the u.s. all provided military aid to syria's rebels are claiming it has advocates of the assad regime used chemical weapons moscow club called washington's resuming of flawed. plans to develop a park in istanbul that calls for weeks of protests across turkey have been frozen but there are no clear agreement on how to prevent anti-government demos continuing . and as iranians may lead to their new leader we examine the controversial legacy left by the nation's outgoing president mahmoud ahmadinejad's.

wherever you're watching from around the world this is our deal with me to ban would say thank you for tuning in washington will put a lethal weapons in the hands of syria's rebels it's concluded that bashar assad's regime has used chemical weapons albeit on a small scale and so will offer more help to those fighting him artie's marina but neither has the details. this is quite a game changer being announced by the obama administration what we know is that the u.s. has decided that it will provide military support to syrian rebels but u.s. officials would not specify what that support will involve the national security council that the visor ben rhodes says that the new assistance to the syrian rebels will be different from the non-lethal communications type equipment that the u.s. has given before and this of course leads many to believe that the united states will now be arming the syrian opposition now these decisions are being made after the u.s.

intelligence community has independently concluded that the syrian government has used chemical weapons including the nerve agent gas sarin on a small scale against the opposition however washington so far has failed to disclose what specific evidence they have what has led them to make these conclusions and this announcement but this is counter to what a chief u.n. investigator said just two months ago during our investigation for crimes against humanity and war crimes. we collect. money too. the made to appear that some chemical weapons were used in particular. in what was. what appear on. to our investigation that was used by openings by the ribbons and we have no known indication that

tool is the government. of the city government has used chemical weapons but i was of you to be the. first the first indication we got. to the use of never open in the united states decision now to provide more military support to the syrian opposition comes ahead of a peace conference that's supposed to take place geneva at the end of this month or be they have then next month that conference was organized by the united states and russia and it was aiming to get both sides from syria to come together at the table and talk about how there could be a transitional government forms and ultimately and the ongoing violence that's been taking place in syria according to the united nations ninety three thousand people have been killed since this civil war began more than two years ago we should note

that many experts have indicated that and believe and argue that adding more arms to such a heavily violent conflict that's ongoing in syria would actually fuel an arms race it would make the circumstance there the environment there so much more dangerous spots as we see from the the announcements made by the obama administration that washington to aid syrian rebels militarily and they won't give specifics but it looks as though that the united states will be arming the syrian opposition. washington says it has said its evidence with several allies including russia what they had of the state duma foreign affairs committee says the findings on a convincing if you're interested in what they're doing we have no reliable confirmation the asset government used chemical weapons because the us national security council that made this announcement cites intelligence reports the problem

is that one time the bush administration also cited intelligence to prove to the entire world that saddam hussein had weapons of mass destruction as we all know this became the basis for aggression against iraq and for iraq's occupation but no weapons were found there neither nuclear material nor chemical weapons so how can we trust these empty phrases after iraq it's completely impossible but this is part of the u.s. political line aimed at toppling the asset government. and the new book their luggage showing him and russia's ambassador to the united nations in geneva let's see but a tough gimmick spades a wife who believes negotiation is the only way out. we have a lot of evidence which testifies that. a position extremist opposition forces second making terrible crimes horrible crimes exact cusanus murders.

taking hostages sensible and so forth and we're trying to make a public hearing me. as far as russia is concerned with think that both sides know it and you will see that in syria and the old timey friends part. of this vicious circle of. violence could be only broken by convening the international conference on syria. when the u.s. plan for limited a no fly zone over syria has also been drawn up it would be costly up to fifty million dollars a day ad is unlikely to affect things on the ground however the white house believes that it is a needed in order to reduce the risks of arming the rebels through a certain area could stretch up to forty kilometers into syria just one hundred kilometers short of the syrian capital damascus and even with out of no fly zone washington could send all through jordan with a patriot a defense

a bad reason s.t.m. flying to jets already deployed the former pentagon official michael maloof says america should have learned from its previous military escapades. we have to be very skeptical i was in the pentagon at the time that intelligence assessments were made regarding iraq and its programs weapons of mass destruction and we know what the results were a trillion dollars later forty five hundred lives and we and we had nothing nothing to show for it and there were and there was no doubt i was in damascus recently spoke for an hour and a half with the syrian prime minister and he says why would we be gassing our own people and i think that the timing of this is meant to try to boost morale but the problem is how do you the opposition is so fractured how do you determine who will get the arms and so that it doesn't get into the hands of the foreign fighters the al destroy the al qaida types there's no guarantee about this and that's why i

believe it's going to prolong a conflict. and the un has reacted to washington's allegations with skepticism our experience statement that came out today from the spokesman of catherine ashton has offices that the e.u. would like to have you when mission to have to have independent investigation whether or not the use of chemical weapons really did take place they want independent verification of the facts presented by the united states that is happening in syria now that they are in constant contact with washington and also they said that while this u.n. mission has been authorized they are still waiting to be granted access on the ground they did point out indicate the importance of getting an independent verification on the ground with facts on the ground for them to be able to make a decision how this is generally reflective of the opinion of most of the e.u.

countries if we remember is made or was this decision that they made on whether or not to extend the arms embargo to syria twenty five out of twenty seven nations were against that idea including germany very reluctant to get involved militarily we know that the u.k. and france were the two countries that will really heavily pushing for non extension of that arms embargo however what's interesting to see is that the statement coming out today from the u.k. and france looks to be like a scaled back on their initial aggression on the issue we have a statement from downing street they're saying that the u.k. government has not decided yet whether to arm the syrian rebels and they are asking that the assad government allow grad unrestricted access to the u.n. investigation team going back to that statement of the e.u. and france had also said in reply to with suggestions of a no fly zone to be established france had said that such a no fly zone in syria needs the approval of the u.n.

security council but reset it any intervention with the approval of the international community. they say that this is unlikely so for now there is no clear indication coming from the. next step in terms of action they want to take all of them are saying they want to wait for more information and what's interesting again is a scaled back of the u.k. and france's statements on these and foreign ministers will be meeting about a week's time to discuss this further plans to develop a park in istanbul that calls to weeks of protests across turkey have been put on hold and will be left to a court to decide whether they're legal five people died in the often violent demonstrations the decision came after the prime minister held a meeting with activists although there was no agreement on how to end discontent the protests started because of a plan to cut down trees and build brags that in gives the park these sunni evolved into anti-government demonstrations with crowds rally against the country's prime minister the european follow many heavily criticized turkey for is disproportionate

and the excessive use of police force against the protesters jason jones editor in chief of the is simple get that there is angry at the government who will continue to demonstrate despite the decision about the park. there's a court injunction to stop the construction in gezi park and essentially what it came down to was the government saying that they would not step in to stop that process and they would let the courts handle it from here so we we have a pause in the action but by no means is it over we see a lot of opposition party groups that have come together under this one particular cause but within that group of people you see a splintering of very very differing causes the anticapitalist muslims the socialists the you've got various representative groups from every friend. out there who don't think that the conflict is going to just go away i would i

would hope that they can find a peaceful way to get life back to normal and to get people at the table talking to one another however as i mentioned those marginal groups that are there these are professional protesters they protest all the time they're generally ready for a fight so i don't think that those people are going to just walk away. but closely following developments across to the way and the government sent to make continues to grow visit our web site r t dot com for the latest update the witness accounts and video games. coming up in a couple of minutes here on our team as the u.k. reportedly blocks the whistleblower edward snowden from traveling to the country did see a man's revelations that he said through it relate to people you would think right

now we'll bring you the latest. talking about language as well but i will only react to situations. i haven't read the reports but i'm like. you know i want me to comment on your minor point. to carry on a car is on the job here no sorry. there are no more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you. get ready for a. critical stage. down to freedom to watch.

the news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing operations are all that. thanks for staying with us here on our team cia whistleblower edward snowden has reportedly been stopped from flying to the u.k. where their lines were ordered to keep him out from boarding the man who lifted the lid on america's secret surveillance activities is being pursued by washington which wants to prosecute him for his latest revelation he told a hong kong newspaper that the u.s. repeatedly hag's into chinese computer networks now he claims that the u.s. has been hitting hundreds of targets in hong kong and in mainland china since two thousand and nine this is particularly sensitive because washington has constantly

accused beijing of being behind a series of cyber attacks on its government departments the future all the whistleblower remains on kenya as washington post together charges against him but some experts believe china will stand by snowden. he had months to sink it over he's already caught with lawyers and human rights organizations in hong kong he studied home called law yes there is an extradition treaty between homecoming and us before the nine united seven of those works but this is a very special case now china is directly told me she is already supporting stole that lexus think it took them a few days to make up their minds that remember there was a three day holiday in china so the started to date the chinese are sensitive and they are watching a public opinion reaction in hong kong they are watching public opinion reaction inside in a way bulled the chinese blogs and the equivalent of twitter and they know they see

the groundswell of support to snowden they see the double standards of although it's trying to impose a wound way cyberwarfare dialogue when this comes both ways and yes they're going to support snowden no doubt. so it is a fellow whistleblower we could be said to julian us launch a brazen egg cia man fall detaining solid proof of what many have suspected for years he's a previous although his exclusive interview to r.t. . where where most of the snowden revelations but in a thousand pieces from one court case here from what we saw. from the documents here is thousand different revelations looking closely at like if it's and so on putting all this together. and so those people deeply involved some surprising we. pretend about this but. what is surprising is to see such clear direct proof

in simple documents. in court orders secret court orders by states for massive deception and the various different forms of massive deception from where they're from. high tech companies from fiber optic lines from of arisan another carries united states to be rolled into marriage together now into one system information into one system. is surprising. and you can get to the full interview with julian assange later today on r.t. . security is tight across iran as people choose a successor to president ahmadinejad he's coming to the end of his second and final term at a lizard on a sled much change in the country's political cause mainly because all they can do this a loyal to supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei maria is enter on watching

the ballot. well as iran's supreme leader is among the first protests today the country chooses its next president i hope you have a little to see how tall a company has just cast his ballot and of course no one knows who he voted for you can see many journalists are here clued in foreign reporters many have come to iran to cover the event and most of them are reporting on the show that the supreme leader has cost over the country's out of politics and today's events speculates and that's all for a choice today's vote will unlikely to bring in their radical change to the country all together the rustics candidates in today's race but of course no one can say a pig's point who's likely to wean opinion polls predict iran off but as it sat in there were these leaflets we found distributed on the streets of tehran the future president of iran should believe in god be able to protect the country from its enemies have highly moral standards and have

a good plan to improve the country's economic situation here's our report on where aftermath is as legacy leaves the islamic republic akbar has been in real estate business for years in iran when we ask him to summarize the legacy of president ahmadinejad he talks about the term if you compare the right side increased by a hundred percent since last year we have no hope for the future of the economy's bad guy it's getting worse one of the president's promises after taking office in two thousand and five was to make iran's vast oil revenues felt at the dining table of every single family was he leaves behind is a country hit by the worst financial crisis you know nearly as much as the raw some who say it's not what it is just who's to blame for the downturn a hundred sanctions were tough recently and it's hard to keep afloat for the president you know you've got people insured that iran is able to resist international pressure to the iranian economy has been hit hard by strain of ever tougher sanctions imposed successively by the. the u.n. and the u.s.

over accuse ations the countries trying to develop nuclear weapon something which was never approved as autonomic energy that has been able to stand up to the whole world over iran's nuclear program and the country's better off for it and have a battle the departure in libya will be remembered for is his rhetoric about israel and iran six resident relations reached the point when even war seemed very possible and while ahmadinejad has not exactly been friendly towards israel the way facts have been gentle devout him has done more damage to his reputation than his own words years ago a statement was mistakenly streamlet it to him which was inequity translated as israel must be wiped off the face of the map actual words were that israel must vanish from the arena of time and didn't even belong to one ishant any way other than objective is to make up when the new judge in a village he stands for universal rights where every country would have an equal

say that some powers want nothing but dominance and they focused on blocking the name of our president stick one of this year's presidential candidates doesn't agree say. during the two thousand and nine elections campaign he criticized his advisors and they were off to race that's not the best and most honest way to get the power. the deadly protests that raged across the country after the elections are also thought to have undermined of many jobs image the result many people were frightened of other let me not talk about my job at all. even those who don't totally support the when the judge say there is little he can actually do here according to our constitution the supreme leader has much more powers in this country almost every step the president takes should be supervised and blessed by the ayatollah so despite all the controversies surrounding president ahmadinejad it looks like iran will continue to be a force in the region and therefore will remain the for. on the side of the u.s.

and its allies mahmoud ahmadinejad's eight year presidency provokes mixed feelings a very controversial leader he was equally. in iran has been most. didn't send a boat home to friends around in policy but today his hearing is over but his legacy will cost a shadow over the next president some time. tehran iran. remains you can find a most of us stories a dot com including questionable confession young bad tells police in buffer a he was a hired as says and but only after being tortured into owning up according to human rights activists. and the cause of the plane crash that killed a huge garrett not the first man in space is revealed to the public for the first time log on to r.t. dot com to find out what actually happened.

today violent games flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. showing corporations rule today. activists in london's financial district stage a protest ahead of the upcoming g. eight summit in northern ireland they accuse corporations of creating poverty to make profit artie's party boy has the details. and here austerity campaign isn't environmentalist have gathered here in what they call the penthouse suite of global capitalism otherwise known as canary wharf london's business district home to a number of banks such as j.p. morgan and broccolis now it's an event called day zero us and

a day in the title is a. squarely at g. eight leaders who are set to meet for the start of the g eight summit hosted by britain in northern ireland on monday protesters gathered here come from a number of different organizations but they all say that they're concerned with one thing and that's the concentration of wealth and power that the g eight summit represents so next week at the g eight david cameron is going to be saying that he's saving the world has come out with all these great policies that make things better for you know that's just not true he's making decisions and all those leads in part to making decisions that are really interests of the financial institutions of these large corporations and more in the interest of normal people the banks out so. according to me we've got the banks out of means they're in debt to us you know we're not a debt to them so the simple stuff earlier this week anticapitalist protesters clashed with riot police in central london and around sixty arrests were made one word on the lips of many of the protesters are straight into today's inequalities

while this business district is home to a number of investment banks several of the guarded territory norm one of london's poorest areas where four out of ten children live in poverty so with further government spending cuts on the way protesters and pointing the finger of blame at the banks and the politicians reporting from canary wharf in london i'm probably boyko for r.t. . join other international news in brief now violent clashes have erupted in brazil's largest city as people took to the streets and moscow angry at a public transport price hike police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse the crowds are detaining at these forty demonstrators more than a thousand activists also protested in the country's capital. two people have died after a ferry sank off the philippines of fifty four others and the crew were pulled from the water by rescuers the reports say the ferry could have been embellished by two buses and a truck onboard the coast guard as can be area for people not. on the passenger

list but who would likely on the vessel. wildflower fires in colorado have destroyed nearly three hundred eighty homes and killed eighteen people the victims were apparently trying to escape from a house that was on fire and firefighters are trying hard to control the level of destruction up to the blaze a doubled in size they've been might up to a thousand households were evacuated. from the rating agency reported to the recent growth in the solar industry find out what they're not prime time interest a day in a couple of minutes. you

know when i was in school they would tell us stories about that other goofy economic system in the eastern bloc and about why it was doomed to fail they tell us how terrified communist bureaucrats would work very hard to give the illusion of a fish and see when their bosses were in town a century out of fear they would try to convince the state that everything was just fine they pronounce a fresh coat of paint on some stuff bump up their numbers in the books and get employees to put a smile on for the cameras so they wouldn't lose their jobs you know this our teachers told us was a sign of true doomed economics rolling the clock forward twenty or thirty years the bosses of the current global economic system are in town and many locations around the upcoming g eight summit in northern ireland are doing their best to hide their economic downturn from the media according to our t.v. news the government of northern ireland has spent two million pounds dealing with derelict buildings some of these buildings have simply been knocked out but some have been spruced up like butcher shops with images of meat stuck over the windows to hide their barren interiors or the now for. local office supply store which

contains no office supplies at all but it sure does look nice and i guess that's what counts spending two million pounds to hype economic downturn from the g eight and other eyes whether than spend to get i'm actually you know improving local economy seems like doomed economic practices to me but that's just my opinion. as your language. if you could make it without any federal subsidies still some. good you can say. to the opinions that the great.

choose the stories that imply. truth spirit access to. good afternoon and welcome the prime interests i'm hereon boring in washington d.c. let's get to today's headlines so what. does goldman knight gary gensler is on the way out as chairman of the derivatives industry regulator the commodity futures trading commission this is after spending a three year implementing dodd frank recently suffering a losing battle with fellow commissioners and also after the office of inspector general released a damning report in may on his performance or lack there of the end of the m.f. global debacle a front runner for his replacement as yet i'm not.