live. lisa. lisa lisa please liz liz . i 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 crisis convulsions and what used to be a popular tourist destination are turning visitors away dealing heavy blow to its volatile economy. and worse know the reportedly leans towards venezuela for a sign a while r.t. speaks to appledore foreign minister on the reasons behind latin america's backing for whistleblowers on the run. three pm in the russian capital and watching r.t. . welcome to the program. russia says it was the syrian rebels not president assad's forces behind a cameco attack in aleppo that left two dozen dead earlier this year the incident was used by washington to justify sending arms to the opposition but those weapons

are now in limbo with congress refusing to green light to the earth shipment that he tails are now from. washington seems very convinced that bashar al assad was behind this attack that it was allegedly a chemical attack they say they had evidence no one seen it hasn't been published or given to it to the press in any way so a lot of people still wondering what exact evidence that is that russia has conducted an investigation alongside so actually on the ground and ambassador to the u.n. at the telly turkey and now can explain what exactly they found and why they believe that it wasn't assad who was behind that attack the results of the analysis clearly indicate that the ordinance used in common law so was not industrially munna fractured and was filled with saddam. the study and technical specifications prove that it was not investigated manufactured either the projectile involved is

not as standard one for chemical use and therefore there is evident you seem to believe that it was the armed opposition fighters who used the chemical weapons so now we know that they went on to pass these results the actual the actual results of this investigation on to bomb ki-moon and there has been some reaction from the youth from the u.s. and the u.k. they say they highly doubt that in fact these results will prove that it wasn't behind the attack and it goes as far as to show that to us in fact the white house spokesperson when asked if he had read the report he replied no but there are already saying that they believe it's highly unlikely that this will really prove anything what you have is you have people in washington who are behind some kind of military involvement in syria and then you have people who are out right against it you have congress blocking this delivery of arms which was made possible it was proposed after this attack and this these alleged reports that assad was behind

this so-called chemical attack this was the reason they began laying out this arms shipment shipments it's being blocked by members of congress but then you have certain committees in congress so-called war hawks one of them being led by carl levin who writes open biters calling for friends of syria to begin as soon as possible precision air strikes against assad and then you have more direct representatives of the obama administration vice president joe biden secretary of state john kerry pushing and really lobbying for that lift for that block on this weapons shipments to the syrian opposition to be lifted so it's a very complicated war a civil war but in washington like i said it seems very clear cut you have people either completely against or completely for military action. force feeding one time animal inmates is just a symptom of a far more serious disease and that's the view of one u.s.

cleric who thinks conducting the painful procedure at night during ramadan is far from the key concern the prisoners desperate plight stay with us for that. long losing it spark in britain millions of pounds worth of electricity is being stolen from the grid to grow illegal drugs and it's householders for food in the bill that's coming up later in the program. three latin american states have offered asylum but average snowden has yet to pick one which one he'll accept reports say he's leaning towards venezuela offer came in early on a wave of south american sport speaking exclusively to r.t. aqua doors foreign minister explained of a continent wide backing for whistleblowers and why he believes it's necessary the details from. 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 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 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 any of them around us we have no doubt that snowden is being pursued at an international level i mean countries to offer him asylum ecuador is 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 a european leader or the american president it 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 a massive two day conference is taking place between the world's premier can our economies china and the us on the face of it it's all about trade economics and conventional security but behind closed doors it's all about cyber security hong kong based political commentator francis lui believes the talk show that the u.s. has lost the moral high ground. two months ago the u.s. congress was waiting. for people who liberation army. had been taped to the. u.s. government offices and also had you as cooperation is for trade secrets but at that moral high ground to speak on. ceased you. know didn't disclose that actually the u.s. government spy on everybody running the world so. we've.

seen that you as through b. of the defense if it is. economic summit and they were trying to explain to china what they did was really in those same day we need to get anything valuable but of course that is. rubbish and now our breaking news this hour an egyptian prosecutor has ordered the arrest of muslim brotherhood leader a mohamed beatty they was charged with in signing violent clashes outside the republican guard headquarters which left over fifty five dad and hundreds injured are just policy or join us now life. yes which is eating than you do right now that the egyptian prosecutors or the rest of the brotherhood leader mohammed i.d.d. of rates have also been issued for at least nine other fini a muslim brotherhood officials including the eighty p.t. and various party does this no doubt will inflame anger among the code morsi

supporters it is believed that mohammed badie is inside the demonstration as well as a w m r now there are literally hundreds of thousands of community supporters who have been gathered day for days and the question needs to be how will police into such a large gathering to each end was in a race more and against him and for this issue the full of course of all who says back to the violence on monday in which the fifty one people who killed the army has paid that came under attack in a community. that the muslim brotherhood painted at its supporters was i don and composed while they was praying and that among the deeds and the engine on the needs in them and children no doubt the situation incredibly thin and the mighty to be in famed. against one being announced. and that was an update from our correspondent a to call a sleeper them well there are those who are happy to help edge it out of its dire

financial situation during its sensitive transition period saudi arabia has agreed to provide the struggling nation with five billion dollars a lion's share of which is an average of products and cash while the united arab emirates well stump up three billion and loans and bank deposits are two contributor option returns he says it's not 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 most the government is against the military coup so you have both sides using media using financing using weapons sales to back them 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 for obama we get nothing and in the mainstream media all we get is mom and el baradei another nobel prize winner like obama 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 and the chaos and uncertainty in egypt is here in a country where it hurts most its tourism industry to coups in just two years and alice protests and violence have steadily driven away wealthy visitors and reports the industry is in despair. behind me is the egyptian museum one of the most popular tourist destinations in the whole of the country if the first port of call for many tourists coming off the plane here in downtown cairo however is an empty this is a scene this been seen across the country in all the most popular tourist destinations

following a week of political turmoil after the ouster of mohamed morsi egypt's tourists and history which makes up eleven 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 and on sunday fifty people were killed in clashes between security forces and supporters of the deposed president early even many fifteen the terrorists won't come to egypt in the future that bin travel warnings are being issued by embassies including the u.s. embassy who's actually said may spend on emergency stop crime after a u.s. citizen was stopped last week in these bloody clashes made to international tour operators that are becoming can also come soledad better as to why all this and september fearing that this push i will continue to do through this this is a free like but still work this has most kids however local tour operators and souvenir shops and you don't have international backing fail to plug the gaps i'm

here with the show key of the one hand he 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 air in the museum are there any tourists last week this week that's the fool woman's. new duties to come the budget the mail list them five percent and then we see if he did that somebody placed those and you fees if you choose you know most will then if you see these to be thank you very much such a. service people are fearing meant as those supporters of the. the party's leader mohamed morsy remained in the city and refused to go in various parts of the country never going to see the clashes but there is like show working in the tourist industry they feed this means tourists are going to continue to be scared

from coming to egypt and the future of egypt tourism is going to be even worse. my colleague lucy confident earlier caught up with r.t. business presenter katie pilgrim who told us more about how the revolution has battered but as we have broken the egyptian economy. of course the economy critical issue here but in terms of tourism i mean how badly has a been how badly the beating i guess has a take it is quite substantial actually i'm going to have a look at the figures and see that the numbers have been dropping and it's pretty obvious that that's going to happen people are simply too frightened to go which is just a shame considering it normally is a popular place it's got holiday with your family of all right here we can see really it started in twenty eleven just when the trouble started we had a death and we did have a rebound coming up in that rebound wall set continue but that's not likely to happen now that the troubles of a gay once more now this is a decline all together of thirty seven percent of the amount of people that holiday

that in terms of money and what this means for the call no way. since the beginning two point five billion dollars have been lost as a result and again will be able to see that we were expecting a rebound once more but that's not happened just now so again two point five billion dollars we got the lights of the u.s. u.k. canada out all issuing warnings for people not to go to holiday there right now and as it stands it's the eighty fifth and the most popular destination to go which is quite phenomenal when you consider the param is the beaches and of course the thing of storage and two point five billion i mean that's a huge sum but i'm curious given the fact that the economy is such a critical part of the unrest that's going on in egypt how much of a role does the tourism actually play in the overall economic picture there will equates to over ten percent of the country's g.d.p. actually employs over twelve percent of the population and right now we're dealing with a negative multiplier effect so it's not just hotels restaurants but all kinds of

things travel taxes you can see just as i say over ten percent of growth that's going to suffer as a result of all of this and even down to a camel ride on a boat trips and all sorts of things are going to suffer as a result of this and the economy was set to continue rising but that's not going to happen as a result of the two and is expected that we're now going to see pre-crisis growth level rates of service self-defeating cycle i mean they're going to make issues help start the. rest as furthering the economic problem thank you so much for that update r.t. escape people be him. and coming up later this hour here on r.t. the first ballot for moscow in a decade the russian capital prepares to choose its next mayor out of forty candidates from other ruling parties acting mayor to an opposition blogger to iran banned from man in a few minutes we'll look at who is in the running and what awaits the winner.

with the military getting control of troops what does the future hold for egypt is this country's experiment with democracy a thing of the past what signal this is to send to islam and parties in the region it will want to contribute ation among egyptians ever be redeemed. do we speak your language as i think about the will or not a day in. programs or documentaries in spanish more matters to you. it will turn it into angles stories. here.

i'll teach spanish to find out more visit. welcome back to what you are tina in the u.s. two leading democrats have called for the force feeding of guantanamo bay prisoners to be stopped with the parties whip labeling the procedure inhumane and adds more pressure on president obama to end the practice after a u.s. federal court can damage as painful. humiliating and degrading that as prisons already say force feeding will take place only at night during the islamic holy month of ramadan the hunger strike is now in its sixth month with almost two thirds of inmates taking part in a protest against a humane treatment and being held for years without trial imaam dealt with waleed

from the council on american islamic relations says indefinite detention is real problem at the prison just ridiculous and to see if they're having some sort of loose accommodations by. basically torturing the people at night and makes the situation you know no better and this discussion about force feeding 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 to the stage we need to be really giving them hope that they can get any type of justice and this is really the bigger problem with the bigger issue with we really need to be addressed. helen total secrecy complete isolation and no access to the outside world find out about those held in finito by israeli intelligence and the toll it takes on the prisoners. also dot com digging deep more than ten million barrels of oil were pumped in

russia in june more than during any other month for quater of a century. now 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 or are a few pounds higher for power they don't even receive it's to cover the massive amount of energy which is being stolen from the great ad according to regulators it's being used to grow illegal drugs here's artie's tests are still yani fact of the cannabis growers who are hungry for a tricity. ok consumers look at their electricity bill in the 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 electricity the industry falls victim to about twenty five thousand of known cases of electricity and that's costing consumers about two hundred million pounds now one third of that amount

actually goes to one of these farms a production of which is very energy intensive so that's about seventy million pounds a year ago we get to those kind of his 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 tackle the problem of electricity bathtub or spoke with jabber to 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. they place around eight thousand people a year growing cannabis and that figure has doubled in the last four years so this is a new politics of. how we want to bring its people's attention let's get one things right so that the supply is responsibility to crack down on electricity so what we're trying to do is say. so the energy industry does and so make sure

all the fifty's reduced to its lowest level false. 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 impose 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 that they're not paying for any more than they're using and that they're not funding any criminal activity. reporting from london. let's now take a look at some other stories making news around the world and police have launched a criminal investigation into the deadly train accident in canada their skills at least fifteen people a rail company has pointed the finger at firefighters for failing to prevent a disaster after a small fire on board was put out a short while before the accident occurred the train was carrying crude oil when it hurdled off the tracks in a small town in comeback on saturday exploded exploding into

a huge fireball that engulfed shops and buildings. one of mexico's most active volcanoes has erupted near the capital spewing vashon three kilometers high during several days of activity 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 surrounding areas. they were raised to be moscow's next mayor has no shortage of containers applications close in a few hours but already forty candidates have put themselves forward for the first mayoral election in the russian capital for decades they in charge of a rapidly million population mega city with a budget the size of a small european country sets a number of big challenges and while the mayors have offered some bold solutions promises range from compulsory personal helicopters for richer moskovitz to

replacing minor and workers with robots more from artie's like. those who last visited school more than two decades ago would hardly recognise it today. from a grim open 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 on the ground and the never ending din of construction have reached a critical point six generations. believes the time has come for change and that's all the. real global city from. pushing the business on somebody. who can see all the good it isn't a station much appreciation did not think we had. to provide the will be to say see

. now we have what we have it's not the last book called apps but it belongs to 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 beast 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 more school 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. and humans 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. currently on trial for allegedly prioritizes the fight against corruption and introducing younger faces into local authorities this eccentric candidate. 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 put 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 may have to be more than just

a talented manager so after years of practically nonexistent elections the russian capital braces itself for an employee said gently heated political battle and that campaign is gaining intensity with every day. reporting from moscow. well the second round of the gyptian revolution is up for discussion next in cross talk here on our team. world for the. audience technology innovation all the list of elements from around russia we've got the future covered. you know how sometimes you see a story and it seems so for like sleep you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else you hear or see some other part of it and realize that

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