syria calls u.s. claims to use chemical weapons fabrications while russia which is also one convinced condemns washington's decision to arm rebels as an undermining of peace efforts. turkish medics threatened with losing their licenses for treating injured protesters in istanbul gezi park as demonstrators defy orders to go home and continue anti-government rallies. a moderate cleric looks set to become iran's next president without a runoff the biggest question now whether hassan rouhani is reformist approach will mean a shift in the country's nuclear ambitions. six pm in moscow i'm good to have you with us here on r t our top story syria's

government is condemning claims by washington that he used chemical weapons as a quote caravan of lies based on fabricated info damascus also accuses the white house of double standards in dealing with terrorism after it announced it would send weapons to rebels the u.s. could also impose a no fly zone over parts of syria or he's guy and he has more. 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 mass 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. 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 to 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 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 so. because they would not be allied with iran and it's not just him who constantly mentions he ran 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 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 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 a proxy like they used to have when they had 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

kind of. russia convinced by the u.s. chemical weapons finding saying it would make no sense for assad to deploy a talk to a toxic arsenal foreign minister sergey lavrov was critical of washington's a decision to arm the rebels as well saying it undermines peace efforts artie's let's say our show ski has more on moscow's response. 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 un commission to investigate and nothing was eventually done but only when the allegations off the syrian government using the chemical weapon of weapons appeared to ashton experts stocks that it was conducted a certain investigation on this matter 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. of 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 lover off 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 soon 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 look moratorium us colleagues failed to assure us that these procedures were here to level off also remind that that recently allegedly its wealth people from the front of 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 very regrettable as well that these reports even despite being unconfirmed did not cause any concerns in the west. will be keeping you fully up today with the chemical weapons allegations involving both sides are serious conflict among other things our website looks at the u.n. commission report from a month ago revealing suspicions that the opposition and the government was behind the use of sarin gas in syria headed our team dot com for that and much more.

volunteer doctors have become the latest targets of turkish authorities tackling anti-government protests that have been raging for more than two weeks that if ministries demanded the names of all medics who treated protesters in gezi park where the trouble was centered they could not lose their licenses despite insisting it's their humanitarian duties to treat the injured or go has more 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 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 care has issued several letters of warning so to speak to the doctors who are working here they have numerous questions to the medical professionals as to how many people where the helping who are those people what kind of injuries have been occurring basically a lot of questions all of which need to be documented and forwarded to the ministry of health if this isn't done so the ministry of health says it will suspend the doctors are medical professionals licenses so this is why the people inside these tents and inside gezi park do not want their faces on camera their representative has agreed to talk to us and told us exactly what is happening in the gezi park. recently we were inspected by the ministry of health 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 more of the discriminate against us they made a big mistake by dispersing the crowds and now they should think twice before making any decisions doctors are not the only ones who have come under fire from

the turkish government in recent weeks just the beginning of this week more than fifty lawyers have been arrested in their connection with the protests rather they were arrested for protesting outside of taksim square not too far away from here expressing their opposition to the fact that the mass beatings and brutal force was used by. stumbled police in dispersing the protesters again on tuesday and just to give you an idea more than eleven hundred people just from the gives the park alone have turned for medical attention in the gezi park after tuesday's clashes with police the lawyers were expressing their discontent with the situation in the country and with the brutal force used by police now 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 is sort of

a joke going around the gezi park because they're trying to figure out which profession will come under fire from prime minister erdogan after this in istanbul r.t. it's a serious situation in turkey further with austin macko a specialist on the middle east who's covered extensively via an arrest there thanks for joining us here on our t.v. so this crackdown that we're starting to see now on professionals who are helping the protesters lawyers doctors is that cracking down on them part of a pattern that you've seen overall in different places or is this unique with what's going on there now but it doesn't sound unique i i want to start giving you or your audience bit of a disclaimer i'm not a turkish expects but on turkey you know never actually deigns to what i know simple approaches moocher still in iran in two thousand and nine and more recently in egypt into gaza live in two thousand and twelve and. it's a very you know just to see doctors and lawyers and journalists targeted as

a way of sort of. the protest movement off from its sort of necessary support systems this is very common do you think things like this are likely to help bring the protests to an end to bring them under control from the point of view of the authorities or is this likely do further fuel the flames. i'm actually i think it's going to have a completely counterproductive effect what i what we saw in egypt what i saw in egypt was again and again a protest movement which i'm not actually as sympathetic with as a lot of other people i don't see this protest movement as necessarily having a clear all positive vision. which i think it needs and seven in the absence of that vision what becomes the rallying call is what becomes the rally point is in opposition to simple brutality and oppression on the on the on the ok on the part of the government if they didn't have a good reason to protest before they do now so right now what we're seeing there according to people who are on the ground lots of disparate groups all saying

they're. discontent with what's going on with the leadership but at the same time they don't all have a clear message you think they have a need a clear unified message in order to move forward and have an effect. i do too and i think there's more of a risk of being destructive here than people often realize from the west what we see here is a it isn't been primarily an almond from settler western face the kind who used to having a berry and a lobster roll in politics and try to having allowed a place and a more powerful voice than that peasants in the countryside and the think the the rise to power of the islamists was upset this now and then as you know this is a really positive element to the protests and the sort of the young kids and guess he gets caught who you know we in the west and elsewhere around the world can identify with that yearning for greater freedoms but if they don't put forward a serious sort of unifying vision and some kind of leadership structure then we're

going to see benefit the. military strongman data set the leaders but turkey is not in the past and you know we see it in egypt what's happened is since that protest movement that we saw for the brotherhood were elected in two thousand and eleven in two thousand and twelve so a big protest movement against the brotherhood that kind of fellow had been for lack of leadership and vision and now you have secular newspapers calling for the military to return to government and for the muslim brotherhood to be fighting back into prison so there's a real danger that if that if the gezi kids don't get their act together sort of state that they what they're going to do is end up mainly benefiting the generals and the old school secular authorities ariens that who are a real threat and have it a great deal of oppression in turkey not very in the nothing just in history but they're not the last often michael thanks very much for your insight there thank you.

in the race to become iran's new president the most moderate candidate cleric hasan rowhani is well ahead of his conservative rivals in the count preliminary results put him in the lead with roughly fifty percent of the vote so far the winner of the poll will succeed mahmoud ahmadinejad who is at the end of two terms will inherit a country with an economy badly hit by western sanctions by tehran's nuclear program the biggest question for the west whether a new leader will bring a different approach to the nuclear issue former u.s. national security council and state department officials husband and wife team flynt and hillary mann leverett share their predictions with my colleague john thomas. there's a constraint in washington not not in terror on that at this point many of the saying 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 sanctions 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 than that next president. going to make any substantially different concessions on the nuclear issue chip it appears washington to ease the sanctions still ahead this hour who owes home world leaders can expect a frosty welcome as anticapitalist protesters in the u.k. come together at head of a g. eight meeting to claim banks and corporations are responsible for the country's debt and should be paying out. last year report on how the man who blew the whistle on american government espionage against its own citizens is getting public support that and more after a short break. preparations for the first woman cause when it was strictly classified. even her own mother knew

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twenty minutes past the hour now a mass rally held in belfast to challenge the policies and priorities a world leaders due to meet at the g eight summit in northern ireland monday more than a thousand people marched against big companies accused of dodging the payment of huge sums of tax anticapitalist start of their protests in the financial capital london but some of the more disrupted by police are poly boyko has been. 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 thought please 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 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 are going to 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 financing to houston's of these large corporations and 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're doing that so that so the simple stuff idea this week anticapitalist protesters clashed with riot police in central london and around sixty arrests were made one i don't. it said many of the protesters are expected to today's inequality while this business district is home to a number of investment banks separate the god and territory norm one of london's poorest areas where four out of ten children live in poverty seen so with the

government spending cuts on the way protests disappointing the finger of blame at the banks and the politicians reporting from canary wharf in london. the upcoming kaiser report delves deeper into the corporate dirty laundry that's angering the protestors here's a preview of what max and stacey discuss later. sold down the river 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 this 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 of the previous government of the previous government it's corruption then you've got private contractors in they destroyed they loaded up with debt and that doesn't even function anymore as an operating utilities 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 strung out front front fraud fraud that's all they do and you're a sucker. the cyber 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 is spying 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 though even protesting is proving a challenge. lieutenant michael don't you know it's a struggle to leave right on your ministry without a permit you want to leave because you love the school that is moving so that is

what we are entitled to that it was your right there with you to devote 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 hamill 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 of her mace information about people's personal lives as well as there simply was information gathered on every detail and what chronic gadget with 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. and in hong kong hundreds took to the streets in support of snowden demonstrators urged their government not to extradite the whistleblower lashing out at the u.s. sweeping surveillance program he exposed they also handed a letter to the u.s. consulate there it's news in washington of allegedly conducting cyber warfare against hong kong violating the rights of the people there and around the world

turning now to some other stories making international headlines beginning with pakistan where at least eleven were killed by a bus bomb at a university for women in the city of quetta another blast was then reported at the hospital where the injured were treated by a fierce gunfight in which of these three security guards were killed in a separate attacks three rocket propelled grenade hit the former residence of pakistan's founder mohammed ali jinnah. more unrest in libya's second city of benghazi where special forces clashed with armed gangs outside a military base in the east of the city six soldiers confirmed dead so far earlier friday a group of men forced their way into a different army compound to steal weapons tension tension between the populace and a military has been on the rise in benghazi since the ousting of colonel gadhafi two years ago. a blast of the second chemical plant in louisiana and as many days has killed at least one person injured eight the accident happened as explosive nitrogen was being moved caleb maupin from the international action center tells us

companies and politicians often accused of turning a blind eye to a disaster when profits are at stake. 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 clothes 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 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. next we speak with the first woman in orbit valentino

a terrorist and her inspirational story 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 u.s.

is going to have millions of tourists arriving in traveling by air and 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. never made it. to the top of the candidate's shortlist but eventually she did. 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 come out nine bullets she was untouched. valentyn a telescope his biography read a little like a fairy tale a soviet cinderella. a goal from a poor family in a remote province rocketed to such heights that only the stars were above. the first woman cosmonauts was the vostok six spacecraft which she first tried on in june one thousand nine hundred sixty three it immediately.