video for your media project free. syria calls us claims they use chemical weapons fabrications while russia which is also unconvinced 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 is gezi park of the demonstrators defy orders to go home and keep up their anti-government rallies. a moderate america looks set to become iran's next president without a write off the biggest question now whether hassan rouhani reformist approach will mean a shift in the country's nuclear ambitions. seven pm in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on r t our top story

syria's government is condemning claims by washington that it used chemical weapons as quote a caravan of lies based on fabricated information damascus also accused the white house of double standards in dealing with terror after an announced it would send weapons to rebels the u.s. could also impose a no fly zone over parts of syria artie's guy 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 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 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 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 gotthard 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 he ran 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 a 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. russia also i'm convinced by the u.s. chemical weapons finding say would make no sense for the assad regime to deploy a toxic arsenal foreign minister sergey lavrov slammed washington's decision to arm rebels as well saying it undermines peace efforts or. 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 conduct 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 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 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 the board tourist u.s. colleagues failed to assure us that these procedures were here to level off also reminded 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 found it's very regrettable as well that these reports even despite being unconfirmed did not cause any concerns in the west argy will be keeping you fully updated with the chemical weapons allegations involving both sides of syria's conflict among other things our website looking at the u.n. commission report from a month ago revealing suspicions that the opposition was behind the use of sarin gas in syria r t r t dot com has with that and much more a click away. volunteer doctors have become the latest target of turkish

authorities tackling anti-government protests that have been 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 now have their licenses suspended despite insisting it's their humanitarian duty to treat the injured parties are going to go to show 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 gezi park for almost booked for 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 how they said that what we're doing here is wrong that there could be no punishment for those who are hoping there is no such religion or all the can discriminate against the media big mistake by dispersing the crowds and now they should think twice before making any decisions doctors are not the only. as you have come under fire from the turkish government

in recent weeks just the beginning of this week more than fifty lawyers have been arrested in their connection with the protests rather they were arrested for protesting outside of taksim square not too far away from here expressing their opposition to the fact that the mass beatings and brutal force was used by police in dispersing the protesters again on tuesday and just to give you an idea more than eleven hundred people just from the 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 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 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. austin markel a specialist on the middle east who's covered under arrest in the region says protestors have little chance of getting their message across if they're on unified . what we see here is it isn't been primarily the norm and from secular western face it's the kind who used to having a bury in the lodge to role in politics and trying to having a louder voice and a more powerful voice than that peasants in the countryside and the the the the rise to power of the islamists was upset it's now did you know this is a really positive element to the protests in and the sort of the young kids in just a good pot who you know we in the west and elsewhere around the world can identify with that yearning to be greater freedoms but there's a real danger that if the if the gives you kids don't get their act together so to

speak that they what they're going to do is end mainly benefiting the the generals and the old school sick you look for a terrence. as a counter to ongoing anti-government demonstrations tens of thousands of prime minister erdogan supporters are now rallying near the turkish capital in our car and this is a live video from saying can a stronghold of the ruling justice and development party where recep tayyip erdogan is addressing his backers you can see american morning into the microphone you can follow the live stream of the rally on our website that's at our t.v. dot com. in the race to become the new president the most moderate candidate cleric hassan rouhani is well ahead of his conservative rivals and account. put him in the lead

with roughly fifty percent of the ballot the winner of the poll will succeed mahmoud ahmadinejad who is at the end of two terms hill inherit a country with an economy badly hit by western sanctions sparked by tehran's nuclear program the biggest question now is whether or not the new leader will bring a different approach to the issue former 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 saying sions have been written into u.s. law all and president obama even if iran did everything the us wants it to do on the nuclear issue he's not able to lift many of the sanctions now and he also is 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 that next president is going to make any substantially different concessions on the nuclear issue chip it appears washington to ease the sanctions. still to come this hour who owes whom world leaders can expect

a frosty welcome as anticapitalist protesters in the u.k. come together ahead of a g. eight meeting to claim banks and corporations are responsible for the country's debt and should be paying up. the man who blew the whistle on the u.s. government espionage against its own citizens is getting public support and more still to come. away builds 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 frost's. 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 clinic's. just make

sure that you keep your eyes on the road. race to the poll of polls only on known to you. being held in belfast to challenge the policies and priorities of world leaders due to meet at the g eight summit in northern ireland on monday war than a thousand people marched against big corporations accused of dodging the payment of huge tax the protesters started their demonstrations in the financial capital

london but some of the more disrupted by police are he's probably boyko has been. and here austerity campaign isn't 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 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 said he's come out with all these great policies that make things better but you know that's just not true he's making decisions on 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 to max out i mean is there a debt to us you know debt so that so 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 inequalities 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 so with further 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. you know coming kaiser report takes a look at the corporate laundry that so i enter in the protestors here's a sneak preview of what max and stacey discuss next hour sold down the river have thames water diverts 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 or the previous government or the previous government it's corruption then you've got private contractors and 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 drawn from front fraud fraud that's all they do and you're

a sucker. and cyber standoff between the u.s. and china is taking a new twist about revelations of potentially wholesale industrial espionage by washington the same system that is spying on millions of americans alleged to be stealing the communication of countless chinese the idea of being spied on is led to displays of anger outside capitol hill although even protesting is proving a challenge for some. lieutenant michael but don't you know it's a struggle to leave right on your ministry without a permit if you want to leave and you love the school it is moving that is what we are entitled to that it was you right there what do you think about it 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 protestors here voiced their support for edward snowden the man who admitted to being the source of leaking classified documents to the guardian he exposed widespread government surveillance being conducted by the n.s.a. amid these revelations protesters here voiced their concern about unchecked government powers i think these discussions about snowden are really a distraction what we need to be focusing on isn't whether or not what he did was lawful it's whether or not what the agency did was lawful what we do or don't do as a society about this massive accumulation of power through the control room for 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 of also taking to the streets there in support of snowden demonstrators are urging the government there not to extradite the n.s.a. whistleblower allotting out at the u.s. sweeping surveillance program he exposed also and over a letter to the u.s. consulate accusing washington of allegedly conducting cyber warfare against the island violating the rights of people there and around the world turning now to some other stories making headlines beginning in pakistan where at least eleven people 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 being treated by a fierce gunfight in which at least the three security officers were killed in a separate attack three rocket propelled grenades hit the former residence of pakistan's founder mohammad ali jinnah. more unrest in libya's 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 between the population and the military has been on the rise in benghazi since the ousting of colonel gadhafi two years ago. a growing number of israelis are strongly against their government's policies toward palestinians are refusing to serve in the army sometimes choosing prison instead not on blank one conscientious objector who spent almost half a year in jail for refusing to pick up a gun or he's paulus leader looks at what lays at the heart of the discontent. 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 really wasted and tried by little every israeli citizen or woman and man has to serve in the i.d.f. this is the place where once you receive your point patzer come to register ready

to serve out your two to three year draft. a ton blank 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 then and 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 cruet 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 the idea of trying to

be interviewed by our t. but same test this written statement it says exceptions to military draft i'll grant you due to health related issues religious reasons place of residence and more civilians who do not receive exemption from the i.d.f. but will fade from finding the will 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 is a warning to others considering following in his footsteps but his refusal to put the army in italy could position by not releasing him they risk sixteen 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 a weighs more on our website r.t. dot com including a stranded pirate a frenchman sentenced to time offline for illegal downloading the first ever time in the country's history person has been completely banned from the internet. and across the atlantic about half a million homes left in the dark after a storm front almost four hundred kilometers wide caused massive blackouts in the us footage on our website. up next abby martin and breaking the set stay with us here on r.t. . you know when i was in school they would tell us stories about that other goofy

economic system in the eastern bloc and about why it was doomed to fail they tell us how terrified communist bureaucrats would work very hard to give the illusion of a fish and see what their bosses were in town a century out of fear they would try to convince the state that everything was just fine they promise of a fresh coat of paint on some stuff bump up their numbers in the books and get them ploy used to put a smile on for the cameras so they wouldn't lose their jobs yeah this our teachers told us was a science. 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 down 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 hide 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. to get. to go. to get. to go. to live on one hundred thirty three bucks a month for food i should try it because you know how fabulous and lucky i don't. i mean. i know that i'm. really not so. very closely. worst chipper going. to buy that sort of

a good guy in the middle of a kick. what. we're about to do is you never seen anything like this until. six weeks to go. welcome to break this said. today's the birthday of one of the world's most well known revolutionaries. all that was born to well off family as a young man she had traveled across latin america where he was exposed to the realities of poverty across the continent struggled with the acknowledgement 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 there's disgust for us corporate imperialism was only reaffirmed while visiting guatemala enraged by the u.s. back to take her ship of cargo out of most.