the russian team uncovers evidence of alleged rebel involvement in a deadly syrian chemical attack while the u.s. congress puts the brakes on military aid to the opposition fearing the weapons may fall into the wrong hands. egypt's political forces fail to agree on a transition plan while convulsions in what used to be a popular tourist destination are turning visitors away dealing a heavy blow to its ball of total economy. edward snowden reportedly leans towards venezuela for asylum while artie's speaks to a horse foreign minister on the reasons behind latin america's backing for whistleblowers on the run.

world news and analysis from our moscow headquarters ten am here i'm lucy catherine of and they are tuning in to r.t. well it may have been the syrian rebels and not president bashar al assad's forces behind a chemical attack in aleppo that has killed two dozen people earlier this year and now this is according to a russian team that have conducted an on site investigation it believes the chemical trail leads straight to the rebels washington though maintains that it is more likely to be the regime in damascus the details now from our team is going at it you can. as you probably remember the u.n. investigation into the use of chemical weapons near a loophole never materialized the syrian government requested such investigation but some of you on officials demanded access into all syrian facilities which syria denied insisting on the investigation of that particular incident in march anyway that i.q. and investigation never happened but nonetheless the u.s.

came forward and said it had evidence that syrian the syrian government used chemical weapons but there were lots of questions as to the sources through which they got the evidence washington brushed off all reports that rebels could have been behind the attack the syrian government wanted to clarify the incident and requested washing experts to look into what happened in qana all of solve near aleppo which they did and based on their analysis russia says there's every reason to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used chemical weapons in qana last all take a listen to the results of the analysis clearly indicate that the ordinance used income on a cell was not industrially manufactured and was filled with sudden the sudden technical specification is proof that it was not invested in money fractured either the projectile involved is not is standard one for chemical use and therefore the reserve and you seem to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons in khan. so russia has submitted these experts analysis to the

hugh when bush is envoy to the un also underscored that russian experts personally collected the symbols from the very site where the projectiles hit he said they were not handed over to russia through third parties which was the case with the reports of other countries submitted to the secretary general the simples the russians took were analyzed that an internationally recognized and certified russian lab also says it has information that the so-called bosher all nasir brigade affiliated with the free syrian army began the production of guided projectiles so-called bosher three projectiles in february two thousand and thirteen and they were used in the march attack in light of this russia calls for the un to look into this and for the international community to consider all evidence at hand president obama's press secretary yet again brushed off the report saying we seriously doubt anyone other than the syrian government could use chemical weapons in syria the u.s. has already decided to arm the syrian rebels explaining the move as being in

response to evidence that assad has used chemical weapons although the u.n. has never verified the evidence the u.s. claims it has so we're looking at a clash of evidence and also at a large gap in trust between the u.s. and russia over syria with moscow asking why is the u.s. so eager to dismiss reports about the use of chemical weapons by the rebels. u.s. shipments of firearms and high tech weapons to the syrian rebels have been delayed by congress the opposition in syria earlier declare that it felt abandoned and disappointed by the holdup now some lawmakers are said to be especially concerned about the weapons having little impact on the war they also feel fear that the arms could fall into the wrong hands for example a group that is seen as the driving force in the fighting against a solid with links to al qaeda the funding has also been frozen and president obama's plan could now be in question as lawmakers lose confidence the white house will have to allay politicians' fears in order for the shipments to go ahead. force

feeding guantanamo inmates is just a symptom of a far more serious disease now that is the view of the one u.s. democrat who thinks that conducting the painful procedure at night or during ramadan is far from the key concern in the prisoner's desperate plight stay with us for that. plus losing its spark in britain millions of pounds worth of electricity is being stolen from the grid and this to grow illegal drugs and it's the consumers who are footing the bill that's coming up later. and transition roadmap for egypt's proposed by the interim leader has failed with both the muslim brotherhood and the liberal opposition saying no to the motion now the plan outlines constitutional amendments and parliamentary elections by two thousand and fourteen the army though was standing behind the interim government warning against any attempts to disrupt the transition the country is struggling to get back on its feet after its second years which has led to the ousting of islamist president

mohamed morsi has been aggravated most recently by deadly street battles across egypt which have landed a blow to the country's tourism industry as well as the wider economy more details now from cairo for spondon true. behind me is the egyptian museum one of the most popular tourist destinations in the whole of the country is the first port of call for many tourists coming off the plane here in downtown cairo however it isn't empty this is a scene that's been seen across the country in all the most popular tourist destinations following a week of political turmoil after the ouster of mohamed morsy egypt's tourists and distributes makes up american percent of the country's economy has taken a massive beating since the only way to define revolution particularly as terrorists are becoming increasingly scarce in the last week we've seen massive nationwide demonstrations funded by clashes between rival groups on sunday fifty people were killed in clashes between security forces and suppose it's all to produce president leaving many to be victorious one comes egypt in the future. that

been travel warnings have been issued by embassies including the us embassy actually sent may spend on a measure to stop time after any u.s. citizen was stopped last week in these bloody clashes major international tour operators that are becoming kind of also come so that tourist two my oldest on september fearing the physical trauma will continue to do through this this is a free to like but still work this has most kids however local tour operators on souvenir shops and you don't have international backing to be able to plug the gaps i'm here with the sharkey up to him who works in the museum behind me and he is saying that this being a very difficult week here for tourism so tell me. how you know how has the last week been in the in the museum all that any tourists last week this week before months. we need to see from the boy to be no this done five percent.

if you do that some place goes and you sees it as you choose you know the world to see you steve thanks very much. sir people disappearing meant those supporters of the previous leader mohamed morsy remain in the sit in and refuse to go home in various parts of the country and we're going to see further clashes for those like chokey working in the tourist industry they feed this means tourists are going to continue to be scared from coming to egypt and actually the future of egypt's tourism is going to be even worse. true there however there are those who are happy to help egypt out of a dire financial situation during that sensitive transition period saudi arabia and the united arab emirates say that they will provide up to eight billion dollars which according to the opinion of r.t. contributor option or tons is not simply a gesture of goodwill. the u.a.e.

and saudi definitely did not like the muslim brotherhood and so the saudi station al-arabiya quite called it in dubai in the u.a.e. backs the rebels and you go. back to qatar which is backing the mostly government is against a military coup so you have both sides using media using financing using weapons sales to back them man in egypt all the time the united states we must remember that president obama was backing mubarak dictator up until the end seemingly not quite knowing what he's going to do and perhaps the saudis are threatening him even john mccain the presidential candidate used the word coup from obama we get nothing and in the mainstream media all we get his mom and el baradei another nobel prize winner like obama who is saying nothing about the house arrest without charge of a democratically elected president let alone the ending of a parliament and the destruction of a free media which continues at the moment in egypt in just

a few hours artie's cross-talk looks at what egypt's revolution two point zero will mean for the region here's what's ahead next hour. you know it's it's easy to want to call it a revolution it's easy to want to call it a coup it does fit the textbook definition of a coup but at the same time secy isn't sitting here trying to walk to be the new dictator he's not trying to be the new mubarak hold on a minute let's do this first of all look at the facts on the ground what city which who is gen six who is that defense minister did when he first declared giving more c o u forty eight was a huge mess which was absolutely impossible they knew full well that he was going to spectacularly failed because he's been trying to give them a lot of value and tried. to defend don't get me wrong. three latin american states have offered asylum but edward snowden has yet to pick

which one he'll accept now reports say that he is leaning towards venezuela whose offer has come in early on a wave of south american support speaking exclusively to our team ecuador's foreign minister explained to the continent wide backing for what's the lowers and why he believes it's necessary that he tells on that from marina point and i am. as the world waits to see which country edward snowden will pick as his new home r.t. spoke exclusively with ecuador's foreign minister ricardo patino about the n.s.a. whistleblower and the fallout following his revelations now ecuador is the first country to ever see that application for asylum from snowden and the country also was the first to initiate an emergency summit among south american states after a plane carrying bolivian president evo morales was grounded in vienna last week it was grounded according to reports on suspicion that snowden was on board in route

from moscow now president morales is plane was denied access into the airspace of some european union nations and was reportedly search by the austrian security forces foreign minister put seno says the unprecedented violation of international law should prompt more countries to offer their assistance to snowden. after the incident with anybody around us we have no doubt that snowden is being pursued at an international level i mean countries to offer him asylum and also considering this option but it'll be better if it's not just three countries that come forward to offer him protection but ten twenty or one hundred states ecuador's foreign minister told r.t. that he was thoroughly surprised at the scale of the u.s. surveillance system in particular that programs were created to indiscriminately spy on people in latin america and even friendly states in europe now but senior said he was also shocked that instead of being persistent in demanding immediate

explanations from the u.s. about its pervasive spying some european countries allegedly work together to ground the plane of a world leader and put the life of bolivia's president in danger. it's just outrageous if it had been. european leaders or the american president would have triggered a war if any latin american country had done this then troops and fighter jets would have been sent in to rescue the leader you can't just discriminate against countries so that some nations see their international rights observed while others are ignored now the foreign minister of ecuador argues that the plane incident indicates that europe he says now functions as america's back yard a position that latin america has rejected to serve. today's breaking the set focuses on the price the n.s.a. is paying for snowden's leaks host abby martin also speaks of the man credited with

being the first and this agent to blow the whistle on government misdeeds here's a look at what's coming up in about two hours time the very first person to claim that the title of n.s.a. whistleblower is a man you've probably heard the least about his name is russell tice and he served twenty years with the various government agencies including me and has a two thousand and five ties blew the whistle on the n.s.a. and gave an unlawful and unconstitutional surveillance of american citizens so here to tell us his story and why he thinks that snowden's leaks are just barely scratching the surface rust tice thank you so much for coming on thanks for having me what did you see that made you come out and blow the whistle initially well the first thing i saw was i'm a satellite system specialist so with the things that i was doing with satellites i felt sort of inadvertently that american citizens were being spied upon by or its capabilities so that was my first sort of heads up into what was going on and i

was just shocked because n.s.a. was not supposed to do this it was against regulation that was against the law it was against our constitution. the first battle for moscow in a decade the russian capital prepares to choose its next mayor out of forty candidates from the ruling party's acting mayor to an opposition blogger to a rock band front man in just a few minutes we'll look at who's in the running and what awaits the winner. will be. technology innovation all the developments from around russia we've got this huge you're covered. sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you thought

you knew. was a big. download you. so choose your life stream quality and enjoy your favorite. if you're away from your television well it just doesn't go well with your mobile device you can watch your t.v. any time and you were. welcome back well in the united states two leading democrats have called for the force feeding them obey prisoners to be stopped with the party's whip labeling the procedure as inhumane and adds more pressure on president obama to end the practice

after a u.s. federal court condemned it as quote painful humiliating and degrading that says prison authorities say force feeding will take place only at night during the islamic holy month of ramadan the hunger strike ad one taught him zero is now in its sixth month with almost two thirds of the in maids taking part in a protest against what they call inhumane treatment and being held for years without trial of those forty five are being force fed mando would walid from the council on american islamic relations says the real problem at the prison is the indefinite detention. just ridiculous and to see if they're having some sort of a loose accommodations by. basically torturing the people at night instead of the day it makes the situation you know no better and this discussion about more speedy you know this is only a symptom of the bigger disease in which there are over eighty individuals in guantanamo bay who are being cleared of any wrongdoing and they're being held indefinitely against their will and really want

a person gets the state we need to be worse but they've really given up hope that they can get any type of justice and this is really the bigger problem with the bigger issue at hand that we really need to be addressing held in total secrecy complete isolation and no access to the outside world you can find out about those held in company and oh by israeli intelligence and the toll it takes on the prisoners. also are he was digging deeper more than ten million barrels of oil were pumped from the ground in russia in june more than during any other month for twenty five years. i think.

it's one of the basics of being a consumer that you get what you pay for but people in britain are finding their electricity bills are a few pounds higher for pardon me a few pounds higher for power they don't even receive now this is to cover the massive amount of energy which is being stolen from the grid and according to regulators it's being used to grow illegal drugs here's our taste tests are still on the effect of the cannabis growers who are hungry for electricity. when you get consumers look at their electricity bill in a year there may be seven pounds in there that they didn't actually consume that's according to energy watchdog who has highlighted the rampant nature of the electricity industry falls victim to about twenty five thousand known cases of electricity and that's costing consumers about two hundred million pounds now one third of that amount actually goes into some of this forms a production of which is very energy intensive so that's about seventeen million pounds a year ago we get to those kind of farms how often has put forward

a set of stricter guidelines for energy suppliers to comply with and maybe imposing fines on those who refuse to do so or don't want to. be the problem of electricity the more will be spoken with a library on these proposals why was it important to raise the issue that one third actually goes to kind of response where it's a growing problem according to police that cystic they've placed around just under eight thousand people a year growing cannabis and that figure has doubled in the last four years so this is an important part of. how we want to bring it people's attention and also you are recommending one of your proposals is for the industry to come up with a financial incentive scheme in order to more efficiently effectively crack down on people selling electricity why is there a need for a financial incentive scheme isn't cracking down on crime and on kind of a sponsor you need lower left enough of

a motivation for every company we recognise the energy companies takes around about twenty five thousand sets a year but what we really want to do is to you know increase this across the board so save consumers money but given the scale of the problem we think it's important the industry goes one step forwards let's get one things right so that the suppliers responsibility to crack down on electricity so. what we're trying to do. so the energy industry does. so make sure all the sixty's reduced to its lowest level. energy u.k.b.a. association that comprises of about eighty energy companies have already welcomed these proposals however they're not too happy about the proposed imposed fines on them however at the end of the day no matter what is agreed upon what will matter to consumers is having to be assurance of they're not paying for any more than they're using and that they're not funding any criminal activity. reporting from

london. a look now at some of the other world's headlines. police have launched a criminal investigation into the deadly train accident in canada that has killed at least fifteen people a rail company has pointed the finger at firefighters for failing to prevent the disaster after a small fire on board was put out a short while before the accident took place now the train was carrying crude oil when it hurled off the tracks in a small town in quebec on saturday exploding into a massive fireball that had a goal of shops and buildings. over one hundred south korean businesses and government delegates have crossed into the north for a new round of talks on reopening the joint k. song factory complex workfare was halted on the april following tension over pyongyang's latest nuclear weapons test both sides blame each other for the suspension south korea is expected to demand safeguards against the new freeze while the north once in the media restart of work and higher pay for its employees

. one of mexico's most active volcano has erupted near the capital spewing a cloud of ash and vapor three kilometers high during several days of activity in flights in and out of the capital have been canceled leaving hundreds of people stranded authorities have raised the alert level but have stopped short of evacuating the surrounding areas. the race to be moscow's next mayor has no shortage of contenders applications do close in a few hours but already an astonishing forty candidates are putting themselves forward for the first mayor election in the russian capital in a decade now the promises range from a compulsory personal helicopter for richer muscovites to replacing migrant workers with robots more from artie's aleksei or chef ski. those who last visited moscow more than two decades ago would hardly recognize it today from a grim often unfriendly city it has turned into a major european capital with glossy lights and vibrant lifestyle however the

facelift came at a cost traffic jams overground human jams underground and the never ending din of construction have reached a critical point six generation muscovite believes the time has come for change and that's all the. characters. will see to from top to. push it is that some some problems. we can see some of it compared to this administration much appreciation did not think. how to provide the little bit to say see. now or have what with that destruction task but collapse but it will all of this and that change may well be on the way to acting mayor said bannon handed in his resignation letter a snap election was called and the reaction from mayor want to be has been swift the fight that's underway for the mayoral seat is unprecedented not only due to the number of candidates which exceeds thirty but also because the last time russia's

capital elected its boss was a decade ago this position long has been appointed one and this is part of a huge process i think this is a second major step in reforming the political system of the russian federation this position is very important and it's crucial to the future and the current state of the country not just moscow itself in this battle for moscow candidates of radically contrasting profiles and backgrounds are coming up with very different ideas from charging car owners for driving into the city center to replacing labor migrants from central asia with robots the acting mayor said who is this time running without the ruling party support wants to build on his current achievements and is offering to implement more high tech features into everyday life opposition activist and blogger alexina miley currently on trial for allegedly mezzo meant prioritizes the fight against corruption and introducing younger faces into local authorities. this eccentric candidate said detroit ski or as he's better known the

spyder a former heavy metal front man has promised to hand a new sun over the russian capital and build a new imperial moscow each political party has its own contender forward but regardless of who wins and it's still an open race with no clear front runner everyone agrees that this job will be no walk in the park moscow is often called a country within a country so whoever takes the rain here they have to be more than just a talented manager so after years of practically nonexistent elections the russian capital braces itself for an implicit entry heated political battle and that complaint is gaining intensity with every day. reporting from moscow. up next as finance and dodgy dealings and prime interest to stay with us.

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