washington over its claims the syrian government used chemical weapons in its civil war some critics say domestic. to revoke the medical licenses of doctors for treating. protesters. issued yet another warning. and the moderate cleric looks likely to succeed with. a high turnout presidential election.

the program here. we're coming to you live from a sunny blue sky. with the global headlines the syrian government has vehemently denied u.s. claims its has resorted to chemical weapons describing american accusations as quote a caravan of lies washington is weighing in on a no fly zone over syria and gearing up for. assad militias there and this offer claimed it had evidence of the use of illegal agents by damascus details now from a teacher can. the white house says it's the session to arm syrian rebels is based on intelligence that the assad government has used chemical weapons to 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 this cia report those two rebels were exposed to nerve agent sarin brian becker and 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 sarah 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 has taken ninety three. thousand lives according to the united nations was fueled by outside forces got their turkey saudi arabia where 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 senator mccain is a very active supporter of of an aggressive u.s. intervention in syria and he's everywhere now on all news channels applauding the

administration's decision to arm the rebels in one of the interviews he suggested that he'd talk all the way to extremists taking over syria because they would not be allied with iran and it's not just him who constantly mentions iran in the context of these discussions how much of this is about in your opinion well john mccain's comments are very interesting but not unusual if you look back the last thirty years the united states has made the my enemy's enemy is my friend the theme of its foreign policy it armed osama bin ladin the mujahideen against the afghan government because it was a socialist government and aligned with the soviet union mccain is a cheerleader for war but what is the real goal yes iran is the target iran ultimately because of its alliance with syria its alliance with hezbollah in lebanon ultimately the u.s. wants to destroy it. weaken hezbollah and finally destroy the islamic republic of iran not because it wants a more democratic iran but because it wants a puppet government or proxy like they used to have when they have the shah. 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 a news reports on the ground suggest quite the opposite. now has a look at why some think it's actually the rebels who have been spraying a legal agents across the bow tie. 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 on 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 was not found them convincing some russian

officials even went as far to say the u.s. is just promoting its version of chemical arms use in syria just like it did with his tactics towards iraq. if you book on the story and put it in we have no reliable confirmation the asset government used chemical weapons on you 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 or bacterial nor chemical weapons in syria 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 yet. in the new book their luggage going to human school and a deep packet for pathway and on a very research fellow at the university of roehampton he believes the u.s.

leadership's army using the war in syria just to divert people's attention from problems that have. it helps obama it's how. president. prime minister coming here in britain all three of us have very serious domestic problems economic problems social unrest etc etc when he is facing serious domestic problems you do all the. threats to national security. and try to unite the population or at least. domestic opposition a lot from moscow it's r.t. activists in the u.k. arguing it's the buying books that are actually in debt. coming up the

president held ahead of the g eight summit in northern ireland saying the crisis has only made the rich even richer and worsen the social. and deadly chemistry in louisiana as twin blasts of chemical plants raise speculation the state's neglecting safety expert analysis is just ahead for you. to approach the a ten minute mark here in moscow we carry on with turkish authorities now demanding the names of all doctors who treated protesters injured in clashes with police as part of a health ministry probe prime minister earlier ones government claims medics acted illegally by giving aid to demonstrators in istanbul's taksim square doctors though allege a crackdown and evolve not to cooperate we're going to go to school reports from istanbul 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 gezi park for almost for two weeks at this point but the problem is now they are under. why from the turkish government that is largely the reason why we're standing here and not inside the medical tent itself 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 unspent you know by the ministry of health this and that what we are doing here is roles that we should be no punishment for those who are hoping there is no such religion or all the can discriminate against the media big mistake by dispersing the crowds and now they should think twice before making any decisions or 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 police in dispersing the protesters again on tuesday and just to give you an idea more than eleven hundred people just from the gezi 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 sound 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's 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 in a ghost go r t. so iranian elections g. eight protests as well just some of the news still to come or not so.

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are sharing your saturday with us here at onstage and you've lost as rock to another chemical plant in louisiana killing at least one person and injuring eight it was a similar explosion at one of the hundreds of facilities in the state also happened that claimed two lives and wounded about one hundred caleb maupin from the workers world party in the international action center and believe safety is being neglected. 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 the working conditions in such factories where that are non-unionized in states where there's 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 and 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 this is r.t. activists in london insist it's time the traditional relationship between the banks and the public change as they argue the institutions are now in debt to them ahead of next week's g. eight summit that's happening in northern ireland the protesters staged a rally against out of financial inequality auntie's pony boy reports.

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 a 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 the 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 for 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 fine i'm saying to the shins of these large corporations in the interest of normal people the banks out so. quoted

to me we've got 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 speaking 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 fully boyko for r.t. as we come to you live from moscow and washington scott gunshy when surveillance web is exposed to have a taste for the oriental coming up here in the program we report on new leaks indicating a massive concentrated u.s. surveillance network aimed against potentially calculus chinese businesses and

civilian. and a young israeli man who was willing to go to jail for his beliefs he's been released on the spending nearly six months behind bars for refusing to serve in the army that he calls an occupying force that is just ahead for you. now though iran has voted for a new president with early results giving a strong lead to the most moderate of candidates that of cleric hassan rohani a polling stations had to close five hours later than showed you will due to the sheer number of voters turning out if after fishel is a election official saying the turnout of seventy five percent now security was high joining the polling to avoid a repeat of street protests in two thousand and nine and the opposition accused the government of vote rigging the election brings to an end of 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 sean thomas spoke to

flynt and hillary mann leverett former national security council and state department officials and they believe neither side in the heated dispute ever event . 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 it 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 is basically become a secular liberal state obama and the united states are now him then on sanctions and even if iran offered up some concessions which is hillary said i don't think it's going to do it's not really clear iran would get much in return

a new round of u.s. sanctions are coming into order on july first how do you see. 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 its 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's someone that would be more to washington's liking the next president is going to make any substantially different concessions on the nuclear issue. appears washington to ease the sanctions. always many more stories to be covered on our website dot com for this hour that includes a stranded pirate. to. illegal downloading the first time in the country's history that

a person has been completely banned from the internet. and across the atlantic. almost four hundred kilometers wide caused blackouts in america startling footage right now. this is from moscow but the standoff between the u.s. and china has taken a new twist all amid revelations of potentially wholesale industrial espionage by washington same system that spies on a millions of americans is alleged to be stealing the communications of countless chinese meanwhile outrage is building outside capitol hill but even protesting the

surveillance is proving to be a challenge. in terms of michael battle in the united states don't believe correctly you are demonstrating without a permit. not only did you suffer throughout this movie that is what we are entitled to move to because you're right there with you devoted to chick groups and that we're 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 selves and 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. amid 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 room for mais information about people's personal lives as well as there simply was information gathered on every detail and what chronic gadget with 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 r.t. . and before we get to the kaiser report for now 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 with some choosing to go to prison instead the town of blank is one of these 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 correspondent paula slim filed this report. there should be some way out not just going to prison david bland 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 little every israeli citizen or 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 to three year draft. the tun blanc 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. he went there and refused to serve him 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 blanks crime refusing to be part of what he calls an occupying army the army does not acknowledge this kind of objection not even as the contentious 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. will be tried again and again in theory the number of times an objective can be tried is endless ask moral 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 same to us this written statement it says exceptions to military draft or gone to 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 feign from following the law 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 is just taking it to its logical end the idea of trying to use blank is a warning to others considering filing in his footsteps but his refusal to put the army in a delicate position by now releasing him they risk stating

a precedent but keeping him under lock and key was also threatening to turn his private protest into a public relations to balk policy on t.v. tell a fifth. time for max and stacy kaiser report in just a second. 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 what their bosses were in town a century out of fear they would try to convince the state that everything was just fine they promise of 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 yeah 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 new. famous 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 spending it actually you know improving the local economy seems like doomed economic practices to me but that's just my opinion.

you know sometimes you see a story and it seems. you think you understand it and then something else some other part of it and realized everything. i'm tom part is a big. welcome to the cuz the report guys are you know in much of the western debt fuel consumption addicted world we were row row row row in our boat gently down the stream merrily merrily merrily but that life was but a dream for in fact the reality.