to. be considered within congress despite the widespread suspicions that opposition fighters have resorted to chemical weapons. as the top u.s. diplomat has arrived in russia but is seen as unlikely to convince small scale that militarization of the conflict or bad fruits. the holy land dispute shifts towards. leaders rush to curry china's favor with beijing

rolling out the red carpet for a bust and million dollar deals going to tell ya. the blast targeting an election consulate in pakistan kills at least sixteen people and wounds more than thirty is the latest in a string of violent attacks which have forced the major contenders into the shadows . international news life from moscow this is us he was me you know chicago hello and welcome to the program. a bill allowing the u.s. to provide arms and training to see when rebels is circulating in congress the motion of follows allegations that the leadership in damascus has resorted to chemical weapon or targets in the country's long running civil war that's despite

a un led investigation committee is saying is the rebels who may be responsible more details now on this from correspondent in washington. washington is inching closer to or mean the rebels this monday the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee introduced a bill that would provide weapons to quote some very good groups of syrian rebels the bill would also give the u.s. government the power to sanction any individual who sells or transfers military equipment weapons or oil to the syrian government the chairman of the senate foreign relations committee also said the u.s. must act to tip the scales in favor of the opposition so we see washington trying to decide the outcome of the civil war in syria the idea or i mean the rebels has been floating in washington for a while now last week the u.s. the first secretary chuck hagel said the administration was rethinking its opposition to arming the rebels if the bill comes to the president's desk he may actually sign it into law critics in the meantime say flooding syria with more web

. could only lead to more bloodshed this monday the white house has basically brushed off the latest findings of the u.n. human rights commission wish that the syrian rebels may have used the deadly sarin nerve gas here is a leading u.n. investigators saying she was quote stupefied by the evidence chemical weapons were used in particular. in what was. what appear. to our investigation that was used by openings by the rebels and we have no no indication at toul that the government authority of the city government had used chemical weapons but i was ready to be stupefied that. the first the first indication we got they were about the use of never been gassed by the opening to that the white house said we

find it highly likely that chemical weapons if they were in fact used in syria and they are certainly evidence that they were the our side was responsible end of quote so it seems that the white house is dismissive of evidence that could suggest the use of chemical weapons by the rebels by the way after this statement by the u.n. human rights investigator made headlines all over the world the commission issued cautious press release saying it has not reached conclusive findings as to the use of chemical weapons in syria by any parties to the conflict it left many wondering whether the commission was trying to walk back on their own statements on their own findings due to the political sensitivity of the issue. meanwhile tensions bring on syria's western border after is really warplanes bombed targets inside the walls on stage last week damascus has reportedly given the go ahead for palestinian groups to carry out anti israeli operations in the golan heights

missile batteries have been deployed in the israeli occupied region ready for swift over the case of a new strike and let's not get more perspective on this from adam keller spokesperson for the pro palestinian and geo peace blog mr adam keller welcome to the program syria we know has reportedly told police senior groups that it will no longer prevent them from attacking israel so what can we expect now and what role was damascus play in that until now. no i think the government of has been playing with fire. and when you play with fire you can get away with it or you can get very badly burned in that we have to see which one he's. syrian border has been the most most quotable go forward for the last forty years since nine hundred seventy three also the gym has been very carefully preventing groups for meticulously of course the

syrian border. and now i know of course that the gym is not in complete control of syrian territory anyway but certainly i think that the groups in syria who might be interested in taking advantage of this very explicit invitation which was issued to them by assad i think that it was a very dangerous was an irresponsible act of war to go full of syria in the last. few days. isn't missing in tallinn yet they're talking about mediation of yes talking about palestinian armed groups that's a series less thing and do you think see raise other reacting here or is this just a symmetrical response to the actions to the israeli actions that. i don't think anybody could tell you know it could be just what we call

a live action because obviously israel has been feeling that the governor our government is feeling that because there is a civil war within syria and because the government of syria has its and more than full with its own internal liberals then they can bomb syria with impunity and that is of course administering public humiliation to us so he could make. just but what we call a response which does not really carry something behind it it could be much more than rhetorical in that it could be quite painful and we have no way of knowing for sure what it will be and that is your meaning that it is more than a little we call and it still is some kind of course of course border very goal with one will win us though which causes casualties on the israeli side then it will be the israeli government which will be for you mediated and which will have

to decide when to hell out of what sorry to interrupt you very briefly does return it could escalate so on yes down muskets accuses the israel of supporting al-qaeda linked terrorists fighting in the sea where fighting the syrian government i should say but what could ease will possibly send the stands to gain from fueling muslim extremism that i don't think. would want to support al qaeda as such but i think there is a principle a moral and political question involved in the last two years there has been and worldwide. about what to do about syria up the world some people were saying oh it was just going on in syria we cannot stay quiet we have to intervene and there were . also when the terrible things happening though it is an internal affair and we

should not interfere. in the way. our swell government is getting the worst of both worlds on the one hand it is still not caring at all about of course the peace which are happening just across the border from. her and it is it is intervening for reasons which in my view is that white and helen sufficient and not justifying and thank you very much indeed for your time we appreciate it thank you . you know. the latest leap of violence in syria comes as the top u.s. diplomat has a right to the russian capital with moscow and washington deeply polarized on any peace plan for the sewer and standoff the mission of secretary john kerry may become more than challenging. has more. u.s. state secretary john kerry is in moscow to seek russia's support in resolving the syrian conflict but experts are added dismay as to exactly how he is going to get that support given that the positions of moscow and washington on the syrian

conflict have been fundamentally different just twenty four hours before john kerry landed in moscow all the spokesperson on the russian foreign ministry alexander said that russia has been concerned with the militarization of the syrian rebels by the western countries the u.s. have been expressing their regret all along that the syrian conflict has been going on for more than two years now with so many people dead at the same time the initiatives are which are now existing in washington wolf arming the syrian rebels and providing them with military training are creating something of a double standard situation now that particular point which will be discussed is the alleged use of chemical weapons by the government troops this is something of course russia is concerned yet again because from the russian standpoint it looks like the fact of the chemical weapons use it was not approved and it may be used as a pretext for a possible use of force in syria by the western forces by the u.s.

in particular even despite that the investigation by the independent u.n. commission adjusted that the chemical weapons were in fact used by the syrian rebels that this report is being ignored and this is causing serious concerns also the latest reports of israeli strikes into the syrian territory are creating tensions as well especially given the fact that israel does not want to comment on exactly why it's performing strikes into the syrian territory and of course they are also expecting that john kerry will be discussing this with and lavrov will certainly deliver russia's stance on that on that issue to his u.s. counterpart. at the same time israel's waging another offensive although this time a charm offensive in china prime minister binyamin netanyahu is likely to secure a lucrative trade deals and will be looking to convince the asian giant to call its multibillion dollar relations with iran but beijing's political favor is vested fully with israel's rival palestine its leader mahmoud abbas was given full state

honors and china's support visit just a day before meeting the capital president choosing pain went on to offer a four point peace plan calling for an end to the gaza blockade and the restoration of palestinian rights on his policy of reports now on the rush to the east. the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas are currently in china they are there on a week long business trip but obviously they won't just be talking business they'll be talking politics and they'll be trying to further cooperate and entrenched relations in the fields of economy trade and science and also develop mutual political trust for some time we have witnessed how china is trying to influence the middle east and play a bigger role in this part of the world if you look at israeli chinese relations in one thousand nine hundred two the two countries began and established diplomatic relations and since then they have developed increasingly close commercial military and strategic links trade between the two countries currently stands at around ten

billion dollars a year their investments in israel are at the beginning i believe they have a number of reasons why the inverse whereby they don't invest in this group. i think this think also in large political terms they think is really simple country they want to have a foothold here. but we also noticed that sign us china has always supported the arab side in the conflict at least verbal if. you notice that in the last in the recent past they have become a maybe a little bit more hesitant. maybe they want to get something back for. what is particularly interesting when we look at the relationship between israel and china is that it seems to be coming on the back of a cooling of the relationship between israel and the united states there's no secret that the israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and the american

president barack obama do not like each other and obviously netanyahu is going to look around and search for new partners one of whom could easily become china if you take note of how china is getting more and more powerful of how the world is becoming more multi-polar when it is clear that there is no room for ignoring a world power such as china if you look at the euro crisis where did countries go in terms of asking for help china if you look at the north korea crisis we did countries go they are china for help now netanyahu is in china at a particularly sensitive time in terms of israeli syrian relations many people are asking why he did not cancel his trip to go there and in fact what wall the recent syrian israeli flare up will have in terms of the agenda that is being addressed there john it has always had a firm position toward syria and it has always been on the side of negotiations

never did it support the bloodshed from either side of the conflict so it will be interesting to see what comes out of if anything israeli chinese discussions over the situation in syria. will return to the subject in just a moment and also later in the program the british government faces pressure over missing radioactive substances the country's health authority has made that where is talks of how do those materials are unaccounted for sparking safety fears and calls for the tightest security and stay with us for that. every detail. every piece of metal. and every one of those who step on red square on the ninth of may are ready.

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this is i'll see welcome back less than a week before the vote and another election counted has been targeted in pakistan and a suicide bombing that killed sixteen they pull runnel was left on home but this comes a day after a companion for the same policy also managed to narron to escape a time of an assassination attempt which claimed the lives of eighteen people violence and pakistan is forcing major contenders to dissolve the campaign trail as being on the taliban's hope means doesn't encourage activity pursuing votes since april and to seven people have fallen victim to the bombings i mean a disrupting the election and jeffrey jeffrey low rent a senior fellow at the century foundation on international affairs believes the balance and rate way before it even started. to the secular parties for the moderate our use of losing their traditional share of the vote their candidates have been hit hard by many of these attacks and it is believed that it is intimidating the awami national party's candidates they're having to haul in their

horns and go only to the safest places and that makes it harder to reach out to the kind of hands on very tactile contact with voters that tends to get you elected and and a place like pakistan but the most interesting thing about the attack is that it is directed by the pakistani taliban i guess one of the most vociferously pro islamize parties which might suggest the revolution is so-called eating its own yard but the taliban have justified this attack on their job to get out. of the slum rally because they particular carried a had once upon a time when allied with general musharraf who was of course by the end a bitter enemy of the taleban and pakistan arguably helped incite. this is r.c. now

a former german finance minister and key figure behind the introduction of the euro speaks out now saying the currencies leading the call into disaster and calling for it to be ditched before germany's dragged into the economic chaos find out while an aussie dot com. also same faces same plays a different time with thousands gather in a key protest square for the russian opposition as they market gears since violent clashes between police and the anti government movement all the details for you on line. there will be a tie to water in britain's nuclear stores in the future after the merge dozens of rita acts of materials have gone missing over the last decade top industries schools and even reactors have almost have there's hazardous stocks substances that according to a list as he received from the health authority of all the tire enough to be sold by terrorists on his cellphone has been following this county. we've received the

freedom of information request that was put in to the health and safety executive here in the u.k. and we have that with us now and you can see as he goes down the list is your rainy and plutonium cesium one three seven it's a roll call of extremely dangerous radioactive substances and unbelievably these have all gone missing more than thirty incidents in the last decade where these radioactive materials have been lost or misplaced say really quite disturbing indeed and of course as you go down the list there are actually some big name companies only here dating back to eighty thousand and three got shall going down the list as early as last year you got incidents that are still under investigation so they still haven't been resolved we've had sellafield plants in cumbria we've had the roof we hospital in london all of these have been implicated in these various incidents from industry insiders as that ice they can see about this it's

the sort of carelessness the surrounding these incredibly volatile dangerous substance this is really causing a lot of concern now the health and safety executive said that the teaching of care in the u.k. is on those handling the materials and of course once there are problems that a price then the regulator will step in but of course i would a lot of people are now calling for is a real crackdown on this regulation because a lot of these incidents while there have been some like the will we hospital case that have been prosecuted a lot of them have simply received little more than a written warning and so industry insiders are saying that it's you know simply not enough and very nice to be a real crackdown on this type of carelessness in the u.k. the g.t. can and should be really strict is that a sort of quail to grave process where everything should be very carefully monitored and if he can see from the freedom of information requests that we have in front of us here you know just say many of the sheer volume of these in. it is what's really going to cause concern and of course that type of carelessness that

kind of flatness around security could certainly have implications if there were people who wanted to get hold of these types of materials if they balance of the wrong has again of course that would be deemed incredibly serious indeed and so i think really right now what the industry insiders once say is that the regulators take responsibility for this and that this situation is looked at to avoid similar carelessness happening again and. back to china now and its relations with the middle east so in trial with the leaders of palestine and israel are visiting simultaneously although china's offered to host a meeting between netanyahu and abbas neither side has expressed any willingness to attend but for now let's now get more perspective on the drawer visit and what it says of china's role in the middle east with my wife president of the asia chamber of commerce speaking to us from tel aviv mr marrs thank you very much indeed for

your time you want billions in trade with china you have bay dring still size politically with palestine why's that. well i don't think we should mix both the shoes on the one hand israel and china are improving the cooperation between them both on economy and basically on all aspects of relations and still china has a long relationship with the palestinians and interested in putting more putting more interest into the middle east in conflict and i see that's what we're seeing now. i don't think there are now taking the side already but i think they are trying to find their position in the middle east discussion in the what we're seeing now they met with the palestinian already and the meetings with all prime minister will be coming in the coming days and will probably see more statements to better off to be met with the prime minister the communal one as china is seeking to stretch into the middle east anyway the market bad for his goods is much smaller

and not even that stable. well this is a you trained in china i think china ten years ago would be reluctant to be involved in such a conflict but in the past decade we've seen china taking more and more for its being a part of the internationals in our international politics more involving the finisher's the middle east for china is an important area china easy importing energy resources from the middle east and therefore the stability of the middle east is becoming more and more important to china at the same time the major power of the bill is asian in the middle east the u.s. is taking a bit of less interesting the middle east therefore there is even more need for somebody else to be involved and that's when you see the russian involvement in the chinese and will i think this is a trend that we'll see strength in the future. that china is growing in of course as you say with china's economic rise comes a political one so do you believe it can much america's clout in the middle east

even though it's a bit less now as you say. well i don't know if it's going to match the american involvements or position in the middle east china east china they're not i think looking to compete with anyone or to balance with anyone china ease regaining their position as a major international player in their goals for the middle east china has a unique position in the fact that on the one hand it has very good and long relations with the palestinians and all the arab world including iran for example in the same time they have in the past twenty years developed very good relations with israel as well so that would have been an interesting position to talk to everyone moreover china is very well known to be against conflict against violence against the use of weapons bringing somebody into the middle east who is supporting finding solutions with out using violence even if they actually take action not

only by statements but also by pushing the palestinians the village in lebanon the hamas in the south and so on to lower the flames to use less and less violence that can be very useful for everyone. and what does aid zero has to gain or does it have to gain i should say from a close relationship with china aside from aside from small increases to trade there. well interesting you know increasing trade and economic cooperation is important by itself but i think this is a very important visit this is the first time that our leadership meeting with the new to do ship of china the people there are meeting now the president the prime minister the vice president this is the leadership that will be china the next decade and it is very important to have personal connection to create communication direct communication between to be the shit if this visit will manage to create a good relationship between our prime minister and could be the shipping china and

especially as i talk just now trying is becoming more knowledgeable do middle east peace can be very beneficial for israel i see all right thank you very much indeed . and next the fighting in syria and basic competition among latin american economies in breaking the set with i.b.m. out. in yet another step along the pointless anti gender crusade activists in sweden are pushing to promote a new gender neutral pronoun these activists want the term hen to replace the pronouns han and han which mean he and she respectively i think the logic of these bizarre gender neutral movements in the e.u. is that they really feel that it's awful to force someone into a role that doesn't fit them you know i could see this i remember back to when i was a boy in school and with me there was a kid what kind of only female friends and i certainly wasn't the sport's

a toy trucks kind of kid if you understand what i mean you know i could see this guy having all those male stereotypes shoved down his throat you know it made his life at school really unpleasant but the wacko e.u. liberal answer to some tiny amount of people being. pushed into gender roles they don't like is to force everyone else into a genderless world they don't like fan stick i guess gender neutrality advocates can speak swedish how they like and they're free to use this word hen but don't force everyone in the country to do things your way the overwhelming majority of the world is very happy with its gender thank you very much but that's just my opinion.

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