects as early as two thousand and eleven the conversations reportedly involved one of the brothers take talking about jihad with his mother critics say that this information should have been released earlier however new york university professor stephen cohen says it was not a lack of intelligence that prevented the f.b.i. from taking action before a tragedy star struck what if you warrants were received from the russian intelligence services and not only about. one of the brothers of the older brother who died in boston but about the mother and there seemed to be at least three or four messages from the f.s.b. to russian intelligence services not only to the f.b.i. as initially reported but to the cia one possibility is to bureaucratic failure

another possibility is that poor relations between moscow and washington devalued the russian record and when i say poor relations i mean particularly the very anti putin and groom atmosphere because once that starts at the highest level in the media in the white house in the congress it spreads to all american bureaucratic gauges. now take a swing around the globe and look at some other news making headlines this hour a new suspect has been arrested in the case of the poison the letters that were sent to president obama and to other u.s. officials last week martial arts trainer everett dutschke was taken into custody following a search of his home in mississippi earlier this month he pleaded not guilty to child molestation charges in a separate case this week police released kevin curtis another suspect the poison that led his investigation it's been tested curtis was read by dutch go into an ongoing a feud between the two men. in the u.k.

hundreds of protesters have marched outside a royal air force base after it started operating on manned aerial vehicles in afghanistan activists are demanding an immediate end to the program because of the high civilian death toll linked to u.s. drone attacks the ministry of defense has confirmed reports that the first overseas flight drone was recently directed from britain the missions are said to be mostly for surveillance of operators have an option of using vehicles weapons. if fire at the marathon detroit oil refinery has now been broader controlled by emergency crews at least one person was injured in the incident witnesses say the initial blast was felt to ten blocks away firefighters medics hazmat units were dispatched to the scene the area has now been cleared and a mandatory exclusion area has been lifted it looks like the incarcerated former ukrainian prime minister will not be leaving as an anytime soon that's happy . by

a presidential commission and on top of her current seven year term for abuse of power she is facing life in prison earlier to michelle was charged in connection to a murder case getting back to the ninety's and he's like the reports from keep from being legibly 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 thousand nine hundred ninety six ukraine member of parliament you gave a shit about was shot dead in ukraine back then a confession by want to use killers shocked the country. the man who painted for the job and was ordered by a man nicknamed pasha it was obvious to us that under pasha he meant by the laws

rankle ukraine's prime minister was that him 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 a typical ukrainian rollercoaster style twist he's name has recently surfaced again together with tymoshenko. we have ample proof that lives are in cope with 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 tymoshenko is currently on a second trial for alleged attacks evasion and money laundering in the one nine hundred ninety s. when she led the united energy systems of ukraine company that could seriously prison term 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.

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 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 which goes to almost every politician in ukraine can go on trial some didn't pay tax some were involved in corrupt schemes but as long as they obey the rules of the political game they're not prosecuted by calling the president and the government illegitimate out change power is going to beyond the boundaries of a democratic political game and hence the rules of the game were changed. this third case against the machine is now in a preliminary stage it is still unclear what kind of evidence investigators have

but they seem confident there is enough to press charges before summer the thriller which is the case has been walk in ukraine for almost two years now and all this time supporters of the former prime minister have been. developments. they will not believing anytime soon. in ukraine. up ahead a hearty looks at an obstinate part of the united states that's living by its own rules explored texas with us in just a minute. please give us a maybe a second to be money in stevia to cheat which is both a cultural contemporary and technologically savvy auditoriums so joining me to mom

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