syria calls us claims he used chemical weapons fabricated russia which is also what convinced condemns washington's decision to arm the rebels as an undermining of peace efforts. are going to medics threatened with losing their licenses for treating injured protesters and instead bills gives the part of the demonstrators defy orders to go home and continue and the government rallies and. a moderate cleric looks set to become iran's next president without a runoff the biggest question now is whether hassan rouhani is reformist approach will mean a shift in the country's nuclear ambition. for pm in moscow i met très oh good to have you with us here on r t our top story

syria's government is condemning claims by washington to use chemical weapons as a quote caravan of lies based on fabricated information damascus also accuses the white house of double standards in dealing with terror after it announced it would send weapons to the rebels the u.s. could impose a no fly zone over parts of syria's well arty's guy has more from 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 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 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 regulus 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. cesar l y's 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 the 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 you ran in your opinion well john mccain's comments are very interesting but 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 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 in 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. washington all or russia also unconvinced by washington's chemical weapons findings saying it would make no sense for assad to deploy a toxic arsenal foreign minister lavrov slammed washington's decision to arm the rebels two saying it undermined peace efforts artie's alexei or show more. 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 to ashton experts thought it was conduct a certain investigation on this a matter that lavrov 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 hotly debated across the atlantic as well as the calls to arm the syrian rebels a 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 prove 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 and he had to level off also reminded that recently allegedly its wealth people from the front syrian rebels were detained in turkey carrying chemical weapons also unconfirmed reports of chemical weapons being produced in iraq for the syrian rebels lavrov found it's very regrettable as well that these reports even despite being unconfirmed did not cause any concerns in the west. we'll keep you fully up today with the chemical weapons allegations involving both sides of syria's conflict among other things our web site looks at the u.n. commission report from a month ago reeling suspicions that the opposition not the government was behind

the use of sarin gas in syria but on r.t. dot com for that and much more. volunteer doctors have become the latest target of turkish authorities tackling anti-government protests that are in a raging for more than two weeks the health ministry has demanded the names of all medics who treated protesters in gezi park where the trouble was centered they could not have their licenses suspended despite insisting it's their humanitarian duty to treat the injured or to go has more from him. medical professionals have been out on taksim square and guess the 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 with the permit from the ministry of health and just recently information has come to surface which says that 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. yes 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's 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. 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 the country and with the brutal force used by police now some of 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. . in the race to become iran's new president the most moderate of candidates cleric hasan rouhani is well ahead of his conservative rivals in the count but when early results put him in the lead with roughly fifty percent of the vote the winner of the poll will succeed mahmoud ahmadinejad who is at the helm for two terms he will inherit a country with an economy badly hit by western sanctions sparked by tehran's nuclear program the biggest question for the west is whether or not the lunar new leader

will bring a different approach to the issue from u.s. national security council and state department officials flynt and hillary mann leverett share their predictions with my colleague sean thomas. 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 at 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 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. it 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. still ahead this hour who owes home any capitalist protesters a lot of things banks and corporations are responsible for the country's debts and they should be paying up. and we were a port on how the man who blew the whistle on the u.s. government espionage against its own citizens is getting a lot of public support that and more still to come stay with us.

the first impulse of arizona was pretty much the same as the first impulse of assad that is to say crafted cuts mr assad to the was it was a big day to act like a dictator mr other one has been elected and he's acting in the wrong way but but but don't come with this comparison with syria if it doesn't fly. away builds on the bones of its make its the wind through one of the wildest and most beautiful regions of russia a place that's home to less than a million people and the keepers of the great frosts. join me james brown as i travel to the coldest inhabited place in the world. and meet some of the toughest

people i'm told this time is on the planets. just make sure that you keep your eyes on the road work for. the. race to the poll of polls only alone so you. thanks for staying with us fifteen minutes past the hour now a mass rally gathering in belfast to challenge the policies and priorities a world leaders are due to gather at the g. eight summit there on monday this is a live video you're looking at from the scene in northern ireland there are thousands expected to join the march against big corporations accused of dodging the payment of huge sums of taxes and capital a start of their protests in the financial companies london parties polly boycott was there. 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 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 for you know that it's just not true he's making decisions and all those leads in fact making decisions that are in the interests of the fine i'm seem to haitians of these large corporations and the interests of normal people the banks out so. quoted to me if we buy the banks out i mean is there

a debt to us you know we're doing that so that the simple stuff earlier this week anti capitalist protesters clashed with riot police in central london and around sixty arrests were made one was on the lips of many of the protesters are speaking to today's inequality while this business district is home to a number of investment banks several of the god a territory norm one of london's poor. stary is with four out of ten children live in poverty so with that the government spending cuts on the way protests isn't pointing the finger of blame at the banks and the politicians for pushing from canary wharf in london. for. the upcoming kaiser report delves into the corporate dirty laundry that is angering so-called anticapitalist here's a sneak preview of max and stacy discuss later. sold down the river how thames water diverts its tax liability via the caribbean despite five hundred forty nine million pounds profit and six point seven percent price hike. yeah the stories

got it all here you have a basic utility that was built for built by the taxpayer built by the people in britain through their taxes over the years as part of the common wealth part of the public domain essentially that gets privatized through corruption in government what this government of the previous government of the previous government it's corruption then you've got private contractors and they destroy it they loaded up with debt and that doesn't even function anymore as an operating until the so people are swimming in their own fecal matter paying huge taxes and watching the price of water go up for the thames which is as you see right behind me flowing river through the city of london for thousands of years it doesn't require privatization and financial rape but nevertheless that's what britain gets stronger from front fraud fraud that's all they do and you're.

beside her a standoff between the u.s. and china has taken a new twist amid revelations of potentially wholesale industrial espionage by washington the same system that spies on millions of americans alleged to be stealing the communications of countless chinese the idea of being spied on has led to displays of anger outside capitol hill even though it protesting is proving a challenge. lieutenant michael but don't you know it's a struggle to leave her alone you are demonstrating without a permit. not only did you love the school it was moving so that is what we are entitled to move to was your right there with you to debate it to chip 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 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 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 consume information information about people's personal lives as well as there simply was information gathered on every detail and what chronic gadget has been american 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. remember always more on our website including a stranded pirate a french woman sentenced to time offline for illegal downloading the first ever time in the country's history a person's been completely banned from the internet. and across the atlantic about a half a million. home is left in the dark out for a storm for almost four hundred kilometers wide causes massive blackouts in the us footage on our website. i think i'd like. a second blast at a chemical plant in louisiana in as many days as killed at least one injured eight yeah accident happened as explosive nitrogen was being moved caleb moppin from the

international action center told us companies and politicians are often accused of turning a blind eye to a disaster when profits are at risk 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 contract and so there's hostile anti-union legislation that makes it very difficult for workers to organize in the 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's a culture of anti-union politics it's much more likely that they would they would have these kind of accident really you know industries 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. turning now to some other stories making international headlines beginning

with pakistan where at least eleven have been killed by a bus bomb at a university for women in the city of quetta no one has claimed responsibility in a separate attack a policeman was killed when rockets were fired by suspected separatists at a historic summer retreat used by pakistan's founder mohammed ali jinnah. more unrest in libya's arrest of city of benghazi special forces of clashed with armed gangs outside a military base in the east of the city six soldiers so far confirmed dead earlier friday a group of men forced their way into a different army compound to steal weapons tension between the population and militaries but on the rise in benghazi since the ousting of colonel gadhafi two years ago. still to come over to max and stacey for the latest edition of the kaiser report and stay with us.

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 come 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 in 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 the planes flying over the united states but that's just my opinion. a highway built on the bones of its maker it's the wind through one of the wildest and most beautiful regions of russia a place that's home to less than a million people and the keepers of the great frosts. join me james brown as i travel to the coldest inhabited place in the world. and meet some of the toughest

people and hardest time a man on the planet. just make sure that you keep your eyes on the road. race to the poll of polls only on r.t. . welcome to the ca's a report as are you know in much of the western debt fuel consumption addicted world with 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 is that we're up creek without

a paddle stacey. max keiser literally if you listen to this first headline sold down the river how thames water diverts its tax liability via the caribbean despite five hundred forty nine million pounds profit and six point seven percent price hike u.k.'s largest water company received five million pound treasury rebate as well so thames water put up customer bills by six point seven percent they paid their chief executive two hundred seventy four thousand pounds bonus and made profits of five hundred forty nine million pounds on a turnover of one point eight billion pounds yet customer satisfaction had dipped and hundreds of people's homes were flooded with sewage. yeah whoa the story's got it all here you have a basic utility that was built for built by the taxpayer built by the people in britain through their taxes over the years as part of the common wealth part of the

public domain essentially that gets privatized through corruption in government what this government or the previous government or the previous government it's corruption then you've got private contractors then they destroy it they load up with debt and it doesn't even function anymore as an operating until the so people are swimming in their own fecal matter paying huge taxes and watching the price of water go up for the thames which is as you see right behind me a flowing river through the city of london for thousands of years it doesn't require privatization and financial rape but nevertheless that's what britain gets well a few things here first of all ok they paid zero tax zero because of the way that corporations are allowed to put their income through the caribbean no u.k. citizen could do that they would in fact be thrown in prison if they attempted to do so so these corporations can do it and they did loaded up with debt there was a lot of debt they said they intercompany loans they call it so they were able to

write off the interest they paid on those loans to themselves but in terms of what you were saying about privatizing and in a corrupt way in fact. everybody in the united kingdom was involved in it they were complicit in the corruption because as the headline in the mirror talks about thames water pays no corporation tax despite making five hundred forty nine million pounds profit so the water industry was privatized in the late eighties by margaret thatcher how did she do it well just like she privatized british telecom and these others she gave the people shares so all the water companies were immediately floated now only three of those companies are still listed all the rest were bought out by private equity in the case of thames water so by mcquarrie their strategy and guys who own a lot of the toll booths by the way the private roads inside america this is basically sowing the cash and buying the mill technique that should it.