past reluctance of the united states to the syrian rebels. stoking fresh fears of foreign intervention in the ongoing conflict. the euro skeptic movement continues on its upward trajectory as the u.k. independence party finishes second byelection establishing itself was a major force to be reckoned with. as the un says more than seven hundred people were killed in violence in iraq last month we look into how ordinary people are dealing with possibly one of the country's worst crises in recent history.

worldwide news live from moscow this is with me rule received it's good to have you with us today. washington is now officially considering arming the syrian rebels so this after holding back for two years according to the defense secretary chuck hagel the dramatic twist comes just days after a u.s. officials claim that they have confirmed intelligence pointing to the use of chemical weapons by the syrian regime the latest now from washington and correspondent. so far the administration has been reluctant to arm the rebels directly although its allies have been doing that for the past two years there have been persistent reports of increasing radicalization of anti assad forces you have an al qaeda affiliated group operating there and the opposition generally welcomes their efforts of the concerns are there now the administration says it's rethinking arming syrian opposition fighters secretary hagel said he is ministration is considering a range of options he also said he firstly has not decided whether it would be wise

to provide weapons to the rebels so there is nothing definitive in those remarks at this stage but the context of recent events has created a certain momentum and this kind of momentum may end up bolstering those forces on the ground and actually result in more violence because the fighters want weapons and they want heavy weapons now president obama this week said there is proof that assad government ourself or says if used chemical weapons in syria that would be quote a game changer again he says the u.s. had evidence that the weapons were used but had no conclusive evidence to tie it to the assad government right now both the rebels and the assad forces blaming each other for the alleged chemical attack in the middle of march in aleppo the syrian government requested the u.n. to send a mission to investigate the incident the u.n. fact finding team has been on standby and ready to deploy but then the u.n. chief appears to have changed his plans for the investigation there's russia's

foreign minister with more on that. syrian government because of the germs are deployed in this to this particular situation the secretary general state the use ready to do this but couple of days later she sent a letter to the syrian government demanding the next is for the international experts to all cheery to read through the entire it's the roots of syria as well as . the steam would like to to talk. and this is something which really defeats the purpose of immediate. investigation into the specific report of the case of the use of chemical substances to have. any person in syria. resembles very much the security council resolutions regarding iraq and we all remember the end of that story so now instead of investigating a concrete incident the u.n.

wants access to all sites and this inquiry has once again thought the united nations into the center of a possible plan for weapons of mass destruction what faces they go through iraq the fear again is that politics may get ahead of fact these are gone a chicken repeating that now by america could end up turning their weapons on u.s. citizens and that's according to independent research or psoriasis all work she says about if you would actually shared deep inside washington. they're disappointed that the sand regime has not fallen fast enough and it had always been the intention not only to dismantle the syrian army all render it useless but for assad to leave and this isn't happening in order to boost support for intervention we need to come up with all sorts of stories such as use of chemical weapons former cia operatives they've all spoken of blowback the united states has a band-aid policy that we we will take care of something today not think about

what's happening tomorrow and every time it's the population in america it's the americans that are being victimized as a result of blowback it's not the people that start these wars start the arms and they continue to win at major corporations that are funding these wars so you know the american people in a sense are almost as much. as the people in this part that are being subjected to these brand this. things that are going on on the ground there and it will come back to bite the supporters the input. this is r.t. and it is a happy day for euro skeptics across britain of this after the u.k. independence party stole the show of another british byelection the group of six britons withdrawal from the european union came in second in south shields it is perceived as a staggering result considering ukip didn't even stand in the constituency in the last general election more on this to want to use correspondent sarah. now we've

seen a growing public support the non mainstream parties and kids being right at the center of that they were coming. only. the charismatic leader here backing his candidate. but as we've seen recently with clothing the poor the public are really responding to the mainstream. politicians that. give a straight answer to a question about the bush or. you can't give a straight answer. ask a question you get a straight answer is a straight talker not a spade a spade so it shows how far they've come to get that second place in such a short amount of time and certainly the main political parties are going to be

looking very closely at this now because. this is a. support the kids had recently. a quite significant change. and local elections are also taking place across britain with many expecting the results to deliver a hard slap in the face for the government of the u.k. independence party are showing steady gains in the wards where it is standing or as the success of the mainstream parties is not nearly as solid and will get you the latest updates on the story throughout the day here on arts. but for now on the program to iraq which could be undergoing one of its worst crisis since the withdrawal of american soldiers at the end of two thousand and eleven the united nations says more than seven hundred people were killed in the country last month more than sixteen hundred injured and most of the deaths came in late april after deadly clashes between security forces and sunni protesters in ca to cook the incident sparked a wave of violence that quickly spread to other areas iraqi government is gripped

in the meantime by corruption and political unrest with calls for prime minister nouri al maliki to resign many fear sectarian tensions could escalate and syria with a full blown war. now examines the impact of national struggles on the lives of ordinary iraqis. bombs may still haunt baghdad but these young men are more concerned with burning the rubber in a country where daily life is based on trying to avoid the dangers these iraqis are turning to danger as a way to avoid reality tasting the thrill of speed and testing the authorities it's an unexpected sight in post-war iraq fund a grim statistic half of the country's growing youth population is on able to find work. the biggest problem is financial support day everyone is constantly trying to

find work but very few jobs i'm myself i'm unemployed here. ten years after the war a lie but iraq is full of contradictions but for young men like omar the motorcycle is one way to escape the daily presence of life here in iraq and reading it. and taking on. adrenalin may be one way of coping with uncertainty but not for salva hasan hussein she now spends most of her days at home with her daughters trying to rebuild a life shattered by. corruption in the household chores are a far cry from her former career as a journalist but she's too scared to return to work she had been investigating corruption and prison abuses when she herself was detained and thrown behind bars the charges have been dropped but the family have to sell nearly everything they own is just to cover the thousands of dollars in bribes to secure her release. in this country money can buy you can buy your high position when this can buy you

freedom and if you get accused of something in iraq it could be executed just because you can't afford to pay to save your life it was a year long ordeal that by her account involved beatings and sexual assault she says that she's become a victim of the same corruption she once tried to expose. from victims to victors in a country better known for violence and divisions this youth football school is one of the few bright spots that stands out sunny and christian kids play here on the same field and that's exactly why the school was opened. fourteen year old ali doesn't like to talk about the day his father was killed instead he spends his time training on the field hoping to one day play on iraq's national football team but for now a more pressing desire. so i want the security situation to become peaceful elsewhere maybe one or two people are killed each day to him many people are killed every day by explosions and even bad things so i'm sure if i'm safe like

other countries. it's a wish that's undoubtedly echoed all across iraq for the past decades left nearly everyone with a tragic story to tell and yet somehow life goes on you see catherine of our team. and i still have for you here on the program. being forced to cross the line. i needed a few hundred euros for medication also we had no food this is what i booked and the money that was stolen a portuguese man robs a bank after we're done seeing left him unable to afford the medical bills for his wife who is still suffering from incurable disease about stories come up in a moment. should be put out of use. we'll be able to do the world or not hold the grand gardening of the new

multimillion dollar stage so we're bringing you all the best pictures in our special coverage from two that is just in a couple of. world . science technology innovations all the latest developments from around russia we've got the future covered. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then. you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything. i'm tom harpur welcome is a big. news

today. these are the images. from the streets of canada. today. with me rule research. now. twenty three d. being force fed at the notorious for thirty and one hundred captives to officially join the protest against mistreatment detention without one of. us zero efforts to resolve the life threatening crisis. my client's an actual very bad condition he's been forced on it now for about two weeks is fine passages are infected and.

more and more painful every time. i come to guantanamo bay i read three of them for a different. trying to resolve the hunger strike one here i've seen a little. perform in fact. prisoners report. happy and very solitary confinement no effort whatsoever to keep on top of the men who are suffering well i guess that's why you have an offshore prison so you can pretty much do what you want to release to the media whatever you want it to be between a client today i've been here eleven after years. charged with a crime i'm never going to get a trial you want to hold never. let me live in peace you want peace it's a funny thing you don't do this you do you need for that what kind of country do you come from and how naive are the people worst lives. and in the meantime the

united nations has now officially classified the force feeding of detainees at guantanamo bay as torture a report by a key u.s. think tank slammed washington for abuse at the camp and a coming up here an obvious eleven thirty am g.m.t. it'll be the co-chair of the panel responsible for that report explaining why guantanamo bay prison should be closed. we just do not believe that it fits into the laws and the ethics and the values of america to have indefinite detention and to not allow a court of law and adjudication of charges against a person to be to go through an orderly process more than half of those detainees at guantanamo currently have already been caught by the u.s. government that means all the intelligence the military the law enforcement and all the agencies involved have said there's no reason to hold these people and they

still are indefinitely being detained in guantanamo we feel very strongly that they ought to be released and they ought and that should be done immediately and the president we've called the president to tell his secretary of defense to issue that exact that order to release them. just a couple of minutes on the world update but for now some petersburg's renowned marine ski theater celebrating the long anticipated opening of its new state of the art stage space for the latest high technology and decorated to reflect two centuries of legendary performances true is set to rival the best venues from all around the world. the grand opening it was like curtains. in st petersburg up to ten years in the making of over seven hundred million u.s. dollars are spent in creating this techno seven very contemporary space everyone

from the who's who of st petersburg was here to celebrate with the creators of the space. the one person that everybody wanted to michelle was well in preston itching that approval stamp was from a present of letting me to putin himself he was he towing the building and he seemed just as impressed as all of the guests who we hear the man of the hour it was valerie getting to sixty years old and of course celebrating twenty five years as maestro and to sit director of the theatre one and mother used to see the performances was what everybody was looking forward to here at the opening of those mariinsky all construal played their best showcasing the strings and influences which could be heard all the way from the back of the auditorium to the front and clear as a platinum sound and of course the ballet theatre itself did not disappoint

they put on a show to be remembered i think that this is the night that everybody here in st petersburg and around the world will be talking for years to come about the spectacular that was put on yeah i think you should be proud of these. marines key tool. it will be do great company then you have thanks to most of you to all of us thought of you an ecstatic it's a great honor for me to be opening. and to congratulate all you get is nothing. it's a wonderful stage so i think one of the most important. things. on stage like this it's acoustics and it was. incredible this is so very much just stick someone who knows more about the arts and culture is none other than be all that the bolshoi theater he is that i'm not really excited to and

he told me of the cultural relevance on this theater. with russia now has a new unique building that can stage technically complex performances from the russian foreign opera and ballet companies and incredible night to remember spectacular performances it was just the opening night we have she's more in my eyes all of this. so join me with a ride here on out see formal. it's about having the time of a lot we head to our website for more on the stories we're covering on air and also what dot com you can find out how our winds from the cellar of the french president assume going up for sale and more than a thousand bottles are going to fetch up to a quarter of a million euros or some of the money set up to help to prop the state's struggling finances they can find out how much needs to be spent in order to sit some at least a palace wine on line. and two decades behind bars that's the punishment of u.s.

high school student could be getting for some of his facebook posts labeled as quote disturbing verbiage by police. the european central bank has cut interest rates to a record low of zero point five percent all of this in a bid to boost the euro zone's flailing economies at the e.c.b. president pledged he is ready for even further reductions but robert oulds from the euro skeptic think tank the group he believes the measures will not bring any really. within the eurozone there will not be any change because they have one common sense it won't actually help the economies of southern europe particularly spain portugal italy and greece which we can all count together as countries are struggling as a result of their being the e.u. single common see the euro france as well is also suffering economically and has unemployment rising we've seeing a a separation between the french and german economies so cutting interest rates by

this small amount won't actually really make much difference we need of radical change of policy within the e.u. to to bring about economic growth of initially the will have to be a breakup or euro that's the only way to restore economic growth it's the only way to get people back to work if they can have their common seas depreciate and of course that the the new of tapering since the door each market that were to be returned that would then increase in in value and that would help the disparities within the eurozone which has been created largely by the single currency to need to be a vatican change of course unemployment will just keep on going up. meanwhile disintegrating economies and the most debt burden countries of europe are forcing some people to resort to extremes as artie's pretty or all of a found out. portugal is certainly beautiful but its current financial woes are making it a living hell for some with one portuguese man claiming that the crisis has driven

him to crying. work for over thirty years in construction before being laid off today he's a convicted bank robber no money. i needed a few hundred euros for medication also we had no food at home this is what i bought with the money that was stolen i think about a thousand euros. turned to crime after he couldn't afford to pay the medical bills for his now ex-wife who suffers from m.s. . by own branch because of what they did to me he gave me loans and crazy interest resource have to take out more loans to pay for them they robbed me so i robbed i'm not proud but i think the state forced me into this recession so what's going through your head as you're walking down here knowing that you're about to commit a crime. and i had a small plastic toy guns that moment as i was approaching the bank i saw a policeman nearby there was a bag near the street so i said to the caucus should check it out i hope this would be a distraction then i went into the bank and did what i did it was all over in five

minutes. just keyboard what he needed then turned himself into the police after spending a year behind bars part of the conditions of his release that he maintains a twenty meter distance from the bank remains angry with the portuguese government who he says are encouraging this type of behavior with an unfair welfare system saying. it's so disgusting their mentality they gave me nothing when i needed it most that i've broken the law and i'm on their radar they give me help they don't notice people unless they get into trouble also. concerns echoed by those who represent the rights of workers in portugal. the government worries more about pleasing germany than looking after its own people there is a lot of anger out there and the more people think they aren't getting it. bigger deal the more this anger snowballs this is the danger of keeping people in the limits of poverty. portugal has high unemployment and crippling

debts of one hundred eighty billion euro around one hundred twenty percent of you reduction the end of the crisis is certainly nowhere in sight asked if he feels remorse for his crime i do still it's very clear seem to them are so i feel remorse for what i did to the bond workers and really scared the hell out of them so for getting what i needed anyway or cute now. i don't feel the slightest bit sorry for taking from the jewel of an arty lisbon. out of pakistan opens up the artsy world update it's where the head prosecutor in the murder of the case of pakistan's former prime minister benazir bhutto has been shot dead in the country's capital. was pushed by gunmen on motorcycles on route to an antiterrorism court in the garrison city of rawalpindi on tuesday the court summoned pakistan's former president pervez musharaff over charges of failing to provide adequate security for benazir bhutto the country's first and so far only female prime minister was killed

in two thousand and seven. crowds of hardline salafi islamists have tried to break into the headquarters of egypt's security service in cairo and police fired tear gas in an attempt to drive protesters away salafist waved a black and white al-qaeda flag and chanted slogans against the president they accuse him of building a security state no different from that of alstead leader hosni mubarak showcases a rift within egypt is the most community would have largely been supporting the current leader. the sort of brothers the suspects in the boston marathon bombings originally planned to carry out their attacks during the u.s. independence day celebrations the surviving sibling told interrogators that the duo decided to strike early after completing the. baum's sooner than expected meanwhile the body of his brother has been released to his family he died after being run down by his fleeing brother following

a huge police shootout the explosions at the marathon killed three and wounded more than two hundred. our we're coming to you live from moscow in just a moment here it's abby martin doing her best to cut through the spin of the mainstream media thank you for watching. famous american political figure ron paul has decided to create his own liberty oriented homeschooling curriculum at ron paul curriculum back to give parents alternative to standard public education you know when i was a kid homeschooling was only for like the kids wackos and cultists if you met someone who was home schooled you always look at them with some sort of suspicion like what's with that get with what those parents i mean who would home school their kids well let's look at it this way who would grow their own food when american supermarkets are stocked with pure healthy and natural food the problem is

that food in stores is now loaded up with all sorts of mystery chemicals and g m o's and it makes perfect sense that nowadays people are intro starting to grow their own food and this logic applies to education too when public education becomes so dismal it is perfectly logical and reasonable to try to educate your kids yourself the no child left behind program did a fine job of making the american education system lower the bar down to the very basement of the lowest common denominator i mean if you think there should be more in a high school graduates had besides reading right now to richmond that homeschooling might be for you as art sports and music and science programs all across the nation due to a lack of funding is wrong post libertarian curriculum what's best for your kids hate i can't say but it's definitely worth taking a look at other alternatives given the d. minus quality of public education nowadays but that's just my opinion.

to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous bad luck i got so. i mean it's a challenge i know that i'm still really messed up. in the old story so personally . it's. the worst you're going to go right out of the. radio for a minute. i want. to give you never seen anything like this i'm told.

what's up i'm abby martin and this is breaking the set so unfortunately as predicted we're seeing are ramping up of hate crimes and hate speech against muslim americans in the wake of the boston bombings most recently about anger was directed to mohammad saleem somali an american cab driver who was assaulted by a man he had picked up moments earlier but luckily before this attack salim sensed the man's temper and recorded the entire older cation on his cell phone and take a listen. i'm judging you know you're going to. bomb people up all over the world oh me yet.