the u.s. military is reportedly waiting for the green light to intervene in syria with the pentagon moving naval forces closer and sending another missile carriage to the region. as the one pushes for an investigation into an alleged last chemical attack near damascus the european states blaming a son despite a lack of evidence. spying for cash major tech companies are accused of taking cash from u.s. intelligence in exchange for help but it's weird because suburban sprawl runs. under virtual currency gets real recognition of the german government decides that virtual money bitcoin is illegal and private means of payment.

and a very welcome to see twenty four hour news life from moscow volatile main story in . the u.s. is raging for a possible missile strike on syria and reports say preparations are already underway the pentagon is moving its naval forces closer ensuring president obama has military options available his money action following an alleged chemical attack which is being blamed on see where the government is middle east correspondent want to hear is following the escalation in the region. united states is moving its naval forces closer to syria all of this coming ahead of a possible mulling over by the american president barack obama over whether or not to use military action inside that country but obama of course has made no such decision he has said that there needs to be extreme caution and wariness when

thinking about employing any kind of military action in that any such action would be both costly and very very difficult the u.s. defense department however has been tossed with providing obama with all of the details now this latest movement by the united states comes off to another report of a deadly attack earlier this week that saw the use allegedly of chemical weaponry there has been lots of unverified footage making the rounds online we've seen photos of people foaming at the mouth people suffocating all of appointing to the possible use of saturn gets some of the photos online do show empty shells it does seem to point to the fact that this latest attack had this weaponry fired from rebel held areas but the point needs to be made that the footage is and verified we have no confirmation of when this footage was taken who took could or indeed precisely where it took place but at the same time syrian state television is reporting that

syrian soldiers off to entering tunnels that were used by rebel fighters in the sinai damascus emerged suffocating that ambulances had to be saved to the scene and at the same time they did find chemical agents inside those tunnels the moment the united nations investigators are inside syria in fact they've been there for the better part of a week their wives last sunday to investigate some thirteen reports of the major the use of chemical weaponry inside syria and they are now waiting to receive authorization to be able to pursue. axis to the scene of this latest chemical attack this is tested here this week reports we've been receiving are there anyway the dozens and one thousand three hundred people were killed damascus has said that it is giving its maximum cooperation to the u.n. investigators to look at. this by nor conformational reports that the syrian

government carried out a chemical tunk international pressure on assad is increasing the french foreign minister insists all indications suggest the government was behind the massacre and wants to respond with force if delegations are proven the u.k. foreign ministry for his secretary i should say william hague also said it was a chemical attack by the assad regime and here's a similar voice from sweden its foreign minister claimed he had a hard time calm coming to a conclusion that the other than deadly chemicals were used by the regime's forces they say as a bomb a cold america and indispensable nation in stabilizing the middle east analyst binoy camargue who's written extensively on syria says all the signs are pointing to an intervention. there is a general sentiment towards some form of intervention which might come in the form of a tactical strike in the use of cruise missiles although there is still reservation

as to the extent that such an intervention will take at this point it will be probably a minor one with the use of tactical weapons without more the united states still remains rather bruised by involvement in afghanistan and in iraq so if they are restored to being involved and i certainly do not see a commitment of ground forces of any of any sort what unfortunately i do see happen is a destabilizing of the situation so that the united states does take this route of intervention it's a point to make that moves are being made to initiate some strike. whether it's going to come in light of the u.n. investigation or whether it's going to come in light of anything else for means to be seen but i think it's fair point to say that the united states is putting the pieces into play for a possible strike. two hundred days of hunger and suffering and gone. and about three minutes we'll see what the situation is like a minotaur is u.s.

prison after nearly seven months of a hunger strike by the inmate that. the national security agency allegedly paid the bills for google yahoo microsoft and fraserburgh in return for helping it spy online this information comes in unique bios from whistleblower edward snowden and is the first reported evidence of financial dealings like this. the so-called pay to play relationship between the u.s. national security agency and the internet companies reportedly began after the foreign intelligence surveillance court here in the us known as rules in october two thousand and eleven that some of the n.s.a.'s activities were surprise unconstitutional and violated the fourth amendment now the judgment which was declassified on wednesday by the obama administration found that the agency was unable to separate purely domestic communications from foreign traffic now while the n.s.a. reportedly began working on

a solution to the process that had been ruled illegal tech companies including google yahoo microsoft and facebook allegedly incurred cost certification demands now the face of court is required to sign annual certifications that provide the legal framework for the n.s.a. surveillance operations but in the wake of the court's judgment certifications were only being renewed on a temporary basis the entire process reportedly costed prizm participants millions of dollars to implement each successful extension and those costs according to u.s. documents were covered by an arm of the n.s.a. known as special source operations according to the guardian newspaper n.s.a. whistleblower edward snowden has described special source operations as the crown jewel of the agency that handles all surveillance programs that rely on corporate partnerships with telecoms and internet providers to access communication data now this revelation is being considered evidence that

a financial relationship between tech companies and the n.s.a. has existed and as the guardian newspaper put it the disclosure that taxpayers' money was used to cover the company's compliance costs raises new questions surrounding the relationship between silicon valley and the n.s.a. now the guardian reached out to the alleged prism participants for a response about receiving financial reimbursements from the u.s. government now yahoo spokesperson admits that company the. has requested reimbursement quote consistent with the law facebook responded by saying it has never received any compensation in connection with responding to government data requests google did not answer any of the specific questions that were asked by the guardian newspaper and microsoft declined to give a response on record so not only are we now learning that taxpayer dollars may have financed government programs that broke down barriers that protected citizens privacies the companies that are listed as prism participants are still denying any

involvement. the n.s.a. meanwhile admitted that some of its employees were on popper's world spying on american citizens and you can read all about the agency coming clean on our website on t. dot com. nearly seven months of refusing to eat being force fed and alleged abuse with no end in sight that's been the de new experience for many gone tunnel by inmates since february and the third protest has gone on for two hundred days now but president obama is still stalling on shutting down the facility and let's now see what the situation is like right now at the u.s. run facility and there are one hundred and sixty six inmates there and the military says thirty seven are still refusing food to indefinite detention many of the prisons haven't even gone to trial prisoners i should say and overhauled were cleared for release years ago your us taxpayers of picking up the ever increasing

time for all of that is the price tag to every detainee two point seven million dollars annually over thirty times higher than similar costs and the most expensive domestic prison in the u.s. and at it all up and do you get nearly home for a billion dollars a year coming out of citizens pockets u.s. public defender carlos warner frequently talks to the gun tunnel inmates that he represents and he told my colleague bill what's going on and why it remains open. the words that i hear from the camp are just as bad as they've always been suffering to feeding people not getting along no communication with the military so although the military is telling us that the numbers have gone down that's not the story that we're hearing we're hearing that again there's still that this horrible suffering going on and this is the two hundredth day of this and we've heard accounts of horrific to tell you the treatment by the prison stuff including allegations of sexual abuse is anybody actually investigating these allegations now

sexual abuse. these searches these growing searches that they began and they did these searches obviously to keep my clients from talking to me in terms of investigation i don't think anybody's investigating that the camp says that we're doing this for security purposes but that's preposterous when you consider that the client isn't even seeing a lawyer the clients with soldiers talking on the phone entire time not present obama hasn't kept his promise to close the prison it cost millions during a time of budget cuts then the states will lose to make it for relief so what will it take to finally close down guantanamo guantanamo is a political animal it's run by the in a phobia here in the united states and it's going to take a lot of hard work like people not only like people like me but but some people in washington in order to close it right now you don't see that the president has the authority to transfer these individuals now that he can do it under the current law

with no exceptions and he's choosing not to do so and he's even said that there are several countries that are ready willing able to take these individuals we know there's eighty six of them that are cleared for release the president has done nothing on that yet. the russian far eastern edge on days of rescue workers soldiers untold and his strong will to protect russia's advance story floods threaten the safety on all sides we'll bring you the latest on the efforts by the shoulder break. wealthy british style. spot on to explain the. markets why not come to. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with max concert for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into kinds a report. they all told you my language as well but i will only react to situations i have read the reports so i'm likely to push the no i will leave them to the state department to comment on your latter point of the month to say just to carry out a call is on the docket no god. no job no more weasel words. when you made a direct question be prepared for a change when you throw a punch be ready for a. critical speech and a little bit on the freedom to question. seekers who live from moscow welcome back the german government has become the fast

in the world to recognize bitcoin as a legal private currency transactions conducted in the virtual cash will now be subject to sales tax in the country and maybe exchange for other currencies within the banking system is based on the reports now from the capital of bitcoin belin. it's a real step towards it becoming a universally accepted legitimate but the option to state issued currencies now it is quite popular here in germany particularly here in berlin where if you go to some bars and restaurants you can actually pay for the food and drinks there using coins as well as other online stores that accept them for just about anything else you can you can want to buy now what has actually happened by the german finance ministry they've declared that bitcoin is now unit of account what that actually means is it's not recognised as a an official currency but it is eligible to be taxed now that means that anybody

speculating on because well if they sell them within one year of buying them they could be eligible for capital gains tax however that all sounds great for the tax man bought it it may well be a lot harder than that sounds because of the actual nature of bitcoin it is a a.p. it's appear online currency it would be very hard to track down just who was selling to whom for tax purposes so that might not exactly work out how the state funds use it but what it is is official recognition for a currency that is growing in popularity in some countries are accepting big calling as this you new potential one state backed currency of course it can't be devalued or increased by any state by because there just isn't one that controls it it's all comes from the computers it all comes out of mathematics and it is therefore on regulated by any state authorities or some countries jumping on it like here in germany others like thailand well they're just not interested. qualify

as it appeared in two thousand and eight when an anonymous courageous published paper laying out his ideas on how the peer to peer electronic cash system should be all paraded says that in the digital currency has gained popularity across the world bitcoin units can be bought by users and used for transactions with those who accept it thousands of small online merchants recognize bitcoin as an alternative to major currencies the value of individual bitcoins paid a record high this april when it was being traded at over two hundred and sixty u.s. dollars growing concerns over the effect that bitcoin could have on the dollar printers the u.s. government to investigate it this month washington claims it could be used in criminal activity. and go everything you need to know about bitcoin at our website dot com and also online for you it says something like come true dutch scientist has found

a way to read people's and my is at our website to find out how his invention blocks brought forth from your head. hurting business says russia's ban on optical brews buying means for in the brews have to find new ways to ship their beer out all this and more just click away on our. they are the worst floods in over two centuries and russia is no and the only country is suffering as you can see the moon river runs along the border with china which has also suffered catastrophic weather since the beginning of summer already

over one hundred are reported dead and another one one hundred fifteen missing three of russia's regions have been worst affected and experts say the floods have yet to peak over whole four million homes and livelihoods are under threat in the far east of her box and the next twenty four hours are critical our correspondent paul schooldays monitoring the situation there for us. base is a city under threat a city on the edge at the moment water levels continuing to rise with the pink not expected for another twenty four hours or so now is the hour more river so that my right that is causing all the problems it's breached its banks and these are beginning to filter through to the city now work is continuing to reinforce the city around fifteen kilometers worth of dikes have been built like this one and they are being reinforced and raised along with the water levels now despite the perilous situation authorities say that they are prepared for the worst.

organizational issues are worked out it could be some setbacks but the main point is that there are no big tools analyzer work will work for the good now around two and a half thousand people have been affected by the flood so far in and around the city in the majority of those people have been housed in temporary accommodation centers that provide things such as food drinking water shelter and medicine and basically rest bite from the floods there are around seventy that have been built in and around the city and sports arenas and schools for example and this resident told r.t. she simply doesn't know what to expect when she returns home. everything has been washed away firewood the second floor is already been flooded my flat is on the first floor and there are one and a half metres of water there i'm here now but all my furniture all my clothes are there now president vladimir putin is expected in the city and in the region early next week to inspect the damage that these floods of course but at the water levels

continue to rise and they show absolutely no sign of receding it could be a while yet before the full extent of the damage is revealed. is there are supporters of ousted president mohamed morsy how scattered around is across egypt and will they miss him by the who called the friday of nonces one passage has been killed and dozens were wounded in clashes between protesters and security forces meanwhile president obama has signaled he will not be cutting off aid to the egyptian authorities he said that while the u.s. is reevaluating its relationship with cairo stopping help wouldn't affect the actions of the interim government instead at this point washington said at this point washington need to look at the long term interests of the egyptian people and the u.s. itself defense consultant says the last only wants to ensure a friendly relationship with kyra. the americans are ensuring that they have a friend in power they will always provide aid and this is why they're not

canceling that all. makes it clear that he's supporting all the u.s. government to supporting the present status of the military being in power to say that they're concerned about what is being going on the toppling of morsi and his detention that's just trying to fool the citizens of egypt. resume normal relations as soon as the civilians. go back home you know or stop protesting. the military and the united states government have had a very causal relationship for four decades so that's that's not going to change. now to some other international headlines this hour a bomb has killed twenty six and left fifteen people wounded in the wrong camp until the suicide bomber struck a cafe in a crowded parking shed district another separate assault on a vehicle in the city claimed another four lives were dead lead times on an almost

daily basis as internal strife in iraq spirals. that people have been killed and six injured in a riot in believe is the largest maximum security prison. some prisoners will short while others were buried burned to death in a fire between rival gangs and in many overcrowded jails inmates largely control the inside of the facility. gravels have called for a temporary timeout and peace negotiations with the colombian government the group requested time to consider a proposal which would prepare the way for a normal weight of peace agreement this comes after violent protests by the country's minus students and fall is this week over presidential reforms they say are revenues. iceland is about to abandon its plans to join the e.u. the country's foreign ministry says it is binding the special committee which has

been working on the negotiations according to the government to the parliamentary elections held earlier this year which saw euro skeptic parties take power show that there's no public support for membership anymore and are sellable fell's economics professor at the university of iceland things his nation is better on its own. at the heart of the issue is that iceland is a resource wealthy island in the middle of the north atlantic whereas the european union is a central european project to integrate these central european economies into. a single economic area through institutions like the common currency and the common market and now. the issue is whether fitting iceland in these news can negotiate sions is like putting a square peg through a round hole and that is the. source of the. what you call it the going backwards in the negotiations. and up next said

desexing the dutch economy smocks and stacey when the concert forward that's not that great. you know people in moscow say they're like whoa websites and facebook groups about the childfree lifestyle which i didn't believe until i saw the cover for the aug twelfth copy of time magazine yes childfree is no real thing sadly basically these are people who have started a cool trend of not having children and using their time and resources completely for themselves you know if you don't want to have kids that is your business and i really couldn't change your mind even if i wanted to but there are people all over the internet who are just swimming in their own self-satisfaction like pigs in slop

because they are part of the no kids trend the sickening part about this trend or should i see mentality is that these people glow in adore themselves for being too selfish to give their time and money to a child oh i'm the center of the universe and i'm proud of it. this is an extremely antisocial and destructive mentality to adore yourself for contributing nothing to anyone else nothing to society and nothing to the future but wait let me put it this way if your life is shopping wearing ironic t. shirts starbucks and texting on your i phone about your stupid feelings that maybe is for the greater good the church childfree but that's just my opinion.

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welcome to the kaiser report i'm max guys are you know the dutch i've got the economic. driver dad has got them down the housing bubble is bursting bursting berthing the economy is contract ing us therapy is biting oh aunt. and unemployment is rising but how is this possible when the dutch current account is positive the government deficit is smaller and exports are doing well something does not add up we need to bring in stacy herbert to see what the frick is going on over there in the netherlands well max remember at the beginning of this financial crisis when it was and the economic crisis across europe and we needed to bail out

greece and spain and italy and portugal and all these people with a profit get bad spending governments of the south well you know now the netherlands were always the one that were pushing the most foster care ity but it turns out private debt might matter more than government debt and the situation deflating housing bubble at heart of netherlands economic blues household spending has been falling for three straight years and it dropped again two point four percent year on year in the second quarter dragging the entire economy down with it so they just economy shrank for the fourth quarter in a row point two percent compared to portugal by the way which is growing ok so this is a reverse of the wealth effect people say you know what let's blow a real estate bubble and people will feel wealthier and they'll go out and spend but here in the netherlands they created a housing bubble housing prices are now down and you've got all this debt which is

now trading huge drag on the economy yes actually house prices are down twenty one percent thirty percent of the population is a negative equity because prices are collapsing actually let's look at this data market chart data market dot com and it shows private debt to g.d.p. and as you can see from one thousand nine hundred to two thousand and ten private sector debt to g.d.p. in the netherlands went from one hundred twenty five percent up to about two hundred twenty five percent at the end of that chart which is two thousand and ten now it's up to two hundred forty percent. so the highest across the euro zone and now we're seeing that the government relatively to other nations anyway across europe is is ok in terms of debt but here you have the citizens what used to be known as the citizen the consumer and the economy is collapsing under the weight of the debt they need to build some of those fancy dikes help them from being.