syria calls u.s. claims it used chemical weapons fabricated while russia which is also unconvinced condemns washington's decision to arm rebels in an undermining of peace. talks medics are threatened with losing their licenses for treating injured protests. as demonstrators defy orders to go and continue anti government rallies. and news just in the run a new president moderate cleric gets more than fifty percent of the votes to avoid a runoff the question is whether he'll bring a change in the country's nuclear ambitions.

watching live from the russian capital it's eight pm in moscow. syria's government times condemned claims by washington than it used chemical weapons as a caravan of law is based on fabricated information damascus also accused the white house of double standards in dealing with terrorism after denounced it would send weapons to rebels the u.s. could also impose a no fly zone over parts of syria. has more details. the white house says its 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 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 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. the direction of the rebels but behind that technical sounding phrase tipping the balance is a lot of killing that would have to be done to achieve that goal right to what lengths do you think the u.s. is ready to go to achieve a desired outcome in syria tipping the balance is just a euphemism and in fact bizarre and ridiculous the fact of the matter is this civil war which has taken ninety three thousand lives according to the united nations was fueled by outside forces got there turkey saudi arabia who are they they're the proxies or allies of the united states and britain and france nato powers they've been funneling arms into syria creating the conditions for civil war in fact promoting civil war i would say they have a lot of blood on their hands senator mccain is a very active supporter of of an aggressive u.s.

intervention in syria and he's everywhere now on all news channels applauding the administration's decision to arm the rebels in one of the interviews he suggested that he talk all the way to extremists taking over syria because they would not be allied with iran and it's not just him who constantly mentions iran in the context of these discussions how much of this is about in your opinion well john mccain's comments are very interesting but 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 and armed osama bin laden being 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 assad 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 prime backer anti-war activist in washington i'm going to. well russia is also one convinced by america's chemical weapons findings saying it would make no sense for assad to deploy a toxic arsenal foreign minister sergey lavrov slammed washington's decision to arm the rebels also saying it undermined peace efforts got a chef he 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 u.n. commission to investigate nothing was eventually done but only when the allegations of the syrian government using the chemical weapon of weapons appeared to them

experts start to 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. 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 born tories are u.s. colleagues failed to assurance that these procedures were and he had to level off also remind it 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. well tea will be keeping you fully up to date with

the chemical weapons are legations involving both sides of the syrian conflict among other things our web site looks at the u.n. commission report from a month ago they revealed suspicions that the opposition not the government was behind the use of sarin gas in syria to dot com for that's a much more. volunteer doctors have become the latest targets of turkish authorities tackling 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 sent to they could not have their licenses suspended despite insisting it is in their humanitarian judy to treat the injured. from istanbul medical professionals have been out on taksim square and gezi park since day one helping out those who have been injured in clashes with police and just those who have needed medical attention while camping out here in gezi park for almost two weeks at this point but the problem is

now they are under fire from the turkish government and that is largely the reason why we're standing here and not inside the medical tent itself because the people who are working there all of the medical professionals all of them working in other hospitals and clinics all over istanbul and practically all over turkey at this point they are doing so they're working here rather illegally they're doing so with 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 the 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 we made a big mistake by dispersing the crowds and now they should think twice before making any decisions doctors are not the only ones who have come under fire from the turkish government in recent weeks just the beginning of this week more than fifty lawyers have been arrested in their connection with the protests rather they were arrested for protesting outside of taksim square not too far away from here expressing their opposition to the fact that the mass beatings and brutal force was used by istanbul police in dispersing the protesters again on tuesday and just to give you an idea more than eleven hundred people just from the gezi park alone have turned for medical attention in the gezi park after tuesday's clashes with police the lawyers were expressing their discontent with the situation in the country and

with the brutal force used by police now 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 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. well austin mackell a specialist on the middle east who's covered unrest in the region says the protestors have little chance of getting their message across and the less they unified. what we see here is it is it is an urban primarily urban phenomenon from secular western face the kind you were used to having a berry in a lodge to role in politics and trying to having a louder voice and a more powerful voice than the peasants in the countryside and the think the the

rise to power the islamists was upset this now and then you know this is a really positive element of the protests in and the sort of the young kids in gezi park 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 jersey kids don't get their act together so to state that they what they're going to do is end mainly benefiting the generals and the old school secular law for a terrorist and meanwhile as a counter to ongoing anti government demonstrations tens of thousands of the prime minister supporters are rallying the attackers have to talk. to one address his backers in saying can a stronghold of the ruling justice and development party in an emotional speech he called antigovernment protesters traitors and vandals again accused foreign players of paying them a life strain from the rally is available on

a website that's dot com. moderate cleric haasan rouhani is iran's new president the former secretary of the supreme national security council and next nuclear negotiator at one fifty one percent of votes in the election to avoid a runoff rouhani will succeed mahmoud ahmadinejad who is at the end of two terms he will inherit a country with an economy badly hurt by western sanctions aimed at tehran's nuclear program will be live in tehran in the next hour the biggest question for the west is whether a new leader will bring a different approach to the nuclear issue former u.s. national security council and state department officials flynt and hillary mann leverett shared their predictions with my colleague sean thomas. there is

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 all and president obama even if iran did everything the us wants 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 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. well still ahead for you and. expect a full. head of. corporations are responsible for the country's debt and should be paying. the government. a lot of public support after the break.

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to. challenge the policies and priorities of world leaders due to meet at the g eight summit in northern ireland on monday over a thousand people marched against big corporations accused of dodging the payment of huge sums of tax it follows protests in london where riot police moved against demonstrators to disperse them after an hours long standoff his party boy has the details. i'm sure austerity campaigners and environmentalists have gathered here in

what they call the penthouse suite of global capitalism otherwise known as canary wharf london's business district home to a number of banks such as j.p. morgan and barclays now it's an event called they owe us and a day in the title is aimed squarely at g. eight leaders who are set to meet for the start of the g eight summit hosted by britain in northern ireland on monday protesters gathered here come from a number of different organizations but they all say that they're concerned with one thing and that's the concentration of wealth and power that the g eight summit represents so next week at the g eight david cameron is going to be saying that he's saving the world he's come out with all these great policies that make things better for you know that's just not true he's making decisions and all those leads in fact making decisions that are in the interests of the financing to the shins of these large corporations that normally interested 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 going to say this simple stuff earlier this week anti

capitalist protesters clashed with riot police in central london and around sixty arrests were made one word on the lips of many of the protesters are expected to today's inequalities while this business district is home to a number of investment banks several of the guarded territory norm one of london's poorest areas where four out of ten children live in poverty so with further government spending cuts on the way protests disappointing and the finger of blame at the banks and the politicians reporting from canary wharf. in london. well the upcoming report delves into the cooper dirty laundry that is so wondering anticapitalist here's a sneak preview of what marx and stacy discussed later this hour. 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. yes whoa 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 destroy it they loaded up with debt and it doesn't even function anymore as an operating until it is 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 fraught from 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 spies on millions of americans is alleged to be stealing the communications of countless chinese the idea of being spied on has that to displays of anger outside capitol hill well though even protesting is proving a challenge lieutenant michael battle with united states capitol police colonel who are demonstrating without a permit. not only did you love the school but this is really this is what we are entitled to do 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 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. i mean 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. this massive accumulation of power through the controlling. the information about people's personal lives as well as there simply was information gathered on every detail and what chronic gadget. 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 r.t. . and in hong kong hundred serve also taken to the streets in support of edward snowden demonstrators urged their government not to extradite the n.s.a. whistleblower lashing out at the u.s. sweeping surveillance program he exposed they also handed over a letter to the u.s. consulate accusing washington of allegedly conducting cyber warfare against hong kong violating the rights of people there and around the world. turning to some other international news now starting with pakistan where at least fourteen people have been killed by a vast form of the university for women in the city of quechua another blast was then reported at the hospital where the injured were treated followed by atheist gun fights in which at least four security officers and four attackers were killed and in a separate attack three rocket propelled grenades former residents of pakistan's found that muhammad ali jinnah. was more unrest in libya city of benghazi where

special forces have clashed with armed gangs outside a military base in the east of the city six soldiers have been confirmed dead so far earlier on friday a group of men forced their way into a different army compound to steal weapons tension between population and military has been on the rise in benghazi was the ousting of colonel gadhafi two years ago. a growing number of israelis strongly against their government's policies towards palestinians are refusing to serve in the army sometimes choosing prison instead not on blank is one the conscientious objector who spent almost half a year in jail for refusing to pick up a gun ati's paula slayer looks at what lays at the heart of their discontent. there should be some way out not like this just going to prison david bland 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 triage by law every israeli citizen woman and man has to serve in the i.d.f. this is the place where once you receive your point patzer come to register ready

to serve out your two to three year draft. 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. 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 he. 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 based on recruiting they will be tried again and again the idea of trying

to be interviewed by our t.v. but same to us 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 little 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 is a serious concern for many people in this country and is just taking it to its logical and the idea of trying to use blank as a warning to others considering following in his footsteps but his refusal to serve put the army in a delicate position by now releasing him they risk setting a precedent but keeping him under lock and key was also threatening to turn his private protest into a public relations debacle policy r.t.

television. well there's plenty more stories on our website including a stranded pirate offense with the sentence to time for flight for illegal downloading it's the first ever time in the country's history a person has been completely buying from the internet. across the atlantic about whole million homes are left in the dark after a storm front almost four hundred kilometers wide caused massive blackouts in the u.s. we've got footage on l.t. dot com. i'll be back in just over half an hour but coming up next here on our say it's my skies i'm. 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. we speak your language i mean some of the you will inevitably and. will use.

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