damascus accuses washington of lies over its claims the syrian government used chemical weapons in its civil war this while some critics say it's domestic failures in america which are behind the war mongering on capitol hill. so if he's threatening to revoke the medical licenses of doctors for treating hurt and injured protesters after the prime minister issued yet another final warning. and a moderate cleric looks likely to succeed him with a majority to run the county's vote in a high turnout presidential election. thank

you for sharing your saturday with us here on. live in moscow with your worldwide headlines. the syrian government has vehemently denied u.s. claims its army has resorted to chemical weapons describing american accusations as quote a caravan of lies and washington is weighing in on a no fly zone over syria and gearing up for. militias there this offer it claimed it had evidence of the use of illegal agents by damascus. and has more from america . 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 the allegations washington 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 day. and

according to the cia report those two rebel. agencies are and 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 a definitive conclusions we'll know 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 there turkey saudi arabia who are they they're 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. 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 at the last thirty years the united states has made the my enemy's enemy is my friend the theme of its foreign policy and arms osama bin laden 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 out. and while the u.s. and its allies claim they have chemical clues against president assad a new job reports on the ground suggest quite the opposite also useful scott has more on why some think it's actually the rebels who've been using a legal age and so on the battle. 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 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 hasn't found them convincing some russian

officials even went as far as to say the u.s. is promoting its version of chemical arms use in syria just like it did towards iraq. if you understood 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 rid of them as we all know this became the basis for aggression against iraq and for iraq's occupation but no weapons were found there neither clear or bacterial nor chemical weapons civic a so how can we trust these empty phrases it was after iraq it's completely impossible but this is a part of the us political line aimed at toppling the asset government of four years ago and the new book their luggage the ninety three an honorary research fellow at the university of hamilton and believes the u.s.

leadership sunny losing the war in syria to divert people's attention from problems at home. it helps obama as it helps residents. in france and prime minister cameron here in britain all three of us have very serious domestic problems economic problems social unrest etc etc and when he is facing serious domestic problems then it is already moved through there is this. all threats to national security and. to be in abroad and try to do unite the population or at least pacify. domestic opposition. well for mosco it's odd to be an activist in the u.k. they argue it's the buying. to them and not vice versa coming up here on the program of protests 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. and deadly chemistry in the weeds yana was twenty blasted chemical plant stories speculation the state is neglecting safety expert analysis just around the bend for you. but from out. of the bonding of the names of old doctors who treated protesters injured in clashes with police as part of a health ministry probe prime minister are the ones government claims that medics acted illegally by giving aid to demonstrators and istanbul's taksim square doctors the crackdown and a vow not to cooperate. 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 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 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 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 or 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 istanbul 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 say 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 going to go sco r.t. . or it's over the voters have been going to the polls in iran and we also have reports of protests ahead of the g eight summit that's just some of the news to come in just a moment here not. preparations

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enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television just doesn't matter now with your mobile device you can watch on t.v. anytime anywhere. just one in twelve fifteen pm here in the russian capital it's. a new blog 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 that state claimed to lives and wounded around one hundred caleb maupin from the workers world party and the international action center he believes safety is simply being neglected for that of 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 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 that the working conditions and 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. i could list in london insisted time the traditional relations between the banks on the public change as they argue the institutions are in debt to them know ahead of next week's g. eight summit in northern ireland protesters staged a rally against that of financial inequality. boyko reports.

and here are stars who 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's saving the world 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 fact making decisions that even the interests of the financial institutions of these large corporations and the interests of normal people the banks so. quoted to

me if we go the banks out i mean is there a debt to us you know we're doing that today so the 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 have been focusing so much further government spending cuts on the way protests disappointing the finger of blame at the banks and the politicians reporting from canary wharf in london i'm poorly boy . as we come. live from moscow washington's gog and she wouldn't surveillance where was it was supposed to have a taste of the oriental coming up here on the program we report on you leaks indicating a massive and concentrated u.s. surveillance network aimed against potentially countless chinese businesses and civilians. also the young israeli man who was willing to go to jail for his beliefs

has finally been released at this office spending nearly six months behind bars for refusing to serve in that he calls an occupying force that's just ahead for you. now though to tehran we go where iran has been voting for a new president with early results giving a strong lead to the most moderate of kind that it's not a cleric cassanova on the polling stations had to close five hours later than usual due to the sheer number of voters turning out election officials saying it was a seventy five percent and now security was high during the polling to avoid a repeat of street protests like it happened in two thousand and nine when 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. there's a constraint in washington not not in terror on that at this point many of the same sions 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 saying. and so 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 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. there's always a much more in our website. of the country's history of.

four hundred kilometers wide. pictures of right now. a standoff between the u.s. and china now taking a new twist so limited revelations of potentially wholesale industrial espionage by washington the same system that spies on millions of americans is alleged to be stealing the communications of countless chinese. building outside of capitol hill protesting the surveillance is proving quite a challenge. then it might go back on the united states for the police certainly

you are demonstrating without a permit. to do stuff that you were just learning that is what we are entitled to move to was you right there with you devoted to two 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 themselves a 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 protesters 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 their symphony information gathered on every detail of the electronic gadgets that american 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. to tel aviv no military service is compulsory in israel but the occupation of the west bank is forcing some young citizens to question whether they should refuse to serve some choosing to go to prison instead and the time blank is one of these objectors he was released earlier this month after serving whuffie year or so in

jail though for refusing to pick up a gun and join the army. takes up the story. 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 rearrested and triage 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 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 and then 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 every croup comes to the army and says i refuse to serve they will be tried and then when they go out of prison if based on recruiting 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 i'll grant you due to health related issues will it just read. place of residence and more civilians who do not receive exemption from the i.d.f. but profane from funding 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 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 as a warning to others considering filing in his footsteps but his refusal to put the army in italy could position by now releasing him they risk saving a president but keeping him under lock and key was also threatening to turn his private protest into a public relations tobacco policy on t.v.

tell if if. not for a very short break here on ars he would meet the first woman in orbit a valentine instead of go for inspirational story in just a moment here ones. six san diego residents were thrown off of an airplane not for what they said but how they said it because they said it in another language russian in fact a paranoid and cowardly steward on the plane told them that they had to clear out just for speaking another language to be here yes of some group of people were to commit a terrorist act then speaking in a foreign language would be a good tactic i can't deny that and for those who called to america better get on

the ball and learn to speak english adequately but there is a problem about fifty million tourists visit america every year according to the u.s. department of commerce and trust me not all of them are canadians if the usa is going to have millions of tourists arriving and traveling by air then don't be surprised when they speak their own languages if you're going to throw foreigners off of airplanes just for speaking their native languages then you're going to have to basically throw people off of half of play the. flying over the united states but that's just my opinion. thanks.

she might never have made it she wasn't at the top of the candidate's shortlist but eventually she did blast off shouting triumphantly. as the flight began she was unable to switch to manual control but after three days the world greeted the first woman cosmonaut. six years later as a motorcade passed through the kremlin gates a man opened fire and nine bullets she was untouched. valentyn a telescope his biography read a little like a fairy tale a soviet cinderella. a girl from a poor family in a remote province rocketed to such heights that only the stars.