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here in moscow this is. a worldwide headlines thank you for joining us today. the syrian government has vehemently denied u.s. claims it has resorted to chemical weapons describing american accusations as quote . washington is weighing in on a no fly zone over syria and gearing up for. militias that claim to have evidence of a use of illegal agents by damascus details now from our correspondent. the white house says it's the session to arm syrian rebels is based on intelligence that the assad government has used chemical weapons the mask denies the allegations washington cites its own intelligence community as well as french and british intelligence a u.s. official who declined to be identified told the media here that according to

a cia report the u.s. has acquired blood urine and hair samples from two syrian rebels one dead and one wounded and according to the cia report those two rebels were exposed to nerve agent sarin brian becker he is here with me today to talk about thank you what the administration tries to present as definitive evidence that the assad government has used chemical weapons we don't know much about the evidence that they have but this report about two rebels do you think that could be enough for the cia to come up with definitive conclusions well no the evidence is dubious it's very scant in fact but it's really not about the evidence it's not even about weapons of mass destruction it's not about sara nerve gas there's been an acknowledgement in washington that if you want to take this country to war either by bombing another country or intervening or occupying raise the specter of weapons of mass

destruction and that's the ticket in order to get massive media coverage justifying an escalation and that's what's going on there's been a decision taken by the white house to escalate this is just a red herring not a red line the phrase that we often hear in washington these days is we need to tip the balance seen the other direction meaning in the direction of the rebels but behind that technical sounding phrase tipping the balance is a lot of killing that would have to be done to achieve that goal right to what lengths do you think the u.s. is ready to go to achieve a desired outcome in syria tipping the balance is just a euphemism and in fact bizarre and ridiculous the fact of the matter is this civil war which is taking ninety three thousand. according to the united nations was fueled by outside forces turkey saudi arabia who are they are the proxies or allies of the united states and britain and france nato powers they've been funneling arms into syria creating the conditions for civil war in fact promoting civil war i

would say they have a lot of blood on their hands this announcement about arming the rebels comes ahead of the conference that the u.s. and russia are trying to organize a conference that is supposed to bring all sides together to negotiate a political transition a transitional government how would this affect the conference how can the u.s. really say that they're for peace and at the same time escalate the arms shipments into syria to promote civil war that shows that they're really not serious about the peace. the fear is that the message that the rebels will receive with the weapons is not go sit down and talk the message will be go fight and kill which kind of kills the chances of a political solution doesn't it brian becker anti-war activist in washington i'm going to check. and while the u.s. and its allies claim they have chemical clues against president assad news reports on the ground suggest something quite the opposite he's pulled scott has more on why something could start to read the rebels who have been spraying illegal

agencies on the battlefield. so what exactly do we know about the use of chemical weapons in syria while the country is believed to have one of the largest stockpiles in the world with some estimates putting it at one thousand tons in september two thousand and twelve the country's then foreign ministry spokesman said government forces would never use the weapons against the syrian people but the recent un report confirming chemical weapons have been used raises more questions than answers as to who's the guilty party and more finger pointing and allegations continue there's increasing evidence that the rebels do have access to a chemical arsenal only last month turkish media reported twelve members of syria's al-qaeda linked al nusra front had been arrested in turkey with unknown chemicals found during the raids meanwhile the free syrian army leader recently confirmed that a number of army generals defecting to the opposition had dropped because they were being asked on to stay and infiltrate the government forces to help secure the

chemical weapons stockpile all of this of course comes hot on the heels of government advances the northern town of qusayr recently once again coming under government control that poses the question why president assad would choose now to antagonize the u.s. by crossing that so-called red line when conventional warfare appears to be swinging the war once again in his favor. and moscow which has had a chance to study washington's findings hasn't found them a convincing some russian officials even went as far to say the way the u.s. promotes promoting its version of chemical arms use in syria is a throwback to his tactics towards iraq. but there was 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 nor bacterial 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 you put. on a very research fellow at the university of our hamilton believes that the u.s. leadership so mean using the war in syria to divert people's attention from painful problems at home. it helps obama and it helps president. in france and prime minister cameron here in britain all three of us have very serious domestic problems economic problems social unrest et cetera et cetera and when he is facing serious domestic problems then it is

already moved through is this. all threats to national security and. to being abroad and try to do unite the population or at least pacify. domestic opposition. now activists in the u.k. argue it's the banks that are actually in debt to them and. coming up we're not seeing a protest held ahead of the g eight summit in northern ireland saying the crisis has only made the rich even richer and worse and the social gap. and. chemistry in louisiana twin blasts of chemical plants raise speculation the state's neglecting safety i want to expert opinion is right ahead. but he took issue with already has a demanding the names of all doctors who treated protesters injured in clashes with

police as part of a health ministry probe a prime minister out of the ones government claims medics acted illegally by giving aid to demonstrators and istanbul's taksim square or doctors they will edge a crackdown basically have to cooperate. in the center of istanbul with more. medical professionals have been out on taksim square and gezi park since day one helping out those who have been injured in clashes with police and just those who have needed medical attention while camping out here in the park for almost two weeks at this point but the problem is now they are under fire from the turkish government and that is largely the reason why we're standing here and not inside the medical tent and self because the people who are working there all of the medical professionals all of them working in other hospitals and clinics all over istanbul and practically all over turkey at this point they are doing so they're working here rather illegally they're doing so without the permit from the ministry of health and just recently information has come to the surface which says the

minister of health care has issued several letters of warning so to speak to the doctors who are working here they have numerous questions to the medical professionals as to how many people where the helping who are those people what kind of injuries have been occurring basically a lot of questions all of which need to be documented and forwarded to the ministry of health if this isn't done so the ministry of health says it will suspend the doctors are medical professionals licenses so this is why the people inside these tents and inside gezi park do not want their faces on camera their representative has agreed to talk to us and told us exactly what is happening in the gezi park. recently we were inspected by the ministry of health they said that what we are doing here is wrong but there could be no punishment for those who are helping people there is no such religion or all the can discriminate against us they made a big mistake by dispersing the crowds and now they should think twice before making any decisions doctors are not the only ones who have come under fire from the turkish government in recent weeks just the beginning of this week more than

fifty lawyers have been arrested in their connection with the protests rather they were arrested for protesting outside of taksim square not too far away from here expressing their opposition to the fact that the mass beatings and brutal force was used by. stumbled police in dispersing the protesters again on tuesday and just to give you an idea more than eleven hundred people just from the gives the park alone have turned for medical attention in the gezi park after tuesday's clashes with police the lawyers were expressing their discontent with the situation in the country and with the brutal force used by police now it's on the people that we have spoken to are saying that the turkish government has already cracked down on journalists essentially stifling freedom of speech and of media in the country they have also put their thumb down on the lawyers and now it looks like they're after a medical professionals so there is sort of a joke going around the gezi park because they're trying to figure out which

profession will come under fire from prime minister erdogan after this in istanbul r.t. . we are coming to you live from moscow as washington's goddamn sure and surveillance web was exposed to have a taste for the oriental coming up here on its feet we report you delete it indicating a massive and concentrated u.s. surveillance network aimed against a potentially hundreds of millions of chinese businesses and people severely. young israeli man who was willing to go to jail for his beliefs has finally been released after spending nearly six months behind bars for refusing to serve in an army that he calls an couponing force that is just ahead for you here on the

program or not. but for now a new blas has rocked another chemical plant in louisiana killing at least one person and injuring eight a similar explosion on thursday at one of the hundreds of facilities in the state claimed two lives and wounded around one hundred caleb maupin from the workers world party and the international action center believes that safety is just being neglected for profits. louisiana is what's called a right to work state in the united states right to work being you know euphemism for being that workers are not allowed to form a closed shop contracts and so there's a hostile anti-union legislation that makes it very difficult for workers to organize and to form unions so as a result of that it's much more likely that working conditions in such factories with it are non-unionized in states where there is a culture of anti union politics it's much more likely that they would they would

have these kinds of accidents that really you know industry is organized to make profits for a small group of people and the needs of the workers are last in the lives of the workers in their safety is last in the financial calculation the infrastructure of the united states is largely it's largely lacking and it's falling apart in many places. activists in london insist it's time the traditional relations between the banks and the public change as they argue the institutions are in debt to them now ahead of next week's g. eight summit in northern ireland protesters staged a rally against financial inequality details now to want to correspondent point. and here are stars you campaign as an 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 barclays now it's an event called they owe us and the day in the title is aimed 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 said he's come out with all these great policies that make things better you know that's just not true he's making decisions and all those leads in part to making decisions that are in the interests of the financial institutions of these large corporations and the interests of normal people the banks out so. quoted to me if we go to max out i mean is there a debt to us you know we're going to say this simple stuff earlier this week anti capitalist 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 expected to 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 poly boy. and always many more stories on our website a click away twenty four seven for example this hour a stranded pirate a frenchman gets sentenced to a time off line for illegal downloading it's the first time in the country's history of person has been completely banned from the internet. and across the atlantic about half a million homes are forced to share the same fate at softer stormfront almost four hundred kilometers wide causes mass blackouts across america a footage of. always

good to have you with us or a nazi it's a day iran has voted for a new president early results giving the most moderate of candidates clerics a very strong lead polling stations are close to five hours later than judge will due to the shared number of voters turning out about seventy five percent that's according to election officials as security was high during the polling to avoid a repeat of street protests in two thousand and nine when the opposition accused the government to vote rigging the election brings to an end mahmoud ahmadinejad's second and final. his time as president was marked by the tightening of u.s. sanctions imposed over iran's nuclear program my colleague spoke to flynt and

hillary mann leverett former national security council and state department officials they believe that neither side in the heated dispute will ever give it. there is a constraint in washington not not in terror on that at this point many of the saying have been written into u.s. law and president obama even if iran did everything the u.s. wants to do on the nuclear issue he's not able to lift many of the sanctions now and last he also was able to certify that congress that iran is cut off all ties to groups that the u.s. government insists on calling. terrorist organizations and it's basically become a secular liberal state obama and the united states are now him in on sanctions and so even if iran offered up some concessions which is hilary said i don't think it's going to do it's not really clear ron would get much in return a new round of u.s. sanctions are coming into order on july first how do you see the next leader

handling this long standing issue each of the candidates that have been put before the iranian public each of them has expressed concern about the sanctions each of them has expressed real concern about the economy and as such has come up with various plans to address the economic points on on iran's agenda whoever is the next president is going to put the economy very close to the top of their list and to addressing the sanctions but it would be a mistake to believe that the next president even if it is someone that would be more to washington's liking that next president is going to make any substantially different concessions on the nuclear issue chip it appears washington to ease the sanctions. the cyber standoff between the u.s. and china has now taken a new twist i mean revelations of potentially wholesale industrial espionage by washington by the same system that spies on hundreds of millions of americans is alleged to be stealing the communications of tens of millions of chinese you know

outrage is building outside of capital hill but even protesting the surveillance is proving to be a challenge. heard from a number of speakers from civil rights an activist group there were a couple dozen protesters here but it didn't go on for very long until capitol police arrived and broke up the demonstration lieutenant michael bennett with the united states don't believe certainly you are demonstrating without a permit if you want to leave and you love the school that is moving that is what we are entitled to move to was he right there what do you think about it to groups that were not more than twenty people in either group because apparently more than twenty people in the country are angry you can't have a demonstration without a permit so we're going to hamil over into the park maybe we'll just have our cells are moving press conference we're supposed to have the ability to congregate to

address grievances to our government this is the one of the biggest scandals ever and we're not allowed to do that what does that say protestors here voiced their support for edward snowden the man who admitted to being the source of leaking classified documents to the guardian he exposed widespread government surveillance being conducted by the n.s.a. i mean these revelations protesters here voiced their concern about unchecked government powers i think these discussions about snowden are really a distraction what we need to be focusing on isn't whether or not what he did was lawful it's whether or not what the agency did was lawful what we do or don't do as a society about this massive accumulation of power through the control and. information about people's personal lives as well as there simply was information gathered on every digital what chronic gadget has been america to us while protesters here celebrate snowden's actions calling him a whistleblower some calling him a hero government officials have condemned his actions including some members of

congress snowden is believed to be in hong kong right now here at the capital is wall. just a moment of prime interest here and i would say but for the meantime military service is compulsory in israel but the occupation of the west bank is forcing many young citizens to question whether they should refuse to serve some choosing to go to prison instead nathan blank is one of those conscientious objectors he was released earlier this month after serving almost half a year in jail for refusing to pick up a gun and join the army the story to odd seeds paula sleep. there should be some way out not like this just going to prison david plan son spent a hundred and seventy eight days behind bars he broke his radio record for the number of times he was really wasted and tried by law every israeli citizen woman and man has to serve in the i.d.f. this is the place where once you receive your point patzer come to register ready

to serve out your two two three year draft. ton blank came here ten times but only to tell him he's not willing to join. were supposed to be inducted into the army in november and since that and he went there and refused to serve and he was sentenced to ten days i think at the time and since then it's time he is released from prison who. goes back and again refuses to serve blank's crime refusing to be part of what he calls an occupying army the army does not acknowledge this kind of objection not even as a conscientious one and so if. recruit comes to the army and says i refuse to serve they will be tried and then when they go out of prison if this keep on refusing they will be tried again and again in theory the number of times an objective can be tried is endless ask morial rothmann after spending

a little less than a month in prison for fusing to serve he spoke to an army psychologist and was declared mentally unfit for service as a way to prevent further time i felt like my statement had been made and i had said what i needed to say and wanted to move on whereas not i think really really wants to continue going through this until at some point the military recognizes his right to refuse and i have so much respect for him the idea of trying to be interviewed by our t. but sent us this written statement it says exceptions to military draft are granted due to health related issues religious we. place of residence and more civilians who do not receive exemption from the i.d.f. but will fade from funding the will face the consequences of their actions this holds true in the case of nathan blank as well as a matter of conscience everyone has to make this isn't like this for himself. so i can't judge what he feels i think the general question of the occupation is is

a serious concern for many people in this country and he's just taking it to its logical end the idea of trying to use blank as a warning to others considering following in his footsteps but his refusal to put the army in a delicate position by now releasing him they risk setting a precedent but keeping him under lock and key was also threatening to turn his private protest into a public relations debacle policy r.t. television. just a moment here on prime interest is right around the corner the focus of all that being so howard money that's coming your way in just a moment. do

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and good afternoon to welcome the prime interest coming to you live from washington d.c. i'm harry and boy let's get to today's top story. now prices are rising according to the latest consumer price inflation statistic released this morning both the headline and core are up two percent year over year and monthly price inflation was up zero point seven percent after no change in january no need to worry because the fed defines these prices as stable and speaking of the fad of burning after john hilson around came to the markets rescued yesterday causing a late day rally on wall street journal correspondent said that we've taken the

fed's recent tapering comment to largely it's all just theater you know the fed does one thing in the markets go down in the u.s. james does another in the market go up anyway the latest episode of dancing with the fad of the features the bernanke and you won't want to miss the amusing episode next wednesday when the f o m c attempts to correct current market expectations. finally do you remember the independent foreclosure review which wrote the phone reserve and the o.c.c. signed off on well the ten thousand displaced homeowners who got pennies on the dollar for their trouble still do senator elizabeth warren made some inquiries and mid in february to the federal reserve and it only responded recently the board of the federal reserve decided it wasn't necessary to vote on the settlement conditions instead of delegated authority to its staff and a reminder the report.