it. was. fueling the fire america's preparing to say at least the weaponry to syrian rebels sources say while chemical scarcities brought obama hinting at military intervention in the country's civil war. israel adds a new submarine to its fleet believed to be capable of firing atomic missiles this at a time over regional outrage over the country's refusal to sign up to a nuclear nonproliferation treaty. and the wrasse failed to stop muslim middle and he's from trying to impose their rules on london there as well even religious leaders fearing will tarnish the image i was long.

a.t.m. of the russian capital watching r.t. on marina joshie american military hardware mayor soon and up and rebel hands on the front lines of the conflict in syria according to white house official the source speaking on condition of anonymity said washington is preparing to stand weaponry in response to opposition requests for surface to air missiles and anti-tank rockets speaking to reporters president barack obama himself hinted at military action if allegations of chemical warfare in syria are confirmed are listen to what the president had to say. the only option that he gave was a scenario in which he said if the u.s. finds out that the syrian government has used chemical weapons against the rebels then obama strongly indicated that the u.s. would consider military intervention but he did not address what would happen if it was a fact the rebels or members of the opposition have used chemical weapons throughout

this ongoing conflict but at this point iraq obama says that u.s. intelligence officials don't know who has used chemical weapons inside of syria how they were used or whether they were used in the meantime damascus and the opposition have repeatedly accused one another of using chemical weapons. today and other rather sensitive issues came up to most of the little bit about that's right one of the many sensitive issues obama addressed was the issue of closing the prison at guantanamo bay he said the idea that the u.s. would still detain a group of individuals indefinitely without trial is contrary to the interests reputations and morals of america while the u.s. president has shown his strong will to close the prison he lacks the necessary support from congress and that support is what would give obama the authority and the funding to close the prison and now obama's comments come of course as the

hunger strike at guantanamo bay prison enters its fourth day this is a story that our first reported back in march and has continued to cover we were among the first to cover it one other important issue that the u.s. president addressed in his press conference was the issue of the boston bombings and russia's cooperation in the ongoing investigation that is what obama underscored that of moscow is very much helping washington with its ongoing probe now as we did reporting in two thousand and eleven in moscow it did warn washington about tomlinson knives possible links to extremist groups obama said the boston bombings illustrate the danger of self radicalization of possible terrorists inside the united states and he's instructed his counterterrorism team to figure out what can be done to prevent and to identify radicalization. well speaking to r.t. for a libertarian party presidential candidate gary johnson pointed to the terrible cost of past events as reason enough not to get involved in syria. let's get

all the information and after we've gotten all the information let's look at our military interventions in the past i suggest to you that there is not a military intervention in my life that has been warranted it hasn't resulted in consequences that. are unpredictable from the start these milla to our military interventions have resulted in hundreds of millions of enemies to this country that but for our military interventions i don't think would otherwise exist you said seventy thousand people have been killed when you look at our past military interventions our military interventions resulted in another hundred thousand losing their lives but somehow that's justified because it's on the side of good it's on the side of the united states and i'm being facetious being facetious our military interventions don't end up improving these situations

now the u.s. may not be alone i a possible role in the syrian war the lebanese as long as a group as blas as it could provide arms support to the government there after two days of terrorist bombings in damascus that have left scores there that's still coming out of. record unemployment collapsing confidence and a raging debt crisis but brussels says brighter times are ahead for europe predicting block why growth next year or strongly we hear from experts on what's behind the use optimism. how israel will soon get its fifth dolphin class submarine believed to be capable of launching cruise missiles with nuclear warheads the country's defense ministry has announced the move comes in spite of tel aviv's decades long policy of remaining silent on its alleged nuclear weapons and that unconfirmed arsenal is assumed to be behind it it's hot blooded decision to pull out from nuclear nonproliferation talks in geneva or more

than that from artie's policy or. congress is it is withdrawing from a second week of the nonproliferation treaty talks in geneva in protest against what it is calling the failure to implement a nine hundred ninety five resolution for a middle east free of nuclear weapons not a cairo argument is an implicit reference to israel that has never either confirmed or denied having nuclear arms and it is also not a signatory to the nonproliferation treaty arab states and iran say that israel's presumed nuclear arsenal poses a threat to peace in the middle east as well as security in a statement by the egyptian foreign ministry its it was pulling out of the talks to quote a send a strong message of non acceptance of the continued lack of seriousness in dealing with the establishment of a nuclear free zone in the middle east karo went on to say that it cannot continue waiting forever for the implementation of this with

a new show and now the egyptians are calling on member states and international bodies to be able sponsibility again quoting implementing legitimate international resolutions the argument however from the israeli side as well as the american side is that a nuclear arms freezone in the middle east chemically a reality until there is a broader arab israeli peace plan in place and iran could see its nuclear program the meeting currently underway in geneva is aimed at reviewing progress in implementing the nine hundred seventy nonproliferation treaty which is designed to prevent the spread of nuclear arms across the world while we spoke to british member of parliament german corben who is also vice chairman of the campaign for nuclear disarmament and he says that a nuclear free middle east will remain elusive unless washington and brussels pressure israel to stop its atomic activities. well israel depends very heavily on trade with the european union and military aid from the united states we need

action urgently by those two key players in the situation because the most enormous pressure on on israel either through sanctions or drawing a or lift a lifting the trade agreement which also has a human rights clause within israel we know has nuclear weapons and has the land based system live of them could have a c. basis of any country in the region that has a nuclear power system turkey egypt saudi arabia or could develop their own nuclear weapons if they wish to clearly the danger now is very nuclear arms race in the middle east with all the terrible consequences that that could bring about if ever they should be used by western powers are in no hurry to stop israel's alleged nuclear program as they occurred there from. ramsey brood editor of palestine chronicle dot com. if israel was going to listen they would have listened decades ago but again the israel is dealing with

a situation where there's i would say an international conspiracy to allow israel to continue with this quest for nuclear armament if it were not for western countries supports now germany but also britain originally france the united states even israel would have not been able to acquire such massive destructive capability as some assume it's with the two hundred nuclear warheads but others say about four hundred if not even more there is absolutely no need for israel to develop enough weapons to destroy the middle east several times over in the name of security you can't be achieving security at the expense of world peace as exactly ten years since washington declared victory and iraq what followed was a devastating hugely expensive war with consequences of both countries are still struggling to deal with get washington still insists the whole venture was a success and. music to the ears the shining new state of the

art. is now ready to impress as it opens its doors with fanfare and spectacular performances. so called muslims patrols are gan active in london with vigilantes trying to impose islamic ideals on the local population and while they are fervor has been tampered somewhat by earlier arrests they continue to promote their radical views of moderate muslim leaders fear of their actions could discredit the whole community as artists are for us now reports. when videos have listened to learn taste trying to pay serial or an unsuspecting members of the public first hit the headlines there was an outcry in britain well since then some arrests have been made but it's a tease found out self-titled most of the patrols. a still in operation here patrolling the streets the muslim community will continue to patrol the streets and

clear the streets when the bus is an illegal activity you're conducting ruining the lives of the community oh this group called themselves the shari'a project. they make a point of differentiating themselves from the more hardline muslim patrol his video is cool such anger we think with things like this we almost. got to record our work. a little longer with. the rockets were launched this patrol they say that whilst they share many of the same keys as the other patrols they'd never employ the same course of tactics. to back out. of life i mean i'm looking at those which i can say that is commendable that muslims have come out and actually decided to take some kind of action against you know these things taking place. control their actual actions and

that's something that we play by intimidating obviously there is always a better way to do things my approach as a muslim is to advise my muslim brothers i see into an action that happens more appropriate always advise me say what is better the issue of prostitution is one that in this area seems to particularly resonate with many locals if you know if it would be handy did you think it's a good thing yes it's a good thing it might lead to. this in many in the mainstream islam community these patrols across the concern was if it is ensuring widespread media coverage many muslim leaders have condemned their actions is wrong and i'm representing. these individuals are a fringe minority you know they don't represent the muslim community there's two point seven million muslims in. ok and they they they you know they would

never. condone this type of behavior both the groups were very clear to us that they have peaceful intentions some of the members are alleged to be involved with the more extreme patrols while members served three and a half years in prison on charges of terrorist fund raising and inciting terrorism to see and it didn't take him long to make his more hardline ps known by it all the mantle to him i believe so because i believe those who disbelieve in the oneness of god did find this vision to be the end point anyway and those laws that the establishment that would go with them would for how to roll it into him fire so i'm no respected visual whatsoever i asked the leader of the shari'a project whether he was concerned by statements like that i said you know if you take it from the passive approach that i don't think you fix the country and we are great but we were doing no shouting protesting your food before you started to sure it's a good thing that you something don't really have to be for your day to day this in

many base amongst the muslim and the why to push this community there are worries not just about these actions but about the potential repercussions the relative peace movement dorsey could have on a much larger scale so r.t. and the leader of hezbollah has hinted that the lebanon based militant group could intervene in the syrian conflict on the side of the government this comes after two massive car blasts in the space of two days the ripped through central damascus killing more than twenty people or local correspondent abdominals eenie witnessed the latest explosion. it was something like one minute or two minutes away three met when i passed through that this is the big explosion destroyed most of the historic square which is called maggi in the middle of the nastiest it's critical to the. building of the mystery of the studio i have seen that did by the spreading

wall around i have seen three with no heads and they have seen how the scars rushed inside the square from everywhere how the cloth distribute clothes and how the security came in to. see how people were crying and. weeping over their destroyed properties all around the area if you compare it with the attack on mr convoy you can see many similarities previous. to that was targeting the prime minister but it. kinda garden and the school and. its very crowded square it's full of people every time the one who was doing the same to the two placing. exactly this would have only seen video and this has only civilians and this is the same way that happened with.

the way of doing business and doing good things. karl sharu a blogger on the middle east thinks the syrian opposition movement has failed to distance itself from the extremist elements among the rebels. it is a modern responsibility and syrian opposition read of dissent. you know the other factions on the ground in syria then it should take this most of it just went for stopping those actions and ideas to try to distance itself from groups not just the most which hasn't done so far i think to this kind of confusion so i fear you want all those to the west and the u.s. in particular leaders of the syrian opposition group i've not really been clear enough not taken to condemn the car bombings and similar actions clearly i'm kind of distanced themselves from the groups that are likely to become be behind some of them horrific scenes a military base in afghanistan as he was in twice in the air before hitting the

ground in a massive fireball killing all seven american crew members to go target a home for the female. also there hundreds of rally and the libyan capital tripoli demanding lawmakers passed a new bill that would bar former members of colonel gadhafi as g.m. from senior government holds this as gunmen lay siege to the foreign ministry for the fourth day. can water trouble more than fifteen thousand swimming pools worth of bras which were dumped into waterways by hurricane sandy as what the east coast of america in a cold world last year and find out how it happens on our website our to dot com.

i'm. cyprus has officially become the latest eurozone nation to be bailed out having approved a cash lifeline from brussels albeit one with harsh conditions attached that happened as the e.u. released new unemployment figures revealing that joblessness in march was at an all time high the spy bad news across the block the european commission is actually predicting growth for the monetary union next year but some experts say that on realistic probably what the european commission is about predicting economic growth forecast and you could probably run on the back of a postage stamp to be honest with you i think. that is very good prospect of the european will be growing at any point in the near future what i would say is that. even if you level the playing field at the moment you took away all the day all the problems in europe physics it's extremely difficult to see how it would grow going

forward because you know to compete with the chinese and the indians and the canadians and the australians what europe needs is to be regulated small kids and to cut the bureaucracy and the red tape and the on elected officials that basically run it what europe is in fact doing at the moment is the exact opposite it hasn't even begun to tackle its problems yet and in fact while i would argue is that it's actually doing exactly the wrong thing european vision has been falling apart the years for them for sure the people who run europe have still got that vision of a still hell bent on pursuing that vision i don't you know i think they're too arrogant to start to have doubts at this stage and you know that is very very worrying for europe going forward as well well the latest wave of violence in iraq has killed six people and left over twenty one it and a string of bomb and gun attacks in and around baghdad violence has been on the rise in recent weeks in the country. where exactly ten years ago the u.s. declared its victory over saddam the same that massacre is still washington's

official line despite relenting bloodshed and he's going to check on our reports many americans feel history is repeating itself major combat operations in iraq have ended in the battle of iraq the united states and our allies have prevailed president george w. bush delivered the message on may the first two thousand and three a declaration of success followed by years of bloody war when bush made that speech i was in the military and public affairs so it was the stated mission you know liberation and freedom for iraqis and it didn't seem to me like that happening there with all this violence that was her head she waited by our presence for years after this speech has many americans and the whole world saw iraq as a part mire washington decided to send twenty thousand more troops that surge off the u.s. the lives of more than a thousand soldiers and many billions of dollars of taxpayers' money on his

deathbed iraq war veteran thomas young wrote a letter to george w. bush and dick cheney the one good move was. both. you'd. hear while lying in the church of american politics sometimes even doubting success can be perceived as blasphemous that's been true for the rack surge even today will you correct or incorrect when you said that the search would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since viet nam we are correct or incorrect by right or no my reference to the surge and jeanne what he's doing under hegel the question is we right or wrong my answer is i'll defer that judgment to history i think history has already made a judgment about the searcher and you're on the wrong side of it chuck hagel is reference to vietnam was not uncalled for years into the vietnam war even as most americans saw the involvement there is a mistake thousands of u.s.

troops continue to die because washington didn't want to admit it someone has to die or so that president nixon won't be and these are his words the first president to lose a war supporters of president bush say history will treat him more kindly regarding iraq but the history that is being lived by iraqis today is one that has neither peace nor security in a country ripped apart by terror six tarion violence and fears of a looming civil war in washington i'm going to shut down. and now for some other stories from around the world in central myanmar at least ten have been injured as sectarian violence erupted leading to the destruction of two mosques and hundreds of muslim homes being set ablaze simmering interface hatred exploded in march when buddhists left over forty muslims death and thousands more displaced a recent report by human rights watch accuse authorities in a country of failing to curb the attacks which he describes as ethnic cleansing.

in canada now almost three billion dollars worth of anti-terrorism funding can be found a quarter. the official in charge of the nation's finances that's part of thirteen billion dollars put aside for and say terror operations between two thousand and one and two thousand and nine yat attorney general said in his spring report that the money is a missing only that information on where it was spent can be found he also called for greater control over financial records on government spending. thousands of rallied in berlin to protest against the resurgence of new narcism in the country demonstrators marched through parts of the german capital where many far right radicals are believed to live about five hundred police officers a score of the procession of which remained relatively peaceful only one person was arrested. at the mariinsky theatre in st petersburg has an illustrious history stretching back two centuries and now it has an impressive sister venue the new two

thousand seat state of the art concert hall mariinsky two will be opening to see years of star performances are reports. they are. two centuries of talent attracting worldwide audiences to see globally renowned performances this much loved venue in launching its new ad most ambitious project yet money in skiffy attitude. has taken ten yes reach premie and i'd although it's not come cheap at some seven hundred thirty million dollars but what audiences will get is a seventy nine thousand square building and to accommodate today's most demanding productions on my car grand aging sister every one of the two thousand people in la

even ski stea tatoos auditoriums will be able to see every inch of the stage no blind spots even on the roof and out stressful empty theater and tara's over nekesa in petersburg see if the bosses are clear that it's the next generation of audiences in this sights. were never. sure we're going to hear. this. yet to be first for your viewers this is my very first series. every corner of the marian ski theatre to captures your i and i want to find out a little bit more about how the aki tech as a were able to combine both the old muddy and ski together with this contemporary inviting and very vibrant space. the people of the city are seriously protective of

what's built here jack diamond is the architect to who had to step in to complete the much contested theater especially making it fit in with some petersburg iconic historic skyline the building is paying attention to the street statements including. modest as a foil to the old building and to the rest of the architecture but once you get inside the world a cathedral is the holy of holies from religion that's the holy of holies for music an opera gordon says the classic hallmarks of the eighteenth and nineteenth century opera houses of a whole shoes shape three balconies a tried and trusted designed to carry both grand scale and quiet intimacy that there's a twenty first century twist smart walls so that even the father spectator catches even the slightest nights the auditorium floor is separated from the concrete foundations by sound absorbing wooden structures while overlapping balustrades how

to diffuse the sound we started on the mind of the maestro you want to see hundred plus an opera house not a compromise hundred percent opera house and we took the ferry which is working very well the horses like a cellist by the year don't like the old marines that's the place backstage the marines give you to do is like a factory scene jobs of flying towers and axes areas designed to operate so that sets can be moved quickly and easily so productions can be staged back to back to begin with the opening night gollan the second of may kicks off three days of launch performances a district in general director valerie give given will conduct an area of stars including the cedar domingo old robot of the night and rain a topic the following day to clubs in the ilan temple flown by the married he up. but i add to ballet the celebration countries on the fourth of may with the

performers to on a prima ballerina diana vision of up in the words of the a distant drek to himself the programs the inaugural festival with chosen to demonstrate the extraordinary range of the company and the new theatre space while reflecting both the history of the matter used and the theatres engagement with today's audiences and with also places of contemporary oprah ballet and kestrel using. a bomb would say oh team. and up next having marc no legs have flaws in the two tiered us justice system that's in breaking the sound.

of. my ski theatre i'm a the second to be o.b.e. money in stevia to choose which is both a cultural contemporary i don't know logically serving auditoriums so join me to almost say honored c m a the second as we bring you the glitz the glamour and the best of the best in the performing arts right here at marines q.p.r. to. you.

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