anytime anywhere. damascus accusing washington of lies over its claims the syrian government used chemical weapons in that civil war while some critics say it's domestic issues in the u.s. that of behind this saber rattling from the white house. turkish authorities threaten to revoke the medical licenses of doctors for treating hurt and injured protesters after prime minister aired a one issues yet another final warning. a moderate cleric looks likely to succeed. as iran counts its votes in a high turnout presidential race. three pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r.t.

our top story syria's government vehemently deny the u.s. claims its army has resorted to chemical weapons describing american accusations as quote a caravan of lies washington is weighing a no fly zone over syria and gearing up for arming anti assad militias there after it claimed it had evidence of the use of illegal agents by damascus more from artie's guy in washington. 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 mascot's 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 has taken ninety three to. lives according to the united nations was fueled by outside forces got their 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 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 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 that 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 the 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 that while the u.s. allies claim they have chemical weapon clues against the assad regime news reports on the ground suggest the opposite parties paul scott has more and why some think it's the rebels who are spring only illegal agents 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 all 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 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 moscow's been critical of u.s. chemical weapons claims saying it's failed to present verified evidence that the assad regime deployed a toxic arsenal foreign minister sergey lavrov stated he felt there'd be no point whatsoever for syria's army to resort to such tactics or from artie's like say. the russian foreign minister revealed that it was very regrettable that when the allegations of rebel syrian rebels using chemical weapons at the town of aleppo

were made public by the syrian government it's time to ask the u.n. commission to investigate and nothing was eventually done but only when the allegations of the syrian government using the chemical weapon of weapons appeared at the national expert stocks that was conduct a certain investigation on this a matter that also revealed that for some time his partners in the west and israel have been saying all along that the syrian government would only use chemical weapons if it's backed against the wall that's why using the chemical weapons by the government right now makes no sense whatsoever from the military point of view . just shows. the syrian regime hasn't been pushed into the corner the regime according to the rebels is advancing on the ground what's the point of the regime using chemical weapons and in such small amounts to set itself up. with the chemical weapons usage by the syrian government the alleged chemical weapons

usage now being. calls to arm the syrian rebels lover of said that he didn't believe that the red line the so-called red line was actually crossed first of all because what the united states believes to be the proof of assad using chemical weapons is not a substantial proof at all mainly because the proof gathering process itself was not made in accordance with international regulations. just. there are certain rules of the organization for the prohibition of chemical weapons which suggest that samples of blood urine and clothes and soils can be classed as evidence only if these samples were collected by the organizations experts and if these experts controlled the samples and rude to the board tories are u.s. colleagues failed to assurance that these procedures were here two years so all this according to law hardly contributes to peace process on syria de petro in our

research fellow at the university of roehampton thinks the us leadership's only using the war in syria to divert attention from problems at home. it helps obama as . president. and prime minister coming here in britain all three of us have c.d.'s domestic problems economic problems social unrest etc etc when he is facing serious domestic problems then it is already moved through is this. threats to national security and. b. and try to unite the population all of these massive. domestic opposition. activists in the u.k. argue it's banks that are actually in debt to them and not the other way around coming up a protest held the head of the summit in northern ireland saying the crisis has

only made the rich richer and worshiped worse and the social gap plus. deadly chemistry in louisiana is too blasted chemical plants raise speculation the state is neglecting safety one expert's opinion still to come. but first turkish authorities calling for the names of all doctors who treated protesters injured in clashes with police as part of a health ministry probe prime minister erdogan as government claims medics acted illegally by giving aid to demonstrators in istanbul's taksim square doctors though say it's a crackdown a vote not valid not to cooperate or to go has 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 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 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 he said that what we are doing

here is wrong that there could be no punishment for those who are helping people there is no such religion or all the can discriminate against us he 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 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 r.t. . iranian elections g eight protests and more still to come stay with us after this short break. wealthy british style. is no time to.

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quarter past the hour now a new blast has rocked another chemical plant in louisiana killing at least one person and injuring eight a similar explosion thursday at one of the hundreds of facilities in the state claimed two lives and wounded about one hundred caleb moppin from the workers world party and international action center think safety is being neglected for the sake 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 work. to organize some to form unions so as a result of that it's much more likely that the working conditions in such factories were 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 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 activists in london and says it's time the traditional relations between banks and the public changes they are new the institutions are in debt to them now at of the next week's g eight summit in northern ireland protesters staged a rally against financial inequity artie's polly boycott has more. and here austerity campaign is and 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 bottling is now it's an event called they owe us and that they 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's saving the world he's come out with all these great policies that make things better but you know we've got to just not sure he's making decisions and all those needs in fact making decisions that are in the interests of the financing teachings of these large corporations and not in the interests of normal people the banks out so. quoted to me we've got the banks out i mean is there a debt to us you know we need that so they say the simple stuff and i do have this week anticapitalist protesters clashed with riot in. since central london and around sixty arrests were made one last night on the net said many of the protests as we speak into today's inequalities this business district is home to a number of investment banks separate the god of territory nor money of london's

poorest areas with four out of ten children have been probably seen since that the government spending cuts on the way protests this in pointing the finger of blame at the banks and the politicians for pushing from canary wharf in london. washington's huge surveillance web exposed to have a taste for asian coming up for a board on new links at least indicating a massive concentrated u.s. surveillance network and potentially against chinese businesses and civilians us young israelis was willing to go to jail for his believes finally released after spending nearly six months behind bars for refusing to serve in an army that he calls an occupying force that still to come. but first iran has voted for a new president with a early results giving a strong lead to the most moderate candidate cleric hassan rowhani polling stations closed five hours later than scheduled due to the sheer number of voters turning out about eighty percent according to election officials security higher at the

polling places to avoid a repeat of street protests that happened in two thousand and nine when the opposition accuse the government of rigging the vote the election brings an end to mahmoud ahmadinejad second and final term his term as president marked by the tightening of u.s. sanctions imposed over the country's nuclear program my colleague sean thomas spoke with flynt and hillary mann leverett former national security council and state department officials who think neither side in the dispute is set to give it. 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. sable to certify that congress that iran is cut off all ties to groups that the us government insists on calling terrorist organizations and it's 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 hilary 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 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 stand out between the u.s.

and china has taken a new twist in the revelations of potentially wholesale industrial espionage by washington the same system that spying on millions of americans alleged to be stealing the communications of countless chinese meanwhile a range building outside capitol hill but even protesting the surveillance is proving a challenge. lieutenant michael battle of the united states tell the police colonel you are demonstrating without a permit you want to leave and you love the fuel that is moving that is what we are entitled to move to because you're right there with you to divide it to chill groups so 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 ourselves 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 protestors here voiced their support for edward snowden the man who admitted to being the source of lincoln

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 an american it was 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. military service compulsory in israel but the occupation of the west bank forcing many young citizens to question whether they should refuse to serve with some choosing to go to prison instead of town blind is one of the conscientious objectors who was released earlier this month after serving almost half a year in jail for refusing to pick up a gun and join the army or he's paulus leader has more. 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 tried by law every israeli citizen woman and man has to serve an idea this is the place where once you receive your point patzer come to register ready to serve out your two to three year draft. 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 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 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 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 same to us this written statement it says exceptions to military draft i'll grant you due to health related issues religious reason. place of residence and more civilians who do not receive exemption from the i.d.f. but will feign 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's 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

i mean a delicate 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 to balco policy on t.v. telephone of next i mean martin and breaking this said stay with us. 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 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. now 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 so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you. are is a big issue. you live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous i'd like i don't. i mean. i know that i'm. really not so. very closely. it's. worse for the food the white house or the. radio guy minutes from

a click. away what we're about to give you never seen anything like this on cold. blood swell come to britain is said i meant all right below so today's the birthday one of the world's most well known revolutionaries in the midst of che guevara all those born to well off family as a young man should travel across latin america where he was exposed to the realities of poverty across the continent struggled with the acknowledgment that the u.s. corporate interests were defined by. two priorities cheap resources and low wages funny how that hasn't changed much in over sixty years well his disgust for us corporate imperialism was only reaffirmed while visiting guatemala enraged by the us back to taper ship of carlos. his urge for revolution was only further fueled this was what brought him to cuba after meeting with.