the u.n. security council calls for an investigation in syria saying there's no confirmation of any chemical weapons use rebel fighters claim hundreds have been gassed on the outskirts of damascus. when you say to the government. they have the ability to take everything. the owner of the dog e-mail service about why he shot his company down after it was revealed that whistleblower edward snowden was using it. and wiki leaks whistleblower bradley manning gets thirty five years for revealing u.s. war crimes the judge refuses to hand down the sixty year demanded by the prosecution.

good morning from moscow just off the a.t.m. here in the russian capital. live on our. top headlines right now the u.n. security council says an investigation is needed into allegations of a deadly chemical attack in syria the opposition there is accusing assad's forces of gassing hundreds of people need to massacres on wednesday but the syrian government claims the allegations are a diversion time to coincide with the visit of a u.n. chemical weapons team details now from our new york correspondent a more important. but the security council has called for a thorough and prompt investigation the deputy secretary general john allison was also on hand at the closed door security council consultations he said that there is no confirmation of the use of chemical weapons and he says that this needs to be underlined meanwhile britain's foreign minister william hague said that the alleged

attacks should be an eye opener for all those who support assad his comments leave no options open to the fact that an opposition or terrorist group could be responsible for the alleged use of chemical weapons now may be no coincidence the syrian opposition is making these allegations latest allegations against the syrian government just a few days after a team of u.n. inspectors arrived in damascus to examine previous suspected cases of chemical weapon use in the war torn country meanwhile officials from the russian foreign ministry say that reports by quote biased regional media unquote about the alleged chemical weapon use near damascus might be a provocation planned in advance russian foreign ministry saving its sources said that a homemade rocket carrying unidentified chemical substances may have been launched

from an area controlled by the opposition now the incident reportedly took place on territory surrounding the syrian capital although the region on the outskirts of damascus is known for its opposition inclinations and has been the site of past clashes between government forces and the rebels experts say an al qaeda affiliate has had a long time presence there and the area has faced sustained military pressure for months on his more important and brian becker who's the director of the and she was a coalition he says the very timing of these allegations costs a huge question mark. completely root ludicrous that the syrian government would use chemical weapons at the very moment that the un is a launching its investigation about chemical weapons and especially since the syrian government has its advantage but none of it matters what really matters is what the intention is of the white house in their or their friends in london in

terms of escalating their own intervention i think the big goal of the those who carry out the stage provocation is to disrupt any sort of negotiations that could lead to a positive outcome for the existing syrian government meaning that the forces of the civil war had not succeeded in this lodging the assad government that's their plan because they know without western intervention without. foreign intervention there's no possible way they can succeed on the syrian battlefield they don't have the popular support in syria and they don't have the military where with all to defeat the syrian government and i while the main goal for many in egypt's revolution was to see the former president hosni mubarak behind. the report of it later on the program the leader could be walking free within i was a correspondent explains why in just a few minutes. from now on the program here on our after it became evident that former n.s.a. contractor edward snowden used e-mail provided a lot of a bit of

a service fell under increased scrutiny of the u.s. federal authorities to monitor the turn over information about its customers instead though its owner took the decision to shut the company down saying he'd rather do that and perpetrate what he called a crime against the american people by cooperating with the government. and explain to my colleague much reza what specifically motivated him to make this decision. if i had continued to operate i felt like it would have put me in a ethically compromising position. in other words the service no longer would have been what i intended it to be which was a secure and private method of communication for americans so you posted a message on line saying that you were in an impossible situation that either you would quote do you hear become complicit in crimes against the american people or walk away from a decade of your hard work what do you think you would have faced if you didn't

shut down the service when you say no to the government. they have the ability to take everything they have the ability to take your business take your money and take your freedom and there really isn't all that much you can do about. it i was looking at the very real possibility of an impossible debt and possibly being put in jail and still not being able to tell people why i was even in jail you wrote on the line that without congressional action or strong judicial precedent that you would advise people users against trusting a company that has physical ties to the us why is that all of the major providers here in the us. have provided. our government with real time access to the private information of their users and they don't really have a choice about it and they don't really have the ability to tell anybody about.

it so the fact is if you trust your data to a company even if they they haven't already been approached. and been required to provide access the simple fact is they could be in the future. are staying with whistleblowers here on the program and the man responsible for a massive revelation of u.s. war crimes has been sentenced to thirty five years behind bars and the prosecution wanted bradley manning jailed for sixty for the judge at his court martial or refused to hand down the maximum. in fact he'll be eligible for parole by the end of the decade while manning's lawyer will seek a presidential pardon for the man who according to his supporters deserves the nobel peace prize and more now from marty's guy in a chicken. bradley manning supporters who gathered at the white house this evening say he sent bruce is unjust and unfair after all many who committed murder got away

with less than thirty five years bradley manning has received a prison sentence that was ten years longer than the period of time after which many of the documents he released would have been automatically be classified bradley manning and his the friends are submitting a request for a pardon the president of the united states has the power to pardon him and you see many people here wearing t. shirts and carrying banners that say part in bradley in his request for the president's pardon bradley manning talked about the post nine eleven age the age of the war on terror saying in the efforts to meet the risks the u.s. has forgotten its humanity but will he manage to outweigh the desire of the government to make an example out of bradley manning to discourage future whistleblowers bradley manning also has supporters who were somewhat relieved by the sentence at least these not going to spend the rest of his life in prison as prosecutors wanted his lawyer said in ten years bradley manning will get a chance to be released on parole there is hardly any chance president obama will

pardon him will be especially in the current environment of the government's crackdown on whistle growers an environment where you have the new whistleblower edward snowden someone who was not discouraged by the crackdown so the government definitely doesn't want more people following suit as far as public support is concerned bradley manning has probably gained more support in the wake of edward snowden revelations more and more people are starting to realize that the government will always be trying to sweep controversial issues under the rug u.s. troops may have never left iraq the iraqi government granted them immunity from prosecution or something that the obama administration was trying to negotiate around the same time bradley manning leaked all those opening files president obama would have not announced a review of n.s.a. surveillance programs weren't for edward snowden and whether or not that review is just as him. it is a question worth asking of course but still we wouldn't be even having those

conversations if it weren't for the supporters of bradley manning saying what's at stake here is not just true but also the future of journalism and the public's right to be informed on the actions that their government is taking on their behalf and what kind of people one of the activists who's been campaigning in support of bradley manning says the u.s. government is ultimately just declared war on whistleblowers it is quite extraordinary that bradley manning has got thirty five years for telling the truth and exposing us war crimes lies and cover ups. while the people who committed these criminal acts have walked away scot free they have never ever been prosecuted it is a notable fact that president obama has how ruston chased and prosecuted more whistle blows than even right wing republicans like richard nixon and ronald reagan that is a pretty damning indictment of president obama and his democratic administration

whistleblowers are not criminals they are the canaries in the mine who warned us about danger they warned us about untruths about reality the people in power don't want us to know whistleblowers are essential to them. so good to have you with us i hear on t.v. today still to come on the program imagine having a job but with no idea when you'll work or even if you'll be paid and that's the situation for a million floyd on zero hours contracts get the details for that and the rest of the world's top headlines in just a moment. could you take three. three. three.

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it's all to live from moscow with me rory sushi the kaiser report soon but for now the former egyptian president hosni mubarak ousted in the two thousand and eleven revolution he could be freed from jail later today at the release was ordered off

to a corruption case against the toppled dictator was finally settled though mubarak will however be back in court within a few days for a retrial over a separate accusations that he ordered the killing of hundreds of protesters that was now two years ago the latest explanation for marty's truck. this is actually a legal decision grounded on proper law even though it seems quite ironic that two and a half years after this revelation people are calling for his new ouster and wanted him to be in jail he could be seen walking on the streets in the next forty eight hours basically hosni mubarak has been in detention in prison now for the next month the time someone can be detained without charge now because we're seeing a retrial that means essentially the clock is being turned right back to two thousand and eleven before he started any of these trials so it's almost like he'd never been sentenced in the first place because he's already been in detention for several years they now can't keep him in before he's actually sentenced now with he

has been in jail obviously because there been other charges against him knew of charges in regards to corruption now that he's been acquitted of their use there's no reason to keep in him jail however he still have forty hours max for the prosecutor to basically appeal the decision to release him if they decide that he should be released and he will remain in jail almost see you know how long they'll keep him as that goes forward the reaction on the streets has been right largely mixed people here a kind of reeling from the situation in the last few days been basically in the bloodiest weeks in egyptian modern history in the fighting between mostly supporters and security forces. by that the fun of hosni mubarak could be three to the same time is almost too much for some revolutionaries here who speaking to me have told me that what was the point of coming out the streets two years ago what has been the point of fighting for justice and freedom and bread in the last two and a half years is the very person they started fighting against is to be walking free we will see what happens as his trial is start to restart again on the twenty fifth of august at the same time as many other leading muslim brotherhood figures will

also stand trial and somewhat ironic that these two that figure is it because it basically to be facing trial at the same time but largely on the streets people are pretty upset that this much hated figure could be seen to be walking home in twenty four hours. so of course weibo true right that in the meantime a cairo based award winning journalist attack me says that the situation in egypt has become so bad that the news on mubarak startling possible release is now being pushed to the sidelines. you how president democratically elected president but i did a case against him and one it's going to be released it's kind of everything's been flipped over the news and his possible release was just a kind of cherry on top for everyone so much has happened so many people have died that mubarak has faded into the background the little for a lot of people when you think it's been trying for which the death of the protestors in eighteen days and then you compare the fact that grigory number which

is three died in one day last week and good things in perspective for a lot of egyptians are still a lot of the world's top headlines to come here on our cluing we've already seen russians unexpectedly encountered tanks boats and even fighter jets in their everyday lives but other experience may well have been else scored by what these beachgoers have a look at that. grad. find out how their serene sunbathing was suddenly disturbed by the roaring engines of a war machine look at. a brilliant footage at r.t. dot com right now. also there for you at the moment as washington's drone program keeps flexing its wings over more and more countries air force commanders find themselves short of staff able to operate increasingly. online for years. for now though a growing army of employees in the u.k. are being left in financial limbo by firms increasingly using the controversial

employment tactic of zero hours contracts the sad reality for the staff working under these conditions means they could end up penniless despite spending every waking hour the job reports. you have a job but you don't know when you'll work or if you'll be paid that's the reality for a million brits employed on zero hours contracts mike donald has admitted that it employs ninety percent of its u.k. workforce in this way stuff are expected to be ready for work in the mornings in case there's some and by their bosses they also have the right to refuse crucially though there's no guaranteed minimum set of working hours per week hence the zero in the title of this man in his twenty's is almost zero hours contract with a well known restaurant chain every morning he waits for the call telling him whether or not he'll have work you're not really in charge of your own destiny as it were you working there to be able to. make that much profit this week so

actually we're going to try to do stuff as we can you guys can all be cut and we'll just do it on three stuff this week is completely and for the government has promised to investigate the controversial employment amidst concerns that leaving an increasing number of brits in financial limbo with few rights low pay and no stability. no guarantee of other jobs i wasn't making enough money to pay the rent was falling behind the number of zero hours contracts and top picturing the recession some economists forecasts that employers will return to hiring workers on better terms when the economy recovers the trade unions buying it in recent months and years we have start to see a growth of say around particular months public sector workers no longer are these small groups of workers who are employed on temporary employment now in some sites is this type of abusive employed malaysians are busy becoming the norm macdonald

sports direct dominoes and even buckingham palace zero hours employers they've been accused of exploiting people desperate for any kind of work it's part of the race to drive down the terms and conditions the pay. working people i know fortunately a big business to use in the history measures in the government economic crisis as an excuse to use these contracts but business representatives say that the financial crisis is forcing companies to use zero hours contracts there's people that criticize here as contracts go to recognize the impact that that would have on unemployment levels it's actually the flexibility that. wasn't available to employers i don't think it would be acting is the kind of employment stabilizer we're seeing it work out the terms of these contracts may see the bosses but many of the young people on them say that while they're on zero hours they've got zero chance of any financial stability i think they're the wrong no i think they should

i think they should shouldn't be lasting stream than they are because it was it doesn't happen that you don't have many zero hours and you can sort of expect that at some point you may do. artsy london or before we get to the altar you won't update our rushers ministry of emergencies as. the flood situation in some areas of the country is far east is now slowly stabilizing still though the main worry is the. water levels are expected to reach eight meters this weekend now five thousand people have already been affected emergency workers have erected almost seventeen kilometers of temporary embankments a ten of them. to help deal with the disaster of the floods have been described as the worst in a century with many thousands of hectares of farmland swarmed is now being estimated it's going to cost about sixty million bucks that's the level of damage that's been done by the high water levels were caused by downpours in early july and not expected to subside until next month. but let's get into it now beyond sea

world update to colombia we go now the protestors have been blockading highways for a third day in various regions prompting clashes with police thousands of students farm workers and truckers took to the streets. the capital bogota the better working conditions are higher wages and free education the rallies are part of nationwide protests staged by various unions and the largest anti government demonstrations. and a blast has ripped through a train station in northwestern pakistan killing at least two people and wounding more than a dozen the bomb exploded near the ticket counter destroying the waiting area investigations underway into who carried out the attack while emotions the services search for survivors you could be trapped under the rubble. the pro cannabis campaign is in a german town have found an unorthodox way to go green paul it can actually be less harmful than tobacco and alcohol they've literally planted the seeds of

a toilet of opinion all around the place peter all of our reports. it's high time for a change in the law say activists in the university town the. scene a novel form of protests springing up as around a thousand marijuana plants were added to the leafy city this autonomous group wanted to raise awareness and to get publicity for their cause which was legal as a show of marianna and they just want people to stumble over the plants was just something that you would find on your way to work or on your way across town despite an active program of weeding out the weed by authorities it isn't hard to find a spot where the surreptitious seeds have sprouted. in fact what we can find here is that very plant and you can find them in all sorts of random places like this one those behind the planting who call themselves

a few autonomous flowage children also held an online photo contest to gather pictures of the best birds which the police told me is very handy when it comes to tracking down the pesky plants. we first got wind of it when someone saw this online contest this is a very big and a very green city the best way for us to find them was to look for landmarks in the picture. many have of this stunt is a bit of student high jinks towards the end of the academic year however this could be the start of something far bigger say those in the legal profession i think that this. is an act of civil disobedience should be a starting point for a much wider discussion on legalizing all kinds of drugs are not doing it i am not . made up my mind to it but we should have this discussion supporters of the activists believe that used responsibly cannabis could be fun a less dangerous than things like alcohol and tobacco many people think that you

can actually consume it. and as soon as you have that a responsible approach towards consumption then it should not be a problem to legalize the supplying the drug carries a prison sentence in germany so far no one connected with the raising of the crop has faced any legal action due to the your ability of the plant meaning it can grow just about anywhere don't expect these potpie any is to give up their campaign any time soon peter all of them get in germany what is time to get up close and personal with the big money makers of this world and time to perhaps upset them a little bit of the big boy bankers in the kaiser edition i should say the kaiser report max kaiser stacy heard but just.

as the media leave us so we leave the baby. by the sea bushes secure. your party physical. issues that no one is asking with the guests that you deserve answers from it's all politics. led. economic ups and downs in the final months the new york and the rest of the. case it will be every week they.

welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser you know an eight hundred ninety congress passed the sherman antitrust act at first of course those models at the supreme court refused to enforce the law always siding with the monopolist unless it was to break up a union but then in one thousand to two teddy the trust buster roosevelt went after john pierpont morgan j.p.

morgan who controlled the bulk of the railroad shipping across the northern united states through his northern securities of course j.p. morgan was. that he had not been warned that given a heads up for being treated like a common criminal today j.p. morgan is still around it relating rigging and monopolizing but we have a trust enabler in chief no trust busting just a little or just enabler stacey that's right j.p. morgan was of course outraged that he was treated like a common criminal of course nowadays it's impossible to treat them like a criminal no matter what they do whether they're reading energy markets whether they're bribing chinese officials whether they're rigging all sorts of markets across the world so we're going to look at this the situation we find ourselves in where the government won't enforce antitrust laws and the people when they fight back against this so we have this giant financial collapse and the likes of j.p.

morgan were handed billions if not trillions and taxpayer funds to bail them out well what did the population do they moved their money remember that was they were fighting back they were trust busting against these big monopolistic too big to fail banks they move their money well check this out banks pushing for repeal of credit unions federal tax exemption bankers say.